friday candy>> zoetica / dipetra
Fridays really should be like this. On the pic, agent extraordinaire and Coilhouse staffer Zoetica. (photo: Karen Hsiao, wardrobe: Antiseptic Fashion, hair/makeup/model: Zoetica Ebb). (via biorequiem)
casshern sins: coming in september
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)
anime eyes: extrawide contact lenses for that watery look
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)
cyberpunk movie news zen
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.
repo! the genetic opera: mark it up!
We have a new teaser from REPO!:THE GENETIC OPERA, the scene Mark it Up! featuring lovely (really) Paris Hilton, and a gorgeously eccentric Ogre from Skinny Puppy. Grotesque, tinted fuckerily and with brains.
UPDATE 1: Eftelsander removed the Mark It Up scene and replaced it with a behind the scenes video - with more insight and unfortunately, more talk. Enjoy.
angel wings: new fashion statement for the scene
Haven't really updated my street fashion knowledge since The Dose time and man, it's been two years now, so it's time to get back to the business and see what you dirtygrrlz and dirtyboiz are up to. One of the main impulses is Artifice Clothing's [cybertek wings] that's been recommended to me by m1k3y/grinding.be. A thousand-bucks price tag is definitely something that's gonna set aside the cream from the plebs but hey - fashion's always been like that. For those who can make do with less - and I mean less - go for the Leeloo PVC costume. Dig deeper. (via grinding.be)
alan moore: advice for young artists
I've met so many people recently who cannot cope with the shit around or in their life but they only need one spark to let it go, I mean really start things going. This is for them, told by none other than world-acclaimed comics writer Alan Moore, who's behind Watchmen and V for Vendetta.
repo! the genetic opera: more footage available
"The comic value is a murderer and a rapist." Seriously. Repo: The Genetic Opera! has been one twisted piece of work that we've been expecting for quite some time and thank God, heaps of smart and relevant footage appears on YouTube, thanks to user Eftelsander who started posting excerpts and trailers like *snap snap* rapidfire. Surgery graft fetish boytoys, Paris Hilton cunt injections, future sluts and sleazy kink all the way. Check the "Zydrate Anatomy" scene above, below, a brief behind-the-scenes with Ogre of Skinny Puppy.
gas mask buddha
Icon II: Siddharta Gotama in gas mask, sculpture by Samuel F. Stimpert. (link, via ectomo)
pangender cyborgs, cocks on buildings
Seriously, if last month's penis-thieving stories from Africa didn't cut through your transjournalistic immune system, this won't either. Madrid artist Jaime del Val is walking around the city, projecting his dick onto public buildings, claiming "it is a means of power". At least he's right about that. According to the Metro, Mr del Val actually claims to have a serious message to promote as a self-identified 'pangender cyborg'. He says his visual actions are part of a multi-protest against homophobia, surveillance, control and consumer society. (via boingboing gadgets, via metro)
2009: a true story
Nothing like a fresh whiff of apocalypse for a new day! Fallout 3 is up-and-coming (we'll talk more about it in a few days), the Mutant Chronicles review is still pending, so let's feed you guys with 2009: A TRUE STORY, a 13-episode long webcast on how America's gone to ruins. As IO9 says, cities were blown to bits by an unknown enemy, and the remaining government enforced the Patriot Act under the advertising campaign "America: Keep The Dream Alive." The next thing anyone knew, American soil was no longer a safe place for free thinkers and idealists. (link, via io9)
two galleries on chernobyl
If you've heard about the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. cosplayers, you know the story's a bit more than two months old now, so it's kind of sad I only post it now. The novelty value is an extra gallery by dr sunrise 3500 from Melbourne who's just gone to Chernobyl for a field trip and posted a slightly radioactive gallery of love, cheers to m1k3y/grinding.be for the hint. (Cosplayer gallery link, dr sunrise 3500 link)
wim delvoye's gone gothic
Hitch has just sent us this lovely picture of Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye's gothic machine, one of many. Delvoye's just been to Budapest a couple of months ago, that I came to know with pity - although he's been here with the Cloaca contraption afaik (that's pretty similar to the one having presented at Linz, the Ars Electronica festival) and he's got so many more interesting, weird constructs - very similar to the majestic and gigantic ornamented vehicles of the Warhammer 40K universe.
zombie haiku: chocolate, but with more screaming
Just when you thought Friday couldn't get any more rabid than this.
tron 2 aka tr2n trailer is out
You are about to see the camera version of the first trailer for TR2N (recorded at the San Diego Comic-Con fest), the sequel to Disney's cyberpunk legend TRON, that has all the basic goods that we all came to love: Syd Mead designs, neon wireframes, artificial intelligences and of course, fissures. (And for the sensitive ones, Jeff "my smile crumbles walls" Bridges.) The script is supposedly written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz from Lost and the tone is going to be way more menacing than the original.
christensen "force pulled" out of neuromancer?
Just noticed the fact that Hayden Christensen is no longer listed as Case under the Neuromancer page on IMDB. Did Seven Arts Pics or Peter Hoffman finally realize that you need an iconic piece of battered and bruised junkie to do all the work? Page was last updated on the 10th of July.
gaia anomalies: angles in structures within satellites
One of the thirty amazing satellite images over at Environmental Graffiti. This one is the once vast carpet of rainforest in the Amazon basin (...) fanning out from the large blocks of land cleared by ranchers and loggers radiate arrangements of fields and farms, the remaining healthy vegetation appearing in bright red. Below, dunes of the Kalahari Desert, Namibia.
fijuu2: 3d realtime music engine
Watch these images carefully, as they deliver traces of glory, cyberpunk bravado and unholy, sizzling sperm of Richard D. James.
And that's a music-making software alright. FIJUU2, the brainchild of Julian Oliver and another guy named pix, features six unique instruments that you sculpt with PS2 gamepads. (Because, as Oliver will neatly tell us in a video embedded below, PS2 gamepads are pretty much like guitars.) The spinning rings on the images (well, more like in the videos) are the tracks, the sexily weird 3D shapes are the instruments.
The project was all opensource, you can download the source code from the project website and run on your Linux box. I think I'm soon off to install Ubuntu (what to install?) and buy a devilish gamepad. Above, a four-minutes long demo of Fijuu2 in action. Below, a documentary of Cybersonica & Encompass Sonic Art Exhibition (London, 2006) where the system was shown to the public to massive appraisal.
miltech calendar girls with weapons
This is basically for those who still remember the old LD50 logo - a riot grrl with red hair and a submachinegun. This is basically the same, only with an Asian twist, right from calendar.cyberpunk2020.de.
Source for the picture: request1a by ~savemiette on deviantART
morav: gritty mecha realizm
The reason why I really-really loved Robocop? I'll honestly tell you, it was the ED-209 and whatever bad-ass robo machismo the show had, it was really the stop-motion mecha scenes and not Murphy at all. (And I bet half of you really feel the same. Yes? No? Comment!) So it comes as a heart-warming surprise, seeing MORAV, and the more you read off the website and the more you follow the links, the more intriguing the whole show becomes.
Morav is basically a military drama with mecha/sci-fi overtones, gritty realism in a Middle Easternish region with the mecha work all done in stop-motion, not CG. Fon Davis, the series creator sez we have enough chronology to do webisodes, comic books, a television series and motion pictures without touching the same story twice. We have always remained flexible since we do not yet know what production opportunities will arise first. (And if you check Fon Davis on IMDB, you'll be instantly impressed seeing him having worked on all six Star Wars movies, Matrix 2-3 and so forth.) Not much material on YouTube yet, but hang on, this looks promising. (Robots moved with telemetry suits, oh my god, yes.) (via cyberpunk2020.de)
russian lesbian lolita keyboards (and supple++)
Artemy "Optimus" Lebedev is back with another concept for a new-gen keyboard, the Optimus Tactus. Not yet haptic, the keyboard is actually bestowed with an iPhonesque touchscreen capability, meaning most of the user-ended design issues are basically on the interface side: buttons can be any shape and size, making this a wonderful addition to Supple++. If you hadn't known Supple++ before, that's basically a software support system for users living with motoric disabilities - they are given tests (they have to click, drag and do various other tasks with the mouse) and then the whole Windows interface changes according to their limitations, e.g. if they have problems dragging the cursor through the screen, the distance between buttons diminishes. Imagine the same thing with the Tactus. Amazing. (via gearfuse)
P.S.: And as for the lesbian lolitas, they are obviously T.A.T.U., so grab this, Nas ne dagonyat, from the first LP.
sony ericsson sex change video ad
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)
more syd mead goodness at boingboing.tv
If last week's Syd Mead interview with Joel Johnson of boingboing wasn't enough, here's part two. (via)