Wired @ 15.

Congrats to Wired on its 15th. Like Rolling Stone and Artforum, which also eventually defected to New York, Wired was at its provocative best in its rambunctious San Franciscan youth. For a taste of the times, see founding Louis Rossetto's open letter to his kids, outlining a few things Wired got wrong and a few things Wired got right in the years stretching from Mosaic to Facebook. There's a video interview, too, plus another with former editor Kevin Kelly; there's even a map: "How the Ideas and Events of 1993 Created the World We Live in Today."

Also: Steven Leckart talks with Brian Eno about the ideas he raised in a 1995 cover story and Lucas Graves revisits Kevin Kelly's 1997 "New Rules for the New Economy."

Now then, a few items in the current issue of likely interest to cinefolk: "Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie (Dark Horse Books) offers a sneak peek at the menagerie of mutants primed to swarm the world-weary demonoid, portrayed again by the heavy-browed Ron Perlman," reports Hugh Hart; do take a look at the accompanying illustrations.

More nifty imagery comes with Jennifer Hillner's brief item on how a few of the gadgets on "some of those dopey spy shows of the 60s," e.g., The Man From U.N.C.L.E., were eventually realized.

Adam Rogers talks with Ron Moore about re-imagining Battlestar Galactica; he's also got details on the ways a few movies rides get pimped.

"Over the past century, dozens of apocalyptic plotlines have risen from the enigmatic ashes of the charred Tunguska pines," writes David S Hirschman. "These four win for creativity."

"[I]'s a bit surprising to learn that for his first venture as a videogame creative director, the man behind Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park is making not a photorealistic shooter but a cross between Tetris and Jenga." Chris Kohler previews Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox.

Posted by dwhudson at May 21, 2008 7:44 AM