The very first modern zombie has died. Bill Hinzman, who played the first seen zombie in the graveyard from The Night of the Living Dead has succumb to cancer at 75.
Sheeple, please wake from your Prozac induced slumber and hear me:
Madonna's Super Bowl half-time show was a Satanic Illuminati ritual..or something like that. The tenuous symbolic evidence is ironclad proof of this nefarious display of occult power. Plus there are two websites about it!
So awesome. Conspiracy site accuses other conspiracy site of being complicit in conspiracy.
I must say though, Secret Sun appears to be the best written of the three. A little too well written actually. Pretty slick looking too. Most conspiracy websites look like they're stuck in basic html limbo circa 1998. Is this some government psyop? Why do I feel like my head is full of fuck when I read them? Is there some telepathic spyware attached to the pages which bypasses my mental firewall and sets up thought-logger software in my brain? Whatever this is, I am certain all will be revealed in the next Jay-Z video. For a shadowy occult society the Illuminati is pretty generous about broadcasting its plans.
I think Knowles wants to be the next RAW, though he lacks Wilson's whistling past the graveyard, Groucho Marxian absurdist sense of humor (and honestly I think the only people who were able to pull that off were the ones of came of age in the '50s). Also, he's a hardcore Jungian mystic, so sometimes it's hard to tell if he's being serious, like when he claims that Obama is an avatar of Horus. Maybe a step up from Lizard People or claiming that the British Royal Family controls the global dope supply, but still pretty far out. #observationdeck(Edit comment)
"The heads up display (HUD) is only for one eye and on the side. It is not transparent nor does it have dual 3D configurations, as previously speculated."
i was excited too but it appears to be just a small LCD in your glasses.... which is still cool but not really a HUD though.
This is consumerization of technology that has been around for a while in a Gibsonian sense of the future not being evenly distributed. DARPA and others is funding work on HUD contact lenses, although having worn contacts for eons before having my eyes fixed so that I now have Cyclopian powers, I think the glasses might actually be a more versatile solution. #observationdeck(Edit comment)
The contact lenses are only at the point of displaying a single, giant pixel though. Cool, but a long, long way from useful. #observationdeck(Edit comment)
Oh look Kevin Wanda has some new additions to his Fashion Mutant work, including Magneto, which looks schnazzy as fuck. There's also Cyclops, which looks like a horrible mix between a 60s Ken Doll and Japan-era David Sylvian.
Apologies if someone else has mentioned it, but I was reading more of my most recent Rolling Stone earlier and thought Rob Sheffield's piece on Alcatraz with mention of Fringe was pretty on point. I can't find a free version available for non-subscribers to link, but the two relevant portions were as follows;
On 'Fringe', everything is all, "You ever notice those little bumps on your tongue? What if all those bumps were planets?" But on 'Alcatraz', the mood is more like, "Yeah, Chief, we ran the fingerprints and they match a guy who died in 1976. So we figure he must have slipped through one of them wormholes. You want the bear claw?"
Which leads him toward the conclusion...
'Fringe' is the dutiful older sibling who does extra homework striving to impress. 'Alcatraz' is the lazy kid brother who breezes along and charms everyone. You don't need two Ph.D.s to guess which one gets the higher ratings.
(From "'Lost' for Dummies" - Rolling Stone Issue 1150, p. 30)
His reasoning for the difference in ratings could be a bit simplistic. Fringe has woven such a complex story, it may be difficult for someone new to start watching it now -- you sort of need some of the background to keep from asking "so what" -- and to be honest, one of the big reasons that I started with Alcatraz is that I didn't want to be left behind, if the show turned out to be good.
I need to start watching Fringe, but with what I hear about the story plus me being a completeist, I am definitely starting from the beginning. #observationdeck(Edit comment)
You don't need any background to watch Fringe. Since the start of this season (for a glaring example), all you need to know is Peter was part of the timeline, then wasn't, and now is again. Done. Nothing ANY of the characters have done up to that point mean one damn, 'cause the cold open will show X and the characters will then tell you the rest, info dump style! #observationdeck(Edit comment)
I'm watching Fringe on Hulu's free schedule, which means I'm on an 8-day delay and for that reason I hold-off on the recaps, but I don't think it was addressed in the most recent episode and if it was, please forgive me, but...
In her recap of the 1/27 episode, Charlie Jane threw out that Walter had experimented on Olivia and the other children, which though long after the post had passed, I commented that I don't know that it's been established that Walter did the experimentation in this timeline. It could have been Nina or William Bell.
Of course I could be wrong and maybe it has been mentioned, but if not, it's just another example of how these are theoretically different characters. Someone who started today would come to know these characters as they are, not as they were and everything that has happened before didn't necessarily occur.
It's like someone who started today would see a different show than the rest of us. #observationdeck
TheWB.com cycles through the first twenty episodes in ten show blocks. Right now they're at the pilot and are streaming through episode ten, then they'll make eleven through twenty available. Unfortunately I don't remember how often they change, but they just did it on the third.
Also, it should be noted that the first twenty are before a lot of the big switches happen, but they introduce important characters and help establish the show.
Does this contradict your initial statement that Fringe is has a complex story, thusly being difficult to enter? I would say whether you're a new viewer or been here since S1, the story is dense because they did a partial reset of the world, and now have to hang a lantern on each and every change which was made, that ultimately led to pretty much the same place.
Indeed, you must wonder what Peter must be thinking. Without him, his friends/family got to the same place. How much must his self-worth be suffering right now? :) #observationdeck
I'm more of the opinion that if one were to start now, they're only getting part of the story and would actually be missing out on a big part of the show.
For example, if one had just started a few weeks ago, they would have seen a bald man which Olivia didn't recognize, warn her. They would have gotten a very brief mention that other baldheaded men have been seen, but it was what, like two or three photos and two minutes of show? Then, they'd learn the person could be a hundred years old and finally, they would have heard Peter's explanation and Olivia lie. Without actually living through the whole Observer backstory, it was just a random encounter with one weird dude and four lines of dialogue that she'll just accept.
Also, we learned that the Olivia in this timeline wasn't aware that she could slip between universes and in reality, we don't actually know that this Olivia can. We suspect that because Peter told her, she may start experimenting or something, but right now, it's just another weird thing that Peter has mentioned and unless it came up in the most recent, it hasn't really been mentioned again.
Yes, it could be like a new show to the uninitiated, but without all the history, it seems like a lot of "huh" and "who cares", especially if stuff is just getting cursory treatment and we're being left to fill-inn all the blanks for ourselves.
As for your theory regarding Peter's self-esteem, I actually feel the opposite because if anything, we're seeing that a lot of what has been learned about the "Fringe events", we learned because Peter was involved. Perhaps because Olivia didn't have to focus so much on caring for Walter and because Peter was there to help keep him on track, but along with the things that we learned directly via Peter or as a result of his involvement is a lot of the stuff folks in the new timeline don't know.
Incoherence has never stopped me, plus we're talking about J.J. Abrams productions, incoherence could actually be called part of his shows. #observationdeck(Edit comment)
Problem is, what happened in the old timeline doesn't matter so much, as they have to either a) narrate it (via the previously on) or b) do the info dump between characters. So, the new viewer doesn't need to watch anything before the start of this season because... why confuse things?
Peter hung a lantern saying that he could be from a different universe, and if you work from that POV, "his" history can be ignored. His Olivia can slip between words. Okay. As new Olivia hasn't been "prepared" by Jones' tests or "fixed" by Weiss, doesn't mean that she will be able to. Indeed, what's to say she ever had the same treatments as the original Olivia or if the treatments were the same chemical mix or if there wasn't later treatments which effected the original ones. There is layers upon layers of unknowns in the new timeline.
So, as for this bald-man coming to Olivia? Every story involving the Observers (including the first with the Orb from the center of the earth - machine part?), didn't happen for them.
Regarding Peter's self-esteem. Consider all the episodes he was instrumental in resolving the plot. Consider all the episodes were he was the helpful foil. Consider all the episodes were he was the moral, romantic or intellectual backbone. Consider all his turn as a shape-shifter killing vigilante. Every insight, every lead, every suggestion, every implication meaning nothing. Now, consider none of that happened, and yet, the timeline got to the same point. Consider your entire life having no aggregate effect. Consider the thought that you didn't provide anything substantial to the world.
There is alot of who cares going on, most notably from the writing staff. Nothing that can't be info dumped in a two minute scene means one damn, and that's years of work for nothing. #observationdeck
"1/8. The supernatural drama returns. Annie, George and Tom go back to their B&B home in Barry Island, but all is not well. Mitchell is gone, having willingly fallen victim to the wolf-shaped bullet, and the gang now has to take care of a baby, one whose werewolf heritage appears to have attracted the attention of vampire overlords known as the Old Ones. Starring Lenora Crichlow, Russell Tovey and Michael Socha, and introducing Damien Molony as Hal." #tips
I don't know if the first review was the author, or a reviewer parodying the author's style of writing, but "But serve ice it to Say, your going to Read some things here" is either the cleverest or dumbest sentence I've read today. #observationdeck(Edit comment)
Awwww, c'mon! That's what "self publishing" is all about, isn't it? Anybody can get anything published! I bet that guy's Mom is very proud. (Edit comment)
It's official. Confirming earlier rumors, here's a brief video snippet of the Red Dwarf series X model team, restoring the massive 14 year old model of the titular ship built way back in 1997 for the remastered DVDs and Series VIII.
Can I get a "Hell yeah!"?
Per my previous post, it's been announced that Peter Talbot (best known for his awesome model work on Duncan Jones' Moon) has taken the helm of the new model unit, and that Shepperton Studios has had to remove all the seating from Stage K because there simply wasn't enough room to shoot this big ol' mother any place else!
Oh excellent, I always liked the fact that they used practical models for the spaceships. They were impressive even if you could sometimes spot how cheaply they were made - there's clearly a 100w light bulb inside the engine exhaust at the back of the 'Dwarf :) #observationdeck(Edit comment)
BSG Reunion Portlandia
[www.youtube.com]
(Edit comment)#tips
[www.bbcamerica.com]
This German woman very entertainingly builds a collapsible TARDIS. It's 17 minutes that are worth every second.
#tips
(Edit comment)The very first modern zombie has died. Bill Hinzman, who played the first seen zombie in the graveyard from The Night of the Living Dead has succumb to cancer at 75.
He's coming to get you, Barbara.
#tips #observationdeck #zombies
(Edit comment)He lived pretty long for a zombie.
But in the end, the Chainsaw Reaper always finds you. RIP #observationdeck
(Edit comment)Sheeple, please wake from your Prozac induced slumber and hear me:
Madonna's Super Bowl half-time show was a Satanic Illuminati ritual..or something like that. The tenuous symbolic evidence is ironclad proof of this nefarious display of occult power. Plus there are two websites about it!
[hollywoodilluminati.com]
[vigilantcitizen.com]
#tips
(Edit comment)#observationdeck
That was worth reading just for the description of M.I.A. as a "Satanic rapping cheerleader."
But who is the real power behind this vulgar display? A further inquiry:
[secretsun.blogspot.com]
(Edit comment)So awesome. Conspiracy site accuses other conspiracy site of being complicit in conspiracy.
I must say though, Secret Sun appears to be the best written of the three. A little too well written actually. Pretty slick looking too. Most conspiracy websites look like they're stuck in basic html limbo circa 1998. Is this some government psyop? Why do I feel like my head is full of fuck when I read them? Is there some telepathic spyware attached to the pages which bypasses my mental firewall and sets up thought-logger software in my brain? Whatever this is, I am certain all will be revealed in the next Jay-Z video. For a shadowy occult society the Illuminati is pretty generous about broadcasting its plans.
(Edit comment)you might not want to do that. #observationdeck (Edit comment)
#observationdeck (Edit comment)
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
#tips #observationdeck #flyingcars
(Edit comment)#notsureifwant
#expressingmyself
#throughtheartofmemes
#observationdeck (Edit comment)
#WANT
#officiallythefuturenow (Edit comment)
Obligatory. #observationdeck (Edit comment)
I haz a sad.
"The heads up display (HUD) is only for one eye and on the side. It is not transparent nor does it have dual 3D configurations, as previously speculated."
i was excited too but it appears to be just a small LCD in your glasses.... which is still cool but not really a HUD though.
#observationdeck
(Edit comment)Lana Del Rey - Hunger Games (pretty good parody)
Even though her new album isn't all that I thought it'd be, I do like her sound. #tips
(Edit comment)Oh look Kevin Wanda has some new additions to his Fashion Mutant work, including Magneto, which looks schnazzy as fuck. There's also Cyclops, which looks like a horrible mix between a 60s Ken Doll and Japan-era David Sylvian.
[kevinwadaart.blogspot.com]
#tips
(Edit comment)#awesome
[www.deadline.com] #tips (Edit comment)
Award winning South African musician 'resurrected'. Claims he was kept with zombies. Fans and family freak out.
[www.timeslive.co.za]
#tips
(Edit comment)#observationdeck
Apologies if someone else has mentioned it, but I was reading more of my most recent Rolling Stone earlier and thought Rob Sheffield's piece on Alcatraz with mention of Fringe was pretty on point. I can't find a free version available for non-subscribers to link, but the two relevant portions were as follows;
On 'Fringe', everything is all, "You ever notice those little bumps on your tongue? What if all those bumps were planets?" But on 'Alcatraz', the mood is more like, "Yeah, Chief, we ran the fingerprints and they match a guy who died in 1976. So we figure he must have slipped through one of them wormholes. You want the bear claw?"
Which leads him toward the conclusion...
'Fringe' is the dutiful older sibling who does extra homework striving to impress. 'Alcatraz' is the lazy kid brother who breezes along and charms everyone. You don't need two Ph.D.s to guess which one gets the higher ratings.
(From "'Lost' for Dummies" - Rolling Stone Issue 1150, p. 30)
His reasoning for the difference in ratings could be a bit simplistic. Fringe has woven such a complex story, it may be difficult for someone new to start watching it now -- you sort of need some of the background to keep from asking "so what" -- and to be honest, one of the big reasons that I started with Alcatraz is that I didn't want to be left behind, if the show turned out to be good.
#observationdeck
(Edit comment)#tips
Now that's deep.
I'm watching Fringe on Hulu's free schedule, which means I'm on an 8-day delay and for that reason I hold-off on the recaps, but I don't think it was addressed in the most recent episode and if it was, please forgive me, but...
In her recap of the 1/27 episode, Charlie Jane threw out that Walter had experimented on Olivia and the other children, which though long after the post had passed, I commented that I don't know that it's been established that Walter did the experimentation in this timeline. It could have been Nina or William Bell.
Of course I could be wrong and maybe it has been mentioned, but if not, it's just another example of how these are theoretically different characters. Someone who started today would come to know these characters as they are, not as they were and everything that has happened before didn't necessarily occur.
It's like someone who started today would see a different show than the rest of us.
(Edit comment)#observationdeck
TheWB.com cycles through the first twenty episodes in ten show blocks. Right now they're at the pilot and are streaming through episode ten, then they'll make eleven through twenty available. Unfortunately I don't remember how often they change, but they just did it on the third.
Also, it should be noted that the first twenty are before a lot of the big switches happen, but they introduce important characters and help establish the show.
#observationdeck
(Edit comment)Does this contradict your initial statement that Fringe is has a complex story, thusly being difficult to enter? I would say whether you're a new viewer or been here since S1, the story is dense because they did a partial reset of the world, and now have to hang a lantern on each and every change which was made, that ultimately led to pretty much the same place.
Indeed, you must wonder what Peter must be thinking. Without him, his friends/family got to the same place. How much must his self-worth be suffering right now? :) #observationdeck
(Edit comment)I'm more of the opinion that if one were to start now, they're only getting part of the story and would actually be missing out on a big part of the show.
For example, if one had just started a few weeks ago, they would have seen a bald man which Olivia didn't recognize, warn her. They would have gotten a very brief mention that other baldheaded men have been seen, but it was what, like two or three photos and two minutes of show? Then, they'd learn the person could be a hundred years old and finally, they would have heard Peter's explanation and Olivia lie. Without actually living through the whole Observer backstory, it was just a random encounter with one weird dude and four lines of dialogue that she'll just accept.
Also, we learned that the Olivia in this timeline wasn't aware that she could slip between universes and in reality, we don't actually know that this Olivia can. We suspect that because Peter told her, she may start experimenting or something, but right now, it's just another weird thing that Peter has mentioned and unless it came up in the most recent, it hasn't really been mentioned again.
Yes, it could be like a new show to the uninitiated, but without all the history, it seems like a lot of "huh" and "who cares", especially if stuff is just getting cursory treatment and we're being left to fill-inn all the blanks for ourselves.
As for your theory regarding Peter's self-esteem, I actually feel the opposite because if anything, we're seeing that a lot of what has been learned about the "Fringe events", we learned because Peter was involved. Perhaps because Olivia didn't have to focus so much on caring for Walter and because Peter was there to help keep him on track, but along with the things that we learned directly via Peter or as a result of his involvement is a lot of the stuff folks in the new timeline don't know.
#observationdeck
(Edit comment)Problem is, what happened in the old timeline doesn't matter so much, as they have to either a) narrate it (via the previously on) or b) do the info dump between characters. So, the new viewer doesn't need to watch anything before the start of this season because... why confuse things?
Peter hung a lantern saying that he could be from a different universe, and if you work from that POV, "his" history can be ignored. His Olivia can slip between words. Okay. As new Olivia hasn't been "prepared" by Jones' tests or "fixed" by Weiss, doesn't mean that she will be able to. Indeed, what's to say she ever had the same treatments as the original Olivia or if the treatments were the same chemical mix or if there wasn't later treatments which effected the original ones. There is layers upon layers of unknowns in the new timeline.
So, as for this bald-man coming to Olivia? Every story involving the Observers (including the first with the Orb from the center of the earth - machine part?), didn't happen for them.
Regarding Peter's self-esteem. Consider all the episodes he was instrumental in resolving the plot. Consider all the episodes were he was the helpful foil. Consider all the episodes were he was the moral, romantic or intellectual backbone. Consider all his turn as a shape-shifter killing vigilante. Every insight, every lead, every suggestion, every implication meaning nothing. Now, consider none of that happened, and yet, the timeline got to the same point. Consider your entire life having no aggregate effect. Consider the thought that you didn't provide anything substantial to the world.
There is alot of who cares going on, most notably from the writing staff. Nothing that can't be info dumped in a two minute scene means one damn, and that's years of work for nothing. #observationdeck
(Edit comment)Sugar helps survive freezing.
[tinyurl.com]
#tips
(Edit comment)New series of Being Human tonight.
"1/8. The supernatural drama returns. Annie, George and Tom go back to their B&B home in Barry Island, but all is not well. Mitchell is gone, having willingly fallen victim to the wolf-shaped bullet, and the gang now has to take care of a baby, one whose werewolf heritage appears to have attracted the attention of vampire overlords known as the Old Ones. Starring Lenora Crichlow, Russell Tovey and Michael Socha, and introducing Damien Molony as Hal." #tips
(Edit comment)Ladies and gentlemen: The worst book ever written.
#observationdeck
(Edit comment)#tips
Having read those sample extracts, i can only come to the conclusion that it was written by a Chatbot.
The weird, freaky structure and phrasing? Totally like every encounter i've had with a conversation agent.... #observationdeck
(Edit comment)Thanks for this, I needed the laugh. #observationdeck (Edit comment)
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I find things like this hysterically funny.
So far this is my favorite review. #observationdeck
(Edit comment)What surprised me is that there are 2 sequels: [www.amazon.com]
You can buy all three for the low, low price of only $51.97!!!
(Edit comment)Anybody can get anything published!
I bet that guy's Mom is very proud. (Edit comment)
[collider.com]
[www.slashfilm.com]
#observationdeck
#nsfw
#tips
#sleepy (Edit comment)
It's official. Confirming earlier rumors, here's a brief video snippet of the Red Dwarf series X model team, restoring the massive 14 year old model of the titular ship built way back in 1997 for the remastered DVDs and Series VIII.
Can I get a "Hell yeah!"?
Per my previous post, it's been announced that Peter Talbot (best known for his awesome model work on Duncan Jones' Moon) has taken the helm of the new model unit, and that Shepperton Studios has had to remove all the seating from Stage K because there simply wasn't enough room to shoot this big ol' mother any place else!
#tips
(Edit comment)#observationdeck
#reddwarf
Thanks for posting, that's really interesting!
#observationdeck
(Edit comment)View from a HulaHoop camera!!!!
pretty awesome in an arty way. Some bits remind of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer vid...
Viewer advisory: motion sickness may occur.
#observationdeck
(Edit comment)#tips
No matter how queasy I felt watching that, I could not look away for the life of me.
Excuse me while I go pop some Dramamine and watch that another dozen times. #observationdeck
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