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more about #valleywag more comments → corpore-metal: It's a very interesting take on art. It's provocative and makes you think but, I don't really know if stuff like this will reduce humanities propensit... more » Meirelle: Holy CRAP! He survived Dig? This man is immortal. more » Slatz_Grobnik: 1) Dress Normally. 2) Buy sword. 3) You're an Immortal from Higlander!!! [Management is not liable for any arrests resulting from your carrying about ... more » rockstarlibrarian: My boyfriend is dressing up this year as Jayne - he made a Blue Sun t-shirt (made a stencil from a printout of the logo which he got online and then p... more » Gann: Best cheap, quick costume I ever used - a friend and I went as Mormons. It's kinda like the Nerd Herd, but with a bible instead of a pocket protector... more » disco2000: If I weren't stuck in a plane all day friday, I would do the Irina Spalko look. I actually have the exact belt, only in brown, thanks to a russian obs... more » bonniegrrl: Don't forget about the Bathrobe Jedi! more » aspiringexpatriate: Is Rhorshach just too creepy for Halloween? I mean, who wants to walk around in a mask all night? more » Grey_Area: For an even easier Firefly costume: a black suit and tie blue latex gloves et viola! You're one of those creepy Blue Sun agents. As a bonus, to make t... more » MerciDonkey: Easiest costume ever: go as a hologram from Red Dwarf. Just cut an "H" out of paper and tape it to your forehead, then dress as normal. more » NerD: Blattella: The off duty BSG pilot is so simple, yet so good. Thx Charlie, Now I can do my Zombie off-duty BSG pilot. more » robling_t: I was just going to wrap some gauze around my left hand and say I'm Zombie Owen... more » Trae: I really, really, REALLY, REALLY hope you meant "Browncoat" instead of "Brownshirt" Bit of a difference between what the terms mean... more » Spideyrex: Tony Stark, just wear a suit or at least nice shirt, duct tape one of those thin "taplights" (the ones for closets or cabinets) to undershirt instant ... more » Alexis: You might as well place Firefly reject/frontier person in the same catagory as steampunk. more » -
#costumes
Ten Awesome Costumes You Slackers Can Get Done By Friday
Shoot, it's only a few days until Halloween and you don't have a costume yet! Relax — you're in the same boat as many a costume designer for a science fiction movie or TV series. Except that instead having to create a whole group of identical alien costumes for a bunch of extras by Friday, you only have to create one cool-looking costume for yourself. We talked to few actual costume designers, including Joss Whedon's favorite costumer, and came up with some cool ideas for costumes you can throw together in the next couple of days. More » -
#mangobot
Coming Soon from China: Dystopic Futures, the Next Steve Jobs, and a World Full of Drumming Androids
Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. I'm a total sports nut. Olympic season makes my bones shiver with excitement. But this year, I took my mind off record-breaking swim relays and super-twisty gymnastics routines for a minute to consider the host country's techno-socio-political future. The opening ceremony confirmed my theory that China is breeding robots. (We already know that the cute girl who performed the patriotic song was lip-syncing and that the fireworks shown on TV were fake. I'm pretty sure that the 2008 drummers who kicked off the five-hour technological spectacularity were androids, too.) But what else is up in the giant nation that many believe will be the next world superpower? I called some experts and came away with a list of five predictions for China's next half-century. More » -
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#triviagasm
A Brief History of Reality Distortion Fields, Starring Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is the first non-science fiction character to possess a reality distortion field (RDF). Apple's MacWorld 2008 conference kicks off tomorrow with a keynote from Jobs, which leaves gadget lovers and iPod fiends white-knuckled on Tuesday morning as news of the next "insanely great" thing trickles out of Moscone Center in San Francisco. Why does this speech cause such furor (and fury) every year? RDF, of course. We've got the scoop on how Jobs came to posses the RDF, and we've got four other famous RDFs from science fiction for you to contemplate as you await the mind-control ray that will emanate from MacWorld tomorrow. More »
