Video of the weirdly orange skies across the U.S. West this week, created by massive wildfires that incinerated several communities in Oregon in the past 2 days and blotted out the sun in San Francisco yesterday. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/apocalyptic-red-skies-u-s-west-early-sept-2020…
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Syd Mead, Visionary ‘Blade Runner’ Artist and Futurist, Dies at 86
sandbagger writes: Visual artist and futurist Syd Mead, who helped shape the look of influential sci-fi films including “Blade Runner,” “Tron,” “Aliens” and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” died Monday of complications from lymphoma in Pasadena, Calif. He was 86. Mead was set to receive the Art Directors Guild’s William Cameron Menzies Award during the Guild’s 24th Annual awards in February…
Analysts, Gamers, and Blade Runner’s Artistic Director React To The Look of Tesla’s Cybertruck
Syd Mead, the artistic director on Blade Runner says Tesla’s new Cybertruck “has completely changed the vocabulary of the personal truck market design.” Or, for another perspective, “Tesla’s Cybertruck looks weird… like, really weird,” wrote Toni Sacconaghi, a senior equity research analyst at the global asset management firm AllianceBernstein. “Add a little bit of dirt, and you could even say it…
Are We Living In a Blade Runner World?
Now that we have arrived in Blade Runner’s November 2019 “future,” the BBC asks what the 37-year-old film got right. Slashdot reader dryriver shares the report: [B]eyond particular components, Blade Runner arguably gets something much more fundamental right, which is the world’s socio-political outlook in 2019 — and that isn’t particularly welcome, according to Michi Trota, who is a media critic…
Blade Runner’s gritty cyberpunk future is now
Ridley Scott’s science fiction epic was set in November 2019 – so where are the flying cars and replicants ? Based on Philip K. Dick’s novel ‘Do Andro… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331784/blade-runners-gritty-cyberpunk-future-is-now…
Blade Runner Actor Rutger Hauer Dies Aged 75
ikhider writes: Breukelen, Amsterdam born actor, Rutger Hauer, who played Roy Batty in the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner and improvised the “tears in the rain” dialogue as his android character died, has too finally passed away last Friday after an illness. His funeral was held on Wednesday, July 24th. Hauer starred in TV since 1969 and then went on to…
Watch Six New Short Alien Films: Created to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Film
Alien came out 40 years ago this month, not that its age shows in the least. The terror of the ever-diminishing crew of the Nostromo trapped on their ship with the merciless extraterrestrial monster of the title remains as visceral as it was in 1979, and the dank, pre-digital confines of its setting have taken on a […]
Watch Six New Short <i>Alien</i> Films:…
High School Kids Stage Alien: The Play and You Can Now Watch It Online
Several weeks back, Colin Marshall told you about an enterprising group of high school students in North Bergen, New Jersey who staged a dramatic production of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. And they did it on the cheap, creating costumes and props with donated and recycled materials. The production was praised by Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver alike. […]
High School Kids Stage <i>Alien: The…