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Geek Media Round-Up: August 19, 2010

19 Aug 2010  Media

Art

The World

  • Check out Geeky wedding invitations to make your heart go squee at io9.
  • Concept art for a Star Wars Theme Park.
  • Geek Art Gallery points the way to the amazing painting “The World.”

Comics

  • IGN picks The Best Indie Comic Books.

Cross-Media

  • Bloginhood picks the Top 10 Pirates of SF.
  • EW looks back at 26 True (Fictional) Lovers: Pop Culture’s Best Couples.
  • Ramona Flowers and 5 Other Manic Pixie Dream Girls Who Aren’t.

Film

  • Interview: Writer-director Alexandre Aja describes his new horror movie, “Piranha 3D” as “‘Gremlins’ for adults.”
  • News:A ‘Google Movie’ About its Founders is Now in the Works, Too
  • News: January Jones is Emma Frost not Alice Eve
  • News: Paramount Email Gets Leaked, Gives Away What They’re Developing. Bonus: World War Z is being developed.
  • Askmen points to the Top 10 Franchise-Destroying Film Moments.
  • Premiere names 10 Move Characters Greasier Than the BP Oil Spill and remembers 13 Terrifying Movie Teeth.

Internet

  • io9 has a gallery of geeky weddings.

Literature

  • Interview: Locus interviews N.K. Jemisin of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
  • News: Coming Soon: Advertisements in E-books.
  • Entertainment Weekly counts down 20 Classic Last Words in Books.
  • How Edgar Rice Burroughs became one of the biggest scifi authors.
  • Wisb explains Why Science Fiction is Important to the Third World (Part One).

Television

  • Interview: Charles Dance talks about his new series, Going Postal.
  • 6 ways Torchwood’s new season will change everything.
  • The other day, the internet went crazy over Justin Bieber’s anthem “U Smile” slowed down 800 percent. But it turns out that Classic science fiction theme tunes sound even spacier slowed down.
  • See the Zombie Fury Engulf Atlanta in Awesome New ‘Walking Dead’ Stills!
  • TV Overmind gives us a list of 14 kick-ass TV women.

Video Games

  • The Art of Videogames, a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit set to open in March 2012, was featured on CNN today. But you don’t have to wait until 2012 to get your fix of gaming history.

Want more? Check out Geek Art Gallery for more art links and eye candy. Visit Oneironomicon for more on book trailers, reviews,and writing links.



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