daily stream: dangerous science, dangerous men
2006’s The Prestige leaves UK Prime soon; on Paramount+ in the US.
Jules Verne
Chambers_ immersive dining experience — the review
An interactive story-driven culinary adventure that’s like being dropped into a Doctor Who–esque spacetime unknown. Weird, wonderful, sometimes unnerving. An intriguingly odd sensory odyssey.
The Grand Expedition immersive dining experience — the review
A round-the-world culinary adventure that’s like Secret Cinema, except about food rather than movies, with a Jules Verne vibe and a nostalgia for a time when the world was bigger than it is now.
Paris photo of the day: steampunk station
The single coolest transit station I have ever seen or heard of: the Arts et Métiers stop on the No. 3 Metro line.
question of the day: Are classic pulp novels too dated to make faithful transfers to the big screen?
John Carter doesn’t work, but with some updating and shifts in emphasis, the Victorian Sherlock Holmes and War of the Worlds have made recent — and very successful — transfers to the big screen. Has entertainment moved on too much for popcorn crowds to care about classic pulp presented classically?
John Carter (review)
This dreary Disneyfied inconsequence features all the bigotries of century-old pulp fiction and none of the romance, neither the sexual nor the adventurous kind…
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (review)
Crams three times the hoo-hah of the first film into a 3D CGI theme-park ride, yet reduces itself to one-third the fun…
question of the day: What is the appeal of steampunk?
This is my theory: Steampunk is about looking ahead and seeing magnificent airships plying blue skies, not global warming or nuclear war…
Oceans (review)
The overall affect is most like that of a screensaver…
watch it: Abney Park, “Airship Pirate” (steampunk music video)
Another geek subculture I am either not cool enough or too cool to embrace: What I want to know is this: Who certifies that all those electric instruments and amps and such are steam powered? Cuz what would Jules Verne think if they weren’t? Seriously, though: Abney Park’s Web site is gorgeous…
