zeph’s pop culture quiz #49 We are in an officers’ mess. Two senior members of the flight personnel are having a conversation while playing pool. What is said in this conversation? Just leave a comment with your educated … Continue reading →
The infamous ↑Troma Entertainment, Inc. (‘almost 40 years of reel independence’) has uploaded a ton of full-length feature movies to ↑its YouTube channel. Among those are the glorious cyberpunkish b-pictures ‘↓Digital Prophet‘ (Romero 1996), ‘↓Cybernator‘ (Rundle 1991), and ‘↓New Gladiators‘ … Continue reading →
Over at ↑Strange Shapes they have a fine article on ‘↑The Engineer Mythos.’ Here’s the opening paragraph: When ↑Dan O’Bannon was twelve years old he stumbled across an old anthology of stories in a book store. He paid the nickel … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #47 Between which worlds is the man the depicted hand belongs to travelling? Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click … Continue reading →
Panel from page 89 of ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ (Lovecraft & Culbard 2010). Back in late 2010 we had scottish illustrator and graphic designer ↑Murray Groat‘s wonderful ↑Tintin–↑Lovecraft ↵crossover covers [check out Murray’s ↑blog, ↑portfolio and ↑deviant art page—there’s … Continue reading →
It took them quite a while, but finally, in 2011, ↑John Romero and ↑Tom Hall did a post-mortem on ‘↑Doom‘ (id Software 1993). You can watch the hour-long presentation, video and slides, ↑at the GDC Vault. If you do not … Continue reading →
‘↵Black Mesa‘ meanwhile is here—and above is a fine specimen of machinima—many more of those over at the ↑critter week thread.
Continue reading →zeph’s pop culture quiz #41 Who is coming towards us through the fog? Just leave a comment with your educated guesses—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ … Continue reading →
In ↵omega legend I argued that the infestation of the zombie-genre by the ↵cyberpunk discourse is a further mosaic-tile in showing that said discourse gathers more and more momentum. In this Richard Matheson’s novel ‘I am Legend’ (1954) is a … Continue reading →
Well, the fact that we all now can watch the first film adaptation (Dawley 1910) of ↑Mary Shelley‘s ‘↓Frankenstein‘ (1818) on YouTube was worth a ↑post over at boingboing. Matter of fact the movie (in different formats) … Continue reading →