MetaFilter posts tagged with apocalypse

Cormac McCarthy on The Road, fatherly love, the end of the world and lots of other things

jason's_planet — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:35:34 -0800

In a soft voice, chuckling frequently and gazing intently with gray-green eyes, Mr. McCarthy talked about books vs. films, the apocalypse, fathers and sons, past and future projects, how he writes—and God. My favorite quote: WSJ: But is there something compelling about the collaborative process [of filmmaking] compared to the solitary job of writing? CM: Yes, it would compel you to avoid it at all costs.

Jesus Jehovavich

Secret Life of Gravy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:25:31 -0800

Welcome to the charming world of Vissarion: the Siberian, vegan, reincarnation of Christ, who also happens to be a Polygamist. When he lost his job as a traffic cop in 1991, Sergei Torop changed his name to Vissarion and began spreading his message about how to attain moral perfection, drive out negative energy, and survive the coming Apocalypse. Today the Community of Vassarion in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia numbers around 10,000, while a further 50,000 follow his teachings in the world beyond. The collection of official links in English An Interview by EnlightenNext Magazine Travel article about the community for Power Magazine Previously on Metafilter

Drone Psyops

wallstreet1929 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:03:52 -0800

"This is Romeo Foxtrot. Shall we Dance?" Killer Drones to get sound system. Many different broadcasts were tried, including the celebrated “Wandering Soul."

Hell hell hell.

jbickers — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:39:10 -0800

Just Another Post-Apocalypse Story is a short, sweet, profound webcomic by Edward Grug III, of "Love Puppets" fame, from the always-excellent Top Shelf 2.0 repository.

It's the end of the world as we ... think it might happen

desjardins — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:47:58 -0800

Choose your own apocalypse! Futurists discuss: How is America going to end?

American Stonehenge

Artw — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:24:16 -0800

The Georgia Guidestones - Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse.

The Last Guide You'll Ever Need

netbros — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:01:03 -0800

If society fell apart this afternoon I’d be willing to bet you’d die. You’ve spent your life learning how to ‘cut and paste’ or how to master E. Honda’s Hundred Handslap in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, but when the world comes crashing down and you’re hungry, you’ll be eating crunchy Ramen noodles and wondering how your own pee tastes. Lets face it. You’d die. This blog is to help those plan for their escape from the collapsing rubble of our society." Survive the Apocalypse.

Not even a talking kangaroo

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:02:42 -0800

"But no people. That’s the dream here. And that’s why nobody faces the pretty durn obvious fact that after the apocalypse, alliances, partnerships, gangs, whatever you want to call them, are going to be tighter, stricter, more important than ever. Because that’s no fun" The Omega Nerd: The War Nerd talks about survival porn, water, Mormons, and Mongols.

Taking bets on how the Earth will perish...

astroworm — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:48:28 -0800

Ten thrilling ways our blue marble might experience the apocalypse!

We've been free-pooping for weeks...

Parannoyed — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:12:22 -0800

The Remnants. It seemed so promising at first. From the writer of GO and Big Fish, comes a pilot for a post-apocalyptic comedy unlike anything you've ever seen, starring, among others, the much celebrated Zefrank, Justin Bateman,and Ernie Hudson. But after six months of shopping it around the major networks, it seems the The Remnants might just die on the vine. But wait! what's this flurry of press coverage? Go put in your two cents (or hopefully a lot more) here!

What Lies Past Eternity, for the Universe?

WCityMike — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:38:46 -0800

Exit Mundi's thoughts on the latest anticipated apocalypse: the coming apocalypse in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 A.D.. (No kidding.) (Previously and previously.) (head asplode) The subpage lists as sources Evolving Cosmos and Stephen Battersby's February '05 article in New Scientist, "The Final Unravelling of the Universe." Although the site at large is familiar to many Mefites, this particular subpage seems to have been added rather recently and I thought contained ideas that are unusual and interesting enough to be worthy of highlighting ...

WORKING. HAMMERS. SWEATING. POWER. CIRCUITS.

cobra_high_tigers — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:39:57 -0800

This is my Milwaukee (SLYTP-esque) No, I have no clue what it is either.

God is cruel

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:40:02 -0800

'Around my house we kinda laugh when Sarah Palin comes on TV, and we say, "That's Greg Stillson as a woman."' Interview with Stephen King on the thirtieth anniversary of The Stand.

Post(modern)-Apocalypse

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:50:34 -0800

'We are in (a period of) intense turbulence - fasten your seatbelts,' Gonzalez-Foerster told reporters. So why not shelter from the coming apocalypse in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, lying back on a bunk bed, listening to the rain, reading or watching some SF, looking at art.

Antpocalypse!!!

kittens for breakfast — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:18:46 -0800

Today's date? Why, it's...July 11, 2052, and man has been cowering in terror, self-sealed in his own living-tombs since that day of horror in...1952. Remember? 100 years ago, the sky above America turned black...with the dread flight of millions of ferocious, gigantic ants! Despite the reality that the events depicted in "World War III with the Ants" are completely impossible (or so scientists would have you believe), this kind of thing would, just two years later, happen again. And twenty years after that, further proof that ants have it in for us. Mock them if you will!!!

A massive asteroid from outer space heads straight for earth...

grippycat — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:40:06 -0800

The End Of All Things.

Psych Securities LLC

homunculus — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:12:19 -0800

Psych Securities LLC. "With future forecasts declaring ultimate doom from all components of the man-altered world, it seems there is a clog in the conduit of information transmitted between those in control and the public at large. Black Ops, psychological torture, acoustic weapons, Project Starfire, and a multitude of other state sponsored programs exist, well-hidden in plain sight, shrouded in a stigma of conspiracy and diluting any significant public inquiry. Psych Securities LLC is an ongoing exploration of this aforementioned covert reality, most clearly seen while in an alternative psychological state. By compiling declassified documents, historical narratives, and psychedelic conjecture, a visual world is pieced together; undermining strategies of deception and concealed truths." [Via]

Norbert Kox

le morte de bea arthur — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:30:07 -0800

The Apocalyptic Art of Norbert Kox

Fugitoid on the run again

cashman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:54:19 -0800

El-P, founder of Def Jux, is not your average rap artist. His themes and style are frequently lush and apocalyptic. While Deep Space 9mm launched 'El-Producto', cleverly futuristic works like Stepfather factory, Flyentology with Trent Reznor or the darker Tasmanian Pain Coaster are his hallmark. He recently released a new mixtape free online, along with the lyrics pdf for his album. He also recently remixed a song from MTV's TRL, warping it into a chaotic police state jam, mirroring other songs of his with themes of authority and control. Because his delivery can be like listening to raw html, it's hard to appreciate the lyrical construction behind works like Poisenville Kids No Wins until the words are right there. "And I felt like a hundred bucks in the pocket of a gambling lush/ at a wondershowzen flow with the droids of destructo luck/ fugitoid on the run again/ the sky gleamed the maroonist coloring/ layered against the bluest tone from where the thunder lived/ and there I was directly under it/ like some dejected little grey they told to stay and wait for the mothership/ a cotton ball in a blizzard of mischief or brain prison/ with a thought that rode on the bus and came for conjugal visits/ and fucked its way into my grey matter the tattered territory/ stayed chattering and nagging till it demanded it yell it for me/ and I tried to hold the thing back but the meditation was otherly/ fixated on what a friend said and relating it to my struggling/ “metropoloid void so damn smothering”/ but we were children of poisenville and saw the seduction less repugnant/ and reserved the right as the triggerman with the back up plan of self destruction/ and I touched the type of chemicals that could pull me towards that function/ it’s the stuff I find hard for discussion/ how the fuck do you explain your own self-destruction and still remain trusted?" The lyrics for Tasmanian Pain Coaster are similarly, rewardingly dense. "I swagger with rats tappin’ the glass in a government lab/ pass me the gloves/ mask and a flask of the cheapest liquor you have/ in the back of the tasmanian path/ insane again laughin’/ cacklin’ at the randomness of the city and all its facts/ the dark art of interrogation agent skippin’ class/ and at last in a flash on my tip toes walkin’ on cracked glass/ gats blast and wiz by fast or just/ catch in my calves like “hold that”/ in other words: I’m trash/ glad you asked"

Dystopian Evolution: Imagining an Envirogeddon

dead_ — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:18:16 -0800

Dystopian storytelling is pillar of Western narrative tradition, but this decade has seen a significant shift in the way our apocalypse is told. Orthodox tales of government tyranny are giving way to visions of humans running helpless in the wake of environmental meltdown. From the plausible to the fantastic, most of this fiction remains hauntingly real while the non-fiction can get downright scary. In 2008, the 20th anniversary of climatologist James Hansen's landmark speech before Congress, popular art is beginning to reflect an increasingly bleak public sentiment on the future, playing out some of our worst nightmares. It may be that these writers and directors are wishing for the end of the world, but even so, they are certainly giving voice to the creeping feeling that indeed, we might not make it.

End of the World? ABC wants your ideas

stbalbach — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:14:46 -0800

Earth2100.tv is a project by ABC (video preview) to solicit ideas from the public and experts about the dangers facing world in the next 100 years. "The world’s brightest minds agree that the “perfect storm” of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with catastrophic results. We need you to bring this story to life."

he's up there... operating beyond the pale of any decent merchandising procedures

Armitage Shanks — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:11:32 -0800

Ernie Fosselius, writer/director of Hardware Wars and more recently creator of the Mechalodeon, also created a brilliant parody of Apocalypse Now: Porklips Now. YouTube: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

The Last Stand 2

whir — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:14:56 -0800

The Last Stand 2 is a Flash game in which you play the survivor of a zombie apocalypse. During the day you search for supplies and other survivors; during the night you must fend off the zombies. Make it to Union City in 40 days. (via)

This is the way the world ends

Artw — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:53:59 -0800

Superstar Scottish comics writer Grant Morrison is about to tear the DC Universe apart again with Final Crisis, the latest in a series of apocalypses and world ending events he's inflicted on various comics worlds over the years. But there was a time before fame when he wrote the tie-in comic for ZOIDS, the robot dinosaur children's toy. So what did he do? Ushered in the apocalypse, in the form of THE BLACK ZOID.

Rapture ready, underground

Artw — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:58:29 -0800

Russian sect says world ends May 2008. And no, you can't borrow their cave. ...other dates for the end of the world, some of which may have been a little pre-emptive.