Blade Runner 2019

From The Guardian

You wait 25 years for a new Ridley Scott science fiction film then two come along at once. Not content with hatching a plan to bring Brave New World to the big screen, the British director of Alien and Blade Runner is to adapt Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel The Forever War.

I looks like this will happen before ‘Brave New World.’ It’s taken the guy long enough to notice that his SF movies were his best. Let’s hope he brings us something as interesting and as engaging as Blade Runner and Alien. Read more…

A bit of plugging here. I’ve just completed a couple of Voight-Kampff t-shirts and a mug for myself and thought I’d share. I hope you like them! All proceeds go to keeping the site online!

Voight-Kampff Dark T-Shirt

Voight-Kampff Ringer

Voight-Kampff Logo Mug

Gizmodo review a disturbing look at the future of dead superstars. It would seem that the people that brought you Robosapien have seen fit to create a Nexus Alpha v0.1 of Elvis Presley.

Want to see the Presleycant in action? You can here, but be warned, I found this video nauseating and disturbing.

oobject recently carried an article on futuristic, Blade Runner style buildings in the real world.

Here are 15 of our [favorite Blade Runner style buildings], avoiding Vegas style tacky glitz. We have tried to include some of the more recent architectural projects where the media skin is part of the design itself, rather than merely a billboard.

We have another highly sought after collection for you, today. BR2019 is proud to seed Vangelis: Reflections - Music in the Key of Blade Runner, for your listening pleasure.

Download Link: Vangelis Reflections (torrent) (878)

As well as complete disc and cover images, this torrent contains:

Vangelis - Reflections

Disc 1

01] Creation Du Monde
02] Dawn
03] Freefall
04] 100 Metres
05] Movement 1
06] Spiral
07] Intergalactic Radio Station
08] Fiery The Angels Fell
09] The City
10] My Face In The Rain
11] Ritual
12] We Were All Uprooted
13] Twilight
14] Mare Tranquillitatis
15] Procession
16] Albedo 0.39

Disc 2

01] Le Singe Bleu
02] Himalaya
03] La Mort Du Loup
04] Reve
05] Abraham’s Theme
06] La Mer Recommencee
07] P.S.
08] Antarctic Echoes
09] Prelude
10] Song Of White
11] Rachel’s Song (Vassilis Saleas)
12] Memory Of Antarctica
13] Prelude (Vassilis Saleas)
14] Other Side Of Antarctica
15] Love Theme (Vassilis Saleas)

More torrent action for you today folks. The Sound of Blade Runner is a two disc collection compiled from various sources by Vicente Ibarra of the Yahoo! Blade Runner Soundtrack group, as discussed in a previous article.

Download Link: The Sound of Blade Runner (torrent) (1966)

As well as complete disc and cover images, this torrent contains:

Vangelis - The Sound of Blade Runner

Volume I

01. Br Titles - Workprint
02. Main Titles
03. Leon’s Test
04. Sushi Bar
05. Blade Runner Mission
06. Tyrell Co
07. Rachel
08. Voight Kampff Test
09. Leon’s Apartment
10. Bicycle Riders
11. Chew’s Lab
12. Memories Of Green
13. Pris Meets Sebastian
14. Unicorn Dream
15. Esper Enhancement
16. Animoid Row (Tales Of The Future)
17. Manufactured Skin
18. Taffey’s Club
19. Miss Salome
20. Zhora’s Retirement (Blade Runner Blues)

Volume II

01. One More Kiss Dear
02. I Am The Business
03. Love Theme
04. Morning At The Bradbury
05. Prodigal Son Brings Death
06. Deckard Enters The Bradbury
07. Dangerous Days - Wounded Animals
08. Tears In The Rain
09. Rachel Sleeps
10. End Titles
11. I Dreamt Music - Love Theme - Workprint

Type “about:robots” into your Firefox v3.0 address bar and hit enter for a neat little Easter egg.

Thanks to Nicklas Ingels for pointing this out.

Not using Firefox v3.0? Why ever not?

From gadgets.boingboing.net:

Today BBtv and I headed to the house of artist, designer, and futurist Syd Mead, who graciously let us sit around for a couple of hours and talk about, gosh, everything. It was without a doubt one of the most fantastic days of my life, bouncing ideas and picking the brain about car design, utopianism, and Hollywood. We shot enough video we could cut multiple BBtv episodes (and maybe we will!) but I thought I’d give you guys a little something to tide you over.

So here you go: A one-of-a-kind official LEGO version of Mead’s “Spinner” flying car from Blade Runner, presented to Syd by LEGO when he attended a design summit in Billund. Syd let me pick it up and swoop it around my head like a child.

I have the best job ever.

Thanks again to Xeni, Dana, and Derek (Team BBtv!) for setting up the whole thing. I owe you big.

More images @ gadgets.boingboing.net

Last post, my good friend, Hal Pehlich, sent me over a new Blade Runner poster he’d created. This time we have his atmospheric, coloured version of that poster.

Remember, if you want to buy any of Hal’s prints, contact him on: ssimmons1 (at) shaw.ca and tell him I sent you.

My good friend, Hal, is an exceptional artist, one who always manages to capture his subject’s mood and tone perfectly. This is his third Blade Runner piece. No-one else I know of seems able to do Ford and Hauer justice; Hal’s renditions are always bang on.

Now that I have big-upped the man, if you would like to buy prints, you can contact Hal via email: ssimmons1 ( at ) shaw.ca

To recap Hal’s previous Blade Runner work: