Category Archives: art

Louie Armstrong Throws The Goat

Kodrek, A Game of the Kotaht Archipelago

During last night’s game of Human Contact, there was a scene in a rough ‘n’ tumble bar where there was a gambling game going on between a couple of background characters in the Kotaht Archipelago. There was some hustling going on, so we wound up describing the game a little bit. Vincent wanted there to [...]

Somewhere Between A Rave And A Scene

Watch with the lights out on a big screen, if you can!
(Oh, it’s that what “doing your thing” means?)

Ode to the Uncanny Valley

From this IEEE article.

Sloth break!

Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.
We take a break from politics, science, design, science fiction, games, and publishing news to bring you these cute sloths.

The Cube

Jim Henson, in 1969, pre-muppets, wrote and directed this hour-long Twilight Zone-style movie, shown on NBC. It’s pretty wonderful. It’s not really kid-friendly, but only because of the themes of existential dread.
Stick around for the end, where there are three animated shorts from the animation festival circuit in the 80s, including Bambi vs. Godzilla!

The Truth About Secret Societies

This is one of my favorite periods of animation. I’ve been known to do a rubber-limbed, eye-rolling 1930’s cartoon character dance while making clarinet sounds in my living room.
In fact, it may be what I’m best known for.
After you watch, note:

Mickey Mouse makes a cameo, and seems to be in on the conspiracy.
Betty Boop is [...]

Humanoid, finished!

As usual with art, click to see more!

Post-pulp

I don’t have much to say other than to nod along with this io9 article by Charlie Jane Anders, entitled Can You Update Pulp Science Fiction Without Being F-ed Up? but I really want to repost this sentence from the conclusion:
And hey, it bears repeating: None of this would be such a problem if [...]

Pumzi—Science Fiction from Kenya

Three things strike me about this. The first is that it looks gorgeous. The second is that it’s interesting that this “last outpost of humanity that doesn’t know that outside is OK” theme is so resilient — Logan’s Run, The Island (which, OK, was more or less a remake of Logan’s Run), Paranoia, Moon’s busted [...]