<![CDATA[io9: blood]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: blood]]> http://io9.com/tag/blood http://io9.com/tag/blood <![CDATA[Daybreakers' PSA Reminds Vampires: Turn In Any Humans You See]]> Here's a nice little video reminder from Bromley Marks Pharmaceuticals — who are trying their best to keep humans alive, to feed the dying vampire species from our dystopian future. Check out the latest Daybreakers video!

As a reminder, here's the full trailer for Ethan Hawk and Willem Dafoe's futuristic vampire thriller, Daybreakers.

Here's the official synopsis:

Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

I can not wait for more of the "blood jerk" vampire girl — it's amazing to think vampires could be edgy once again. Daybreakers will be in theaters January 8th, 2010.

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<![CDATA[Which Blood Should You Drink To Save Your Life?]]> Now that we know shark's blood may be a key ingredient in the fight against cancer, it's time to ponder what other types of blood have healing potential. Which one would you drink, should your life depend on it? Take our poll.

Oh scifi blood sources, you always seem to have magical powers that can heal even the sickliest of battered waitresses. There are many types of creatures in the scifi world that can cure what ails you with their liquidy goodness. Let's break it down.

Adam Monroe and Claire Bennet's Blood:
Can be used to heal even the most disgusting of injuries. I guess when deciding on who should get the bloodletting it's just a preference of who you would rather drain.
Street Value: One half of the secret formula, or something equally as priceless for bartering.

V-Juice:
Slang for vampire blood v-juice can be used for a number of things including it's healing powers. V-Juice will also make you super randy, heighten your senses and when taken in extreme amounts give you an eggplant sized wang.
Street Value: $600 for a Quarter Of An Ounce


Wolverine's Blood:
Performs best if used on the littlest Morlock, but be warned he's going to be a terrible dick about it.
Street Value: $50 for a taste (host can be persuaded with fresh cigars)

Cylon Hybird Baby Blood:

Hera Agathon the half cylon half human robo baby's blood was used to cure President Roslin's cancer, for a time being at least.
Street Value: Hard to say, presumably pretty low as it's not a complete fix, probably could get some with a few good army tank tops, canned goods and some moonshine.

Superman's Blood:
Sure a transfusion of his blood would give you his super powers, but imagine what ingesting it would do?
Street Value: Priceless

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<![CDATA[A Camera Made of Blood and Copper]]> Wayne Martin Belger is a freaky pinhole photographer who makes cameras out of titanium, brass, wood, glass, human skulls, human organs, formaldehyde, HIV positive blood, and other relics that are tools of what he calls "the horrors of creation and the beauty of decay." Pictured above is a creation of his called The Untouchable, a 4x5 inch camera made of aluminum, copper, titanium, acrylic, and HIV positive blood. The blood acts as a red filter by pumping through the camera to the front of the pinhole.

Belger's cameras serve a greater function than just taking photographs; in fact, they are always part of the bigger picture. Each of his cameras has a destiny. For example, this one is destined to document a geographic comparison of people with HIV. We think he's onto something—photography of the future may very well warrant a deeper connection with its subjects.

Keep reading for a couple more examples.


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This one's called the 9/11 Camera, designed to capture images of religious figures. It's another 4x5 camera, made of T6 aircraft aluminum, plus pages from the Bible, the Koran, and the Torah. The piece of metal with the pinhole that you see in the front is part of a support beam that was holding up the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
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The Third Eye Camera is made with a 150 year old skull of a 13 year old girl, and intended to photograph the beauty of decay. He drilled a hole in her third eye for two reasons: as a medium for film exposure, and as a symbolic way of letting light and time into her head. Morbid? Maybe, but to pay his respects, he embedded pieces of silver with gemstones into her forehead. Images by Wayne Martin Belger

Boy of Blue Industries via Notcot

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<![CDATA[The Man Who Wrote Comic Books In KISS Blood]]> We told you that Steve Gerber passed away earlier today, but did you know the guy created the first ever Marvel Super Special in 1977, featuring the band KISS? Not just any normal KISS, but a superpowered group who encounters villains from the Marvel archives, including Doctor Doom and his tutor, Dizzie the Hun. If that wasn't weird enough, the actual members of the band mixed in drops of their blood with the printing ink for that issue, which probably horrified mothers across the country.

They even had a notary public on hand to certify that yes, KISS did indeed mix their blood into the ink at the printing press Marvel used. KISS.jpg

Talk about putting yourself into your work. It also reminds us when Mark Gruenwald died suddenly in 1997, and they mixed his cremated ashes in with the first collected graphic novels of Squadron Supreme. No idea if Steve would have wanted his body contributed to anything, but it would be nice if Marvel could put out a commemorative edition of Howard the Duck for people who don't know anything but the movie.

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<![CDATA["Repo! The Genetic Opera" is an Epic of After-Market Body Parts]]> Darren Lynn Bousman's Repo! The Genetic Opera is one of the two organ repossession movies coming out this year, and now it's gone viral with a creepy-looking donation poster (jump below see it) urging you to give until it hurts. This "Warnerian-Rocky Horror-meets-Bladerunner musical" takes place in a future where massive organ failures plague humankind. But the sickly masses can ward off death by financing an easy-clone organ implant from GeneCo. If you can't pay when the loan comes due, a repo agent will yank your fancy new organs like a bad tooth. And it's an opera, of course. We've got the awesome repo poster below.

RepoOperaposter.jpgHow did a movie like this get made? Bousman, who also directed Saw II through IV, first made a ten minute "trailer" of the stage production of Repo! in order to try to sell it as a film. These are the comic book-style opening titles that tell you what you're in store for. Hopefully the Hollywood executives he's just given the finished film to will see fit to unleash it on theaters.

New 'Repo!' Art
[Bloody Disgusting]

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