Below, a list of the entries I’m proudest of, or that best capture what this blog is about. More recent posts are at the top.
- Of Katniss E and Jennifer L (on The Hunger Games and celebrity culture)
- Remembering Ralph McQuarrie
- William Cameron Menzies and the Clumsy Sublime
- What is … Watson? (on the computer that won Jeopardy)
- The Reimagination of Disaster (on the altered ending of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation)
- Word Salad (on lone gunman Jared Lee Loughner)
- Tron: Legacy (at 4000+ words, my lengthiest post)
- Watching Avatar
- British Invasion (on Monty Python)
- A set of posts on Battlestar Galactica (includes the four-part countdown to the series finale)
- Watchmen: Stuck in the Uncanny Valley
- Digital Dogsbodies
- Getting Granular with Setpieces
- Holograms (on CNN’s “holographic reporter” technology)
- Replicants (on Blade Runner)
- Titles on the Fringe (on floating 3D titles)
- Convention in a Bubble (on the 2008 Republican National Convention)
- Technologies of Disappearance (on the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics)
- Singing Along with Dr. Horrible
- Crudeness, Complexity, and Venom’s Bite (on the animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man)
- Planet of the Apes
- Soul of a New Machine (a review of Wall-E)
- Jumper
- Practical Magician (on the death of Stan Winston)
- Indiana Jones and the Unattainable FX Past (on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
- The Id Machine (on Grand Theft Auto)
- Man in the Suit (on the death of Creature from the Black Lagoon‘s Ben Chapman)
- No Stopping the Terminator’s Serial Return (on The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
- Always Under Construction (on advance publicity for J. J. Abrams’s Star Trek reboot)
- Finding a Transmedia “Compass” (on The Golden Compass)
- Beep … Beep … Beep … (on Sputnik and my space-program fandom)
- The One True Enterprise (on encountering the original Star Trek miniature at the National Air and Space Museum)
- Harry Potter 3D (my first post!)