Well, we all knew it was coming. Sooner or later, we knew it would have to happen, and so it has — or at least, that’s what it sounds like over in Arkansas around New Years. What am I talking about? How about a few thousand birds falling from the sky on New Years, then later, a couple of hundred thousand dead fishes washing up ashore.
Archive for Sci-Fi Odds and Ends
The Apocalypse is Upon Us. Or, er, in Arkansas, at Least.
Awesome Summer Glau Meme from Dragon Con 2010
Apparently these were taken over at Dragon Con this year, and features Summer Glau and her fellow “Firefly” cast (including Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher, and Jewel Staite) posing with fans who showed up. You can find all of the pics here.
Captain Picard is Knighted by the Queen
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” has become a Knight, so that means you’ll all have to start calling him Sir Jean-Luc Picard instead of, you know, old Captain. I wonder how the Federation will look upon this new title? I hear they don’t especially like their Captains to go around with an air of royalty about them. We’ll see, I suppose.
The Flotsom And Jetsam Of Our Sci-Fi Society Reborn As Art
Sculptor Sayaka Ganz has a nice brain. I’d love to scan him. In other art forms, the canvas and materials used to create an art piece are usually static. It’s the art that is dynamic. For Sayaka, he has to imagine and conceive the tools, the medium and the artwork. At a distance, his sculptures of horses, dogs and other things are dramatic and amazingly organic. Close up, the elements in the sculptures are made of thrown away pieces of techno fluff. It’s all an assembly of spoons, wire, toys and other junk. It’s a head shaking achievement. Check out the shots below with special attention to the horses that frankly blow my mind. Thanks io9.
Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal Were Almost Jake Sully in Avatar
Here’s a little odds and ends about the biggest moneymaker of all time, James Cameron’s “Avatar”. The LATimes has a “what if” article that says, according to Cameron himself, before he gave the role to Sam Worthington in “Avatar”, he actually offered Jake Sully up to Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal first, but both men turned him down.
So Wrong it’s Right: Predator 2 Dancing Outtake
Remember “Predator 2″? The sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie starring Danny Glover (genius casting there, guys) as a supercop taking on the Predators in the big city? Via UGO, here’s an outtake from the movie where the stuntment in the Predator suits get down and boogie. Apparently this was supposed to play during the closing credits, or some such. Later, Danny Glover shows up and gets down with the Predators. It’s all oh so very wrong and yet oh so very right.
Space, The Fishy Frontier?
After a bottle or two of Romulan ale, Sulu apparently took a wrong turn and drove the Enterprise into the deep end of someones pool. Will the shields hold?
Big Stargate Atlantis Fan? This Guy’s Probably Got You Beat.
I know we have a lot of “Stargate” fans on the site, if all those endless railings against the new “Stargate Universe” show are any indication. But as big a “Stargate: Atlantis” fan as you may be, you’re probably not a big enough fan to shell out $70,000 to custom make a home theater to look like the “Atlantis” set, which is what Jacob Yarmuth of Louisville, Kentucky did. Besides his very own Stargate-inspired movie screen and surroundings, Yarmuth has a DVD changer than can hold up to 800 DVDs at the same time. Now how you would even keep track of 800 DVDs in one changer is beyond me.
Hobby Bot Maker Stumbles On The Missing Link To Humankinds Eventual Doom
I always knew it would be some dude in his basement that makes the giant leap, or horrible error, that leads us all down the garden path to the day that we live scattered like mice, running pell mell through the rusty wreckage of our once towering society as the robots come a huntin.
MadMan, MadMax Or Prophet? Brit Bugs Out To Live The Life Of Gibson
The question is, will Nix follow? A British man by the name of Adrian Bennett has defied his name and gone to live in the Australian Outback and I don’t mean the local steakhouse. No, he has decided to live out a 27 year old obsession to live the life of Max and open a Mad Max museum in the town of Silverton, way the hell and gone into the Aussie wilderness.
Warning Signs For The Brave New World
This has amused me as so I shall post it. Now, in this modern world of ours, there are many new wonders and also, strange and disturbing new dangers. It’s very difficult to keep up with what could confuse or kill you. I am here to help. A considerate fellow by the name of Arenamontanus has created some instructive new warning signs for hazards and dangers you can only encounter living as we do at the very edge of human achievement. Thanks BoingBoing.
Sewer Creature From Your Sci-Fi Nightmares Is Real And Really Gross
In Raleigh, North Carolina, something wet and writhing, fresh from a B or C or even D Sci-Fi midnight movie madness is lurking in the sewers. We have the video. You’re thinking as you watch this,“Dude, this cannot be real”, as you make funny faces and fight the volcanic re-emergence of your lunch.
Giant Gundam Robot Guards Japan 24/7
Once again, we westerners must bow to all that is Japan’s Sci-Fi awesomeness. We cannot compete. It’s a dream of mine to go to Japan for many reasons. From an outsider’s view, it seems that Japan is the ultimate in grafting a living historical society with a highly enthusiastic Sci-Fi wonderland. Where else in the world could you have a 59 foot giant freaking robot Gundam guarding a major city?
Science Fiction Isn’t Much Fun Without Science
Close to every nerds heart is the periodic table of elements. I have a copy tattooed to my inner thigh as we all do, it’s essential information at the ready in case I am in desperate need for the atomic weight of Roentgenium while doing something naked. However essential, the Table is a dry read. Sometimes you just need a cute cartoon character to fill you chock full of that synaptic pathway building education. Here for your consideration is the atom Oxygen. See how well he interacts with all the rest of his atomic kind. Thanks PostHumanBlues.
Gee, I hope They Don’t do Something Weird with it…
NBC Universal Television recently held an auction for Battlestar Galactica memorabilia, where BSG nerds with disposable cash (or however much they could steal from their parents) got the chance to buy their very own copy of Starbuck’s flight suit or that incredible red number that Cylon Number Six (played by Tricia Helfer) wore for much of the show. According to SciFiWire, a couple of geeks did put their cash where their hormones were, snapping up Starbuck’s flight suit for $16,500, while Number Six’s red number went for a chart-topping $23,000.
