From Overheard in the Newsroom, here's a take that I've never thought of before:
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Antony Le spent a month and $4,000 building this very realistic costume for War Machine, a character from the Iron Man franchise. The faceplate is powered, and the gatling gun actually spins:
Le, a fitness consultant, studied some concept sketches of the suit posted on the Internet. He used thin, high-impact urethane for the armor, cutting it into plates and joining them with some 1,500 rivets and washers. He sculpted a clay helmet mold and then used a liquid resin mix to create the final product. But that was just cosmetic work. He also added a small servo motor that opens the faceplate, as in the movie, and built a gun out of pipes and a motor. LEDs in the eyes and chest-plate further add to the illusion.
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-05/you-built-what-real-iron-man via Geekosystem
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In this College Humor video, a game designer is struggling to come up with original ideas for enemy bosses for Mega Man to battle. "Choking Hazard Man"?
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YouTube user Apollyphelion brings us this marvelous Dungeons & Dragons-inspired Rube Goldberg machine. It's supposed to give excellent attack dice rolls, and appears to work.
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It's hard to believe that Alex Popov's 22-minute film is actually a fan film. The production values are excellent, although Popov made it himself in his spare time over a two year period. The budget was just $500. Matt Burns of CrunchGear advises Hollywood to study this film, writing "what’s important is that the story is solid and a lot more true to the saga than Hollywood’s interpretations." Agreed.
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Oh, also: cosplay of a female Predator. In a bikini.
Pop artist Dann Matthews imagined Star Wars as a tale from ancient Egypt with this illustration.
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Nintendo Age user bunnyboy modified his Nintendo ES so that he can play Gameboy games from it:
This is basically the Super GameBoy, without the Super part. The guts of an original GB are transplanted into a NES cart. My incredibly amazing custom board then translates the GB graphics into NES format, and the NES controller to GB format. The original link port is accessible, so you can connect another GB or RetroVision or plug in the printer.
He's not modest about his accomplishment, but he doesn't need to be. It's awesome. More pictures at the link.
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Project Sand is an growing repository of high-quality Dune related artwork by A.J. Trahan, Sammy, Wo"DZGN, Jordan Lamarre-Wan, and Rolf Mohr. Above is a scene by Wo"DZGN showing a Fremen warrior summoning a sandworm.
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He-Man and his friends (and enemies) from the 80s cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe sing "What's Up?" by the 90s band 4 Non Blondes. It's an outstanding mashup. But I was a bit disappointed not to see Ram-Man -- he had a great singing voice.
Comics Alliance editor Chris Sims (whose work we've previously featured) created a periodic table of superpowers, divided into the categories of origin stories, physical abilities, and mental abilities.
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Shoyuken member NeoBlood took an old fashioned Royal Companion mechanical typewriter and turned it into a functional PC gaming peripheral with a joystick and working keys. You can view in-process photos at the link.
http://shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=234472 via Gizmodo
deviantART user gavacho13 made a set of illustrations mashing up Sesame Street and Street Fighter. Pictured above is Cookie Monster presented as Sumo wrestler E. Honda. You can view a gallery of these illustrations at the link.
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