“Semiotic Standard for all commercial trans-stellar and heavy element transport craft – April 26, 2078.” Ronn Cobb's original symbols sketched for the interiors of the commercial towing vehicle Nostromo in the movie Alien, lovingly recreated as scalable Photoshop vector files. Massive PNG preview here.
An extension for the Chyrp blogging engine. This module adds post options for attribution and assigning intellectual property rights: title of the original work, rights holder, and a selection of licences including Creative Commons options. You can use the attributes to display a copyright notice or to give credit to an author whose work you have posted on your blog.
An extension for the Chyrp blogging engine. This feather enables you to publish news- and magazine-style entries in your Chyrp blog. Includes support for headline, byline, body, author, and upload of a hero image with attribution. Includes a simple twig for displaying the entries.
A lightweight JavaScript template to add analytics capabilities to the popular web video player. This template gives you the hooks you need to develop and deploy your own self-hosted bespoke analytics plug-in for JW Player, featuring capture of significant playback events and errors, and milestone reports for calculating viewer drop-off curves.
A handy companion for web designers and colour obsessives, this Safari browser extension allows you to sample RGB, HSLV, and Hexadecimal colour values from web pages. A dedicated extension bar displays a swatch of the sampled colour and the colour values extracted from it. Pipette makes use of the Color.js framework by Eli Grey and the uuid.js framework by Robert Kieffer. Please note: Pipette can only sample pixels from the topmost visible portion of the web page - this is a limitation of Safari.
A web app aimed at audio-visual professionals, for calculating media capture storage requirements and bit budgets for file encoding. Included are file size presets for CD, DVD, BD-R, and data rate presets for a number of popular video capture and intermediate codecs. Bookmark the web page or save it on the home screen of your iDevice for one-tap access to bitrate answers.
A Dashboard Widget for browsing your Wi-Fi neighbourhood. Airlock will display a regularly updated list of service information for the Wi-Fi access points discovered by your AirPort device: access point name (SSID), protocol (a/b/g/n), radio channel (1 to 14), encryption, and signal-strength. Hover the mouse over the encryption or signal-strength icons to see detailed information about the encryption type and RSSI values, hover over the SSID to see the BSSID of the access point.
Hi-Toro is a Mac OS X configuration editor for E-UAE, the Enhanced Unix Amiga Emulator. It provides an Aqua graphical user interface for you to open, modify, save and launch configurations, even configurations imported from WinUAE or UNIX variants of the emulator. Users of WinUAE will find Hi-Toro a familiar and friendly environment for configuring UAE on the Mac.
Los Angeles. November, 2019. Industrial smokestacks belch fire into a polluted atmosphere and aircraft glide through the haze. Architectural curiosities of the city, the Bradbury Building of 1893 and the Ennis-Brown house of 1924, are engulfed by megalithic 21st century structures. Rising from the generic mass of this megalopolis, the twin pyramids of the Tyrell Corporation emulate the pyramids of ancient Egypt. There are Arabian bazaars and Mayan interiors decorated with Bonsai trees, while the populace wear twentieth-century fashions... The world is at once realistic and unreal in Blade Runner.
Says writer Dan O'Bannon “A lot of people speculated as to where I stole it from... the truth is I stole it from everywhere.” In fact the speculation was fierce even before the release of the film, as journals Cinefantastique and American Film criticised it for its derivative nature. I would argue that these criticisms have missed the point... What is distinctive about Alien is the way its clichéd alien encounter narrative is destabilized by a fusion of provocative themes: high technology and human sexuality.
William Gibson's cyberspace is a world of data populated by computer systems, intelligent viruses, interactive personality recordings and God-like artificial intelligences... This hyperactive information society is a world of flux, in cyberspace and in real life, a world where nothing is certain and everything can be altered, even the human body. Flesh and bone have become just as malleable as data. The individual components of the body can be replaced or upgraded by surgical procedure, just like the components of any other machine.
In his analysis of Sunless, Jon Kear observes that “for Marker, it is an ethical imperative of representation that it declare its means.” From the first sequence this is at work. We watch serene silent footage of three children walking in an Icelandic landscape, which has the “artless simplicity and intimacy” of a home movie, after which a length of black leader runs. “He said that it was the image of happiness, and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked” says the narrator, as the black leader is interrupted by acquired footage of an American war plane...
