The Fredösphere

Who besides Daniel Wolf is blogging brainily about the process of composing?  If there are others, I want to (I should!) know.  Most recently he's making an analogy about the world-building of speculative fiction and role-playing games.  Yeh got yer composing, yeh got yer SF; perfect.

Next, let's sample some SF video.  First, we return to the most SF country that ever was, the USSR, for an animated interpretation of Ray Bradbury's There Will Fall Soft Rains:


...followed by a Star Trek mashup called A Cavalcade of Redshirt Fatalities:



Finally, we explore two interstitial realms of the almost-real and the almost-fake.  Of the former, Design Observer reverse-engineers the Steampunk movement and finds it wanting, making good points but adopting a regrettable "gatekeeper" tone in the process:  how dare these people design when they're clearly not real designers?!  (I like DO; why do I only link when they annoy me?  Maybe I am the regrettable gatekeeper.) Of the almost-fake, check out these "tilt-shift" photos (more here) that make true cityscapes look like cheesy H0-scale models.  Be-yootiful, and don't miss the skeptics in the comments section.

Labels: Composition, Creativity, fun, Futurism, VideoClip