Archive for September 2010
Push pineapples
When pop goes bad: novelty records The excruciatingly catchy novelty song was a hallmark of the 1980s. Is it back? And how do you write one? Dave Simpson talks to the experts
Climb to the top of a transmission tower
Probably the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen…
Moonshot
Q&A with Duncan Jones, the director of the recent Hugo winner Moon plus Gavin Rothery – concept designer and VFX supervisor, Barrett Heathcote – visual effects editor and Hideki Arichi – art director (MLYT)
“Increasingly illiterate, disgusting and meritless.”
‘We feel that the stories in this book are such that if your nerves are not of the strongest, then it is wise to read them in daylight.’
For a certain time, in every second-hand bookshop in the UK you would always be able to find a musty and dog-eared copy of one or more of the Pan Books Of Horror Stories edited by the splendidly named Herbert Van Thal. Now the first is being re-printed.
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You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to the Mandelbrot
Last Lights On – a zoom down into the Mandelbrot set to 6.066 e228 (2^760)
Longer Vimeo and downloadable version here.
Enhance thirty-four to forty-six
BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels – An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (SLVimeo)
