MONDAY GIGER: Prometheus trailers and Alien heels
This is the International/UK trailer for Ridley Scott's almost-Alien-prequel new blockbuster PROMETHEUS. Below is the generic trailer with a few press release story markers and a set of extra Alien/Giger heels for the ladies' pleasure (via boingboing).
Ridley Scott, director of "Alien" and "Blade Runner," returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. (...) In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system's natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers. (...) Cast: Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace
Release Date: June 8, 2012
HOW TO make your infographics CV (part 2)
Hello. This is Damage Von Rock and whenever you're reading this, I'm just about to drink another triple ristretto boiled with Red Bulls. And boy, do I see noises. And when that's not happening, this happens ALL THE TIME, I'm doing other fun stuff, like getting my book released on future research/pop culture or designing an infographics CV for my long-time friend Sylwia. Check out her massive social portfolio and click more to see how her CV came to life.
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FASHION: what would a modern wizard wear?
Clothing designer Mother of London is getting ready to release a ready-to-wear line of clothing and an online shop. The new collection consists of the designs seen here, as well as limited-edition leggings and t-shirts that have not yet been photographed. The inspiration for this line, says designer Mildred Von Hildegard, comes from wizards. “What would a modern wizard wear?” (via coilhouse)
ART: rosary of skulls and faces
This early 16th century German rosary from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection is a fabulous bit of memento mori, with callow, living mortals on one side of each bead and grinning death's heads on the other: (more on boingboing)
PROTEIGON (simply amazing product promo)
PROTEIGON, created by Steven Briand and Luca Fiore (with some help) during a two month internship at a production company called Partizan, is one of those pieces that worms its way into your brain more because of the “how” and not so much the finished product. (via coilhouse, more at vimeo)
GLITCH: IBNIZ - hardcore audiovisual machine, esoteric programming language
As demonstrated by the video, IBNIZ (Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo) is a virtual machine and a programming language that generates video and audio from very short strings of code. Technically, it is a two-stack machine somewhat similar to Forth, but with the major execption that the stack is cyclical and also used at an output buffer. Also, as every IBNIZ program is implicitly inside a loop that pushes a set of loop variables on the stack on every cycle, even an empty program outputs something (i.e. a changing gradient as video and a constant sawtooth wave as audio). (via countercomplex)
CAT: Andy's Gang - the creepiest cat video you'll ever see
There is a very, very ambiguous relationship with cats, me and them. Smart lolcats and Bast are of undeniable value, yet the rest of the cattery brings out a hatred of British elegance towards all things cute. Well, this is not one of them. Moreover, this is one of the videos that others find deeply disturbing, also called one of the saddest cat videos ever seen - me, I deeply envy all the people who worked for the fifties TV program Andy's Gang. It looks like bombshell violence trauma for kids under 12. It's also a textbook semiotics example of you're fucked. (via dangerous minds)
DEMO: orange - sea robot of love
And when it came to fairytales and TV shows, we spent endless nights in front of CRTs, watching shiny droplets of underground wisdom over and over again. The demoscene was our inspiration board and motivation screen. 2012. The sentiment remains. Sea Robot of Love is something along the aesthetics of less is more, abstract and artsy and well-constructed just enough to keep you reloading it for the tenth time. This is not a V-day post. Or it is, if you want it to. It has the sea. And robots in it. Suit yourself.
THE GOOD NATURED: the livestream sessions
The Good Natured had quickly grewn into symbiosis with my heart and brain (seemingly I still have both) and while waiting for their new album (Lovers is out in a live HQ recording and it's an amazing track), I found one halfanhourlongish live acoustic on Livestream, so there you go. Can't be embedded, sorry about that (no, actually not) and the pic's from that channel as well.
COILHOUSE: athena's curse, medusa's fate
Κατάρα της Αθηνάς, η μοίρα της Μέδουσας
Αθηνάς: Elizabeth Maiden
Μέδουσας: Jessica Rowell of J-Chan’s Designs
Photography: Nina Pak
Costume Design & Styling: J-Chan’s Designs
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaAncient Greek lore and steampunk culture clash, titan style, in a sumptuous mythos-meets-modernity photo series depicting the Goddess Athena (Elizabeth Maiden) and the Gorgon Medusa (Jessica Rowell). (via coilhouse)
SFW: human centipede invented 80 years ago
Believe it or not, someone managed to put the words "human" and "centipede" next to each other more than 80 years before the infamous surgery horror film. This human centipede wasn't nearly as disgusting, but it was a torture device, albeit a mild one designed for hazing rituals. (via io9)
TRAILER: reports from the abyss (access to arasaka, erode, dirk geiger)
trailer for the upcoming colab of access to arasaka, erode and dirk geiger. coming 2012...darker times ahead (via erodemusicchannel)
bookmarks, linkbox, 2012-02-04
Random bits of entertainment fun from all the ten corners of the world. Also known as digging back old stuff from Google Reader, Google Bookmarks and the Chrome Bookmarks. Still looking for a tool to aggregate these three into one feed.
COSPLAY:
dominated by Kotaku
- The amazing Georgia Vecchini (Kotaku adoring her Yuan cosplay above)
- Meagan Marie, previously posted here on occasion of her Moxie set
- Omi Gibson, cosplayer extraordinaire with her Resident Evil photoshoot
- Korean cosplay collective Spiral Cats
- And finally, a BRUTAL ASSORTMENT OF GHOST IN THE SHELL COSPLAY LINKS (via idiotandroid links)
GAMES:
- RetroBlazer, a very Wolfenstein 3Dish retro style FPS based on the Quake 1 engine (as recommended by Jordan of Section9Gear and TIGSource)
- Dune Wars, a total conversion for Civilization 4, haven't tried that out but everybody in my FB thread said it's uber amazing! (as recommended by Prezzey)
- Nitronic Rush level 1 with no boost and no gas - Nitronic Rush is one of the best coffeebreak games of this year, mixing Tron lightcyclism with Daft Punk electro and the whole early nineties Stunts car racing with the neon aesthetics. This gameplay video will twist your mind all the way about how to play this game!
- And finally there's a voice cast video out for Mass Effect 3! This itself is the only great news as it's far less exciting and motivating than the one done for ME2 - I knew I WANTED TO BUY THE GAME INSTANTLY after seeing that one. This version? On par with a cosmic shrug.
MOVIES/DOCUS:
- Flexing seems to be the new black, a new subculture bordering on gas mask fetish, body contortion and bruk-up that seems to be a very tribal version of electric boogie, popping and liquid moves to me.. amazing!
- Ken Hollings lectures on John Cage from 2011 "Off the Page" music criticism and audio culture literary festival
- Skin: "a dark, stylish examination of tattoo culture as high art, and a film that tests the boundaries of art and the human body."
- A Grant Morrison interview by the ComicImpact guys
- Julian Assange of Wikileaks to launch his own TV show?
Vakondok 2: hogyan fér el egy bolygó 4096 betűben?
A Vakondok 2 – Demoscene – Az Algoritmusok Művészete című dokumentumfilm január 13-ától ingyenesen letölthető a film honlapjáról, és megtekinthető Youtube-on is.
A megjelenést követő első héten több mint háromezren töltötték le, vagy nézték meg online a filmet. Ezzel egy időben, a mindössze 150.000 Ft-ból készült dokumentumfilm nemzetközi vetítései is megkezdődtek. A film január 14-én debütált Tokióban, és a következő hónapokban többek között Ausztráliában, Brazíliában, az Egyesült Államokban, Kanadában és Európa szerte, összesen több mint 20 városban kerül bemutatásra. A vetítésekről további információk a www.molemanfilm.com oldalon találhatók. A film a PC World számítógépes magazin februári számának DVD mellékletén is megjelenik, ami egy linket is tartalmazni fog egy, a filmből kimaradt jelenethez.
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♫ Alec Empire goes RAGE at Sensation Black 2005 (DJ Outblast)
Was looking for more sets to look what DJ Outblast is capable of and then then Alec just rages in after the first few seconds. Alec Empire is fuckin everywhere.
COSPLAY: a quite sexy Spider Jerusalem (yes, female)
A very appealing version of Warren Ellis' Spider Jerusalem as truthfully enacted by Lovina Yavari, shot by Digiography, via the Modelmayhem forums.
HOW TO make your infographics CV (tutorial)
(click here for high-resolution version)You need to get the message across. Everybody does. And when the whole platform of getting it through becomes a CV, most of the time you don't go McLuhanesquely the medium is the message, you crank your references into two Europass pages (HR people won't read more than two, CEOs won't read more than one if you have the LUCK OF THE GODS) and that just doesn't cut it. Infographics CVs have been around for some time now and I've just done one. It's the very colourful pic above. What's that, what's the concept behind it and how can you make one? Answers below.
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Shadowing The Prodigy: this is how you remake Voodoo People and Smack My Bitch Up
Videos like these are like Zen. Tutorials on how to make, remake, imitate and simulate household classic party tracks like Smack My Bitch Up and Voodoo People will make you feel motivated and incredibly hyped up. Seeing how Jim Pavloff remakes these tracks is just like watching kung fu movies - if I just imagine doing that, it makes me feel stronger. Or a wannabe musician with even more potential. On the other hand, it reminds you how fast can you make tracks, how easily and how you did something completely different instead of putting manhours into laying down tracks and hunting for old records to sample.
And this makes me go back on the basic question on what the work with - did a whole six years on ScreamTracker and FastTracker 2 and that alone would sort of lead me to go to Renoise or Fruity Loops, but flirting around with Reason or Ableton has always been an option (especially after doing remixes with Acid in the old days).
But all in all - these videos are pure gold and they were brought to you by Coilhouse.
FULL FILM: Sons of Chaos (Mathieu Turi, 2010)
A short movie of initiation and trial. French moviemaker Mathieu Turi has just sent the PDHQ a link to Sons of Chaos, his post-apocalyptic SF movie, shot in RED, done with a nice amount of camerawork and effects. As for the background story: society went up in flames together with a proper ecology, the air is poisonous, survivors are measured in thousands and weird humanoid predators named howlers roam the lands and one of the survivors set to protect the others needs to undergo a trial to prove his worth.
Even though I could justify the clumsiness of the fight scenes (why not finish off the howler with one headshot in the corridor scene? why not make sure it's dead? stab it a couple of times or tear off his gas mask just to be sure) with the fact that the protagonist is actually new to fighting, the ending even with its fair share of symbolism just appears to be too cryptic for me. Hopefully it won't be for you and all in all, a decent piece of short film, mood's decent, props are okay and even though there's quite a bit of cliché in it, it shows a lot of potential. Support Turi when he appears on Kickstarter to fund his new projects! Why not remake Romantically Apocalyptic?
bookmarks, linkbox, 2012-01-04
Rule #1: no politics on the blog. Ever.
So, Hungarian readers might remember this as one of the most iconic press photos released about the Budapest Opera house demonstrations, but I'm posting this here as a memento how the Anonymous Egregore planted itself into the riot layer of a city's subconscious. And the shot itself is amazing.
- Blade Runner sketchbook from 2012:
Some twenty years ago there was an issue with the brown tan paper sketchbook look. This is monochrome b&w. Look grateful. - Akira 30th Anniversary SteelBook Blu-ray edition: Goes on sale from 27th of January.
- Portal 2 boots: By master prop builder Harrison Krix. Looks amazing but I'd need to have a few minutes jumping around in it to see whether it breaks my ankles into splinters of shrieking intelligence. (Pic above.)
- Urban Exploring a Russian Rocket Plant: A truly amazing post with even more NUCLEAR ROCK by Lana Saltor, exploring the Energomash Plant. Great HDR overhead! (Pic below.)
- Glow-y Scorpion Exoskeleton: And finally, a dead captainobviousy giveaway.
Thanks to the linkbox contributors: Dawe_, denemigen, Peter Gelencser.
HAPPY 2012 with a Headhunterz Skyrim hardstyle theme (and more)!
The Planet://Damage institution wishes you a happy new year! Nothing better to close the old one with than a Headhunterz reinterpretation of the Skyrim main theme (and a few other clips that came with it). We're closing the blog for a few days until we manage to spoon our brains together - until then, fornicate well and quite creatively.
TRAILER: Thieves (upcoming cyberpunk short by Zenisphere films)
Above and below, various production materials connected to the upcominig cyberpunk short by J.G. Barnes and Zenisphere Films. Recommended to me by sharp-eyed P://D follower Tobal!
TRAILER: Kill List (2011)
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness. (imdb entry, via @turingcop)