café allongé (complete short film)
And this, I believe is part of paying a tribute to the late master of Japanese animation, Satoshi Kon, who passed away two days ago, 24th of August, 2010. What Kawanimation (check their Vimeo pool) did with their almost seven minutes is an hommage to Satoshi Kon's anime itself - watch and enjoy. It has bits of juvenile drama in it and how Yannick, the young protagonist tries to initiate a score on a young lady. With devastating results. The image comes from the blog of creator Maxime Paccalet. And while you're at it, check user elchoupi on YouTube, he has amazing pieces of French animation among his uploads.
more cosplay from blame! and mass effect 2
Küldöm ezt az egész (kétdarabos) válogatást a BSZ2 fuckyeah summer 2010 résztvevőinek, mert ha már kelős-kávézós-kertitörpénlovagolós human vuvuzela cosplay, human centipede cosplay és repülő emberi sívóhomok-magzat cosplay is volt (ezek azért háromnapos nemvalós kiképzés során könnyebben mennek, mint akkor, amikor még működik a rosszabbik fajta írói én, na ezt kell megtörni még idén), akkor gyorscheck arra, hogy mások hogyan csinálják, amikor ők komolyan, na ők így komolyan. Megyek is félig kész kimcsinek öltözni, addig kattintgassatok szorgalmasan, mert különben szaktanári.
Sure, she's no Yvonne Strahovski, the actual actress behind Mass Effect 2's Miranda Lawson, but Polish model Jessika F is doing a pretty good job nonetheless in this cosplay photo shoot. Put together by Dark Stars Photography, this is a great shoot. And I'm not talking about the lady clad in spandex. I'm talking about the effort that's gone into the role-play, the photoshopped combat and even the fact they found a location that looks like somewhere Miranda and Commander Shepard could actually share a quiet lunch. (Miranda Cosplay, via kotaku)
My costume from Anime North last month. Ivy from Blame! the manga. This was a difficult costume to create, and I'm damn proud of myself for doing it. The photo taken by Solartempest. You can see the entire set under the cosplay section. (This comes from hexreedfly.deviantart.com and is recommended by The One Who Always Has Zillion Links Of Rock, >@honeymooncroon)
fuck me, ray bradbury (best nsfw sci pop song of 2010)
This sweetly horny tribute to the work of Ray Bradbury, starring Rachel Bloom as the girl who wants to fuck "the greatest scifi writer in history," is sure to put a smile on your face. (via io9)
pioneer one
Pioneer One is the latest project from Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith whose previous indie feature The Lionshare, became VODO's biggest success to date with over 450,000 downloads since its release. The success of the project inspired the writer/director duo to develop this quality drama in collaboration with VODO and its distribution partners. With a successful distribution of the pilot they're hunting for the donors and sponsors that will make the continuation of the show possible.
The show's pilot was shot for just $6000, raised through the micro-funding platform Kickstarter. "This production was possible due in no small part to the willingness of talented, professional people working for free," explains Bernhard. "From actors to composers, they did this because they believed in the project and wanted to see it happen.The production was a journey in and of itself. Check out the video blogs that were posted to the web that tell the story from script to finished episode": vimeo.com/channels/pioneerone. (pioneer one @ vodo.net, via warrenellis.com)
SYNOPSIS
An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover will have implications for the entire world.
station ident: black nail cabaret
UPDATE 1: az interjú időpontja eltolódott, nem kedden, hanem szerdán lesz, 1800-
Lapzárta után érkezett: többször lőttem jelzőgyertyát az elmúlt években, hogy a Black Nail Cabaret lesz a fekete bársonyba meg new wavebe tekert magyar WTF-banda, a színfalak mögül jelzem, hogy készülnek a számok meg érik az első koncert, de addig is megmerítkeznek a hunmédiában. Szerda este (08.18, ha így könnyebb) jelenés/interjú a ClassFM rádióban 18:00 és 20:00 között a Jáksó TOP 20-ban, hallgatni vagy oldschool tekerős 103.3 vagy classfm.hu, megkattint zene, meghallgat, megnéz interjú a Dose párizsi számában, megrendel, followol Twitteren, lekövet FaceBookon, boldog, vérbuborékot fúj, ez a napi vérző mémparancs.
giants remystified: documentaries on warren ellis and grant morrison
So where do you get your healthy dose of fiction, really. The really inspirational, mindful stuff. Stuff that the nineties threw at us in large, hypnotic, swirling chunks, Liquid Television, Disinfo Nation, Hyperreal, Mondo 2000, Chris Carter's take on the alien conspiracy theories, anything that questioned your life around you and made you rethink your original ideas, shifted the focus of your associations into something completely different. William Gibson and Neal Stephenson were obviously inspirations back in the days, but even the lightning bolt brilliance of cyberpunk wore out after a time. And then came comics and it's interesting to note that all artists that ended up as household names are UK residents: Alan Moore, Warren Ellis or the newly re-found object of interest, Grant Morrison. And when they've successfully re-forged your interests, your way of seeing things and your wallet after finally directing all the Amazon shipments your way, it just turns out that all those artists have a huge interest in something we call magic. Or the way of manipulating reality. Which is a very interesting and multi-faceted subject. But we won't get into magic this time, we get into the joyful news of two documentaries being in the works - about Warren Ellis and Grant Morrison. Without further comments, check the trailers and shiver with glee. For more info, check out Sequart.org.
friday 13th zoetica strikes again!
photo: Allen Amato, latex: Blacklicorish, everything else: Zoetica Ebb (via biorequiem)
melbourne shuffle: csúszós törzsi nemződüh
Futó embertől a kvadra térdrúgásig. A lelkesedés és az univerzum titkos csípőmozdulatai a Google hitlist harmadik helyére dobták a tavaly áprilisi cikket, a Melbourne Shuffle több mint húsz éves mozdulatsorai pedig azóta kísértenek minket: ha nem színes-szögecses-tüskés fullonra gyártottuk a magazinunk párizsi számát, akkor a Qlimax arnhemi, harmincötezer embertől boldog és sikamlós partyvideói futottak valamelyik képernyőn - ha pedig ahhoz nem passzol a mosolygós vírusként terjedő csúszós törzsi ausztrál nemződüh, akkor semmihez. Tavaly április óta egészen sok anyagot gyűjtöttünk az érlelőhordóba, úgyhogy táncoktatás, szikrázó-pattogó shufflermacák és hangos veretés beljebb, katt.
Read more
this is french music in infographics
under her banner of wounds, vodka and juicy love pulp, we present you a fine selection of french musicians we love and respect. incomplete as anything thriving to give perspective on an ever-changing landscape, this structured pupil porn infographism frames it into a crystallized bug of its own digital tulpa life frequency. be obedient information sluts, google them up and support the ones you really like. keep the warm web of ecological longtail interdepency alive. (via thedosemag.com)
...and then compiling all the Parisian and French bands that we love and came to love during the past months seemed like a good idea. The highly asymmetric feral claws katanamaid above with all the categorization is the handiwork of Livia @livililli Varga and she has done some highly contagious ROCK to begin with. Until the next issue of The Dose is out this year (and we are already pinging several cities throughout the globe to see where we should spawn next), check out her stuff on Flickr and order our PDF mag on French pop culture, because it's damn cheap for 4 euros and even Warren Ellis himself recommended that and in the eyes of a geek that is some sacred feedback.
countdown video to new william gibson book zero history
Sci-fi visionary and father of cyberspace William Gibson returns to the 21st century’s literary wasteland with Zero History. And he’s got the rocking teaser video to prove it. (on wired via @SciFiHeaven)
Italian low-budget sci-fi R.O.A.C.H. gets English trailer
The story takes place in 2068 and is set in a place very similar to Minsk, the capital of Belarus which sits nestled on the borderline between Russia and Europe, called New Minsk. In this future incarnation, corporations have near complete control of industry and communication. The story follows one man who rises up against one of the most powerful multinational corporations exposing the company’s genetic experimentation project code named R.O.A.C.H. (via quietearth.us)
free french cyberpunk cinema: jeunet-caro's apocalyptic debut short film THE BUNKER online
Jeunet and Caro’s trademark of magical realism pervades all genres they touch from the grotesque to hard edge science fiction. Their obscure first short, Le Bunker de la Derniere Rafale (available on Vimeo) appears in 1981 when Besson is having a comic liaison in a depressing future with no women. Incidentally Le Bunker has only bald males with a thankful infusion of goggle porn, concrete and claustrophobia with a countdown. Which sounds way too much like the last few months of 2012 in the cybergoth scene, but sssh! (:Wumpscut: also touches back to Le Bunker in his early days - anyone remember Bunkertor 7?)
Yes, more movies to come your way and this time it's early French hard-chiseled weirdness. Jeunet-Caro's first short The Bunker of the Last Gunshots is online on Vimeo and if you liked it, click up The Dose mag and order the mag (yes, we actually made that) for 4 EUR for more French cyberpunk and link and lovely perversion galore!
movie tuesday: primer is just like inception, only weirder - and now for free
Shane Carruth, writer and director of the lo-fi scifi flick Primer, has uploaded the entire film to Google Video so you can watch it for free. If you liked the time-twists of Inception, you'll love Primer - it's even crazier. (via io9 - head there for smart Primer infographics and more!)
movie tuesday: sucker punch trailer released
"Sucker Punch" is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what's real and what is imaginary...with potentially tragic consequences.
Alice in Wonderland with inner worlds, suits, guns, dragons, drugs and steampunk. Cheesy dailykawaii shots and anything phallic in between. We'll get back to report more on this when the brainmeat has been hardened from the consitency and meaningfulness of strawberry jam that talks alone at night when it thinks nobody hears it. (pic via joblo/EW.com)
movie tuesday: gantz trailer released
College student Kei Kurono (Kazunari Ninomiya) witnesses his childhood friend Masaru Kato (Kenichi Matsuyama) attempting to help a drunk who has fallen onto the subway train tracks and spontaneously jumps in to help him. However, both are run down by the oncoming train...
In the next instant, they are transported to a strange apartment with others who should also be dead. In the center of the living room is an enigmatic black orb known as 'GANTZ'.
GANTZ enlists each of them on a mission to hunt down and exterminate 'aliens', providing them with fighting suits and weapons.
Is this a world of game or reality? Seeing people and aliens slaughtering each other, Kato is anguished, but Kurono gradually feels satisfied as he discovers his fighting ability...
With 'life and death' as the theme, this is a new type of suspense action entertainment!!
You've read NTV's official synopsis above so you have the basics generously handed out to you, Wikipedia will just spoil everything. Still, more info: this is a two-part live adaptation of Hiroya Oku's manga with the first part coming in January 2011 and the secondly shortly after: sometime during the spring period. Randomly resurrected bionic alien fighters on the cusp of Armageddon, all in Japan with random gratuituous screams and acts of violence? Oh yes. This will be a cult classic so much similar to Gunhed in cheesyness and roboguro. (read more on twitchfilm.net)
nyócker: ingyen, online
Nyolc hónapig voltunk összezárva egy szobában. Vagy tizenkettő. Egy idő után elvesztettük a számolást, kétszer teljesen összeomlott minden archívom, úgyhogy az IMDB-t kell visszakövetnem, hogy tényleg 2004-ben írtuk a Nyóckert, hárman, akik mind meg voltak győződve arról, hogy az ő vicceik a legszórakoztatóbbak egyedül a szobában, volt rengeteg kompromisszum meg tartalmi csavar, akkor Stephen Chow kínai vígjátékait néztem sorra és minden jelenetet abszurdra akartam csavarni, aztán valahogy ez lett belőle. Tudom, négyszer néztem meg sajtóvetítésen és mindig konstatáltam, hogy melyik poénon ki hogyan nevet, azóta sem tudom független szemlélőként megnézni a filmet, ez is pont olyan, amikor Jenny Quantum elmeséli, hogy elment egyszer megnézni egy filmrendezővel egy filmet, aki úgy végigelemezte menet közben együltő helyében az egészet, hogy kitépett székkel szerette volna az elemzőképességét kipöccenteni a helyéből. De a lényeg megvan. Megírtuk, kaszált a filt három díjat meg a New York Times Critics' Pickje közé kerültünk (meg Spotty mutatott valami német reviewt, ha arra még egyszer rátalál, hálás leszek neki) a DVD-k különlegesebb disztribúció nélkül folyt el az országban, akkor tapasztaltam meg az első furcsa érzéseket is, amit nem gondoltam volna, hogy fogok valaha is, amikor valaki közli, hogy "letöltöttem a filmedet és megnéztem" és amikor megkérdezed, hogy miért nem fizetett érte, értetlenül kérdez vissza, hogy "miért?" (Heh.) De most már ez se nagyon számít, minden az entrópia meg Eris felé megy, de ezt is írtam már. És most ittam csak az első napi kávét meg. Értékeljétek, hogy ilyen állapotban is közlök.
a mega tron legacy video post
The girl in the white dress is a seamstress. Olivia Wilde has MEGA MANGA DOLL pond eyes and a strategically bad coiffure. Bad clothes look significantly better when customized with self-assembling neon glow. Women sound nicer when they have vocoders in their throats. But then again, I have to rethink this whole previous sentence about the throat. Anyway. Hello. We have new stuffs from the Tron universe and Riplakoidase has been kind enough to support me with all the stuff via the Hardwired forums and everything. The amount of the stuff that's coming through is tremendous and I'm really trying to filter and avoid everything - the more I receive the more I will know about the movie. And we have almost half a year until the IMAX 3D launch date which makes me cringe and go and watch Inception three more times instead. As Inception is the new Matrix. But you've probably heard that already. So without any more bullshit, click these videos. They have dead bits, literally unreal women and weird fashion statement inside. In a world that needs an ID card as big as your back. But you can kill people with it. I think that's a hidden feudal remark about swords. And I probably need to have some rest as well. But the real fun comes from French site Minutebuzz: seven minutes of Tron:Legacy cam from a screening. There goes the seamstress.
Tron Legacy - Exclusif Comic Con Preview 7 Minutes [VO-SD]
Uploaded by Eklecty-City. - Full seasons and entire episodes online.
superbus: the french birthday massacre
SUPERBUS - Lova Lova (Universal, 2009)
I wouldn’t have thought I’d cover any band in this issue on a major label but hey, talent’s always talent. To do this long: the french five-piece SUPERBUS revives the 80’s glamour pop with the lovely vocalist Jennifer Ayache. They’re cheerfully pop and so much in-your-ear they’ve won quite a few prices, amongst them the MTV EMA 2005 best French act. To cut this awfully short: they’re the French Birthday Massacre. Their latest album Lova Lova brings joyous gloom, kinky bedroom Goth, a light purple touch on everything with skillful songwriting so much I’m thinking of re-learning French. And with the neon framework video for Addictions, they’ve won me a hundred times over. (Check Apprends-Moi and denying it has a lot to do with Chibi & Co.’s work will be quite hard.) It is sin, yes. Cheesy but fulfilling.
(8/10)
Key tracks: Nelly, Keyhole, Addictions
(via www.thedosemag.com: buy our mag on on our site or at fixtstore.com)
I first wanted to write something like Superbus is the New Birthday Massacre, but first of all, that would be pure blasphemy, secondly, Chibi and co are releasing their new album, Pins and Needles real soon (so much that they're posting short clips to social sites when they see one). And the title track Pins and Needles is just like being in love. And their tracks often make me say things like that. (Just saying, teenager boys and girls. But Superbus, that's something entirely different, a very French take on the eighties, as you can read in the review above, cheeky and a bubblegum power pop candy that has very fine garotte razors inside. It's mostly the latest album Lova Lova that'll send the purple riot grrl inside you shred with lollipop guitar joy. There, I said it.
