Matthew Brown is a talented young artist who creates short videos. Not ordinary short videos mind you but pieces of art that tell a story. Nearly a year ago he visited the Holocaust Museum in Miami Beach, which is home to a series of sculptures by Kenneth Treister, and started filming. The result is a short film called SHOAH. To describe the video ... Read More »

We've all seen the movies and the television shows which portray machines, most notably computers, as sentient beings. Whether they are benign entities like Star Trek's Data or much more malevolent like the Terminator, they have become common place throughout science fiction. But is the possibility of creating a sentient computer really that ... Read More »

If you're a big Stargate SG-1 fan like me you've no doubt wondered about the meaning of certain words or phrases uttered by the Jaffa. For the uninitiated, the Jaffa are the residents of Chulak who serve the Goa'uld as soldiers. Well wonder no more. During my travels around the web I stumbled upon across a couple of interesting sites. Although ... Read More »

Some time ago the Guardian ran a series of photographs by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta. The series involved photos of subjects both before and after death. What makes these photos even more haunting are the interviews Lakotta conducted with each subject prior to his/her passing. The reactions of those interviewed ... Read More »