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Image: Game of Thrones Tattoos by Sara McSorley (The Mary Sue)
The Bottle Boys are back with a geeky compilation of video game themes played on bottles. Their instrument of choice lends itself well to 8-bit music! -via Viral Viral Videos
Previously by The Bottle Boys: Call Me Maybe
Paramount Park is an ambitious new theme park being built in Murcia, Spain. The Paramount complex will include condominiums, malls, office buildings, hotels, and casinos in addition to the amusement park. And a big part of the park will be devoted to Star Trek!
Plaza Futura will be designed to appeal to Star Trek fans. 3D renderings depict a large futuristic square that will include a Starfleet Spain recruiting center, a 3D simulator ride (which allows guests/recruits to experience adventures in outer space), and a Warp Speed Coaster that will reach exciting heights and speeds and include an underground portion (a wormhole, naturally) and several loops.
Murcia is 270 miles southeast of Madrid. Serious Trek fans might want to start saving up for a vacation in Spain now. The opening of the park is expected to be sometime in late 2015. See plenty of concept pictures at Star Trek. -via Geeks Are Sexy
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Image: The Tiniest Princess Leia (Fashionably Geek)
The TARDIS from Doctor Who
The Horde from The World of Warcraft
Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony
Captain America
The Mandalorians from Star Wars
Laura of Rebel Among the Stars Studio is a propmaker and crafter in more media than I can count. Lately, she's been making decorations inspired by Native American dreamcatchers. You can find her gallery of work here.
It was the TARDIS dreamcatcher at the top that first caught my attention. I can readily imagine that being worked into an episode of Doctor Who.
Redditor Corncorn1 writes, "The bosses wife asked him to mow the lawn. This is what she got." Then she's a very lucky woman. Not every woman ends up with a man who will go this far to please her.
Redditor TrumpetGuy87 comments, "It's the lawn she deserves, but not the lawn she needs right now." No one deserves a lawn this good. It's just a gift--an act of love, perhaps the highest possible.
-via Nerd Approved
Ah! Aaahhh! That last one! Of all the eight types of Star Wars fans, that would be the hardest to understand. I was in college in 1978, and had no idea there was ever a Star Wars Holiday Special until just a few years ago. I have yet to run into such a fan. Which one of these eight types of Star Wars fans, illustrated by Andy Kluthe and Andrew Bridgman at Dorkly, are you?
If action figures existed in the mythical era depicted in George R. R. Martin’s popular fantasy series A Song of Ice & Fire they would have looked like these awesome wooden action figures created by Mick Minogue.
The Hound and Jamie Lannister action figures were created for a Song of Ice & Fire inspired art show at LTD Gallery in Seattle, Washington, which Mr. Martin himself will be attending, and each hand painted, highly detailed wooden figures features battle damage features, a blister card and an age approval of 4+ with the note "Suitable for Wildlings".
-Via Topless Robot
Simon Belmont first began his battle against Count Dracula and the forces of darkness when the game Castlevania was released for the Japanese console Family Computer Disc System in 1986, with a NES cartridge release to follow in 1987.
Since then it has gone on to become (arguably) the most remade video game ever, with a new volume Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2 coming out soon, but did you know that nobody is really sure who created the original Castlevania? Or how about the fact that parts of the original Castlevania castle show up in nearly every 2D version of the game?
Charlene Datan and Choi Elegado were married in Quezon City, Philippines, with a wedding themed around the video game series Final Fantasy. However, members of the wedding party and guests who weren’t familiar with FF were encouraged to dress as their favorite pop culture icon, whoever it is. Their processional was the introductory music to Final Fantasy 8. Read more about the wedding here. Even if you’re not the type to cosplay on your wedding day, you have to admit that the wedding turned out to be lovely. -via Geeks Are Sexy
When the entertainment industry needs a far out creature puppet created they turn to Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, who have been in the business of bringing fantastic puppets to life since 1979. Their signature style and dedication to quality makes their screen worthy creations sought after for TV shows, movies and commercials by companies worldwide.
Here's their current commercial reel, showing all the awesome puppets and far out creatures they've created for TV ads such as the Snuggle Bear, the Jack in the Box puppet and that little green guy who keeps talking about how easy it is to get a loan from home.
-Via Laughing Squid
(Image: CBS)
I recently ran across 2 interesting blog posts about how science fiction and fantasy often shove people into fixed categories because of species. First, Salem MacGourley wrote about why he prefers to play humans in role-playing games:
I'm really kind of a fan of humans. This translates into my gaming habits, as there's many games out there that let you pick not only male or female, but species as well. I always roll human. Sure, Dwarves might be stronger, Krogans might be more resilient, Asari might live a thousand years longer, and Elves might be bastards, but give me a human any day. Us humans, we can do anything. I can't, for the life of me, remember the source of the quote, nor can I the quote itself, but on Star Trek, probably Deep Space Nine, there was a quote about humans that's stuck with me. You take 10 Klingons, you've got 10 fierce warriors. 10 Ferengi, you've got 10 shrewd businessmen. 10 Romulans, 10 expert spies. But you take 10 humans, you don't know *what* you're dealing with. They could be anything. You can't plan for humans.
Why is that? Tamara Keel explains:
What you get is ten bigots. Because, see, humans, specifically the humans that wrote that script, look at ourselves as "people" and the other people, the ones with the pointy ears or the furry feet or the bony ridges on their foreheads, as "archetypes".
All Klingons are honor-loving warriors. All dwarves are beer-swilling Lawful Good blacksmiths with, for some reason, bad fake Scottish accents. All elves are ethereal granola-munching bunny-hugging archers. But humans are people and therefore can be good or evil, horticulturalists or mechanical engineers, priests or physicists, saints or monsters.
In Dungeons & Dragons, dwarves can't be rangers and halflings can't be magic users, but humans can be any character class. In Star Trek, the United Federation of Planets is a galaxy-spanning polyspecies polity, but the officer's mess on any Starfleet vessel looks more like a board meeting at Augusta National than it does the cantina in Star Wars. The most homogenous, conformist technological society on planet Earth has everything from tattooed yakuza to sumo wrestlers to lolita cosplayers, but you could title a documentary on Klingons Fifty Shades of Worf.
This tendency has long struck me as a weakness of Star Trek. You could have a Klingon society dominated by warriors, but only if it was a constantly expanding empire with a booty-based economy, such as Fifteenth Century Spain. Ferenginar could exist as a mercantile city-state similar to Seventeenth Century Venice. But the entire populations couldn't consist of warriors or merchants. At minimum, someone would have to build and run the machines.
Occasionally Star Trek's writers addressed the discrepancy. Nog once commented that his father Rom would have made a great engineer if only he hadn't been pressured to go into business. It just would have been nice if the series had kept going and given even more sociological depth to alien cultures that were easily stereotyped.
-via Glenn Reynolds
If you’ve not seen the new trailer for the upcoming Godzilla movie, you should take a look now. Sure, Bryan Cranston stars in it, but it’s not Heisenberg. However, everyone’s favorite meth maker is in this Godzilla/Breaking Bad trailer mashup. When Godzilla and Walter White are in the same frame, who’s the danger now? -via Uproxx
Do you take this Time Lord to be your lawfully wedded husband? Yes, yes, yes! I mean, who wouldn’t accept a proposal that comes with a TARDIS ring?
This ring by Paul Michael will be perfect when the man in the blue box offers to take you away. It’s made of gold, white gold, diamonds and sapphires.
You may remember some of Michael’s other geeky ring designs, including those inspired by the Enterprise, Wonder Woman, the Death Star and Han Solo.
-via Technabob
Optimus Prime's head
Captain America's shield
Boba Fett's helmet
Judge Dredd's helmet
Master Chief's helmet
Michael McLane of Florence, Kentucky is a stained glass artist of both talent and excellent taste in subject matter. Among other projects, he makes lamps inspired by science fiction and comic books. You can see more work at his DeviantART gallery, including stained glass pieces inspired by Princess Mononoke, Iron Man and the band One Direction.
-via Technabob
