https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg An online journal... of DOOM! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:04:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• You can stream Sinead O'Connor's new album, How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? (which is a great title, btw), in its entirety on NPR. I'm not really too familiar with her work, but I enjoyed large portions of this one. Although the last track is crazy overdone and melodramatic. (Via)


• My blue-haired pal is a trusted source for important GIFs.


• A great piece celebrating the messy end of one of the major villains in Raiders of the Lost Ark.


• There's now a book of Donn Kenn's amazing post-it note monster art.


• This news piece about Abraham Lincoln's birthday includes some footage from the upcoming film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. (UPDATE: And here's the first official trailer. Pretty silly!)


• It's almost Valentines Day! Who cares! Nobody! Except, Comics Alliance is posting a series of gender-swapped Valentines! Yay!


• Pics of new LEGO sets! Lord of the Rings! Avengers! My poor credit card!


• They're doing a new Ringu film in 3D. That's terrifying!


• Some pretty great geeky custom hockey jerseys.


• Cool Super Mario sneaks.


• Amazingly gigantic Optimus Prime snow sculpture.


• Super Punch highlights some of the more interesting toys at the 2012 Toy Fair.


• Kevin J. Anderson will novelize Rush's new album. That's actually perfect! They're perfect for each other! Not a compliment!


• I'm sure you're already aware of the Ryan Gosling "Hey Girl" Tumblr meme. Here is one that fits my interests, via Sarah.

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Tagged: 3D, Animated GIFs, Art, Avengers, Books, Celebrities, Clothing, Comedy, Craft, Harry Potter, History, Holiday, Indiana Jones, LEGO, Links, Mario, Monty Python, Movies, Music, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Tolkien, Toys, Transformers, Vampires, Video, Video games]]> 3D Animated GIFs Art Avengers Books Celebrities Clothing Comedy Craft Harry Potter History Holiday Indiana Jones LEGO Links Mario Monty Python Movies Music News Photography Recyclotron Tolkien Toys Transformers Vampires Video Video games Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:55:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Shirt irony!


• A nice piece depicting a tense moment from Aliens.


• Dan Hipp knows how to push my buttons.


• The latest Awesome Hospital amused me. "That'll get you thirty CCs of Ripitupazine, braff." Heh.


• io9 talks about some legendary cryptids that turned out to be real. Yay, platypus! Also, dream on, bigfoot believers! Btw, send your cryptid photos to io9 - they're offering a $2,000 bounty!


• Wizard World was in town recently - right near where I work, in fact - but I still didn't make it over there, because it's super expensive and I just would have wanted to buy everything I saw. Also, kinda busy here. Get off my case! Ahem. Anyway, I can simulate a visit to Wizard World by clicking here and looking at these pictures! And so can you!


• Have I posted about Yog-Blogsoth yet? I should have if I didn't. It's a dude trying to draw every creature in every H.P. Lovecraft story. Love the title, the concept, and the art! But beware - some of the images are NSFW. (Via)


• A camera that lets you adjust the focus after the picture has been taken?? Wow. The future is cool.


• Turns out the Red Skull started life as the cherry on an ice cream sundae.


• I'm not convinced Steven Spielberg's dinosaur show, Terra Nova, is going to be any good, but these posters are fun.


• Click through for links to many beautiful photos of a wedding at a museum.


• Emergency stakes.


• I would like to have this cookies n' cream cake, please. (Via)


• Enjoying this nostalgic Zelda comic and this NSFW Tyrion fan art from this Super Punch link roundup.


• Check out a bunch of cool posters for Immortals, the mythological epic from Tarsem Singh that I continue to be very excited about.


• If you haven't seen the new Captain America trailer yet, you really should. It looks like they got Cap's character just right. So many scenes and lines of dialog in here are so perfect. Really looking forward to this one!


• A six-foot LEGO model of Sauron's Dark Tower. Sweet!

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Tagged: Advertising, Aliens, Art, Captain America, Clothing, Comedy, Comic books, Cosplay, Costumes, Craft, Dinosaurs, Food, Gadgets, Game of Thrones, LEGO, Links, Lovecraft, Movies, Mythology, Photography, Recyclotron, Shirts, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Technology, Tolkien, Toys, TV, Vampires, Video, Video games, Web comics, Zelda]]> Advertising Aliens Art Captain America Clothing Comedy Comic books Cosplay Costumes Craft Dinosaurs Food Gadgets Game of Thrones LEGO Links Lovecraft Movies Mythology Photography Recyclotron Shirts Star Wars Steven Spielberg Technology Tolkien Toys TV Vampires Video Video games Web comics Zelda Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:38:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• A deleted scene and a blooper reel from Fringe season 2.


• An intriguing excerpt from one of Guillermo Del Toro's vampire novels.


• RZA has cast Russell Crowe in The Man With The Iron Fist, a kung fu film he plans to direct with the help of producer Eli Roth later this year. Nice.


• 10 geeky web tricks with HTML5 and CSS3. The pure CSS animations aren't really great as animations, but considering they were made purely with CSS, they're freaking mind-blowing as far as I'm concerned.


• Marvel could have a live-action TV show in the works.


• Another new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.


• A preview of the Tron comic that bridges the gap between the original movie and Tron Legacy. It's hard to get a feel for it from these few pages, especially given that the one page is reproduced so small that you can't read the text on it, but it could be interesting.


• A heavy metal version of Ocarina of Time's "Song of Storms." Awww yeah.


• Supposedly several airlines are considering using these incredibly cramped and uncomfortable-looking "chairs" in order to fit even more people onto their airplanes. Just another reason to avoid flying.


• The first single from Adam WarRock's upcoming album is pretty darn good.


• Terry Jones is going to direct John Oliver in Absolutely Anything, a silly movie about aliens, and he's hoping to get former Monty Python compatriots John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam to voice the aliens.


• I posted a preview of the trailer of The Tourist the other day, but here's the actual trailer. It gives away a bit more about the movie than I think it should, but it still looks like it might be a fun Hitchcockian thriller.


• A site where you can write every day. Could be useful. (Via Amy)

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Tagged: Aliens, Books, Celebrities, Comic books, Fringe, Harry Potter, Links, Monty Python, Movies, Music, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Tron, Tron Legacy, TV, Vampires, Video, Video games, Zelda]]> Aliens Books Celebrities Comic books Fringe Harry Potter Links Monty Python Movies Music News Photography Recyclotron Tron Tron Legacy TV Vampires Video Video games Zelda Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:49:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor's (semi-)weekly comic book review post.

This post covers new releases from the week of 9/1. Beware spoilers!

New releases
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight #36
Another jump back in time, and another attempt to explain Angel's recent actions. This time they do a pretty decent job. We also get to see how Angel and Spike dropped in from the IDW comic book universe. It was a pretty sudden and violent process! Next the book sets up the upcoming storyline - which will apparently involve returning to Sunnydale, fighting the Master again (he's still around??), and digging up something called the Seed of Wonder. Then it threatens us with a future storyline involving the universe that Buffy and Angel created and then abandoned when they had ultra-sex.

Meeeeh. I just don't know about Buffy anymore. I'm still annoyed by the resolution of the previous storyline, despite their attempts to explain it away. I'll probably stick around for now, though, if only to see what this Seed of Wonder is all about.
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Hellboy: The Storm #3
Hellboy once again rejects his destiny - he's good at that! He gives up his army and his sword. I very much like the parallel to Arthurian mythology here, where Hellboy asks his loyal retainer to throw his sword into a pond or a river, because "that seems like the thing to do." She doesn't want to at first, but finally agrees. Then there's the image of the grail on the inn's sign post. Interestingly, Hellboy says after this is all over, he wants to go back to the Bureau, and also live in America with his new girlfriend. Cool! But Hellboy's got a lot of hard work ahead of him before that can happen. He has an interesting confrontation with the guy I take to be Merlin, who again offers him the army of Hell to command - but Hellboy made his choice as far as that's concerned a long time ago. Then Baba Yaga shows up again to make him a different offer: if she can have one of his eyes, she can get him past Nimue's army so he can face her one on one. But deals with Baba Yaga are never a good idea, and this one may very well have brought about Nimue's final and most terrible transformation - the one the beast warned Hellboy about an issue or two ago. By the end of this comic, it looks like she has become - against her will, even - what Hellboy refused to be. The seven Old Ones have awoken again! That is not good news.

This has been a fantastic series, and I'm excited and a little terrified to see what comes next.
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Incorruptible #9
We learn more details about Alana Patel's past, and about her connection to Max Damage. But it turns out she might be more pissed at Jailbait than at Max. Which is bad, because the new, vulnerable Jailbait just landed right in front of her. Meanwhile, it looks like the white supremacists want revenge on Max in a big way. I know I keep saying this every month, but I'm really disappointed in this book anymore. The art is poor and inappropriate, and the writing is pretty weak. It's still a must-buy in my head, but I don't know how much longer that's going to be true if it keeps on this way. Especially if the next week it comes out, there are five other books I'd rather read.
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Wolverine #1
Jason Aaron has a new ongoing Wolverine title! Which is something I would have been way more excited about back before I read his other Wolverine title and couldn't get into it at all. I decided to give this new one a try anyway, but sadly I don't think I'm going to be able to get into it, either. I did learn a couple of interesting things in this issue: Wolverine has a love interest, and she appears to be that reporter from the other Wolverine title Aaron was writing. Also, Mystique is alive again (not that I ever really expected her latest death to stick), and despite the way Wolverine treated her last time I read about them hanging out together, she's now helping him by saving his girlfriend. Huh. I would not have expected that. Anyway, the story involves some kind of evil presence inhabiting Wolverine's body and wandering about doing mischief on Earth while his soul is tortured in Hell. I guess it's kind of a vaguely intriguing premise? But mostly I find it boring and off-putting. It seems like all the comic book heroes are going to hell lately. Really, the whole book is cliches. Wolverine's life is finally settling down, and he's got a girlfriend, and things are looking up, so of course everything's going to go horribly wrong and a gang of killers is going to try to murder his girlfriend. The problem is, it's hard to care about Wolverine, because c'mon, he'll be fine, and it's even harder to care about his girlfriend, because she's just the generic comic book reporter girlfriend and I don't care about her at all. Maybe Aaron has more exciting things planned down the line in future issues, but I'm just not sure I'm willing to hang in there and find out.
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X-Men: Smoke and Blood - Curse of the Mutants #1
You know what nobody's telling stories about lately? Vampires! Thank goodness Marvel is here to remedy that! Ha ha ha- oh, screw it. Anyway, apparently the latest X-Drama revolves around those mystical blood-sucking entities that one hears about so rarely these days, and this awkwardly titled one-shot is writer Simon Spurrier's contribution to the story. I follow Spurrier on Twitter (@sispurrier), and I've enjoyed his work in the past, so I thought I'd pick it up. The book is... okay. The vampire portrayed here is actually more like a Xenomorph from the Alien movies than your traditional be-caped seducer, and the story proceeds like one of those movies, with a small group of people trapped in a small area with the monster, being killed off one by one in true sci-fi/horror thriller fashion, despite all their technology. I'm not sure I quite follow the solution to the mystery of how the vampire works (when Emma asked, "What the $&#% just happened?" near the end, I sympathized with her a great deal), but that's okay. The dialog is clever to the point of sometimes being too clever - it occasionally totters towards feeling contrived and over-composed. But it's also legitimately funny and smart a reasonable portion of the time. Like I said, the book is okay.
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Tagged: Buffy, Comic books, Hellboy, Jason Aaron, Joss Whedon, Mark Waid, Mike Mignola, Simon Spurrier, The Take, Vampires, Wolverine, X-Men]]> Buffy Comic books Hellboy Jason Aaron Joss Whedon Mark Waid Mike Mignola Simon Spurrier The Take Vampires Wolverine X-Men Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:59:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor's (semi-)weekly comic book review post.

This post covers new releases from the week of 8/18, plus one or two back issues. Beware spoilers!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight - Riley
I didn't expect much from a one-shot about Riley (yuck), but this is surprisingly good. A large reason why is probably the fact that it's written by Jane Espenson, a talented lady who wrote a lot of the original Buffy TV episodes, and is continuing to write great television even as we speak (she's also got a pretty fun Twitter feed at @JaneEspenson). The issue fills us in on what Riley was doing before he joined up with Twilight, and also explains a little better exactly what Twilight's motives were and how it was that Riley ended up joining him. These explanations nearly fix the recent, terrible story arc by Brad Meltzer, and nearly make Angel's actions throughout all this make sense. Nearly. Anyway, it's fun, clever, funny, and effective.
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New Mutants #16
This issue of New Mutants doesn't actually involve the New Mutants at all! Instead, it focuses entirely on the group of soldiers who literally went to Hell and back, and spends most of its pages on flashbacks explaining what they were doing in Hell and what happened to them there. The final page surprise reveal is a bit of a cliche in comics, but the one at the end of this book is legitimately surprising. It's also not contrived; it advances the story in an interesting and unexpected way; and it introduces a bunch of new characters about whom I can't wait to find out more. This here is a crazy fantastic comic - chilling, thrilling, exciting, imaginative, and even funny. My favorite moment combines pretty much all of that: a new recruit who foolishly failed to follow the rules suddenly gets carried off by a demon and General Ulysses responds by saying, "Yep. That will happen."
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Secret Avengers #3 & #4
I think I decided after I read the first issue of this book that I wouldn't read any more... but I came in under budget this week, and I was curious to see where the evil magic crown storyline would go, so... here we are. #3 opens with an unexpected flashback to the Wild West. Apparently the guy who runs the mysterious Shadow Council is pretty old! I'm curious to see more of the Wild West storyline, but we don't get back to it in these two issues. The backstory on the crowns turns out to be unbelievably epic, spanning all the way back to before the beginning of the universe as we know it, one-upping even the Celestials and Galactus in age and grandeur.

I have to say, I really enjoy the new Ant-Man as a character. Comic book characters, even the more interesting ones, are generally divided into the heroic good guys and the villainous bad guys, but here's a dude who's just a selfish coward trying to survive. He's pretty hilarious. His best moment is when he mans up and takes out a troop of suicide bombers by causing a nuclear chain reaction. He runs for it, accompanied by narrative boxes reading "Oh God Oh God Oh God," and when he successfully escapes, he screams, "YES! ALIVE!" Issue #4 also includes Nova-powered Steve Rogers, which is a crazy bad-ass concept. It's incredibly fun seeing him duke it out with a crown-possessed Nova. The story arc ends with Steve learning the bad news that Nick Fury is part of the Shadow Council. This should be interesting!
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Spitfire #1
It's just a one-shot, but it's still pretty fun getting to watch Paul Cornell play with the MI:13 characters again. The focus here is mostly on Spitfire, obviously, as she feels out her new relationship with Blade, and learns how to live with being a vampire - or at least, a part vampire. It kind of cracked me up that the first page of the book - usually reserved for a short summary of what's been going on recently, so you can pick up the story easily - is covered with text from top to bottom. Spitfire's story is just that complicated! The issue itself has some cheesy dialog moments, but is overall entertaining, insightful, and funny.
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Tagged: Avengers, Buffy, Comic books, Ed Brubaker, Paul Cornell, The Take, Vampires, X-Men, Zeb Wells]]> Avengers Buffy Comic books Ed Brubaker Paul Cornell The Take Vampires X-Men Zeb Wells Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:40:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Marvel's upcoming vampire-themed variant covers are pretty fun.


• Fun with LEGO bricks.


• A collection of fun art. I particularly like the Red Monkey. Reminds me of Boris Karloff in The Mummy.


• I've seen a lot of these before, but they're worth another post: film's great showdowns, as interpreted by Scott Campbell. He makes them all seem so happy!


• Early reviews of Inception are almost universally excellent. I'm so excited!!

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Tagged: Art, Comic books, LEGO, Links, Movies, Recyclotron, Toys, Vampires]]> Art Comic books LEGO Links Movies Recyclotron Toys Vampires Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:24:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Another great entry on Covered: Aaron Renier turns the cover of an issue of the Ewoks comic book into something more realistic, and culturally appropriate.


• Some pretty amazing submissions to March M.O.D.O.K. Madness.


• Rose McGowan has joined the cast of Conan as an evil half human, half witch. Which would seem to suggest she won't be in that Red Sonja movie after all. But you never know.


• A very amusing look at the dark dreams of a cute little kitty.


• The Bill Paxton pinball machine is complete, and it's a thing of beauty. Photo gallery here. (Via)


• This is pretty amazing. George R.R. Martin, in talking about a series of virtual cage match battles between fictional characters taking place on a website, decided to write a short short story about his own character, Jaime Lannister, going up against the Elder God Cthulhu. It's a fun little piece.


• Jay-Z and Jack White have recorded a song together! I must hear it! I must own it! (Via)


• Interesting details from M. Night Shyamalan about his live-action film adaptation of The Last Airbender. Huge bummer: King Bumi will not appear in the film. Kind of understandable, but still disappointing. I'm glad the guy's dedicated to doing multiple films, and that he seems to understand the nature and importance of the relationship between Aang and Appa. Also, looks like Shyamalan himself will appear in a later entry in the series as "a stinky cameo his family picked out for him." Hmm... Finally, this article mentions the question of whether the cabbage guy will appear in the movie, but doesn't reveal the answer! Tease!!


• Sigourney Weaver has joined the cast of Vamps as "the vampire Queen." Nice!


• The Hobbit starts shooting in June! Woo hoo!


• A 3D, computer-generated flyby of the surface of Mars created using data gathered from the Mars Orbiter. This is a great way to pick out where you want to set up your biodome when we move to Mars after the inevitable destruction of the Earth.


• The ISS takes a fond look at a great scene from an under-appreciated film.


• I know it's irrelevant, but this irrelephant graphic amused me.


• LEGO CubeDudes are always fun. Here's one of Kuato, that creepy dude from Total Recall.


• A great Killing Joke art piece, and Totoro cookies. (Via)

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Tagged: Animals, Art, Avatar, Batman, Cats, Celebrities, Comic books, Craft, George R.R. Martin, Hayao Miyazaki, LEGO, Links, Lovecraft, Monsters, Movies, Music, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Science, Song of Ice and Fire, Space, Star Wars, Tolkien, Toys, Vampires, Video, Video games]]> Animals Art Avatar Batman Cats Celebrities Comic books Craft George R.R. Martin Hayao Miyazaki LEGO Links Lovecraft Monsters Movies Music News Photography Recyclotron Science Song of Ice and Fire Space Star Wars Tolkien Toys Vampires Video Video games Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:58:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• I already tweeted about this yesterday, but I'll post it here again because it's kind of a big deal: HBO has given the greenlight for 10 episodes of a Game of Thrones TV series. I'm very excited about this, although how I'm going to watch it I'm not sure, as I no longer get HBO.


• The other day I posted the book trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and now it sounds like I'll be posting the movie trailer one of these days. Yes, Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov are already on board to produce a film adaptation of the book.


• A pinball machine you can control with your mind!


• Just going to go ahead and quote this one: "A California physics student has petitioned the International System of Units to declare 10 to the 27th power (a trillion trillions) to be a 'hella.' As in meters, kilometers, hellameters. If he prevails, the universe officially becomes hella big."


• Some plot details on James Cameron's next sci-fi saga, a film adaptation of the manga Battle Angel Alita.


• A new trailer for the Prince of Persia movie. That didn't come out yet? Jeez. It feels like I've been seeing ads for that movie for years. (Via)


• Earth totally kicked Mars' ass in the Olympics! Boo-yah!


• Sci Fi Wire gives us a rundown on a bunch of upcoming horror remakes. I didn't even know about a lot of these. And I'm really not sure what can be gained by remaking Suspiria.


• Another James Cameron project that's moving ahead: Fantastic Voyage. The script is done and Cameron's looking for a director.


• The Wicker Man as an online comic, with all the characters replaced by Muppets. Bet you didn't expect to see that today when you got up this morning. (Via)


• Here's an incredibly disappointing trailer for Metroid: Other M. Looks more like the trailer for a bad, melodramatic anime than the trailer for a Metroid game. Thankfully it reassures you by posting a note at the bottom: "Not actual gameplay."


• More Super Punch Tarot cards.


• Apparently despite the poor ratings, Syfy is standing by Caprica. Guess I should keep paying attention to that show after all!

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Tagged: Art, Books, Caprica, Celebrities, Comic books, George R.R. Martin, Links, Lists, Metroid, Movies, Muppets, News, Olympics, Photography, Recyclotron, Science, Song of Ice and Fire, Space, Sports, Technology, TV, Vampires, Video, Video games, Web comics]]> Art Books Caprica Celebrities Comic books George R.R. Martin Links Lists Metroid Movies Muppets News Olympics Photography Recyclotron Science Song of Ice and Fire Space Sports Technology TV Vampires Video Video games Web comics Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:23:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Check out the trailer for Cargo, above. It looks essentially like a remake of Alien, but hey, I'd watch that. (Via)


• Recently somebody on Twitter posted a link to this escape-the-room style puzzle game. I got obsessed with it this weekend and played it through all the way to the end. It's quite brilliant.


• Listen to the new Gorillaz album in its entirety for free, thanks to the majestic and astounding NPR. (Via)


• Ooh. Check out the cover of an upcoming graphic novel adaptation of one of Lovecraft's more accomplished stories, At the Mountains of Madness. (Via)


• Kristin Hersh put up a new Throwing Muses demo for free download. (Via)


• In honor of DC Comics' 75th anniversary, io9 picks the 75 DC books you should own. That's a lot of books! Many great picks, but a couple of lame ones, too. I definitely would have included Final Crisis instead of Blackest Night, for instance.


• Time for some more amazing LEGO creations! Here are some fantastic sci-fi models by a 15-year-old artist, and here's a 30,000-piece model of a Droid Control Ship.


• io9 fills us in on what the folks saw who attended one of the recent Tron Legacy secret screenings. Sounds cool, but also pretty anti-climactic considering what people had to go through to get to one of them.


• Robert Rodriguez was all set to direct Nerverackers, which he describes as "Blade Runner, set in Mexico in 2085," when his star had a scheduling conflict. So now he'll be directing Machete instead. I for one am looking forward to seeing both movies.


• Rumor has it Joss Whedon may be making a feature film with Eliza Dushku.


• A Flash movie could be on the way soon, as they've now hired a director.


• Probably due to the upcoming film version of Alice in Wonderland, there are a ton of Alice-related links floating about lately, such as: an amazing Alice tattoo; a restored version of the first ever film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland; a wonderful caterpillar sculpture and Alice-inspired bottles; a selection of pieces from an Alice-inspired art show; and yet more Alice-inspired art.


• It's the first day of March, and you know what that means: it's time once again for March MODOK Madness!!!


• Angelina Jolie is interested in starring in Gravity, a space thriller to be directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who co-wrote the screenplay with his son. Jolie would play "the sole surviving human member of a space mission, desperately trying to return home to Earth and her daughter." Could be interesting.


• Here's a clip from a supernatural thriller called The Eclipse. Nothing really happens, but it's full of menace and tension.


• Activision shut down that King's Quest sequel that fans have been working on for years. I guess I understand Activision's reasons, but this still kind of sucks.


• To celebrate its third anniversary, Super Punch is doing something cool: inviting a series of artists to contribute to a Super Punch Tarot card deck.


• Cool Zelda fan art and Tron statue. (Via)


• Here's another of these newfangled book trailers, this one for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, from the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Nice.


• A whole bunch of famous people, including Shane MacGowan, Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, and Chrissie Hynde, got together to sing "I Put A Spell On You" to benefit the reconstruction of Haiti. Here's the video. Not bad.


• A preview of the first issue of the new Flash comic book. It's fun, as far as it goes. But I'm wary of being disappointed by Geoff Johns again.


• Two different film adaptations of The Three Musketeers are in the offing, including an updated 3D version from Paul W.S. Anderson (which sounds awful) and another version that doesn't have a director yet. As Cinematical points out, do we really need another movie of this story? Especially when the '70s adaptations were so awesome? Seriously, watch this movie, then this movie.

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Tagged: Art, Books, Celebrities, Comic books, Flash, Geoff Johns, Joss Whedon, LEGO, Links, Lists, Lovecraft, Movies, Music, News, Recyclotron, Star Wars, Tattoos, Toys, Tron, Vampires, Video, Video games, Wonderland, Zelda]]> Art Books Celebrities Comic books Flash Geoff Johns Joss Whedon LEGO Links Lists Lovecraft Movies Music News Recyclotron Star Wars Tattoos Toys Tron Vampires Video Video games Wonderland Zelda Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:01:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Look, up there! It's the perpetual domino machine! It knocks over dominoes and automatically picks them up again. No fuss, no muss. (Via)


• Apparently a Hong Kong production company made a third Gods Must Be Crazy movie, and it featured a Chinese vampire. That's... odd. Click through for a clip from it.


• I enjoy this entry from Covered. The cover version is definitely the same image, but it's in such a totally different style that it's kind of mind-blowing.


• Lightsaber USB drives.


• An infographic about robots.


• Gotta love this disappearing/reappearing Cheshire cat T-shirt. (Via)


• Speaking of Cheshire cats, here's an encouragingly positive review of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.


• More Mickey Rourke casting news: he might also play King Hyperion in Tarsem Singh's Dawn of War.

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Tagged: Animals, Art, Cats, Celebrities, Comic books, Links, Monsters, Movies, News, Products, Recyclotron, Robots, Shirts, Star Wars, Vampires, Video, Wonderland]]> Animals Art Cats Celebrities Comic books Links Monsters Movies News Products Recyclotron Robots Shirts Star Wars Vampires Video Wonderland