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Bengali Parody of Spider-Man


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The team that brought you the knock-off The Incredible HALKa now rips off/parodies Spider-Man.

College student Cheater Parker is a college student and enthusiast of photography and footography (that means that he likes to take pictures of feet). Parker is bitten by a spider and transformed into MakraMan!

via NerdBastards

Star Wars Uncut Is Complete

Star Wars Uncut is a crowd-sourced project which divided Episode IV into fifteen second segments and then invited people to recreate and film them. All segments have been completed and compiled, and developer Casey Pugh is working on the legal issues that are delaying its release. Anyway, many clips are available at the link, which is the project page.

Link (self-starting sound) via blastr | Screenshot: Star Wars Uncut

R2D2 Gets Married



One of the highlights of Star Wars Celebration V was that R2D2 tied the knot. You can watch the video of the grand spectacle here (warning: self-starting). He married Bonnie Burton, the editor of StarWars.com.

Really, she's deluding herself if she thinks that he's going to be faithful.

via io9 | Photo: StarWars.com

Mospeada Ride Armor Motorcycle



Google Translate isn't being terribly helpful, but I gather that this is a custom bike design (not a finished product) modeled after the transformable armor from Genesis Climber MOSPEADA. This series was integrated into the American Robotech universe by the late Carl Macek.

Link (in Japanese) via Super Punch

Geeky Wedding Invitations



Meredith Woerner of io9 compiled a gallery of sixteen geeky wedding invitations, including professionally-made comic books and Star Trek and Star Wars-themed invitations. The ones pictured above are more straightforward, but nonetheless awesome. They're autographed by Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion of Firefly.

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Star Trek: TNG Opening Theme Now Has Lyrics


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YouTube user qcotms wrote lyrics for the orchestral music that opens Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this video, he performs them. At his YouTube channel, you can also hear his lyrics for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

YouTube Channel via Urlesque

Live Performance of Red Dead Redemption Song


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Ashtar Command is either a band or a New Age religious group, or both. At any rate, here is a performance of a band by that name of "Deadman's Gun", a song from the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack. Guitars, a string set, and an accordion -- great choices for a fine song.

Lyrics via Kotaku

Zork Stained Glass Window



Zork was a text-based computer game from the late 1970s loosely based on Dungeons & Dragons. Brian Gaines, the artist responsible, wrote:

I loved Zork so much that a high school buddy and I made ourselves stained glass windows of the logo in 1983. To the best of my knowledge, they are the only such windows in existence (but I could certainly be wrong)


Link via Make | Photo by Flickr user Jason "Textfiles" Scott used under Creative Commons license

Previously: Rap about Zork

The Creation of She-Hulk



LA-based artist Misha does a lot of pop culture work, including paintings featuring Super Mario Bros., Star Wars, The Big Lebowski, and Donkey Kong. The above work is modeled after Michelangelo's Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Stan Lee, of course, is God.

Gallery via GearFuse

The Empire Strikes Back as a Silent Film


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It's been done before, but not this well. This one is finely executed, down to the warped film and John Williams theme played on a piano. It was made by a French team in 2007 and modified this past June.

via technabob

Previously: The Empire Strikes Back (1950)

Mark Hamil Denies Ever Shooting the Missing Scene from Return of the Jedi


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In a brief 2009 interview, Mark Hamil denied ever shooting the long-lost lightsaber scene from Return of the Jedi.

It's a conspiracy!

In the comments, propose elements of and motivations for this plot.

via blastr

A Double Rainbow in 2001: A Space Odyssey


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What is the meaning of a double rainbow, asked Yosemitebear. The greatest minds are still pondering this mystical conundrum. In the meantime, YouTube user Disasteradio remixed the double rainbow video with scenes from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in which Bowman approaches the monolith.

via reddit

Sonic Faces Hard Times



You do what you have to do to pay the bills. Flickr user torakamikaze suggests that Sonic may have to resort to selling off his gold rings.

Link via Super Punch

Opera Version of Final Fantasy VI Theme Music


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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra once performed an operatic rendition of the theme music and story of Final Fantasy VI. Eliot Hagen integrated it into the video presentation of game, and the result is this amazing video. Full credits are available at the video link.

Link via Geekosystem

Superheroes in College



Power Girl is very popular among both faculty and students. Once again, cartoonist Caldwell Tanner offers a set of funny cartoons, this time depicting Marvel and DC heroes in their college days. Six more at the link.

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1808189 via Nerd Bastards

Previously by Caldwell Tanner: Video Game Characters in College

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