Briefly spoke with someone in one of my classes today who I learnt has her own publication — POTROAST. The upcoming issue is currently looking for written and/or visual submissions on the theme “Science and the Erotic.” Created anything lately that beacons to be seen, or were you just waiting for a themed challenge to get started?
Once upon a time, or should I say, in a 2009 episode of The Stephen Merchant Show, the multi-talented funnyman Louis C.K. mocked the students asking questions on Inside the Actors Studio and their probability of achieving fame — Little did he know:
I like that scene from AMERICAN HUSTLE even more now. If only all mistakes could be as hilarious. The joke’s on Louis C.K. this time.
“You know when an actor stands up, one of the people in the audience and says, ‘I am an actor, what can I do?’ and asks Sean Penn or whoever, ‘What can I do to reach your level of whatever?’ And you just wanna say, ‘That’s it! You NEVER will be famous.’ There’s no way you ask Sean Penn a question and then you’re going to be huge.”
This infographic comes courtesy of internet company, Broadband Wherever. Their services are based in Europe but this piece of marketing reaches a global audience. It is often thought of the early Space Age as being dominated by the United States and Soviet Union, but you can see other participating nations quickly rushing their own satellites into orbit: Canada, Italy, Australia, Japan, India and more.
In two decades, satellites changed from simple transmitters and receivers to sophisticated machines that carried television signals and science instruments:
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What a silly over complicated question this is.
I got it right, but still.
I love the colour work in LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA. It not only complements the cute art style but adds a certain charm to the overall world, plus the story is interesting enough not to put me to sleep. The premise is basically written in the main title — girls learning the art of witchcraft — and you can watch the entire pilot episode below:
Trigger Inc., also known as Studio Trigger, is a Japanese animation studio founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ohtsuka in August 2011. Gainax have been behind some of Japan’s most loved and commercially successful animes to date (NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, FLCL, GURREN LAGANN to name a few) and their new project looks to be heading in that same direction of critical acclaim status, especially considering that LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA is being crowdsourced (the public pledge their own money to any cause of their choosing if they believe in the idea), so you know people want to see more.
Here’s one of the rarest hardcopy pieces of anime on the planet — DAICON III and DAICON IV Opening Animations (1981/1983) — created by the founding members of Gainax for a popular science fiction convention in Japan (Nihon SF Taikai), which includes numerous celebratory references to otaku culture:
Unfortunately, those trailers cannot be copyrighted and distributed due to the appearance of so many scifi and comic book characters, hence their rarity (thanks a lot Playboy). Today, the original laser-disc copies of those trailers easily sell for over $1,000.
In conclusion, LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA, the coming-soon series, is sure to impress.
Cheers P.C. for the head’s up 😀
Tesla Boy’s highly anticipated second album ‘The Universe Made Of Darkness‘ was released last year, but the music video for track 1, “Dream Machine” was released only yesterday — A young, wide-eyed explorer wanders an abandoned landscape riddled with inexplicable anomalies:
To me, this music video is definitely channeling a few touchstone pieces of work. It reminds me of Andrei Tarkovsky‘s 1979 film, STALKER. “Dream Machine” could also be seen as a modern take on the short science fiction novel ‘Roadside Picnic‘ written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1971. ‘Roadside Picnic‘ takes place during the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation. Each of the six Visitation Zones exhibit strange and dangerous phenomena not understood by humans, and contain artifacts with inexplicable, seemingly supernatural properties. Coincidence? I for one hope not. Either way, this is a great music video — Album available on iTunes:
The Black Knight is the oldest and oddest dark object circulating our Planet as of this moment. It’s hard to find but every now and again someone spots it, orbiting East to West, counterclockwise to the earth’s natural gravitational rotation. What makes it particularly strange is that knowledge of its existence was made public in the early 1940′s before mankind had truly mastered spaceflight capabilities and Russia had yet to deploy Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite in space (which orbits West to East using Earth’s natural rotation to maintain orbit). The only question is; what is it?
Since the 1930′s Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals, and although the story of the Black Knight made its media debut in the 1940′s, many argue that this object was actually first discovered by Nikola Tesla who intercepted a signal in 1899, after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs.
Supposedly (going on what I’ve dug up online, and how trustworthy is online information really?) a Ham Radio operator decoded a series of signals received from the UFO Satellite and interpreted it as a star-chart centered on the Epsilon Boötis Star System (Izar and Pulcherrima), where it may have originated from over 13,000 years ago! …Some time during the Knights of the Old Republic then…
Star-chart huh? I don’t believe in split second UFO sightings captured on either over or under exposed shitty cameras, or irregular crop circles or any of that crap, but when NASA takes official photographs of an orbiting object even they can’t positively identify, that is not only interesting, mysterious and beautiful, it’s a true if not the only qualified definition of an unidentified flying object. Of course any and everything available on this object on any website is pure conjecture, this artifact warrants a scientific investigation — Strange how no one else seems to think so.
To this day, the Black Knight has yet to be confirmed as a piece of man-made debris, or as anything originating from Earth. Of course it could just turn out to be some volcanic chunk of rock, a stray meteor, or even a rigor mortis roast duck covered in blackened ice crystals. The point is, no one knows. Maybe it is better this way?
Australian cool kid Chela is back with a new EP “Zero” out now on Kitsuné:
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•March 16, 2014 • Leave a CommentI love this commentator’s enthusiasm! Good analogy too:
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