It feels like several aeons since I went to see Star Trek Into Darkness, but maybe that's because one of those aeons was spent making this savagely spacetastic set of new mini-icons.

Regular viewers may recall that I made a set of icons for the first Star Trek reboot movie way back in 2009. However, I've redrawn and improved most of the characters ( Read more... )

You may have noticed that Star Trek Into Darkness has kicked up a bit of controversy for various reasons. One spoiler-free example is the fact that the movie includes a scene with Alice Eve in her bra and knickers for no particular reason, but a scene featuring Benedict Cumberbatch in the shower somehow ended up on the cutting room floor. How ( Read more... )

Tragically but truly, I'm still unfeasibly excited about the prospect of Star Trek Into Darkness, which is now only a month away*. The advance tickets have gone on sale and there are now posters popping up all over the Tube ( Read more... )

Ooh, ooh, ooh, another trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness has been released! I'm rather excited, I must admit, although I'm also getting to the stage where a) I don't really want to know any more about the actual film than I already do (i.e. not much), and b) I'm starting to question my own anticipation levels: maybe it won't be as good as I'm ( Read more... )

Usually I try to keep my daftest Photoshop fantasies restricted to the world of Tumblr, but I thought some of you might enjoy this one.

In a nutshell, the latest Star Trek movie stars none other than my beloved Mr Cumberbatch as its villain. A chance glance at its poster therefore led to me making the following piece of otter silliness:


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Today saw the return to the airwaves of my very favourite Radio 4 sitcom with Benedict Cumberbatch in it, better known as Cabin Pressure. The opening episode of series 4 was a treat to listen to, even more so because pontisbright and I were in the audience when it was recorded in early December and got to watch Benedict brushing his errant curl out of his face ( Read more... )

If you've bought any reading matter lately, you may have noticed that many bookshops now house a specialist section devoted to true-life tales of people who had really appalling childhoods. The sign on the shelves is usually something like "Tragic Life Stories" or "Painful Lives", but I believe the genre is known in the trade as "misery lit" or " ( Read more... )

It's time to crack open a bottle of Romulan ale and head for your favourite Klingon karaoke bar, because I've just finished a new set of mini-icons, and not surprisingly, they are based on the shiny new Star Trek reboot.

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Well, I'm still all a-quiver with Trekkieness, and a certain amount of gazing at pictures of Zach Quinto's lips important visual research is already underway with a view to future iconmaking.

So now it's time for an occasional feature I like to call "Help Me Make A Fairly Minor Design Decision Because My Addled Brain Can't Cope With It".

Poll The Ticky Box on the Edge of ForeverHere's ( Read more... )

I have seen Star Trek. I liked it. I liked it LOTS.*

( Excitableness and spoilers under this cut... )