Category: Pop Culture

The 7th International Film Festival of Insects is happening in October:

The Languedoc-Roussillon Department of Insects and their Environment (OPIE-LR), organizers of the International Insect Film Festival invite you to submit your audiovisual projects.

Our aim is to develop scientific mediation, to promote interest in invertebrate life and generally to encourage biodiversity through the medium of film. This is the role to be played by the unique international audiovisual competition, focusing on insects and other continental invertebrates.

FIFI will accept all work (documentaries, fiction, cartoons…) created since 2003.

The deadline for applications is the 30th April 2007. Judging will take place in the National History Museum of Paris on the 16th, 17th and 18th May.

The international jury and the youth jury, along with the public will award 5 trophies and a grand prize of 1,500 euro.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us directly or via our website http://festivalfifi.opielr.org for further information, for rules and regulations or for an application form.

This festival presents the opportunity to mingle with a host of world players in the field of insects, directors, producers, scientists, artists, naturalists and financial players. We would be delighted to welcome you to this forum of meeting and exchange.

A great moment in comic book history: Steel versus the Giant Cicadas (Absorbascon blog).

Hilarious.

Thanks to Spandex Justice for unearthing this gem.

This goes to show how oblivious I am in general: Cicada Mania was featured on The 9 on Yahoo! last week. I watch The 9 on my lunch break, so I don’t know how I missed it. Thanks Yahoo!

Back in 2004 there was a cicada humor site called Cicadaville. It was a funny site, for sure, but they drove me crazy because people would believe their “Cicadas kill Save yourself” slogan and then ask me how they could protect themselves.

Here’s an example of their humor:

FACT: Cicadas are vicious killers.

FACT: Cicadas prey on innocent children and pets.

FACT: Cicadas are seething with deadly venom and flesh-eating bacteria.

FACT: This year Cicadas will kill more people than snakes, spiders, scorpions, and sharks combined!

You can still see some of the site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and here’s another version (found on 1/20/21). The funny people behind the Cicadaville site have another humor site called Derf Magazine. Check it out.

Thanks to Metafilter, Mirth, Musings, & More and Site of the Day for an unexpected burst of visitors. Normally the site is sleeping at this time of year.

I should hade made: “Cicadas on my Daughter’s Wedding Cake”!

The Brood X: Year of the Cicada movie is playing noon Monday (3/20) in the Charles Sumner Museum and Archives, 1201 17th St, N.W., Washington, D.C. (the address has been updated).

A story about the movie in the Gazette.net (thanks Dan Threadwell).

Another article in the Washington Post (thanks Roy Troutman).

The movie features about 15 minutes of Roy Troutman’s cicada footage.

If someone gets to see it, let us know.