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Fascinating Lecture on Transhumanism

Michelle McCormack — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:29:54 +0000

The speaker was a little stiff, but the content was cool, and her last scenario was just like the movie Moon, which was pretty wicked. Saw it last week streaming on Netflix, which, by the way, is the best deal in town. $8.99 a month and they have loads of amazing documentaries, TV shows and movies. The only thing that sucks is that part of the monthly fee comes 2 DVDs in the mail, which I don’t want. I don’t have a TV and I hate mail. Anyway, they arm twist me into getting them, so then I spend the next month forgetting to drop it in the mailbox until the new ones come, at which point the guilt of forgetting to mail them back is so great I finally do it – so far. I don’t know what’s going to happen next month. It’s in god’s hands.

ANSWER ME THIS:

Do you think this is likely?
Would you enhance?
How could you not, to stay competitive?

PANIC ATTACK (2009)

Michelle McCormack — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:18:18 +0000

Giant robots invades Montevideo
A 5min short movie directed and animated by Fede Alvarez.

Best low-budg sci-fi clip you’ve ever seen:

This short was made in Uruguay for $300, and within days of being released on YouTube, the Producers accept a $30 million dollar film deal from Hollywood.

AI: The Vision Behind The Film

Michelle McCormack — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:30:11 +0000

A.I. the movie was inspired by Ian Watson and Brian Aldiss’ book Super Toys Last All Summer Long. The projected was started by Stanley Kubrick but finished by Steven Speilberg shortly after Kubrick’s death.

These are some wicked sketches by Chris Baker, and are published in the new book Artificial Intelligence: The Vision Behind The Film, Thames & Hudson

Idiots And Angels (trailer)

Michelle McCormack — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:00:07 +0000

Toronto After Dark is a film festival dedicated to Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

For a while now I’ve been trying to get off horror, and not too successfully. It’s like quitting smoking, you don’t want to smoke because it makes you feel bad, but you still love the escape.

Horror seems to be getting more disturbing than 10 or 15 years ago. Freddy haunting you in your dreams is terrifying, but deep down you know it’s impossible.

Now we have things like the Saw franchise, where you have some psycho, who really just needs to get a fucking hobby, going around forcing people to kill themselves in self created booby traps. Annoying and a little too disturbing for a Saturday night.

Here’s the trailer for Idiots and Angels. I like the director Bill Plympton, he does cool stuff, and animated horror is just never that bad.

Website: Toronto After Dark Film Festival
YouTube: Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Bill Plympton

Escape From City 17 – Part One

Michelle McCormack — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:37:21 +0000

Check out this 5 minute video – long, yes, but Sci-Fi cool, especially if you’re into Half-Life and Zombies.

The Purchase Brothers created parts one and two for $500, seriously.

Here’s two examples of their commercial work. They have a definite audio style, which is excellent.

Coke

iPhone

The Purchase Brothers
On YouTube