article thumbnail

Paul Allen estate donates thousands of rare music, film and sci-fi artifacts to Seattle’s MoPOP

GeekWire

Items from the avid collector, who launched MoPOP as the Experience Music Project in 2000, span music, film and television and include such things as instruments, props, costumes, scripts, posters, handbills, illustrations and more. Complete alien creature suit from the 1979 film “Alien.”

Film 98
article thumbnail

18 Genre Films We're Totally Psyched for at South by Southwest 2021

Gizmodo

There’s nothing like the buzz of seeing a great film at a film festival. And though the covid-19 pandemic continues to mean in-person festivals are a no-go, it also means festival films are being viewed by a more diverse audience than ever thanks to the internet. The mystery, the excitement, the shared experience.

Film 68
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

But despite its central role in Antarctic research, McMurdo is lacking something most scientists working at 21st-century laboratories take for granted: high-speed internet. If this latest effort to modernize Antarctica’s internet is a success, scientists say it would transform both research and daily life on the frozen continent. “It

Internet 118
article thumbnail

Arm’s cheap and flexible plastic microchip could create an ‘internet of everything’

The Verge

What makes PlasticARM and similar chips so special is their use of flexible components; in this case, metal-oxide thin-film transistors or TFTs. Arm says this will create a new “internet of everything,” with chips integrated into “more than a trillion inanimate objects over the next decade.”.

Internet 123
article thumbnail

Gorgeous New Short Film Shows Us What an Early Lunar Colony Would Actually Look Like

Gizmodo

Called Life Beyond Earth , the four-minute short film presents a realistic vision of a future lunar base and the sustainable habitats that could turn this long-sought goal into a reality. Read more.

Film 80
article thumbnail

New Ultra City Smiths Trailer Has Hit the Internet!

Gizmodo

The new trailer for Ultra City Smiths has hit the internet! The half-hour series was created by Steve Conrad ( Patriot ), who also serves as showrunner. Seth Green’s Stoopid Buddy Stoodios ( Robot Chicken ) will act as one of the show’s many producers. Read more.

article thumbnail

How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

Vox

The internet is full of terrible corners, but none are as skin-crawling as what you see when you open a new account on TikTok. This is typically a good thing: About once a week, he’ll field inquiries from producers hoping to interview him for a documentary or adapt one of his books into a film or a podcast. Getty Images.