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    Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries

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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    03:53 PM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    You know Charlie Jane, i've only just gotten my R2-D2 t-shirt and then you go an post this. *sigh* I'm gonna have to freeze my credit card or start sending you the bills.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    12:10 PM

    In reply to Paprika Director Has Kid-Friendly Robotic Dreams
    I love that when you add Millennium Actress to your Netflix queue, it recommends Singing in the Rain
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    12:07 PM

    In reply to Paprika Director Has Kid-Friendly Robotic Dreams
    I love it. Love love love. I can't wait.
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    Image of Dash_Stryker Dash_Stryker
    11:38 AM

    In reply to Paprika Director Has Kid-Friendly Robotic Dreams
    If Miyazaki is walt disney,
    then Satoshi Kon is the Hitchcock of anime.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    12:08 PM

    @Dash_Stryker: Agreed.

    Miyazaki is a way to get children into Anime, Kon is how you keep the adults interested.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12:41 PM

    @NerD: Blattella: i don't know. i never really liked paranoia agent all that much and i have yet to actually sit through all of tokyo godfathers due to lack of interest.miyazaki, in my experience, is the way to get adults into anime just as much as children. the stories may not be as complex, or as needless convoluted, but the visuals are stunning. which is the primary thing adults, again in my experience, need to realize, that animation can be more than color filled bubbles arranged in the shape of a talking head on screen. adults, i've found, find this easier to handle in a story that's meant to take place in a fantasy world and only over time gradually open themselves up to the possibility of an animated feature that takes place in the real world.
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    Image of Dash_Stryker Dash_Stryker
    01:36 PM

    @tetracycloide: Perfect blue watch it.

    #calendar
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    01:47 PM

    @tetracycloide: Paranoia Agent is a tough sell, and shouldn't be the first choice.

    I would recommend Paprika.
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    Image of comics0026 comics0026
    02:29 PM

    @tetracycloide: Satoshi Kon is for experienced travelers only
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    02:37 PM

    @comics0026: Thank you captin parrot.
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    Image of Motoki Motoki
    10:50 AM

    In reply to Paprika Director Has Kid-Friendly Robotic Dreams
    I used to love Anime in the olden days (heh) of the 80s and early 90s but I feel like lately the stuff that comes out is massed produced drivel with nowhere near the quality of writing and richness of some of the old works.

    Satoshi Kon is an exception and I'm grateful he's around and making films. Definitely looking forward to this one.
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    Image of themixingitsession themixingitsession
    11:58 AM

    @Motoki: Then you seem to be ignoring some of the great series that are appearing nowadays, most notably the manga xxxHolic by CLAMP. It might not be animation, but it certainly has a lot of heart, depth, and richness to it. A modern classic, in my opinion.
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    Motoki promoted this comment themixingitsession was starred themixingitsession was unstarred
    Image of Motoki Motoki
    12:19 PM

    @themixingitsession: Admittedly I have not read much manga in years, though I've heard there are some good ones out now and may have to do some digging.

    In terms of Anime though, I have not seen anything that I was crazy about outside of Satoshi Kon in years.

    Miyazaki is cute and sentimental and at least not total drivel, but I like a little more to my stories.

    The original Ghost in the Shell film from the 90s was quite good in my opinion, but the recent iterations of it have just been bleh for me.
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    Image of themixingitsession themixingitsession
    02:55 PM

    @Motoki: Well on the Anime front, I have to agree with you: there's not that many interesting or good ones going around. Although the same can be said about any other genre or type of entertainment. You have to dig around a pile of crap before you can find the real gems.

    The GITS movie: I have nothing but love for it. Funny enough, I've never seen Akira, which everyone seems to favor.
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    Image of lorq lorq
    10:22 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I still own and cherish my copy of "20th Century Foss," the artbook put out by Dragon's Dream Publishers, which also put out beautiful and glossy books by Roger Dean, Syd Mead, and many others, back in the mid-70s and thereafter. (Time for a Dragon's Dream retrospective article / gallery, mayhap...?)
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    Image of lorq lorq
    01:07 PM

    @lorq: Ahem, of course I meant "21st Century Foss."
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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    09:35 AM

    In reply to Paprika Director Has Kid-Friendly Robotic Dreams
    you just gave me the scariest thought, and i cannot remember the movies name. Recently there was a movie out, about a poor robot from a poor family, gone to me the king to save all the other poor robots from the recycling pile.

    where did all the original robot creators go? did humanity get killed off? was this movie the ultimate end of the terminator franchise?

    did the human soul that get recycled into the earth at the end of the stich-punk animated movie '9' create that cybertron of the poor versus articratic robot class war?

    why is there no bacon in the future?
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    Image of Biku Biku
    09:53 AM

    @PostMarque: There is future bacon: robo-bacon, or, as I like to call it, bacon-bits-and-bytes.
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    PostMarque promoted this comment Biku was starred Biku was unstarred
    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    10:58 AM

    @Biku: @Mr. Damage:

    I pronounce Biku the winner of this thread. You win 3 internets that take double A batteries, but it cannot be hooked up to your TV. You are going to have to speak my manager about how to use the DVD in the microwave though.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12:48 PM

    @PostMarque: the movie in question was, humorously, robots.
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    tetracycloide was starred tetracycloide was unstarred
    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    01:08 PM

    @tetracycloide: you mean that robot movie, i could not fathom a title for, also caused the same reaction of the entire creative marketing team that produced it?
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    01:22 PM

    @PostMarque: in their defense it was a very inane movie. it probably took a stroke of creative genius to come up with an equally inane title.
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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    01:52 PM

    @tetracycloide: the next book i right is going to be called Words In A Book
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    01:57 PM

    @PostMarque: in related news have you read AnOther magazine?
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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    01:59 PM

    @tetracycloide: did it do an article on the movie, Movie?
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    08:58 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    Yay, Jodo! Factoid: the new Metabarons GN has a lengthy sequence by AWOL WildC.A.T.S penciller Travis Charest, which is beyond awesome. The two of them on one book hugely rule.
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    Edited by Perhaps Not at 11/20/09 8:59 AM Perhaps Not was starred Perhaps Not was unstarred
    Image of Tim Barribeau Tim Barribeau
    07:59 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    Many of Jodorowsky's ideas for Dune were folded into his comics, like L'Incal and Metabarons. L'Incal is an utter braintrip, in the best sense of the word. Totally worth a read.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07:23 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    My gods, those are some very colorful ships.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    07:22 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I don't remember "Pirates of Dune."

    I like the pictures, though.
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    07:36 AM

    @cletar: I like that title!

    You've got yourself another Kevin J. Anderson Dune series right there!
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07:22 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I used to have two artwork books from this guy. Very distinctive imagination.

    My mom threw them out when I left for college :-(
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    Image of Zenuflecked Zenuflecked
    08:19 AM

    @FrankenPC: Oh, that is so unfortunate. I managed to hold on to my copies of 3 of his books. I never got the star liners book unfortunately, but I had the spacecraft, spacewars, and spacewrecks. Someone is doing a revival of the storyline that ran behind these for an RPG.
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    FrankenPC promoted this comment Zenuflecked was starred Zenuflecked was unstarred
    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08:34 AM

    @Zenuflecked: Mine were Starliners and Spacecraft. I've never seen Spacewars. I'll have to amble on over to Amazon and take a look see.

    #calendar
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    08:40 AM

    @Zenuflecked: the ones you mean by Stewart Cowley?
    I have them - Spacecraft 2000-2100, Spacewrecks, Great Spacebattles and the Spaceliners one.

    Foss wasn't actually involved with this series.. the work by other artists is very similar tho.

    Edit
    Forgot to note there is a Spacewars book, that is Spacecraft 2000-2100 and Spacebattles in one Edition.
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    Edited by KhaiJB at 11/20/09 8:53 AM KhaiJB was starred KhaiJB was unstarred
    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08:57 AM

    @Zenuflecked: Holy mother of gawd :-O Starliners goes from ~100$-~300$ on Amazon!
    (Shakes fist~!) Damn you mom!!!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    09:00 AM

    @FrankenPC: get away from my copy!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    09:03 AM

    @KhaiJB: heres the full set

    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]

    now get your mits off my copies. MINE!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    07:05 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    aah Foss... shaped my view of spacecraft ever since I can remember...
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    07:15 AM

    @KhaiJB: I know what you mean, my father used to read me the Lensmen series as bedtime stories so i went to sleep looking at those covers.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    11/19/09

    In reply to Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!

    Missing my favorite
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    In reply to Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!
    Freaking sweet. Buy now? Or hope that my favorites show up in December?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Should ship fast if you do buy it now... Brian sez my order goes out tomorrow!
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Why are you blocked at work Paypal??! Damnit.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Oof. I'm sure there'll be maybe one or two left by the time you're done at work. Maybe. Unless... I buy them all and sell them at a premium.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: 6 hours to go, plus a 10 minute drive home. Maybe I'll just do it on my lunch.
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