The result of 2 years of labor by a master craftsman is this majestic model of the Enterprise from the original Star Trek series. Kretschmer Kreativ shaped this extraordinary duplicate of the 11-foot model that prop masters built for the series and now housed at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. You more images and detailed descriptions of the build process here.
It must be absolutely awe-inspiring in person.
-via Instructables
It’s a testament to the quality of the first trailer for The Force Awakens that so many video mixmasters use its style to promote other things. We’ve seen the original Star Wars movie done this way, and Masters of the Universe, too. Even the US Navy put themselves into it. Now let’s see how well it works with Doctor Who.
YouTube member VG934 looks back to 2005, when Doctor Who was rebooted for a modern audience. He used the trailer for The Force Awakens to make a trailer for Doctor Who Series 1, when Rose Tyler met the Doctor. Makes you want to watch it right now, huh? -via Laughing Squid
As it's been said before: droids are slaves. C-3PO is too cheerful about the experience, but R2-D2 isn't. He lets the biological characters know what he thinks about them all the time. They just can't understand him, which is probably a good thing. R2 takes all the risks, does all the work, and gets little of the credit. It's no wonder that he eventually snaps.
-via The Mary Sue
(Photo: Fat Man Photography)
Cosplayer Elizabeth Rage, whom we last saw putting a Slave Leia take on Belle from Beauty and the Beast, now takes that character into a different role in the Star Wars universe. Rage made and wore this Jedi knight outfit at the CosLosseum convention in San Diego.
Normally Jedi make their own lightsabers. But in this case, prop masters Dude Jay Cosplay and Jamison Bond built this light-up sword that looks like Lumière from the classic Disney film.
-via Fashionably Geek
It's not surprising that Marvel and DC Comics, the two biggest comic book companies in the world, have characters that are very similar to each other, on purpose or otherwise.
But whoever creates the original character the imitator is based on gets bragging rights because their character came first, even if the imitation ends up outshining the original by a mile.
Darren Rawlings makes their equivalents meet up in his series "Little Friends", and even if you can't decide which character is cooler in each image you'll most certainly agree that Darren's drawings are quite charming!
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
Katie Freeman knitted this adora-ball BB-8 droid! When word gets around, she’ll have to make more and more of them, or else go through it again to write down the pattern. Everyone is going to want one! -Thanks, Katie!
Those of you who were alive and over 5 in the 1990s will remember how many things were seen as normal then would be considered quite bizarre nowadays, like the group OMC who made the hit song "How Bizarre".
And even if you don't miss OMC there are bound to be plenty of things from the 90s you do miss, like the pleasant sound of a floppy disk whirring in the drive. Computers are too darn quiet nowadays!
We miss the sound of 90s slang, which was a lot like 80s slang only more Valley Girl inspired thanks to movies like Clueless, and the smooth sound of Bob Barker telling someone the rules of the game on The Price Is Right.
Why, here's a contestant now, come on down Aaron Paul!
If you're as nostalgic about the 90s as I am then you should check out these entertaining roundups guaranteed to get you in the mood for some Shark Bites fruit snacks and an Orbitz.
Read 12 Things From The '90s That Don't Exist Today, Despite Our Heart's Deepest Desires here
Read 90 Things We Miss From The 90's here (Contains NSFW language)
The Marvel movie Deadpool opens February 12. You might not know all that much about the character if you haven’t been reading comics. He’s not exactly a superhero as we understand the term, although he does have powers.
Deadpool's basic character arc revolves around the question of whether he will ultimately become a hero or remain an anti-hero mired in senseless violence. From the beginning, he openly longs for redemption but feels he can't earn it because he's done too many bad things in his life, that he's fated to be a "monster." But the number of bad things Deadpool has done generally pale in comparison to the bad things that have been done to him.
Oh, and apparently he doesn't look all that good under his mask. An article at The Daily Dot explains that and the character’s comic book background, to get us all up to speed for the movie.
Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" is one of those songs that tends to evoke a romantic or maudlin feeling in the listener, and the song was definitely crafted to evoke all those feels.
But when somebody sings a song their way they should try to bring a whole new feeling to their rendition, like the way Catman Cohen's version of "Fade Into You" makes you feel like you're being serenaded by Cookie Monster.
A wiseacre called hairwizz on the YouTubes edited together this compelling video evidence that Catman Cohen may actually be Cookie Monster disguised as a human. Somebody check his pockets for cookie crumbs!
-Via Dangerous Minds
Mashable remixed the original Star Wars to more resemble a Grindhouse movie. While the effect is jarring, this trailer makes the movie look like pretty much any other science fiction film from the mid-1970s. In fact, it’s not all that different from the original Star Wars trailer.
Lucky for us, the actual movie was so much better than its trailer. And holds up better forty years later. -via Metafilter
There are lots of factors involved in taking the perfect photo, most of which are ignored when someone is simply reaching out an arm (or stick) to snap a selfie.
But that doesn't mean you should throw all photo prep out the window, because reflections in the background might end up revealing more about your selfie shoot than most people care to see.
So save yourself from embarrassment and humiliation and make sure those mirrors and windows aren't revealing more than you'd like to let on about what you were doing when the pic was taken.
Of course, if a reflection enhances the photo then by all means shoot and share, so your friends and followers can admire all of your hard work!
See These Embarrassing Reflection Fails That Will Remind You To Pay More Attention here. Some images are NSFW.
Like many fans my feelings about Leonardo DiCaprio the actor fluctuate according to his roles, with the intense loves (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Wolf Of Wall Street) counterbalanced by deep hates (The Beach, The Man In The Iron Mask).
But no matter how high the highs or how low the lows Leo keeps proving he's just a downright cool human being when he's not on set, generally making the news for good reasons rather than bad.
But let's face it- if it came down to a battle of who's the coolest Pope Francis would win by a mile.
DiCaprio recently met up with His Holiness at the Vatican to discuss climate change, but first Leo tried to prove how cool he is by greeting the Pope in Italian.
Not wanting to knock down the debonnaire movie star, Francis let Leo's rusty Italian language skills slide, and the two kept their coolness emanations to a minimum, so as not to contribute to climate change.
Maybe Leo's secretly preparing to play the Pope in an upcoming biopic?
-Via Harpers Bazaar
This is excellent! Besides being stylish, kilts are also practical wear as they permit natural ventilation into the, uh, Heart of the TARDIS. And there will be no need to go on a diet. No matter what you weigh, you'll look slimmer in this kilt by Kilt This.
Like any proper utilikilt, it comes with 2 large pockets, 3 additional containers, an apron sporran, and D-rings for your gear, such as screwdrivers--sonic and otherwise.
-via Fashionably Geek
The Street Sharks arrived at the end of the mutant animal craze started by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and yet their character designs had just as much appeal and longevity as the TMNT.
Many budding artists watched the animated TV show and played with the toys only to have their later artwork inspired by those gnarly shark-human hybrids.
As it turns out a budding actor had his life changed by the Street Sharks too- Vin Diesel, who proudly demonstrated Street Shark toys at Toy Fair in 1994, back before he became Fast, Furious or Chronicled.
This video was filmed four years before Vin appeared in Saving Private Ryan and seven years before The Fast And The Furious, and it made me realize that Vin the nerd is way cooler than Diesel the furious.
-Via GeekTyrant
When putting together an adventuring party, it's important to include a cleric to heal injuries along the way. A high-level cleric may not offer great combat abilities, but is essential to keeping the party effective on dangerous missions.
Redditor LinkGrajo13's character got hurt and needed a quick healing job. And so:
My friend came into our weekly session with a new cleric. When I asked him to heal me, he handed me this
This is, by the way, only the first form. The cleric in question showed up in the discussion thread with a complete list of the forms, which you can download and use--until there is a regulatory change that requires you to start over.
-via Nerd Approved
