I FOUND this great clip from a few years ago online last night, but it was so awesome I thought I’d put it up on here.
Mace Windu goes toe to toe with the Droid army and their huge dusty stomping machine – enjoy.
THE always excellent Live For Films blog found the latest in a long line of sci-fi delights with this minimalist poster design for The Matrix (among a load of others). Which one would you choose – red or blue?
The Matrix minimalist poster
Cool, huh?
And if you look below, you’ll see I’ve made my own minimalist, low-fi posters for the film’s two sequels, Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions,.
After the visceral and thrilling first film, the posters perfectly capture my feelings about those movies to a tee, even if I say so myself.
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
YOU may not have heard of Shigeru Komatsuzaki, but I bet you have seen his work.
The artist, who died in 2001, had his beautiful illustrations adorning endless books, magazines and model kit boxes.
He had a real affinity with the works of Gerry Anderson, as the images below show, but his other work was just as brilliant as the collection of images below show. Proper visionary stuff, with the added bonus of cool Japanese lettering.
For a full gallery, click here to visit Pink Tentacle. Kudos to them for bringing him to my attention.
FOR kicks – hey, I’m on holiday – I’ve put together a special science fiction map quiz, which is waaaay more fun than it sounds.
Basically, make the map below full screen (using the button in the map’s top right corner) and then try and find the science fiction locations around the UK, before the time runs out.
Some of them feature in stories, some of them are places where sci-fi is made and some are birthplaces of famous science fiction authors. If you fancy making a map like this for your blog, click through to the uMapper sight here – it’s really easy.
This is my first stab at this so more will follow. Good luck!
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IF ever anyone questions the value of the internet, just show them this video of the Doctor Who theme tune played using lightning!
Gaze in open-mouthed, dribbling wonder!
DAN WATTS’ love of science fiction soundtracks started young, but even then the Sarah Jane Adventures composer went above and beyond the call of geek duty.
“Star Wars was my biggest love and as a kid I taped the audio of the films from the TV onto a load of cassette tapes,” he said. (A much loved but now mostly forgotten art – Scyfi Love Nostalgia Ed)
“I had a Sony Walkman and took those tapes everywhere with me, so that interest in the soundtrack was always there.”
Of course that passion has now developed into Dan’s career, and during our chat (you can read part one by clicking here) I got him to put his expertise to further good use by picking his favourite science fiction soundtracks.
ONE of the things I like doing on Scyfi Love is spreading the word about cool independent sci-fi films.
So it is with great delight I introduce Dreamscape, made by a chap called Daniel J Fox in and around the North West and North Wales.
A fast-paced action thriller in the vein of John Frankenheimer‘s “Seconds”, “The Manchurian Candidate“, or Vincenzo Natali‘s “Cypher“, Dreamscape tells the story of a bored businessman who hears about a company that offers custom-made fantasies delivered direct to your brain as you sleep.
One short surgical procedure later and his dream arrives, along with a good deal more – backed up by more than 250 digital effects to back up the film-makers’ ambitions.
To find out more, visit the Dreamscape website.
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Scyfi Love has teamed up with Last Exit To Nowhere to offer you the chance to win one of their super-geekified T-Shirts.
Two lucky winners will each get a tshirt from LETN in a style and size of their choice.
All you have to do is visit the Last Exit To Nowhere website and find five t-shirt designs that have been inspired by science fiction films.
Then list the names off those five films along with your name and email address by the closing date of Friday May 28 on the form below.
All entrants will then go into a draw, with the winner being contacted after the closing date. Good luck!
The competition is now closed. Winners will be notified in due course.
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I’M not much of a one for fashion, but I make an exception when it comes to Last Exit To Nowhere.
In the past four years they have become the geek’s clothing supplier of choice, attracting patronage from Simon Pegg among others and bringing out designs inspired by and paying homage to films like Total Recall, Blade Runner and Alien, to name but three.
The awesomest thing is you can look all day and never find the name of a film on their clothes. Instead they take it to the next level by pulling out the name of a place, a person or company from your favourite film and going to town with that.
It’s like a special badge of honour or a hidden code that only the cool kids will understand, the geeks like you.
What’s more it means I can pretend I’ve been on holiday to Amity Island, work for Skynet or shipped out on the Nostromo (obviously before it blew up) – and I do!
I’m a long-time fan and was delighted when founder of Last Exit To Nowhere, Mike Ford, took time out from thinking up more genius designs to answer my questions.
