Three weeks ago, we saw Rodger Cleye's impressive flying model of an X-wing starfighter. Thanks to drone rotors mounted on the frame, it can hover and fly around in any direction.
Well, the Rebel Alliance no longer rules the skies unchallenged. To combat the Rebel scum, Cleye built a drone-powered TIE fighter. Now cleanse the skies from the glory of the Empire!
-via Technabob
Zac Benedict is an artist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He works in leather and wood and lets tattoo artists work on him. Many of his painted woodcuts have classic Star Wars themes.
-via Ka-ching
Jean Claude Van Damme is an actor and badass martial artist who can do the splits in the most epic ways possible. Tobias Onyango Funke is an Analrapist, wanna-be Blue Man and one heck of a husband dad actor Never Nude.
These two men may seem like they have nothing in common, aside from their terrifyingly high levels of testosterone, but they share a really simple connection- they have both recorded green screen video footage made available to fans for use in contests and various projects.
Doug Sakmann is a big fan of both Tobias and JCVD, so he decided to create a video that would do them both justice- by combining their green screen footage into one action packed battle in the back alley. It's fabulously fake and awfully ridiculous!
-Via Topless Robot
Spider-Man is so awesome to watch in action that he has the word amazing worked right into his book's title, but what does that wisecracking web-head do when he runs out of web fluid and needs to get home in a hurry?
He flips out, leaps off tall buildings and starts freerunning his heart out across the concrete jungle, making a quick trip across town via rooftops look easy.
Ronnie Street Stunts presents The Amazing Spider-Man Parkour for your viewing pleasure, which was inspired by the release of Amazing Spider-Man 2 and a love of running free in an urban playground called the inner city.
-Via Kotaku
Tired of not having an Iron Throne of your own but don't have $30,000 to buy the official HBO replica? Well now you can make your own for a fraction of the cost -and the design will be infinately more comfortable as it is actually a bean bag.
Thanks to Nerd By Night, you now have all the directions you need to put together your own comfy Iron Throne.
For more information on the piece, don't miss our coverage of it on Homes and Hues: Be The King of Nerderos With This Game of Thrones Bean Bag Chair
Cartoon show creators like Matt Groening and Seth McFarlane may get all the glory, but most of the work is done by a factory full of animators who earn way less than their American counterparts to bring that show to life.
Theirs is a somewhat thankless job, and the work they do is rewarded with little more than a credit line and the satisfaction of knowing their skills as an animator grow immensely with each project.
Jamie Baker was one of these animation factory workers before he went on to work on projects like UP and Finding Nemo, and his account of working in a Taiwanese animation factory in the 80s entitled One Flew Off To CUCKOO'S NEST is entertaining to read, reveals much about the process of making an animated show happen, and may be a bit disheartening to budding animators who hope to someday land a job in the industry.
-Via Cartoon Brew
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God said, "I need somebody willing to stay up until dawn, milking experience points, arguing about rules all night in a basement, and fighting through a dungeon crawl, then eat a pizza, get his PC and go on a raid." So God made a gamer.
Watching a visual effects breakdown is kinda like watching a beloved film being deconstructed right before your eyes, with all the magic stripped away in favor of clinical examination of process and point-by-point examples of what was done to the original footage to create the desired effect.
VFX supervisor Martin Madsen presents us with an enlightening, and totally bloodsoaked, analysis of the visual effects used in Nicolas Winding Refn's film Only God Forgives, and if your stomach can stand the ultraviolence you'll discover an interesting display of how much work goes into a modern movie, and the detail oriented nature of the viz fx industry.
(NSFW due to violence)
-Via /Film
The news from Star Wars is that the main cast for the new movie is set.
Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.
Director J.J. Abrams says, "We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud."
As in both the original trilogy and the prequels, the new characters include only one woman. Andy Serkis is assumed to be playing a character that looks nothing like Andy Serkis.
(Image credit: David James)
Well, they done did it- the notorious Atari landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico has been excavated, and its contents have been shown to be- tons of Atari 2600 E.T. video game cartridges!
While it’s not surprising that it wound up being full of (arguably) the worst video game ever, it is surprising that Atari spent so much time and energy trying to convince the world that they weren’t crazy enough to dump thousands of cartridges in the middle of a landfill.
We’ve got your number now Atari, and that number is 1-800-PHONE-HOME. So what is the original game designer Howard Scott Warshaw going to do with all those cartridges? It appears another mystery is afoot!
-Via Boing Boing
Leisure Suit Larry was a seminal video game franchise in ways which the Rated E crowd may not approve of- it brought sexual themes into mainstream gaming, it introduced alcohol and drugs as gameplay elements, and it starred a selfish, lascivious character who was only out for a good time.
While the parents of young gamers may feel like the LSL games are pure smut, adult gamers enjoyed the opportunity to get their freak on in a fun new way.
This goofy music video by DJ Todd Terje is called Leisure Suit Preben, and it captures the boozy haze of the Leisure Suit Larry video game series while giving the new generation of lounge lizards something they can shake their rump to!
-Via Kotaku
The Galactic Empire is trying to intercept and scramble the signals from the ISS! It looks like R2D2 must come to the rescue so astronaut Rick Mastracchio can deliver a greeting in time for Star Wars Day on May fourth. And look who were the first ones to comment on the video:
May the Fourth be with you. -via Buzzfeed
It seems like the zombie virus truly knows no bounds these days, and whether you’re real or imaginary you may want to stay more than an arm’s length away from your buddy who keeps going on about how good brains taste.
Illustrator Albert F. Montoya has given us a fresh reason to fear pop culture icons, as he turns them into the putrid undead and reveals the smile of death beneath their skin.
His fun drawings are reminiscent of the artwork created by old school skateboard brands like Santa Cruz or Powell Peralta, and his colorfully foul creations look like they'd make great characters for a zombie themed animated series.
-Via DesignTAXI
Aren’t you glad Robert Downey, Jr. finally got a Twitter account? He Tweeted this picture from the set of Avengers 2: Age Of Ultron, where the cast had dinner together Sunday. How many Avengers can you spot? It must have been a good meal, as they all nearly cleaned their plates. Or else they were just very hungry. -via Uproxx
One of the main reason adults outgrow coloring is the simplicity- they’re just too easy to color, too easy to stay between the lines, and that’s no fun. It’s not like adults don’t want to color anymore, it's just not as satisfying as it was when we were kids, and our more advanced minds demand a more challenging coloring book.
Enter Peter Deligdisch’s expert level coloring book Between The Lines, it’s jam packed with intricate line drawings that will test your coloring skills, and when you’re done you have the satisfaction of having created something you can pin up on your refrigerator!
-Via 22 Words
