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Paul Vaughn, on August 24th, 2010
Teams of filmmakers recently spent a long weekend creating short films as part of the national 48 Hour Film Project competition. Presented here is the short film Sign Trainer directed and animated by Joey Carillo of Lone Bannana Productions with assitance from Nikki Young, Mistah Pete, Don Rios, and Paul Vaughn.
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Sanford Allen, on July 2nd, 2010
Every newspaper, magazine and blog seems to be running a summer reading list right about now. So who needs another one? You do, friends. How many, we ask, are going to be as chock-full of geeky and creepy goodness as ours?
John Picacio
“Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly
Just finished reading a short story by Nebula [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on June 18th, 2010
The new Jonah Hex movie shoots up the big screen this weekend and that got us thinking about one of our favorite SF subgenres…the Weird Western. San Antonio and South Texas have borne witness to hundreds of years of western weirdness so we decided to ask about your favorite Weird Western: book, movie, comic whatever. We [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on May 7th, 2010
While all of us at Missions Unknown like different aspects of SF, one thing we all agree on is that we love to read. Thomas Jefferson famously said, ”I cannot live without books.” While we may not be as extreme as our favorite founding father, books are an integral part of our psyche. That said, here [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on March 16th, 2010
We saw an article on the brilliant io9 site with the provocative title Don’t Remake These 21 Movies, Film These Books Instead! This piece really hit home for us at Missions Unknown. We love great SF movies almost as much as we love great SF literature. Almost. You really can’t help being embarrassed as a [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on January 1st, 2010
We started Missions Unknown on May 24th, 2009, looking to delve into the SF/F/H happenings in the Alamo City. Frankly, we’ve been amazed at some of the killer things we’ve seen this year. Once again we weigh in with the best of San Antonio’s SF scene and we even solicited some other opinions as well. [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on December 18th, 2009
When we saw on SF Signal that they were asking for your favorite SF/Fantasy book covers we knew we had to chime in with our picks. But then we realized that some of our favorite SF/F artists also did album covers and we realized we had to go there too. Today we present our picks [Read it all...]
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Paul Vaughn, on December 10th, 2009
Here’s Team Barnstrom’s entry into the San Antonio 48-Hour Film Experience.
Mistah Pete notes:
Done for the San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience, December 4, 5, and 6. This is very slightly different from the version turned in just under the wire on Sunday night. Some sound jiggering and effects, plus some tweaks on the titles.
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Paul Vaughn, on December 8th, 2009
San Antonio filmmakers took part in the 2009 SA48HR Film Experience over the weekend and you can see the results tonight at the Santikos Bijou theater. The showing is at 7:00, December 8th.
Madame Arielle: Voodoo Artiste – For all your Voodoo needs.
The SA48HR started on Friday with a Kick-Off event at the El Tropicano Hotel [Read it all...]