Here’s an all too brief extract from Daniel Martinico’s 15-minute epic, Khaaaaaan! The film features the expressive genius of Mr William Shatner, suitably enhanced, and “the single most dramatic syllable in science fiction history.” Stay with it and watch closely. The suspense is unbearable.

Now wash your eyes. That’s distilled Shatner. Via Metrolander.

“I’ve always had this really strong appreciation for… dark.”

I think you’ll like this. Here’s the trailer for Jeanie Finlay’s Goth Cruise, a documentary following 150 Goths on a five day sea journey from New Jersey to Bermuda and back again. With 2,500 “Norms” for company. Brace yourselves for some coloured hair and collective non-conformism.

“I’m really not Goth. I enjoy the aspect of the music… and the dressing up. But when it comes down to it, I don’t think I fit the Goth template.”

If you possess black lipstick and a counter-cultural attitude, you’ll be thrilled to hear this year’s outing takes in Key West and Cozumel, Mexico.

Via Coudal.

Images of an abandoned German colliery. The hanging cages, or Kaue, were individually numbered and used as storage lockers for miners’ belongings.

Context is for weaklings. // Transforminators. // Cyborgery. // What’s inside your refrigerator? (h/t, Maggie’s Farm) // Gin and Titonic. // Hellingly Asylum. // Children of the race-class-gender church. // Department of bandsaw skillz. (h/t, Maggie’s Farm) // Skiing and chess, together at last. // How the Ear Functions. (1940) // Assorted medical antiques. // Assorted interchanges. // Chairs from The Incredibles. // Glowing inflatable furniture. // An ugly wooden lamp. // Rooks and hooks. // “All the animations seen in this video were created in camera.” // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr John Morris & Mr Mel Brooks.

Truly, the stuff of nightmares.

From The Dogway Melody, directed by Zion Myers and Jules White, 1930. Via PCL LinkDump.

Yes, I know, you want the whole thing.