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Geek Media Round-Up: July 5, 2012

5 Jul 2012  Media

Art

Steampunk Spider-Man

  • Emma Frost cosplay
  • Fantasy Avengers, Rockabilly Batman, Steampunk Spider-Man… all invented by illustrator Dennis Medri
  • Olly Moss envisions what Benjamin Franklin’s take on Voltron might have been.
  • Samus Aran cosplay with Zero Suit
  • Time and Relative Dimension in Minecraft

Comics

  • 10 Things You Need To Know About Dredd

Cross-Media

  • Is Juliet Starling this generation’s Slayer? No, but the article makes the case.

Film

  • Interview: Spider-Man star Denis Leary muses on how to bring a movie with a giant lizard man back down to Earth.
  • 5 Reasons To Be Excited For The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  • 10 great Andrew Garfield performances
  • 10 Movie Rockets More Kick-Ass Than The Fireworks You Saw Last Night
  • 12 Big City Scenes, Eerily Devoid of Human Life
  • 50 Greatest Spider-Man Moments
  • A behind-the-scenes look at the set of Frankenweenie.
  • Matt Damon Armed & Mechanized in First Official ‘Elysium’ Image
  • Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Easter Eggs Revealed
  • Spider-Man’s Less Impressive Superpower
  • The Truth about this Summer’s Movies
  • Very Good Writing: Why Loki Won in The Avengers

Internet

  • 10 Amazing Spider-Man Parodies
  • ‘The Avengers theme’ violin cover as played by Taylor Davis
  • Hufflepuff House shows its pride with a Lady Gaga video!
  • A Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D ride is coming to Australia’s Warner Bros.
  • The Real Dragonborn looks at the downside of living in the Skyrim universe.
  • The Top 7 Science Fiction and Fantasy Musicals
  • Why ebooks are not like paper books.

Literature

  • Interview: 10 questions for author David Brin on sci-fi, science, geeks
  • Interview: Blake Charlton of Spellwright chats with Fantasy Book Addict.
  • Interview: Suvudu chats with Lincoln Child of the new thriller The Third Gate
  • News: Kim Kardashian’s younger sisters penning sci-fi novel
  • Are your reading habits public?
  • The digital version J. K. Rowling upcoming book The Casual Vacancy available for pre-order at Amazon! It looks like it might be a good read.
  • Here’s a quarter-century of responses to the Pew Research Center’s American Values survey statements demonstrating some surprising trends on the issue of Books that contain dangerous ideas should be banned from public school libraries.
  • How the O.J. Simpson Verdict Inspired Michael Chabon’s New Book.
  • John Green on why books beat any iPad app
  • The Palace of Love, the Palace of Sorrow: Romanticism in A Song of Ice and Fire
  • What Your E-Books Are Telling Companies About You

Science

  • PHD Comics explains the Higgs Boson recently discovered at CERN.
  • Scientists and engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are busy developing a device that will shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target.

Technology

  • Nova explores the State Of Artificial Intelligence

Television

  • Interview: Falling Skies: Colin Cunningham Interview
  • Interview: Meet Adam Savage, The Man Behind the Myths
  • Interview: Science Channel wants your Firefly questions to ask at the show’s 10-year anniversary panel at Comic-Con.
  • News: Netflix just became cable’s biggest TV network with Over 1 Billion Served!
  • The 10 Best Movie inspired TV shows, as chosen by EW.
  • Analysis of Summer Glau’s acting performance in Firefly and TSCC.

Writing

  • News: Half of self-published authors earn less than $500
  • 5 Undying Myths About Published Writers And Their Eerie Powers
  • Tolkien’s 10 Tips for Writers
  • Understanding Amazon’s New Algorithms Is As Easy As ABC.
  • Where will self-publishing get quality control?



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