(Jada Toys is making one too)
Showing posts with label cyberpunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyberpunk. Show all posts
Monday, July 28, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Saturday, September 28, 2024
"Hacker's Cradle" illustration
Hackers cradle, for ecopunk2044 pic.twitter.com/2M07HvcHXz
— MEAT (@NicBoone) September 24, 2024
For this TTRPG, I assume
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Cyberpunk Trauma Team helmet
Love the design on these characters, and Miguel Valderrama's art on the comic:
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Cookware with a Sandevistan
Finally, cookware that will fucking kick my ass pic.twitter.com/i2hRZgS0mB
— Oppenheimer style (@misachowder) February 16, 2024
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Bruce Sterling's 1993 nonfiction book "The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier" is available for free download
It has a foreword that explains why it's available for free download. From the Amazon listing for the updated version:
Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. From the crash of AT&T’s long-distance switching system to corporate cyberattacks, he investigates government and law enforcement efforts to break the back of America’s electronic underground in the 1990s. In this modern classic, “Sterling makes the hackers - who live in the ether between terminals under noms de net such as VaxCat - as vivid as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. His book goes a long way towards explaining the emerging digital world and its ethos” (Publishers Weekly).This edition features a new preface by the author that analyzes the sobering increase in computer crime over the twenty-five years since The Hacker Crackdown was first published.
Monday, January 23, 2023
A streamer set up fish to play Pokemon, but the game crashed to desktop, so it changed his account name, made a purchase, and exposed his password
Via Ryan Broderick, who also had this grim observation in his latest roundup of internet news:
the internet is giant machine that turns harassment against women into advertising revenue
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
New book cover for Neuromancer, and some other cyberpunk odds and ends
Cover of the latest Turkish edition. Anybody for a backpiece? pic.twitter.com/1F84avyIjl
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) November 11, 2022
Bonus cyberpunk:
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
"Wild Palms," the deranged cyberpunk soap opera that ran on ABC in 1993, and the comic it's based on, are free online
I sought this out after hearing it mentioned in this round table discussion with some of the creators of cyberpunk:
The tv series was based on the comic of the same name that ran in Details magazine. Written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen, it has a few panels like this:
Otherwise the comic was mostly about a mid-level Hollywood player hobnobbing with celebrities like Carrie Fisher instead of spending time with his family, doing tons of drugs, and experiencing a lot of paranoid fantasies. It's very specific to life in Hollywood for a wealthy white guy in the early 90's. Archive.org has the entire strip, which is also available at ebay.
The tv series was produced by Wagner and Oliver Stone, and featured an all-star cast. It took many of the characters and bizarre moments from the strip and used them to populate a story about a struggle to stop an evil senator, who is also the leader of a cult, from acquiring cutting edge Japanese augmented reality to take over the world.
Angie Dickinson and Ben Savage play two of the hyperviolent villains:
Moments in virtual reality include a galloping computer virus and Jim Belushi arming himself for a day of work (silly and ugly, but sadly optimistic in light of Facebook trying to promote VR with green-eyed Zuckerberg avatars 30 years later):
Youtube has the entire series, which is also available at Amazon:
Major outlets like Variety, Entertainment Weekly, and the Washington Post described it as a cross between Blade Runner and Twin Peaks, only with a narrative far superior to the one in Twin Peaks. But every choice in the show, including line delivery and music, is absolutely bizarre. I watched every moment.
There was also an accompanying Wild Palms Reader, a sort of faux-scrapbook from the Wild Palms universe, featuring loud graphics and short writings from an eclectic group including Bruce Sterling, Lemmy Kilmister, and William Gibson (who also had a brief and awkward cameo in the show as himself).
He wrote a bit about in 2006:
While the mini-series fell drastically short of the serial, it did produce one admirably peculiar literary artifact, The Wild Palms Reader, edited by Roger Trilling and Stuart Sweezey . . . .This Reader managed to pre-figure some of the most eldritch vibes of Bush-era neoconservatism, and indeed the series can be imagined as making a very different kind of sense, at the time, if only Clinton hadn't been elected.
Only for Wild Palms superfans. Available at Amazon.
Friday, June 17, 2022
Bruce Sterling's short story "Taklamakan" is great
It's about two spies with futuristic tech exploring a remote desert in China, and saying more would spoil the fun. I just picked up two of his books at Amazon for $1.99:
Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling is 647 pages, including Taklamakan.
Schismatrix Plus was nominated for the Nebula.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
An adorable take on Ringu; Webcomic about librarians struggling with book bans; Cyberpunk 2077 portraits
What’s on my desk right now. For my July solo with @Galleries1988 alongside @EdMironiuk . We’re painting and poking up monsters, baddies and cryptids. This is inspired by Ringu. #ringu #horror #cuddlyrigormortis #vhs pic.twitter.com/NYig7KYAjd
— Cuddly Rigor Mortis (@cuddlyrigormort) February 4, 2022
Monday, December 7, 2020
Balenciaga created a cyberpunk walking simulator to show off its new collection
The hinged, meticulously hammered metal suit evokes a far and unimaginable future by invoking a far and long forgotten past. Like armor on another scale, silver sequined items resemble dragon skin or a tangle of icicles, at once hard and delicate.NASA logos from disparate eras suggest retro astronaut-wear from a time before mass space travel, repurposed into futuristic outerwear.
Friday, December 20, 2019
Cyberpunk shower; Power outlet-sized office; Using staples and potato chips to make architectural models
TIL that the shower for the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Ginza is effectively ... in the street / garage. It’s so blade runner as to feel like the building is doing blade runner cosplay. pic.twitter.com/qhiyIR6gkU
— Craig Mod (@craigmod) December 19, 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Shadow of the Colossus cosplay; Spin move takes out the whole team; Cyberpunk games need these stats
"Malus is the final boss from the 2006 PS2 classic, Shadow of the Colossus. The game has always been incredibly close to my heart. I have a tattoo of the symbol from the game on the back of my neck." -- @angrympixi— cosplay in america (@cosplayamerica) October 9, 2019
READ REST https://t.co/ox0tkXgQFR pic.twitter.com/zS9J9ydJxi
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) October 2, 2019
Nintendo Office bathroom signs are quality as well. pic.twitter.com/jpznZN97oz— Tom Drake (@toomian) October 2, 2019
— 𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙚𝙞𝙩𝙯 (@johanpeitz) September 14, 2019
cyberpunk rpg with two stats, tired & wired. tired represents ur disillusionment w the capitalist hellscape & wired represents ur cool cyberware— riley rethal 🔜 doikayt & bbc & multiverse! (@jaceaddax) October 5, 2019
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