Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Attention, audiophiles!





Did you know that Aldous Huxley's dystopian classic "Brave New World" is available on LP, narrated by the author? Neither did I. Better yet, you can download it for free.

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Tube twins





Michael Garrett sighted this example of the "tube-girl" meme at this amazing gallery*.

While a purist might argue that the structure encapsulating the twins is too wide to qualify as a genuine tube, I would argue that the presence of two women justifies the unusual proportions.

*Be sure not to miss the weaponized lobster.

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Friday, October 16, 2009

Tube-girl sighting!

I found this while browsing Golden Age Comic Book Stories' collection of Andre Norton covers.





For more, click here, here and here.

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"The Lady Who Fell to Earth"





Kinga Rajzak stars as a fetching ufonaut in this amusing "Vogue" editorial.

Discerning ufophiles will no doubt note that Rajzak appears to be a garden-variety "Nordic," while fellow models Masha Telna and Lily Cole show every indication of being hybridized "Grays."

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

You want one, don't you?





Get it here.

(Thanks to @servanti.)

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

"Then came the great comet, Dionysus."



More about "Star Maidens" here.

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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

"Artificial Paradise, Inc."


ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, Inc from Jp Frenay on Vimeo.




This posthuman fable is far too cool to pass up. Be sure to watch on full-screen mode.

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

"A Short Vision"



The menacing object in the sky is beguilingly amorphic, an archetype in the process of crystallizing.

(Thanks to @ybalagian.)

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"On your last trip did you discover what the Earth people eat?"



I like the sound they make when they laugh.

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Exoskeletal





(Thanks to Next Nature for the tip.)

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Visitor





I'd be willing to assume this androgynous alien comes in peace, but that vial in its hand bothers me. What the hell's in that thing, anyway?

More here.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Guns, girls and monsters





A sample from Saving The Women: War And Science Fiction.

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Sunday, August 09, 2009

"Manifest Destiny"


MANIFEST DESTINY from Darrell and Doug Waters on Vimeo.




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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Bobby McFerrin and "Close Encounters"

This video of Bobby McFerrin reminded me of the scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where Lacombe is coaching the UFO working group to converse in sign language . . .


World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.




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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Chapter I: The Discovery





From We Make Money Not Art:

Anyone visiting LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre before September 7 will get face to face with a mysterious installation by young artist Félix Luque Sánchez. Chapter I: The Discovery is an impenetrable, geometric object and a series of videos restaging the moment of its discovery, as if it were a scene from a sci-fi movie, where the hero is suddenly confronted with an alien, slightly chilling figure.


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Saturday, July 25, 2009

The "women in tubes" meme goes steampunk.

It was inevitable, really.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

If this doesn't make you laugh, there just might be something wrong with you.



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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Another Cronenbergian touch-interface in-the-making





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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen . . . The Droids!



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The art of Chris Ryniak





Sculptor/painter Chris Ryniak's xenomorphic creations perfectly straddle the gap between "whimsical" and "grotesque."





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