Back in the 19th century, when you entered a museum where paintings of old masters were on exhibition, chances were that you encountered flocks of art students meticulously copying those pictures. During the heyday of academic painting this was a … Continue reading →
It may or may not be by accident, but ‘moc’ and ‘mod’ sound very similar. And indeed, both are close kin. The abbreviation ‘mod’ means ‘modification of a computer game,’ the playable addition to commercial computer-game software, produced by private … Continue reading →
At ↑Best of Behind-the-Scenes I just stumbled over the above still of German actress Brigitte Helm (1906/08-1996) on the set of ‘Metropolis’ (Lang 1927). Obviously it was quite hot inside the costume of the Maschinenmensch, which rendered the actress more … Continue reading →
Just dug that one up from my bookmarks—back in the 1970s ↑Larry Cuba, then at the ↑Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), made the computer graphics seen during the endbattle against the Deathstar in the original ‘Star Wars’ (Lucas 1977). … Continue reading →
It is a common cliché that anthropologists are fascinated by masks, even obsessed sometimes. Hence it was high time to post something on masks in here. If the two above pictured specimen from Steve ‘Radio-Guy’ Erenberg‘s collection seem vaguely familiar … Continue reading →
“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 external HDD still works like a charm, and I am again at organizing my material. Just found the above unfinished faceskin for ↵MP2 which I did on 10 September 2004. Of course it was intended for ↵LS5, which … Continue reading →
Well, this again is not an artefact that stems from ‘my community’, but just for ye olde times’ sake, the days when we pulled through the ↵Lightsaber mod [download link there ;-], I simply can not resist to post … Continue reading →
With the recent hype around ↑Revenge of the Sith hitting the silverscreen I was reminded of the heap of work we had done for the Max Payne 1 total conversion (TC) Lightsaber 4 (LS4), but which never was included into … Continue reading →
Galactic News Service reports: “TWILIGHT CITADEL, Tatooine (Valcyn) – Emperor Palpatine’s supreme military commander, Lord Darth Vader, recently made a surprise inspection tour of an Imperial military stronghold here. […]“ The staff at Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) had noticed, that … Continue reading →