By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
I met Ethan when he decided to write up an article about Second Skin for the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Ever the gracious reporter he did a fantastic review, and told me all about his then nascent project called “Escape Artists”. It was a book that would have elements about virtual worlds, geeks, gamers, and all sorts of nerd culture.…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Alluda Majaka aka Alluda Mazaaka…! made in 1995 could very well be the best action film you’ve never heard of. Arguably one of the most artistically driven jaw dropping creations I’ve ever seen. It also involves an incredible amount of horse torture, and the filmmakers wanted to let us know they definitely hurt people, animals, and cars to make this…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Popten has been host to some great posts by incredibly talented authors, and until today that was the only way to consume our media. It’s a historic day though ~ today we’re launching a brand new way to experience our talented artists. Popten Art or rather art.popten.net is a completely new section of the magazine where you can check out new painters/inkers/draw-ers/et…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Jackson Five – Can You Feel It
I can’t believe nobody told me about this. This could very well beat out Thriller for me… I’m serious. Here is the story verbatim from Pitchfork >>
Pre-MTV video genius Bruce Gowers hired F/X don Robert Abel to work on this clip for the Jacksons’ big comeback. CGI pioneer Abel– a key contributor to…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Alright so I have to admit that my household now has a yearly subscription to US Weekly, and I’m absolutely fixated on celebrities. Not that I wasn’t before, but now I feel bombarded gossip.
For six dates Jessica Simpson has been courting Billy Corgan. They just recently split, and the reason why Corgan says was because (drum roll), “We were both…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
If you know me then you know I love animation, and especially have been interested in the video essay variety for my own personal work. Recently British think-tank Demos teamed up with creative agency Airside to create “The Power Gap,” that surveys the history of power structures in Western society. The concept is unbelievably well executed, and I just wish it gave…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
I ended up jumping into some music that may not be as well traversed as it usually is. So I figured the only right thing to do was share some new electro, hip hop, and smoothness. Alright the last song on the mix is very mainstream, but I do drive around in a car listening to Top 40’s from time…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
In yet more incredible Tiger Woods news it turns out he was giving out $5 – 10k per month to his harem of ladies in hush money. The level at which he ran his love life like a business is absolutely amazing to me. I find it interesting that he was working so hard on so many ladies. Its like…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…