Gorgeous, Fascinating “Blade Runner” Con Reel
Apparently, this reel has not been shown anywhere since it ran the con circuit in 1982; not in screenings, not on any of the DVDs.* And… it’s… guh… braingasm. *I’ve been informed it is, in fact,...
View ArticleCéline Desrumaux’s “Countdown”
Céline Desrumaux‘s fantastic animated short “Countdown” details, as one might expect from the title, the launch of a rocket. The style here is a combination of flat colors and hard, almost...
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Deco Future: The Seductive Draftsmanship of George Stavrinos
George Stavrinos was a fashion illustrator who lived from 1948-1990. Not much is written about him on Wikipedia at the moment, but according to illustrator Thomas Heller Buchanan, “his softly modeled...
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Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (Giorgio Moroder Presentation) Back in Theaters
“In 1981, three-time Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder began a three-year endeavor to restore the science fiction classic, Metropolis. During this process, Moroder made the controversial...
View ArticleThe Thing: The Musical
With the upcoming release of the prequel/re-make film, The Thing, this Friday I thought it would be good to remind everyone of John Carpenter’s 1982 musical re-make of the 1951 Howard Hawks/Christian...
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Ready Player One
Earlier this year, Patton Oswalt wrote an essay for Wired entitled “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.” In it, Oswalt warns that the world is on the brink of “Etewaf: Everything That Ever...
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The Tokyo that Tumblr Forgot
When I saw this striking image of Tokyo while riffling through my RSS feeds, my heart stopped. Supposedly, it’s a still from a forgotten video game made in 1995. There’s something about this...
View ArticleGround Control To Major Tom: You’re A Dipshit
Killing My Lobster and David Bowie explain just why we do not, indeed, let British people into space anymore. Via Laughing Squid Post tags: Crackpot Visionary, Faboo, Music, Sci-fi
View ArticleThe Friday Afternoon Movie: The Last Man On Earth
This week the FAM continues its Vincent Price-a-thon (Did we mention, this is a Vincent Price-a-thon? No? Well, it is.) with 1964′s The Last Man on Earth, directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow....
View ArticleROSA
ROSA is, perhaps, not the most original short film ever and, in fact, it does feature a healthy dose of post-Matrix kung-fuery, but that makes it no less impressive. Made by one man, Spanish comic...
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Surreal Yugoslavian Sci-Fi Art from the 70s/80s
The incredible blog 50 Watts recently published a collection of illustrations by artist Nikolai Lutohin. Will at 50 Watts writes: Milena and Vlada, the duo behind Yugodrom—a new blog focused on...
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BTC: George Takei, Broker of Star Peace
Every time ya think he can’t get any more awesome, the benevolent Mister George Takei proves ya wrong: This week, he has stepped up to urge a sneering admiral and a provoked princess to put aside their...
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BTC: Future World Orchestra
Hooray for flarpy synths and pitiful Danish E.T. impressions! This cover of John Williams’ E.T. theme was recorded in 1983 by two yacht-rockin’ electropoppets known as the Future World Orchestra. It...
View ArticleVolkswagen Continues Its Love Affair With “The Imperial March”
A quick Google search shows that this video is pretty much everywhere, but I just can’t resist putting it here. Following up their Star Wars themed Passat commercial for last year’s Super Bowl,...
View Article’80s Explosion: Space Stallions
Space Stallions, a bachelor film project from the 2012 Animation Workshop, plays like every Saturday morning cartoon from my childhood boiled down into one four minute concept. Created by Thorvaldur...
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Moebius — 1938 / 2012
RIP “We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very...
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Rick Santorum Releases Dystopian Horror Film
Man, do 2012′s Republican presidential hopefuls ever have a penchant for apocalyptic fiction! While Rick Perry fantasizes about Obama’s war on religion, (“the openly gay military hereby sentences you...
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Help Jess Nevins Create an Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes
Robotic Lion & Warrior illustration by Greg Broadmore for Jess Nevins’ article in Issue 05. Those of you who own Coilhouse Magazine Issues 03 and 05 will remember Jess Nevins’ pieces on Russian...
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True Adventures in Better Homes
This collage series by Nadine Boughton combines men’s adventure magazines from the 50s and early 60s with the pristine rooms of Better Homes and Gardens. Bedrooms, living rooms and bathrooms are...
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R.I.P. DICK CLARK, VIVA SPARKS.
It’s hard to believe Dick Clark is gone. Is it safe to surmise that secretly, many of us kids who grew up watching him on the boob tube decided long ago that Clark (or, at the very least, legions of...
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