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io9Watch These Book Jackets Come To Life As Gifs
Chilean artist Javier Jensen has taken some of his favorite books and put a bit of movement to them, animating their covers. Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, Jensen noted: “I wanted to go back to the books that made us live, dream and believe in different things and reflect what I always imagined when I … Continued
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io9The Dozens Of Famous Characters In This Video Make One Hell Of A Party
I really appreciate a good mashup. Hell’s Club puts together dozens of famous characters into one club, and it’s spectacular. The editing here is excellent, jumping from character to character, often with the same actors looking themselves in the eyes. Al Pacino, Tom Cruise, Ewen McGregor, and many, many more from a whole range of … Continued
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Listen To The Solar System Sing With This Fantastic Simulation
This is a seriously cool visualization of the solar system. What if you turned the planets into a sort of music box? That’s the point of Solarbeat, which turns the movement of the planets into music. Solarbeat actually launched five years ago in 2010, but the designer Luke Twyman decided to revamp the website recently … Continued
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io9Bat Blood Ignores Everything That Made Bad Blood Great
The folks behind How It Should Have Ended have gone and parodied Taylor Swift’s crazy music video Bad Blood, dumping in just about every reference that you can think of and ignore what made the original great. This sort of proves the point that I think that Bad Blood was trying to point out (as … Continued
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The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet Is This Year’s Most Delightful Space Opera
There’s no two ways around it: Becky Chamber’s debut novel, The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet is probably the most fun that you’ll have with a space opera novel this year. It’s exciting, adventurous, and the cozy sort of space opera that seems to be in short supply lately. The Long Way To … Continued
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io9Watch How Builders Made That Fantastic Armor From Lawbreakers
In the release trailer for an upcoming game called Lawbreakers, you’ll spot a trio of armored soldiers riding down an elevator. It’s a cool shot, but what’s even cooler is that that armor actually exists. The guys behind Tested were hired to build the armor used in the shot, which blends a bit of CGI … Continued
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Could Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother Become The Next Hunger Games?
Hollywood’s appetite for YA dystopian thrillers isn’t dying down anytime soon. According to Deadline, Paramount Pictures has picked up Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother for a potential franchise. The novel, released in 2008, follows 17-year-old Markus (also known as w1n5t0n), he he and his friends are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in … Continued
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We Really Wish This Sci-Fi Air Show Existed In This Reality
Airshows are always really awesome to visit, but what if you could walk up to your favorite science fiction spacecraft? That’s the aim of the Sci-Fi Air Show, a digital project that puts fictional spacecraft on display. Sadly, these aren’t actually real-world props on display for one weekend a year: they’re miniatures mashed up with … Continued
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io9The Guardian Is Your Thought Provoking Animated Video For This Weekend
This short film threw me through a loop with its minimalist and surrealist animation. The Guardian, directed by Alessandro Novelli, is a really well executed short, and it’s well worth watching several times. The Guardian is a free interpretation of the parable “Before the Law” from Kafka’s book “The Trial”. A peasant after traveling the … Continued
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Spend Your Weekend Breaking Down Identity And Bodies With Some Radical New Artworks
The annual Photoville festival, filling a bunch of Brooklyn shipping containers with artwork, is happening this weekend. And one of the containers is being curated by artist Claire Christerson, who created an exhibition about identity, the body, and prosthetics. Including some pretty fantastical artworks. Warning: One image might be slightly NSFW, maybe. “Its basically just … Continued
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io9TrailersThe World’s First Rap-Battle Action Musical Is Here—And It’s Spectacular!
What you see here might not compute. It might not seem real. But let me tell you that not only is Tokyo Tribe real, it’s magnificent. An off-the-wall, insane film that’s simultaneously a rap musical and a kung-fu action gang film with science fiction and fantasy elements. Tokyo Tribe has been bumping around the festival … Continued
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io9Here’s What Happens When You Throw Water Into Hot Oil
It’s a bad idea to try to put out an oil fire with water, and this video will show you why. It will also show you a drop of water crazily growing and shrinking, over and over, inside some hot oil. Here we see water drops in hot oil. Starting at 1:58, the drops undergo … Continued
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Huge Communities of Crayfish Are Living Right Underneath The Prairies
If you ever spend a humid night walking around the American prairie, you might run into one of these. It’s a prairie crayfish, and it and all of its friends have been living under your feet. We see crayfish in rivers and streams. They need to keep their gills wet to survive. But they’ve become … Continued
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This Week’s io9 Newsstand Is Not Just About 9/11
This morning, The New Yorker heralded the arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction with trepidation, calling the trend “unsettling.” The article is partly a commentary on how fiction of any kind deals with traumatic, culture-shaping events, and partly a review of the new anthology In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World … Continued
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io9MoviesThis New Clip From The Martian Includes A Plan So Crazy, It Just Might Work
One of your astronauts is stranded on Mars. The rest of his crew is on their way back to Earth. How the heck do you turn the crew around fast enough to rescue the astronaut before he starves to death? Donald Glover has a plan in a new clip from The Martian—but it’s nuts. In … Continued
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This Artificially Intelligent Boss Means the Workplace Will Never Be the Same
Suddenly, your boss doesn’t seem so bad. Japanese firm Hitachi is now using artificially intelligent managers, in what may be a world’s first. These AI bosses can not only issue workflows and employee duties in real time, they can even find ways to improve employee efficiency. A week ago, Hitachi announced its new initiative via … Continued
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The Most Perfect Way That Star Wars Could Troll Everybody
Actually, there are a LOT of ways that Star Wars could troll its fans, and audiences in general. Almost a whole galaxy’s worth of ways, in fact. But commenter Sean Kelley hit on a great one. In response to the question about whether Star Wars: The Force Awakens should have a post-credits scene, Kelley imagined … Continued
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Should Star Wars: The Force Awakens Have a Post-Credits Sequence?
There’s a new rumor going around that The Force Awakens will have a post-credits sequence when it debuts in December. We don’t know what it would be—a promo for Rogue One, maybe a teaser for Episode VIII—or if it even exists. But some people are losing their minds at the idea. So what do you … Continued
By Rob Bricken
