Zombie apocalypse today: Miami man goes insane and eats another man’s face off

I thought this was a joke but it’s for real. Last Saturday, in Miami, police found a naked maniac lying on the ground chewing the face off a victim – who was still alive. The victim apparently lost his nose, eyeballs and lower face in the gruesome attack. . Surveillance cameras capture the moment a [...]

Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Today: Big Dog by Boston Dynamics, robot technology in motion

Getting there Not a lot you can really say about this, although I do wonder how silent the thing is when yomping alongside a squad of infantry. Good pack mule, I guess. And definitely scores highly on the best impression of a drunk deer when kicked; but impressive recovery ability, all the same. . . [...]

What time is it? Very clever…

Click on the image to view Film footage tied to internal clock on computer to present an analogue version of digital display . See more posts like this – click David J Rodger – DATA

Deer-shaped electricity pylon concept by Moscow-based Design Depot – idea for Winter Olympics in Sochi

Why even debate? Let’s do this in the UK now! Fantastic deer-shaped electricity pylon concept by Moscow-based design studio Design Depot. My Russian language skills are non-existent and the Google Translator is a little ambiguous, but the concept appear to be ideas for making Sochi ready for the Winter Olympics. . . I don’t mind the [...]

Video Vault – The Max Headroom Show – 80s pop music vids: Season Two – episode 3

This is part of a collection of posts documenting the music videos aired on TV in the mid-80s by this fantastic icon of cyberpunk culture – Max Headroom. It’s a big nostalgia trip for me: hope you enjoy some of the vids too. The Max Headroom Show (1985) was a music video gig, with a [...]

Video: Paddling kayak #FAIL Bristol Harbour UK…

…until pirate woman falls in and makes bizarre SUCCESS April 2012 My good friend Doc Toc and I were chilling out one evening on the Grain Barge – a fab little floating bar / converted boat that sits moored up on the edge of Bristol harbour (UK). We were supping the delicious locally brewed dark [...]

Review: A Pleasing Terror – readings of two M.R. James Ghost stories by Nunkie Production Company

Utterly Fantastic I’ve just got back from an incredible experience.  Sitting here, in my Sky Bunker, my senses are only partially attentive to the glow of electric lights, the deep red of my lava lamp and several occasional lamps around the large room; the stereo is on but it’s just background noise for company up [...]

Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Today ¦ astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson in deep contemplation of Earth from the ISS #wallpaper

Orbital colonist looks down on an old home This is an amazing image. Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson gazing upon the Earth from the dome of the International Space Station.  It really slams home how far this fleshy, hairy, aggressive species has come in the last century. I wonder if the increasingly rare trait of compassion [...]

Incredible story: 1986, Peter Davies saves a young bull elephant…

In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in  Kenya after graduating from  Northwestern  University . On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants [...]

Health & Safety Executive try to tackle the fetid quagmire of the Cthulhu Mythos

Evocation Instructions In much the same way that the Health & Safety Executive try to sanitize the experience of going through a plane crash by portraying generic happy looking people calmly going through the actions necessary to (preserve dental records for identification of charred and shattered bodies). This little piece of good advice appeared on [...]

Photography ¦ Evolution, an image by Sydney based photographer Jonathan May

A leash must be worn at all times . This photo of a dog walking a woman on a leash is one of many surreal, quirky and playful images created by Sydney based photographer Jonathan May.  As some folks pamper their pets more than their partners, it could be construed as a future glimpse of [...]

Cyberpunk Photography and Fashion: Icon by Terrorcat

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. Another simple yet striking image by Terrorcat. A fusion of industrial club culture [...]

Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Culture Today: Place Hackers ¦ Urban Explorers ¦ Roof-Worlders

Europe – place hacking “capital” of the world. . Europe. Structures of iron, steel and stone old enough to have begun the process of visible decay.  Such things exist in Russia and North America. It seems some of the International Place Hacking scene prefer Europe. Europe has a softer touch when it comes to any [...]

Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Today: Kolja Kugler, Berlin sculptor creates bass playing robot

Over recent months there’s been a signficant increase of media time focussing on new developments in bipedal (humanoid) robotics.  They’re definitely “just over the horizon” in terms of being commercially viable. Usually you see them gleaming under bright pin lights, all white carbo-plastic and synethic alloy components, a fusion of engineering and science-fiction design. But [...]

Social suggestion for the 2012 Easter bank holiday: Medieval Fayre at Glastonbury, England

Jousting ¦ Archery ¦ Hog Roast ¦ Battles & Mead It’s that time of the year when everything in the UK shuts down for four days, an extended weekend. I’m avoiding any major journey’s like the plague as half the country will probably be sitting stewing in packed vehicles, on the slow crawl of motorways [...]

New Tunes: Swim, by Caribou

Uplifting music for interesting moments in time . I found this album months and months ago during one of my periodic trawls for new and diverse tunes. I keep a notepad .txt file with tons of URLS of things I’ve heard samples of but don’t get the instant WOW factor. Which isn’t a bad thing. [...]

Literally Visual Humour: nunchucks – a neologism

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Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Technology – Today ¦ Wearable Heads-Up Display expands lifestyle options, sneak preview of Project Glass from Google [X]

This is a cool little video providing a visual portrayal of a concept that the smart folks at Google [X] group are working towards bringing into reality. Project Glass. . It’s not an earth-shattering piece of tech or a stratospherically original concept: i’ve been using it under the name of DVFrames (Data-Vision) in my Sci-Fi Cyberpunk [...]

Music News: Dead Can Dance launching new album and world tour for 2012

The group that shaped the early days of my creative output . To say that I’m excited is an understatement of the same scale as saying the Universe is kind of big.  Dead Can Dance – Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, the Father Dagon and Mother Hydra of the strange, ethereal, haunting and eerie – [...]

Funny video: Cat fights off a dog with lightsaber

Starts a bit slow but then is likely to make you spray out that mouthful of coffee you’ve just taken a gulp of. Uploaded by Vostren. . See more posts like this – click David J Rodger – DATA