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more about #shelter John Hazard: The writer of that article thinks Abrams is" this generation’s Steven Spielberg." I guess he doesn't think much of Steven Spielberg. S.S. was one o... more » clever epithet: Funny you should post this today, because this morning John August wrote about how he thinks ScriptShadow is damaging to writers. He has a lot of val... more » YackBacker: ScriptShadow strikes again! I was skeptical of Abrams working on "Trek" when it was first announced, but there's one aspect to the show that I think ... more » -
#morningreading
What Abrams Did (Long) Before Star Trek...
...And before Fringe, Lost and Alias, for that matter. The always-wonderful ScriptShadow blog has made Abrams' unproduced 1994 sci-fi movie script Shelter online, for a peek at the awkward early days of the new Main Man. [ScriptShadow] -
#retrofuturism
This Could Have Been Our Future
Imagine spending months locked in this Latvian bomb shelter. The banner reads "Without Communciations, There Is No Authority. Without Authority, There Is No Victory!" The shelter, now a museum, has a nuclear-blast-absorbing wall and a huge facility for filtering radiation. More » -
#conceptart
Aircraft Carrier Condominiums In A Post-Nuclear Junkyard
Fallout 3 comes out later this year. Like the first two games, it's all about surviving in a post-nuclear world full of mutants, radiation, and other bad stuff that wants to kill you. In the concept artwork above, you can see how mankind has adapted to what's left of the world by building a makeshift bridge to a drydocked and marooned aircraft carrier, which appears to be one of the few sources of manmade light (or fire.) This melancholy image could have done double duty as concept art for that Life After People special on the History Channel. More »
