Hey, kids! Welcome back to The Book Report. The Mythoi Book I: Birth Trade Paper-Back comes out this month (just in case you missed the official press release), and I strongly urge you to pick up a copy. In a strange bit of cross-promotion, yours truly can be found acting in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedie of King Lear […]
Posted September 1st, 2010 in The Book Report with Akatzen. Tagged: Christopher Moore, William Shakespeare.
Sgt. Angle reporting for duty! At ease, henchmen. Today I’m happy to bring you the highlights of the historical career of one of the best film editors of all time. This Spotlight seems to fall at an entirely appropriate time here at Semantink — just last week, Ben studied the glory days of comics, and Akatzen […]
Posted August 31st, 2010 in Sgt. Angle's Cinegasms. Tagged: Film Editing, goodfellas, Martin Scorsese, raging bull, The Aviator, The Departed, Thelma Schoonmaker, Woodstock.
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Benjamin Glibert, Director of Publishing Ben@Semantink.com Semantink Publishing to release first trade paperback: MYTHOI Book I: Birth Semantink Publishing has finished production of, and is releasing, their inaugural trade paperback (TPB), MYTHOI Book I: Birth on Friday, September 10th, 2010. The MYTHOI Birth series, from creator/writer James Ninness and […]
Posted August 28th, 2010 in Miscellaneous.
Season 2 is on it’s way and I thought I would post the first few official production images from the upcoming second season. Lets be honest, GLEE is fun, campy, and in a way it’s incredibly smart. I honestly can’t wait to see what the writers have in store for us this season. The rumor I hear is that we may […]
Posted August 28th, 2010 in Admiral Eo's Soft-shoe Diaries.
Over this week, I’ve been re-watching one of my favorite Sci-Fi channel (when it was still called that) shows: Farscape. Within the show, a group of misfits from the stars gallivant across the universe in a ship known as a “Leviathan.” This ship is special in that it not only has the capacity to hold a large crew […]
Posted August 27th, 2010 in Cognitive Alchemy with Dr. Cellus. Tagged: biobot, biomachine, biomachines, biomechanical engineering, biomechanics, biomimetics, cybernetics, cyborg, gastrobot, gastronome, living machine, living machines, living robot.
Greetings readers! When I was coming up with a blog for this week, I got it into my head that I would do a look at comics that had “jumped the shark”. I was pretty excited about the idea, but as I went digging through my longboxes, looking for the exact point when THE AUTHORITY started to suck, I couldn’t help but be […]
Posted August 26th, 2010 in Ben's Comicopea.
Howdy, kids! Welcome back to The Book Report. Last week I gave a brief look at how Quantum Theory helped Michael Crichton come up with his time-travel adventure Timeline. This week I want to fall a little deeper into the rabbit hole, and return to an author I’ve blogged about previously: Neal Stephenson. In the mid 1990s, engineer and […]
Posted August 25th, 2010 in The Book Report with Akatzen. Tagged: Neal Stephenson, The Long Now.
Sgt. Angle breaks down the bad and the ugly from Piranha 3D.
Posted August 24th, 2010 in Sgt. Angle's Cinegasms. Tagged: alexandre aja, film review, gianna michaels, jaws, piranha, scott pilgrim, vampires suck.