Tag Archive | "Star Wars"

Star Wars May The 4th Be With You – exhibition details…

Sunday, April 29, 2012

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Well, a few details, and some art for the gallery exhibition to commemorate that date beloved by Star Wars fans the world over….The Hang Gang and Leeds Alternative Comics present a Star Wars experience….. ….. and a few sneak peeks of the art and exhibits on show…. All the art will be available to purchase [...]

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Jeffrey Brown’s Darth Vader and Son….

Saturday, April 7, 2012

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“What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son?” That’s the concept behind Jeffrey Brown’s Darth Vader And Son book, out as an officially licensed Lucasfilm product from Chronicle Books, complete with a You Tube trailer featuring James Earl Jones. The world is a strange and wonderful place that something like this [...]

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May The Fourth…

Friday, March 30, 2012

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Hugh Shug Raine writes to tell us about what looks like a fun thing happening in Leeds, starting on May the 4th, a date beloved by all Star Wars fans the world over. “To commemorate Star Wars day ‘May the 4th’ FullCircle Gallery Leeds, The Hang Gang and Leeds Alternative Comics, have got together to [...]

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Power to the People!!

Friday, March 16, 2012

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Loving this Star Wars inspired poster by Brent Cheshire, the super cool Lando giving the Black Power salute over his fallen Imperial enemies: People Power! Fabbity fab fab! (via Live For Film)

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RIP Ralph McQuarrie

Monday, March 5, 2012

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Sad news breaking across the web this weekend: iconic, award-winning Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. Of course Ralph worked on many other projects over a long and distinguished career, including animations reporting on NASA’s history-changing Apollo missions, Cocoon, ET, the original Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and [...]

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“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy…”

Monday, February 20, 2012

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Mos Eisley, a real dive of a spaceport town on Tattooine where even Ben Kenobi exercises caution. But in this brilliant Where’s Waldo style artwork by Ulises Farinas there are dozens of characters from non Star Wars science fiction meandering around the dusty spaceport, try and spot ‘em all in his print. (via IO9 and [...]

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Star Wars in Icons

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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Wayne Dorrington completes his mighty self-appointed task of re-telling the original Star Wars trilogy without words, using only icons. It’s pretty fab (try not to laugh out loud at images of Admiral Ackbar and a mouse trap!). As he explained it took him far longer to finish the trilogy with Jedi, being a much longer, [...]

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Jar Jar parody

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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Alas, poor old Jar Jar, loved by the kids (and Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons), looked upon less than kindly by many others, gets some rough treatment at the hand of the latter group of Star Wars fans in this cleverly made parody (via Live For Film):

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Star Wars posters with toon-style makeover

Friday, February 10, 2012

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SyFy’s Blastr posts up three pretty cool cartoon styled revamps of the original Star Wars posters for A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, all by artist Christopher Lee (no, not that Christopher Lee!). Fab.

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Star Wars Uncut

Monday, January 23, 2012

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“In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was [...]

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Vader Christmas carol flash mob

Sunday, December 25, 2011

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A lovely bit of Star Wars themed flash mob seasonal fun as a festive Darth Vader leads a flash mob in Christmas carols! Brilliant! (via BoingBoing)

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Raiding the Lost Ark

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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Johnneyred points me to this fab video, the first seventeen minutes of Jamie Benning’s documentary – or filmumentary – one of the great cinematic adventure tales of all times, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Jamie previously brought us the Star Wars Begins docu-fan-film and is about to release a new one, Raiding the Lost Ark. [...]

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Making geek music – Imperial March on a floppy drive

Friday, October 7, 2011

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La Marche Impériale par deux lecteurs de disquette – Streaming This is satisfying on so many geek levels – the iconic Imperial March from John Williams’ Star Wars soundtrack but played on a couple of old floppy disc drives. Genuis. (thanks to Simon Moreton for the link)

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What are you saying, Doctor?

Friday, September 23, 2011

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This Doctor Who cartoon by Aristy Putritami made me smile (thanks to Kenny for the link): (art by and (c) Aristy Putritami)

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Star Trek verus Star Wars according to Shatner

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Star Wars or Star Trek, which is better and why? It’s an argument that’s surfaced in science fiction fandom many a time over the last few decades (personally I love both and consider them to be quite different types of SF&F so really don’t see much point in arguing over them like this other than [...]

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