Did language evolve as it moved eastward and devolve as it moved westward? Final battlefield as well as the first time the fronts meet: the 'Americas.'

A 100 meter wide dark hole was discovered by the HIRISE camera on the Martian orbiter. It appears to be a 'bottomless' pit, shielding its contents from the atmosphere's harsh radiation levels.

Flaherty cubed. Written by the writer of The Omen and directed by the writer of The Wild Bunch, Hellstrom stars a fictional doctor and exhibits the post-human rulers of planet earth. Winner of the academy award for best documentary.

Did you know 850K Americans hold top-secret security clearance? The Post seizes the moment to explore the post 9-11 security reaction and the monstrous bureaucracy that may be indications of an empire's overreaching. Where has innovation gone? How do you oversee a system that neither Congress nor the Executive branch has full oversight of.

overview: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

Intro Article: projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/

Set in the near and far future, A.I. was to be Kubrick's antithesis to both The Shining and 2001, instead of an odyssey, a fable: on an Earth succumbing to greenhouse ocean encroachment, a boy named David is created mechanically to imitate love on behalf of humans (an indication that humans no longer experience it), he gains greater awareness than his human owners (and creator) of the emotion, is orphaned by expulsion, experiences dire adventures with an opposite (a male robot created to fulfill pleasure instead of love) then escapes all grasp as he comprehends what they do not. His final act is to submerge in the underwater valleys of New York's ruins and patiently await the awakening of a statue of The Blue Fairy (set in the ruins of Luna Park, Coney Island). Thousands of years pass, metaphysically like the stargate infinity or the mute finiteness of Mr. Torrance's frozen still; life becomes extinct on an ice covered earth, the boy's passage is ended when ultra conscious beings, hybrids between robots and living entities, unearth him and allow him a 'day' of consciousness before his data is assimilated. No doubt an adventure Kubrick would have engineered as near satire hovering above calm efficiency, its remains exist inside an oddly sentimental version made by Spielberg. By rendering it for children he collapses the very meaning of the film while keeping its plot largely intact. Was it a test given to him by Kubrick? Thames and Hudson published a coffee table book that showcases how closely Spielberg followed the visuals Kubrick imagined, and incredibly, it proves visuals alone are not the center of any director's craft, we require the tone of interaction. Kubrick was certain David was to be a digital creation as no human could truly imitate a robot.

Could Kubrick have been any more obvious: the mecha discover a scaled-monolith before they find David. The test, how do you get this mega-structure onto a frame 2.33:1?

No doubt interested in more melting Nazis a la Raiders of the Lost Ark, Diller's Paramount regime hired Michael Mann to adapt grand guignol novel The Keep for his second outing following the razor sharp Thief. After his confusing rough cut came in at three hours, Diller ordered belts tightened and scuttled expensive post-effects. The remains are a varied mess that hint at what might have been, the darkest view inside the mysticism of evil.

Below, Lutz's first encounter with the underworld, storyboarded: