…still no time to finish the comic I started like a month ago.
What is this world coming to, anyway???….
Okay, perhaps I should explain what the quote in the picture means. For someone on the interior of a black hole, the rest of the Universe essentially lies in their past.
So basically for this black hole’s insides, everyone else’s future has already happened. So that part of him is definitely shell-shocked from seeing all the tragedies that await all his buddies on the outside.
Our Capstone film got awarded gold at the SCAD Senior Showcase last night. I’m honestly so floored and so incredibly grateful to have been able to work with such an amazing team these past six months! All the films in the showcase were amazing and I hope everyone knows how proud they should be of all of their hard work. Congrats to the other awardees: Cambrian Explosion and Pandamonium on bronze, Juanion on silver, and Mandrake for best of show!!!! Congrats to the entire graduated class of 2020!!!! We did it!!!!
Event Horizon will be released on 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) in Steelbook packaging on August 9 via Paramount. The 1997 sci-fi/horror film is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Death Race) directs from a script by Philip Eisner (Mutant Chronicles). Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, and Joely Richardson star.
Event Horizon has been restored in 4K and features Dolby Vision HDR with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio. A semi-transparent slipcover is included. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the full Steelbook art.
Special features (on Blu-ray disc):
Audio commentary by director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt
The Making of Event Horizon - 5 featurettes
The Point of No Return - The Filming of Event Horizon with commentary by director Paul W.S. Anderson
Secrets with optional commentary by director Paul W.S. Anderson
The Unseen Event Horizon - the unfilmed rescue scene, plus concept art
Original trailer
Seven years ago, pioneering research spacecraft “Event Horizon” mysteriously vanished without a trace on its maiden voyage. But then, in the darkness of deep space, a persistent signal prompts a rescue crew to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission. What they uncover is an unimaginable interstellar horror that will test the entire team’s sanity and souls.
Not long ago haberdasheratwork asked me what I thought of the Event Horizon, this was, all kidding aside, the first ship that ever gave me nightmares, the first time I watched this it stuck for all the right reasons.
My love of spaceships aside, this vessel travelled to hell, and back, through a dimensional jump drive while attempting to transit to a nearby star system.
It scared the life out of me and I wanted to write a reply but I feel the images do a lot to build a picture of the ship and give you a visualisation of how it looked and felt.
The story truly was on the terrifying side, but anyway, the ship. The Event Horizon was an eerie vessel, I liked it, you just knew through the film and time with it something was not right.
Then you find out after the ship vanished, it literally went to hell and back, and turns into a living incarnation of pure evil.
[EVENT HORIZON] is a science-fiction-horror story, set far into a future in which humans are not alone in a hostile galaxy.
The Failsafe has been activated. War lingers on the horizon. Five years ago, you were one of the last people to be selected for the Failsafe and Final Stand Programs. You were frozen in time, placed into orbit at the edge of the solar system. And now, you’re hurtling through space towards a ship you’ve never seen before. The Nomad. A secret mission beyond the edge of the solar system, to stop the Enemy before they can begin their second invasion. A suicide mission. A point of no return.
Read more about Event Horizonhere. Play the Demo hereorhere. Brigid is also the author of Lost Birds (link) and CLOSEDLOOP(link).
[INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT UNDER THE CUT!]
Q1 - Please, introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your project(s)!
Hi! I’m Brigid, and I’m a writer, artist, and overworked college student, dabbling in writing IF. I’ve got quite a few projects in the works- all science-fiction, all overly ambitious.
Event Horizon is my main project; the story of crew as mysterious as they are doomed, on a one-way mission to stop the second alien invasion before it can even happen. It’s a work of cosmic horror, split off into three massive “timelines”, each of which showcases a different aspect of humanity (or lack thereof)- to fight, to change, to remember.
lost birds is a side project; a story told in many voices, all revolving around the end of the world and what comes after. Set nine years after the apocalypse, in the American Southwest, it concerns itself with a dead Ranger’s quest for revenge- or something you can convince yourself isn’t revenge- across the strange new wasteland, a world as hostile as it is beautiful.
CLOSEDLOOP is another side project; a fast-paced, cyberpunk-inspired tear through a dystopic City. Trapped in a time loop by someone or something calling itself “Control”, the MC- just an average Citizen- navigates a day that repeats forever- and the consequences thereof.
In the near-ish future, I intend to publish a VN centered around the concepts of ecological succession, loneliness, persistence, and growth- a culmination of interests, and a capstone project for my art program.
Q2 - What or who are some of your biggest inspirations?
I’m unsurprisingly a huge sci-fi nerd, and it shows. Things like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar, Annihilation, Mass Effect, and many, many of the pulp sci-fi novels I read as a teen and young adult inspire my love of science-fiction.
Furthermore, my area of study (other than art) is ecology, so nature and the “nature of things” take huge precedence in my works for better or worse. Honestly, anything that captures my attention and thoughts are grounds for inspiration, things like poetry, tarot, paintings, music, obscure scientific theory, philosophical concepts. Or plants. Like 80% of my Event Horizon “research” was a Wikipedia plant rabbit-hole.
Q3- What excites you most about IF? What drew you to the medium?
I ran into IF completely at random- some artists I follow and look up to had posted art of IF characters and settings. Previously, I’d written short stories and bad notes app poetry, but this was more of chance to expand my horizons (pardon the pun). IF excites me because I get to make things- plain and simple. There’s a joy to creating these characters, worlds, and stories- and in interacting with them- I hadn’t even known was possible until I found IF.
Q4 - Are your characters influenced by your identity? How?
Yes, absolutely. I write what I want to see, and to me, that’s greater gender diversity and WLW/NBLW representation in the realm of science fiction.
Science-fiction is male dominated, with a majority of authors and characters being male. The female characters I grew up with were token “girl on the team” characters, and nonbinary characters were often just robots or aliens, or other non-human characters. I wanted to do better for people who were like me, women and other nonbinary people. I wanted to create competent and multidimensional characters who didn’t have to identify or appear as men to be treated as such.
As a lesbian, I like writing WLW and NBLW characters. I didn’t really grow up with that representation, and when it was present, it felt wrong, usually because it was written off as a joke, or for men by men. By no means are the relationships I write between women (or the women themselves) perfect- but they come from a place of genuine care and nuance, and I sincerely hope the care I put into my characters and their relationships shows throughout my work.
Q5 - What are you most excited about sharing related to your project?
The move to Twine as a medium has been, by far, the most exciting thing to happen to my projects. I’ve got a lot more fine-tuned control over the way I get to present my work- and I’m just starting out, there’s a lot more I can learn.
As far as content goes- there are a few major updates to Event Horizon and CLOSEDLOOP coming this summer, which I’m trying so hard not to spoil just yet.
Q6 - What would you like to see more of in LGBT+ fiction/IF community?
Is it selfish to say more WLW/NBLW characters and relationships written by women and nonbinary people?
Just in general, diverse authors writing diverse stories in a number of genres, anything and everything from slice-of-life to science- fiction.
Q7- Lastly, what advice would you give to your creators and readers?
Be persistent.
First drafts are first drafts for a reason; there is always room for improvement, you just have to be persistent enough to see or seek improvement. Stay curious, enjoy your work, and let the world as a whole inspire you. Make what you’d like to see, most of all. You’re the only one who can truly tell your story.
*Contractor Voice* “Ooooh. Okay, see there’s your problem right there. You see that rift in space/time the gravity drive made? The one linking our universe to an eldritch dimension the human mind can’t comprehend? Yea, that’s not supposed to be there.”
“You humans build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!”
