Author Archive
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Believe, and Be Happy: An Interview with John Ryan, George Dunford and Simon Sellars
by Andres Vaccari
Illustration by Mik Ruff, taken from Micronations: The Lonely Planet
Guide to Home-made Nations.
Welcome to Part Two of Sleepy Brain’s Micronational Bonanza, in which we continue to shine a spotlight on Lonely Planet’s new guide to Micronations: Home-made Nations. According to the book’s introduction, the guide is “a journey across the world and into […]
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Sunday, August 1st, 2004
Listening to the Mind
review by Andres Vaccari
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One of the most exciting things about the digital age is the close collaboration of art and science in areas like the visual arts, animation, architecture and music. It is true that art and science have always been sisters (look at Leonardo DaVinci, for example). But with the arrival of the modern […]
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2003
The Shadow & The Swarm
by Andrés Vaccari
Image by Carla Gottgens
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Andres Vaccari’s tale of fear, madness, the unfathomable nature of existence and perception and, of course, the End of the World – as seen through the eyes of an insect. Stare into the void with this modern existential classic…
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It comes with no warning, shadowing the earth like the wings of […]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2003
They Live
by Andrés Vaccari
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Retrospecto is an irregular series raking over the coals of the past… (originally published in Abaddon magazine)
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John Carpenter makes two kinds of film: brilliant ones and absolutely awful ones. They Live, fortunately, is one of the former. In this criminally underrated sci-fi classic, the evil aliens have surreptitiously invaded earth and camouflaged themselves […]
