Dragon Con is over. Long live Dragon Con. The 2018 con is in the books. 80,000+ attendees, over a thousand panels and events, and exactly one Ewok/Thanos cosplay mashup (that I saw). For those of you who don’t know, Dragon Con is a pop culture convention that combines artists, makers, and fandom from just about every conceivable media and gaming iteration in history. Four days across multiple massive buildings and several city blocks that dominates a fair chunk of downtown Atlanta and utterly baffles the random unaffiliated drivers who find themselves stuck behind colorful human traffic … [Read more...]
Junk Bots
I found a lovely thing today: bad robots. Jordan Pearson at Vice Motherboard has been writing a late-December “Sh**iest Robots of the Year” post for three years now and I’m only just now discovering it. But better late than never, and that goes for you, too—check it out if you want to see beautiful/horrible junk in motion. Who doesn’t? I’m only going to steal one of the robots from his post because you should check out the whole thing; there is some fun stuff in there. This is NABiRoS: To be fair, this lab wasn’t trying to make a fancy-looking robot. NABiRoS is an experiment in … [Read more...]
The Adorable Trap
For several years now, I’ve been emotionally leashed to the fate of a character from the brilliant graphic novel Saga. He got his own post here a few months back: Ghüs, the tiny harp seal-man who farms walrus-like cattle on the planet Quietus. This character makes me feel EMOTIONS. The strongest of these is FEAR. He is too small, adorable, and good-hearted to survive among the killers in this war-torn universe. But there he is, offering friendly homespun wisdom while dressed in overalls or (if at night) footie pajamas. Sigh. Ghüs is good comic relief, but I think Staples and Vaughn … [Read more...]