An alert reader brought this music video of “Twin Flames” off the 2010 Klaxons album Surfing the Void. It’s a must-see for people interested in the subject matter of this blog, because it has some of the most amazing conjoinment material I’ve seen on video:
Klaxons ‘Twin Flames’ from Trim Editing on Vimeo
A theme we have definitely seen before here at Erotic Mad Science.
It all started when i tried tracking down the provenance of this image, which I originally saw elsewhere. (My original though was just “Wow, what an amazing sex machine!”)
Sometimes virtue is something more than just its own reward, because I found its apparent home in this wild “Не серьезно” gallery at the Russian-language site razooma.net. It’s sort of a photo-alter dream for thaumatophiles, so if you like this site, I strongly encourage your surfing over there and looking for, among other things, some swell woman-to-instrument transformation pictures, as well as a photograph that might have been taken from my own infantine butterfly-transformation fantasy.
And there’s a bonus for you Russophone readers. “Andrey Razoomovsky” is a slightly eccentric transliteration of “Андрей Разумовский.” Can you spot the Slavic root in that artist’s surname? It’s разум, meaning “reason, mind, intellect,” which is pretty cool for a site with so much implied mad science, yes?
And boy do they make the whole tube thing look hot.
Exact provenance still unknown, which is a shame, because I would really like to know this one.
After all, it’s only fair that there should be tube guys as well as tube girls. They’re a good deal harder to find, but they do exist.
Exact provenance unknown.
Here is an illustration with an amazing mad-science feel, that seems to find the same inspiration in Metropolis that the transforming Maria in the title-bar of Erotic Mad Science does.
Exact provenance unknown.
Well, now in the United States we have reached the annual Thanksgiving holiday. A time to get together and feast.
The original significance of Thanksgiving seems to be religious in nature — giving thanks to God for the good stuff in our lives. (Should people who are having wretched lives stage some sort of anti-Thanksgiving? Discuss.)
Now for reasons that longtime readers of Erotic Mad Science will have figured out, I can’t really cotton to anything other than a secular Thanksgiving. Let it not be said that Faustus is an ungrateful fellow. There are many people to whom I’d like to give thanks in this context:
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy your turkey!
What, you mean it’s not that kind of turkey? Ah, crumb. I need to work harder to learn the concept…
On this, the busiest travel day of the year here in the United States, I find an illustration which prompts us to ask whether we are seeing a sex machine, a mad-science experiment of some other kind, a medical exam or…refueling?
Found here.
Added 10:30 GMT:Or maybe it’s a prototype for those new TSA inspections. Happy traveling everyone!
Nicolas Roeg‘s The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) contains little or nothing in the way of mad science (it does contain copious nudity and sex), but re-watching it recently on a Criterion Collection DVD I did note a certain kind of theme that seems to have influenced me over and over — something that might be called Overcoming the Fear.
A very brief plot summary might help. An alien world is dying, devastated by planet-wide drought. One of the planet’s inhabitants, played by David Bowie sees terrestrial television broadcasts depicting a planet brimming with water and resolves to try to get some for his homeworld. He comes to earth, where he takes the name Thomas Jerome Newton. Acquiring a series of patents on his world’s superior technology, he becomes a vastly wealthy industrialist as part of his plan to build a spaceship back to his home planet.
Scouting a research location in New Mexico, he meets a lonely hotel worker (played by Candy Clark) named Mary-Lou. Mary-Lou falls in love with the enigmatic stranger.
Eventually Thomas and Mary-Lou fall into a marriage-like relationship, which entails cohabitation. And marriage-like fights as well. When Mary-Lou bitterly denounces her lover as “an alien,” he decides to remove the prostheses which make him look human and reveal his native appearance.
This leads to one serious freak-out on the part of Mary Lou.
Eventually she masters her fear.
And makes her way back to the bedroom where the naked Thomas is lying.
A strange scene occurs, intercut with somewhat hallucinatory footage suggesting erotic between human woman and alien.
It doesn’t quite all work out (it is very hard to follow what in the movie is happening on a literal level), but there still something very compelling about what happens here. Think Nanetta observing the Apsinthion Protocol for the first time, or any number of implied backstories of other characters in the Gnosis College canon (for example, I’ve never written the Iris backstory in any detail, but I’ll bet her reaction to a proposal of being reduced to dinner and resurrected was not to squee), and you’ll see what I mean.
Oh, and as a bonus, there’s a hint of liquid girl going on in that last screencap, isn’t there?
The Internet is so large, and so diverse, that you cannot help but encounter images that match up with your own visual inspirations, even when those inspirations were arrived at independently. Consider this…
…which I found here. It’s not just erotic mad science. It shares a visual theme with a specific scenario which I wrote down from Invisible Girl, Heroine.
INT. THE GOLDEN TURNTABLE ROOM – DAY
Strangeways and Colleen enter the adjacent room.
A circular area on the floor in the middle of the room is shiny and gold. A trapeze-like bar hangs from the high ceiling in the middle of the circular area. On the edge of the area is a podium
COLLEEN
It is so warm in here, doctor.
STRANGEWAYS
It should help you feel less shivery and relax, yes. Now could you please disrobe completely and step into the middle of the gold circle on the floor?
COLLEEN
Uh…
STRANGEWAYS
It is alright. I am a doctor, after all.
(gesturing toward a basket next to the wall)
You can leave your clothes right there.
Strangeways returns to making notes on his clipboard.
Colleen hesitates, then undresses, placing her clothes in the basket, then steps into the middle of the gold circle.
Strangeways looks up, smiles, and puts his clipboard aside.
STRANGEWAYS
Excellent. Now, do you think that you could reach up and grasp the bar above your head.
Colleen does so.
STRANGEWAYS
Good. Now just take a deep breath and let it out slowly…
Strangeways flips a few switches on his podium.
There is a HUM. The gold circle begins to rotate slowly.
A gold latex-like substance begins to cover Colleen’s hands and feet, then work its way up her legs and down her arms.
An alarmed expression appears on Colleen’s face.
COLLEEN
My hands and feet…they’re stuck!
Well, there’s at least some resemblance.
