Beautiful exposure of Space Launch and Research Centers across the US lead our weekly flavour at all thing crowdfunding , but that ’s not all there is to see – there ’s Lovecraftian Action Comics , in - profoundness flavour at the final season of Star Trek , and a rad webseries about futurist telecasting plot civilisation .
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Bar Star City
This short film is from Afrofuturist film maker and writer Ytasha Womack , and revolves around the patrons of a futuristic boozing hole and their interactions with the multitude around them :
A goddess , a war stager and the captain of a starship meet in a streak …
We ’ve all go away to bars and meet unequaled , quirky personality . But what materialise when ostensibly average people are quite extraordinary ? This film follows several not so average regular of a bar that ’s become a home for the astronomic and well - traveled . A sci fi film with Afrofuturist composition , Bar Star City see at love life , magic , memory and disaffection amongst a chemical group of bar regulars who just want a place to call plate .
recollect the video classicCheers meets Funkadelic ’s Maggot Brain meets that funny dream you had last night that you decide to keep to yourself .
Although no Backer tier up clear you a copy of the celluloid , they do give you opportunities to have memory access to behind the scenes production update from as low as a dollar sign , and other reward include posters signed by Womack ( $ 35 ) as well as an exclusive prequel unretentive story for the picture show write by her ( $ 50 ) .
HAPHEAD
This cool TV serial publication is set in a nigh time to come , where video secret plan tech has gotten so advance that gamers can learn themselves deadly skills through haptic feedback . Gaming Ninjas !
Maxine is a quiet teenaged female child working at a factory that ’s fabricate raw tactual cable stimulation . After she steal one , her best-loved rabbit - ninja plot get a whole mountain more punishing , with the haptic feedback loop beating skills into her muscle computer storage .
But it ’s just a game … until a fellow haphead cause her father ’s expiry . Then she starts to employ her new deadly abilities to finding out why .
A bare 10 of your Canadian Dollars can web you a download of all 8 installment of the webseries , while $ 25 gets you a HD download as well as digital extras , including an eBook – and $ 50 pledges get you all that as well as a copy of Overgrowth , a secret plan that wo n’t sprain you into a ninja in real life , but sport sword - duelling rabbits . account !
Lovecraft: The Blasphemously Large First Issue
What if Lovecraft ’s glum world was real ? And what if Lovecraft himself was a badass monster fighter as well as a novelist ? Both these things are dead on target for this Lovecraftian Action Comic :
Lovecraft is a dirty , gritty story about magick , lusus naturae and the occult . It takes office in a modern - solar day world where H.P. Lovecraft the author never survive but where all the horrors he wrote about are real . In this story , the man named Lovecraft is the humankind ’s foremost sorcerer and alchemist who maintains a secret library of forbidden knowledge which include record like the Necronomicon .
Lovecraft is a Greco-Roman Byronic antihero : “ Mad , bad , and dangerous to know . ” He serve as the semi - loth guardian of mankind , one of the few who can traffic with occult forces without becoming ( totally ) corrupted by them . In his humans , conjuror are a secret refinement within the culture who vie for power and noesis , lead to feud and war that can unleash unspeakable little terror . When they do , Lovecraft is the guy who cleans things up .
$ 10 nets you a digital copy in both PDF and Comixology - ready data formatting , while $ 15 aim you the 48 page issue as a physical comic book .
These Are The Voyages, Volume 3
This archival seem back at the making of the original Star Trek covers the show ’s ( much drag through the mud ) third time of year , full of insight and comment from phonograph record left by Rodenberry as well as interview with the people who were there :
Finally ! The long awaited terminal loudness in the definitive account of the making of the original Star Trek TV Series is quick to go to the printing machine .
A $ 40 toast bring you a signed copy of the third Quran , while cheaper toast get you digital ( $ 15 ) or physical ( $ 35 ) copies of the first two volumes .
Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History
This photo Christian Bible enchant the oddly creepy prospect of give up launching and enquiry facilities for space programs across the US :
Abandoned In Place is a photographic geographic expedition of the American distance launching and inquiry facilities that played a crucial role in the early menses of space geographic expedition . The destination of this undertaking are to keep up and portray these abandoned , deactivated , and repurposed sites through picture taking that surpasses the official governance glide path to support and to add historic and artistic insight to the subject .
The majority of angel rewards are for print from the serial publication , but $ 100 pledges also get a hardback , signed written matter of the full book .
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