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Geek Media Round-Up: February 22, 2012

22 Feb 2012  Media

Art

Rei Ayanami

  • The best Rei Ayanami (from Neon Genesis Evangelion) cosplay you’ve every seen.
  • Check out the world’s first spherical OLED
  • Cost of Living is a funny short film about what it might be like to work for a company like the Umbrella Corporation.
  • Eye-catching & Awesome Examples OF Fantasy Art
  • Nuada & Nuala cosplay
  • This Rule 63: Skeletor is actually terrifying.
  • Steampunk Clockwork Creatures

Comics

  • Interview: Robert Kirkman On Image Expo and Independent Comics
  • Spider-Man’s monster appeal: A guest essay by Neal Adams
  • Why Batman Should Kill The Joker

Cross-Media

  • 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Endings We’d Like to See More Often

Film

  • Interview: Director Speaks Out on “John Carter” Title, Story & Budget
  • Interview: On Charlie Rose last month, Pixar head John Lasseter talked about Pixar’s upcoming movies, including one that taken place entirely in a girl’s mind.
  • Adding to the pile of “might-have-been” Hollywood stories, we might have had Robert Downey Jr. playing Lex Luthor at one point.
  • Are you ready for Kick-Ass 2?
  • New official Avengers photo.
  • Patrick Rothfuss: Concerning Hobbits, Love, and Movie Adaptations

Internet

  • UnderScoopFIRE! picks the The 100 Best Action Figures of All Time.

Literature

  • Interview: Down These Strange Streets: Editor Gardner Dozois on Urban Fantasy
  • Interview: The Chemical Garden trilogy author Lauren DeStefano and Moira Young of the Dustlands trilogy talk about the art of writing dystopian fiction.
  • Interview: Matthew Pearl considers the issue of Nature vs. Technology in his latest book, The Tecnhologists.
  • Interview: Survive a Robot Uprising author Daniel H. Wilson talks to Lightspeed
  • Interview: Tobias Buckell joins Skiffy and Fanty for an extensive discussion about his latest book, Arctic Rising
  • Interview: Walter Jon Williams on Writing and Alternate Reality Gaming
  • News: Nook launches it’s new Tablet

Science

  • What does science fiction tell us about the future of reproductive rights?

Technology

  • Android-Powered Google Glasses Coming This Year
  • The coming medical revolution: Technology has the potential to transform our concept of sickness. An expert explains what the future holds.

Television

  • Interview: Eve Myles on Torchwood, Doctor Who & All New People
  • Interview: Former Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy was interviewed by Janice Forysth by BBC Radio Scotland. He chats about Doctor Who, the 50th Anniversary. McCoy refers to Matt Smith as a “twelve year old child”
  • 13 supernatural TV series that (lovingly) ripped off The X-Files
  • 24 great sci-fi guest stars from 500 episodes of The Simpsons
  • AMC has released a featurette about the digital effects for The Walking Dead.
  • Is this how Hollywood plans to compete with free?!! Seriously? I go through this every time I miss I show on television, and every time I’m forced to resort to bitorrent, I get just a bit more pissed off over the whole situation.
  • Watch Neil Gaiman’s Enthusiastic Awards Acceptance Speech For “Doctor Who”

Writing

  • How to write 80,000 words in a month

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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