#October2011
Video: Father of the iPod Creates Tech Fetish Thermostat. Yes, Thermostat.
Leave it to Tony Fadell who is considered to be the “father of the iPod” to create a sexy thermostat that can be looked at as yet another technological fetish object. It’s sexy, it’s smart. It remembers when you wake up, and what temperatures you like.
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BioShock’s Ken Levine Talks About Auteurship, Editing and More. Oh Levine <3
Ken Levine spat about his role in directing the BioShock mothership. He sees himself not as an auteur, but more of an editor. And the creative lead. Definitely the creative lead.
Genius Dude Carves A Smartphone Dock Into His Fake Arm. The Future. Welcome To It.
Meet Trevor Prideaux. The man who build a fucking smartphone dock into his prosthetic arm. The posthumanist geek in me gets a bit warm in the loins just thinking about this. Oh lord. Oh lord yes.
Steven Spielberg Thinks ‘Indy IV’ Sucked Too. Blames Lucas.
Indy IV was a giant crap-covered piece of cinematic toast, and it seems that Steven Spielberg was well aware of that. Spielberg was shooting the shit with Empire while promoting Tintin when he owned up to the suckitude and did what most of us geeks do these days: blame our sadness and failure on George Lucas.
Kerry Washington Cast as Broomhilda In ‘Django Unchained’.
Kerry Washington has been added to the cast of Django Unchained, filling a crucial role as Django’s wife.
Fallout MMO Work Can Continue, Bethesda Injunction Thwarted!
The dessiccated husk of Interplay has been trying to get a Fallout MMO off the ground for a while now, even as now-owner of the property Bethesda has waged a legal war again it. Currently winning: Interplay.
OCTOBERFEAST – Skrulls!
[OCTOBERFEAST is the greatest celebration of the year, a revelry dedicated to pop-culture’s most nutritious Halloween detritus. Plastic screams and artificial sweeteners have never been more bountiful. In the old country, villagers refer to the extended party as Satan’s Snacktime]
Seeing the blood-red Hallow’s Eve moon begin to wink over the horizon, the OCTOBERFEAST revelers have begun assembling their costumes. The celebrants are still pumpkin-drunk and half-deaf from the cacophony of firecrackers and guitar solos, and they stumble and shout their way through the campgrounds in search of appropriate attire. They all eventually wind up at Rusty Ray’s tent, as he’s opened up the treasure trove of clothes and jewelry he claims his great-great-grandfather stole from the Globe Theatre in 1642.
He’s not lying.
Sammy, a wide-eyed seventeen year old with tremendous acne, excitedly excavates a demon mask. He holds it in front of his face and exclaims, “Come Halloween, ain’t no fools gon’ call me crater-face! Innfakk, I’ma pinch me some titty!”
He’s not lying, either.
By shrouding ourselves in layers of feigned-flesh, we are finally able to live out those furtive fancies that our feeble human frames cannot bear on their own. In those disguised moments, we are not tired or short or cross-eyed or dying of lupus. Instead, we are mutated into manifestations of ideas, archetypal concepts that’re time-tested and universally-recognized.
Ghosts. Witches. Hobos. Pirates. Vampires. Slutty nurses.
When these new personas are adopted, agency reaches an ejaculatory peak, as we are finally providing our own definitions of self. We become beings both defiant of corporeal circumstances and confident in our own prowess. We are free to do as we please, whether that means dancing to the Monster Mash, trick-or-treating around the neighborhood, or attending an orgy.
Disguised, we are not ourselves. And surely you can see that this opens up a world of possibility. But to be fair, this gift of liberation-via-secret identity also comes packaged with a caveat.
What if we’re not the ones wearing the masks? What happens when we find out that friends and loved ones aren’t who they say they are? What if those most adept at obscuring their identities actually want to see us brutally murdered?
What if they want to see the entire planet brutally murdered?
Such is the case with one of the Earth’s most terrifying foes: Skrulls.
Fear Fest: The Boogieman. He’s Totally Not In Your Closet.
OCTOBER 25th, the Boogeyman
“There is no such thing as a soul. It’s just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson.”
-Bart Simpson
When it comes to instilling fear in children, the boogeyman is second to none. The boogeyman traces his origin back to the source of most children’s fears; parents. For the most part, the boogeyman was made up to use fear to teach children lessons. I’ve often said that fear is the most powerful of motivators, and the boogeyman is the manifestation of this idea in practice.
Video: Tokyo Nightscape x Blade Runner Soundtrack = Yes.
Samuel Cockedey filmed the Tokyo nightscape and mixed it with the hauntingly beautiful score to Blade Runner.
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‘Batman: Arkham City’ Cosplay Is Out Of Control Fantastic.
The minds at The Effects Lab have come together to produce the craziest goddamn Batman cosplay I’ve ever seen. There’s cosplay, and the there is this. Gauntlet thrown!
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