I so want this 9tubo house.
Dutch water houses also look very fine for living in. Prefab on floats, it would have been ideal for living in New Orleans.
I also caught a discussion of these californian prefabs on a KCRW design and architecture podcast. Even though they’re prefab they still start at around £200k. Though they look very configurable and comfortable and designed in a sort of nordic modernist fusion sort of style.
Over the weekend I went to see Serenity and caught the trailer for the new Doom movie. Which looks like an unabashed rip off of Aliens. Unsurprising as Aliens is no doubt one of the inspirations for Doom.
At the same time I’m playing (and enjoying) a bit of Halo on my new Mac. So, as a synchronous moment, this snippet about Peter Jackson signing on as Executive Producer for the new Halo movie really caught my eye. A bit of poking and I also find out that Alex Garland, of The Beach fame, has written the script for it.
The Doom story doesn’t really have legs and I’m not really that interested in seeing it unless its got the big floating Cacodemons looking menacing in 8 bit colour spitting fireballs at the good guys. However the Halo story is a bit more engaging. Doom is a distillation of horror movies, Halo is a distillation of sci-fi stories. There’s only shocks, thrills and blood in Doom, there are at least a few ideas hanging in the background of the halo backstory (even if at the end it’s horribly linear a 1st person shooter).
Alex Garland did very well pulling together a bunch of post-apocalyptic threads with 28 days later and provided a deep enough script about zombies taking over the world. I hope, and do have confidence, that he and Jackson can reverse the trend of terrible films based on blockbuster games.
