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Geek Media Round-Up: October 28, 2011

30 Oct 2011  Media

Art

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  • Batman Pumpkin
  • Candy Corn Pumpkins
  • Hylian Pumpkin
  • iPumpkin 4S
  • Pac-Man Pumpkins
  • These amazing Star Wars models put all other models to shame.

Comics

  • Digital Comics Manifesto from iFanBoy.

Cross-Media

  • Lost: Wired’s Guide to Pop Culture’s Buried Treasure
  • SyFy picks the Top 10 Stephen King Towns.

Film

  • Interview: Frank Miller Talks ‘Sin City 2′
  • Interview: Speilberg blames Lucas for Indiana Jones 4 being awful
  • News: George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards Headed To The Silver Screen
  • News: Independence Day 2 & 3 are going to be made with or without Will Smith
  • News: Samuel L. Jackson is highest-grossing actor of all time. Obviously, Snakes On a Plane has done wonders for his career.
  • 7 demonic Lovecraftian films so eldritch they could drive you mad
  • Bryan Curtis on the cult of Jurassic Park
  • The Fifty Greatest Cult Movies of All Time
  • Why Ving Rhames wouldn’t survive a real Zombie Apocalypse
  • Your guide to obscure Asian horror films: ‘Cold Fish’ and more

Internet

  • Interview: Felicia Day discusses ‘The Guild’, ‘Dragon Age’ and more.
  • Amateur hour over: YouTube going prime time
  • Anne Rice wrote a Facebook post critiquing Twilight–comparing Stephenie Meyer‘s vampire characters to her own characters, Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac. I sense a catfight brewing.

Literature

  • Interview: Brian Selznick On Wonderstruck, Hugo, and the Joy of Books.
  • Interview: John Scalzi speaks with N.K. Jemisin, author of the recently released The Kingdom of Gods.
  • Interview: Kim Harrison On Her Rachel Morgan Series
  • Interview: Patrick Hester chats with author Erin Hoffman, whose new book Sword of Fire and Sea: The Chaos Knight, Book One, is out from PYR.
  • 10 Free eBooks For Halloween
  • 10 Recent Novels About the Future of Videogames
  • Book Trailers: Are They Fun or Function?
  • How to Define Science Fiction
  • Mark W. Tiedemann on Science Fiction: It’s Not About the Buttons
  • Optimistic Science Fiction Stories that Could still Come True
  • Reading a book versus a screen: Different reading devices, different modes of reading? Short answer: Nope.
  • The Shakespeare Authorship Question

Science

  • 11 Things You Didn’t Know About How the World Works
  • Carl Sagan famously said that we are all made of star stuff. In his vision the basic building blocks of life were jettisoned into interstellar space by the massive explosions of stars going supernova. Now scientists from Hong Kong University have claimed that the results of their latest study(paywall), published in Nature, indicate that stars can create complex organic compounds on the very short timescale of weeks.
  • Color Image of Mercury from NASA’s MESSENGER Satellite
  • The Simpsons Called It: Three Eyed Fish Caught Outside a Nuclear Power Plant

Technology

  • News: More than half of young children use digital media
  • The Official Google TV Blog: An Update on Google TV
  • This gallery of computer screens from Alien offers a look into the future.
  • Virgin Galactic space tourism could begin in 2013, so I know what I’m asking for on my birthday in 2014.

Television

  • Christophe Beck: The Billion-Dollar Composer. Variety’s Jon Burlingame takes a look at our former “Buffy” composer’s increasing success in the world of film.
  • Relax: Matt Smith isn’t quitting “Doctor Who” anytime soon.
  • Tim Gunn weighs in on ‘Star Trek’ fashion

Video Games

  • Half Of American Children 8 And Under Have Played A Console Game
  • Nintendo Won’t Be The Next Sega and Why You Should Buy Shares

Writing

  • Interview: Chris Van Allsburg on Picture Book Writing
  • Are Cheap E-book Prices Devaluing Authors’ Work?
  • How to Find Your Story and Craft a Pitch in 10 Easy Steps
  • Keeping Your Superpowers From Getting Stale

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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