Robot Opera!
Robots are replacing human tenors and divas. It is Robot Opera and the robot apocalypse is nigh!
Sing, Space Ambassador Magma, Sing!
Black Sun has the awesomeness of a complete album of Magma Taishi / Space Ambassador Magma! See the art and download it here. (via @AICNAnime)
Just In Time
“and somehow / giving to all her questions just one answer: / In you, who were a child once—in you.” –”Die Erwachsene / The Grown Up,” Rainer Maria Rilke trans. by Stephen Mitchell. Please don’t let Rilke scare you off. Jim McCann and Janet Lee’s Return of the […]
RIP, Irvin Kershner
Irvin Kershner has died. He directed The Empire Strikes Back, Robocop 2, Eyes of Laura Mars and The Raid on Entebbe. Vanity Fair recently posted an interview with him about working on Star Wars. Agence France-Presse has a report. Film School Rejects has 5 great Kershner films besides […]
A History of Tin Toy Robots
Tin Toy Robots on the march–grinding gears, throwing sparks. Collectors Weekly talks with Justin Pinchot about Japan’s post-War toy robots.
Agatha H and the Airship City
Agatha H and the Airship City looks like pretty promising steampunkery, “push[ing] the boundaries of Steampunk past the polite boundaries of pseudo-Victoriana and into full-on techno-madness!”
The Cultural Gutter 