J.G. Ballard, 15.11.1930 - 19.04.2009

Sunday, April 19, 2009

"...I feel that the balance between fiction and reality has changed significantly in the past decades. Increasingly their roles are reversed. We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass-merchandizing, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the pre-empting of any original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality."

– from an introduction to the French edition of Crash, 1974

Fetish Model Friday - KumiMonster

Saturday, November 15, 2008

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Long Live The New Flesh

Sunday, June 1, 2008

David Cronenberg made some of the most insightful shock-horror films of the 1980s. Few mainstream critics understood that while Cronenberg's material was distributed as schlocky B-movies, the themes he was exploring were much deeper and more insightful. His stories are about psychological transformation through physical transformation, the evolution of the human body through technology, and the constant violence and sexuality that runs through the human consciousness. Mad Science indeed. Cronenberg is one gateway into subject matter for which The Director is organizing new investigations. Further details will follow.



An important note on Shivers: whereas most 'infection horror' movie plots involve government experiments gone wrong, or biological alien invasions, the sex-zombie parasites of Shivers were deliberately created by a deranged scientist, who leaves his explanation in a suicide note. Brilliance!

At last, the kink... or is it?

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Some may be wondering, where's the kink? MadScience Labs is, after all, a place you can purchase kinky items for your virtual activities. But patience, dear reader. We are exploring a theme here, and the individual items will hang together as a whole in time. Hopefully.

Let's begin with some of the bleeding edge. (Literally?) Saturno Buttò is a Venetian artist whose themes are a crossroads of Renaissance classicism, mythological figures, and medical fetish iconography. His work glorifies the surgical clamp. http://www.saturnobutto.com/




Meanwhile, the browsing of Buttò's work goes well with the new FREE Nine Inch Nails album The Slip. Mr Reznor sounds just like always, but that's good. And "100% Free" is pretty damn good, too. http://theslip.nin.com/