Welcome to Open Mic Mondays, and a late, but sincere and very appreciative thanks to my friend Bryce for pointing out the more…Cronenbergian connotations of this feature’s original title. This week’s column comes to us from a colleague and friend of mine. Laura is a fellow former SFX blogger and a tirelessly …
Open Mic Monday: The Problem with Being Human on BBC America
Something a little different this week. Performance art combining projection mapping, an actor and precision robotics from the production company Bot & Dolly. Think ballet with robot arms and a little slight of hand. Only even more beautiful and no one has to wear a codpiece. Box from Bot & Dolly on Vimeo.
There’s going to be a lot of stuff written about Agents of SHIELD over the next few months. Anything which isn’t banal ratings speculation should be pretty interesting because there’s a lot to chew on in there. Not only do you get the sensibilities and plot beats of Marvel movies transferred to the small screen, …
Welcome to Open Mic Mondays. Today’s guest is one of my oldest friends. Chris Brosnahan was born in Ireland, lives in London and recently won NaNoWriWee. This was a contest, designed to mirror NaNoWriMo but with one difference; the novel had to be written in a weekend. Hence the Wee. Chris’ entry, POV, not only …
Morning, I’m catching up on the frankly demented amount of work I have on deck over the next couple of weeks. To make matters even more interesting, August and September were, with the notable exception of a lovely holiday, surprisingly shitty months and I’m still working off both that and the cold that’s decided …
If you asked me which Marvel movie was my favorite, I’d say Iron Man. In fact, because I’m contrary, I’d say the Iron Man trilogy. Aside from the glorious combination of Robert Downey Jr and two directors sensible enough to give him his head, the story arc across those three movies is hugely ambitious. …
Welcome to Open Mike Mondays. This week’s guest is Jared Axelrod. Jared could be described as a renaissance man but for the fact that if he’d been alive back then we'[d all be flying to work in personal gliders. He’s one of the most relentlessly creative polymaths I know. An author, an illustrator, …
Adventure Time is one of those shows that, so far, has bounced off me. Like Nightvale, I’ve lost count of the amount of people whose opinion I trust that love it, but, like Nightvale, I’ve not jumped aboard that train just yet, I saw a couple of episodes, having been awake for 22 hours, on …
Aaaaand we’re back. This last year involved tag team work with Mr Kudos about the new Star Wars comic, more interviews, more reviews and my first ever piece of toy journalism. And that’s it. Five years, about 291 pieces of work. There’ll be one more post after this collecting the paid TV reviews and …
2012, or as I like to call it; the year I didn’t stop writing. There’s a lot of stuff here including interviews with the entire Monkeybrain Comics starting line up, more Blogbusters and reviews of a lot of the books I picked up at Thought Bubble the previous year.