HUPOMNEMATA

Barcelona

Cosplay and identity questions and Goth-Lolitas (and hand-sewn gold-trimmed capes).

“It’d weird, after all, alienating to want to be someone else, even in pretend. It stirs deep questions about our own comfort in our skins. It makes us questions our identities – and maybe throw out the assumption that we are static beings. When we’re faced with cosplay, we are forced to acknowledge that the self is a mutable aspect, a vagary of mood, a personality shifting and shiftless and unrooted.”

read the rest of it in the always excellent Game Girl Advance
This, below, is a Matrix cosplay.

Quelques images de la dernière soirée au Zerfall, à Bruxelles. Contrat terminé, Clément Béton vide les lieux (au programme de cette dernière soirée, c’était “Le plaisir du regret” le très beau film de Guy Marc Hinant et Dominique Lohlé sur le musicien Leo Kupper)

Ci-dessous, Anton Aeki, de Martiensgohome

Et enfin, Clément Béton, de Géographique

a classical compilation of sci-fi movies through history by Tim Dirks.
a home-made page as I like them

go and see

From a review by Dillon Font on animefringe:

“The tale goes as follows:
The turn of the millennium saw Earth’s first contact with an alien species, and fifteen years later, the world seems to have come back to normal. Well… sort of. Now schools, at the very least, are plagued with varying levels of alien infestation. Somehow only vaguely explained in the backstory, these schools are prone to having alien animals hanging around, some of which present a threat to the children attending school.

In order to have life continue on as necessary, the schools enlist three sixth-grade students, one from grade class, to be a part of the Alien Party. This Party involves giving these three students alien symbiotic beings that attach themselves to the heads of the students and, on rollerblades, the three students patrol the school building and deal with any alien outbreaks.”

Read the rest of the review here.

The complete story has already been published in Spain by Ivréa. (but now it’s in English I can even read AND understand it). Should definitely be part of our Barcelona library for Stitch and Split!

An interesting filmography listing everything fantasy and sf related with feminist elements in it. It contains some stuff I had completely forgotten about (like Tank Girl, does anyone remember what’s happening in Tank Girl?). Loads of info in the rest of the website too.

Sous ce titre racoleur, on parle de Godard, Christian, pas Jean-Luc (j’en imagine quelques uns déçus). Vous savez c’est le dessinateur et plus souvent scénariste de BD qui faisait Martin Milan et le Vagabond des Limbes et qui entre temps est devenu un vieux monsieur qui continue à faire de la BD. Il y a quelques pages étonnantes dans le dernier BoDoï, n°65 (un mensuel par ailleurs souvent assez nul mais qui sur le coup épate un peu) : une Chienne de Garde (son nom m’échappe, désolé) a droit à une bonne demi page pour écrire ce qu’elle pense de la dernière série de Godard (Une folie très ordinaire) et c’est pas piqué des vers. Quant à lui, le magazine lui donne l’occasion de se défendre, et il tresse la corde pour se pendre. Ses réponses sont si aigres qu’elles font mal au ventre. Il a 71 ans et on lui en donnerait bien 20 de plus, ça ne tourne vraiment plus rond.