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Geek Media Round-Up: January 19, 2012

20 Jan 2012  Media

Art

DC Minimalism

  • 9 pulpy science fiction movie posters from an alternate cinematic universe
  • Beautiful Portraits of Game Characters
  • Calvin and Hobbes / Spider-Man Mash-Up
  • Check out this amazing Stormtrooper Cake
  • The Magic of Man
  • Make a greeting card with a Mechanical Iris for all your steampunk events!

Comics

  • Fox News expose: sex sells in comics and is destroying our children
  • The great ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ web-shooter debate
  • One Way To Reduce Piracy: Improve The LCS Experience
  • The Top 5 Science Fiction Comics

Cross-Media

  • The Best Fictional Scientists From TV and Movies
  • Why Do Nerds So Often Wear Glasses? Eddie Deezen (who should know) looks at the history of nerds in pop culture.

Film

  • Interview: Cuba Gooding Jr. on George Lucas and ‘Red Tails’
  • Interview: George Lucas on his retirement, Red Tails, and future pursuits.
  • Interview: ‘Judge Dredd’ creator: Three reasons I’m excited about new film
  • News: NASA Relents: Apogee of Fear, first Sci-fi Shot in Space, to be released
  • 17 blockbusters so horrible even their creators say they sucked
  • 64 Horror Movies In Five Minutes: How Many Can You Name? When you’re ready to check your guesses, click over to the Youtube page.
  • “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!” The line from Apocalyse Now has been used and reused and adapted in so many other movies that there’s a supercut.
  • Top 10 Film Character Introductions
  • Watch The Amazing Spider-Man Tokyo Press Conference

Internet

  • Evercon panel discusses best ways to stay alive in Zombie apocalypse
  • Like dogs? Like Star Wars? Here ya go!
  • Why should we stop online piracy?

Literature

  • Interview: 60 Second Interview with MD Lachlan, author of Fenrir, which is nominated for Best Fantasy Novel 2011.
  • Interview: The Alloy of Law Q&A with Brandon Sanderson
  • Interview: George R. R. Martin interviews Bernard Cornwell of Death of Kings
  • Interview: R.A. MacAvoy talks to Lightspeed about Death and Resurrection.
  • News: Digital Library Lending Up 130% in 2011
  • Fantasy Series to Read While You’re Waiting for George R.R. Martin’s Next Book
  • As demand for e-books soars, libraries struggle to stock their virtual shelves
  • Why e-books will be much bigger than you can imagine

Science

  • Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

Technology

  • 10 Ways Big Data is Creating the Science Fiction Future
  • The Four Stages of Introducing New Technologies: A futurist explains how society moves from fear to acceptance of smartphones, computers, and other advances.

Television

  • Interview: Jorge Garcia explores new mysteries on ‘Alcatraz’
  • News: It looks like AMC is placing bets on another stellar season of The Walking Dead because early reports show that the third season will get 16 episodes instead of the current season’s 13, or last season’s six.
  • Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin’s Season 2 anxieties
  • Preview a couple scenes from new episodes of The Walking Dead.
  • See the poster for Kevin Smith’s AMC series
  • The Star Wars TV series will be “The Empire Strikes Back on steroids”.

Video Games

  • Does Gaming Scientifically Combat Depression?

Writing

  • 9 Essential Books on Reading and Writing
  • Description in Fantasy: Finding the Sweet Spot
  • Possibly inspired by Al Gore, Apple announces a new iTunes U app, textbooks for iBooks 2.0, and iBooks Author, so you can create your own interactive books.

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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