I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “environmentalism” from The Cultural Gutter
"Tresspassing on Sacred Ground"
As part of TCM's Race & Hollyood: Native American Images on Film" festival, Movie Morlocks has posted part 1 of an essay on Native Americans in horror movies from The Werewolf a 1913 Canadian silent to J.T. Petty's The Burrowers and Twilight: New Moon: "The inclusion of Native Americans into
actual horror movies boils down to a scattering of reliable formulas: Whites Trespassing on Sacred Grounds, Vengeful Redskins, Ecology and Racism." (via GCDB)
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Click and Click and Click
National Geographic's infinite photograph. Click and click and click.
"It's a new world, Arcane."
Andrew O'Hehir tricks us all by writing about Alan Moore and Swamp Thing instead of movies at Salon: "[T]wo things are clear: Moore knows what comics readers want and intends
to give it to them, and whether or not they want something more
complicated, more tragic and more adult (I know it's a loaded word),
he's going to give them that, too."
Yatterman!
Takashi Miike follows up his smart and fancy family films Great Yokai War and Zebraman with Yatterman. Looks promising--there's a giant dog robot and a lot of leather. (What the hell, trailers for GYW and Zebraman, too).
Real Life Superheroes
Usually, when the media talks about Real Life Superheros they mean firefighters or EMTs or police. NPR's Monkey See blog means something more awesome: costumed superheroes, featuring the World Superhero Registry. If only they'd included the superheroes' one costumed mad scientist, Professor Widget.
Revealing the Consequences
John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider has a fantastic ending: an unstoppable computer virus reveals all secret information. If you've bribed the food inspectors to ignore mad cow disease in your factory farm, now the whole world knows about it. Gone to war under false pretences? Selling designer clothes made in hidden sweatshops? Passing along government money to friends? The truth is spilling out to whoever asks for it.
Actually, I think about Brunner's reveal-all virus quite often, because I damn well want one!
Continue reading...
"Tresspassing on Sacred Ground"
As part of TCM's Race & Hollyood: Native American Images on Film" festival, Movie Morlocks has posted part 1 of an essay on Native Americans in horror movies from The Werewolf a 1913 Canadian silent to J.T. Petty's The Burrowers and Twilight: New Moon: "The inclusion of Native Americans into actual horror movies boils down to a scattering of reliable formulas: Whites Trespassing on Sacred Grounds, Vengeful Redskins, Ecology and Racism." (via GCDB)Click and Click and Click
National Geographic's infinite photograph. Click and click and click."It's a new world, Arcane."
Andrew O'Hehir tricks us all by writing about Alan Moore and Swamp Thing instead of movies at Salon: "[T]wo things are clear: Moore knows what comics readers want and intends to give it to them, and whether or not they want something more complicated, more tragic and more adult (I know it's a loaded word), he's going to give them that, too."Yatterman!
Takashi Miike follows up his smart and fancy family films Great Yokai War and Zebraman with Yatterman. Looks promising--there's a giant dog robot and a lot of leather. (What the hell, trailers for GYW and Zebraman, too).Real Life Superheroes
Usually, when the media talks about Real Life Superheros they mean firefighters or EMTs or police. NPR's Monkey See blog means something more awesome: costumed superheroes, featuring the World Superhero Registry. If only they'd included the superheroes' one costumed mad scientist, Professor Widget.
Revealing the Consequences
John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider has a fantastic ending: an unstoppable computer virus reveals all secret information. If you've bribed the food inspectors to ignore mad cow disease in your factory farm, now the whole world knows about it. Gone to war under false pretences? Selling designer clothes made in hidden sweatshops? Passing along government money to friends? The truth is spilling out to whoever asks for it.
Actually, I think about Brunner's reveal-all virus quite often, because I damn well want one!
Continue reading...