https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg An online journal... of DOOM! Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:37:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Gifs from Bonniegrrl: two sets of Empire Strikes Back gifs, Metropolis, The Young Ones, Sir Giles of Buffy, and... yeah, I don't know what's going on here.


• Speaking of gifs, here are some unspeakably cute ones of a wombat and a cat and his boy.


• A tiny Santa hedgehog. Eeee!


• Awesome photo of awesome dogs.


• I deeply love this hateful cat.


• Scientists are working on a new RNA-based vaccine that could wipe out the flu forever. Amazing stuff!


• The Max Fleischer Superman cartoons are pretty fantastic, and you can now watch them all on YouTube, legally and everything!


• More cuteness for you, straight from the source (Cute Overload).


• Partly as research for my novel, and partly just because I like them, I've been reading tons of fairy tales and folk tales lately. So I was kind of excited to see that a big-screen, Hollywood adaptation of Jack the Giant Slayer was in the works. But I should have figured that in the process of creating such a thing, they would have added all the typical big-screen, Hollywood trappings to the story. Corny catch-phrases, lame love story, overwhelmingly huge action set pieces, bombastic rhyming prophecies, tons of special effects. Oy. This trailer is just gross.


• Homemade cardboard Star Destroyer!


• I particularly love the second piece in this Super Punch art roundup.


• I really love the sweet and funny Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown, so it's pretty cool that he's doing a sequel called Vader's Little Princess. There are even holiday-themed downloads!


• I never got into Lemony Snicket, but I've heard great things, and we do have a book we really like written and illustrated by Jon Klassen, so I'm curious about this book that the two of them are collaborating on, The Dark.


• I'm fascinated by devices like this for some reason: a lamp that tells you the weather by recreating it inside your house. (No, it will not actually make it rain.)


• Andrew W.K. has been named the U.S. cultural ambassador to Bahrain. FYI. So they will be partying hard there soon, I assume. UPDATE: Somebody somewhere apparently realized this was kind of a crazy idea and cancelled the whole thing. The world is a sadder place now.


• Ironically, the most frustrating thing about watching this collection of the craziest fake ads from movies is all the real ads stuck in between.


• Holy crap, you guys. NASA is working on a faster-than-light warp drive.


• How to make a fairy room in your house. Awesome idea.

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As a follow-up to this post, I present some ideas for new, more honest McDonalds advertising slogans.

McDonalds. What else are you gonna do? Cook?

McDonalds. Can you actually afford anything better? We didn't think so.

What else is here? Sbarros? Ugh. Guess you're going to McDonalds!

Life is naught but soul-crushing emptiness and despair. So what the fuck? Might as well go to McDonalds.

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Tagged: Advertising, Comedy, Fast food, Food]]> Advertising Comedy Fast food Food Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:05:00 +0000  by Fëanor

The more recent McDonalds advertising seems to be trying to convince us that it is a hip, cool restaurant where hip, cool, young people come to smile prettily at each other, and to enjoy healthy treats like salads, oatmeal, fruit smoothies, and the like.

Does anybody actually believe this about McDonalds, besides perhaps isolated tribesmen who have never seen or heard about the place before? McDonalds is where you go when you are desperate and you need some greasy garbage that you can stuff down your food hole RIGHT NOW, to reward yourself for being good, punish yourself for being awful, or just because there are literally no other options.

Embrace what you are, McDonalds! Don't try to be something else. You fill an important niche! An important, horrible, desperate niche.

UPDATE: I thought it only right I compose a follow-up post containing some alternative, honest McDonalds ads.

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Tagged: Advertising, Commercials, Fast food, Food, TV]]> Advertising Commercials Fast food Food TV Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:44:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• The Badass Scooby Gang go to the beach!


• Baby platypuses! Platypi? Platypeople?


• A couple of dudes are drawing their favorite LEGO sets from childhood. Cool idea! (Via)


• Fun Frank Frazetta fan art! Fffff!


• Nicolas Delort does some pretty amazing illustrations, including some inspired by Harry Potter. (Via)


• Basic Instructions covers both sides of the old Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate.


• It's technically a commercial for a car, but this amazing video also features slow-motion footage of said car crashing through glass and breaking giant water balloons, so...


• Apparently Ryan Reynolds is going to be the new Highlander. Hmm.


• This illustration roundup features a catbus!!! Auto-post!


• The guy who made that pretty amazing Super Mario Crossover online game is Kickstarting something similar involving original characters.


• The new Penny Arcade game sounds good! I need to play those at some point...


• Speaking of Penny Arcade, they have a comic and a news post that do a great job explaining why the Diablo 3 real money auction house makes no damn sense.


• This is a pretty wonderful story.Pretty great Joust illustration.


• Heh.


• The UK trailer for Looper! The director himself warns that it's a bit spoilery, though, so consider carefully before watching.

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Hey, remember when I used to post things like this to this here blog?? Thought I'd try it again, just to see how it goes. Enjoy!

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Some fun recent posters on Reelizer: My Neighbor Totoro, Blade Runner, and Seven Samurai.


• Speaking of Blade Runner and My Neighbor Totoro... And here's another amusing mashup.


• Make your own chocolate D&D dice. (Via)


• This bootleg copy of the Dark Knight Rises trailer is crazy exciting. (UPDATE: Here's the official trailer.)


• A holiday-themed Wondermark! And here's one that's far too accurate to my experience.


• Dude! Officially licensed Lord of the Rings LEGO toys?? There goes all my money.


• Commercials are now legally obligated to not be so damn loud, which makes the fist-waving old man inside me very happy.


• The house banners from A Song of Ice and Fire, redone in super-cute, chibi style.


• The trailer for Expendables 2. Just a teaser, really, but how about that cast!


• I was surprised that Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol was getting such good reviews until I remembered it's directed by Pixar genius Brad Bird. Yeah, I might have to see that.


• The Avengers trailer! You think you've seen it already, but have you seen this version?? It has extra scenes, and it's in German!


• So even though Ridley Scott's Prometheus is essentially a prequel to his Alien film, it will not actually feature the alien, or xenomorph, at all. Huh. Okay then.


• Every year Matthew "defective yeti" Baldwin writes a guide to the best new board games. Always fun! Here's this year's.

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Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Apparently Nike has finally actually created those self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future II.


• "George Lucas offers a compelling argument against George Lucas."


• Beards and Bellies started updating again!


• A man attempted and failed to rob a 7-11 in San Diego while wearing a Gumby costume. The best part might be the fact that the clerk had never heard of Gumby and described the costume as a green Spongebob Squarepants.


• Warner Bros. has come up with some unique advertising for the movie Contagion: a living billboard that grows the name of the movie out of bacteria and mold.


• They've finally actually started selling .xxx domains. So in case you were waiting for that to happen to start your porn site, now's the time.


• Super Punch highlights the art of Julian Callos, which is pretty impressive.


• A fellow by the name of Matt Rhodes draws his own, cartoony version of Lord of the Rings. His accompanying comments are interesting and bittersweet. (Via)


• The Legend of Zelda album.


• Google became even huger today by buying Zagat.


• The Diablo III closed beta has begun. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!


• Loving this small sampling of the art of Chris Foss. I remember getting a book of spaceship art out of the library when I was a kid, copying the drawings and coming up with my own, and either Foss or somebody imitating him must have drawn that book, because this looks very familiar.


• Watch a deleted scene from Thor here. It's not all that exciting, I'm afraid - just a more detailed introduction of Sif and the Warriors Three - but still. Thor deleted scene! You know you have to watch it.

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Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Shirt irony!


• A nice piece depicting a tense moment from Aliens.


• Dan Hipp knows how to push my buttons.


• The latest Awesome Hospital amused me. "That'll get you thirty CCs of Ripitupazine, braff." Heh.


• io9 talks about some legendary cryptids that turned out to be real. Yay, platypus! Also, dream on, bigfoot believers! Btw, send your cryptid photos to io9 - they're offering a $2,000 bounty!


• Wizard World was in town recently - right near where I work, in fact - but I still didn't make it over there, because it's super expensive and I just would have wanted to buy everything I saw. Also, kinda busy here. Get off my case! Ahem. Anyway, I can simulate a visit to Wizard World by clicking here and looking at these pictures! And so can you!


• Have I posted about Yog-Blogsoth yet? I should have if I didn't. It's a dude trying to draw every creature in every H.P. Lovecraft story. Love the title, the concept, and the art! But beware - some of the images are NSFW. (Via)


• A camera that lets you adjust the focus after the picture has been taken?? Wow. The future is cool.


• Turns out the Red Skull started life as the cherry on an ice cream sundae.


• I'm not convinced Steven Spielberg's dinosaur show, Terra Nova, is going to be any good, but these posters are fun.


• Click through for links to many beautiful photos of a wedding at a museum.


• Emergency stakes.


• I would like to have this cookies n' cream cake, please. (Via)


• Enjoying this nostalgic Zelda comic and this NSFW Tyrion fan art from this Super Punch link roundup.


• Check out a bunch of cool posters for Immortals, the mythological epic from Tarsem Singh that I continue to be very excited about.


• If you haven't seen the new Captain America trailer yet, you really should. It looks like they got Cap's character just right. So many scenes and lines of dialog in here are so perfect. Really looking forward to this one!


• A six-foot LEGO model of Sauron's Dark Tower. Sweet!

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Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• I didn't get this at first. I thought the image wasn't loading.


• One of the greatest Firefly moments, as an animated gif.


• Oh God, I want to see this movie so badly now.


• NSFW but amazing photos of a naked woman taming beluga whales in frozen arctic waters.


• "Our eyes are theoretically capable of sensing magnetic fields."


• One of those Snow White movies just got an interesting cast.


• Ooh, LEGO Super Star Destroyer...


• Pixar-ified Magneto.


• Fun art from Super Punch.

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Tagged: Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comedy, Comic books, Commercials, Firefly, Hellboy, Indiana Jones, LEGO, Links, Mashups, Movies, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Science, Toys, TV]]> Advertising Animals Art Cartoons Celebrities Comedy Comic books Commercials Firefly Hellboy Indiana Jones LEGO Links Mashups Movies News Photography Recyclotron Science Toys TV Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:47:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Amusing Peanuts/Doctor Who mashup art.


• A chiptune version of the Game of Thrones soundtrack. At some point I have to catch up with that show. Luckily the first season is over now so I have some time...


• Speaking of Game of Thrones, here's a very enthusiastic Fantastic Four fan letter addressed to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, apparently written by George R.R. Martin.


• And still speaking of Game of Thrones, here's an amusing parody image.


• How about some Star Wars character hoodies?


• A Woolite ad directed by Rob Zombie.


• A Super Punch illustration roundup. The two Harry Potter images at the end are fun and heartbreaking, respectively.

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Tagged: Advertising, Art, Celebrities, Clothing, Comic books, Commercials, Doctor Who, Fantastic Four, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Harry Potter, Links, Mashups, Music, Recyclotron, Star Wars, TV]]> Advertising Art Celebrities Clothing Comic books Commercials Doctor Who Fantastic Four Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin Harry Potter Links Mashups Music Recyclotron Star Wars TV Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:10:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Empire Online lists the 22 most bad-ass beards in cinema. Nice picks!


• That is one fine teacup. Ia! Ia!


• Know those decals some people have in their car windows, featuring a cartoon depiction of each member of the family? Kinda cheesy, right? Here's a funnier, less cheesy spin on it.


• Mr. Dan Hipp celebrates the Green Lantern, and other green heroes and villains from throughout pop culture history. Speaking of Green Lantern, here's the Onion A.V. Club review of the new animated movie, and Ebert's review of the new live-action movie. Sounds like neither movie is all that great, but I still might have to watch them eventually, just because.


• Loving this Godzilla animated gif. (Via)


• Quentin Tarantino's western, Django Unchained, has a release date! It's December 25, 2012. Merry Christmas!


• The Academy is changing the Best Picture nomination process yet again so that there can now be anywhere from 5 to 10 nominees each year, depending on how many movies receive first place votes on 5 percent of total ballots cast. Wha? Why don't we just go back to 5, guys? That was working fine for a long time.


• Check out Sam Bosma's site - he's been doing sketches of characters from the Song of Ice and Fire books lately.


• This ad for the new Legend of Zelda game featuring Robin Williams and his daughter Zelda (who apparently was actually named after the princess) is pretty darn cute.


• A Pontiac built with an entirely transparent, Plexiglass exterior for the 1939 New York World's Fair is going up for auction and has been appraised at a price between $275,000 and $475,000. Click through for some awesome pictures.


• I'm mostly over impressive replicas of things in cake form, but this Millennium Falcon cake has working lights!!


• The Wolverine has a new director and it is James "Not Darren Aronofsky" Mangold. Hmm. I've seen a handful of Mangold's films. Of those, Cop Land was the only really good one. Identity and 3:10 to Yuma were both well done but had disappointing endings. So I guess we'll see!


• Watch the red band trailer for Attack the Block, which is a sci-fi/action/comedy featuring Nick Frost and South London hoodlums versus aliens. Fun! (Via Blastr, a site that cleverly got the movie's title wrong in its headline. Sigh.)


• The most bad-ass way to chop lettuce ever.


• The rotary mechanical smartphone.


• Another fun Super Punch image roundup. My favorite is the hipster Jesus sign. The whale shark thing is just horrifying.


• Amazing photograph of an Irish castle.


• In case you missed it when I posted it to Twitter, a gallery of amazing illustrations by Blade Runner concept artist Syd Mead. (Via)


• So what's all this Pottermore stuff about? It appears to be official, from J.K. Rowling herself, and the obvious implication is that we can expect more Harry Potter. Possibly it's just referring to an encyclopedia, which isn't all that exciting. But still... squee? Anyway, while we're talking Harry Potter, check out the latest trailer for the last movie. It is mighty exciting, and the emotional opening nearly made me break down at my desk here.


• I enjoyed this latest post from the mostly-quiet-lately defective yeti.


• Hee hee. More amusing (and not-so-safe-for-work) sketches from the mighty Kate Beaton.


• Did you see that Comic Twart is doing Princess Bride? Anybody want a peanut?


• Ooh, they've cast Bard and Smaug in The Hobbit! Benedict Cumberbatch, who made a very fine Sherlock Holmes in the recent BBC TV series, will play the part of the dragon. I'm not familiar with the dude playing Bard (Luke Evans), but he certainly looks the part.

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