Check the original post over at Ulrich’s website 3 Ton Gallery. Eric Ulrich is an artist and designer living in San Francisco. (About)
Metropolis: All New Restauration ― Behin The Scenes
Seldom has the rediscovery of a cache of lost footage ignited widespread curiosity as did the announcement, in July 2008, that an essentially complete copy of Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS had been found. (more)
About Steven Smith;
“Hatched in the distant galaxy, Long Island, Steve used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16. Steve traveled to Central New York where he studied illustration. After receiving his Associates degree from MVCC, Steve departed to the island of Manhattan where he is now being trained under the high council of the School of Visual Arts. Awaiting battle Steve has sharpened his knowledge in the force and can finish the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs, and grows stronger by the day. That’s no moon. That’s Steven Smith.”
Think Geek: Monolith Action Figure
• Properly proportioned to those in the movies 2001 and 2010 (1:4:9 - the squares of the first 3 integers).
• Made of semisynthetic, organic, amorphous, solid materials (AKA plastic).
• Zero (0) points of articulation.
• May cause strange magnetic fields, action figure evolution, seeing things filled with stars, and/or more (or it might just sit on your desk doing nothing). (more)
“The author shares his enthusiasm for the upcoming release of “Blade Runner” with the production company.”
“Philip K. Dick wrote this letter after seeing his first glimpse of Blade Runner in a television segment. To the best of the family’s knowledge, this letter has never been previously released to the public.”
Philipkdick.com is Philip K. Dick official web site:
“On behalf of Philip K. Dick’s children, welcome to the Official Philip K. Dick website. We endeavor to create a venue for new readers, as well as a valuable resource for the loyal fans who have enjoyed his works for years. It is a work in progress, but one nevertheless that we hope you will find useful, and also truly enjoy.”(more)
 | ― I know it’s hard, Miles, but try to think of this experience as a miracle of science. ― A miracle of science is going to the hospital for a minor operation, I come out the next day, my rent isn’t months overdue. That’s a miracle of science. This is what I call a cosmic screwing. And then where am I anyhow? What happened to everybody? Where are all my friends? ― You must understand that everyone you knew in the past has been dead nearly two hundred years. ― BUT THEY ALL ATE ORGANIC RICE! |
Full script available over at Script-O-Rama.
| Without question, the most socially and economically significant technological event of the last quarter-century has been the invention of the surrogate. As this paper will show, never before in human history has the consumer been offered a product capable of delivering such a dramatic personal change. The ramifications of the surrogate’s rapid assimilation into everyday living can be witnessed in virtually every facet of culture, particularly in the United States where in the twenty years since their introduction the portion of the adult population that either owns or has operated a surrogate has risen to an astounding 92%. With surrogate technology in a constant state of refinement, there is no evidence to suggest this trend will be reversed. The improvements and transformations enjoyed by the operating public are here to stay, which leaves us with the question: What, if anything, remains to be overcome? |
” “Paradise found…” is a fictional paper appearing in the first volume of the comic book series The Surogates, created and written by Robert Venditti. The film was recently adapted into a film by Jonathan Mostow, starring Bruce Willis.”
| “–this guy,” Luckman was saying, manicuring a box full of grass, hunched over it as Arctor sat across from him, more or less watching, “appeared on TV claiming to be a world-famous impostor. He had posed at one time or another, he told the interviewer, as a great surgeon at John Hopkins Medical College, a theoretical submolecular high-velocity particle-research physicist on a federal grant at Harvard, as a Finnish novelist who’d won the Nobel Prize in literature, as a deposed president of Argentina married to–” “And he got away with all that?” Arctor asked. “He never got caught?” “The guy never posed as any of those. He never posed as anything but a world-famous impostor. That came out later in the L.A. Times–they checked up. The guy pushed a broom at Disneyland, or had until he read this autobiography about this world-famous impostor–there really was one–and he said, ‘Hell, I can pose as all those exotic dudes and get away with it like he did,’ and then he decided, ‘Hell, why do that; I’ll just pose as another impostor.’ He made a lot of bread that way, the Times said. Almost as much as the real world-famous impostor. And he said it was a lot easier.” |
| Whether The Surrogates is about the positive or negative aspects of technology’s rapid growth is a question for each individual reader. Personally, I don’t know where the line is drawn between good advancements and bad. To reflect that, I tried to populate the story with characters that represent both sides of the surrogate issue. Some are for surrogates and some are against them, and it’s the up to the reader to decide which group is more sympathetic. |
Regarding the upcomming film The Surrogates directed by Jonathan Mostow and adapted from a comic book series created and written by Robert Venditti.
