PLANETDAMAGE

Mazer Mayhem, the latest 360-degrees spin-around arcade shooter by wireframe aesthetic god Kenta Cho is another reason why I should invest into an Xbox360. (Come to think of it, this and Rez could be the two main reasons, as GTA4 is arriving on the PC platform soon with all the other blockbuster titles. Apart from Force Unleashed.) BTW, dear readers, show me how to port XNA2.0 code onto PC platforms and my problems will be neatly solved. The graphics are not yet on par with oldschool Rez - but the music is definitely getting there. (link)

Classic anime Casshern (and its live-action adaptation by Kaz Kiriya) gets a new blood transfusion that feels half Ergo Proxy (colors), half Inhumanoids (how Madhouse depicts fights). Please accept our lacking but enthusiastic impressions with monkey gratitude. Series starts in September. (link, via twitch)

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)

Rapidfire cyberpunk newsflash straight from the movies, safety belts and enema diving kits in action!
ALIENS: No more Alien(s) sequels, at least that’s what industry expert Cecelia from filmindustrybloggers.com sez, basically because almost all scripts are so full of clichés. BABYLON AD: IO9 has a few new clips from the movie. Just occurred to me that the Mélanie Thierry (the psychic girl) was also a key character in Julien Leclercq’s suberb medical cyberpunk SF, Chrysalis. GHOST IN THE SHELL 2.0: According to Twitch, there’s going to be a Blu-Ray version of the movie that features both the graphically updated 2.0 and the original versions and English dub will be included only on the original.

DEADLAND: New post-ap movie where Florida slides into the ocean and main character Sean Kalos crosses the radiation-plagued land to find his missus - no zombies and no gorgeous flesh-eating this time. ROBOCOP: Officially confirmed, it’s going to be Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) who’s gonna direct the remake. THE ROAD: A new post-apocalyptic movie featuring Viggo Mortensen (with a son) and a bunch of cannibals hot on their trails. TERMINATOR 4 - SALVATION: While rumor has it that Linda Hamilton will be featured in all three Terminator movies currently in (various states of) production, Helena Bonham Carter is definitely cast and she sez her character is a very, very bad person. TR2N: Original screenwriter Steve Lisberger’s script that’s been worked on for years has been ditched.

It’s been a few months that I last posted anything about circuit bending. It’s been yesterday that I wreaked havoc on the entire office with the bodymod Pikachu and its clone brothers, all of them being musical instruments. Behind all the amygdala-wrenching fun is Japanese circuit bender Kaseo, check his amazing video feed, I’ve only posted two pieces of gritty wisdom, the Bent Pikachu Limited Edition being so much on par with the Furby torture scene. (via pinktentacle)

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.

So much about the fuzzy logic in the title, I’m sorry. 30-sec ad featuring Oguri Shun, previously featured in the Azumi and Crows ZERO movies, also Sukiywaki Western: Django. (via boingboing)

Pierre’s just sent me the link (Hungarian) to Japanese threesome The Tenorions that sounds and feels pretty much like a very half-assed PR-stunt for the “new” Yamaha e-instrument called Tenori-On, which is basically a hand-held tracker.

My readers are probably aware of my fondness for Asian girls with a tech flavour, but really - the girls (named Nynn, Cici and Fiona) are not stage-ready, the music has no common axis with the fundamentals of live electronic improvisation and the whole performance is just not credible. Or I’m just seething with pure envy because I cannot own a Tenori-On (yes, girls, Fruity Loops is so much better) and the girls are just pure hot den material (I’m sorry, not. Hope they won’t stab me anywhere near their gigs, tho’.) The whole meme vaguely reminds me of T.A.T.U. and it just doesn’t kick. Have fun digging after them, I warned you. (via midi.blog)