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Geek Media Round-Up: September 26, 2012

26 Sep 2012  Media

Art

Star Wars Film Noir

  • Amazing Matt Smith look-alike pulls of some incredible Doctor Who cosplay
  • Aperture Science Sentry mask
  • Mechanical Donkey Kong game
  • Obama Riding A Lion would totally win this election, Game of Thrones style.
  • Star Wars Film Noir Posters

Comics

  • Interview: Hope Larson on why she adapted A Wrinkle In Time into a comic.
  • News: Stan Lee cancels several upcoming appearances due to a “very serious circumstance.” Despite the cancellations, Stan Lee is reportedly doing just fine.
  • Comic Book Marriage Proposal Inspired By ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Series (Pics)

Film

  • Interview: J.K. Rowling takes career in new direction
  • Interview: Joss Whedon should be your hero. The stars of The Avengers talk to Hero Complex about what it was like working with Joss.
  • Interview: Michael Bay, ‘Transformers 4′ Director, On “Pain & Gain”
  • Cloud Atlas Gets Seven Sprawling Banners, Two New TV Spots and IMAX Release
  • Cookie Monster and Grover take on The Avengers and more…in song!
  • Director’s long-ago sci-fi idea becomes new movie ‘Looper’
  • The “Honest Trailer” for The Avengers
  • JK Rowling mulls ‘director’s cut’ of Harry Potter books
  • New Theatrical Poster for ‘The Hobbit’ Featuring Bilbo and Sting
  • Pope Turns Movie Critic, Again, Over Sci-Fi Thriller Prometheus
  • Watch 14 minutes of deleted footage from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus!

Internet

  • Interview: A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD
  • Free Speech in the Age of YouTube
  • The Great New England Vampire Panic: Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave.

Literature

  • Interview: Iain M Banks on the birth of the Culture and where it goes next
  • Interview: Jay Lake on “The Fathomless Abyss”
  • Interview: The Roundtable Podcast interviews Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interview: Technology Review chats with Neal Stephenson on a range of topics.
  • Andy Serkis Reads as Gollum at Event Celebrating 75th Anniversary of The Hobbit
  • Books bloggers are harming literature, warns Booker prize head judge
  • Don’t Mourn J.K. Rowling’s Young-Adult Fiction Career Yet
  • J.K. Rowling releases ‘The Casual Vacancy’

Science

  • News: Tardigrades or “Water Bears” are the only creatures that can survive the extreme conditions in the vacuum of outer space.
  • Should we send humans to Mars?

Technology

  • 6 Futuristic Sci-Fi Gadgets That Actually Exist
  • So, you know how in certain sci-fi movies, people use glass crystals as data devices? That’s pretty much a thing now.

Television

  • Interview: Nathan Fillion, Halloween-Loving Super-Welder, on Conan
  • Interview: Nathan Fillion talks on French TV about Castle and his TV career
  • Interview: Nathan Fillion Wants A ‘Firefly’ Animated Series. Please God, stop taunting us with things we can’t have!
  • Interview: Nathan Fillion on the ‘honeymoon’ phase of Castle
  • News: FX is adapting Guillermo del Toro’s novel series, “The Strain” to TV.
  • The Best and Worst of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Sci-Fi Optimism
  • Fringe Season 5 Trailer
  • Fringe: Will the Fox sci-fi drama’s final season win an Emmy? No. No, it will not.
  • Is Doctor Who basically just a series of unhappy endings?
  • Remembering 7 Who companions The Doctor (and we) lost too soon
  • Set to Microphone Effect by Rage Against the Machine, the baddest death scenes from Season 2 of Game of Thrones

Video Games

  • Did Blowing into Nintendo Cartridges Really Help?



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