Mondolithic Studios

The oil on canvas painting shown to the right – is titled ‘The Roberts’ after the story it will accompany – and will be featured on this months cover of Gordon Van Gelder’s Fantasy + Science Fiction Magazine.

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I have recieved a few requests to repost the CTV interview we did last year in Vancouver. Incidently, because CTV chose to use the Starwars theme for the backtrack, we recieved a cease and desist order from the friendly lawyers at Lucas Films. Google folded and pulled the interview – Whaaaaatever – but we stand firm. LOL

So, here it is again in Windows Media Format (WMV). There is another interview I did the year before that I have on VHS that we are looking to digitize in the near future.

Peter Grainger interviews Mondolithic – Vancouver, BC 

dWEeB 2.0 On the heels of my ‘Facehook’ post… I present this little gem relayed to me via email early this morning…. its probably done the circuit a few times, but it is brilliant!

By Jeff Hecht for New Scientist Magazine

“How would you like to have your very own shape-shifter? Perhaps a liquid metal T-1000 Terminator to help around the house. Or a universal tool kit that could reshape itself into any implement at the press of a button. For an astronaut in orbit, an army mechanic in remote terrain or even a homeowner trying to fix a furnace on a cold winter night, it could be just the thing.

Well, one day maybe. The traditional approach to building shape-shifting devices has been to use materials based on shape memory alloys, polymer sheets or nanoparticles. But these have proved difficult to control and have other limitations, so researchers have begun taking a different and less exotic tack.”

This weeks illustration is featured in the april 26th edition of New Scientist Magazine.

Is it just me, or does anybody else find Facebook becoming a full time job?

Where do people find the time to fill out questionaires, funwalls and other such things. It is driving me a bit crazy as I am genetically compelled to respond to all of my ‘facehook’ fun requests…  sigh.

I usually do my best to keep up where I can, and with the migration of the ‘websters’ from one ‘hot new social’ package to another – the effort to maintain one online social network with the pressure to jump to another all the while maintaining the previous…. well….. I am just about ready to throw up my arms and delete my various accounts all together – not seriously mind you, but it is a very very tempting thought. 

How about a universal SOCAPP…. What I mean is, a stand alone Social Application that talks to ALL of the social networking packages to one degree or another  -  twitter, facebook, friendster, flickr, etc…. allowing you to create one nice ‘what the heck I am up to’ daily/weekly/monthly written/photo entry that telegraphs and updates your online profiles…. ( I LOVE using this line) how hard can it be….. !!!

Oh wait, they do have one, its called a blog. 

“If it isn’t easy being green on Earth, where chlorophyll is well tuned to absorb most of the energy in our sun’s yellow light, imagine the difficulties elsewhere in the galaxy. Plants growing on worlds around cooler, brighter or more tempestuous stars would need to rely on red, blue or even black pigments to survive. That insight offers astronomers new clues about what to look for in their search for extraterrestrial life. ” Nancy Y. Kiang

Read the full article here.  A slide show of additional artworks created for this awesome article here.

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This week’s illustration(s) are published in the print and online editions of the April 2008 edition of Scientific American Magazine.

Kenn n Chris – Mondolithic Studios

After a somewhat lengthy absence from the web, Chris and I are now back up and running with our new base of operations in Guadalajara, Mexico.