This is the lifestyle of the technomad; those formerly knowns as the Wifi Bedouin. Our bodies are but meat pointers to the internet. Our work alive and active, whilst we sleep, rest, play, scheme… or create.

Cyberspace is the realm from which I’m speaking to you now. Not the Platonic realm of Ideaspace, but the zone our cyborg second selves reside in.

Post-public is what happens when the previously ephemeral joins the Collective Meme Borg of Total History, and the author themselves remains post-geographic, even when standing still.

Little slices of m1k3y-mind, roaming through timespace, assembling new forms in future brains, machine and human derived.

This is your updated premium channel, program guide to the internet-a-vision:

• Grinding (now with accompanying tumblr)
• The Breaking Time
• The State

And coming soon, live in the RL, Continuum 9: where I’ll be delivering a two-part, one hour rant on the Zeitgeist & Mutant Movies and Man & Machine CoEvolution Media (because POP CULTURE IS SRS BSNS!), as well as appearing on panels discussing Sons of Anarchy, Lost Girl and non-English language science-fiction tv shows (principally Swedish SF, Real Humans).

– end transmission –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4VMDxSyLAU

Meanwhile, at the edge of the Heliosphere…

The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft continue exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. In the 34th year after their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the Sun than Pluto. Voyager 1 and 2 are now in the “Heliosheath” – the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network (DSN).

They carry a map of the solar system, by Frank Drake:

So, if I ever get lost out there, our alien friends will know where to drop me back.

The other night Jess & Lizbt came over to my house for a supervillain makeover. Jess gave me some villainous streaks to go with the cut I’d got at the local hipster barber. How hipster is it? Well, a guy from a commercial tv news show came in to shoot some b-roll footage for a piece about changing attitudes in the workplace (aka tattoos are the new bluejeans) and the back of my head was on used twice for a total of 1-2 secs. Lulz. And they convinced me to go beardless for the first time in over a year. Chins be chilly now.

Next weekend is Continuum. And it’s a NatCon. And I’m only doing panels this year. Free time, omg, yay!

These are the panels:

• The Forgotten Frontier? - Friday 17:00 until Friday 18:00
• You Say You Want A Revolution - Friday 22:00 until Friday 23:00
• Whedonites Assemble! - Friday 23:00 until Saturday 00:00
• Humanity Enhanced - Saturday 15:00 until Saturday 16:00
• 21st Century Storytelling - Saturday 17:00 until Saturday 18:00

Friday night is entry by gold coin donation, for those who don’t already have memberships, so come down and watch me rant away.

When I think cartoon supervillian my mind turns to Marilyn Manson.

When I saw the title of the new album, when I saw the first video… well. I mentioned The Holy Mountain recently, its appearance here is just one of the synchronicities of late.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB0Dp9TrR1c

Then we have its Heraclitian refrain:

become become
become become
be be be become

As he told Vanity Fair:

I’ve been thinking about the transition I had to go through to start making music. [Before starting the band] I went to Kinko’s with a drawing I did of myself. I printed [it] up myself and put the flyers on cars. I did not even have music created. But that confidence, or arrogance, led me to end up having to make music.

Reminding us that you never meet the same villain twice.

Especially when he takes the form of the Evil Magician:

As he told CNN:

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. He’ll do the things that are sometimes morally questionable, but he does it because it’s his nature to do it and it doesn’t fluctuate. It’s the fable of the frog and the scorpion, all those stories that just say, whatever you’re going to be, stick to it in confidence. Don’t waver or life will f*** you over.

Finally, what better than an image of the man by the villain himself:

• Grinder
• Gonzo
• (Godhood)

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a media screening of the much-awaited Finnish(-German-Australian) genre movie IRON SKY.

Some intro factoids:

• This is not to be confused with Charlie Stross’s book Iron Sunrise (no matter how much my brainmeatz tries to muddy these waters).
• As the Great Wiki informs us, it is:
  

  one of a new wave of productions, including Artemis Eternal, The Cosmonaut, A Swarm of Angels and RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, produced in collaboration with an on-line community of film enthusiasts, that are creating a new kind of participatory cinema. At Wreck-a-Movie, a collaborative film-making web site, the producers have invited everyone interested in “chipping in” with their ideas and creativity to read the tasks given to the community and to take a shot (write an entry).

• There’s a prequel comic you can start reading right now.
• The soundtrack is by LAIBACH!!!

Wow, I really buried the lede there didn’t I? Here’s a track by that seminal Slovenian industrial group that’s used in the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGQCUoafFI8

Okay, everyone should be awake now. Iron Sky, well, I was expecting an Aslyum Pictures production with a better budget. That is the company responsible for MegaThings vs GiantStuffz. And look, they have a Nazi movie out too.

Iron Sky is a busty genre explosion, that’d be absurdly subversive if reality wasn’t competing against it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4kfOATzPMk

Filmed in a colour-palate that recalls Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow. Funny, and that’s me watching it after having seen The Avengers, so it’s probably funnier than most things generally considered funny. The Nazis do wear grey. The CGI is spectacular. The dialog is good. Oh, and there’s holograms… apparently that’s how Skype works in 2018. Which is nice.

Extra Credit for Peta Sergeant as Vivian Wagner’s rockin’ fashion through the movie:

Overall, a solid ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtbuUlSGXzc

Nearly, nearly there. Next up, the hair. (Who’s afraid of a cartoon supervillian?)