After you climb your way through the gaping jaw sporting jagged teeth, and make your way down the black and white paneled entryway – with disfigured cartoons playing all around you – visitors to New York’s Museum of Modern Art arrive at a room lit entirely by black lights. A neon carousel spins incessantly, flanked [...]
Anyone who’s been to a multiplex lately has seen the warped and wacky posters touting Tim Burton’s upcoming ‘Alice in Wonderland’ reboot. The message has been loud and clear: Prepare for a dark and twisted trip down the haunted rabbit hole next spring.
I type this from the WIRED Cafe, where they have wifi and free food and also deafening house music. Spend any time at all at Comic-con and it’s hard not to go all Hunter Thompson. There’s just so many damn people. Nerd culture has gorged and gorged, and then bloated, then collapsed under the weight [...]
