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Oooh!

Catfry — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:51:43 -0800

Video of the destructive reentry into the atmosphere of the Automated Transfer Vehicle back from its trip to the ISS.

Historiography of Alan Moore

flibbertigibbet — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:15:06 -0800

"In Wells, God writes the human narrative, in Moore's version, it is humanity that ghostwrites its own story and credits it to God. The decision left to humanity is whether it will script its own history consciously, or allow the narrative to be shaped secretly by leaders and figures of authority..." The historiography (alternate, longer explanation) of Alan Moore. Warning: long. See also: and insue that contains terrorists in GI Joe, illustrations in the works of Jules Verne, a study of Y, The Last Man, or an entire issue on William Blake, and creating a Comic Book Markup Language in reference to For Better or For Worse. [Previously.]

Czech animator Karel Zeman

sleepy pete — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:13:26 -0800

Karel Zeman was a Czech animator probably best known for his movies Journey to the Beginning of Time and The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. He used stop-motion animation, cartoons, puppetry, colorization, and live action to create surreal and otherworldly films of amazing beauty. Sadly (for some), there's not a lot on the internet in English about the man. Although, it really doesn't matter what language(s) you know when there are so many of his works online. These are in no particular order and some are not in English: The Magic World of Karel Zeman (partial) The Special Effects of Karel Zeman, part 2 (one of the vids that pops up on the "related videos" portion is NSFW) Baron Prásil (Baron Munchausen) intro, clips 1, 2, 3 1001 Nights Krabat Mr Prokouk Episode 1, 2, 3, 4 King Lavra part 1, 2, 3 Vynález Zkázy (A Deadly Invention/The Fabulous World of Jules Verne) part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Čarodějův Učeň part 1, 2, 3, 4 Cesta do Praveku (Journey to the Beginning of Time) part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Inspirace (Inspiration) Karel Zeman playlist on youtube (personal playlist which includes the above films) If you watch one, go with Inspirace. It's a stop motion/live action piece utilizing blown glass figures and takes place in a drop of rain. Previous thread on Eastern European animation

Jules Verne Illustrations

Kattullus — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:39:23 -0800

The Smithsonian's Jules Verne Centennial site has a collection of a large number of high quality scans of original, engraved illustrations from Verne's works. From the fantastic (interior of space vehicle, flying ship, spacewalking) and mundane (two dogs, a nice meal, elephant trying to break free from a hot-air balloon). And don't forget to check out the portrait of Jules Verne and his many technological prophecies. For information about the publishing history of Jules Verne read this scholarly article by Terry Harpold about illustrations of Jules Verne stories, focusing on Le Superbe Orénoque. It also includes a wealth of illustrations. Finally, as a bonus, here's a picture of the National Air and Space Museum's scale model of the spacecraft Verne came up with for his De la Terre à la Lune.

Translation can be hard.

skynxnex — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:24:13 -0800

A Wicked Deception (youtube). A fun look at (multi) round-trip machine translation. Sadly, it is a simple fattening of Verbindungsyoutube. Of course, humans, as Jules Verne might tell you, can have problems with translations too. Related previously: Multibabel, translating poetry, and good machine translation?. Main link via Fazed.

Office Inspired by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

jonson — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:20:20 -0800

I'm officially jealous of the people who get to work in this office workspace custom designed to look like Captain Nemo's Nautilus, from 20,000 Leagues. Via.

Stephane Halleux - Jules Verne meets Tim Burton

jonson — Sat, 05 May 2007 22:00:29 -0800

Stephane Halleux is a French sculpture artist whose work feels like Jules Verne as realized by Tim Burton; the sculptures all share cartoonish steampunk vibe that's really appealing. Sadly, the site is 100% Flash, so no linking to specific favorites, but at the very least the navigation remains fairly straightforward.

Look! It's the Sea-Unicorn, and a big one, too

BlackLeotardFront — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:04:45 -0800

The Jules Verne Collecting Resource. If you're a Verne fan or a book collector at all, this site is an absolute treasure. There are pictures of almost every single edition of his works, major and minor, as well as everything even slightly Verne-related, including: movie posters, matchbooks, autographs, playing cards, cards for stereoscopes, postcards he sent, board games, Jules Hetzel's excellent covers and posters for his work (more here, and this one is amazing), the man himself, and god knows what else - pretty much everything.
If it's not here, it's somewhere else, like the extraordinary maps which adorned some editions, or the virtual library with links to all of his works, the many, many incredible illustrations therein, and even one scanned manuscript (in French, obviously). Hope this makes somebody's day as much as it made mine.

Steam Wars

jonson — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:19:35 -0800

Steam Wars is the many decades long dream project of writer/illustrator Larry Blamire. Essentially the story of three soldiers set in a Victorian era war that features giant Jules Verneseque steam-powered mechrobots, the story has kicked around in Blamire's imagination since the 1970s. In an attempt to get the story made into a movie, he's put up a site with concept sketches, full color art & even faux memorabilia from the ficticious wars.

Verne's Cerntury

matteo — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:44:57 -0800

Mythmaker of the Machine Age. In the statue erected above his grave in Amiens, in Picardy, Jules Verne, who died exactly 100 years ago, resembles God. He is, after all, the second-most-translated author on earth, after Agatha Christie. To celebrate the anniversary, there's a Verne exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Paris, one of a series of events from Paris to the western city of Nantes, where Verne was born on Feb. 8, 1828, to the northern town of Amiens, where he died on March 24, 1905. His many fans, some of them quite famous, will be treated to exhibits, concerts, films and shows in Verne's honor. “Underground City”, a lost classic written by Verne and never before published unabridged in English, emerges this month in not one but two new unique editions.
100 years later, questions remain about his life: Why did he have two homes in Amiens? Why did he burn all his private papers? Why was he shot in the foot by his nephew, Gaston, in 1886? Gaston was locked in an asylum for 54 years after his attack on L'Oncle Jules. Was Gaston, in fact, Verne's natural son? More inside.

thijsk — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:43:52 -0800

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: A capital idea. Why did we not fasten a thread to our projectile, and we could have exchanged telegrams with the earth?. Bad idea, said Jules. Great idea, says NASA.

Voyageman — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:57:56 -0800

Airplanes, movies, guided missiles, submarines, the electric chair, air conditioning , the fax machine - in 1870 " Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, Faith Popcorn: all of them famous prognosticators. Yet each comes off a piker when compared to the true master of industrial clairvoyance, Jules Verne."