Brain Squirts for 2009-11-09

off to the xbox insider event. Stop, Hammer time! #
Ok project natal looks pretty damn sweet. Nice work microsoft #
this whole night is full of incongruous #
finally MC Hammer and the lols I've been waiting for all night have arrived! #

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Desert Storm

artist: Rod Gray

 
This is my favourite piece from Rod Gray’s latest exhibit, Tracking Station (on show at Level 2/39 Little Collins St until Nov 21). 
I stumbled upon Rod’s work when I was out for lunch at the Napier Hotel.  More accurately, my wife did, and …

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Beware – incoming tweets

This is how my brain works.  I’ve been so busy lately that I’ve barely even been on twitter.  Thus, I figure, it wouldn’t be that spammy to cross-post the very occasional blog entry from here to there. So, with time to work on such a post, I instead spend that …

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m1k3y and the return of the fun videos

So, like  some 10+ years ago, I made an initial foray into film making. I took an intro to production course at what was then a brand new community cable network.  I played with their cutting edge non-linear editing equipment.  I read all sorts of film-making …

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Rabbit and the Moon

This is Rabbit and the Moon; music by Squozen, narrated by Vetti.. another wondrous creation of Crumpet’s.

Rabbit and the Moon from Leonie Connellan on Vimeo.
Catch a glimpse of her latest work. It is something.

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penfield’s electrode

OMFG.. one guy in Canada is making this. Insane. Watch in fullscreen and click that little HD button.
Episode 1.0:

Episode 1.1:

via Planet Damage

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Aussie Steampunks in Rolling Stone

Mad Uncle Cliff is one of three local Steampunks featured in this month’s issue (with the John Lennon cover) of the Australian Rolling Stone:

Check out some of his creations in his etsy store; drool over his communicator!
I met Cliff after his excellent Steampunk …

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vague memories of Continuum 5

Wow, has it really been thirteen days since a whirlwind of a weekend began? An event six months in the planning that felt like it passed in the blink of an eye.
Let me try and reconstruct those days from what little was recorded in my long-term memory during a period …

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The Future of VJing

Can you picture it? A future where going to a concert or club is like stepping into a virtual reality of synchronized sound and color; a ghostly neon creature slithers past you at shoulder-height; a palm-sized LED light given to you upon entry projects tiny birds onto …

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thoughts on Eden Log

Finally finished watching the atmospheric French SF film Eden Log last night (note: do not try to watch this on a hangover).
No big review this time, just an observation.  I rambled on some time ago about movies eating video games, and this seems to add strength to …

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Moon review

Imagine an alternate present where the space shuttle hadn’t been such a disaster and the Cold War hadn’t been sole the driver for the space program. Where the dreams of the sixties came true, and the fears of the seventies were never realised. Where the whole …

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Coilhouse issue 3

That’s the cover art for the latest issue of Coilhouse.
You want to buy this magazine.
Here’s a full tour of it’s contents.
It includes an extended version of my friend, Mr David Forbes, excellent piece on that former pirate utopia, the Walled City of …

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Continuum 5 - Galaxies by Gaslight

One of the hats I’ve been wearing this year is Guest Liaison for Continuum 5 - Galaxies by Gaslight.
It’s now just a few weeks away (August 14 - 16), and as the program’s solidified I’ve managed to wrangle my way onto four panels as well:

Visions of the …

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Echelon Conspiracy

Straight from the backalleys of Bangkok and into my hands came this little direct2video, b-grade SF gem. A film that IMDB says was first released in Kazakhstan!
Echelon Conspiracy is the tale of an AI, the NSA’s Echelon supercomputer, that remote controls several …

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen review

The fourth and final installment, of this run at least, of the Herald-Sun Geek Panel went to print today.
We had quite the interesting live-chat session; part Bay bashing, part ‘wtf was a robot humping Megan Fox’s leg for, and why did she like it so much’, and an …

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14sec

14sec is a great little cyberpunk short-film. My man in Budapest, Damage, wrote the screenplay for it. The quality of the CG is particulary impressive.
(Warning - contains adult language, gore etc)

Productions notes, full cast etc on Damage’s blog.

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Terminator Salvation review

The third installment of the Herald-Sun Geek Panel went to print today.  This was a weird one, since we did two movies this time.  Our reviews of Fanboys are online only, and the Terminator Salvation reviews are, as of writing of this, in print only.  Welcome to …

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Star Trek review

The second installment of the Herald-Sun Geek Panel went to print today.
We had quite the spirited discussion of the film over on the website.  Ok, so it largely turned into a Star Wars vs Star Trek war, peppered with much love for all things Whedon on my part.  Ewoks …

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Kebabs & Coffee

Kebabs and Coffee - these are few of my favourite things!
I found this place last week, but having just eaten I could only make a note to return.  And return I did today, ordering myself one of each.
The coffee was perfect.  The “kebab”..  well, it was one big …

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Wolverine review

So, the debut of the Herald-Sun Geek Panel went to print today.  And it’s been online for like 5 hours now.
We’ve had the group chat (I mean “live” “blog”), which went really well, once I worked out where the damn widget was.
Now, for what it’s worth, …

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