Friday, 15 November 2013
Thursday, 14 November 2013
A bit more on that...
Steven Moffat explains... a bit. And we get a nice big picture of a new Doctor ensemble in the Mary Sue version!
Monday, 11 November 2013
The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who
Paul Cornell discusses and previews his Eleventh Doctor comics story, in which the Doctor visits a Doctor Who convention, the importance of the series, the eeriness of meeting a monster while alone at a con bar in the early hours of a morning, his favourite classic stories and who he’d cast as the next Doctor (“today it’s Rebecca Front” - I can see it).
The Science Of Doctor Who
SFX sister magazine Science Uncovered issue 1 looks at the plausibility or lack thereof in the SF (or lack thereof) in Who.
Design a sonic for the show (kids only!)
As reported by SFX: following the Abzorbaloff and the Junk TARDIS, Blue Peter offers 6-15-year olds the chance to design a new sonic device for a recurring character (very mild spoilers as to who) to use in a future episode. Cue more we-never-had-this-in-my-day grumbling from old folks like me. :)
Saturday, 9 November 2013
Trailer Of The Day Of The Doctor
I missed the proper-footage-and-stuff trailer, and shall be avoiding it henceforth, because we only have two weeks to go now.
TWO WEEKS!
TWO WEEKS!
Friday, 8 November 2013
"What does this look like?" "A Rorschach ink-blot test, of course!"
Another Google Doodle for an odd-numbered birthday, here an animation asking us what we see in inkblots for Hermann Rorschach’s 129th birthday.
I’m not an expert, but I don’t think all the blots in the Doodle are real ones. Either that, or I have a very strong memory of garden gnomes shaking hands.
The ink-blot test is a nice easy visual way to refer to psychiatric treatment, so it’s become one of the recurring jokes about the subject in popular culture.
Hence the above quote from the Eighth Doctor comics, possibly borrowed from an Emo Phillips joke although played straight there...
See also Rorschach in Watchmen, his mask a hint that he is whatever the viewer fears. The Doodle’s blots change like it does in the film version. (Which makes his mask the only super-tech gadget he ever uses. Doy.)
Ink-blot imagery also appears in the 1999 version of House On Haunted Hill, where the house is actually a disused mental hospital haunted by a malign presence represented by an inky black shape which is anatomically suggestive and (almost) perfectly symmetrical. It’s a striking image for a monster, very fitting for its setting without needing to explain it.
There are also quite a few you could borrow as alien invader helmet (or face) designs.
I’m not an expert, but I don’t think all the blots in the Doodle are real ones. Either that, or I have a very strong memory of garden gnomes shaking hands.
The ink-blot test is a nice easy visual way to refer to psychiatric treatment, so it’s become one of the recurring jokes about the subject in popular culture.
Hence the above quote from the Eighth Doctor comics, possibly borrowed from an Emo Phillips joke although played straight there...
See also Rorschach in Watchmen, his mask a hint that he is whatever the viewer fears. The Doodle’s blots change like it does in the film version. (Which makes his mask the only super-tech gadget he ever uses. Doy.)
Ink-blot imagery also appears in the 1999 version of House On Haunted Hill, where the house is actually a disused mental hospital haunted by a malign presence represented by an inky black shape which is anatomically suggestive and (almost) perfectly symmetrical. It’s a striking image for a monster, very fitting for its setting without needing to explain it.
There are also quite a few you could borrow as alien invader helmet (or face) designs.
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Nothing O'Clock, by Neil Gaiman
The rumours are true, the children’s ebook series ends with Neil Gaiman writing for Eleven, and doing his best to create a new and potentially recurring monster.
Sooo... might have to get that, then.
And would you like to read the prologue free and in advance? I thought you might.
Sooo... might have to get that, then.
And would you like to read the prologue free and in advance? I thought you might.
Raymond Loewy
Google marks the 120th birthday of Raymond Loewy, called “the father of industrial design” after designing everything from trains to the Greyhound bus to the logos of several competing petrol companies, refrigerators to the Coke vending machine to the livery for Air Force One.
He made his name in the USA after being injured fighting for his native France in the First World War, claiming he arrived with nothing but his uniform and fifty dollars in his pocket. This would be the perfect point to feature him in a Celebrity Historical showing how different the world would be without him... perhaps borrowing from the Tenth Doctor comic series The Futurists as aliens tap into his imagination to change the whole world in his image, Dark City style.
He made his name in the USA after being injured fighting for his native France in the First World War, claiming he arrived with nothing but his uniform and fifty dollars in his pocket. This would be the perfect point to feature him in a Celebrity Historical showing how different the world would be without him... perhaps borrowing from the Tenth Doctor comic series The Futurists as aliens tap into his imagination to change the whole world in his image, Dark City style.
Remember, Remember, The Gunpowder Plot
Have a happy and safe Bonfire Night. And remember, remember...
The Gunpowder Plot was the last of the Adventure Games, sadly, going out on a high with the biggest of the series, with a large cast, a playable Rory, a special guest Silence and the appearance of a classic monster not yet seen in the revived series at all. The teaching guide to the real history of the Plot also contained loads of details and concept art that would make ideal handouts.
The Gunpowder Plot was the last of the Adventure Games, sadly, going out on a high with the biggest of the series, with a large cast, a playable Rory, a special guest Silence and the appearance of a classic monster not yet seen in the revived series at all. The teaching guide to the real history of the Plot also contained loads of details and concept art that would make ideal handouts.
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