Cary Grant discussing a scene with director Frank Capra on the set of Arsenic and Old Lace 1941 — via Steve Niles Tumblr
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
Crocheted by hand with a cotton/acrylic blend yarn and filled with polyester fibrefill. The eyes are handmade with polymer clay and glow in the dark! Measures about 3.5 inches tall — via Etsy
— via Cyanide & Happiness
Etsy seller Princeofdiamonds makes a $100, sterling silver, hand-cast Optimus Prime ring that’s pretty awesome-looking — via Boing Boing
Scootaloo, while not being able to fly as fast or as high as other pegasi manages to get around town just as quickly using earth pony ingenuity. Although sometimes her still being a filly easily becomes an excuse for recklessness, but at least she has the sense to wear a helmet. Now if only the other ponies she might come crashing through would be wearing one too — via Youtube
PostHuman from Colliculi Productions on Vimeo.
California-based artist Sandy Yoo has created a dangerously delicious pie portraying the likeness of a cthulhu. This pie puts all other pastries to shame (or just physically destroys them) — via Laughing Squid
I was inspired to make a crochet Locutus. My Locutus has a working laser on the side of his head and his arm prosthetic has a small motor that spins a claw — via Instructables
This is a special order listing for one handcrafted Little Fat Cthulhu chess set inspired by characters from the Cthulhu Mythos. Each piece was individually created, no moulds or casting resins were used so pricing is based on several hours of work to create the 32 unique pieces — via Etsy
Actor Peter Capaldi has been announced as the new star of BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who.
The 55-year-old Glasgow-born star will be the 12th actor to play the Doctor, replacing outgoing lead Matt Smith.
Capaldi is best known for his role as foul-mouthed spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC series The Thick of It.
It’s so wonderful not to keep this secret any longer, but it’s been so fantastic,
he said after the news was revealed on a live BBC One show.
The actor had been the bookmakers’ favourite to take on the role, with betting on him becoming the next Doctor suspended on Friday.
It is not the first time Capaldi has appeared on the show — he played Roman merchant Caecilius in 2008 Doctor Who adventure The Fires of Pompeii.
At 55, he is the same age as William Hartnell when he was cast in the role as the first Doctor in 1963.
Being asked to play the Doctor is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can’t wait to get started,
he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Derpy, or Ditsy Doo as she may alternately be called, might have a relatively drab coat of gray compared to other more vividly colored ponies, but it is the sparkle in her eyes, the warmth of her smile and her carefree gait that makes her irresistibly adorable. The fact that her eyes might not necessarily focus well all the time is merely icing on a cake, or in her case, fresh blueberries on top of a muffin. In my case it’s a relief not to go through the painstaking task of perfectly synchronising their movement.
The stand and figure are carved out of Philippine mahogany while the gears and crank are made from Narra hardwood. The figure is hand painted with enamel and protected with clear flat lacquer. Derpy stands at 5 3/8″ to the tip of her wings and the whole piece measures at 7″ long, 4 3/4″ wide (wingspan) and 9 3/8″ high at her highest point. She took 100 1/2 hours to complete — via Youtube
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Until now, only pirates and welders have worn bandanas… but now, Cthulhu cultists can too! Featuring an original border design that incorporates Cthulhu, Nightgaunts, The Hounds of Tindalos, and more, these full size screen-printed bandanas are 22″ on a side and come in red, green, and black — via Arkham Bazaar
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David Cronenberg on the set of Naked Lunch — via Steve Niles Tumblr
Today, Gibson is lanky and somewhat shy, avuncular and slow to speak — more what you would expect from the lapsed science-fiction enthusiast he was in 1972 than the genre-vanquishing hero he has become since the publication of his first novel, the hallucinatory hacker thriller Neuromancer, in 1984. Gibson resists being called a visionary, yet his nine novels constitute as subtle and clarifying a meditation on the transformation of culture by technology as has been written since the beginning of what we now know to call the information age. Neuromancer, famously, gave us the term cyberspace and the vision of the Internet as a lawless, spellbinding realm. And, with its two sequels, Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), it helped establish the cultural figure of the computer hacker as cowboy hero. In his Bridge series — Virtual Light (1993), Idoru (1996), and All Tomorrow’s Parties (1999), each of which unfolds in a Bay Bridge shantytown improvised after a devastating Pacific earthquake transforms much of San Francisco — he planted potted futures of celebrity journalism, reality television, and nanotechnology, each prescient and persuasive and altogether weird.
Neuromancer and its two sequels were set in distant decades and contrived to dazzle the reader with strangeness, but the Bridge novels are set in the near future — so near they read like alternate history, Gibson says, with evident pride. With his next books, he began to write about the present-day, or more precisely, the recent past: each of the three novels in the series is set in the year before it was written. He started with 11 September 2001.
Pattern Recognition was the first of that series. It has been called an eerie vision of our time
by The New Yorker, one of the first authentic and vital novels of the twenty-first century
, by The Washington Post Book World, and, by The Economist, probably the best exploration yet of the function and power of product branding and advertising in the age of globalisation
. The Pattern Recognition books are also the first since Mona Lisa Overdrive in which Gibson’s characters speak of cyberspace, and they speak of it elegiacally. I saw it go from the yellow legal pad to the Oxford English Dictionary,
he tells me. But cyberspace is everywhere now, having everted and colonised the world. It starts to sound kind of ridiculous to speak of cyberspace as being somewhere else
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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