Something I came across via the excellent space pix site at Silver Rockets - comic artist Steve Bialik's Star Wars artwork, reimagined in a traditional Japanese art-style. I especially like the Samurai Fett - check 'em out at his blog Here or follow the linkage below.

Darth Vader / Yoda / Emperor Palpatine / Obi-Wan Kenobi / Han & Chewie / Jabba The ( Read more... )

As I've nerded about downblog, this December will see the release of a movie that I've been waiting to see for nearly thirty years;  Tron Legacy, the sequel to the cult videogame sci-fi classic Tron is bearing down like a Light Cycle at full throttle, and I can't wait. It's weird how I sometimes think I've outgrown the sweet thrill of geekosity ( ( Read more... )

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I took my mother to the Biggin Hill Air Fair over the weekend, and under a beating sun and perfect blue skies we gawped at many planes. The show had plenty of cool stuff, as ever, from a massed First World War-era dogfight, the ever-excellent Red Arrows, to the sky-ripping Typhoon Eurofighter; but what we'd all come to see was This monster.

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With lots of work to keep my focus, it almost slipped my attention that it's my birthday this week. I guess it's true what they say about getting old; I'm already having "senior moments". Still, another year above ground is a good thing, and despite real life getting in the way of my vague plans for a huge blow-out party, passing this milestone ( Read more... )

For all my Battlestar Galactica fanboy mates; is This nifty or what?

I've never really been big into the whole live action roleplaying, hitting-each-other-with-latex-swords thing, but I've had fun with it once or twice and a lot of my gamer mates enjoy it. As mentioned downblog, last weekend I snuck into The Gathering, which I am reliably informed is the largest such event in the world, with well over three thousand ( Read more... )