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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow!
ph43thon writes "The New York Times Magazine has a neat story about the sci-fi nerd, Kerry Conran, behind 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.' It's an interesting look at his creative journey starting with a Macintosh IIci. It took him twelve hours just to render individual robot legs. Antisocial, shy people rejoice! Hide in your homes until you get discovered by a movie producer!!"
It's stories like these that make me regret taking apart my IIgs to use for wall decorations. Well, at least I still have my Equity II.
Antisocial, shy people rejoice! Hide in your homes until you get discovered by a movie producer!!
uh no, getting "discovered" is exactly what us antisocial folk want to avoid. Just for that I'm going to dig an even deeper borrow!
Hide in my home until a movie producer finds me? Dude, the only producer who will ever 'find' me is one who decided to deliver pizzas for a night... otherwise, no way in hell I'd be discovered...
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Will someone please take Michael out for a walk and change his water? i think they've chained him to the uber-secret slashdot console.
IAALS.
I looked at this headline regarding the "world of tomorrow" and opened this story expecting specious futurism. Where is my specious futurism! There hasn't been a single story making dubious claims about technological revolutions right around the corner on slashdot all day.
I've been hiding at home all this time and no one has yet to discover me for my one handed web surfing skills.
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A IIci, eh? Guess that dates him. Newbie.
Disgruntled and pendantic!
You work at Blockbuster don't you.
What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean....
So is John Romeo, but it's still easy to make the mistake.
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The film, in other words, is one long special effect with Jude-Law-size holes in it.
Well, that's better than a lot of movies which have big enough holes in the plot that you could drive a truck through them.
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1920's, maybe early 30's would be the time of modernism... I think that's what the futurist techno-believer ideas of the time were called. Of course, by now we're well into post-post-modernism so anything modernist created at present would not be real modernist, but retro-modernist at best. And considering the many rehashings of retro-modernism in popular culture, isn't it about the time for post-retro-modernism?
It looks like good fun, although I believe the effectiveness of a few fifty caliber machine guns against alien giant robot spaceship alloys may have been wildly overrated in the movie...