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 […]

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