Jedi Gym
It’s only worth watching if you watch the whole thing. It does get good, I promise.
Star Draws
Wonderful high-res scans of Ralph McQuarrie’s original concept paintings and drawings created for the original Star Wars trilogy.
Star Trike
This picture is apparently from the 1982 San Diego Comic Con, but it is worthy of sharing because of the opportunity to write yet another rubbish pun.
Sporegeous
Sporepedia is a community site for Spore, the forthcoming evolution sim from Will Wright. You can upload your monisters or download those created by others, and do the same thing with buildings, vehicles and spaceships etc…
Quake Simpsons
Like I said.
Spork Swords
The Spore Creature Creator was released this week, and guess what..? Yep, it’s turned into a cock-fest. The ‘creature creating community’ have crafted dozens of new lifeforms, all with massive boners. If you search YouTube for “spore penis” you’ll return about 150 vid’s, including Penisman, the Penizaur, the Peenisaurus, the Penis Goblin and the the oddly named Penis Creature #1029438.
Never fails.
If you’re not a child, do not despair: the creator has spawned over 250,000 real monsters after just one day.
I Wish I Was 10
“This amazingly detailed battle station features an incredible array of minifigure-scale scenes, moving parts, characters and accessories from Episodes IV and VI on its multiple decks, including the Death Star control room, rotating turbolaser turrets, hangar bay with TIE Advanced starfighter, tractor beam controls, Emperor’s throne room, detention block, firing laser cannon, Imperial conference chamber, droid maintenance facility, and the powerful Death Star superlaser… plus much more! Swing across the chasm with Luke and Leia, face danger in the crushing trash compactor, and duel with Darth Vader for the fate of the galaxy!”
Graff-At
Suckadelic. Graff-At, 2002. Customized Hasbro Star Wars vehicle customized by professional Graffiti artists EASE and JK5 under the direction of SUCKADELIC. All tags are written in the Aurebesh language, a fictional letter system created for the in-world use for the 6 Star Wars films. The largest tag on the side of the vehicle spells the word REBEL.
Speccyhead
‘Nude’ by Radiohead performed using a ZX Spectrum, an HP Scanjet 3c, an Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer and some hard drives. The song starts at about 60 seconds in.
UPDATE: Vimeo has an bit more info here.
Spooky Electric
Haunting NASA documentary with animated photographs, sound-controlled CGI and 3D compositing used to create the effect of magnetic fields.
Flight 404 Radiohead
With processing of course…
Automariotic
Some people hack Mario games to make them play automatically when the level starts. The player has no input; the mustachioed plummer powers through unaided - thanks to a series of invisible bumpers and coding wizardry. All sounds a bit pointless, but here’s one that’s been set to some ‘techno’ style music and it’s unnervingly hypnotic (you’ll probably not want to watch all 11mins):
Here are some others.
Google // Open Social
“The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.”
“OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.”
Gears Of War II
Much of the same.
Yipee.
Photoyoda
French photographer Cedric Delsaux has had the genius idea of photographing Star Wars characters and stuff in modern day urban locations. Sweet.
More here.
