the cube: full-length version on google video
Deceptive titles, the kind of infection that comes with being an online journalist, I guess. Last night (read: today at 3am) I'm still sitting in the HQ and my iris is playing in at least three different colours and one of them looks like a girl lost in Berlin, the other is the color of experimental chemicals mixed in homemade plastic trays and the wind's blowing like a cheap Asian hooker on crack, mostly because I learned how to deliver heavy weather in my room. Which is awesome, by the way.
And I'm watching The Cube series in random order, re-cut and the whole movie's perspiring and it's really creeping-crawling for a fourth version and I'm really, really digging up every Milgram-related crap that I find (and it turns out that I started writing up a psycho drama that's very milgramish and has at least ten pounds of fetish per character) and then I come with a TV play from 1969 on the verge of British absurd that's called THE CUBE, directed by none other than Jim Henson (the Muppet Show fame, the same) and it's about a man who finds himself in a cube that he cannot leave unless he finds "his own door", whereas various characters enter and leave the scene on their own will. And it's on Google Video and it's very, very free. Enjoy the treat.
terminator: salvation trailer released!
Wikipedia sez, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale), the man fated to be the leader of the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators, and the future he was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a Terminator whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they find out a terrible secret that may lead to the possible annihilation of mankind.
hazardous conditions
I'm either applying for an armored company SUV or my favourite yellow hazmat suit I haven't actually ordered some ten paydays ago or so. Order three and you get a lady free. Picture originally comes from Fauxred's feed, Hazardous Conditions.
le weekend zen
So zis is ze new edition of le weekend zen! Momotaro Ramen. Ahol a rock katonái esznek (Frenreisz Károly gigantikus adag takeaway mellett), az nem lehet rossz hely, komolyra fordítva a szót: klasszikus ramen-ya, udvarias, precíz és gyors kiszolgálással, a vendégek fele ázsiai, a száznapos tojás szójaszószban is verhetetlen, a városban számos helyen el tudnék képzelni ilyen töltödőpontokat. Fejenként 1-2kból bőven megvan az emberlánya. Térkép és fénykép itt, szerintük kínai étterem, nekem meg igazából mindegy, de Momotaro Udon van amúgy a cégéren. (És mostantól törzshely.)
Le grin! Ez itt TLVLP "Love Cushion White Sugar" Pierre, aki öt perccel később azon mormog, hogy szemgolyókat nem kapott az udonjába. Ugyanolyan harcos szararimann, mint mi (les quatres!), csak ő főz is, saját elmondása szerint még nem modellkedett. Ebből nem csiholtunk történeteket.
Körbevettük, néztük. Tigrises Virgin Pink energiaital, megdőlt a Red Bull Cola harmadik kerületi címzetes előnye. Ők meg minket néztek, ahogy a dobozt rugdaljuk, vegyielemezzük, kis híján (harminc fok árnyékban, a kávé nem elég) kóstolgatjuk alatta a buszpadlót.
Le weird. Útban a SceneCon felé pár hosszúcombú szőke légy után. Megchipeltük, mind a hárman.
Date Kyoko, anyone? The 3D models dressed into EU-clothes just alongside the river Danube, French street bal. And trust me, vive la France, but it really sucked major logistical, organizational and just big fat hairy ass. (Street bal that you cover in five minutes slowly, two minutes in normal stride? Gimme a break. Haven't tried the crépes, though, they probably had these tricolor lozenges in them that slowly turn your vision inside out so you think you're strolling along several kilometres of vendors? And that was just a glimpse through a glass of beer? Must try it next year, bah.)
repo! the genetic opera
Without getting too intense and hot on Darren Lynn Bousman's Repo! The Genetic Opera, this piece of art is one of the best things that's gonna happen to the cyberpunk movement this year (apart from the first Doktor Sleepless trade paperback and the hopefully promising re-make of Ghost in the Shell and Pearry, trust me, you don't release The Gene Generation in 2008, we're so releasing doom in your pants. And me going to Twitter): it is all above fusion, blending and a generous amount of tetrising around previously unmatched blocks of art.
It's Bioshock live. Golden age aesthetics with all the cyberpunk clichés burped back into life: evil organ-selling zaibatsus, hired killers, hot women in black, a cabaret of decadance, Blade Runner meets Rocky Horror Picture Show, they say.
And the blocks fit nicely, from Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy to Sarah Brightman and the postmodern top-down DIY media icon Paris Hilton: it's all crossover cyberpunk opera and you all need to devour it. Limited theatrical release is reported to start on November 7th, 2008.
Japanese fans, scream away in anal glee. Yoshiki Hayashi of X-Japan fame is behind the soundtrack (and is also credited as a producer alongside Bousman). A Rubik cube of glory, really. (And read the interview with Bousman on creature-corner, while you're at it.)
Need a backup story? The Repo! Wikipedia entry sez An epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Panic erupts and scientists feverishly make plans for a massive organ harvest. Out of the tragedy, GeneCo, a multi-billion dollar biotech company, emerges. GeneCo provides organ transplantation for a profit. In addition to financing options, GeneCo reserves the right to implement default remedies, including repossession. For those who can't keep up with their organ payments, collection is the responsibility of "organ repo men", skilled assassins contracted by GeneCo, ordered to recover GeneCo's property by any means necessary.
max payne trailer 1: movie coming 10.17
Third and fourth quarter of 2008 is becoming more and more promising: October 17 is the release date for John Moore's MAX PAYNE screen adaptation with Mark Wahlberg sans the shwazzy haircut. Synopsis sez coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent (Wahlberg) whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin (Kunis) out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation, which means we're in for a treat of Mona Sax, which is more like the plotline of Max Payne 2 or a possible sequel. And no, I haven't read up on how they mangled the story.
cubo.cc: like a fruitfly on rohypnol
cubo.cc's morphing Flash technology is also visible on motionportrait. you'll also fuck up your time generously watching a mildly retarded Japanese girl following your cursor with the interest of a fruitfly on rohypnol. (yes, link)
chinese anti-terrorist units on military segways
Chinese elite anti-terror police officers are wheeling into action ahead of next month's Beijing Olympics on two-wheeled scooters. Members of the country's armed police unit practised on the Segway models that have been re-named 'Anti-Terror Assault Vehicles' in the eastern province of Shandong. Officials have bought 100 Segways and painted some in military camouflage to patrol airports and sporting venues during the Games. (more on Mail Online)
syd mead, god of future car ROCK appears on bbtv
Finally. Syd Mead appears on BoingBoing TV, talking about the stuff he did for the basic cyberpunk movies we all came to love and cars and then some. (via)
the surrogates: disney does cyberpunk, again
Bloody-disgusting reports on a new cyberpunkish movie from the turf of Disney - who actually gave a sort of birth to neon wireframe aesthetics with Tron some 23 years ago. (BD hears we should feel mildly threatened.) THE SURROGATES - headlining Bruce "Relatively Antisocial" Willis - is based on Robert Venditti's same-titled comics and is set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates, sez the official synopsis.
This very much sounds like a classic cyberpunk treat to me, although I take the whole story with a grain of salt after knowing it's Ferris and Brancato behind the wheel - also the guys who worked on the Terminator 3 script. (Yes, I know producers, investors and in general, dickheads can turn your otherwise brilliant script into a washing machine of squirrel vomit. Still. T3 deserves ebola machete.)
According to the Variety report, film producer David Hoberman sez This is a grounded sci-fi premise, but there are big effects, and it's clear from '300' that people want to see different kinds of things, and this falls into that category.
(via bloody-disgusting, also variety and milford daily news)
manikin couture, dental floss porn
The better geekblogs are busy blogging about the new meme, dental and medical manikins. Check a list of twenty-four bizarre, fucked up and generally gorgeous medical/dental dolls, automata and sexy structures of teeth! (via oobject)
feed the fat kid
And after Long Pig and The City ads, this all looks very weirdly Transmetropolitan. New hate couture!
frellstedt lightbench
I like benches more that get super glowing hot from 10pm to 6am or emit killer gas when you sit on them, but this is sort of a mellow moodsetter, so here it is. Bench is a Frellstedt product that emits 95W that doesn't sound that good given how much you need to maintain a normal park bench. In the dark. Anyways, Gizmodo.
brilldea: living in a magazine
Brilldea's LED-backlit sci-fi nightmare is one hot jerkoff material, Gizmodo thinks it has an immense Kubrick aftertaste. I'd say it has an aftertaste of anything after 1980 that includes future and robots. Which means it as an aftertaste of me. Thank you. (And officially confirmed, my next lead article next week is gonna be called "Hot chicks with big robots." How good is that, really?)
mgs, solid snakes
Hideo Kojima sez MGS4 has blood-curdling amounts of "butt depiction obsession". Right. Read Kotaku.
syd mead silently stalks gadgets.boingboing
Syd Mead, visionary concept designer (Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, Strange Days) has climbed his way onto last week's gadgets.boingboing with two posts.
One is the concept imagery for the city of Doha, Qatar..
..and the other's an official LEGO remake of the classic Spinner model from Blade Runner.
furby's death by drill
A Furby-kínzásnak perverz módon cizellált szubkultúrája van, fittyenti le az ajkát Colende, aztán elküldi a linket és ezzel meg is nyeri "az éjszaka legrosszabb youtube-videója" versenyt, ami neve ellenére inkább arról szól, hogy mivel tudjuk a másikba belefojtani a szót több ideig, nyert, nyert. Állatvédők és az emberi jogok barátai leszedálva nézzék csak. Nem tudok fogalmazni, nem tértem magamhoz még a Diablo 3-bejelentés okozta pozitív sokktól.
golden ray migration
Dawe sent me his nature sexobject images the other day, golden rays migrating off the coast of Mexico, pictures by Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer who just "stumbled upon" this by the way fantastically awesome phenomenon. (via telegraph)
radioactive toothpaste. really.
A szerkesztőség még mindig nem hajlandó elhinni azt az apró tényt, hogy tényleg kipróbálnám a nyomokban tóriumot tartalmazó Doramad radioaktív fogkrémet (Auergesellschaft, Berlin), de ez igazából nem jelent semmit, mert a chicken pussyk egyike sem hajlandó hatvanezer forintot eldobni azért, hogy Pripjatyban fotózhassuk le magunkat a ferris wheel előtt, majd azt a képet nézve csikorgathassuk akkor már nem létező fogainkat egy narancssárga színkóddal jelzett karanténban valahol Ózd mellett, homlokunkhoz szorított fogfúróval. Pedig volt ilyen.
A fogkrémre írt magyarázószöveg szerint a radioaktív sugárzás javítja a fogak és az íny természetes védekezőképességét, a baktériumokat hazapöccentik, a mosolyunk fehér lesz, csak ne használjuk sokat. A vicc csak annyi, hogy míg a tórium alfasugárzása nem hatol át a bőrön és például a tórium-alapú gázégők használata teljesen biztonságos, addig szervezeten belülre kerülve az alfasugárzás beköszön a tüdőnek, a vérnek és a májnak, külön-külön is. Dawe, köszönöm az ötleteket :)
promo reel of tony jaa's "ong bak 2" on twitch - now for real
Twitchfilm has an exclusive baby that's not yet on Youtube now - a very official promo reel from the directorial debut of Thailand's supreme action hero Tony Jaa. Jaa's earned an instant ticket into the martial arts "unbelievably good as fuck" class with his first movie Ong-Bak and strengthened it with a more brawly and brutal sequel (with just as good technical finesse) Tom Yum Goong. This movie has also been called Ong-Bak 2, this being a universally bad move as the movies have nothing to do with each other.
Ong-Bak 2, on the other hand, has nothing to do with these - the movie is about a youngster whose life is saved by a group of martial artists. The little guy makes quite an effort to study and blend all his masters' skills together and trust me, if you thought Jaa has nothing to do with kung fu or close-quarters melee fight, watch the Twitch trailer and you'll be so amazed.
robocop remake in 2010
We have a remake of Verhoeven's Robocop coming up in 2010 (according to the pic taken at Licensing International Expo 2008, found on Superherohype) - and if you think that's a lie, MGM actually had a press release in March about bringing back the Robocop franchise. And below, you have one of the original movie posters. (Retro is scary.)
ghost in the shell 2.0
Mamoru Oshii's cyberpunk cult hit Koukaku Kidoutai receives a major visual (and sound) update. The 2.0 edition of the movie, ready to be screened in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo on the 12th of July, will feature new CG/SFX for a number of scenes and also a 6.1 surround sound recording. While the original soundtrack of Kenji Kawai remains, it's been overseen by Academy Award-winning sound enginner Randy Thom (who's also been working on GITS2: Innocence). (As a reminder: Oshii's latest film, The Sky Crawlers will open on August 2 in Japanese cinemas.)
The Ticket Pia agency has three before/after image comparisons (scattered throughout the article) and apparently the visuals have been brought on par with the 2004 visual standards of Innocence, they're just more sombre and orange. (That fits oh so well with dystopia.)
