“I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I’ve been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows… Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.”– Richard Dreyfus as Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind In 1977, Steven Spielberg introduced the world to […]
I’ve posted 20 images from my trip to Worldcon in The Genre Traveler Photo Center. You can find a button in the left hand navigation bar of the Home page or you can just click here For more genre travel information, visi http://thegenretraveler.com.
I just heard on the radio this morning that the Baltimore Comic-Con was this weekend. I mention it for two reasons. First, many genre fans are comic fans, too. So, some of my readers may find this of interest. If this is you, you can find out all you need to know at www.comicon.com/baltimore. Second, […]
Well, my photos from Worldcon came in. And they really suck. They are grainy. Some reflect the flash, obscuring what I was photographing. Others drape what I was taking a picture of in darkness while lighting up the foreground. (For example, I took a couple pictures of Ray Bradbury but got pictures of the people […]
Just got back from the 64th Annual World Science Fiction Convention last night and I’m desperately trying to catch up on all the e-mail that came over the past week, so this will be a short post. In summary, my first Worldcon has won me over to Worldcons. Next year’s is in Yokohama, Japan, so […]
Classic Media will send one lucky winner to Japan for 8-days and 7-nights. The contest helps promote the release of the original uncut version of Gojira (known in the U.S. as Godzilla) on 2-disc DVD set. The trip is one of about 250 prizes, reports IF Magazine, including 50 including 50 Gojira/Godzilla: King Of The […]
Amusement parts, fast-food restaurants and even the U.S. Postal service are using an new method of advertising provided by Las Vegas, Nev., based Border Billboards (BB). Like the giant multimedia advertisements shown in the movie Blade Runner, these advertising billboards placed along the U.S. and Mexico border feature LED video boards, tri-vision ad panels, amber […]
In the science fiction thriller Minority Report, Tom Cruise’ character interacts with a computer via a three-dimensional touch screen interface. Accenture, a global technology and corporate consulting agency, has brought a similar technology to life and installed it at Terminal 3 of Chicago’s O’Hare airport. The high-definition, interactive screen, which is 10 feet wide and […]
To help raise funds for the Orlando Science Center (OSC), the Barnes & Noble Booksellers at 2418 E. Colonial Drive in Orlando, Fla., will be holding a bookfair July 25 through 27, 2006. The festivities include resident science wizard, who will create “a cavalcade of crazy chemical concoctions†on the evening of July 26. “Science […]
Four times a year, hopeful writers and illustrators of speculative fiction and fantasy enter the L. Ron Hubbard Writers & Illustrators of the Future competition. Once a year, the previous year’s winners gather at a gala celebration to be honored and presented with their awards. Last year, the ceremony was held in Seattle at the […]