Friday 29 April 2011

The Art of Phil Noto

And I think I have a new favorite artist: Phil Soto





Wednesday 27 April 2011

Late Bloomer - Short film on the eldricht terrors of sex ed.

Short film directed by Craig Macneill. Written by Clay McLeod Chapman. Produced by Thom Litttle.

Official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Late Bloomer is a compelling and humorous short film about 7th grade sex ed class gone horribly wrong. Loosely based on the dark tales of H.P. Lovecraft. 

Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Lake Placid Film Festival

Best Short Film at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
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Directed by, Craig Macneill

Written by, Clay McLeod Chapman
Produced by, Thom Little

Edited by, Emily Williams

Music by, One Ring Zero

Sound Design, Peter Walsh

Production Designers, Mak & Claire Falkenberg


Cast

Sam Borenzweig
Lauren Bond
Danicah Waldo
Courtney Merritt
Godfrey Pflager

www.northlakefilms.com

Tuesday 26 April 2011

Little Thor


See what happens when the "mite-iest" of mortals wields Thor's hammer...Visit http://thor.marvel.com/ for all things "Thor"! 

Monday 25 April 2011

The Hugo Nominees 2011 are here!

And the nominees are:
Best Novel
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
Feed by Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Best Novella
"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window" by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine, Summer 2010)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" by Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All New Tales, William Morrow)
"The Sultan of the Clouds" by Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's, September 2010)
"Troika" by Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines, Science Fiction Book Club)
Best Novelette
"Eight Miles" by Sean McMullen (Analog, September 2010)
"The Emperor of Mars" by Allen M. Steele (Asimov's, June 2010)
"The Jaguar House, in Shadow" by Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's, July 2010)
"Plus or Minus" by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's, December 2010)
"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone (Analog, September 2010)
Best Short Story
"Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed, June 2010)
"For Want of a Nail" by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's, September 2010)
"Ponies" by Kij Johnson (Tor.com, November 17, 2010)
"The Things" by Peter Watts (Clarkesworld, January 2010)

So, waht are your bets for the books that will go into my reading backlog?