At first, it’s difficult to believe that only the characters in these photos were the work of any special effect-meddling.
Photographer Cédric Delsaux took his photos of the construction of super-city Dubai and threaded them with some of our most sacred Star Wars images. The result: a beautiful fit that really puts into …
Sci-fi is sexy – well, most of the time. From Bela Lugosi’s first neck nip to Avatar‘s ponytail fumblings beneath Home Tree, the genre has never lacked in the love department. Both sweet and surreal.
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In honor of Valentine’s Day, we thought we’d bring you the best fantasy …
Toy Fair 2010 is upon us, folks. Team Techland will be hitting the show floor on Monday to check out all of this year’s upcoming toys. As a teaser we have an exclusive first look at DC Direct’s DC Chronicles the Flash. We’ll be sure to check out DC’s booth and everything else they’ll be showing off.
I saw this on io9 and waited as long as I could before blatantly ripping off their post. (I already did so on Twitter.)
An artist named Justin van Genderen did a series of vintage deco-style travel posters for some of the major planets in Star Wars. Here’s Hoth:
Do you not admire its beauty? See them all here. I don’t know …
Valentine’s Day is stupid.
It’s for saps who find value in the fact that they can brag to friends/co-workers/the Facebook universe all about the stupid hoops they forced their significant other to jump through just to prove their love is true, Hallmark style. Barf.
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Still, …
Today, Wired posted that they’ll play host to a pretty intriguing competition: the coolest game of hide and seek we’ve ever heard of.
Inspired by Wired writer Evan Ratliff’s attempt to vanish after writing a story about people who wipe out their identities to start new lives, the magazine has teamed with Loneshark Games and Universal …
Update: I’ve just returned from the event in Times Square and what a cluster frak. Anyway, the Northeast Remnant Garrison of the 501st Legion Empire City Garrison, New England Garrison, and Connecticut Garrison were on hand to escort Snoop Dogg into the Times Square Foot Locker. I waited in the freezing cold for over an hour while Snoop …
Universal Studios is taking its Harry Potter theme park campaign to the Super Bowl with this 30-second peek into the park’s wizarding universe – rumored to cost Universal a stiff $310 million to construct.
The Orlando-based park is set to open this spring, though specifics have been pretty hushed, but here’s what we do know for …
English artist Nick Gentry makes use of basically obsolete tech dinosaurs the floppy disc and VHS tape in this pretty rad collection of paintings.
The best part: Most of these are for sale at a pretty decent price. (Check out more at nickgentry.co.uk.)
This really makes my VHS bookends feel artistically inferior… Anyone out there …
Joe Hill — of Heart-Shaped Box fame, and various other fames (including imminent Horns fame) — has started on an epic meme on Twitter, hashtag #mygeekpeak. The theme being, in the words of the founder, “where you cop to your geekiest moment ever. If it isn’t a li’l embarrassing you aren’t trying”
Hill’s opening sally — “at 13, I …
For all of you stuck at work on this holiday morning, consider this an MLK gift from us to you. Perhaps the most hilarious overdub video I’ve ever seen. Do yourself a favor, though, and don’t turn it off once you realize what’s going on. Just let it wash over you, chord after agonizing chord. I was rolling on the floor with this …
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It was less than a week ago that I finally saw “Avatar,” and what I enjoyed most about James Cameron’s epic was navigating through his fictional universe, learning about it all as I went along: New species, ecosystems, worlds and futuristic technologies used by the humans who are invading
