Eric Molinsky appears in the following:
Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Marlon Brando Get Inked
Monday, September 08, 2014
Covered in tattoos, these Hollywood royals look more like friends you might grab a drink with at your local pub.
Aha Moment: Ditching Punk for Opera
Friday, August 22, 2014
A punk rocker teen thought 18th century costumes had major Goth appeal. When she saw them on stage in an opera, she fell in love with a new (old) style of music.
User-Unfriendly Objects
Monday, August 18, 2014
Katerina Kamprani’s work has been described as vindictive, sadistic, frustrating, and twisted. You might use those words, too, if you tried on her rain boots (with an open toe), sat i...
NYC Water Towers: A New Canvas for Artists
Monday, August 11, 2014
Starting this month, more than a hundred of them will be covered in artwork created by Jeff Koons, Maya Lin, and other artists - all to raise awareness of global water problems.
The Power of Positive Sci-Fi
Friday, July 18, 2014
Has our fiction grown too fond of dystopia? Sci-fi great Neal Stephenson thinks so. He’s building a community of writers who are willing to start from a truly far-fetched premise: wha...
The SimCity of Tomorrow
Friday, July 18, 2014
One of the longest-running and most successful video game franchises, SimCity, draws on current trends to imagine life in a simulated future. In its latest iteration, gamers have a ch...
Hacking the Climate
Friday, July 18, 2014
Geoengineering — tampering with the Earth’s climate — is a sci-fi idea that could very well become a reality. But it’s controversial, because it’s impossible to know the long-term eff...
Annalee Newitz: The Future Is Coming to Get You
Friday, July 04, 2014
Scientists and science writers can rattle off all the sci-fi that inspired them to build great things. But Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, thinks that dystopian science fiction is less...
Will Computers Take Over the World?
Friday, July 04, 2014
It’s been a trope in science fiction for years: someday the computers will become self-aware and take over. But in 1993, the computer scientist and science fiction author Vernor Vinge...
Chris Hadfield: How to Brush Your Teeth in Space
Friday, July 04, 2014
Chris Hadfield’s recent cover of David Bowie’s classic song “Space Oddity” has more than 20 million views on YouTube. And not because of Hadfield’s voice (which isn’t bad, for an astr...
You’re Living in a Science Fiction Story
Friday, July 04, 2014
It’s easy to look back at old science fiction and see it as silly. But there are important ideas embedded in those stories that influenced scientists and the way technology developed....
Will Your Next Car Fly?
Friday, July 04, 2014
Along with robots and ray guns, the 21st century was definitely supposed to include flying cars. What happened?
Gertie, the Dinosaur Who Gave Birth to a Mouse
Friday, June 27, 2014
Years before Mickey Mouse, Gertie the dinosaur amazed audiences who had never seen a drawing that moved. Her creator, Winsor McCay, thought cartoons would become a great art form — an...
S.O.S From the Future: We're Not OK
Monday, June 16, 2014
One climate scientist's game sends players on a scavenger hunt to find messages from the future about how global warming is ruining the world.
American Icons: Anything Goes
Friday, May 16, 2014
Cole Porter was out of the musical theater game during the 1930s, as American mores grew looser and more risqué. But instead of getting stodgy, he wrote the classic celebration of bad...
Olivier Had it Wrong: Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation
Friday, April 11, 2014
David and Ben Crystal, a father and son team, have recreated what they say is the original pronunciation — OP, they call it: how Shakespeare’s plays would have been sounded around ...
Forget the Bat Signal: This Is a Protest
Monday, March 24, 2014
Meet The Illuminator, the activist group that's using the city skyline as a canvas to project political messages.
Robert Rodriguez Takes Over Your TV
Friday, March 21, 2014
Robert Rodriguez burst on to the scene in 1992 with the very, very low-budget action film El Mariachi. He made hits like Once Upon a Time in Mexico and the Spy Kids series, but his la...
Miyazaki’s Uneasy Love Letter to a War Machine
Friday, March 14, 2014
The 73-year-old director just released what he says is his final film, The Wind Rises, and it has caused some consternation both in this country and in Japan.
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Final Performance Will Be Digitally Created
Friday, March 07, 2014
When Hoffman died last month, he was still in the process of filming the final The Hunger Games movie. The film’s producers are attempting a 21st century solution: creating new foota...
