Shapeshifter

Samyn grew up in the Belgian countryside, where his father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a painter. With a love for both art and math, he studied structural engineering, graduating from the Free University of Brussels in 1971. He visited MIT on a backpacking trip and was immediately drawn to its focus on thinking beyond concrete. Arriving for a master’s in civil engineering, he embraced a philosophy of creative problem-solving. “The teachers would say the word ‘problem’ doesn’t exist—there are just…

The web comic and graphic novel Nimona by ND Stevenson was an adventure in queer science-fantasy; now it has been mainstreamed into an animation directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, who made their feature debut in 2019 with Spies in Disguise.What has emerged is a buoyant and good-humoured LGBTQ+ parable, set in a kind of retro-futurist kingdom, super-modern and hi-tech in every way but with a medieval-style queen and a court of knights who have competed hard for the honour of the title “sir”. One of these is Ballister…

Screengrab via Reddit/BFHDESIGN There have always been actors in Hollywood that have us saying; “I know them! They’re in EVERYTHING!” – talented folks who for better or worse have found themselves in some incredible company, and sustained even more impressive careers. Well, as director Matt Reeves begins building the cast for his upcoming sequel to The Batman, some fans seem to think they’ve found his villain. As of now no real information has come out surrounding the film, but that still hasn’t stopped DC…