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Geek Media Round-Up: October 24, 2012

24 Oct 2012  Media

Art

Iron Man

  • Are Video Games Art?
  • Batman, Iron Man, and 22 more superhero-carved Halloween pumpkins
  • Borg Cube Cake
  • Death Star Pumpkin
  • How to Carve a Jack-O-Lantern a Secret Pumpkin Brain
  • Throne of Games
  • Who needs a Diamond When You Could Propose With Portal’s Companion Cube?
  • Wonder Woman Pumpkin Carving Tutorial

Comics

  • News: Clark Kent makes a major life change in new ‘Superman’.

Film

  • Interview: Carrie director Kimberly Peirce tells us why tampons are still terrifying
  • News: The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Warner Bros. has officially scheduled a Justice League movie for summer of 2015, where it will go head to head against Avengers 2.
  • News: Stephen Colbert to Make Cameo in ‘The Hobbit’
  • 40 Awesome Behind The Scenes Photos From Horror Movies
  • The Avengers (in 90 seconds) video: Another funny summarization of the Avengers.
  • Bond 50 – SFX Magazine has been recapping all 22 “official” Bond films, from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace in the run up to Skyfall
  • Did China’s ban on time travel make Looper a bigger hit there?
  • The first television trailer for The Hobbit has hit the web.
  • Galaxy of Gore: 10 Must-See Horror Flicks Set in Space
  • How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million… And Still Isn’t Profitable
  • I never realized this, but the Raptors in Jurassic Park were men in costumes
  • If You Still Don’t Get Cloud Atlas, This New Featurette Should Help
  • Rotten Tomatoes updates their 75 best reviewed horror movies of all time for 2012.
  • “Unfilmable” Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That Somehow Got Filmed
  • Video of ROBOCOP and His Motorcycle in Action

Internet

  • Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail And Discovers That His Bid For Tenure Has Been Denied.
  • Stephen King Kicks Off Horror Webcomic Little Green God of Agony
  • World’s Geekiest Bar Now Open In Paris

Literature

  • Interview: Jeffrey Ford on After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia
  • Interview: Suvudu interviews Terry Brooks
  • News: Phones Trump Kindles & iPads As eBook Readers For Under 30 Set
  • Amazon Allegedly Deletes Customer’s Kindle; Incident Triggers Discussion About Ebooks, DRM. Amazon’s zapping of customer’s Kindle library shows why we need library-provided ‘content lockers.’ UPDATE: Amazon customer’s account mysteriously restored.
  • Reclaiming the Lost Publishing Mojo
  • Ten ways to save the publishing industry

Television

  • Interview: ‘Fringe’ Joel Wyman final season Q&A: “It’s hopeful at the end”
  • Interview: Robert Kirkman Explains ‘Walking Dead’ Spoilers
  • Interview: Rod Serling discusses writing.
  • The 25 Most Devoted Fan Bases
  • Every episode of ‘The Walking Dead’
  • We Are Never Ever Gonna Cook Together is a Breaking Bad Taylor Swift parody.

Video Games

  • News: Google report claims 50 per cent of tablet users play games [More]
  • News: One Person Allegedly Already in Line for Wii U
  • 13 Scariest Moments in Gaming This Generation
  • Are video game stores becoming irrelevant?
  • Games Are Best When Things Go Wrong
  • Taking a cue from video games, a new idea for therapy
  • Valve Improves Its Security Blanket by Bringing Non-Gaming Software to Steam



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