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I don’t mind the vomit, s**t, and piss gags. Some of that is mildly amusing here.
But do the main characters have to be, yet again, a bunch of jerky, homophobic, middle-aged male losers? And literally every single female in the movie is either the generic “girlfriend” or a total adolescent sex fantasy.
Talk about going back in time. Wow, have we been there, done that.
Is this really where American film comedy has gone?
If so, put me in a hot tub time machine to the future, because I’m bored with the present.
Monatsarchiv für März 2010
Neill Cameron put together these drawings based on suggestions from fans over a 26 day period. The results are indeed full of awesome.
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"Vor einiger Zeit berichtete ich darüber, dass der amerikanische Sender Fox den Autor der britischen Serie Torchwood, Russell T. Davies, damit beauftragt hat, ein Skript für eine US-Version der Serie zu schreiben. Allseits wird erwartet, dass Hauptdarsteller John Barrowman als Captain Jack Harkness auch in dieser Version von Torchwood zu sehen sein wird."
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Last month, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribal people many of whom have taken up arms to protect themselves against state-backed marauders and exploiters. She recorded in considerable detail her face-to-face encounter with armed guerillas, their families and comrades.
Nach dem Trailer nun die ganze Geschichte vom Wasser in Flaschen, von Annie Leonard (hier bei Colbert), der Macherin des konsumkritischen Youtube-Hits The Story Of Stuff. (via)
In related News: “Unsafe water kills more people than war.” (via)
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Am Mittwoch re-inszenierte Jörg Buttgereit sein WDR-Hörspiel Video Nasty im HAU. In der gerade noch aktuellen taz gibt's im Berlinteil einige Notizen.
Stefan Höltgen war mit der Kamera dabei:
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Do not allow anybody to steal your excitement about the future!
Der sozialistische Science Fiction Autor Charles Stross setzt sich anlässlich des gewaltätigen Übergriffs von Grenzbeamten auf seinen SciFi-Autor-Kollegen Peter Watts an der amerikanisch-kanadischen Grenze (mehr Infos hier auf Metafilter) und seiner anschließenden Verurteilung deswegen mit den dem kapitalistischen Grenzregime auseinander:
Politics, free trade, violence:
(…)
But there’s a more alarming moral to be drawn here.
I note with some alarm that the saucepan of free international travel we’ve been swimming frog-like in for decades is now steaming.
It’s not just the USA where border agencies have quietly acquired vast, unaccountable, and draconian powers. Here in the UK, the government is responding to anti-immigration sentiment by erecting a near-iron curtain around all ports and airports, monitoring all traffic, and dealing harshly with anyone who wants to travel for reason other than tourism or business. Ditto most of the EU (within the EU things are as different as they are within the United States, for much the same reason — it’s a free trade/movement zone). The barriers are going up all around the developed world, and while the spikes are intended to point outward, other developed world travellers get caught on them.
Capital can flow freely, but labour is in shackles world-wide.
Walled World (Information is Beautiful)
If you don’t see a very specific political subtext here (being sold to the voting masses on the back of crude xenophobia and racism), let me be more explicit: labour wants to migrate where working conditions and pay are best. Capital wants to invest for growth where working conditions and pay are worst.
By penning us (the labour) in, capital can maintain, for a while, the wage imbalances that maximize profit. (Take raw material. Process as cheaply as possible. Sell for as much as possible.) In the long term, it’s unsustainable — labour in the high-cost developed world is taking a hammering due to being uncompetitive, and wages will be forced down until it is competitive, while labour costs in the developing world are skyrocketing. It’ll end when American and EU wages meet in the middle with Chinese and Indian wages … unless American, EU, Chinese, and Indian wage-earners are forced to recalibrate their expectations against the DRC or Somalia.
f you don’t think this affects you, if you don’t think you’re on the same side of the barricades as the sweatshop workers in Bangladesh and the marine biologists in Toronto, you’re deluded; unless you’ve got a seven-digit trust fund to dine out on, the tidal flow of globalized capital is running against your class interests.
Welcome to the future that globalized capitalism has bought for us (and see also the vital, pressing need for election funding reform in the USA, which is the pivot on which this whole mess revolves). I’m beginning to think that, regardless of his prescription, Karl Marx’s diagnosis of the crisis of capitalism was spot on the money. And crap like this is going to keep happening as long as we’re workers first and citizens last.
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Neil Patrick Harris, the star of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog internet video sensation, tells MTV News that he expects the sequel to be a feature film.
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Swiss science fiction offering Cargo is a difficult film to judge because depending which criteria you use you will arrive at wildly different conclusions.
If, for example, you judge the film acknowledging it as the first significant attempt at large scale science fiction ever to emerge from Switzerland and accomplished on a budget a tiny fraction of what Hollywood spends on this sort of thing then you cannot help but be impressed – very impressed – by what directors Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter have accomplished here. Their raw talent and creativity is obvious.
If, however, you judge Cargo against the canon of large scale scifi it comes up considerably shorter.
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Largest ever object put into quantum state.
A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. -
last month, we published an article on the mechanics of all the sex and nudity in the Starz show Spartacus: Blood and Sand, including the news that much of the male nudity involved the use of a prosthesis, or fake penis, which the producers had hilariously dubbed “the Kirk Douglas.”
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Seahorses and a few related fish are the only species where the males can get pregnant. These males take eggs from females and nurture them in their brood pouches. Researchers have discovered that these males may selectively abort young resulting from mating with less attractive females. The above video, which is preceded by a commercial, describes the results of this study.
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sieht ja tatsächlich mal gar nicht so schlecht aus
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Eric Brown reviews Peter Straub, Ian Whates, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds.
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Here's a way-cool video from the folks at Cartoon Brew
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"Of course I want to believe them, I want to imagine that though the ghetto walls still stand they are less secure than they once were, that traffic now flows more freely in both directions across the boundaries. But how strong a case do they present?"
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Ein schicker kleiner Animationsfilm über die Kollision zweier Planeten.
Erebus from Georgios Cherouvim on Vimeo.
There once used to be a small but beautiful blue rock somewhere within the vast void of the universe. Life appeared on its crust relatively fast and as usual through out the evolution, one of the species dominated the rest, by forming complex societies to overcome its primordial survival needs. The dominant inhabitants progressed technologically, excelled in many different fields within their closed society and managed to build establishments on every corner of the planet’s terrain. But during the process of solving these initial problems and building their dream utopia, more problems would arise faster than before, making their daily lives gradually more and more complicated. The time came when their overcomplicated society demanded so much devotion, that they stopped questioning other, more fundamental issues. It was then, when they even stopped looking up the heavens. The sky that once used to inspire and guide them will now bring them disaster and Erebus.
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Illustrator Werner Ruhner für das 1971 erschienene Buch Der Purpurne Planet. Scans von Houdini Nation, weitere psychidelische Illustrationen für das Buch finden sich auf Sci-Fi-O-Rama.
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