axe detailer ad with mother-daughter threesome
Washes Jessica's perfume off your ear. Scrubs Jessica's Mom's perfume off your knees. (via contexts)
damien walter free running showreel 2009
Google him and find nothing. Boing Boing is the first of the majors to report about free runner (and apparently not traceur) Damien Walter - who's someone completely different from fiction writer Damien G Walter. If running up that hill, running up that mountain and doing 540 flips before entering your car without opening its door makes you tick, this will make you rock hard. Enjoy. (via boingboing)
carl erik rinsch to direct new alien movie (confirmed)
Yes, dear meatbags. IO9 and Slashfilm both broke news on the Alien franchise that's being resuscitated by 20th Century Fox. The news originally come form Bloody Disgusting - according to them, Michael Costigan, Tony Scott and Ridley Scott himself are running with the project with commercial video director Carl Erik Rinsch to helm the whole thing. No word on whether this is a remake or a prequel or a sequel. Above, a video directed by Rinsch for Saturn. Very steampunkish, it was here before and he might not be a bad choice after all.
UPDATE 1: Tony Scott himself confirmed the news to Collider that Carl Rinsch is really directing a PREQUEL to the original Ridley movie and the project is getting in front of the cameras hopefully by the end of the year.
v: aliens are here and they need to look good
V, the alien invasion series premiering on ABC comes out with a trailer that gives away everything, as reported by io9. Here's the brief synopsis from Wikipedia:
The world awakens to find spaceships hovering over all major cities. Though the aliens claim to come in peace, some do not believe them. Homeland Security agent Erica Evans discovers that the aliens have plans to infiltrate our governments and businesses in a plot to take over the planet. Erica joins the resistance movement, which includes Ryan, an alien who wants to save humanity. However, the aliens have recruited earth's youth, including Erica's son, to serve unknowingly as spies.
blood: the last vampire real-live action movie trailer
Mix Blade, Vampire Hunter D, Japanese schoolgirls aaand... Curve. Anime fans, rejoice, it's finally here and it looks like anything else that you've seen during the past few years. But at least the soundtrack's right.
johnny mnemonic: the deleted scenes
Unnecessary to order the Japanese DVD now. There are quite a few differences between the American version of Johnny Mnemonic that we all came to love and the Japanese one, considered to be the more obscure version - Wikipedia lists all of them. It's just been early this week I found the outtakes from the JM DVD.
neuromancer rescheduled, liv tyler in talks
Early this week, Production Weekly tweeted about Liv Tyler being in talks to star in the Neuromancer movie, the Joseph Kahn adaptation cyberpunk afficionados have criticized so openly for enrolling Hayden Christensen as Case. The movie's IMDB page lists noone at the moment - but if you've been following up on the news every now and then, you'll be delighted to notice that the 2009 screening date has been postponed until 2011. Although there's been no extra info added about Liv Tyler, the general consensus is that she's going to play Molly - even though the role of 3Jane could be more fitting.
This video above is a mock-up of the intro credits of Neuromancer and it's just how we would have wanted to see it up until the mid-nineties, I guess. The cast list is worth a peep: although it still lists Hayden Christensen as Case and makes no mention of Liv Tyler (obviously, the video's been uploaded to YouTube on the 30th of January), the names are self-explanatory and if you check the video comments, users came up with the same conclusions: Olga Kurylenko as Molly, Paul Bettany as Riviera, David Morse as Armitage, Peter Stormare as The Finn, Steve Buscemi as Dixie Flatline, Djimon Honsou as Maelcum, Christina Ricci as 3Jane, Hiroyuki Sanada as Hideo, Ian Holm as Ashpool - and, not surprisingly, Christopher Walken as Neuromancer (or as some believe, Wintermute).
gamer: fusion sci-fi foursome
The indie SF/horror movie cornerstone Twitch had this coming a long time ago under the working title Game. With a sudden twist of a rename, Gamer features Gerard Butler, Ludacris, the creative guys behind Crank and a script that actually brings lots of previous cyberpunk(ish) gems to mind:
Game (sic!) is a near-future action/thriller starring Gerard Butler (Kable) as the champion of an on-line game called "Slayers". Mind-control technology has taken society by storm and "Slayers" allows humans control other humans in mass-scale, multiplayer online game. With his every move tracked by millions, Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and launching an attack on the system that has imprisoned him.
This is basically Running Man (and a little bit of MadWorld, all the broadcast show elements), Avalon (the all-encompassing multiplayer game), Death Race (with the inmates and the hope of freedom). And eXistenZ. And basically all cyberpunk movies about TV shows and virtual reality and MMOs. Cyberpunk for us, squirting ladies for Butler. (via kotaku)
UPDATE 1: You remember Turbo? Teenagers playing fighting avatars is just another proof-of-concept for synchronicity. Here's what I wrote earlier and the trailer for some quick memory boost.
philip bloom: alone in tokyo
From Narita to sleeping sararimen: watch Philip Bloom's short movie Alone in Tokyo - made even more touching by the soundtrack, Air's "Alone in Kyoto". Reminds me a bit of Steve Reich cuddling with a sad, sad National Geography vlogger on vasopressine after heartbreak. (via japannewbie)
"here & there": manhattan on a straylight curve
Seeing through cities is real power, sez Schulze and Webb - their project "Here & There" is a horizonless projection of dense cities, evoking Freeside and Villa Straylight. On the video below you can also see it in motion, a potentially perfect add-on candidate to Google Maps. (here and there, via boing boing gadgets)
the mirror's edge - parkour photo set on flickr
Dunno where I found this - but that's quite a well-executed Mirror's Edge themed set for starters by Savage Land Pictures. The haircut and the face are not 100% and obviously the 3D platformer geometry is just not there - still, a nice treat for a Friday afternoon. (photo set on flickr)
UPDATE 1: There's an another Mirror's Edge photoset on Pixelatedgirl - check the teaser pic below.
surrogates: the first viral poster... not
Another cyberpunkish Disney movie (after Tron) in the making, The Surrogates (featuring Bruce Willis) is in theaters from September 25th, 2009. According to IMDB, set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates. (via io9)
UPDATE 1: As my reader Oizys kindly points out: IO9 has just updated their post saying that this is not the Surrogates poster we all expected.. yet the Choose Your Surrogate viral site is still active!
district 9: alien apartheid, alien biotechnology
You remember commercial and movie director Neill Blomkamp and his short South African docudrama entitled Alive in Joburg? All about alien apartheid in six and a half minutes, about how they arrived on this planet and how they managed to get segregated in camps, living in slums with a mothership hovering in the background, native African Americans complaining about poleepkwa.. neatly done, if you're into the social side of science fiction.
Now Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp stand behind a full-length SF drama set in the same universe. District 9, according to Slashfilm is about a peacekeeper agent, who's on the run from the oppressive government because of his alien biotechnology infection and yeah, he's heading straight into the alien internment camps where they've been held for thirty years. Movie hits theaters on the 14th of August. Below, that's the Alive in Joburg short.
moon
Debut SF movie Moon directed by Duncan Jones is a well-executed ballistic hadouken. Get the cards right: the son of David Bowie drops a movie inspired by 2001: Space Odyssey and Blade Runner about how a 3-year long Moon maintenance job can turn into a nightmare in the last two weeks - including a weird doppelgänger, Sam Rockwell and a computer voiced by Kevin Spacey and a set designer from Alien, who's obviously not onscreen. But I surely digress.
The film's screened at Sundance this year, also in Los Angeles and New York on the 12th of June, Sony Pictures Classics starts commercial distribution from June 2009. (via io9)
frequency, amplitude: rez-like rhythm/remix games
Cyberpunk died with Johnny Mnemonic, the Krokers said in 1995, Robert Longo killed it - and with that came the slow dissipation of wireframes and vast electronic non-spaces of either consensual hallucination or psychedelia. Tetsuya Mizuguchi had it on PS2 and he brought it back for the 360 XBLA, leaving splinters of rumours about a Rez sequel and leaving us waiting empty-handed. If you still own your PS2, dust it off and google up a store where they still sell Frequency and Amplitude - developed by Harmonix in 2001 and 2003, respectively.
It's all about evoking the mindless speed limit breaking into an octogonal tunnel with sides connected to tracks, each of them containing notes you have to hit in order to keep the music flowing. It's basically a game-induced remix tool, containing songs by The Crystal Method, Curve, Orbit, Roni Size, Juno Reactor, Meat Beat Manifesto and a lot more in Frequency and the same diverse repertoire comes up in the sequel with Garbage, Herbie Hancock, Styles of Beyond or even Pink. My only heartbreak is that it's only for the Playstation - and PC's never really gotten far with similar music/rhythm games apart from Audiosurf.
louis vuitton + takashi murakami qr code
The first stylish QR code I've seen - done by Tokyo creative agency SET, promoting the joint projects of Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami. Although Jean Snow sez it works, I didn't manage to actually decode that - can you? (via dvice)