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• Recommended: WALL-E 9:54 am June 29, 2008
  Filed Under: Recommended Media/Film, Recommended Media, Speculative Fiction/SF Films, Speculative Fiction, Top Post

  Do you remember that Disney CG film Dinosaurs? It’s original concept involved a feature length movie with animals that only emoted, and never spoke.  Having always been a big fan of computer animation, I was excited at the early rumors of the film.  Unfortunately, Disney execs got involved and the result was the talky-travesty that [...]

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• Five reasons this book trailer rocks 9:37 am June 22, 2008
  Filed Under: Graphic Design, Speculative Fiction/SF Business, Top Post

  I forget where I got this, but I think that it’s the level of quality I’d like to see in more book trailers online:

  Having Tim Curry as a narrator is probably outside of the range of what we can afford as SF/F writers, but still.  Let’s go over what makes this awesome:

  Tight pacing. 2 minutes [...]

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• Photowalk: Coyote Ridge 4:29 pm June 4, 2008
  Filed Under: Photography, Top Post

  Located 15 minutes south of Fort Collins, Coyote Ridge is a natural area consisting if a couple hundred acres of prairie. A trail runs from the road up across several ridges. Today, I walked to the base of the second ridge before coming back. I’ll make the full hike to the end [...]

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• Five Unconventional Zine Model Ideas 10:44 am May 21, 2008
  Filed Under: Speculative Fiction/SF Business, Speculative Fiction/SF Publishers, Speculative Fiction, Top Post

  The Dream Zine?
  I hear what you’re thinking, “You mean your dream magazine wasn’t the Fortean Bureau?” At the time, it was everything I could make it be with the constraints (financial, content, format) I worked under. And even though the magazine is on semi-permanent hiatus, I still follow the publishing side [...]

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• An (Incomplete) Survey of Current Genre Magazine Covers 2:33 pm May 9, 2008
  Filed Under: Graphic Design, Speculative Fiction/SF Business, Top Post, Uncategorized

  Paul Raven made a comment today on his blog comparing the artwork on a couple of different magazine covers. Warren Ellis has recently been on about cover design as well. So I thought today, I’d look at the latest batch of covers for every magazine I could remember, and write some generalized thoughts [...]

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