Tíz hónapon belül két nehézpáncélos mexikói versenyző is betalált a neonringbe, a nyolcvanas évek amerikai Sprawljában kövérre hízlalt hi tech low life pedig sehol sem igaz annyira, mint Mexikóban, ahol ha jó napod van, a sertésinfluenza nulláz le, ha rossz, a tizenötezer voltos sokkoló. Dekadencia, nyomor és az érthetetlenül dühös spanyol nyelv köszön vissza az új mexikói cyberpunkból: megérkezett a 2033, a Sleep Dealer, mindehhez pedig a Hocico-Amduscia tengely ipari csűrdöngölője dukál. Ami a mexikói sci-fi triviákat illeti: a Predator, a Tank Girl és a Total Recall egyes részleteit is itt öntötték celluloidba, az első mexikói sci-fit pedig vélhetően Manuel Antonio de Rivas ferences barát írta 1775-ös csillagászati atlaszának előszavaként, yo chekku de.
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The net is sizzling with the trailer of Noboru Iguchi’s new movie entitled Robo-Geisha scheduled to be released in 2010. If you remember the robotic geishas of Ghost in the Shell: Innocence (or the insane geisha slut puppets in Dir en Grey’s video Obscure), that’s just much more – more exploitation and more blood tsunami action (and a narrative voice right beyond madness). Given time, check back on his Iguchi’s previous works, The Hajirai Machine Girl and Kataude mashin gaaru. (via twitch)

Developed by WHITEvoid, here a 14 meters broad screen equipped with a projection of 180° which makes it possible to the visitors to move in the airspace. An entirely navigable visualization 3D, in real-time, represents the 16.000 flights of the company of Lufthansa plane. ()

The project itself is named networkSim and won two iF awards for Structure and Interface – you can find more info at WHITEvoid’s site.

Half kAlte fArben, half Dorsetshire, German electro-industrial (or something you’d call club electro nowadays) act SKORBUT is entirely convincing in its sound and miserable in its looks. Their download-only EP “9 Lives Later” is a decent peace of work and if you remember how well-produced kAfA was back in the days – Daniel Galda’s time spent with Das Ich just helped it to become more focused and actually much more German in its sound. If you were into Forma Tadre or kAlte fArben, you gonna love Skorbut (check their latest album Firewall) and Combichrist fans are in for some treat as well – Phantom Pain live just sounds like Andy on a day bored and algorhythmic.

Problems offer opportunities. There is nothing more true about the l’art du déplacement, better known as parkour, the art of passing where other people merely see peril. If you’ve been following up on PD, you will know about the respect I pay for traceurs – and trust me, when you see Yamakasi and Banlieue 13, it is merely the Paris eyecandy – so it’s a great joy seeing not one but two short parkour movies coming out during the past week.

Samparkour shows how Zico Corrêa traces the danger edge in São Paulo. Video was shot in HD with a 35mm lens adapter by Wiland Pinsdorf (co-directed by Arthur GW Guttilla, produced by Canvas 24p Films) and if you’ve ever seen some elaborate traceur moves done elegantly with style (and some decent camerawork as well), that’s just it. (via renegade futurist)

Exploit Yourself is more like a NIKE ad, not really a short movie in its entirety of 50 seconds. What’s so great about it is that it’s been done by Big Lazy Robot VFX without any motion capture work at all, that it’s accompanied by The Prodigy’s The Big Gun Down which fits quite nicely to the oooomph-ahh tempo and it’s all been directed by Carl Erik Rinsch who’s actually directing a prequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien. Exploit Yourself talks about pushing your limits just for the sake of it. Neatly said. (Thanks heaps to all of you who sent this in in the rush hours!)