Month: June 2016

Articles

Amazon’s “True Skin”: A sci-fi thriller on the streets of Bangkok

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LINK: Stephan Zlotescu’s 2012 short becomes a series

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Articles

Racism in Algorithims and Their Real World Impact

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LINK: Intent is irrelevant when hate has such dangerous sway

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News

‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ Competing Project Surfaces With Chinese Backing

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Read at Deadline.com.

Poster for Disney's 1954 production of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Poster for Disney’s 1954 production of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Articles, Videos

Diego Carrera’s Video: 122 Films Take Us Through A History of Horror, 1895-2016

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Watch at Laughingsquid.com.

This is fantastic. There are some notable absences (maybe I blinked, but I don’t remember seeing Friday the 13th). But, the editing is EVERYTHING. Music:”Camino” by Murcof.

Still from Tod Browning's Freaks, 1932

Still from Tod Browning’s Freaks, 1932

Articles, News

Bree Newsome Speaking on Art, Activism, Science Fiction and Horror

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Bree Newsome speaks about being an artist & activist and the importance of black science fiction/horror at the Octavia E. Butler Celebration of Arts and Activism. Held at Spelman College in April 2014.

ICYMI here’s Bree Newsome’s horror short: “Wake” (2010)

Articles, News

Native Author Stephen Graham Jones Takes On Werewolves

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LINK: John Langan reviews ‘Mongrel: A Novel’ for Locus Magazine

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Articles

From BNP: Webster’s Can’t Bang With the Black Nerd Problems Glossary

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BNP got it.

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Articles, Videos

Pokemon Meets DC Comics In ‘Teeny Titans’

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Check it out at Kotaku.com.

Articles

Natacha Bustos: Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur’s Gorgeous Art

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LINK: Bustos talks art with Comic Beat’s Pablo Arriaga

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News

China’s fangirls claim their spot in geek culture

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LINK: Nerdy women and girls converged in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province

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