http://oddbill.com SCIeNCE | ARt | WEiRDNESS Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:40:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There was a very briefly run blog out there once called BlueSpill. Well, it's still out there, sure, but it hasn't been updated in quite a while. It is, however, very much worth a visit if you are interested in handmade Visual Effects or in the history of the special effects ... http://oddbill.com/2010/02/03/bluespill/ Lo Fi Sci Fi - a name derived from "Low Fidelity" and "Science Fiction", meant to convey the impression of filmed science fiction created by amateurs or on a very limited budget. I don't know who first coined the term, but I first encountered it in the ad campaign for ... http://oddbill.com/2010/01/30/the-faking-hoaxer/ The sun will come up on the last day of 2009 soon, and I'll probably do a rambling post on the decade gone, the first decade of THE FUTURE, kind of at an angle to what we all thought the third millennium AD would bring us. Some time this weekend. ... http://oddbill.com/2009/12/31/riding-post-on-a-devils-errand/ Watching Inglourious Basterds this weekend, I was afterward struck by how casually European that film was. Half of it was spoken in German and French with subtitles, and there were multiple points at which humor and or plot development depended on the regional authenticity of the characters' accents. The film ... http://oddbill.com/2009/08/23/basterds-and-bruce/ Solstice! The 12 Noon of the year, and occasion to contemplate the remorseless sidereal gears that grind us. This osseus dome, once arched nobly over the seat of one man's reason, now reduced by time to the state of a broken cathedral, abandoned, cast in plastic and sold over the counter ... http://oddbill.com/2009/06/21/time-is-the-fire-in-which-we-burn/ Here's another portrait I did for the Whitechapel forum: http://oddbill.com/2009/05/01/whitechapel-portrait/ I wrote some of this to someone who I met who asserted that Björk was her savior. It allowed me the opportunity to put some old thoughts into words. First, if you don't know Björk's pluto, watch this: It's an iffy recording of a good performance. If you already love this ... http://oddbill.com/2009/04/13/bjork-pluto-rage-joy/ There is a thread in Warren Ellis' Whitechapel in which people are drawing portraits of each other based on posted pictures. Because this is a Warren Ellis forum, many of the portraits are weird. These are a couple I did this weekend: mojojoseph goodeyesniper Happy Easter too, I guess! http://oddbill.com/2009/04/12/whitechapel-portraits/ Just throwing a few notes together here so I don't lose track of them, but you'll probably find them interesting as well. After my previous post titled Printcasting I was contacted via comments by Dan Pacheco, who has founded a company actually called Printcasting that does a bit of what I ... http://oddbill.com/2009/04/01/21st-century-zinecraft/ Lo Fi Sci Fi - a name derived from "Low Fidelity" and "Science Fiction", meant to convey the impression of filmed science fiction created by amateurs or on a very limited budget. I don't know who first coined the term, but I first encountered it in the ad campaign for ... http://oddbill.com/2009/03/31/infest-wisely/