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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

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  Until that night, I thought scary was airplane turbulence. I thought it was telling that one girl how much you like her. I thought it was movies about dudes who wear…

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  I was 13 years old when the movie Alien was released. It scared me into a month-long spell of anxiety. The hair on the back of my neck was perpetually up…

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• Bookmark Space and myth in a body horror - Mythogeography

  It might seem strange that a mythogeographer would be very interested in an action-horror movie from 1982, panned at the time of its release and largely ignored by audiences.

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  From Modern Mythology: Our standard movie monsters deviate from their early folkloric roots in a number of major ways, but the most notable might be the general move from bewitchment to…

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• Bookmark Queer Horror Is Stepping Out of the Shadows | WIRED

  Horror movies don’t have the best track record when it comes to depicting queer characters. Often there are no LGBT characters at all, and when they do appear they’re likely to…

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• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

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• Bookmark The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future |…

  Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

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• Bookmark How Twitter Is Changing Modern Warfare - The Atlantic

  Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion of northern Iraq—a bloody…

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  Versions is the essential guide to virtual reality and beyond. It investigates the rapidly deteriorating boundary between the real world and the one behind the screen. Versions launched in 2016 at…

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• Bookmark Was human evolution inevitable or a matter of luck? – Dan Falk…

  In the movie Sliding Doors (1998), a woman named Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, rushes to catch a train on the London Underground, but just misses it, watching helplessly from the…

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• Bookmark Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts? – Jeff Zacks –…

  Suppose you were sitting at home, relaxing on a sofa with your dog, when suddenly your visual image of the dog gave way to that of a steaming bowl of noodles.…

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  A Lynchian renaissance is happening at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where David Lynch studied painting before his surreal entry into filmmaking with 1977’s Eraserhead. The school is the site…

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• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

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• Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing

  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

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  [proctor] DYING @therourke "Lars von Trier only wishes he could make a movie as bleak & existentially discomfiting as this one" http://t.co/gzR3jTmhYj

  

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  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

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• Bookmark Visual Effects Master Douglas Trumbull on Film Technology|Filmmakers,Film Industry, Film Festivals,Awards &…

  Douglas Trumbull, the Academy-Award winning visual master behind such films as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Blade Runner," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "The Tree…

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• Bookmark How the Movies of Tomorrow Will Play With Your Mind - Pacific…

  Since the dawn of cinema, the cut has been one of the most powerful tools in a director’s kit. If we see a man walk through a door and turn his…

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  Astronauts on a routine repair mission for the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves coping with more than they bargained for in the pulse-pounding opening sequence of Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning film, Gravity.…

  May 7 2014, 1:28pm | Comments

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  OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making, with the two disciplines combining to eliminate the movie post-production process. That rather ambitious claim comes from Lucasfilm, the…

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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark I was depressed, anxious, and on the verge of suicide… then Zelda:…

  Until that night, I thought scary was airplane turbulence. I thought it was telling that one girl how much you like her. I thought it was movies about dudes who wear…

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

• Bookmark What the Sphinx and Alien Have in Common

  I was 13 years old when the movie Alien was released. It scared me into a month-long spell of anxiety. The hair on the back of my neck was perpetually up…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 28 2017, 10:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Space and myth in a body horror - Mythogeography

  It might seem strange that a mythogeographer would be very interested in an action-horror movie from 1982, panned at the time of its release and largely ignored by audiences.

  June 27 2017, 3:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Mythic Function of the Zombie Apocalypse - disinformation

  From Modern Mythology: Our standard movie monsters deviate from their early folkloric roots in a number of major ways, but the most notable might be the general move from bewitchment to…

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 20 2017, 11:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Queer Horror Is Stepping Out of the Shadows | WIRED

  Horror movies don’t have the best track record when it comes to depicting queer characters. Often there are no LGBT characters at all, and when they do appear they’re likely to…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 15 2016, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future |…

  Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

  October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Is Changing Modern Warfare - The Atlantic

  Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion of northern Iraq—a bloody…

  October 16 2016, 7:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirates are now using YouTube's panoramic videos to hide whole movies -…

  Versions is the essential guide to virtual reality and beyond. It investigates the rapidly deteriorating boundary between the real world and the one behind the screen. Versions launched in 2016 at…

  July 2 2016, 9:49am | Comments

• Tumblr samueldelany:Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie,...

  December 16 2015, 10:52pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 20 2015, 10:42am | Comments

• Tumblr 80 textless movie posters

  September 26 2015, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Was human evolution inevitable or a matter of luck? – Dan Falk…

  In the movie Sliding Doors (1998), a woman named Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, rushes to catch a train on the London Underground, but just misses it, watching helplessly from the…

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• YouTube

  June 11 2015, 10:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts? – Jeff Zacks –…

  Suppose you were sitting at home, relaxing on a sofa with your dog, when suddenly your visual image of the dog gave way to that of a steaming bowl of noodles.…

  April 21 2015, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Weirdest Movies Ever Made – Flavorwire

  A Lynchian renaissance is happening at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where David Lynch studied painting before his surreal entry into filmmaking with 1977’s Eraserhead. The school is the site…

  January 9 2015, 2:46am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 26 2014, 11:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 22 2014, 4:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing

  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  [proctor] DYING @therourke "Lars von Trier only wishes he could make a movie as bleak & existentially discomfiting as this one" http://t.co/gzR3jTmhYj

  

  June 28 2014, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Visual Effects Master Douglas Trumbull on Film Technology|Filmmakers,Film Industry, Film Festivals,Awards &…

  Douglas Trumbull, the Academy-Award winning visual master behind such films as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Blade Runner," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "The Tree…

  May 21 2014, 1:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark How the Movies of Tomorrow Will Play With Your Mind - Pacific…

  Since the dawn of cinema, the cut has been one of the most powerful tools in a director’s kit. If we see a man walk through a door and turn his…

  May 7 2014, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Seen and Unseen: Could There Ever Be a “Cinema Without Cuts”? |…

  Astronauts on a routine repair mission for the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves coping with more than they bargained for in the pulse-pounding opening sequence of Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning film, Gravity.…

  May 7 2014, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Lucasfilm shows off the future of filmmaking? Scenes get rendered out in…

  OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making, with the two disciplines combining to eliminate the movie post-production process. That rather ambitious claim comes from Lucasfilm, the…

  April 22 2014, 3:25pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 18 2014, 1:31am | Comments

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  March 16 2014, 9:58am | Comments

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