Always Watching

1970 Dune cover art by Bruce Pennington

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaa is a princess who is brave and kind. She is a leader as well as a team player. She is intelligent and charismatic. Some of our other animated princesses could learn a lot from her. 

RE-Cities

by Annibale Siconolfi

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY TWELVE ― Ghostbusters (1984) dir. Ivan Reitman

Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?

#solarpunk #cyberpunk #utopia #dystopia

The new Chobani advertising video, by the Line animation, shows the solarpunk future we need but don’t deserve.

The Ghibli Gap: How Hayao Miyazaki estranged his studio from anime culture

Success meant turning a back to the mainstream while indulging in it

“Animation stopped being evocative of life, & instead transmitted packaged, easily consumed constructs that had to keep changing in appearance, so viewers wouldn’t realize the lack of creativity.”

#solarpunk

Guerilla Greening WATG uses guerilla greening to reimagine what big urban cities would look like if they underwent intensive ecological transformation.

Neuromancer: pick a fave

NEUROMANCER 

by Guillaume Singelin