Lost Metropolis Vinyl Campaign Begins Today

The second Woob vinyl LP release is potentially here…

Welcome back to the ‘Lost Metropolis’ Hotel. 120 floors – thirty above ground and ninety below the surface.

Our impressive refurbishment now offers rooftop views of the surrounding Megalopolis along with our new triple floor height Observatory.

Irrespective of what you may or may not of heard humans ARE welcome. We now even employ them as staff – see vacancies below

To celebrate our long history 1982-2082 our retro heavy weight solid black vinyl core with blue transparent AI Firewall is now available – choose your pledge, Staff / Management options are available.

Woob – Monochrome

Monochrome is back but this time instead of an antiquated CD it’s more like a virtual hard copy / keycard – expect 24 bit masters alternative mixes/albums, bonus tracks, extra artwork etc.

Monochrome 1 is already out Monochrome 2 ‘Lost Metropolis’ is out 12th August and is free to anyone who ordered Lost Metropolis Hotel Key Card (shipping forecast post soon)

All Monochrome releases are available from woobmono.bandcamp.com/releases
Keeping them all together in Monochrome.

Watch Blade Runner ‘Blackout 2022’ Short Anime

Woob – Tokyo Run now showing in Virtual Reality Wraparound Theatre via Oculus Rift Game Technolust

Technolust is a Virtual Reality game for Oculus Rift currently in development by Blair Renaud and Chris Abell of ‘Iris’ . Along with a handful of other VR games Technolust is regenerating interest in gaming for generations of jaded gamers bored with the constant recycle of military and historical shooters. The game doubled its kickstarter goal back in May and is currently in Beta available to all backers and those who pre-order.

On firing up the game you are transported into a detailed Bladerunner-esque world, which you are free to explore at your own pace. The finished game will also include a Mars colony, wastelands and other area’s and feature’s many worlds within worlds. There’s also a videogame arcade where you can interact with some of the machines and this is where you will find the Tokyo Run cabinet. Shown above being played by a random youtuber you get a rough idea of how that might feel …and what better mind-bending way to view the film!

Clips from Tokyo Run also crop up within the main game dotted around on monitors and billboards as seen below. You can also play the above video from the beginning to see more. (currently it start’s at the arcade)

For those new to Tokyo Run there’s more info here plus non-vr embed below.

Android Dreams

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Some truly Epic shots in this amazing new time-lapse of Tokyo. Shot over the past year, the film is a tribute to Vangelis and Bladerunner and comes from time-lapse supremo Samuel Cockedey. Regular visitors will know Samuel from his connection with Woob / Paradigm Flux and the Inter / States time-lapse video. Further collaborations and Flux inbound  but in the meantime feast your eyes in HD on the above

Read more about Samuel’s process in creating time-lapse in this Season 9 interview

Deckard

Blade Runner – Revisited.

François Vautier who had the patience to compose this piece by creating one giant image out of over 16,000 frames from the film Bladerunner also put an ant colony in his scanner and scanned it every week for 5 years! The result? – LINK