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Geek Media Round-Up: February 6, 2013

6 Feb 2013  Media

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  • 8-Bit Link Cake
  • The Avengers ’ Leviathan warships could have been more H.R. Giger-esque
  • Batman fighting a Shark
  • Begging For An End To The Saul Bass-Inspired Movie Posters
  • Super Mario Busters is an animated mash-up bringing the worlds of Super Mario Bros. and Ghostbusters together in a clever, delightful way. Here’s a Doctor Who / Back To The Future mash-up from the same team.
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Cross-Media

  • 13 directors who work with the same stars.

Film

  • Interview: Alan Tudyk live streaming Q&A.
  • Interview: Ashton Kutcher at MacWorld talking Jobs film
  • Interview: The Camera Operator for The Shining Explains Helicopter Shadows in Opening Credits, Discusses Hallorann Crash Sequence
  • Interview: The SF Signal Podcast Interview with Seanan McGuire of Late Eclipses
  • News: The Avengers wins two VES awards.
  • News: Disney Confirms Standalone Star Wars Films Between Core Episodes
  • News: Sean Bean Added to Andy and Lana Wachowskis ‘Jupiter Ascending’
  • 6 Unintentionally Hilarious Moments in Famous Scary Movies
  • The 10 Cringe-Worthiest Performances By This Year’s Oscar Nominated Actors
  • Drive-in theaters get help for digital conversion
  • 14 ways of looking at J.J. Abrams‘ ‘Star Wars‘
  • The 50 Worst Movie Goofs
  • Geek Oscars: How the Academy Awards would look if movie nerds ran the show.
  • JJ Abrams needs to change his production company’s logo or he really isn’t serious about his work for Disney/Lucasfilm.
  • Top 10 zombie movies at the box office: Zombies not a monster draw
  • Why Movie Posters All Look the Same

Internet

  • News: Internet’s Most-Pirated Show Once Again? Game Of Thrones
  • A Brief History Of Nerds In Pop Culture
  • I Am An Adult Who Likes Kid Stuff. And That’s Okay.
  • This Chrome extension brings IMDB and Rotten Tomato ratings to Netflix

Literature

  • Interview: BookPeople talks to Kim Harrison about Ever After.
  • Interview: Goodreads interviews Kim Harrison
  • Interview: Tor Books interviews Cherie Priest of The Inexplicables.
  • Interview: Tor.com interviews Marie Brennan of A Natural History of Dragons.
  • News: Bezos: With ebook sales up 70% in 2012, Amazon has hit “transition” it expected, meanwhile B&N ‘fully committed to retail concept’
  • 19 Absurd Zombie Books We Should All Read
  • Ann Patchett opened a new independent bookstore in Nashville, despite being told that books are dead.
  • Chuck Wendig shares 25 Thoughts On Book Piracy.
  • Dan Abnett’s top 10 fantasy mash-ups
  • The First Poem Written in Space
  • Gail Carriger of Etiquette & Espionage on 5 Questions of Victorian Etiquette.
  • Marie Brennan on Why Do Dragons Look Like That?
  • Teaching and Fantasy Literature: When All Stories Were Fantasy Stories

Science

  • 7 Best-Case Scenarios for the Future of Humanity

Technology

  • CBS’s iPad Super Bowl streaming: A good start, but there’s room to improve

Television

  • News: George R.R. Martin signs a deal with HBO for two more years
  • TV’s best will they/won’t they couples
  • TV gripes you should quit complaining about.
  • Top ten Whedon women.

Video Games

  • News: The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that Sony will be announcing the PlayStation 4 on February 20th and realizing it later this year.
  • The 10 Greatest Videogames Based On TV Shows
  • There’s a mod coming that basically turns Skyrim into an entirely new game.

Writing

  • 25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing By Chuck Wendig
  • Brian Keene On Writing Full-Time (circa 2013)
  • Dealing With The Passage Of Time Between Scenes By Janice Hardy
  • How To Get Organized: Seven Steps Writers Can Use To Reach Their Goals



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