The Culmination of the Night #1

•November 19, 2008 • No Comments

Every time Shane and I work on publishing the next issue of Prometheus we tend to stay up all night.  Luckily though, our despair from the lack of submissions was set aside early this morning as we realized everything was being submitted to the Prometheus Staff email address.  Excited and pissed all at the same time, this online conversation sums up my initial feelings of these tiring night.

(4:09:17 AM) Cuong Nguyen: “I Exist. Therefore, I am the Same Individual.” ?
(4:13:22 AM) Shane Steinert: yea i dont quite get the title
(4:13:59 AM) Shane Steinert: I = I?
(4:14:01 AM) Shane Steinert: brilliant!
(4:14:02 AM) Shane Steinert: lol
(4:14:05 AM) Cuong Nguyen: i think he’s talking about the identity over time problem
(4:14:15 AM) Shane Steinert: yea
(4:14:19 AM) Shane Steinert: titles are easy to fix
(4:15:43 AM) Shane Steinert: so you realize soon we’re gonna have to write our first rejection letters
(4:15:46 AM) Shane Steinert: WOW
(4:15:47 AM) Shane Steinert: lol
(4:15:48 AM) Cuong Nguyen: YES
(4:15:52 AM) Cuong Nguyen: I’M FUCKING STOKED
(4:15:55 AM) Shane Steinert: hahahah

Night!

The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello

•November 17, 2008 • No Comments

For those of you who haven’t seen it, The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello is an Oscar nominated Australia short film using steam-punk silhouette animation that tells the story of Jasper Morello, an airship navigator haunted by memories of a crewman who died because of an error on his part.  It’s a amazingly brilliant movie and features the voice talent of the Go-Go Mobile ads guy.

The reason I bring the movie up is that Monster Distributions have uploaded the whole thing onto YouTube.

I just love the Macabre art style which is prevalent in some of my favorite animated films like The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride.  Watch it, enjoy it and then go and buy the DVD so they get around to making more of them.

self-evident dualities

•October 8, 2008 • No Comments

The duality of philosophies

A man in meditation
graced with illumination

A woman in contemplation
shadowed with earthly light

Both lost in private reverie,

each falling
into each others grip.

- Alethian

word - obsession

•October 8, 2008 • No Comments

being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession:

an obsessive fear of illness