Music Video: This Too Shall Pass
OK Go’s latest music video features an astonishingly complex Rube Goldberg machine. According to the YouTube info, it was built over the course of several months in a two story warehouse in L.A.
Book Trailer: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
The book trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith may well be the most kick-ass book trailer I’ve ever seen… because there’s only one thing that could make Lincoln’s legacy greater! The truth about Lincoln’s double life as a vampire slayer!
Geek Media Round-Up: March 3, 2010
Art
- Check out this Google Monster by Asaf Hanuka for an article in California Lawyer about groups protesting Google’s plan to scan every books.
- Edgar Mueller takes 3D chalk pavement art to a new level! [See more]
- Patrick Hughes is rapidly gaining a name for his Amazing 3D Paintings.
- Springfield Punx has Simpson-ized the cast of Lost and is now offering a wallpaper of them all together.
Picture of the Week: Alien Facehugger
Seriously, people. Your fandom has gone to far when it becomes a choking hazard for your infant. (No matter how cute the resulting photo is.)
This Day in Geek History: March 3
March 3rd is Hinamatsuri, the Japanese Doll Festival. It’s a day to pray for the growth and happiness of young girls. It’s also sometimes called “Momo no sekku” (Peach Festival), because of the peach blossoms dedicated to the dolls traditionally used in the festival.
1863
United States President Abraham Lincoln approves an Act of Congress (12 Stat. L. 806) which charters The National Academy of Sciences. The Act stipulates that the Academy will “whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment or report upon any subject of science or art.” Members of the Academy will serve pro bono, without compensation, but the actual expenses incurred for the Government’s requirements are to be paid from appropriations.
1865
Provisions for photographs are added to the United States Copyright Act.
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Geek Quote of the Day
What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.
- - “Is Google Making us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr.
First published in The Atlantic, July 2008.
Media Releases for the Week of March 2, 2010
Hardcover Book Releases
Coyote Destiny by Allen Steele
The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Clarence Palmer
Paperback Book Releases
The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke
DVD Releases
2012 (PG-13)
An epic disaster film featuring about ten minutes of plot and an hour and a half of characters running for their lives. It’s impossible to suspend your disbelief so far as to find any part of this film plausible and it’s ending sucks, but it’s a great late night shut-off-your brain shout-at-the-screen with your friends flick.
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Geek Media Round-Up: March 2, 2010
Art
- Over at Flickr, Spicy Horse has posted a gallery of Concept Art for the video game American McGee’s Red. [More here]
- Riccardo Bucchioni offers more minimalistic movie posters at Flickr.
Film
- News: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is being made into a film.
- News: Moon sequel Mute Witness a homage to Blade Runner
- ForkParty offers this list of 7 Horror Movies So Bad, They’re Good.
- SciFi Scanner points out the Five Ways Tim Burton Changed Comic-Book Movies.
