conspiracy - actuator
After 3 years of silence. ... You expected more, didn't you? Too bad.
We have to lower the bar you know. Anyway.
This intro was supposed to be done for Breakpoint, Scenecon, Riverwash, Assembly, probably Evoke too, and at some point it was also planned to be a Function invitation, but we could not finish the thing, probably 'cos we failed to even START it. Oh well. Hope you like it still and we hope Still likes it. For the record, it IS 1AM, so excuse us, if we're only moderately coherent.
>> Actuator by Conspiracy via pouet, ranked 1st on the combined 64k compo of Main 2009
evan hayden: dressing up your friends as broken robot dolls
I love exploring themes of body-horror, biomechanical transformations, insane robots, and anything vividly colorful. Thankfully for my artwork, I have some very helpful friends who don't seem to mind being painted with crazy metallic body paints, or loaded down with gadgets! Some of my influences are Tadanori Yokoo, Jasper Goodall, and Hajime Sorayama, as well as a life full of comics, video games, robot toys, and my trips to Japan. (evan hayden, via io9)
the dailykawaii promise of eyewatering neon mobile fiction
East side, west side, the days of hoarding are over. Releasing all the stuff I've gathered up in the past few weeks, together with some new reviews on movies like Pandorum, Visioneers, Ben X, Gamer (above), The Killing Room and Sleep Dealer. Seriously pondering on revamping complete template to accomodate more to how the current content is structured. Certain posts remain Hungarian, most of the content is going in English with the occassional dabbling in Japanese. Bear with me and spread more comments, ungrateful puppets.
the mechanical tumor
Mio Iizawa's artificial tumor - a separate entity inside a PC, shrinking or expanding depending on your CPU use, all done with an actuator motor and an air compressor. You start up your Fruity Loops and work on a severely layered track, bam! the tumor expands, shut it down, the tumor shrinks back to its original size. Eerie. (More on Iizawa's works later.) (via dvice)
new book of eli trailer
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
We've covered this before but I just enveiled the new trailer without Tom Waits but with a decent amount of Mila Kunis and we can now suspect that the Book of Eli is not really a book, it's more like a weapon. Of some sorts.
petrou, checkers/rorschach body dysmorphia (man s/s 2010)
Loving Nicolas Petrou's Spring/Summer 2010 collection inspired by an illustration Sirichai completed for Geoffrey Beene. As usual, Petrou's use of patterned body tights offer distracting eye candy but there's no denying the ease and surprising wearability of his pieces. (via electro^plankton, below, a trailer of RAGE)
angelspit - fuck the revolution (new music video)
Angelspit's new album HIDEOUS AND PERFECT has been released on 09/09/09 and while you have to wait a bit for the reviews (much is messed up at the pdhq nowadays), click the vid above to check their first music video off the new album called Fuck the Revolution - will change the embed when it gets released onto YouTube. For the time being, you can stream their album on MySpace for a few days. And while we're at it, grab their album now!
Hideous and Perfect is packaged in a gloss laminated gatefold cardboard wallet that has been custom designed to house a CD, 16 page artwork booklet and poster (36cm x 36cm). The poster features a unique typographic layout of the lyrics which have been printed in silver ink. Bold typography and arresting photography by Helen White typifies the CD artwork booklet. As with every Angelspit release, visual production values are high and attention to detail is paramount. (Order Hideous and Perfect here!)
penfield's electrode: episode 2 released
Brainmove, creative mind between the YouTube-based Japanese cyberpunk series Penfield's Electrode has just mailed me the link to the new episode that's been deceivingly entitled 1.1, not part 2. Still, there are a few in-city shots that look a lot like the old cyberpunk game Syndicate. If you're interested in the first episode or the extra details, the stuff is all yours for the taking.
rodarte: tribal tattoo goth girls, death vultures
Laura Mulleavy told WWD she didn't sleep last night because she was so nervous about the Rodarte show — inspired by the singed Death Valley and "mangled and tattered" black vultures — today, but she had nothing to fear. The room was packed for her and her sister Kate's Spring 2010 collection debut; crunchy black sand was on the floor, dry ice smoke filled the room, and a musky scent wafted through the room as part of a collaboration with fragrance company Firmenich (...) every model had her arms painted with makeup to appear like tribal tattoes, goth lips, and their hair wrapped in webbed wool. (via fashionologie via boing boing)
biorequiem 5.0 is here
Zoetica Ebb just launched a new version of her personal site Biorequiem. It is all coming together.
(photo: Allan Amato wardrobe: Mother of London, Skingraft)
first concept art for duncan jones' mute released
Director of Moon starts shooting his new film in Berlin early next year, inspired by Blade Runner. The plot is about a mute bartender who is abducted while looking for his girlfriend, apparently.
In Development. Writers: Duncan Jones (Moon) and Mike Johnson (Sherlock Holmes). Director: Duncan Jones. Producer: Stuart Fenegan. Project currently in preproduction and set to shoot in Berlin early 2010 with Studio Babelsberg. (via liberty films via slashfilm)
most of them love living but one doesn't
According to what Shane Hope writes about himself, he appears to be the new Kenji Siratori, only with a firm grip on the English language. His Compile-A-Child drawings are born from the foglet community of Transmetropolitan and childhood days when skies will be grey, your feet will be cars, your eyes mirrors, your cunts and cocks always wired into a better 'verse that flips into standby during day/nightshifts and the Zionite dub-cum-dubstep will serve as your audio equivalent of the morning coffee when there's nothing left at all. Most of them love living, but one doesn't. (via grinding.be via accelerating future)
destroyx with semi-modulars, new angelspit album and blipvert out
Angelspit released their new album, Hideous and Perfect and DestroyX is back to tease us with her dark energy, umm, Dark Energy - a blipvert about semi-modulars.
electronic girl: renaissance french, american noir
2055, the world lies devastated. Humans survive in a divided society between the poor in the outside world living in poverty, and the privileged living inside a giant protective dome. In order to supplement the needs of a decimated population, robots are used heavily to support the workforce. The elite class demand a more aesthetically pleasing and easily integrated artificially life form to work amongst them, so Nana the most sophisticated humanoid android ever is created. Developing intelligence and emotions for faster than the scientists ever anticipated, Nana escapes from the laboratory and goes on the run from “The Institute” who created her. They want her her back at any cost. (via quietearth)
assault girl: kentucky no hinako
Assault Girl: Kentucky no Hinako, the first “Assault Girl” short, was a segment of the Oshii supervised 2007 anthology film Shin Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden. The second short was part of the 2008 anthology film “Kill.” (via animenation)
artificial paradise inc.
Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?
Selected at the ONEDOTZERO festival in the WOW+FLUTTER 09 category.
Selected for the Autodesk 2009 Siggraph Show Reel.
Production : Condor
Director / editor / compositing : Jean-Paul Frenay
Main 3D artist / compositing : Sandro Paoli
3D artists : Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet
Additional 3D operators : Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman
Sound Design : Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8
the emptiness, all there is to it
super-kamiokande, a 50 thousand ton water cherenkov detector (via make online)
assault girls: csinos lányok, nagy fegyverek, mészgödör
Crackhabzsolás szájszélre keményedett látható eredménye keveredik a Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future nyolcvanas években felköhögött, erősen színházias látványvilágával: csak az legyen a képernyőn, ami fókuszban van, amit nem használunk, ott sem lesz. Ennek megfelelően sivatagi bikermaszkba és fekete szárnypárba öltözött japánlányok óriási fegyverekkel tüzelnek pixeltöredékekre őslényeket, de nagyokat, azt mondanád, Avalon, ahogy töredeznek, megnézed a rendezőt, Mamoru Oshii, köhögsz egy kicsit, megigazítod magad a széken, ma én is rendező leszek.
In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth’s surface has been turned into a desert battlefield. Three beautiful female hunters: Gray (Meisa Kuroki), Lucifer (Rinko Kikuchi), and Colonel (Hinako Saeki) traverse the barren landscape armed with powerful assault rifles to fight a group of deadly sand-dwelling monsters called “sunakujira” (sand whales). When the the epic battle eventually seems to be coming to an end, the sparkle of muzzle flash dies down and assault ship flies overhead. Suddenly, a gigantic super mutation called “Madara Sunakujira” attacks.
cargo: swiss money, cosmic alienation
Just came across Ivan Engler's SF thriller CARGO - via CPC - looking like a mixture of Ridley Scott's Alien and another up-and-coming deep space corridor thriller Pandorum. Turns out - according what Quiet Earth offers us - that the movie's been in the works for ten years, lived through eight complete script re-writes and is done from Swiss budget only. Looks and feels rigid and cold, perfect! Premiere: Sep 24th, 2009.
The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
During her daily patrols, through the eerily empty ship, LAURA begins to get the feeling that she is not alone on-board. A discovery mission in the dark and ice-cold cargo hold ends in catastrophe. The remainder of the crew is awakened. A cat and mouse game begins in which nothing is what it seems. What lies hidden in the strange freight containers and who, or what, is also on-board?