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Dave Malki et al. are putting out a second Machine of Death anthology, and have posted three preview stories. It's impressive how wide a variety of things can be done with the anthology's basic premise of a machine that tells you how you will die (but not when) and is never wrong.
Sent off my entry to the Toronto Star's short-story contest, because I had a non-fantasy non-sf story that needed a venue. Analog returned 'The Emmet' because it wasn't quite SFnal enough, but they were very polite about it. Funny how this coincided with sovay's viewing of Phase IV.
I've been unsure for weeks how to introduce this, but French photographer Sacha Goldberger has been collaborating for several years with his grandmother Frederika, staging humorous photos, and eventually began focussing on a character called Super-Mamika, a grandmother superheroine. They just closed their third show of photographs featuring the character and other elderly superheroes/villains. Behind the humour, or alongside it, Goldberger is interested in the same territory explored in things like Watchmen -- what is a superhero's life like outside of the panels? -- and is also very much aware of the Jewish background to most of those characters. In other words, it's not coincidence that of his three models in the most recent show, one (Mamika) spent the war eluding the Nazis and helping other people do so; and one (Alexandre Halaunbrenner AKA Dark Papouka - he's Vader's grandpa) is a man who survived the camps as a child and spent much of his adult life tracking down Klaus Barbie.
Sent off my entry to the Toronto Star's short-story contest, because I had a non-fantasy non-sf story that needed a venue. Analog returned 'The Emmet' because it wasn't quite SFnal enough, but they were very polite about it. Funny how this coincided with sovay's viewing of Phase IV.
I've been unsure for weeks how to introduce this, but French photographer Sacha Goldberger has been collaborating for several years with his grandmother Frederika, staging humorous photos, and eventually began focussing on a character called Super-Mamika, a grandmother superheroine. They just closed their third show of photographs featuring the character and other elderly superheroes/villains. Behind the humour, or alongside it, Goldberger is interested in the same territory explored in things like Watchmen -- what is a superhero's life like outside of the panels? -- and is also very much aware of the Jewish background to most of those characters. In other words, it's not coincidence that of his three models in the most recent show, one (Mamika) spent the war eluding the Nazis and helping other people do so; and one (Alexandre Halaunbrenner AKA Dark Papouka - he's Vader's grandpa) is a man who survived the camps as a child and spent much of his adult life tracking down Klaus Barbie.
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Date: 2013-02-20 05:44 am (UTC)From:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4