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NEW & FEATURED AT THE FORD
NEW IN THE HEARTHHearth : Ballroom : Infernal Triangulations (2006.2.7) Angelus/Dru/Spike
The Infernal triangle mirrors the beginning of the Royal Three of Angel/Buffy/Spike in the second season. And Drusilla acts as Buffy's mirror, both girls (the bright and the dark) standing between Angel and Angelus, and making on that ground an interesting set of small choices.
other recent additions to the Hearth:Dressing room : Buffy's room : The Slayer ( 2006.1.22) Projection Room : Serenity as a Motion Picture : Serenity in wide release ( 2005.11.10) Sewing Room : Fabric scraps : truth and lies ( 2005.10.26) Wine Cellar : The Great Above and the Great Below : cellar dwellers ( 2005.8.12) more from the Hearth
NEW IN THE SCREENING ROOMHearth : Screening Room: BtVS : B4.09 Something Blue (2006.2.7) Spellbound (about B4.09 Something Blue)
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a demon magnet and his main demon squeeze, a blind man, a Slayer and her Vampire fianc? all got together for some witchy mayhem. D'Hoffryn makes a dramatic debut. Guilt-chip cookies are served. Sound familiar yet?
Summaries, commentary, review and exegesis on the episode.
The thumb's a manip by macha, called "cuddly".
other recent additions to the Screening Room:Screening Room: BtVS : B4.08 Pangs : Threshold (B4.08) ( 2006.1.22) Screening Room: BtVS : B4.06 Wild at Heart : Call of the Wild (B4.06) ( 2005.11.9) Screening Room: BtVS : B4.05 Beer Bad : IdEntity in the Cave (B4.05 Beer Bad) ( 2005.8.12) Screening Room: BtVS : B4.03 The Harsh Light of Day : B4.03 The Harsh Light of Day ( 2005.7.22) more from the Screening Room
NEW IN THE VAULTVault : Camera Obscura : Three Deep (2008.4.11) Episode Six: Dead Ends
Their postcards from the front just get more sketchy: still tied together at the root, but all too far apart. Things might look better for awhile in black and white. This, though, is not an age for heroes; what with the feet of clay, that makes things easier, until it makes them hard. But sadly, the ruins they walk are sometimes of their making. And mirrors don't always show them what they'd like to see.
It's time to deal. No future in living less than large in the remains of what they used to be. But trust doesn't come so easily these days, even though it might be all there is to reach for in the dark. One thing's for sure, the past will come back to haunt them all unless it's laid to rest.
other recent additions to the Vault:'Verses in Bound Volumes : Georgiaverse in the Vault : Georgia on My Mind ( 2007.5.8) Camera Obscura : Three Deep : Episode Five: Roman Holiday ( 2006.9.14) Camera Obscura : Three Deep : Episode Four: Something Borrowed ( 2006.4.4) Critics Corner : Episodic studies : Plin's Episodic Postmodern ( 2006.2.10) more from the Vault
NEW IN THE WATCHERS COUNCILWatchers Council : Television does F&SF : SF Shows (2006.4.13) Doctor Who New: Seasons 1 & 2
Doctor Who is a TimeLord, who moves freely through time and space in a ship that looks on the outside like a blue police box. Rather a meddler by nature, and the last of his kind, he patrols the galaxies investigating the kind of trouble that tends to mean The End is At Hand for various worlds and races. But the Doctor himself gets an education he hasn't bargained for when he offers Rose Tyler a bit of a ride. Developed by Russell T. Davies in 2005, to update the original series (which ran between 1963 and 1989) for an adult audience that had largely grown up with the original version.
other recent additions to the Watchers Council:Television does F&SF : Comics Adaptations on TV : Smallville ( 2006.2.10) Seasonal Television : Seasons of television passing : 2005-2006 season ( 2006.2.7) Television does F&SF : SF Shows : Surface ( 2006.2.7) Television does F&SF : SF Shows : Battlestar Galactica: Seasons 1 and 2 ( 2006.2.2) more from the Watchers Council
NEW IN THE MOVIE THEATREMovie Theatre : Cinema Timeline : 2000s Films (2004.8.31) Hero (2002 Zhang)
Hero (Ying xiong). By Zhang Yimou. Hong Kong/China, 2002. Mandarin language, subtitled for North American distribution. A King, three assassins, and a story about art and nature that is written in sand.
other recent additions to the Movie Theatre:more from the Movie Theatre
NEW IN THE LIBRARYLibrary : Fictional Wardrobe of SF and Fantasy : The Authors at the Club, or maybe the pub (2005.7.22) Stephenson's world of big ideas
Addressing the scientific in the normative world, his vividly contemporary imagination rips up the present and the past with an eye to Natural Philosophy, cryptology, military panoramas. And makes, in some odd way, Steampunk out of all of it.
other recent additions to the Library:Fictional Wardrobe of SF and Fantasy : The Authors at the Club, or maybe the pub : Mr Norrell is Making Strange ( 2005.7.22) Fictional Wardrobe of SF and Fantasy : Style as a factor in F&SF : steampunk dreams ( 2005.7.22) Fictional Wardrobe of SF and Fantasy : The Authors at the Club, or maybe the pub : Guy Gavriel Kay considerations ( 2005.7.22) Slim Volumes of Poesy on the Mantel : Poets : Yeats: Yeats and the Angelverse ( 2004.1.12) more from the Library
NEW IN THE OBSERVATORYObservatory : Attic : Celtic box (2007.5.8) tracking the Celtic tribes
Disguised as mythology, the Irish offer up a fair account of their various waves of migration, and how they all ended. But it's important to remember that it's the poets who tell the tales, and in the way of art not much is sacred.
other recent additions to the Observatory:Map Room : Modelling Games : spiral imagery ( 2006.7.11) Map Room : Modelling Games : Modelling the human mind ( 2006.4.19) Attic : Celtic box : irish mythology ( 2005.12.15) Maths and Sciences : Lab : Thought, Itself ( 2005.1.17) more from the Observatory
NEW IN FOLLYFolly : Folly in Celluloid : Battlestar Galactica (2006.2.10) More Human than Human (by luminosity)
Even if the Cylons set out to exterminate mankind, if they evolve, remember, care, weep, believe, how real exactly have they become? And if they ask ethical and existential questions of the worlds and of themselves, what lessons might they have to teach their makers? Luminosity's first BSG vid applies some metal music from White Zombie to the most basic question of all sf, and the central question of the series: what does it mean to be human?
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other recent additions to Folly:Folly in Celluloid : Due South : Icebound Stream (by Sisabet) ( 2006.2.7) Folly in Celluloid : Farscape : Ecstatic Drum Trip (by luminosity) ( 2005.10.20) more from Folly
NEW IN THE REFLECTING POOLReflecting Pool : Reflecting pool : in-house design (2008.7.6) fallowdoe's design drawings for the Ford
From the goreyesque concept we first imagined, into christine's idea that walking through the ford should feel like the rooms of a great house, and into the symbolics of the original works in the celtic style we have today, macha dreamed, and vrya dealt, and while everyone emoted, fallowdoe just kept on drawing. From the background pattern to the map to the icons and banners and up to the top of the cathedral tower, we owe to her the set/site decoration.
other recent additions to the Reflecting Pool:Reflecting pool : in-house design : teatime in powerpoint (by diane) ( 2004.9.10) Reflecting pool : in-house design : teashirty ( 2004.9.5) Reflecting pool : Teatime with Joss : moment and movement connections ( 2004.5.5) Reflecting pool : in-house design : Cyn does the boys teadancing (#2) ( 2004.3.27) more from the Reflecting Pool
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