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Science fiction
Gold robots
Even cigarette lighters aren’t immune from the Japanese desire to robotise the world, one object at a time. These are real gold versions of the Lightan, robot characters from an Eighties anime series, Golden Warrior Gold Lightan, and are currently on display at The Great Robot Exhibition in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Ueno, Tokyo until January 27th, 2008. The always reliable PingMag has a good exhibition report which is fortunate since the official site is Japanese-only.
Among the antique automata in the exhibition there’s this rather splendid clockwork crab. It would have been nice to know something about this but the only information is a Japanese caption. What was it for? Were many of these made or was it unique, like the Bowes Swan?
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The art of Almacan
• The sculpture of Christopher Conte
• The Bowes Swan
HG Wells in Classics Illustrated
Complete scans of War of the Worlds (1955) and The Time Machine (1956), both adapted by Lou Cameron.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The night that panicked America
• The Door in the Wall
• War of the Worlds book covers
The art of Almacan
Metamorphosis (2006).
One of a series of “surrealistic digital portraits” by Almacan aka Kazuhiko Nakamura.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The sculpture of Christopher Conte
• Pierre Matter’s cyborg sculpture
• Insect Lab
CQ
A belated shout of appreciation for this film whose distribution appears to have been so limited that everyone missed it, me included. That’s a shame as Roman Coppola’s debut (he’s the son of Francis) has a lot to commend it although it helps if you’re familiar with pulpy European spy/science fiction/horror movies of the late Sixties and the po-faced works of auteurs such as Jean-Luc Godard and Michelangelo Antonioni. CQ pays loving homage to both styles of filmmaking which probably explains why the studio didn’t know what to do with it.