While most stories about alien encounters set our first meeting with extraterrestrials in the future, some plant those early encounters firmly in the distant past. What happens when early humans come face-to-space-helmet with beings from another world?
A cool and disturbing CG-animated take on A Scanner Darkly
Before Section Eight Productions settled on rotoscoping as the filmmaking technique to bring Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly to the screen, the studio Rustmonkey created this black-and-white, CG test animation for the film.
Tetris-piece micro house is designed to be stacked
Chinese design firm Studio Liu Lubin is exploring the concept of the "micro house," a structure that offers the minimum necessary indoor living space, with rooms that can be stacked on top of and alongside one another in an architectural game of Tetris.
Artist Rey Taira updates Georges Seurat's masterpiece of pointillism "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by adding DC's superheroes. Behold, "Saturday Morning in Front of La Salle De Justice."
When John Baptist Greco built Holy Land USA in Waterbury, Connecticut, he envisioned it as a pilgrimage site for American Christians. Closed since 1984 however, the long-neglected park now looks more like a horror movie set than a place for wholesome family fun.
First Iron Man movie retold as an 8-bit video game
Why isn't this a playable game? CineFix's 8-bit Cinema animation reimagines the action sequences of the first Iron Man as a classic side-scroller.
Long before V for Vendetta this newspaper seller wore a mustached mask
Alan Moore's comic V for Vendetta (and the subsequent film) inspired members of the group known as Anonymous to cover their faces with Guy Fawkes masks. Back in 1929, this newspaper seller hid his identity with a similarly mustached mask.
Orio, a silent doll, appears in the city of Cobble, an apparently idyllic place in which dolls and stuffed toys spend their days in useful labor. But something dark has appeared in Cobble, something that threatens to shatter the city's peace, and it might be connected to Orio herself.
What it's like to believe that you're dead
The New Scientist's Mindscapes column has a brief but fascinating profile of man identified only as "Graham" who suffers from a rare delusion known as Cotard's syndrome. Despite walking and talking and eating every day, Graham is convinced that he's dead.
