I noticed that it was that time of the century and made a mashup up the film's legendary intro, complete with Vangelis's soundtrack, with real contemporary footage of LA. The main difference is, of course, what's on fire. LA, November 2019: smoking hot, yes, flying cars, no.
The Blade Runner intro but it's actually Los Angeles in November 2019
Now streaming: Glitch in the Matrix, a new documentary about people who think we're living in a simulation
Two years ago, I posted that my old pal Rodney Ascher, director of fantastically freaky documentaries like Room 237, about weird theories surrounding The Shining, and The Nightmare, a study on sleep paralysis, was embarking on a new documentary project about people who believe that we're living in a simulation. At Rodney's request, I invited any Boing Boing readers who are… READ THE REST
Film about quarantine was created years before the global quarantine
Iuli Gerbase's film "The Pink Cloud" tells of a community forced into quarantine by a deadly pink cloud. Some interesting parallels with humanity's current predicament. Written in 2017 and shot in 2019, it's part of the 2021 Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Image: YouTube / VT News READ THE REST
Brief surprise interview with director Hayao Miyazaki during his daily trash-collecting ritual
Apparently it's known that every morning, Studio Ghibli co-founder and director Hayao Miyazaki, 79, picks up trash and tidies the street in front of his Tokyo home. SoraNews24 reporter Oona McGee showed up one morning for a surprise interview with the animation auteur. From SoraNews24: Q: Have you watched "Demon Slayer?" Miyazaki: "No I haven't. I rarely… READ THE REST
The Rollova 2.0 ditches old rulers for super-easy digital measurement
We've come a long way, haven't we, civilization? In ancient times, we used to measure everything from weight to distance with the most rudimentary of instruments. A stone was literally how much a particular stone weighed as a unit of measurement. And a foot was…yeah, a foot. Put enough heel-to-toe paces together and you knew… READ THE REST
Open an online business with a .store domain
Right now, almost half of all the websites that exist use a .com domain name. This makes it incredibly hard to find a domain name that hasn't already been taken, and if you already named and registered your company then you may be in for a really tough road ahead. Say you started a line of… READ THE REST