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Turns out the Gears of War movie is actually a trilogy that's "basically a harder-edged Lord of the Rings," says director Len Wiseman. Now I'm envisioning Hobbits with chainsaw bayonettes — and it's beautiful. More »
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Does it get you all wound up when you look at gears and measurement devices on giant, old machines? That's a perfectly normal reaction — we all feel a little awe in the face of machines whose precision and beauty has nothing to do with the digital. And the Long Now Foundation is celebrating those machines in the San Francisco Bay Area with a special "Mechanicrawl" tour this Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Wired got a sneak peek at the tour route, which includes touring a 1940s warship whose sophisticated torpedo targeting computer (pictured) is all analog. Check out more clockporn below. More »
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Mike Libby uses the carapaces of real insects to create tiny, mechanical works of art. They look like they could be part of a new insect-driven A.I. Not only does Libby's work adorn a new anthology of speculative writing from Tachyon Press called The New Weird, but he has upcoming shows you can check out in Boston and Philly. A few more bugs (and one arachnid) lurk below. More »
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Anne Bruce is a microscopy photographer who likes to put antique watches, gears, and gauges under her low-power microscope. She creates glowing, strange images of tarnished gears and fragments of watchfaces that look like giant, rusting dynamos and the remains of nineteenth-century factories. We've got a gallery of her haunting work after the jump. More »
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