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Sunshine's Realistic, Biospheric Spaceship. SExpand Just a few more weeks until January 8, the day Sunshine DVDs hit stateside. This flick is director Danny Boyle's space opera about a ship called the Icarus II whose destiny is to plunge into the heart of the sun and "relight" it. OK, dorky science premise aside, this is a seriously awesome show from the director of 28 Days Later, with gorgeous designs and a trippy FX-laced plot. One of the touches of realism Boyle insisted on was exploring how the spaceship would provide its own oxygen via an elaborate system of plant-lined ducts.

You can see the "oxygen room" set here under construction — those big washing machine-looking things are ducts, and the floor is soon to be packed with plants. See the final sets after the jump. Here is the oxygen room from above. And here's the oxygen room once Icarus starts getting super-heated from the sun. There's also a clip of Michelle Yeoh looking lovely and washing carrots in the oxygen room here. Vertical Hustle. Verticle Hustle depicts a future world whose aesthetics and material culture are centered around three main constraints: (1) The nomadic people in the scenario get around by climbing trees and scaffolding, and thus carry only necessities for survival. (2) Mass production no longer exists, thus everything is created and invented in a do-it-yourself (DIY) fashion from leftover materials. (3) It is no longer possible to live either by farming the land or hunting large animals.

Small animals are few and difficult to trap. No mass production means remain to provide synthetic nutrition. DIY biotechnology and genetic engineering are the only reliable source of food. Specifically, this project examines how controlling micro-organism metabolism might be applied to digesting otherwise undigestible plant materials, as well as used to create light.– THE WORLD Sun no longer reaches the Dead Zone of ground level, where people originally lived. But technology is not forgotten. Blade Runner (1982. Akira (1988. Le cinquième élément (1997. Bienvenue à Gattaca (1997. Equilibrium (2002. Metropolis (1927. Matrix (1999. La mouche (1986. Évolution (2001. Alien - Le huitième passager (1979. District 9 (2009.