turbo
TURBO is a high adrenaline short film in the tradition of the Karate Kid and Tron. It tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a troubled youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting videogame called … Continue reading →
Category Archives: motion_pictures
primer
A short notice on the most succesful movie of all time—Shane Carruth’s SciFi piece ‘Primer.’
Continue reading →la jetée
La jetée (English: The Jetty or The Pier) (1962) is a 28-minute black and white science fiction film by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It … Continue reading →
pixels
The comment by haablaust is one of the finest specimen of multi-layered online-culture humour: ‘Clearly this is shopped! you can totally see the pixels!’
Continue reading →uncut escape
“I can only hope you and your ↑Convergence Culture are happy now, ↑Henry Jenkins!”—that’s ↑Bruce Sterling‘s comment on ↑Casey Pugh‘s meanwhile finished project ‘↑Star Wars Uncut‘ via entry at beyond the beyond
Continue reading →the cyberpunk educator
Andrew J. Holden’s “↑The Cyberpunk Educator“ is “a documentary study of mainstream ‘cyberpunk’ films of the 1980’s- with a heavy focus on their literary, political, and cultural content. The film uses the structure of literary theorist Northrop Frye, and … Continue reading →
nemo’s gear
steampunk informed appropriation of mythical worlds and hardware ↑Captain Nemo‘s submarine “Nautilus” on the surface, getting entered by “cannibals”. The picture is for those, maybe a bit more traditionally oriented anthropologists, who dare to doubt that this vessel has anything … Continue reading →
vlc media player
The ↑VLC media player by the ↑VideoLAN group, stemming from the École Central Paris, France, is by far the most versatile and platform independent media player available—it plays just everything, including DVDs and much more. It is available for free … Continue reading →
monster at munich university
↑Monster is a manga by Naoki Urasawa which has been very faithfully adapted to a 74-episode anime series by Masayuki Kojima. The series aired from 2004 to 2005 in Japan. The story, a psychological thriller centred around the … Continue reading →
android orchestra
It is eerie like hell, in my humble opinion. On 06 December 2007 ↑Toyota revealed two new “Toyota Partner Robots”, one of them able to ↑play the violin. At the World Expo 2005 they already had a couple of robots … Continue reading →