https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg An online journal... of DOOM! Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:41:00 +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.

• A lovely illustration.


• Evan Shaner demands that you OBEY GRODD!


• Another fine Star Wars illustration from Mister Hipp.


• That art jam blog I like so much recently took on Ghostbusters with some wonderful results.


• Some very nice Battlestar Galactica puppets are up for sale on eBay. C'mon, you know you had that Battlestar Galactica puppet show all planned out in your head and were only waiting for this moment to realize it.


• If you are a fan of both the Phoenix Suns and Star Wars, then today's TeeFury offering is for you. (Via)


• Cinematical has some quick news bites: Nathan Fillion will voice Hal Jordan in the animated film Green Lantern: Emerald Knights. Also, there's going to be a How to Train Your Dragon 2 about Hiccup becoming the leader of his Viking clan. Poppy and I watched the original How to Train Your Dragon a little while ago, and although it was very predictable, it was also entertaining and surprisingly moving.


• Heh. This Wicked Witch of the East doorstop is pretty clever.


• Watch a creepy trailer for a movie called Frankenstein's Army, which is set near the end of WWII, and features Hitler using Victor Frankenstein's notes to replenish his dwindling troops in just the way you might expect.


• Speaking of trailers, Cinematical has the trailers for Thor and Captain America running back to back here. The Cap trailer is looking good! I'm excited.


• The other day I posted an unofficial, bootleg sort of video of Galactus in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, so I thought I should follow up with the official video, which is no less terrifying. (Via)


• Behold the genius of the Keep Calm and Carry On poster generator. (Via Amy)

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• No nudity, but probably NSFW all the same, Harry Potter-themed pole dance video. (What? I'm human, aren't I?)


• Hamster-powered mecha.

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Tagged: Animals, Art, Battlestar Galactica, Captain America, Cartoons, Celebrities, Clothing, Comic books, Craft, eBay, Ghostbusters, Green Lantern, Harry Potter, Links, Movies, News, Oz, Products, Recyclotron, Shirts, Sports, Star Wars, Thor, TV, Video, Video games]]> Animals Art Battlestar Galactica Captain America Cartoons Celebrities Clothing Comic books Craft eBay Ghostbusters Green Lantern Harry Potter Links Movies News Oz Products Recyclotron Shirts Sports Star Wars Thor TV Video Video games Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:18:00 +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 latest Comics Alliance link roundup includes a video where Mike Mignola tells stories about his career, and this link listing five made up sci-fi children's books.


• Farel Dalrymple draws Batman, and Dan Hipp draws Inception and the Justice League!


• So J.J. Abrams is doing another TV series about time traveling and a mysterious island starring Jorge Garcia. Sigh. It's called Alcatraz, and Sam Neill just joined the cast.


• Cool shirt on Threadless: Technicolour Rex. (Via)


• Apparently there is a brand of rum called Kraken? Anyway, the company has some cool accessories for sale on its online store. Although oddly, no rum. (Via)


• Evan Shaner draws Velma! Clearly I need to subscribe to his blog. (Via)


• In case you somehow missed hearing about this somewhere else, Gawker got itself hacked. If you have a commenting profile on one of its sites, you probably want to go in and change your password.


• A new trailer for Thor is online. It has good bits and bad bits. Most of the bad bits happen when people say things. Which doesn't bode well, as I imagine there will be a good deal of talking in the movie. I'm still hoping it will somehow be an entertaining film, however.


• Gwyneth Paltrow says Pepper Potts will not appear in The Avengers. Can't quite work out whether I'm sad about that or not.


• The Ultimate New Frontier Collector's Set is up for bid on eBay. And hey, Christmas is coming up soon now! Hint hint. (Via)


• This is a clever idea: The Boardgame Remix Kit. Interesting new rules for those old family boardgames everybody already owns. (Via)


• Dinosaur versions of various superheroes.

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Tagged: Art, Avengers, Batman, Board games, Books, Celebrities, Clothing, Comedy, Comic books, Darwyn Cooke, Dinosaurs, eBay, Gaming, Hellboy, Internet, J.J. Abrams, Links, Lists, Mashups, Mike Mignola, Movies, News, Recyclotron, Scooby-Doo, Shirts, Thor, TV, Video]]> Art Avengers Batman Board games Books Celebrities Clothing Comedy Comic books Darwyn Cooke Dinosaurs eBay Gaming Hellboy Internet J.J. Abrams Links Lists Mashups Mike Mignola Movies News Recyclotron Scooby-Doo Shirts Thor TV Video Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:20:00 +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.

• Guillermo del Toro and Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick are joining forces to create a new Hulk TV series for ABC. "Del Toro will redesign the Hulk using prosthetics, puppetry, and CGI." This could be awesome.


• Some fun Charlie and the Chocolate Factory illustrations.


• Dude put his enormous, 1000-pound LEGO collection up on eBay. It can be yours right now for only $20,000! Tempting...


• The rumor that J.K. Rowling might write more Harry Potter books upset actor Daniel Radcliffe, so she called him to reassure him that no future book by her will feature Harry Potter again, so he won't have to play the character anymore.


• Dalek snowman.


• Darren Aronofsky says his Wolverine movie will be called simply The Wolverine, and it won't be a traditional sequel, but more of a "one-off" dealing with Wolverine's time in Japan. Intriguing!


• This lengthy trailer for the upcoming superhero TV show The Cape is fun, if a bit cheesy.


• Super Punch is having another art contest, and I can't wait to see the submissions this time: the task is to "create a movie poster, or concept art, or custom toy, or any other work of art for Stanley Kubrick's Lord of the Rings, starring The Beatles." This was an actual film project at one point! If only it had actually happened.


• An amusing version of the Batman logo.


• Been to Springfield Punx lately? He did all the Mortal Kombat ninjas as Simpsons characters.


• Win some cool Harry Potter prizes just for posting a comment here about your favorite scene from a Harry Potter movie. I have to think about that one...


• Cars is one of the (far too many) Pixar movies I've never gotten around to seeing, but I was still happy to watch the trailer for Cars 2. It looks like this time they're fighting terrorists? Crazy.


• Interesting submissions continue to pour in at the steampunk Batman movie poster art challenge thread on Warren Ellis' message board.


• A series of illustrations of monsters trying to enjoy Cabo. Heh. (Via)

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Tagged: Art, Batman, Books, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comic books, Doctor Who, eBay, Harry Potter, Hulk, LEGO, Links, Monsters, Mortal Kombat, Movies, News, Photography, Pixar, Recyclotron, Simpsons, Steampunk, Tolkien, Toys, TV, Video, Video games, Wolverine]]> Art Batman Books Cartoons Celebrities Comic books Doctor Who eBay Harry Potter Hulk LEGO Links Monsters Mortal Kombat Movies News Photography Pixar Recyclotron Simpsons Steampunk Tolkien Toys TV Video Video games Wolverine Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:08:00 +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.

By the way, beware clicking through to io9 today. They have a really evil ad for the video game Fairytale Fights on the site that repeatedly opens a pop-up window, whether you have a pop-up blocker on or not. To stop the ad, right-click it, and uncheck "Play." I was actually vaguely interested in Fairytale Fights, but now I hate it on principle.

• It is perhaps childish, but I found the above altered clip from Star Wars to be absolutely hilarious. (Via)


• Marvel superhero ski masks! (Via)


• Check out the rather horrific I FEAR THE EIGHTIES illustration series. (Via)


• Odd and unsettling story about a teen found in Times Square with amnesia. All she can remember is a passage from the fantasy novel Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb. (Via Mike)


• The movie version of the A-Team! Looking pretty snazzy. (Via)


• A slideshow of the best landscape photography of the year. (Via)


• Check out The Book Cover Archive. That's a lot of book covers! (Via)


• A report from the set of the Game of Thrones pilot, complete with pics. (Via)


• 100 amazing futuristic design concepts. (Via)


• These are awesome. I think Griffin needs one. (Via)


• Summer Glau's in a Western called The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy. It's about the adventures of three outlaws on the run in 1876. (Via)


• "In an effort to push consumers toward buying more movies, some major film studios are considering a new policy that would block DVDs from being offered for rental until several weeks after going on sale." D'oh. Considering how long it takes me to get it together and watch movies these days, this really has no effect on me, but I can see how it would be irksome to other film fans. It feels like another wrong-headed, desperate move by a crumbling empire that wants a changing world to go back to the way it used to be. (Via)


• Extremely cute knitted Cookie Monster, with cookies. (Via)


• Photos from the Lucasfilm Halloween party. (Via)


• 14 types of Twilight Zone endings. (Via Dan)


• Brutal Mario sounds like a fantastic, postmodern hack of Super Mario World. (Via)


• 4 reasons why zombies and superheroes don't mix.


• The first eight minutes of V. This reminds me a lot of the first episode of FlashForward - intercutting between different characters and situations while slowly building to the shocking, world-changing event. Fun bit: Jesus almost kills a guy! I also like the kid who trashes Independence Day. Overall pretty good.


• Amusing comic book/newspaper strip mashups.


• 5 US presidents best equipped to handle an alien invasion.


• Dreamworks is moving ahead with its plans for a live-action English-language version of Ghost in the Shell. It'll also be in 3D. Nice.


• 12 unfinished sci-fi novels the folks at io9 wish they could read.


• io9 gives Astro Boy a surprisingly positive review.


• io9 shows you how to update your boring old Halloween costumes.


• The crazy doubled-up Dollhouse schedule for December. I'm glad they're taking into account the fact that I'll be busy writing a novel in November and are simply not airing any episodes that month.


• Rob Zombie's Where the Wild Things Are. Yep, pretty much.


• Yet another casting rumor for Fury Road, the next Mad Max film: Sam Worthington.


• Baby wombat in a box!


• A video collecting all Windows start up and shut down noises from 3.1 to Vista.


• Dinosaur arm shirts! A related, and extremely important, scientific question is answered: no, a human could not beat a T. Rex in arm wrestling.


• Two German scientists say they've broken the speed of light by sending microwave photons instantaneously between a pair of prisms via a phenomenon called quantum tunneling, "which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws." I don't understand even one small part of that, but it sounds awesome.


• Video of an experiment demonstrating the principle behind superconducting trains. Cool!


• 13 kick-ass moments from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Some good picks, although I have to disagree with "Spike goes soul-searching" (I hated that Joss played the "vampire-with-a-soul" card a second time), "Buffy the Turok-Han Slayer" (one of the low points of the series, in my opinion, as Buffy defeats a vampire she previously could not defeat by... fighting it again. Uh... what?), and the destruction of Sunnydale (pretty much everything in that final episode is crap).


• Harlan Ellison won that lawsuit over that Star Trek episode. But the really important bit of information in this article is that there exists a talking Guardian of Forever Christmas ornament. WANT.


• One cool thing about those Microsoft stores: they "allow shoppers to order a Games for Windows title, leave their name with a customer service representative, then have the game, case, insert and other accouterments printed on the spot in under four minutes."


• Another item somebody could buy me for Christmas: the figurehead from Golden Voyage of Sinbad. C'mon, it's only $20,000! And move quick, because the auction'll be over in a few days. (Via)


• Cereal taxonomy. Also, a genetically engineered life form recovered from Howard Hughes' underground research vault. (Via)


• An interesting meta-list of the best comics of 2008. The list is on a blog with the horrific title "I Love Rob Liefeld," but thankfully the author's taste does not appear to have been taken into account when assembling the list. (Via)


• The third item at this link makes me feel better about America: Bill O'Reilly gets really terrible ratings.


• Here's someone dressed as a woman in a Roy Lichtenstein painting. Pretty brilliant. (Via)


• Fantastic animated Klingon propaganda video. Most people agree it's probably a viral ad for something - either a video game or a movie - but it's still awesome.


• Compelling evidence that Keanu Reeves is immortal.


• The Shining as a Yahoo! Travel hotel review.


• I know from painful experience that this web comic is absolutely true.


• Rumor has it that Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio might star in a remake of The Third Man. I'm pretty tolerant of remakes, to the extent that I'd actually be vaguely interested in this project, if it weren't for the involvement of Tobey Maguire. I can't imagine who he'd play in The Third Man.


• A 10-foot long great white shark was bitten nearly in half by something twice its size. Probably another shark, some claim. But we all know it was a giant sea monster. (Via)


• The top 10 laws of the internet. (Via Sarah)


• Warren Ellis is launching a new project: the T-shirt of the week.


• Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are trying to get a Doc Savage movie made. They've hired Shane Black to write the script.


• Download a track by The Little Death for free. It's quite good!


• Check out this trailer for Season of the Witch. Looks pretty cool, although the fact that it stars Nicolas Cage probably means it will suck.


• Sherlock Holmes poster premiere.


• Interesting thing: a graphic history of newspaper circulation over the last two decades. (Via)


• Lightsaber laser pointers. (Via)


• There is no proof that Tom Cruise can walk. (Via)


• Everybody wins! Not. (Via)


• A riveting and horrifying story about how a 15-year-old girl may have recorded the last transmissions of Amelia Earhart. (Via)


• Great portrait of J. Jonah Jameson. (Via)


• Listen to the latest track from Them Crooked Vultures. (Via)


• Video of a ridiculously cool, gigantic, animatronic monster suit. (Via)


• The five scariest episodes in TV (via), and 31 classic Halloween TV episodes and specials (via). Love the picks for the scariest TV episodes, mainly because they include "Nightmare," a fantastic episode of The Outer Limits.


• io9 says that Star Wars horror novel, Death Troopers, is good. However, the passage quoted here doesn't sound very good to me...


• 25 of the scariest science experiments ever conducted.


• Edward James Olmos talks about The Plan.


• Seriously cool clips from a fan-made Doctor Who anime. The third Doctor is hardcore.


• The Isaac Asimov estate has authorized a prequel trilogy set in the Robot/Foundation universe.


• Stephen King is collaborating on a new vampire comic book. There's also that Dr. Horrible one-shot on the way.


• Amusing Wolverine T-shirt.


• Fun illustrations.


• Is that a cabinet full of eldritch horrors, or are you just happy to see me?


• The seven best villain/hero romances. Heh. Nice picks.


• Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks to join Jeff Bridges in the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit.


• Unsurprisingly, Lucasfilm says the rumor of a new 3D Star Wars trilogy is false. (Via)


• The Last Supper made out of Rubik's Cubes. (Via)


• Trailer for a samurai-in-space movie called Cup of Tears.


• The next obvious step: the Three Worf Moon shirt.


• Google Wave will have an app store.

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