Dragon*Con 2011
I have just returned from Dragon*Con 2011, and it was pretty fantastic as usual. I’m going to make some more posts about it over the next few days, but for right now you can just enjoy a few random pictures.
Category: Sci-Fi
Dragon*Con 2011 Is Go!
After having missed Dragon*Con two years in a row (Bad geek! Bad! No Firefly for you!) my wife and I will at last be heading down to Atlanta this year to revel in all that is most geeky, nerdy, and awesome. If you’ve never heard of Dragon*Con, you’re probably reading...
Jules Verne Day
Today (February 8th, 2011) is Jules Verne’s 183th birthday. I think it should be a national holiday. Although since he’s French, I suppose it would just be a French national holiday. Regardless, today is most certainly a day for all steampunk and neo-Victorian enthusiasts, as well anyone who considers themselves...
Sucker Punch: Wonderpunk?
While the name is stupid, Sucker Punch is indeed a movie I didn’t see coming (hence, Sucker Punch might be an apropos name after all). The best way to describe it is something like this: a young girl in the 1950’s (I think) has a bad life, gets put in...
Tron: Legacy — Awesomeness Reborn
Greetings Programs! As you have no doubt been informed by the bits dispatched by the MCP, the final build deployment of Tron: Legacy looms imminent. Stand-by for primary instructions from your Users regarding the availablity of access lines to the Grid, which we anticipate shall open on December 17th, 2010....
At the Mountains of Madness, the Movie
Well, it looks like the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft is finally coming the big screen, as the movie script of At the Mountains of Madness is currently being passed around the Hollywood big wigs. Let’s just hope Hollywood can do it right… And if they don’t, I’ll call Yog-Sothoth...
RedLetterMedia Reviews
A friend direct me to this fellow over at RedLetterMedia.com who review all the greatest sci-fi, fantasy, and action movies but hammers them into the ground pointing out all the plot holes, character problems, and all the assorted mistakes, ad nauseum. Checkout this clip (part 1 of 7) of his...
Doctor Who and a New Year
“Doctor Who” ranks pretty high on my list of ultimate sci-fi series–in fact, it is probably the ultimate Steampunk sci-fi series of all time, hands down. And well it should be, as it has been running for over 45 years, albeit with a sizeable gap between the classic and the...
The Physics of Space Combat
Check it out. Gizmodo has an excellent article on what the real physics of space combat would be like. As you might imagine, Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Gate, Star-whatever-sci-fi-show-you-like, have got it completely and utterly long. A movie or TV show that tried to portray realistic space combat would...
War of the Worlds: Goliath
It seems like every day there’s just a bit more steampunk in the world. The latest addition to the steampunk genre is “War of the Worlds: Goliath”. It’s an animated movie, but it seems to be rated R for language, violence, and possibly sex and nudity. It’s, after all, produced...
