Amazon’s Fallout show comes out today and the review embargo has lifted. Looks like it’s getting great reviews, some saying it’s the second best video game adaptation after The Last of Us. This is great news cause video games adaptations don’t really have a good track record. It sounds like Amazon’s really nailed the look and the tone of the series, bringing the right mix of sci-fi, action, and wry humor and also being faithful to the games.
Someone tracked down modern HD versions of all the video clips from Skinny Puppy’s Worlock video from 1989 and edited them into a new HD version of the classic music video. I admire the amount of work that went into this.
Cool collection of space colony concept art from a study that NASA/Ames and Stanford University conducted in 1977. A PDF of the study is available here. I love these optimistic looks at living in outer space. These kinds of massive, toroid-shaped space stations feature prominently in a lot of sci-fi. I like the juxtaposition of the familiar earth-like houses and plazas under the giant windows and artificial sky of the inner ring.
The recent news of the closing of all 99 Cent stores reminds me of this photo by Andreas Gursky. I saw it years ago, I forgot in which museum, and it’s really impressive cause it’s a couple feet wide. Back in 2006 it sold for $2.2 million.
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in movies and shows. Of course the iconic Guggenheim has been in several movies, and the Ennis House was Deckard’s apartment in Blade Runner. I’ve been to the Marin County Civic Center and it’s really cool to see it in person. It’s open to the public so you can wander around and take pictures.
The Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut is coming to PC on May 16. A PlayStation exclusive since its release in 2020, Ghost of Tsushima is the newest in Sony’s ports of first party games to PC. It’ll include a lot of graphical enhancements for PC such as DLSS, FSR, ultrawide monitor support, and unlocked framerates. I don’t have a PlayStation so I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time. I wanna play it just cause it’s an open world samurai game set in feudal Japan, that’ll be a nice change of pace from the usual. Plus the game looks gorgeous and I love that there’s a “Kurosawa Mode” that changes everything to black and white.