Blade Runner inspired a generation of filmmakers and other visual artists to think differently about what the future might look like. In this short video, Douglas Trumbull, who led the visual effects team on the film, describes the inspiration for, and the making of, the Hades (opening) sequence. From Inspiration to “Reality” It is striking […]

Are comic book readers generally racist? Is that why books starring diverse characters "sell less" (citation needed)?This article at Bleeding Cool begs the question. Mark Waid is quoted by CBR at Baltimore Comic Con on the failure of the Boom! comic High Rollers:"The concept was an urban take on organized crime. To Waid’s shock and awe, an ast […]

Admittedly I know the character actor Glenn Shadix best not just as the snooty interior decorator from Beetlejuice, but from his action figure of said character (because I am nerdy). But Shadix has had a long career in TV and movies, including providing the voice for the mayor in Nightmare Before Christmas.Shadix made news in 2008 when a fire decimated his A […]

Tribes: The Dog Years from IDW/Soulcraft Media delivers a powerful cinematic comic book experience. When you're done reading this 200-page original graphic novel, you feel as if you've just watched a movie. Inaki Miranda's art is amazing, and Michael Geszel has spun a tale that is like if Akira and 300 had a love-child.It is also a great examp […]

Hands-down, Batman 1989 beats the current costume. Michael Keaton's chin for the win. Christian Bale's head looks like a football in that cowl; the whole point of the long bat-ears is to balance out the mask. Via Woosk […]

We've been back from vacation since Saturday night, but I'm having trouble getting back into the spirit of my blog. Probably because the vacation was so wonderful. we were at the Gaspe Peninsula, a part of southern Quebec that's about 1,000 miles from here and feels that far away from everywhere else. Canada has many parks, wilderness preserve […]

Over the labor day weekend I went with my boyfriend to visit his parents in Houston, TX. Aside from all the other fun things we did, I was able to experience a HomeGoods store for the very first time. I had heard about HomeGoods through other bloggers like LittleGreenNotebook, but since the closest one to […]

TotalFinder brings tabbed navigation to the Mac Finder. As if that weren’t enough, it also provides a split panel view, so you can move files from one side of a Finder window to the other with ease. It’s in beta now, so you can download it for free, but the developer says the paid version […]

Tuesday’s NY Times reports that nearly three-fourths of New Yorkers want to effectively reverse the 2008 Local Law that overturned two-turn limits for the mayor and other NYC elected officials. Unfortunately, voters will not get the chance to do this … Continue reading → […]

By Sensei Serge Sognonvi and Carmen Sognonvi, originally published at http://www.urbandojo.com/blog Urban Martial Arts is featured on Business News Daily, an online magazine about start-ups and small businesses, in an article titled Danger Ahead: Small Business Owners Warn of Common Mistakes. In the story, we share how we recently avoided what could have bee […]

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 While we are on the subject of how movies are supposedly sending women dangerous messages, what about Boston psychologist Sharon Lamb's claim that comic book heroes are currently perverting their sense of masculinity? She tells the Philly Inquirer:"Today's superhero is too much like an action hero who participates in nonstop violence; he […]

...book wins. Donkey pwned.It's A Book […]

The Denver Post asks if kick-ass movie heroines such as Evelyn Salt send a "dangerous message" to women that they could hold themselves in a physical fight with men:"Should we celebrate, or be suspicious of, these daughters of Diana Rigg's peerless martial artist and fencer Emma Peel, Pam Grier's blaxploitation mama Foxy Brown, and, […]

Sooo...it all makes sense now.CSI is really a science-fiction TV Show. With Justin Bieber. […]