Stephen Hendee’s Flag of North America 2058 CE. I found this image when a friend recommended I look at the work of artist Stephen Hendee. Hendee’s work is laced with sci-fi influences, especially dystopian and doomsday genres. I think this may influence my future work.

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Encounters at the End of the World is technically not a science fiction, but really it fits right in. It is both a pre and post-apocalyptic look into our world. Herzog asks questions about why humanity feels the need to control other animals and nature and to put our fingerprints on everything in the world. He assures us that, according to popular theory, nature will not allow humanity to live on this planet forever.

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Some upcoming down-to-earth-science fiction includes the Leonid Meteor Shower, the utopian vision of Sam Adams Brewery and Jefferson State Brewery, and the Science Pub at McMenamins through OMSI.

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Addressing issues of labor, leisure, and productivity, artist Mads Lynnerup invites members of Troy, NY to take a day for themselves and break from their normal routine.

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Our pollution is getting worse, we are creating a monster. It’s impossible to stop the progress of buying new things and throwing out the old, which is polluting the planet.

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Black Sheep and Night of the Comet are two horror movies that are perfect for curing the Swine Flu Epidemic. The movies will teach you to isolate yourself so you are out of harms way and help you identify who’s infected and who’s not.

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Science Fiction and activism: where the two come together. Think Galactic is an activist sci fi book club. Sleep Dealer is a movie that explores international border control and globalism and Public Social University explores rethinking society before and after an apocalypse.

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An art exhibition about community, collaboration, and alternative and free education in the times of a struggling society.

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Post-Apocalyptic movies portray the destruction of the world. Can we have a post-apocalyptic movie that shows the rebuilding phase, the hard labor, and connecting of communities instead of just ending the movie right when the world is saved or meaning is found?

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Zetaman – a “costume activist” in Portland that finds the needy and clothes them. And another video here. For email subscribers: can’t see the video? click here.

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A handful of links about outerspace, art, beer, utopia, dystopia, and the mix of it all together.

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A few times now I have alluded to an event that happened earlier this year called Utopia – A Science Fiction Marathon. I’ll tell you about it now and maybe it will tie together some of what I’ve been posting on this blog. There were 3 parts to the event. There was a movie session [...]

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Rise (2008) In the future, many of the city’s poorest are forced to live outside in the streets and under bridges. Families are separated at shelters and the police make raids on the street-dwellers. The city’s rulers only grow increasingly concerned with building an aesthetically idyllic city, complete with sky trains, floating walkways, and expansive [...]

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Art students from Portland consider the social implications of making art in a gentrified neighborhood. The movie, The Lathe of Heaven is used for insight.

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