https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg An online journal... of DOOM! Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:34:00 +0000  by Fëanor

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• Fun with lyrics!


• A wonderful animated gif of an amusing moment in one of Mr. Eddie Izzard's stand-up routines.


• A real, solid, scientific explanation of why cats purr.


• Mr. Hipp mashes up Star Wars and Super Mario Bros.


• Ridley Scott explains the connection between Alien and Prometheus. I'm still a little confused, but okay.


• The evolution of "Weird" Al.


• We can print robot dinosaurs now?? Awesome.


• Here's a computer case made to look like Link.


• Amazing, gigantic Lord of the Rings family tree. (Via)


• Tongue-based computer controller!


• Hey, that dude from The Killing might be Robocop.


• A couple of interesting pics of Benedict Cumberbatch on the set of Star Trek 2. Looks like he's getting the ol' neck pinch!


• When I heard they were re-releasing the universally reviled Phantom Menace in theaters in 3D, I was really curious what kind of audience it would have. I mean, everybody says they hate this movie! Why would anyone pay extra to see it again in one more dimension than before? Then again, it's Star Wars. Star Wars has a certain cache. And nerds are famous for paying for things so they can then complain about them endlessly. Plus, there's the kid factor. Kids don't know they're supposed to hate The Phantom Menace. Well, looks like the nerd and kid factors won out, because the 3D version made $73.4 million in less than two weeks and pushed the movie's overall box office total over the billion dollar mark to make it the 11th highest grossing film of all time. Wow.


• Speaking of Star Wars, here are some rejected Star Wars products. Also, in the upcoming Star Wars game for Kinect, there will be a Slave Leia dance-off.


• Cute Wizard of Oz cupcakes.


• Here's a little boy piloting a mecha suit.


• I love this stamp.

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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.

• Dawww. *Sniff* Comics.


• Some fun Princess Bride sketches.


• New(ish) Hipster Star Trek post!


• Stephen Fry with a hedgehog on him. If you're into that kind of thing.


• The latest Hark! A Vagrant is fun. (I got the Hark! book for Christmas! Yay!)


• Cute Overload's New Year post features photos of lemurs having a dinner party.


• Cool Zelda tattoo.


• Rian Johnson posted a photo of the time machine from his upcoming film, Looper. Squee!


• Cool new Dune shirt from Last Exit to Nowhere.


• A whole book of Blade Runner production design sketches made it online.

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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.

• Aww, happy holidays from the Broship of the Ring!


• You should check out Draw a Stupid Animal. And maybe contribute, if that's your thing.


• Here's a fun holiday news story for you.


• Heh. Yeah.


• This is amusing.


• Inflatable tentacle arm! Nice.


• That Buffy movie they were going to make without Joss Whedon is probably not going to happen. Which is probably good news.


• In case you have somehow not seen them yet, here are the trailers for Prometheus and The Hobbit. It's now extremely clear that Prometheus is indeed an Alien prequel. The logo even slowly builds up line by line, just like in Alien! And yeah, I'm still not sure about how the dwarfs look in The Hobbit, but that trailer is pretty great. When they start singing the song at the end? Chills!


• Dude, a LEGO Zelda would be amazing.


• How about some Princess Leia hair bun headphone covers? I'd wear those.


• The cover for Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Century: 2009, the final installment of the "Century" trilogy. It's coming in June, 2012. I only read the first entry in this trilogy, and wasn't that impressed, but I still have a fondness for the series as a whole. And anyway, it's a great cover. (Via)


• Some news on the cast of the upcoming Ender's Game movie, the biggest item being that Colonel Hyram Graff will be played by Harrison Ford. (Via)


• New evidence suggests that children start forming solid memories as early as two years of age. So we only have a few months before we have to really start worrying about scarring our son for life? Good to know.

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• A couple of great recent posts from one of my favorite Tumblrs: amazingly fantastic paintings of Wolverine fighting a dinosaur, and an amusing analysis of a quiet moment in Empire Strikes Back.

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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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Hey, remember when I used to post to this here blog thingie?? Thought I'd give that another try...

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

• A lovely illustration of Wonder Woman.


• I love Star Trek Hipsters. I just wish it updated more frequently.


• Heh.


• Mondo did the impossible with this poster and made Star Trek: The Motion Picture look cool.


• The opening credits of Jonny Quest redone with stop-motion animation (plus various computer effects).


• Another amusing episode of Basic Instructions.


• Some of Dan Hipp's latest and greatest.


• The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies guy, Seth Grahame-Smith, is working on a new Beetlejuice movie. Sigh.


• Not sure where part one is, but here's part two of the Onion A.V. Club's Fall TV preview. I'm actually kind of relieved there isn't much here that really interests me, as I probably wouldn't have time to watch it anyway!


• This huge io9 photo post collects the best props and costumes at Dragon*Con.


• A photo and a video of a giant, glowing Dalek at Burning Man.


• I feel like I already posted this, but it's funny enough to deserve a repeat appearance.


• A preview of Futurama's season finale features the intro to an anime version of the show.


• Cute picture of Carrie Fisher on the set of Empire Strikes Back.


• I was really impressed with the first part of Comics Alliance's review of The Dark Knight. The site's three-part review of Batman Begins is worth a look, too (click through for the links). These guys are seeing connections and themes and underlying truths about these movies that I totally missed.


• "Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis have signed up for 'substantial' roles in The Expendables 2." Make of this news what you will.

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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.

• The resurgence of animated GIFs was funny... at first. Now it's starting to wear on me. Tumblr is just full of them! Full, I say! But this one is funny.


• Some really wonderful pics from The Big Lebowski blu-ray release party.


• Pretty great reimagining of the cover of the classic video game Bad Dudes.


• An interesting post about a book called The Unofficial LEGO Minifigure Catalog.


• Drawn linked to a couple of neat art sites: Spencer Goldade's 365 Abstracts and Graham Annable's website.


• The top 100 sci-fi/fantasy novels, as voted by the readers of NPR. As usual with such lists, there are things on here I like and things on here I don't like. But I definitely approve of the top pick, natch.


• The latest episode of Awesome Hospital is pretty amazing.


• A first look at Pottermore, the new interactive online Harry Potter world.


• I've heard good things about Ready Player One. It's the first novel from a fellow named Ernest Cline, and it's "about a dystopian future where gamers fight to control the future of their virtual world, the OASIS." io9 has the first two chapters free to read on its site.


• io9 also has a list of fun upcoming sci-fi comics, including a Star Trek/Legion of Superheroes crossover book from IDW and DC. Woah!


• Did you see the latest Immortals trailer? Holy crap! Yeah!


• We've got a US release date for the next Wii Zelda game: November 20th.


• I know there are countless altered/parody versions of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, but... well, here's another one. It's fun! There are monsters!


• Hipster Thundercats.


• Heh.

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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.

• Coldplay has a new album coming out on October 25th. It's called Mylo Xyloto, and it tells the story of a romance in an oppressive environment. We'll hear the first single, "Paradise," on September 12th


• A poster examining the evolutionary biology of the creatures of Hyrule.


• Johnny Depp's The Lone Ranger got shut down, apparently due to budget issues.


• How about some Star Wars links? Here's a trailer for the blu-ray releases. One of the islands of New Zealand is printing legal currency with Star Wars characters on it. Fun Star Wars plush items.


• The latest on the next Terminator movie: the director has met with Arnold and James Cameron. Hopefully they reminded him to make a movie that doesn't suck.


• The director and screenwriter team that made the last bunch of Harry Potter movies (David Yates and Steve Kloves) have signed on to do a multi-movie adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. Oh lord. I don't think I could take that much of The Stand.


• I'm loving the second item in this Super Punch image roundup.


• Art history in the style of classic Sierra computer adventure games.

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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.

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

• Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith are joining M. Night Shyamalan for his next project, a sci-fi film set a thousand years in the future on an abandoned Earth. Huh.


• io9 has a couple of fun lists of 10: the 10 most awesome fake martial arts, and 10 ways of looking at Blade Runner.


• Clever Hot Wheels ad.


• LEGO pirate ship in a bottle.


• How to make your own Legend of Zelda treasure chest, complete with music/sound effects.


• The leash that looks like a gun. Because who hasn't fantasized about killing their dog.


• The opening credits for the new X-Men anime.


• Video of a guy beating four Super Mario games at the same time using the input from one controller.


• Terminator 2 rewritten with Shakespeare's words.


• Super Punch highlights a couple of impressive LEGO creations: a McDonalds cheeseburger and fries podracer, and the Jackhammer from MASK.


• A trailer for a sadly imaginary cop-style TV show called The Aurors.


• How to make a battery out of a stack of pennies. (Via)

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