Conan O’Brien knows how to take a road trip in style! He and Andy Richter drove down to San Diego on the Fury Road to attend Comic Con.
Conan is cosplaying as the Doof Warrior, guitar and all. He even made snacks along the way! No doubt we will see updates about his adventures at the con. -via reddit
Are you a sucker for the great Cthulhu? Do you also have a soft spot for steampunk, Pokemon, Minions or Totoro? Then you need to visit Kutuleras' Etsy shop where you can grab plush versions of Cthulhu overtaking all your favorite geek icons.
Of course, Cthulhu plushies aren't the store's only offerings. You can also purchase cute versions of Totoro dressed like Pikachu and vice versa, Godzilla or even a Minion version of Freddie Mercury.
I for one welcome our new crochet plush overlords!
Via Nerd Approved
LEGO crafts are totally out of control these days, with bigger and better looking models being made every day by average bricksters like you and I.
But if you want to create something truly spectacular you’ve gotta team up with some fellow bricksters and go all out for, say, two or three years.
That’s how long it took a team of LEGO builders from the U.S., Canada, Belgium and Norway to build this amazing, 14-foot-long StarCraft II model, which they recently unveiled at Brickworld Chicago.
The images and following video were shared by part of the team Siercon and Coral, who have lots more images for you to peruse in this Flickr gallery.
The tiny pics don’t do this model justice, make sure you check out this video to get a really good look at this really good looking LEGO model!
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
Even though Jim Carrey takes himself mighty seriously these days he’ll always be known for his slapstick comedy, which he delivered to the world on In Living Color, and later in movies like The Mask and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Being a slapstick comedian means using your body to make people laugh, and during the course of his career Jim Carrey has taken some mighty funny falls to keep audiences rolling in the aisles.
Here’s a supercut collection of Jim Carrey falling down, which was put together by purveyor of fine slapstick Shawn Kohne. It's four minutes of fall down fun-larity!
-Via Laughing Squid
Some people will do anything to attend Comic Con, and I'm amazed every year by the commitment some make to attend the show no matter what.
For some that commitment means spending lots of money, quitting a job or suffering from a debilitating injury while walking the floor, but for one man his commitment means walking 645 miles- dressed as a Stormtrooper.
Kevin Doyle made the 645-mile walk from Petaluma, California to San Diego Comic Con in memory of his late wife, a fellow Star Wars fanatic who passed away from cancer in November, 2012.
Since then Kevin has founded a charity in her honor called Eileen's Little Angels Foundation, and he's using his long walk to the Con to show love for his wife and raise some money for a good cause.
-Via 10News
Somewhere along the way video games became child’s play in the minds of consumer groups and ratings boards, but back in the radically square 8-bit arcade days there were way more adults playing games than kids.
The arcade game ads of yore were cheesy in all the right ways, with garish art and big haired models who look completely out of place standing near an arcade cabinet, let alone trying to play a video game (gasp!):
Explore the seamy underbelly of early arcade game advertising with this fun and funky collection entitled Sex Sells #31: Arcade Games. It's sure to put you in the mood...for some classic coin-op action!
-Via Dangerous Minds
Risk is a board game that allows you to go to war, invade countries, and take over the world -if you win. It’s the perfect platform to harness the conflicts in the TV show Game of Thrones. Now HBO and USAopoly are in partnership to produce a licensed Game of Thrones version of Risk. Rally your troops to conquer the Seven Kingdoms and gain the Iron Throne! This game has 650 pieces, two playing boards, and several ways to play.
The two custom game boards display the “Game of Thrones” Known World, and offer three different ways to play. There is a War of Five Kings game in Westeros for 3-5 players that features the Houses Martell, Stark, Baratheon, Lannister and Tyrell. A 2-player game allows you to contest the rule of Ghiscari slavers in Essos, featuring Houses Targaryen and Ghiscari. Finally, combining the two maps with seven players allows one to combat all seven Houses.
Player boards will be customized for each House and allow you to track your progress in terms of territories, ports, castles and victory points.
Character cards will let you use the battle skills of four of the most powerful members of each house. For example, a Daenerys Targaryen card can be played when declaring an invasion, and lets you replace all 6-sided dice with 8-sided dice. The Cersei Lannister card can be played if you conquer three or more territories in the turn, and allows you to draw an extra territory card.
There are more features in the game you’ll learn about at Speakeasy. Risk: Game of Thrones will be available to purchase next month. -via Time
Maybe it's an unfair assumption, but if you're sitting here reading a blog right now, you're probably not a badass mercenary or undercover CIA operative. If you ever wished you could be a little tougher though, you might want to check out this great Flavorwire featuring 20 awesome quotes from some of the toughest guys on film -while it might not teach you how to be a scary ruffian, it could at least give you a little inspiration on how to talk like one.
Batman is a badass, and during his battle with a never ending stream of baddies he employs one baffling technique for maximum bad guy battery- the backhand.
Batman loves to backhand baddies, he even bakes up insane battle plans to ensure more backhandery will take place.
Batman’s badass backhand is always a surprise to the bad guys, but ol' Batsy has another batch of badass moves in his bag of tricks, that's the power of the Batman Surprise- a film by CorridorDigital.
-Via GeekTyrant
Sharks have a bad reputation, and hundreds of razor sharp teeth that help support the rep, but they’re not trying to be mean when they chomp down on you.
They're just performing a monologue, swimming around showing you the lay of the undersea land while keeping it #sharklife, and #sharklife includes some chomping, and some complaining, but mostly chomping...
This video by Animation Domination High Def, released just in time for Shark Week, asks whether we would like sharks better if they acted like Mark Wahlberg, and to that I reply "Agh, what ever happened to Jabberjaw?!"
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
Have you seen the latest trailer for the new Ant-Man movie?
Well, this isn’t it (this is). What we have here is a remix for New York magazine of the Ant-Man concept, using all kinds of movie footage compiled into a trailer that would be right at home in drive-in theaters in 1955, complete with narration by Vincent Price. What does it say about me that I recognize the majority of the clips used to make this? This is part of the “Vulture Remix” series. You’ll find links to the others at the YouTube page. Ant-Man will be in theaters July 17th. -Thanks, Louis!
Completing a Rubik’s cube in under a certain amount of time was a pretty big deal back in the 80s, but nowadays we know better than to get all excited about toy cube based skills.
However, many of us still get mighty excited about the world of geeky home décor, and it doesn’t get much better than retro themes for the otherwise totally modern home.
You know what looks really retro cool when it hangs around your house? A Rubik’s cube in a beaker, bottle or any other place where it seems to be an impossible fit, that's what!
Putting a Rubik’s cube in a bottle is a much better use for that maddening puzzle, and it's a retro geek chic conversation piece that may convince some people you’re a wizard.
YouTuber Mathologer has created this instructional video that’s teaches you how to take a modern Rubik's cube apart and put it together again inside a bottle. It may not be the easiest project in the world, but the end results are purely mathe-magical!
-Via Boing Boing
Visual effects and digital postproduction company El Ranchito Imagen Digital shows us what they did to make one battle scene in the Game of Thrones episode entitled “Hardhome.” There is a terrific amount of work to make every little detail of a fantasy world mesh together to create a seamless sequence. You can imagine how much digital effects work went into the entire season!
Does this contain spoilers? I don’t think the video tells us anything major: there’s a battle scene, with some supernatural characters, but we don’t see who wins. I can understand why they release these effects videos after the season ends, because it will challenge your suspension of disbelief to imagine the actors doing their stuff in separate studios, in front of green screens, without the thundering hordes of the finished product. -via Uproxx
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He is imminently logical and fascinating. He's the interstellar man of mystery. He's Spock, the half human, half Vulcan science officer on board the USS Enterprise. Spock has inspired generations of trekkies to imitate him, including for cosplay. For example, here's Betty Page Spock by Madeline Masquerade next to Rosie the Riveter Kirk. Let's look at even more great Spock cosplays.
Superheroes rarely have time to carry on sexual affairs, so they often find the chance to hook up in the middle of a situation that requires some superheroing.
Bearing in mind that big companies like DC and Marvel are still largely creating comics to appeal to a teen or young adult market, this makes superhero hook ups some of the most ridiculous and truly unsexy moments in pop culture history.
Dorkly has put together a rather eye opening (and less risque than you'd imagine) collection featuring 7 Ludicrous Superhero Sex Scenes You Could Only Find In Comics, just try and read 'em with a straight face!
