The History of Aliens in Film, Set to Radiohead’s “Subterranean Homesick Alien” = Bliss

•August 12, 2015 • Leave a Comment

From their earliest cinematic appearance in Georges Méliès’s “A Trip to the Moon” in 1902, to 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, our conception of life beyond Earth has changed to reflect our hopes and fears, the technology we’ve mastered, and our growing knowledge of the universe. Watch our depictions of extraterrestrial life change over nearly 100 films and 112 years:

Edited by Adam Schleichkorn & Bryan Menegus / Music by Radiohead, Album: OK Computer (1997).

Films in Order of Appearance:

(1902) A Trip to the Moon
(1922) Himmelskibet
(1924) Aelita
(1940) Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
(1951) The Day the Earth Stood Still
(1951) The Thing From Another World
(1953) The War of the Worlds
(1953) Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
(1956) Forbidden Planet
(1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1956) Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
(1957) 20 Million Miles To Earth
(1958) Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
(1959) The Angry Red Planet
(1967) Quatermass and the Pit
(1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968) Barbarella
(1968) Gamera vs Viras
(1971) The Andromeda Strain
(1972) Solaris
(1973) Fantastic Planet
(1976) The Man Who Fell to Earth
(1977) Star Wars IV: A New Hope
(1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1978) Superman
(1978) Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1979) Alien
(1979) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
(1980) Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
(1981) Heavy Metal
(1982) E.T. the Extra-Terrestria
(1982) The Thing
(1982) Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
(1983) Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
(1984) Starman
(1984) 2010
(1984) The Last Starfighter
(1984) Dune
(1985) Cocoon
(1985) Enemy Mine
(1986) Flight of the Navigators
(1986) Critters
(1987) Amazon Women on the Moon
(1987) Predator
(1987) Spaceballs
(1988) Alien Nation
(1988) They Live
(1988) The Blob
(1989) The Abyss		 (1990) Total Recall
(1993) Coneheads
(1194) Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla
(1994) Stargate
(1995) Species
(1996) The Arrival
(1996) Independence Day
(1996) Space Jam
(1996) Mars Attacks
(1997) Starship Troopers
(1997) Men in Black
(1997) The Fifth Element
(1997) Contact
(1998) The X Files
(1998) The Faculty
(1998) Dark City
(1998) Lost in Space
(1998) The Shadow Men
(1999) Galaxy Quest
(1999) Muppets from Space
(2000) Pitch Black
(2000) Mission to Mars
(2001) K-PAX
(2002) Signs
(2002) Men in Black 2
(2003) Dreamcatcher
(2004) The Chronicles of Riddick
(2005) War of the Worlds
(2005) Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
(2005) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
(2006) Slither
(2007) The Mist
(2007) Transformers
(2007) Spider-Man 3
(2008) Cloverfield
(2009) Avatar
(2009) Star Trek
(2009) District 9
(2009) Monsters vs. Aliens
(2011) Super 8
(2011) Cowboys and Aliens
(2011) Paul
(2011) Battle: Los Angeles
(2011) Attack the Block
(2012) Prometheus
(2013) Star Trek Into Darkness
(2013) Pacific Rim
(2014) Edge of Tomorrow
(2014) Guardians of the Galaxy

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Is This Paranormal Activity Captured on a Baby Monitor?

•August 12, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Do you believe in entities free of any physical constituents? This recording taken by a baby monitor showing a misty light floating over baby Rosie in her crib, may test your opinion:

I do believe in “mysterious things” that our bodies can perceive, but I don’t believe we have any way or form of technology to define these things as what they truly are. The best we can do is name them, at worst, wrongly personify them. That is why I get annoyed when, everything undefinable automatically gets clumped in the too-hard/strange-so-it-must-be-paranormal-with-an-agenda-pile.

The above video is rather cool, but that is as much as I’m willing to think about it. What else is there to go on, you know. Actually, come to think of it, I do happen to have a personal ghost story to share with you all that may further test your thoughts on the matter, complete with photos and corroborative testimonies from around the globe I’ve been collating for the last decade, but I think I’ll save that for October — trust me when I say, you and your friends will never look at your homes and telecommunications the same way again. …You may have been watched. 👻

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“I Got This Ice Box Where My Car Used to Be”

•August 11, 2015 • Leave a Comment

4:30 p.m. after Uni I had to deal with this nonsense.

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Afternoon ice, not so common in central Auckland.

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Oh, that’s Indiana, Jenny5’s guardian skeleton — my car.

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NERO — “Two Minds” [music video]

•August 10, 2015 • Leave a Comment

A woman made of pure photons of light and phasing between realities is hunted by a trio of mysterious agents in black armed with disruptor cannons; NERO‘s new music video sure has the trappings of an absorbing sci-fi flick:

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Dr. Sketchy Auckland: Mad Max featuring Snow Spirit

•August 5, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Snow Spirit Mad Max Sketchy Session

Despite the rainy weather, many had made the journey into the city for last night’s sketch session, including a guy I went to college with, Carl, and a girl who I met on the waterfront at a similar event back in April, Janette, and recommended Dr. Sketchy to. The model went by the name of Snow Spirit and she came dressed in post-apocalyptic garb reminiscent of Imperator Furiosa and Max himself; Snow Spirit even went the extra-extra mile and brought her own can of “Dinki-Di Dog Food”

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Dr Sketchy - Mad Snow Spirit

It was a fun outing. One thing I will say however is, Snow Spirit’s face was as expressionless as antifreeze. She must have been through hell in the desert wasteland.

Assorted photos courtesy of Peter Jennings & Andrew Hales.

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Fan-made Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki’s Enchanting Worlds & Characters

•August 3, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki

There have been a number of tribute videos to Miyazaki this year I have noticed, but this one really evokes a sense of wonderment akin to the revered storyteller’s own realized and adored imaginings:

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Calculate Your Age on Other Planets!

•August 3, 2015 • Leave a Comment

So apparently, I am only 15 years old on planet Mars, 2 years old on planet Jupiter, and 119 years old on planet Mercury!!! Click the image link below to calculate your own birthday relative to the revolution of another astronomical body:

Your Age on Other Planets

[http://theplanets.org/age-on-planets/]

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R.I.P. Roddy Piper 1954 ~ 2015

•August 2, 2015 • Leave a Comment

WWE Hall of Fame Superstar, Roddy Piper, has passed away at the age of 61. Born Roderick Toomes, a Canadian wrestler who used his Scottish family roots as a character trait and became one of the biggest heels of the 1980’s. Although, I’ll always remember him for his role in John Carpenter’s alien indoctrination cult classic “They Live” (1988)

They Live 1988

Nada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.

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Twizzler Cthulhu Meets a Sweet Ending

•August 1, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Some guys were on a road trip when they caught their buddy Micah asleep with his mouth wide open. So what’s any good friend to do? Stuff his mouth full of Twizzlers, of course. Laughs and free candy! That’s a win-win situation by all standards.

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“Embroidered Zoetrope” by Elliot Schultz

•July 30, 2015 • Leave a Comment

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Australian animator and digital artist, Elliot Schultz, embroidered discs with animated sequences that can be played on standard turntables. “Embroidered Zoetrope” was Schultz’s final art school project when he graduated from ANU School of Art back in 2013. His project encourages viewers to watch and engage with animation physically:

“Inspired by the work of Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker, I aimed to guide my production process indirectly through the limitations afforded by alternative media. Their invention, the pin screen, was used as the sole medium in the production of six short films, and shaped the outcome of their work. In response, I have designed and embroidered animated sequences onto discs, similar to the Phenakistokope, Zoopraxiscope and Stamfer Disc layouts. This repurposing of media introduced strict parameters, namely spatial, tonal and temporal, and has greatly informed all stages of my process.” ~ Elliot Schultz

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‘Sunburn’ Photographs by Thomas Maileander

•July 30, 2015 • Leave a Comment

French artist, Thomas Mailaender, applied 23 old photographic negatives from the Archive of Modern Conflict collection, onto the skin of his volunteer models using a UV lamp to create a sunburn effect. Having substituted human skin for photosensitive paper, he then photographed the fleeting imprints before they disappeared. The results have been compiled into a book called “Illustrated People” which can be seen here:

 

I like that these are produced through a person’s natural skin tones, and the fact that they are photographic as opposed to just graphic, and fade, meaning they don’t last, adds a special charm to them too I suppose. Would be a nightmare of a thing if sunburns never healed away, am I right.

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Perpetual Motion Machine by Norwegian Artist & Inventor Reidar Finsrud

•July 30, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Norwegian artist and inventor Reidar Finsrud believes constant motion isn’t only possible, but will give free energy to the world. He’s even built a machine to prove it. Watch to try and determine where the power comes from that keeps his device going:

What’s a perpetual motion machine? It is a machine that can operate indefinitely, without one having to connect it to any energy source. But the possibility of ever producing such a machine has been a contentious issue, as most scientists believe it is impossible.

Reidar Finsrud, creator of the machineThe reason behind this contention is the first and second law of thermodynamics. The first one states that the amount of energy contained in a particular system remains constant, as it can not be destroyed so as to reduce it, or increased in any way. What changes are the forms of energy, which transform from one state to another.

The second law also concurs with the first, stating the energy in a system never goes down. But these facts were still not enough to stop Reidar Finsrud from believing in the impossible.

Liking to think outside the box, Reidar set out to actually produce a perpetual motion machine. Not only has he done so, but he believes that he has succeeded in producing the first of its kind.

If this machine actually turns out to be a perpetual one, I wouldn’t be surprised if all energy producing companies saw this as a threat to big business (like Nikola Tesla all over again). Reminds me of M. C. Escher’s Ascending and Descending (1960), don’t you think?

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