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These Star Wars watercolor paintings by Redditor terry_cook1 have come from a galaxy far, far away to class up your collection of geeky art.
The sketchy style, colorful splotches and intricate details make these spaced out watercolor works worthy of acclaim by art critics and galactic geeks alike. Check out the rest of these Star Wars masterpieces at the link below.
Link –via Geeks Are Sexy
A Slinky walks down an inclined treadmill for quite some time without tiring. The addition of a dramatic musical soundtrack makes it into an epic struggle of some sort …I think. -via Buzzfeeed
Jill Mills made a cake that has an ice cave on top, in which a Wampa is holding Luke Skywalker! Luckily, Han Solo is riding nearby. The cake was for her 6-year-old son’s Star Wars-themed birthday party. The cave was made with pretzel sticks and white chocolate constructed atop the cake. See more pictures and the story of how it was done at her website Kitchen Fun with My Three Sons. Link
Joss Whedon writes hit television shows, directs blockbuster films and apparently he’s also one hell of a singer.
Watch him belt out a tune in an episode of This American Life from 2010, a tune from Commentary! The Musical, which originally appeared on the DVD edition of Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along. It’s pure geeky musical love, don’t hate!
–via Nerd Approved
Some gamers simply enjoy playing video games, while others are truly hardcore, surrounding themselves with gaming related merch, clothing, fan fiction and now trivia, thanks to didyouknowgaming.com.
The information contained on this trivia site is guaranteed to blow your mind, and give you lots of ammo when facing know-it-all video game aficionados at your local game shop or watering hole.
Many of the trivial tidbits found on didyouknowgaming.com will change the way you think about your favorite games, filling in an often missing back story with strange story elements and details on how the game made it to the store shelves.
Link –via Geekosystem
Since I’m a big fan of that travellin’ culinary man Anthony Bourdain, I was excited to hear that he’d soon be adding mythical beasts to his menu.
Then I found out that he was only joking around with a young lady, who asked him how he’d cook a unicorn at the Great GoogaMooga Festival in Brooklyn, New York.
Here’s his response:
He would roast the loin, grill the legs, braise the forequarter and use the horn to pick your teeth with after the meal. For the record, unicorn marrow is delicious, he says.
I wonder how the little girl reacted to his ideas on how to prepare a unicorn?
The annual Star Wars weekend at Walt Disney World has come and gone is running every weekend through June 10th. This year, Chewbacca really got down to LMFAO. -via The Daily What Geek
If you like this, wait until you see the grand finale, a medley of pop songs featuring more LMFAO and as many Star Wars characters as can fit on a stage.
R2-D2 is on a murderous rampage through the streets of Liberty City. JMoorfoot4′s modification of the game Grand Theft Auto IV shows us what happens when that cute little droid finally snaps. You can download it at the link.
Images of the Dude abound in the newest works by painter and pop culture junkie Dave MacDowell. They’re brightly colored, tongue in cheek dedications to the gods of geekdom.
Gallery 1988 is currently showing the works of Dave MacDowell at their Santa Monica location now through June 2nd, and these works look even better in person, where the colors can pop you in the eye and the smell of nerdy desperation lingers in the air.
(NSFW due to coarse language)
Link –via Creep Machine
Lauren Berkley spotted this brilliant costume at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. From a closeup image at the link, you can see the matching eye makeup.
I can see it now: the Star Wars story retold in Elizabethan English in a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre. May it be so.
Link -via Fashionably Geek
In 1996, there were 5 billion floppy disks in use. How many is that? Instructables user Jetpack5 says, “If you stack them one on top of each other it will reach from here to someone that is tired of stacking up floppy disks.” That’s a lot.
He’s putting his to good use. With a few rubber bands to help, Jetpack5 can recreate scenes from Star Wars. You can, too, by following his instructions at the link.
All right, everybody be cool, this is a cakery. The Cookie Pop Fiction is so cool it's like a shot of adrenalie straight to the heart, except instead of adrenaline, think sugar and instead of heart, stomach.
Lou Lou P's Delights can shoot such cake pops (what else do you think I'm talking about? Quarter pounder with cheese in France?) straight into my stomach any time: Link - via Evil Cakes (Thanks Emma!)
Parry Gripp took a minute of footage from a nature documentary and turned it into a music video for a song about a pathetically lazy harp seal. The harp seal is utterly devoid of ambition or material possessions. But strangely, women find him attractive.
You can watch the original video below the jump.
-via The Mary Sue | Parry Gripp’s Website
The song “One Day” by Matisyahu is inspirational already, and even more so when a 5th grade class in Kansas sings it together with all their hearts. -via Geekosystem
The following is an article from the book Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Music.
One of the shortest-lived phases in American musical history, disco took the nation by storm in 1977 and was declared “dead” just three years later. (For part one of the story, click here.)
SATURDAY NIGHT POSERS
When most people think of “disco music,” they think of John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. But most die-hard disco fans scoff at this. True disco, they maintain, was the underground dance club scene of the early to mid-1970s, frequented primarily by gays and minorities, and fueled by deejays and independent record labels. So what’s the problem with the 1977 film about a troubled Brooklyn kid named Tony Manero (Travolta) who goes to the discotheque every Saturday night? A lot, it turns out. “That movie was about a group of straight, homophobic, racist, Italian-American twentysomethings in New York who went dancing wearing odd-looking clothes and probably too much aftershave lotion. They looked nothing much like the people I saw or knew in gay discos.” That review comes from disco historian Dennis Brumm, who’s been active in the dance scene since the early 1970s. And many in the disco community feel the same way.
FROM FRAUD TO FAD
The idea for Saturday Night Fever came from a 1976 New York magazine article about the New York disco scene, written by British journalist Nik Cohn. Cohn later admitted he made the whole thing up: He’d just arrived in the United States, and had no clue what the real “scene” was like when he was assigned to write about it. So he completely fabricated the character that eventually became Tony Manero.
Nevertheless, the film came out the next year, and the public ate it up: It earned $74 million, the third-highest gross of the year (after Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind). The soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, was even more successful. It quickly became the highest-selling movie soundtrack ever, and was the highest-selling pop album until Michael Jackson’s Thriller eclipsed it six years later. Almost overnight, disco went from a fringe movement to a mainstream fad. And just as suddenly, the major funk and R&B record labels all took an interest in the craze and began cranking out disco hits for all ages.
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Sure the Mon Calamari might not actually come from under the sea, but there’s no way you can convince me that something that looks like that and has “Calamari” in its name doesn’t smell like fish and if it made rum, I’m certain it would rub off.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
It no doubt took a lot of time and effort to create a stop-motion video game out of nothing but Post-It notes, but the animators at prestigious French engineering school École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne proved that their dedication to the project was certainly worth the time investment.
Via The Daily What
There’s a secret level in Blizzard’s newest action RPG Diablo III that seems mighty out of place when compared to the rest of the game.
It’s called Whimsyshire, and it’s full of teddy bears, unicorns, rainbows and a color palette straight out of My Little Pony.
It’s the kind of place where your character can take a break from all those undead hordes and stagnant caves, even if the killing doesn’t stop at the end of the rainbow.
(Warning: this video contains game spoilers)
–via Geekosystem
Now that Disney owns the rights to Marvel, it only makes sense that they would combine their newest acquisition with an earlier one. If they did, it would almost certainly look very similar to what artist J.M. Walter came up with in this great illustration.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
This strange yet stylish animated short is entitled Ean’s Day, and it stars a cube headed fellow who…well…does stuff and things are all trippy and stuff.
It’s a weird yet fun waste of three and a half minutes of your life, if you’re into odd bits of animated nonsense.
It’s free to try, and if you like it keep it as a free gift and watch it FOREVER!
–via reddit
If you’ve ever played the video games in the Professor Layton series then you know that the one thing these games are missing is a suitably cerebral soundtrack score.
The folks at Gamological Society agreed, so they’ve created an alternate soundtrack for the games by using music composed by Yann Tierson.
It’s just the kind of soundtrack you need to keep those mental juices flowing, as you try to puzzle your way through the often infuriating games in the Professor Layton series.
Brawndo, the thirst mutilator energy drink enjoyed by the citizens of the future in the hilarious Mike Judge movie Idiocracy, is now a delicious reality thanks to geek visionaries Dave Dalton and Craig Berscheidt of Hammerspace.
Just make sure the switch is set to Brawndo, or you may get a face full of toilet water! It’s UPS man tested, and approved by future President/Pro Wrestler Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Apparently even the mighty Disney corporation has let some rather questionable merchandise slip through the cracks over the years, and characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck have been placed in compromising positions by the manufacturers of this creepy merch.
Cartoon Brew has put together a small yet entertaining selection of oddball Disney related merchandise from around the globe worthy of a “WTF?!”
Granny G is a senior with hip hop in her soul, and she’s got some advice for any young man thinking about bringing another fatherless child into the world.
Watch her display her serious rhyming skills on America’s Got Talent, proving that you’re never too old to win a rap battle.
–via Best Week Ever
Here, for once and for all, is proof that everyone in the world over the age of ten knows the theme song to the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air by heart. And they don’t mind to sing it for you, either! Will Smith was one of the guests on the BBC’s Graham Norton Show last week. -via Laughing Squid
If you want to climb out of that garbage compactor, you’ll need some sturdy handholds. Hang Fast volumes makes several appropriate ones, including volumes that are shaped like the Death Star, R2-D2′s head, and the Millennium Falcon.
When their plane was delayed, the members of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra had an idea on how to pass the time:
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]Our plane got delayed 20 minutes so we got out our instruments and played an impromptu 4 song set for the packed plane. We were right in our element; all the funds for our 14 plane tickets were raised busking the streets of Toronto in the past three weeks!
The best thing about Youtube user 16bitghost’s absurdly huge gaming set up is that the 24 console areas still aren’t enough for his PS3. Seriously though, how do you even switch between them all on your TV system? I get annoyed just going between the DVD player, cable, Wii and X Box, I can’t imagine flipping through all of these options.
Link Via Geekologie
In honor of the late MCA of The Beastie Boys, James Winters and his family decided to redo the entire Sabotage video starring his adorable little ones. The result is pretty darn adorable and a true joy for Beastie Boys fans everywhere.
Via Geekosystem
Computer engineer Jeri Ellsworth built an electric bass into the body of a Commodore 64. Here she is with it at the ongoing Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. And yes, she’s wearing roller skates.
Another Photo | Ellsworth’s Twitter Feed | Maker Faire | Photo: Blake Maloof
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