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Zombie Iron Man showed up at the Paris Zombie Walk 2011 looking like a billion bucks. I’m surprised he wasn’t at Occupy Wall Street supporting the 1% by eating protestor’s brains! Wouldn’t it be hilarious if this caught on as a Halloween costume?
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Toy modder Jonathan Kuriscak made an intricately detailed steampunk Iron Man figure, along with Tony Stark. You can view several more pictures at the link.
Really, giving Stark a big handlebar mustache was a great decision and should probably be used in the next Iron Man movie, regardless of time period.
Previously by Jonathan Kuriscak: Star Wars Bounty Hunters from World War II
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Matthew Connor of Cheshire, UK made two snowmen that look like Iron Man and Spider-Man:
Inspired by my 5 year old son’s love for the Marvel Alliance characters, I made them for him. We have Spider-Man and Iron Man costumes for him, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance game for Xbox we even have the bath characters, all twelve of them, which we fight with every bath time.
The snowmen were made December 1st and 2nd 2010, in our back garden at home, in some of the lowest temperatures seen in the UK for a long time, but worth every frozen finger. Unfortunately the snow has turned to ice otherwise there might have been a Silver Surfer to send you, that’s the next on the list if we have anymore snow…”
There are several more pictures at the link.
Link | Photo: Matthew Connor
This man won the Marvel comics cosplay competition at the New York Comic Con. Speaking of which, here‘s an interesting line: “Steampunk is when goths discover brown.” (via) Do you agree?
Link via DVICE | Photo: Judy Stephens
YouTube user MorRokko dressed her pet dwarf caiman in an Iron Man costume. She writes:
I wuv my caimen. He is probably the only crocodilian in the world that would let me do this.
via Urlesque
What’s up with the airplane helmet kissing scene in Iron Man 2 ads? You know, where Tony Stark asked Pepper for a kiss and she kissed his helmet instead?
Well, this Alternate Opening scene should explain the reason why (and it ain’t pretty): Link
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Flickr user stitchFight makes cross stitches inspired by pop culture, including Tank Girl, The Hitchhiker’s Guide, and A Clockwork Orange. Pictured above is an Iron Man cross stitch that incorporated glow in the dark thread.
Nineteen-year-old sculpture student Zachariah Perry Cruse built this awesome Iron Man-themed Xbox, complete with glowing Arc Reactor:
The completely customized Falcon HDMI Xbox 360 Console took months to complete. The Iron Man Xbox 360 features bright white LEDs, a ring of light around the outside of the arc reactor, a matching red controller and the Stark Industries label on the hard drive. This one-of-a-kind Iron Man Xbox 360 with built-in arc reactor has now reached eBay and the current bid sits at US $2,050.
BornRich has more: Link | Zachariah’s web page
Origami Iron Man by Brian Chan, Photo: J0nB0n [Flickr]
How can origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding be improved? Add a dash of geekery! Here’s a neat list of the geekiest origamis on the Web: Link
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R2D2 appears to have been given a makeover by Tony Stark in this mix between Star Wars and Iron Man. The creator, Mike Verta, is an expert in visual effects and modeling, and has outdone himself in this computer rendering. I’d love to see a real one puttering around.
Image and story via Nerd Approved
A couple of days ago, we told you that we got a mystery Iron Man 2 box from Hasbro and asked what you think are inside. Well, today, we opened it and found …
A few of the items were immediately yoinked by the Neatoramanauts at the warehouse (not me!) and winners of the Spotlight giveaway were notified by email, but never fear! You can still win the rest (including the big prize): more …
Sarah Reinertsen was born with a birth defect called proximal femoral focal deficiency. Her left leg was small, and wouldn’t grow with the rest of her body, so it was amputated when she was seven years old. Still, she always wanted to be an athlete. Reinertsen began running at age eleven, and competed in the Paralympics at age 16. In college, she started running marathons, but that wasn’t enough.
She is the first female amputee to win an Ironman competition. She climbed the Great Wall of China and scaled a giant cliff in Vietnam during the 10th season of the CBS television show The Amazing Race. And when she’s not running or biking or swimming, she’s trying on artificial limbs to test the latest body armor for a company that makes prosthetics. She also rallies soldiers who have lost their limbs to war. She is a hometown hero talking to runners who have known her since she was an 11-year-old who climbed into a sneaker and began running for her life.
Read more of Reinertsen’s story for a real inspiration. Link -via Digg
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Ying-Yang Twins on Cribs - Translated While you laugh at their expense, keep this in mind: they probably make more in a week than we all do in a year. Sad, ain't it? While watching this, I had an epiphany about MTV Cribs - the jerky camera work is to distract you from how bad the show actually is! Either that or this is how the younger generation actually see the world, and if so God saves us all. If you liked that, then you'll love this: Freestyle Rap Battle Translated into Plain English |
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Men in Black Bloopers What a neat blast from the past: Link |
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A Ventriloquist and Her Monkey (Interestingly, YouTube removed a video "due to terms of use violation" from her own website - what's up with that?) |
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Iron Man vs Bruce Lee Regardless of who wins, one thing is for sure: French Canadian filmmaker Patrick Boivin, the man behind this short clip, sure knows how to make an excellent stop motion animation! |
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If Tony Stark can make out out of scrap metal and other industrial junk in an isolated Afghan cave, then surely you can make your very own Arc Reactor in the comfort of your garage.
Instrucables user msraynsford will show you how. Here’s the step-by-step guide on how to make your very own Iron Man Arc Reactor out of LEDs and polymorph plastic.
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Photo Credit: (above) Iron Man (below) Jeremy Keith of Adactio
Did you know that the movie Iron Man used a Creative Commons-licensed photo from Flickr? Here’s the story of how Jeremy Keith’s photo of his buddy Andy Budd in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral ended up in the movie:
“Wait a minute”, I said. “What is this for?”
“It’s for a movie that’s currently in production called Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jnr.”
Holy crap! One of my photos was going to be in Iron Man? That certainly put a new spin on things.
“So I guess you want to use the picture because it’s inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building?” I asked.
“No. We just thought it was a picture of some warehouse or something.”
Read the whole story here: Link – via Flickr Blog
Whoa! This is awesome: when his son wanted an Iron Man suit for Halloween, Enrique of LinuxNerd blog decided that he’s going to build the ultimate Iron Man costume.
So he spent two months modding a store-bought costume to include:
* Repulsor Air – Blows air with CO2 air pump on hip and hose back to his hand.
* Repulsor Missile – Using CO2 air pump can also launch a paper missile.
* Repulsor Sensor/Light – A magnetic switch sensor lights his repulsor hand light and fades out and in his glowing eyes. Arduino handles this effect.
* Arc Reactor – A LED night light from Costco embedded in his chest. [...]
It rocks to have a geeky dad! Check out the video clip here: Link – via Gizmodo
