Mash-Up: My Neighbor Poporgo

"My Neighbor Poporgo" by Michael Pasquale

A My Neighbor Totoro / Star Wars: The Force Awakens Mash-Up

It's months until the theatrical release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but people are already talking furiously about the latest edition to the Star Wars universe, the Porgs. Some people are calling them the new Ewoks. Some people are calling them the new Jar-Jar. Given Lucas Film's increasing concern with younger demographics since its acquisition by Disney, I'm not surprised by the addition of more cuteness. I am holding out for some Tribble-style humor, though.

Link Round-Up: September 8, 2017

"Starlord!" by Brice Garlick

News: Locals outraged after beloved mural is painted over to advertise new Jennifer Lawrence movie

News: Woman Stripped of Prizes After Using Public Domain Photos to Win Contests: Sasin Tipchai is a talented photographer from Thailand who shares many of his amazing photos on Pixabay. As he designated the images as public domain, technically anyone can use his photos for any purposes. What Tipchai did not expect was that someone would steal his photos to enter international photography competitions. According to Khaosod English, a Swiss photographer by the name of Madeleine Josephine Fierz won first prize at the Moscow International Foto Awards and grabbed a second place award at the Fine Art Photo Awards earlier this year using Tipchai’s work.

10+ Times Kids Came Up With Amazing DIY Inventions

Link Round-Up: September 4, 2017

"Akira Time" by Brazil-based Robson Gomes

An Adventure Time / Akira Mash-Up

Back in May, it was announced that Netflix would be producing a limited series prequel to the classic Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal. And in keeping with the spirit of the original, the new series will feature all new puppetry and animatronic characters. For fans of the original film who also have an artistic bent, the filmmakers have decided to hold a very unique contest: Design your own creature for the series and Jim Henson's Creature Shop will bring it to life.

Fake War Photographer Gets Exposed After Fooling the World: "Right now, a conflict photographer named Eduardo Martins is supposedly driving around in a van somewhere in the Australian outback. And you probably won’t see any new work from him anytime soon: he’s in hiding after pulling off one of the craziest cons in the history of photojournalism."

Link Round-Up: August 28, 2017

"The Fifth Element" by Ryan Brinkerhoff

Created for a screening at the Wealthy Theatre in Grand Rapids, Michigan on August 1.

Prints available for purchase from the artist's website. US$25

Ahead of a new UK C4 anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, three novelists - Nicola Barker, Michael Moorcock and Adam Roberts - pick their favourite works

How to Do a Plot Twist: This Video Essay Nails What Makes a Twist Ending Work

If you found Peter Jackson's Hobbit film series a tad padded, maybe the 1985 Soviet television movie The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again, which tells the same story in only 1 hour 11 minutes and 52 seconds, might be more to your liking.

Link Round-Up: August 25, 2017

"Cyborg Birth" by Ian Llanas

Prints available for purchase from inPRNT. US$15

The Creative Playdate Podcast is for parents that are pursuing creative careers.

Design Tips to Follow and Mistakes to Avoid When 3D Printing Metal

How Neon Lights Are Made

Link Round-Up: August 23, 2017

"Suicide Mission" by Wisnutan

16 Ways To Tell If A Shy Guy Might Be Interested In You

700 Years Of Art Inspired By Eclipses

Accidental Wes Anderson Sets in Real Life

Artist Lee Hurley has created Grootpool, an awesome 3D printed sculptural mashup of the tree-like comic book superhero Baby Groot and loud mouth antihero Deadpool. Lee posted more photos of his cute mashup on Instagram and Facebook.

Link Round-Up: August 16, 2017

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" by Mo Caro

All of Galaxy Magazine’s 30-year run is now available online. Get’cher classic sci-fi using a method the writers of the era could only dream about!

Art Fans, Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Paintings Will Be United In Virtual Exhibition

Sci-Fi Round-Up: August 14, 2017

"The Shining x Deadpool" by Marco d'alfonso

Interviews

Doug Liman Talks Live Die Repeat And Repeat, Edge Of Tomorrow ...
Interview With Fantasy Writer R. A. Salvatore
John Kessel, author of “Corrupting Dr. Nice,” talks never outgrowing science fiction

News

Bryan Fuller Says Talks For A Hannibal Series Revival Have Begun
Chris Pratt Wins Choice Sci-Fi movie Actor At Teen Choice Awards ...
Games Workshop Just Announced A New Edition Of Their Most Cyberpunk Game
Gamescom 2017:Star Warsbattlefront 2 Space Battles Teased
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Wins Two Teen Choice Awards
Hugo Awards 2017 Winners Announced
In The Future, Humans Will Use Brain To Brain Communication And ...
In The Network Appeared New Details Of The Continuing Star Wars
Luc Besson Wants To Make A Valerian Sequel
Move Over Star Wars, Meet The New 'Yoda Bat'
N.K. Jemisin Has Won the Hugo for Best Science Fiction Novel
New Toys From 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Include First Order Finn ...
Nick Jonas Is Joining Daisy Ridley And Tom Holland In Ya ...
Noomi Rapace Talks New Netflix Sci-Fit hriller 'What Happened To ...
Richard J. Leskosky: Audiences Still Hungry For Shark Films
Robot Chicken Producers Reveal A Funko Pop Sketch Is Coming ...
Star Wars' Adam Driver Isn't A Big Fan Of "Generic" Hollywood Films
Star Wars: Captain Phasma Will See More Action In Last Jedi
Star Warsprequels Almost Got A Totally Different Anakin Skywalker
Star Warsrebels: Starkiller From The Force Unleashed Game ...
Star Wars the Last Jedi Merch Gives First Look At 'Evil' Bb-8

Link Round-Up: August 14, 2017

"Inconceivable Tales" by Stephen Andrade

Part of the "30 Years Later (1987)" Show at Gallery 1988.

ASMR, The Internet Subculture Of “Sounds That Feel Good,” Is Going Mainstream

Blackfish is a YouTube content creator that loves to make stuff. Their most popular videos are of their weapons that they make from cardboard. Blackfish makes them all fully functional, so they all reload and fire like their real counterparts. On Thursday, Blackfish released a video of their newest template: a mini sniper rifle.

Continuous belt printers are pretty big news. Hironori Kondo took the time to break down the pros and cons in simple language. It turns out there’s more to it than simply having a bed that goes forever.

Link Round-Up: August 11, 2017

"The Dark Tower" by The Brave Union

Behold the awesomeness of the World’s Smallest Working Train Set. Created by San Diego-based company IDL Motors, it’s the Teeny Track Nano Kit and the Museum of Working Miniatures captured it in action.  Visit the IDL Motors shop to order your own Teeny Track Kit.

Build an Autonomous R/C Car with Raspberry Pi

Forging Naruto’s Kunai and Shuriken in Real Life

Mash-Up: Edward Allen Crow

"Edward Allen Crow" by Scott Neilson Concepts

An Edgar Allan Poe / Game of Thrones Mash-Up

Quoath the Raven,"Winter is Coming!"

Link Round-Up: August 7, 2017

"The Queen in the North" by Monolime

The archbishop of Ottawa expressed regret that several Catholics were shocked at the sight of a giant robotic spider perched on Notre Dame Cathedral.

A bit of a language warning on this next one, but the minds behind the Warhammer40K send-up, “If the Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device” have put out a pilot episode of “If The Emperor Had a Podcast.” While there is heretical language not fit for the ears of younglings, some steps are taken in the podcast to limit such utterances… but still…

French graphic designer Jade Dalloul has has launched a project called Brand Currency that speculates what it would look like if companies produced their own dollars and cents.

Link Round-Up: August 4, 2017

"Godspeed" by Chubby Unicorn

Based on Edmund Leighton’s painting "Godspeed" (1900).

Can You Make a Waterjet Cutter for a Few Hundred Bucks?

A Dinosaur So Well Preserved It Looks Like a Statue: Borealopelta, discovered accidentally by Canadian miners, is one of the most spectacular fossil finds of all time. 

Derrick Lin creates vignettes of the daily grind using miniatures and office supplies, then photographs them with his iPhone.

Link Round-Up: August 2, 2017

"Star Wars 40th Anniversary" by Adi Granov

200+ Posters From the Golden Age of Graphic Design Are Now Free to Download

BLD is a site founded for gamers who love to build but are too busy to figure out what pieces they need to build a PC powerful enough to play video games.  Just select what type of games you want to play, pick a price range, and BLD will present you with a PC virtually built with the parts you’ll need.

Concrete sculptures by David Umemoto

Crafter Hiné Mizushima has created a line of extremely detailed, plaque mounted giant paramecium made out of felt. These single cell organism reproductions were created for an art show at Ranbu Gallery in Osaka, Japan. These and many of Mizushima’s other amazing works are available on a rotating basis through her Etsy store.

Link Round-Up: July 28, 2017

"The King in the North" by Jorujam

Game of Thrones Fan Art. Pencil and charcoal on paper

The British Library has digitized Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook ('The Codex Arundel') and made 570 digitized images available online: The notebook of Leonardo da Vinci ('The Codex Arundel') is a collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452, d. 1519), in his characteristic left-handed mirror-writing (reading from right to left), including diagrams, drawings and brief texts, covering a broad range of topics in science and art, as well as personal notes. The core of the notebook is a collection of materials that Leonardo describes as 'a collection without order, drawn from many papers, which I have copied here, hoping to arrange them later each in its place according to the subjects of which they treat' (f. 1r), a collection he began in the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli in Florence, in 1508. To this notebook has subsequently been added a number of other loose papers containing writing and diagrams produced by Leonardo throughout his career. Decoration: Numerous diagrams. More on Leonardo's notebooks from The Guardian's Jonathan Jones. [Via]

Built-in bookshelf wall with a hidden door: a step-by-step guide

Correlation vs causation taught by xkcd cartoons "Hill for the data scientist"

Dragon Hammer forged by Ilya Alexseyev of Man At Arms: Reforged.

Link Round-Up: July 26, 2017

"The Shape Of Water" by James Jean

From 1965 until his death in 1975 Crockett Johnson painted over 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Of these paintings, eighty are found in the collections of the National Museum of American History. We present them here, with related diagrams from the artist’s library and papers.

Giant D20 Pouch: Diceception

How to make a Harry Potter golden egg. Maybe don’t bathe with it.

Link Round-Up: July 24, 2017

"Only They Pronounce My Name" by Faryn Hughes

Pan's Labyrinth Poster

A bit of gaming history has been clarified recently: It’s the story behind the famous photo of a gamer duct-taped to a ceiling.

The deluxe Patrón x Guillermo del Toro set is available for preorder

Dina Amin picks a random product, disassembles it, examines it, and makes a stop motion story with its parts.

Link Round-Up: July 20, 2017

"Princess Of The Moon" by Bangkok, Thailand-based Ise Ananphada

Prints available for purchase from Hero Complex Gallery. US$65

Alternate takes on the American Civil War have been a literary niche for a while now, covering angles from the survival of President Lincoln to the South winning the war. Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will continue that peculiar institution with a future HBO series titled Confederate.

Author Chuck Wendig gives you a handy top 10 list article to help you Survive and keep creating Art, in this unfurling Age of Dumb "Everything is dumb right now. From nose to tail, we have become the dumbest, saddest pig at the county fair. Historians will not refer to this period as THE DARK AGES, but rather, THE DUMB AGES. The greatest question I get, right now, is how to simply persist creating art and staying motivated and creative in this epoch of syphilitic dipshittery, so I thought I’d bop in here and try my hand at answering that."

Mash-Up: Game of Wreck-It Ralph

"Game of Wreck-It Ralph" by James Silvani

A Wreck-It Ralph / Game of Thrones Mash-Up

Link Round-Up: July 11, 2017

"Spider-Man: Homecoming" by Paul Ainsworth

Part of a tribute poster series from the Poster Posse collective.

Absolutely stunning paper sculptures.

British Expatriate Spends a Night at The Henn-na Hotel in Tokyo That is Staffed by Robots

French Art Director Jade Dalloul wondered what the banknotes and coins of famous brands like Apple and Google would look like if they became countries.  He’s thus created some hyperrealistic, well thought-out money renderings of the biggest brands in the world for his final year project titled 'Brand Currency.'