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Geek Media Round-Up: March 16, 2010

16 Mar 2010  Media

Art

Star Wars Propaganda posters

  • Joe Corroney is selling an array of Star Wars Propaganda posters and offering the art for free as wallpapers.
  • Naldz Graphics has rounded up a gallery of Fantastic Cosplay Photos.
  • Singularity has posted a gallery of Photoshopped Cyborg Animals from Worth1000.com .

Comics

  • GeekDad asks Should Superhero Stories Kill Off Kids? The short answer is no.
  • Stephen King is slated to release a comic entitled American Vampire.
  • Strange Horizons considers Superman as Science Fiction.

Film

  • Interview: Director George A. Romero on why he loves zombies.
  • AskMen counts down the Top Ten Movie Heists.
  • The Alien Next Door explains Why District 9 Should Have Been the Most Important Movie of 2009… you know, other than that it was probably the most entertaining.
  • MadAtoms offers this disturbing Breakdown of Jim Hensen Characters.
  • Tor.com compares Repo! The Genetic Opera with RepoMen.

Internet

  • News: Filesharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
  • GeekDad reflects on 10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse.
  • These Chatroulette piano improvisations may some of the first redeeming results of the site, that I’ve seen.

Literature

  • Interview: Blood and Stardust interviews Nicholas Kaufmann, author of the soon-to-be-released Chasing the Dragon.
  • Interview: BookBanter interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
  • Interview: New Zealand Radio has brief interview with Neil Gaiman. [MP3]
  • News: B&N eReader for iPad Coming Soon
  • Gizmodo offers this Demonstration of the Newstand of the Future.

Science

  • Brian Switek, David Williams, and Michael Welland have started a series of blog posts about writing popular science books.

Television

  • News: Battlestar’s Gaius Baltar moves to Syfy’s Eureka
  • Fantasy&SciFi Lovin’ complains Hey! Your Politics Got Into My Science Fiction!
  • io9 lauds the many virtues of Lost.

Writing

  • 750words.com is a simple, free site which challenges users to write 750 words (3 pages) every day and tracks the results.



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