July 2012
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The Last Policeman
The Last Policeman by Ben Winters (Quirk, $14.95)
An asteroid large enough to wipe out the planet is set to strike Earth six months from when our story begins (pages between the sections tell us the date as well as the asteroid’s progression toward Earth), which means that we’ve got an opportunity to explore human psychology when what slight constraints we might have on immediate...
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WatchThis thesis film is a wonderful piece of apocalypse animation. Excellent work.
kerrithjohnson:
“The Journal”
Motion Graphic Movie. 2012.
Hey all!
As some of you may or may not know I recently graduated from Sheridan College for illustration.
My thesis was this motion graphic movie I wrote, storyboarded, illustrated and voiced!
I also had tremendous help from my...
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Apocalypse soon: Tom Hanks discusses his web... →
This looks interesting.
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“We are so much the victims of abstraction that, with the Earth in flames, we can...”
– Terence Mckenna (via snakesinmyskin)
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WatchAwesome apocalyptic vid from ThirdEye Design Group. I love the way that one apocalypse bleeds—sometimes literally—right into the next.
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Why Shouldn't the Zombie Apocalypse Have a... →
Via the Houston Press. These are zombie apocalypse songs. I’m working on an all-purpose, ultimate apocalypse playlist. Feel free to send me suggestions.
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10 Science Experiments That Looked Like the End of... →
Via io9, this is an intriguing list—especially since we now know that discovery of (at least something that looks like) the Higgs-Bosun particle didn’t destroy the world.
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Mind over apocalypse
The Boise Weekly has a great story by Deanna Darr up, “Mind over apocalypse,” which asks why we’re so willing to believe the end of the world is at hand.
Steven Lawyer, a clinical psychologist who teaches a class on science and pseudoscience at Idaho State University, said that people are often just looking for a little certainty in an uncertain world.
“Some people...
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So...: The Titanic Parable →
andtunez:
James Cameron’s, director of ‘Titanic’, final word on the Titanic. It’s rather beautiful:
Part of the Titanic parable is of arrogance, of hubris, of the sense that we’re too big to fail. Well, where have we heard that one before?
There was this big machine, this human system, that was pushing…
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“Left Behind fails as a novel for many, many reasons, but all of its other faults...”
– Fred Clark- in the final analysis on the final chapter of the first book in the Left Behind series (via ursinechase)
I’m always pleased to see others picking up on how well Slacktivist eviscerates the bad writing, the bad theology, and complete lack of humanity in LaHaye’s...
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SEATTLE MYSTERY BOOKSHOP: Etiquette for an... →
Emily Post for when the world ends:
seattlemysterybookshop:
When an author I admire recommends a book to me, I listen. So when Marc Acito told me that I had to read Anne Mendel’s debut, Etiquette for an Apocalypse, I jumped at it. Besides, I love a good, funny post-Apocalyptic murder mystery. What’s not to love?
In 2020, everything fell…
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Band of zombie brothers - Stage Reviews -... →
The zombie apocalypse is brought about by Henry IV’s usurpation of the English throne—which upends the divine order of kings. Awesome use of zombies; awesome use of Shakespeare; awesome use of apocalypse.
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