so I drive my car, on my schedule, to the nearest major roadway, using whatever route I choose and then I hook into a passing 'train' for as long as I need? Sounds brilliant!
'Hiding' things like this on set is a long standing tradition. At least, it was at every prop shop I worked at. It's particularly fun if the director has told you not to...
Another example of this is the text on background objects being a joke or silly. The signs on the bridge of ST:TNG were like this.
Another example of this is the text on background objects being a joke or silly. The signs on the bridge of ST:TNG were like this.
@Vexxarr: as a fellow builder-of-strange-stuff, I must compliment you on your pencils! I trust they didn't have to actually write...
I just want to say that my college biology professor was one of the early explorers of these. She discovered a whole bunch of crustaceans that only live there. She also engaged me in a serious discussion of what a dragon's skeletal and muscle structure would be like. Hurray Dr. Yaeger!
@JesusDeSaad: concrete degrades in salt water? Also, who would pay?
before I enlarged it, I thought that #4 was depicting a section that was under construction and draped in plastic. Now that would be some realism!
Bugger! I've already got Sirens, (didn't know it was rare) and was hoping for a new collection. I actually took a lot of inspiration from his comments about finding work and being a professional artist.
I have a fascination with apocalyptic visions for almost as long as I've been choosing my own reading material. It is my favorite setting for role playing games too, and I have more books to support that subject than any other genre.
I also have Depression and in the course of my therapy, I brought this fascination up with my therapist. He wasn't surprised, and said that apocalyptic visions are relatively common among people with Depression. Something about when your life feels incredibly complicated and fraught, a world where daily survival is in question seems much simpler and more appealing. All of your worries are boiled down to the basics and choices are easy. This makes sense to me, but then again, I'm crazy... #apocalypse
I'm really glad that I read this article! I love this concept and poke it around inside my head all the time. Glad to see it down well in the outside world...
I must give mention to my favorite weird city bit: Danny The Street, the sentient city block that communicates with the signs in the windows, from that brilliantly surreal comic which name I am completely forgetting at the moment.
I don't think we are going to see jobs eliminated so much as drastically reduced. There are still people making a living from building furniture using only hand tools, for example. It's a niche market, to be sure, but it still exists, and appreciation of it rises as Ikea and Crate and Barrel drown the world in a ocean of machine made stuff.
The theory I made up is that the marketplace always gets excited by higher tech ways of building things, particularly because the price of common goods tends to come down. (Machines producing more stuff for less money, etc) But there is a return swing on that line, where the market also starts to see the value of older techniques. Think of clothing: for millenia hand made clothes were the only choice, and most people had a very limited number of clothing articles. As mills and sewing machines came into ready availability, more people were able to afford multiple sets of clothes. Now you can go into the darkest jungles of the world, and find locals wearing T-shirts with Michael Jordan on them. But if you want to impress the people around you with the quality of your clothes, you get something hand made, like a Bond-street suit. How something was created becomes part of its value.
Having said all of that, I can't wait until I can my hands on a 3D printer! Those things are going to shake the world of manufacturing right down to its roots, just you wait and see...
One of my all time favorite books also has the worst cover art I know of. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Bad Voltage by Jonathan Littell
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Maybe it's only bad because it has almost exactly nothing to do with the contents, but I think the cheese chines through!
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Maybe it's only bad because it has almost exactly nothing to do with the contents, but I think the cheese chines through!
@Briareosdx: Well said!
It gets better, later there is an escape on a steam locomotive and after that there's Babes with Bows! It's like some kind of backwards technology metaphor. Look out, it's coming right for you!
@ticktockman: I always thought that was where it all Went Wrong actually... Like if a rock group made up of the best in their field wrote a 3 hour opera about how thinly disguised versions of themselves saved the world from absurd aliens.
There. I said it.
@werewolf123: Which is exactly what I was going to say (oil/solvent soaked rags can and do ignite on their own; there are now special trashcans to avoid this problem), except that I would also point out that conspiracy theories are way more fun than oily rags!
@Charlie Jane Anders: The 5 Most Unintentionally Gay Horror Movies, with Covenant being #4. [www.cracked.com] I just came across it yesterday...
In my dreams, I work at WETA.
The AI-brain-in-a-robot-horse, FESS from Christopher Stasheff's 'Warlock' series? I mean, it looks just like a horse, but its got keen robot accessories like 1 inch thick retractable rubber shoe covers (for stealth mission, natch) and a radio link with Our Hero. Oh, and FESS has the personality of a nagging mother, which leads to lots of witty banter...
I loved these books when they first came out, but now I have a hard time imagining what I saw in them!
This thing is brilliant! OK, I could do without the hat attachment for everyday wear, but I already wear glasses, so what's one more piece of tech attached to my face, for special occasions anyway... And I am convinced that is really just a matter of time before you will see self-important people everywhere, standing stock still so they can read their email in the elevator (or where ever), except I think they will be looking through some kind special glasses frame. Most people don't want to project everything they are looking at on the nearest surface, visible to all. Combine this tech with a smooth HUD, and they will be everywhere before you know it...
@Coryell Kelsey: For which I give thanks every time I read one! Not-weird, or bland writing is pretty easy to find, and weird for owns sake writing is also plentiful, but the stuff here is neither. It has personality and enthusiasm and that's why I like it!
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