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It reads like a Bruce Sterling novel. It’s actually happening. More there (ZDNet)

Lara Croft needlepoint by Becky Schaefer. More about it on Game Girl Advance. Shouldn’t be too long before Laurence writes what she thinks of the new Lara Croft movie. I’m not sure i’ll have enough courage to go through such an experience again…

Japanese director Takahisa Zeze evolved from softporn movies to scince fiction small and then bigger budgets (Whip Cream and Moon Child). He now seems to use SF to talk about migrations in Asia (illegal aliens in Japan, marginalized Japanes in Asia)

“In the opening decades of the 21st century, economic collapse in Japan has seen a growth in illegal immigrants into the multi-ethnic city of Maleppa, a fictional society somewhere on the Chinese mainland riddled with organised crime and drug use. Sho (Gackt) is a young Japanese member of a rag-tag crime outfit living on the fringes who operate a drugged pizza scam in order to survive. One day the group are joined by the mysterious Kei (HYDE), a pallid vampiric youth cursed with eternal life.” (from Midnight Eye, go and read it)

Online novel in progress by Warren Ellis there.

Et pour nos lecteurs francophones on trouve pour le moment en solderie pour une bouchée de pain le premier volume de Transmetropolitan, traduit, un des meilleurs comics de Ellis (ça n’a pas trop marché chez nous).

File under Science-Fiction and copyright issues, this nice quote spotted by Doctorow.

I’m in the middle of ‘Kil’n people’ by David Brin and it’s a great book. Once again it’s dealing with the issue of downloading/uploading minds/memories/souls (whatever).

(in this on you can download your mind to clay golems so they do what you don’t want to do in the flesh. At the end of its short one day life, you can download the memories of the golem, or avoid to do it if the memories are unpleasant. But what happens when golems start to live longer, or to copy to other golems?)

Brin doesn’t try to avoid the questions and difficulties raised by the whole mind upload idea, which makes it a must-read.

To my (very little) knowledge, this is one of the first SF movies coming from Bollywood (if a Bollywood specialist read this, correct me if i’m wrong). It’s called Koi Mil Gaya. More here and here.

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