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‘Apollo 13’ Reacts To ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer [mashup]
•November 5, 2015 • Leave a CommentDrone Carrying Drugs and Hacksaws Crashes in Prison
•November 5, 2015 • Leave a CommentA UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) drone was recently brought down within the Oklahoma State Penitentiary grounds which was found to be carrying heroin, cigars, a mobile phone, glue, hacksaws and other paraphernalia necessary for unauthorised activities behind prison walls. It was intercepted before it could pass on the goods to prisoners.
Drones do all sorts. They film pornos, deface billboards, enter short film festivals and slice Enrique Iglesias’ hand open. They also smuggle drugs. Increasingly, people are using drones to fly contraband into prisons to make life behind bars a little more bearable for inmates. The latest UAV attempt to breach jail security is probably the most ambitious we’ve seen.
Elephants at Play, Pulverizing Humungous Pumpkins at Oregon Zoo
•November 1, 2015 • Leave a CommentOregon Zoo has their own annual Howloween tradition — “Squishing of the Squash” — where the family of elephants are given giant pumpkins all to themselves, the largest weighing over 1,100 pounds! Probably not considered so giant for the elephants though:
“Lily and the elephant family stomped, smashed and munched their way through two gigantic pumpkins at the Oregon Zoo’s annual Squishing of the Squash today”
Halloween Movie Night Pick: AS ABOVE/SO BELOW
•October 31, 2015 • Leave a CommentLooking for a scary movie to watch this Halloween? Of course you are. I know of a few, but my recommendation is this — AS ABOVE/SO B E L O W
In search of a lost treasure, a group of archaeologists enter the catacombs below Paris and encounter an evil presence.
Worlds First ‘Real Blood Rave’ in Amsterdam
•October 30, 2015 • Leave a Comment
Because what can be more exciting than listening to eurotrash club music while exposing yourself to the coagulated blood of dead animals, said no one ever some unsurprisingly anonymous organisers in Amsterdam.
There is an upcoming rave event where party goers will be sprayed with gallons of real blood on Halloween. Why? (…Because derp.) I read somewhere that the organisers wanted to put a bit of fear back into Halloween celebrations. However, it may just be an intentional ploy to lure into their midst a particularly troublesome party crasher:
The event’s official Facebook page states: “Blood Rave is a night-life community for likeminded individuals, on a discrete location in Amsterdam.” In other words, hipsters are welcome. I can’t imagine all 5K people intending to go are actually aware of the properties of blood. People are in dire need of blood transfusions around the world, not to mention the risk of catching an infectious disease is quite high. Unsure on the specific details, but I would be lying if I didn’t say I was waiting to hear about something going wrong, because I am. Worst case scenario; I am an unwitting participant in their shitty marketing scheme.
Halloween TEXTS from SUPER HEROES
•October 30, 2015 • Leave a Comment
TextsFromSuperheroes is run by internet comedian Diana McCallum and stand-up comedian Andrew Ivimey.
2015 Halloween Light Show: Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr)
•October 29, 2015 • Leave a Comment
It’s that time of year again, and for Kevin and Amber Judd of Creative Lighting Displays, it means their annual Halloween tradition of covering their house with tons of lights, and then synchronizing them with music for a fun holiday display:
“4 singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand carved pumpkins, strobes, floods, 2 Matrix boards and thousands of lights. All RGB LED except for the faces, floods and a few light strings. E1.31 DMX and LOR driven. 8000+ channels. Riverside, CA.” ~ CLD
[creativelightingdisplays.com / facebook.com/CreativeLightingDisplays]
And this, because it’s funny, and I think you need more strange in your neighborhood:
‘Elephant Walk’ — A Modified Bicycle Casts a Gorgeous Shadow of an Elephant in Motion + “Suaveciclos!”
•October 27, 2015 • Leave a CommentProjectors have been around for a while and people operating them from moving objects is nothing new, but never have I seen anyone integrate one with a peddle-bicycle and connect them in a way that the speed of the bike automatically adjusts the animation of the projection itself — this is fantastic!
Concept, code, tinkering: michaelflueckiger.ch / Animation: luzianmeier.ch / Music: legendarylightness.ch
Swiss artist Michael Flückiger modified his bicycle with “a speedometer, a projector, a car battery, an iPad mini and Openframeworks” in order to create “The Elephant Walk“, an incredible shadow of an elephant in motion alongside him, the speed of which varies, depending on how fast he’s riding.
Oddly enough, there is something similar happening on the streets of Brazil that is taking a more interactive and community orientated based approach.
Artists Ygor Marotta and Ceci Soloaga are a media art duo based in São Paulo, Brazil, who together make up VJ-Suave. What they have designed they named “Suaveciclos“ which is a projection unit fitted to a tricycle, allowing them to take their colourful projections to public spaces and communicate with people through drawings, original animations and poetry, whilst encouraging play:
Music by: Lemon Jelly — Nervous Tension, Shigeto & Mux Mool — Beats 4 Dilla.
Using the on-board computers, Marotta and Soloaga are able to manipulate the videos in real-time to play certain animations tailored to different environments, creating unpredictable moments between space, audience, and art.
Music by: Pantha Du Prince — Lay In A Shimmer.
VJ Suave has two audiovisual tricycles adapted with a projector, computer, speakers and batteries. They’re used so that the small narratives with characters and poetry can travel open spaces, lighting the walls on a large-scale. The projections illuminate walls, trees, lakes, sidewalks and propose a playful interactivity with the public. With the video manipulated in real-time, Suaveciclos bring art to all audiences and create unique moments between the city and the viewer.
[ Visit: VJ-Suave ]
My One Reason to Go to Armageddon
•October 24, 2015 • Leave a Comment
That’s right; comics! This time of year however has been good in terms of my taste in stories, so I will not be attending Arma this year. I cannot justify the price of admission just to rummage through the random boxes of unwanted back-issues from the three small comic outlets that always show up. Not to mention, the traverse can get depressing in a, same-shit-different-year, kind of vibe (New Zealand is a small country after all). So instead, I would like to recommend to you the comics that have me sold, over the merchandise convention currently on at ASB Showgrounds this long weekend:
Story By: Brian K. Vaughan / Art By: Cliff Chiang / Colours By: Matt Wilson / Letters and Design: Jared K. Fletcher / Cover By: Cliff Chiang / Published: October 7, 2015
Four 12-year-old paper delivery girls in 1988 band together to safely complete their neighborhood run the morning following Halloween, when they uncover something mysterious and otherworldly. This story has people talking, Stand By Me-meets-War Of The Worlds-talking. It is too early to say whether Brian K. Vaughan’s story will unfold well, it is likely however that this ongoing series will surprise many and become popular fast. The first issue is double-sized and delivers a terrific set-up and tone. What I loved the most about PAPER GIRLS is Matt Wilson’s colouring. I will be adding it to my pull-list.
And for those of you who are already in the know, here is a crib sheet so you can decipher the spoken (written?) alien language for yourself:
Story By: Kelly Sue DeConnick / Art By: Valentine De Landro & Robert Wilson IV / Cover By: Valentine De Landro
BITCH PLANET is a riff on the sexplotation genre, and in the hands of very talented minds it is a deliciously vicious sci-fi satire that has people praising its audacity — this comic has even spawned its own badass feminist movement with many readers taking to the needle and getting inked [see image below]
The story takes place in a dystopian reality where non-compliant women are sent to an off-planet prison, where a select few are invited to compete in a televised blood-sport for a chance at freedom.
Love the artwork in BITCH PLANET, but I am still waiting for that wow-moment that I get whenever I fall in love with a story. I have reason to be hopeful it will come though. I loved Kelly Sue DeConnick’s PRETTY DEADLY and am eagerly awaiting the second arc to be published soon.
Non-Compliant symbol — The blanket term for Bitch Planet’s women is “non-compliant.”
Story By: Rick Remender / Art By: Sean Gordon Murphy / Colours by: Matt Hollingsworth
Seriously, dude, this just came out and it is one of the best things that has happened this year — go get it! I think I am beginning to recognise how much I like Rick Remender’s work, and don’t get me started on Sean Murphy because I will never shut up about PUNK ROCK JESUS or THE WAKE — fan for life right hurr! Gorgeous work.
I have two words for you… Cyberpunk. Samurai.
TOKYO GHOST examines our growing addiction to technology while thirsting for a nature we continue to destroy. The Isles of Los Angeles 2089: Humanity is addicted to technology, a population of unemployed leisure seekers blissfully distracted from toxic contamination, who borrow, steal, and kill to buy their next digital fix. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for. It’s the biggest industry, the only industry, the drug everyone needs, and gangsters run it all. And who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay. This duo is about to be given a job that will force them out of the familiar squalor of Los Angeles to take down the last tech-less country on Earth: The Garden Nation of Tokyo.
This is a classic science fiction tale of trans-dimensional exploration, unimaginable adventure, entropy and never-ending peril. A group of dimensionauts including two children, after their inaugural jump, become victims of a sabotaged machine that teleports them from one parallel universe to the next, each one exceedingly more dangerous than the last.
The artwork truly does the story justice. New arc begins November 4, 2015.
Story By: Rick Remender / Art By: Greg Tocchini
Last but not least; LOW. This is the comic equivalent of an incredibly well produced Hollywood blockbuster epic! Unlike other series, every single issue has managed to deliver some amazing set-piece and wow me. Story, artwork, colours, all of it is amazing. It is like really good chocolate; as much as I want others to share my enjoyment, I also like keeping a few things for myself every so often, hence the reason why my first mention of LOW happens to be issue #10 lolz.
Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth’s surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun’s scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy, to search for a new home among the stars. Generations later, one family is about to be torn apart, in a conflict that will usher in the final race to save humanity from a world beyond hope.
Dive into an aquatic fantasy like none you’ve ever seen before, as writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, Captain America) and artist GREG TOCCHINI (Last Days of American Crime) bring you a tale of mankind’s final hour in the cold, deathly dark of the sea.
As you can see, when I refer to comic books I don’t necessarily mean caped or masked superheroes. That isn’t where my interests lie. Unique visions and dynamic characters will always make my pull-list. I know there is something for everyone in the super extensive world of comics, I can only hope I maybe helped someone see past any stigma associated with the medium. Comics are out of this world awesome and the perfect medicine for the uninspired mind. Dear people, kids, if you are going to attend a pop-culture convention, you could at least freaking read one! Stop buying and selling DVDs at Arma, please. I’m embarrassed.
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