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Zoetica meets Plastik Wrap. Stratosphere Messenger, the Coilhouse mag poster girl finally finds a new life on tee’s, now sold on Etsy. When you read this, it might be very, very sold out. (link, via warrenellis)

Fridays really should be like this. On the pic, agent extraordinaire and Coilhouse staffer Zoetica. (photo: Karen Hsiao, wardrobe: Antiseptic Fashion, hair/makeup/model: Zoetica Ebb). (via biorequiem)

Companies like Geo and Dueba are behind the new trend of extrawide contact lenses for the anime eyes look. The extrawide lens don’t change Japanese girls that much and I haven’t seen any pics with Europeans, so that’s just basically a dailykawaii post for today, allofya. Lens cost $30-$50 per pair. (via investorspot via boingboing)

We have a new teaser from REPO!:THE GENETIC OPERA, the scene Mark it Up! featuring lovely (really) Paris Hilton, and a gorgeously eccentric Ogre from Skinny Puppy. Grotesque, tinted fuckerily and with brains.

UPDATE 1: Eftelsander removed the Mark It Up scene and replaced it with a behind the scenes video - with more insight and unfortunately, more talk. Enjoy.

Haven’t really updated my street fashion knowledge since The Dose time and man, it’s been two years now, so it’s time to get back to the business and see what you dirtygrrlz and dirtyboiz are up to. One of the main impulses is Artifice Clothing’s [cybertek wings] that’s been recommended to me by m1k3y/grinding.be. A thousand-bucks price tag is definitely something that’s gonna set aside the cream from the plebs but hey - fashion’s always been like that. For those who can make do with less - and I mean less - go for the Leeloo PVC costume. Dig deeper. (via grinding.be)

“The comic value is a murderer and a rapist.” Seriously. Repo: The Genetic Opera! has been one twisted piece of work that we’ve been expecting for quite some time and thank God, heaps of smart and relevant footage appears on YouTube, thanks to user Eftelsander who started posting excerpts and trailers like *snap snap* rapidfire. Surgery graft fetish boytoys, Paris Hilton cunt injections, future sluts and sleazy kink all the way. Check the “Zydrate Anatomy” scene above, below, a brief behind-the-scenes with Ogre of Skinny Puppy.

Egyszer el kell oda érkezni, hogy lezárjuk, ami nem működik, ne vonjon el több energiát, töltődjön át inkább olyan helyekre a reserve energy, ahova tényleg kell. Ennek jött most el az ideje. (Lehetett tudni ezt régóta, nekem kell az, hogy mindenkinek kimondjam.) A THE DOSE magazint hivatalosan lezártam, nincs rá időm, energiám és kedvem hiába lenne, hosszú távon non-profitban megcsinálni értelmetlen. Rengeteg jó anyag gyűlt össze ebben a három számban is, büszke is vagyok rá, köszönöm is minden érintettnek, aki közreműködött benne és a részese volt. Lesz helyette más.

To all those who don’t dig Hungarian: I’ve declared the magazine dormant due to a lack of time.

If you were really into MySpace and how industrial/cyberpunk bands started making friends on community sites some two years ago, THE DOSE might ring a bell. It was a free PDF magazine (that I designed to be print-ready just in case I got the possibility to make it into a commercial venture that I failed miserably, but anyways) focusing on a single city in every issue, showing all the interesting music, bands, DJs, pieces of art that we thought would be fascinating for you. I learned how to do proper DTP and layout with the mag. I also came to know excellent people and musicians, made the magazine count at a few places. I made three issues (Budapest, Tokyo, London, consecutively) and then I became a full-time journalist and decided I didn’t have the time to continue this project anymore, because, let’s face it, the majority of the work was done by me. (This is how I get good results. But I digress.)

So now I declare extended hiatus and also upload the previous issues to Scribd. Share the love, download the mag, contact the bands and also drop me an email to planetdamage at gmail if you think this idea is good enough to monetize. Or tell me you love the mag and break my fucking heart in two.The Dose website is in a state of death and dismay, by the way.

Without getting too intense and hot on Darren Lynn Bousman’s Repo! The Genetic Opera, this piece of art is one of the best things that’s gonna happen to the cyberpunk movement this year (apart from the first Doktor Sleepless trade paperback and the hopefully promising re-make of Ghost in the Shell and Pearry, trust me, you don’t release The Gene Generation in 2008, we’re so releasing doom in your pants. And me going to Twitter): it is all above fusion, blending and a generous amount of tetrising around previously unmatched blocks of art.

It’s Bioshock live. Golden age aesthetics with all the cyberpunk clichés burped back into life: evil organ-selling zaibatsus, hired killers, hot women in black, a cabaret of decadance, Blade Runner meets Rocky Horror Picture Show, they say.

And the blocks fit nicely, from Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy to Sarah Brightman and the postmodern top-down DIY media icon Paris Hilton: it’s all crossover cyberpunk opera and you all need to devour it. Limited theatrical release is reported to start on November 7th, 2008.

Japanese fans, scream away in anal glee. Yoshiki Hayashi of X-Japan fame is behind the soundtrack (and is also credited as a producer alongside Bousman). A Rubik cube of glory, really. (And read the interview with Bousman on creature-corner, while you’re at it.)

Need a backup story? The Repo! Wikipedia entry sez An epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Panic erupts and scientists feverishly make plans for a massive organ harvest. Out of the tragedy, GeneCo, a multi-billion dollar biotech company, emerges. GeneCo provides organ transplantation for a profit. In addition to financing options, GeneCo reserves the right to implement default remedies, including repossession. For those who can’t keep up with their organ payments, collection is the responsibility of “organ repo men”, skilled assassins contracted by GeneCo, ordered to recover GeneCo’s property by any means necessary.

I’m off for a few days checking out what Bruce Sterling calls the Mafiosi-like features of the European Union bureaucracy in Brussels. (Want more? Click here for the podcast.) According to The Register, Bruce Sterling sez “I’ve been spending a lot of time in Europe and I’m about to write a proposal for a novel set in a future Europe (…) I did a novel called Distraction ten years ago, which is about a future United States - and a sort of political situation - and I’m very interested in European politics and European social organization and I’d like to do some extrapolating along those lines.”

pic by Joi Carey - gallery and iFrau’s LJ here

Newsflash: cyberpunk MMORPG Neocron 2 dies for a week [xxx] hollywood’s take on posthumans with four pieces of evidence [xxx] second life cyberpunk fashion at tsulea and slfaces [xxx] movie gadget friday with johnny mnemonic [xxx] armagideon on neuromancer [xxx] new cp book #1: mirrored heavens by david j. williams [xxx] new cp book #2: multireal by david louis edelman [xxx] trailer for narcosys, a new cyberpunk z-grade movie. i didn’t actually dare to embed the actual video.