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Squirrel-riding Daryl Dixon heralds The Walking Dead‘s return

The Walking Dead wakes from its brief dirt nap tonight, refreshed and ready to shower us with zombie guts. Celebrate with Daryl Dixon and this absurd portrait by Dena Jarrar, and chat about tonight’s episode here. If you’re looking to see more Walking Dead artwork, head over to the Hero Complex Gallery (either online or…

io9 Lauren Davis

Nothing Left to Fear is a bland trip to a Kansas Hellmouth

Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash makes his directorial production debut with Nothing Left to Fear, about a preacher and his family who arrive in the rural town of Stull to start a new life. But even a Hellmouth can’t make this little horror town interesting. According to real-life local folklore, a graveyard in Stull, Kansas,…

Movies Lauren Davis

These Stars May Look Mellow But They’re Resisting A Huge Black Hole

Nothing is ever as tranquil as it seems. This image is pretty and has lots of fun, trippy colors. But all of that variation is being produced by gas, dust and other matter as whole galaxies fall into a supermassive black hole. Created from Hubble data, the image shows the cosmic tug-of-war going on in…

Space & Spaceflight Lily Hay Newman

Let the moon be your guide to the Falling Skies Season 4 trailer

We were disappointed by the end of Falling Skies’ third season, but the trailer for Season Four comes with some intriguing images, including hazy flashes of a school filled with kids in military-style uniforms and a silver-haired woman with her eyes on the moon. [via Coming Soon]

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Carrie trailer works surprisingly well with Cinderella footage

YouTuber Cracker76 has placed footage from Disney’s Cinderella over the audio from the Carrie remake trailer, recasting Julianne Moore’s Margaret White as the wicked stepmother. This mashup does make a weird bit of sense; after all, from Carrie’s perspective, she seems briefly to be living a high school Cinderella story. Of course, Carrie’s prom has…

Movies Lauren Davis

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Are Lurking In Warm Florida Waters

This is just rough. A man who was setting crab traps in the saltwater Halifax River last week is the latest victim in a string of Florida deaths caused by the flesh-eating Vibrio Vulnificus bacteria. Vibrio Vulnificus is not new to Florida or the Gulf Coast region, and is garnering attention precisely because of a…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Brutal short about the futility of surviving a zombie apocalypse

If you’re seriously jonesing for The Walking Dead, the short film Perished might just hold you until tonight. A lone survivor must cope with his terror if he wants to avoid starvation among the zombies. Stefan A. Radanovich and Aaron McCann wrote, directed, and produced Perished, which showed last year at SXSW. It’s a pretty…

io9 Lauren Davis

Vampire Explores the Perils of Online Dating and Gothic Cosplay

In Shunji Iwai’s low-key thriller, Vampire, Kevin Zegers (Dawn of the Dead, Gossip Girl) plays Simon, a high school biology teacher and eponymous vampire who stalks suicidal women online and arranges to meet them so they can “die together”—by which, of course, he means “ladies first.” As the film opens, Simon meets a young woman…

io9 Jason Shankel

New Sleepy Hollow footage changes everything!

Sleepy Hollow debuted the first half of an upcoming episode at New York Comic-Con this weekend and it revealed a whole new twist for the characters. Spoilers ahead. Alex Kurtzman, Len Wiseman, Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones and Katia Winter joined together on stage to show a little preview and talk a little Sleepy…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What’s Your Most Positive Tech Support Experience?

One time I called Time Warner customer service because the internet was out in my apartment. The man I spoke to was friendly. He had information about an outage in my area. He had an estimate of how long it would be before service was restored. And he was allowed to tell me that estimate.…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Ghostly Thermal Imaging Portraits are Eerie and Fascinating

A few years ago, photographer Linda Alterwitz was inspired by an episode of Cops to start taking photos using a borrowed thermographic camera. The results are compelling and a bit eerie. The photo above is Alterwitz’s German Shepherd, Ruby. This photo is part of Alterwitz’s Thermal Series, specifically the canine subseries. Shot with the thermographic…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Pencils Are Even More Deadly When They’re Actually Steel Nails

The thing I appreciate about The Slingshot Channel is that it always brings projects two or three iterations past what I would ever think to pursue. The pencil shooter Joerg made last week was more of a curiosity. Not the most deadly thing we’ve seen by a long shot. See what I did there? Anyway,…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Crowdfund the reprinted adventures of Canada’s first superheroine

This week, we have a few groups of people looking to bring historic works of art to a modern audience. There are the reprinted adventures of Nelvana, a superheroine from Canada’s Golden Age, a publication of 19th-century illustrations for Poe’s “The Raven,” and a documentary about a famed Victorian taxidermist. Nelvana of the Northern Lights:…

io9 Lauren Davis

Artist hangs his paintings inside a gallery owner’s ear

An unusual art show opened yesterday in a very tiny space: inside the ear of a gallery owner. Conceptual artist Joe Sola’s exhibition of itty bitty oil portraits is less about the paintings than their venue. It sounds like the subject of a magical realist story, or an eccentric detail from a science fiction travelogue,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Weirdly, A Reverse To-Do List Makes A Lot of Sense

It’s fun to check things off of a to-do list, but often what’s more important is remembering when you last did something. Is it time to change the water filter? Get a new toothbrush? Go to the doctor? If you had something in your calendar the last time you did it, it’s fairly easy to…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

A short film about an undercover space agent—or a boy in mourning

Young Simon tells his audience that he’s the Governor General of the Ramada Space Corps, an alien who has been sent to infiltrate Earth and awaits the return of his superiors. But the truth may be more than his brain is prepared to accept. Graham Tallman’s Codename: Simon is a quiet exploration of the stories…

io9 Lauren Davis

What was worse: SNL‘s Gravity sketch or the Armageddon sketch?

Oh, Saturday Night Live. You saw fit to give us not one but two space-themed sketches during last night’s episode, including one that referenced the NASA shutdown. Unfortunately, they were both terrible. Apologies to folks in non-Hulu regions. Combining Gravity with the NASA furlough was promising, and could have made for a really smart, politically…

io9 Lauren Davis

A Robotic Petting Zoo Is Just as Creepy-Awesome as it Sounds

Petting zoos are fun, but they can also be kind of sketchy. Is that rabbit being attacked by too many five-year-olds? Is that goat depressed? It’s awkward. But if the tactile experience were coming from robots and AI you might really be able to enjoy yourself. Conveniently the London-based architecture and design studio Minimaforms, known…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

The Most Ridiculous Mystical Pregnancies in Fiction

The magic pregnancy is a staple science fiction and fantasy fiction. Whether it’s the impending birth of a savior, the coming of some form of Antichrist, or some kind of experiment, speculative fiction has been the home of a lot of ridiculous stories of pregnancy and birth. Here are the most absurd ones. Last week,…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Is There A 12-Inch Retina MacBook in the Pipeline?

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has released predictions about Apple’s future laptop plans. Most notably he is forecasting that a 12-inch MacBook with a retina display will be announced in mid-2014, and that it will have a redesigned clamshell that is thinner and lighter than the current MacBook Airs. This is still definitely in…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Squirrel-riding Daryl Dixon heralds The Walking Dead‘s return

Nothing Left to Fear is a bland trip to a Kansas Hellmouth

These Stars May Look Mellow But They’re Resisting A Huge Black Hole

Let the moon be your guide to the Falling Skies Season 4 trailer

Carrie trailer works surprisingly well with Cinderella footage

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Are Lurking In Warm Florida Waters

Brutal short about the futility of surviving a zombie apocalypse

Vampire Explores the Perils of Online Dating and Gothic Cosplay

New Sleepy Hollow footage changes everything!

What’s Your Most Positive Tech Support Experience?

Ghostly Thermal Imaging Portraits are Eerie and Fascinating

Pencils Are Even More Deadly When They’re Actually Steel Nails

Crowdfund the reprinted adventures of Canada’s first superheroine

Artist hangs his paintings inside a gallery owner’s ear

Weirdly, A Reverse To-Do List Makes A Lot of Sense

A short film about an undercover space agent—or a boy in mourning

What was worse: SNL‘s Gravity sketch or the Armageddon sketch?

A Robotic Petting Zoo Is Just as Creepy-Awesome as it Sounds

The Most Ridiculous Mystical Pregnancies in Fiction

Is There A 12-Inch Retina MacBook in the Pipeline?

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