Jupiter Ascending (With An Aside of Mars Becomes Venus)

Possible SPOILERS for The Lunar Chronicles Book Series by Marissa Meyer. This summer I saw photos at Io9 of some of the characters from the upcoming film, Jupiter Ascending, looking like something straight out of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette crossed with albino-ed Cyberpunk, but I admit that until today, I knew little else of the […]

Ray Bradbury Had a Zine

Ever wonder what Ray Bradbury’s writing was like when he was a teenager? Wonder no more. at the Gutenberg link from io9 you can read four issues of his high school zine, Futuria Fantasia. Our accompanying photo is of a teenage Ray with Marlene Dietrich. Dang, cool even in school. Not fair. http://io9.com/read-the-zine-that-young-ray-bradbury-started-in-1939-1168990924 Related articles […]

The Tokyo Game Show: An Overview

This video game expo, sponsored by the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) and the Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. is held once a year over a 3 or 4-day period (This year it was held June 28th), and is currently the largest of its kind. The first two days are for businesses only and the last two are […]

The Fantastical Hayao Miyazaki, Head Guru at Studio Ghibli

Labeled the “god of anime” and one of the world’s most influential Asians, this Oscar-nominated animator is best known for the popular films My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and Spirited Away. With his refreshingly organic style, a departure from the mechanical, […]

Cowboy Bebop: Check it Out, if Like Me You Live Under a Rock And Missed It the First time.

With a pastiche approach approximating the idiosyncratic style of Bebop music, this 1998-1999, anime TV series, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and written by Keiko Nobumoto, is as much of a maverick as its space cowboy main character. The story focuses on the 2071 adventures of bounty hunter, Spike Spiegel and his struggling crew: Jet Black […]

Japanese Superflat Art Movement: Kawaii Meets Outer Space Oddball Awesome

This mass-produced, Postmodern Art movement, founded by Takashi Murakami, is heavily influenced by both traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking and the underlying impulses of contemporary Japanese manga, anime, and street culture. Superflat arose around the turn of this century in response to the increasingly generic nature of the Post War Japanese consumerist culture. It seeks […]

Size Doesn’t Matter: The Future of the Short Film Arrowhead: Signal

This looks good, folks. Like hella good. It’s a really cool, short Australian film called Arrowhead: Signal that has been optioned to turn into a TV series (although some sites are reporting a feature film, so things are confusing right now) I hope that American TV picks this Australian series up when it starts airing. […]

Comic Gals Go Hipster on Their Days Off

This article is cool to me. In five minutes, maybe not. Because I am just that hipster. LOL. It is an artist’s rendering of women superheroes in hipster duds. I need a new wardrobe. And I ain’t talking about one that goes to Narnia. I mean new threads, dude. http://io9.com/the-super-ladies-of-dc-don-hipster-fashions-on-their-da-513620308

Sci Fi Lullabies: Not the Song, But A Make Up Line Inspired By Sci Fi

I am a woman, but while I am not the most girly of girls, this morning, looking at the new Ariel make up from Sephora that is inspired by The Little Mermaid, I couldn’t help thinking about whether there were any make up lines inspired by Sci Fi. I am sure there are more, but today my Googling kicked up […]

Some Subtext of Pop Sci-Fi As Well As Over-think From Oz.

Analyzing popular culture in academic essays and documentaries is nothing new and neither is examining themes in Science Fiction, but two recent news stories have stood out to me as potentially over-thinking some of our popular Sci Fi classics. One is the article from the last week in May about a new Australian book about […]