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Good People is a 2009 short film from The Darkness, a San Antonio-based special FX and production company. They specialize in a variety of products from Custom Masks and Props, Special FX and FX Makeup, Haunted House Consulting, Video Production, and Post Production & Editing. They provide Hollywood quality work and products at reasonable and affordable rates. Check after the jump and you can see more example of The Darkness at work.
In Boom Town the Doctor (Eccleston) encounters an enemy he thought long since dead. A plan to build a nuclear power station in Cardiff disguises an alien plot to rip the world apart. Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) is featured in this episode! In The Long Game the Doctor and Rose (Billie Piper) find themselves in the future on Satellite 5. Satellite 5 broadcasts to the Earth Empire, but anyone promoted to Floor 500 is never seen again, and the Doctor suspects mankind is being manipulated. Simon Pegg guest stars! Doctor Who Fans Unite will have End of Time and Vote Saxon shirts for sale. They also have a limited quantity of Bad Wolf, Empty Child and Angels have the phone booth shirts. More limited edition Doctor Who artwork will be for sale as well. These events are lots of fun, with a great atmosphere at the Drafthouse and a fun group of people attending. Come on out for food, drinks and an all around good time. Cofa Production’s much anticipated stop-motion animation film Fall of the House of Usher is scheduled to make its San Antonio debut, March 11, 2010, at the Alamo Drafthouse Park North (618 NW Loop 410) with screenings at 7:00 and 9:00 PM. Quality, first-rate film productions are becoming something to be expected from the Alamo City film community, and films such as Usher are raising the bar. On the eve of its San Antonio debut, Missions Unknown talks to Fall of the House of Usher creator Eric Fonseca. Thanks to Left Foot Red Productions, the official video provider for Missions Unknown. Fall of the House of Usher has been a labor of love for Fonseca, who has spent four years developing and producing the film. Fonseca recruited notables in the area film community to make the visually stunning film a reality. Fall of the House of Usher is unique in the fact that the film was written, produced, directed and edited by one person—Eric Fonseca—he was even responsible for the grand set design. Continue after the jump for more information and a flashback to Fonseca’s previous short, Funeral March for a Marionette. Continue reading Made in SA: Eric Fonseca’s ‘Fall of the House of Usher’ »  Final cover art for Mark Chadbourn's THE DEVIL IN GREEN by John Picacio Here’s my final cover illustration for the forthcoming Pyr edition of Mark Chadbourn’s THE DARK AGE: BOOK 1 / THE DEVIL IN GREEN. It’s the first book of the trilogy that follows Chadbourn’s AGE OF MISRULE. The nice thing about THE DARK AGE is that the trilogy can be read as a standalone and doesn’t require reading AGE OF MISRULE in order to follow the story. However, reading MISRULE certainly enhances the experience.  Geeks Unite! Annalee Newitz is a must-see at Trinity University Wednesday night. io9 Editor-in-Chief, journalist, author, and hacker Annalee Newitz will visit San Antonio’s Trinity University as part of the school’s “Reality Hackers” lecture series, this Wednesday, March 10 at 7pm in the Fiesta Room. Her talk is entitled “Curse of the Meatsack: Biohacking, Immortality, and Science Fiction.” Newitz’s work has been published in Popular Science, The Believer, New Scientist, Wired Magazine, and Wall Street Journal. She is a fellow-traveler of the emerging biopunk movement who argues passionately on behalf of open-sourced genomic databases. She co-edited (along with io9’s Charlie Jane Anders) the anthology She’s Such A Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff, a “hopeful book that looks forward to the day when women will invent molecular motors, design the next ultra-tiny supercomputer, and run the government.”
The story stays sharply focused on its protagonist Aliera Carstairs, her determination, her hopes and fears, and the emotional baggage of adolescence. Aliera is a fencer, and a serious student of the sport at that. Fencing also serves as a metaphor for her own psychological state as well as the progression of the chapters in the book. She is also a high school student who is trying to figure out her place in that complex world while also dealing with her feelings for Avery Castle a boy she finds beautiful but who seems to have a smile for every girl as well as a number of strange quirks about him. Family also is important to Aliera. Her mother is endless delving into garage sales, estate sales, and the Salvation Army. It is from one of her mother’s forays into other people’s histories that the curious foil with the red gem on the end of its grip makes its way into Aliera’s hands. It is her relationship with cousin Caroline though that seems to ground her. While Aliera spends so much time physically testing and proving herself Caroline’s young body is often confined to a wheelchair. Their Saturdays are spent playing role-playing games where Caroline is the Queen and Aliera her defender. Continue reading Review: Foiled by Jane Yolen and Mike Cavallaro »  LOCUS Magazine still going strong after 40 years. Hey, SA — you can help decide the winners of the 2010 Locus Poll. The poll is in its 40th year, courtesy of LOCUS Magazine, and this year’s ballot tallies science fiction/fantasy literature and art published in 2009. The top five vote-getters in each category are named as Locus Award finalists, and the leading vote-getters in each category are named the 2010 Locus Award Winners. Winners will be announced at the Locus Awards Banquet on June 26th in Seattle, WA. Voting is free, and open to all. Voters who are subscribers to LOCUS Magazine count twice. All votes count though, as long as voters include name, e-mail addy, and survey information below their votes. Check out the ballot and vote now, before the deadline of April 1st.  Clockwise from top left: Japanese eggs, Andy Anderson's Fighting Generica Art, just one of many cosplayers, steampunk optical gear, origami demonstration (photographs by Soren Vaughn) This past weekend I took the family out to Our Lady of the Lake University on the shore of Lake Elmendorf in San Antonio’s near west side to enjoy the sites, sounds and people of Mizuumi-Con 3. Put on by OLLU’s Mizuumi Anime Club, the con drew a large active crowd of anime, manga and video game fans. The turnout was great, with a registration line well out of the building and a steady stream of new attendees throughout the day. Many, many people were decked out in costume which lent a fun, frivolous air to the event. The opening ceremonies, while sincere, were underwhelming. The best part was the the introduction of the guests, mainly the utterly charming artist Valerie Lynn Aguilar, winner of the badge art contest. Aguilar, a student at St. Phillip’s College, explained how this was the first time she had won something like this, that she loved seeing her art on all the badges and that she was floored that people could “buy my chibis on a thong!” The city of San Antonio goes all out for art in the month of March, the new home on the calendar for Contemporary Art Month (CAM). While art of the fantastic is not on many venues, readers of Missions Unknown may find a few gems in the CAM calendar of events. A few examples follow:  Psychedelic-inspired art by Alex Rubio Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s at the San Antonio Museum of Art: In 1956, Dr. Humphry Osmond coined the term ‘psychedelic’ to refer to hallucinatory experiences produced by the use of drugs during psychotherapeutic practices. Soon, Timothy Leary and the counter-culture’s hippie movement in America advocated “turning on, tuning in, and dropping out” as a means of intentionally seeking an intensified, sensory experience. Additionally, the 1960s saw the advent of color television, fluorescent paints, and the Op Art movement’s experimentation with optical mixing to achieve dazzling color effects; all of which introduced a new visual language of extreme color and kaleidoscopic space into contemporary culture. By the end of the decade, one did not have to consume drugs to encounter a “trip”; the psychedelic aesthetic was experienced with light shows, lava lamps, posters and buttons, record album covers, fashion, and stage design for TV shows such as Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Although psychedelic culture began to decline by the mid-1970s, one of its legacies is an aesthetic sensibility that has continued to evolve over the years and, more recently, has gained favor in growing numbers among contemporary artists. For the first time in history, the San Antonio Museum of Art explores and investigates the origins and development of a “psychedelic sensibility” in contemporary art of the past forty years: from Op Art of the early 1960s to the abstract and visionary representations of the present day. Check after the jump for Lewis Carroll, Malaquais Montoya and Ansen Seale. Continue reading Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio » |
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I’m glad I was able to improve the cover art from its initial catalog version. 
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