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Patrick Stewart in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 gag reel [x]

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No one cares that the movie sucked. Cause really, everyone wishes they were this guy.

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Happy Birthday, David

The latest viral video for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus asks us: “what is it about robots that makes them so robotic?” Introducing David, a synthetic built by Weyland Industries, whose haunting display of artificial intelligence gives us a teasing glimpse into the future. If Prometheus wasn’t on your radar before (for shame!), Michael Fassbender’s gleaming performance might just change your mind.

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Prometheus Trailer Premiere, Q&A with Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof

Watch live streaming video from prometheus at livestream.com

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New Prometheus Trailer

This appears to be a shorter cut of the new trailer promised tomorrow, Aint It Cool News has details.

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In memoriam: comics artist Moebius 1938 – 2012

We’ve just learned that Moebius is dead at 73, after reportedly succumbing to cancer.

The French artist is perhaps best known for his work on the Western comic Blueberry as well as science fiction work like The Airtight Garage, and Arzach....

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(via Gavin Rothery - Directing - Concept - VFX - Gavin Rothery Blog - John Harris - 80s Icon)

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RIP Ralph McQuarrie

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A TEDTalk from the future as envisioned by Prometheus director Ridley Scott

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Sentinel Mecha by *ProgV

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Beyond the Black Rainbow

Panos Cosmatos ‘ new film, Beyond The Black Rainbow, feels like the best possible conglomeration of 2001, Electroma, and A Clockwork Orange.

Beyond the Black Rainbow will have a US release by Magnet Releasing later this year.

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Alternate poster by Todd Slater

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Our friend Bennett Schatz (full disclosure, Sam's roommate) explores connections between human, machine, intent, and action, with a box, emitting a strange light, that uses him as a tool to create art. TENS wires cause him to involuntarily flex his hand and manipulate sculpting clay.  The created and the creator play off of each other, as the resulting sculpture takes shape with no intervention on Bennett's part, except, arguably, in creating the box...

"Using the arduino, a relay system, and a personal TENS unit to control my arm/hand in an attempt to turn my arm into a golem controlled by the computer for the purpose of manipulating a sculptural medium (in this case the clay). Still in the prototyping stage. [..] Music by White Rainbow. " 

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I write novels to find questions, not because I know the answers…the only conscious purpose of the Blue Ant books was that I realized after All Tomorrow’s Parties that the yardstick I used for measuring cognitive dissonance on the page as opposed to the world outside was an eighties yardstick. So I wrote Pattern Recognition to update the yardstick. ...Google Streetview changed how my imagination worked — you could spend the rest of your life describing a single block — inadequately.

William Gibson, speaking at Powell's City of Books Jan 18th 2012 http://sararyan.com/2012/02/william-gibson-at-powells-january-18/ 

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Annis Naeem - Liquid Skies

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C3PO Descending A Staircase  - by John Mattos

via: theuniblog