Since "The Little Mermaid" was released in 1989, Ariel — with her billowing red hair and affection for ordinary tchotchkes — has become an icon in her own right. Developing Ariel and her various aquatic friends and foes, however, required dipping into a deep well of influences. There is,...
Maybe it was all makeup and prosthetics, butMatt Frewer—the man behindMax Headroom—sure had us fooled that we were witnessing the future. The ABC series, which only aired from 1987 to 1988, was required viewing. It even made a convincing case for New Coke when Max delivered the inimita...
I really don’t think anything has been “shitty,” it’s all served its purpose: if I’ve gotten rid of it, that was more due to the desire to improve my gear or just the fact that I no longer was going in the direction that the gear was meant for. Even gear that I love, I...
The project was like trying to build a Formula One racing car from the combined resources of the Morris Minor and Citroen 2CV production lines. No one said it was going to be easy, but Concorde would turn out to be a spectacularly expensive, ill-conceived and futile exercise in chauvinism...