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Newscasters miss bridge implosion

A news program in Chicago intended to show live a bridge implosion, got impatient, cut away to an instudio view, missed it, and then freaked out. Via.

Thrilling Wonder Stories

Geoff Manaugh:

One week from today, at the Architectural Association in London, Liam Young and I will be hosting Thrilling Wonder Stories II, eight hours of architectural futurism featuring an unbelievable line-up of novelists, game designers, animators, scientists, comic book artists, architects, and more.

Some of you might remember last year's inaugural installment of Thrilling Wonder Stories, featuring Peter Cook, Warren Ellis, François Roche, Squint Opera, Nic Clear, Ian MacLeod, Viktor Antonov, and Jim Rossignol; this year we've nearly tripled the list of participants, who we've grouped into five thematic clusters (see below).

Things kick off at noon with music and live Kinect gameplay (including a pre-release demonstration of ubisoft’s Children of Eden with Julian Gerighty and Jörg Tittel), a pop-up bookstore of spatio-speculative literature, and much more; the speakers themselves will take the stage at 1pm. You can follow the proceedings live at aaschool.co.uk as well as through the Thrilling Wonder Stories Twitter feed, @wonderstories, to be maintained by Jack Self of Millennium People.

Here is the line-up:

COUNTERFEIT ARCHAEOLOGIES
—Dunne & Raby (Design provocateurs)
—Gavin Rothery (Concept artist for the film Moon and Rockstar Game’s Grand Theft Auto)
—Paul Duffield (Artist and author of Freakangels and Signal comics)

APOCALYPTIC VISIONS
—Antony Johnston (Author of the post-apocalyptic graphic novel series Wasteland and Daredevil comics)
—Splash Damage (Designers of the Ark, the war-stricken floating refugee city from the game Brink)
—Johnny Hardstaff (Filmmaker and designer for Ridley Scott Associates)

CAUTIONARY TALES
—Will Self (Author of The Book of Dave, Psychogeography and Walking Through Hollywood)
—Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley (founders of Future Plural, authors of BLDGBLOG and Edible Geography)
—Joep van Lieshout (founder of Atelier van Lieshout and the speculative free state of AVL-Ville)

NEAR FUTURES
—BERG London (Technologists, futurists and RFID magicians)
—Rachel Armstrong (Designer and biotechnologist)
—The WHY Factory (Urban futures think tank)

ALTERNATIVE PRESENTS
—Ant Farm (Architectural supergroup and countercultural heroes)
—Jeff VanderMeer (Author of City of Saints and Madmen and Finch)
—Alex Rutterford (Motion graphics filmmaker for Warp Records)

(I think I've linked or posted the hypnotic Child of Eden trailer before. The song is by Genji Rockets and can be streamed here.)

*Buy Pulp Attack 2011 Wall Calendar at Amazon.

Circle of undead life

Inseparable by Jennybird Alcantara for the Small Works Invitational at Sacred Machine.

*Buy Hi-Fructose collections at Amazon.

Legend of Zelda Windwaker painting

Legend of Zelda Windwaker painting by Nicole Gustafsson up for bid here as part of the Desert Bus for Hope fundraiser. (She also has various prints at Etsy.)

*Buy Legend of Zelda toys at eBay.

Ice Cream packaging

Sub Zero ice cream packaging redesign by Blueegg. Via.

*Buy astronaut ice cream at Amazon.

Man Movie Night

Man Movie Night by Johnny Sampson who has art on sale here.

*Buy Buck Rogers toys at eBay.

Steam Wars Steamgonk figure by Rusted Halo. One of the exclusive toys on sale at DesignerCon in Pasadena today.

And speaking of things to do in LA today, if you're attending the CTN Animation Expo in Burbank, stop by the Cartoon Brew lounge.

*Buy Gonk toys at eBay.

Exorcist and Sid and Nancy amigurumi

Croshame/Shove Mink has a big collection of provocative amigurmi including an Exorcist playset, Sid and Nancy crime scene, and monster purses:

She has several creations on sale at Etsy. Via these sites.

*Learn how to make amigurumi with these books at Amazon.

Sym-Bionic Titan with a stripper pole

Sym-Bionic Titan is a great show, and Episode 10, "Lessons in Love" was no exception. Well-paced, funny, unpredictable. But the show is rated PG and airs at 8:00 p.m. and reairs at 8:30 a.m. on Cartoon Network.

A kid's cartoon should not involve a cheerleader trying to seduce a fat geek by dancing on a pole as "Shake It, Shake It, Booty Quake It" blares:

For the time being, you can watch the episode below. There are lots of angry comments at Youtube.

Sky Doll art show

Wikipedia explains:

Sky Doll is a series of comic books, first published in 2000, by Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa, who also collaborated on W.I.T.C.H. and Monster Allergy. Sky Doll distinguishes itself from these two works by its more "adult" content and a departure from pure fantasy to a more science-fiction aesthetic. Religion and science fiction, as well as the power of the mass media, are important themes of the story. So far there are three volumes with a fourth in development, as well as a sketchbook published by Carlsen Comics. The first three volumes have also been released in an English-language version by Marvel Comics in collaboration with Soleil Productions.

So, there's a big Sky Doll art show. Below are a few of the safe for work highlights, with links to the artists' sites: