PLANETDAMAGE

When a Flight 627 lands with all the passengers and crew dead, FBI Agent Olivia Dunham is called into investigate. A search for someone to help leads her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation’s Einstein. There’s only one catch: He’s been institutionalized for the last 20 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son, Peter, into help. Under Agent Phillip Broyles, our trio will discover that what happened on that fatal flight is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth.

Brief info of Fox’s new series FRINGE that comes to the wired on August 26th. The trailer explains it all. IO sez it’s basically about a mad scientist who hangs out with the FBI. Wonderful. I want to be a secret agent who hangs around with mad scientists. I have the skills, believe me. (link at fringe-online.net)

And if someone can help me how I can exactly position the youtube embeds to the center because neither p nor align and not even center helps, I’d be uber glad.

Just a brief notice on the upcoming Street Fighter movie: Korinna Maya Bloodgood has been added to the cast as Det. Maya Sunee, according to the official description, “She’s Bangkok Gangland Homicide. A no-nonsense, fast-talking, half-Thai cop who rocks a Ducati and a set of gold cuffs.” Aforementioned Dutch/Irish/South Korean cutie will also star in Terminator 4. Hopefully this doesn’t forecast a very bad SF series that just decides to stab itself in the crotch and then gets pulled off from the screens (see Painkiller Jane’s case with Kristanna Loken. Or Michelle Ryan (see below) with Bionic Woman.)

Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians—sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable “saecular” world that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides that only these cloistered scholars have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his cohorts are summoned forth without warning into the Unknown.

According to Lev Grossman, this is the brief summary for Neal Stephenson’s new book Anathem - Wikipedia says it’s out on the 9th of September, 2008 and it’s going to be a space opera.

Jerome Olivier decently kicks fellow movie-makers in the teeth with his fotomation, the technique that enables him to create a 24-minz movie out of HD stills. (Think Broken Saints, done really properly.) The whole movie in high-def is freely downloadable off the original page, so you’re all better off if you download the zips and start watching right away.

Because that’s where things get really confusing. If you’ve done your primer in sci-fi, you’ll know time travel (which the whole movie is about) is inherently bad and involves fucking your parents, dedicated savants are known for not maintaining social relations and there’s gotta be at least one traitor in a movie. You have all these. With the sweet addition of butoh dancer group Dairakudakan (they’re the time-traveling vampire Core security guys) and time travel gadets that look like steampunk dildos, your synapses can start shooting away. This is one of the best short movies in SF I’ve seen in a while, also one with too many cliches - so we end up giving it seven outta ten. (link)