A team of science fiction fanatics plan to establish a comprehensive science-fiction museum in Washington D.C. The Museum of Science Fiction will be the world's first comprehensive science fiction museum, covering the history of the genre across the arts and providing a narrative on its relationship to the real world.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Event: Museum of Science Fiction Opening
A team of science fiction fanatics plan to establish a comprehensive science-fiction museum in Washington D.C. The Museum of Science Fiction will be the world's first comprehensive science fiction museum, covering the history of the genre across the arts and providing a narrative on its relationship to the real world.
Event: Grains of Sand
October 5, 2013 – March 16, 2014
In the SF Weekly, Jonathan Curiel discusses his experience accompanying Neil Gaiman as he laid eyes on the Cartoon Art Museum exhibit "Grains of Sand: 25 Years of The Sandman" for the first time. The exhibit marks the 25th anniversary of the most critically acclaimed comic book series, Sandman.
“‘This is Mike [Dringenberg] changing the history of comics,’ Gaiman says as he looked at original pages of “The Sound of Her Wings.” ‘This is where everything changed. Sandman up to that point was a horror comic that sort of recapitulated other DC horror comics. It existed in a very solid tradition. Sandman No. 8 — it found its voice. I found my voice. I think Mike found his voice. And we did something that was not like anything anybody had done before.’”
Illustration: Hobbit Facebook Headers
Otis Frampton, who is best known for his work on popular web series such as Stan’s Rants and How It Should Have Ended, has released a series of Tolkien-themed Facebook cover pictures for the express purpose of being used by the general public as avatars and Facebook covers. The only thing he asks in exchange is that people who use the banners on their Facebook profiles give him proper credit in the description of the picture.
Mash-Up: Doctor Who / Mash-Up
"it’s simple, we kill the doctor!..no wait..batman!" by Croatian illustrator Stjepan Sejic
This is a brilliant mash-up of two of my favorite fandoms, Batman and Doctor Who. I'm surprised there hasn't been a comedy sketch done in this vein with the movie version of Batman being the new regenerations.
Gaming Round-Up: December 23, 2013
CNN presents 2013: The year in video gaming
Evan Narcisse — the son of Haitian immigrants — shares his response to seeing someone of his own heritage represented in Assassin’s Creed IV‘s new DLC: "Never in a million years did I ever think I’d hear Haitian Kreyol in a video game. And yet, there it was in Freedom Cry, as lilting and percussive as when my mom spoke it. For the few hours I steered [protagonist] Adéwalé through his saga, I didn’t feel horribly under-represented or taken for granted in the medium I write about. It’s a feeling I could use more of."
Recently, a white supremacist group adopted imagery from BioShock Infinite (without Irrational or 2K’s involvement) to advance represent its views. On Design Is Law, Jeff Kunzler remarks on how unironic this is, reminding readers just how fraught with problems the game’s race representation is.
You may have heard about Youtube’s recent Content ID crackdown affecting, among other things, quite a few gameplay reviews and Let’s Plays. Gamer Law’s Jas Purewal provides a useful primer on where this puts video reviewers and LPers on the platform right now.
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