tweetleaks @ 3:15 PM on September 3, 2010

Footage from seven ongoing NASA space missions provide hyper-realistic scenery for the 3-D animated film, while the voices of multiple Captain Kirks and Darth Vaders play the parts of space explorers.

tweetleaks @ 11:41 AM on September 3, 2010

Brooklyn brain-popper One Ring Zero’s latest album Planets is a reboot of Gustav Holst’s legendary orchestral suite The Planets for the 21st century. But its view on Pluto’s demotion from planetary status is purely 20th century.
“Pluto will always be a planet to me,” One Ring Zero multi-instrumentalist Michael Hearst told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. [...]

tweetleaks @ 7:00 AM on September 3, 2010

Machete strikes a bloody blow Friday when Robert Rodriguez unveils his gore fest for Labor Day Weekend moviegoers. To celebrate the new season of low-brow cinema, Wired.com is giving away two humongous DVD collections. Courtesy of Shout Factory, each prize consists of 15 DVDs from the Roger Corman’s Cult Classics/cite> series encompassing cheap genre thrillers like Slumber Party Massacre and Big Fat Momma.

tweetleaks @ 6:00 AM on September 3, 2010

MTV and foursquare are teaming up to provide a virtual reward for people who get tested for sexually transmitted diseases — a little “Get Yourself Tested” achievement badge that tells the world you enjoy both disease-free nethers and little green circles.
If being certain you don’t have a potentially life-threatening illness that you could pass on [...]

tweetleaks @ 5:25 PM on September 2, 2010

To hype Battlestar Galactica: The Exhibition, opening in Seattle on Oct. 23, organizers have rolled out a video featuring prime assets from the show: the spaceships.
Three full-size prop spaceships — a Viper Mark II, a Viper Mark VII and a Cylon Raider — will be featured at the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum along [...]

tweetleaks @ 4:59 PM on September 2, 2010

This extremely odd video, titled “Iterating My Way Into Oblivion,” features a guy listening to a computer voice reading YouTube’s terms of service. It slowly drives him insane.
It’s actually an ongoing, auto-generative piece of digital art. According to the artist, Carlo Zanni, the basic narrative is filmed, and whenever YouTube changes its terms of service, [...]

tweetleaks @ 12:00 PM on September 2, 2010

Superman is a surly noob searching for reality in the digital age in DC Comics’ latest reboot of the superhero’s origin story. Who knew he’d miss the musty Daily Planet more than the rest of us?
Writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Shane Davis’ upcoming graphic novel Superman: Earth One, arriving Oct. 27, irons the obsolete [...]

tweetleaks @ 5:52 PM on September 1, 2010

Want to start reading some science fiction, but aren’t sure where to begin? This introductory sci-fi literature syllabus is just for you.

tweetleaks @ 4:40 PM on September 1, 2010

The world’s longest rough cut starts unspooling this week on YouTube as producer Ridley Scott presents a sampling of 80,000 video diaries recorded July 24 by DIY filmmakers across the globe. The pieces are being scrutinized by director Kevin MacDonald and editor Joe Walker, who will stitch together select bits into a 90-minute documentary slated [...]

tweetleaks @ 3:20 PM on September 1, 2010

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