Steampunk Laptop
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 19, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections, Tech
A Victorian looking laptop from a Japanese website:
Cover Browser
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 19, 2006 in Comic Books
If you’re a comic book loving fanboy I think you’re going to like this website:
Cover Browser: Explore Comic Book Covers
“Created in 2006, Cover Browser displays galleries of comic book covers for comic book fans like myself to explore & enjoy (there’s also links to find out more about individual comics or to buy them). At the moment, there are 6,541 covers available.”
Virtual Apple ][
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 18, 2006 in Videogames
This is an old-school gamers dream come true! Some folks have created an online emulation of the Apple ][ and the Apple ][ GS. The only catch is that you have to have Windows and use Internet Explorer for your browser, but if you can get past that they have dozens of great old school games online:
![Virtual Apple ][](http://www.fanboy.com/archive-images/virtual-apple-2.jpg)
Spiderman 3 Trailer
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 17, 2006 in Comic Books
Here is the latest Spidy saga teaser:
World War I Sketchbook
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 17, 2006 in Comic Books
This is an amazing online exhibition of sketches, many of which have an editorial cartoon look to them. It’s amazing first hand look at the “war to end all wars”:
JM’s World War One Sketchbook
1917-1918
“The images presented on this website are from a set of two World War One sketchbooks archived in the University of Victoria’s Special Collections Library. They contain approximately 130 water-colour and pen and ink images which were produced by a British soldier based in France and Belgium between 1917 and 1918.”
The Hunt for Shatner
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 16, 2006 in Star Trek
One fanboy sets out to attempt to interview William Shatner:
Planeta Pluton
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 16, 2006 in Videogames
This is a Japanese astronomy themed game! It’s more fun to play if you don’t quite understand what’s going on:
Horror Halloween Icons
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 16, 2006 in Horror
Some fanboy decor for your desktop:
Bride of Macabre Icons
by Gedeon Maheux
Tideland Trailer
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 15, 2006 in Cinema
A trailer for the new Terry Gilliam film is out! It looks a bit dark:
“Jeliza-Rose is a young girl in a very unusual situation both of her parents are junkies and she is usually left to her own devices for entertainment. When her mother dies, her father takes her to a remote farm in the country, she escapes the vast loneliness of her new home by retreating into a world that exists only in her mind. Here, fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, and squirrels talk. And the heads of her four dolls Mystique, Baby Blonde, Glitter Gal, and Sateen Lips long since separated from their bodies, keep her company.”
Also check out this great interview with Gilliam at avclub.com.
China to Enter Space Tourism Biz?
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 15, 2006 in Science
Being a fanboy I for one wouldn’t mind seeing a new space tourism race:
China may enter space tourism race
“China may one day offer trips into space for tourists, a senior official said on Thursday, outlining the country’s plans to launch more rockets, explore the moon and even help farmers by using satellite transmissions.
Sun Laiyan, head of the China National Space Administration, also defended the cost of the space program, saying Beijing spent far less than the United States, it benefited ordinary people and was anyway a matter of national pride.”
C-3PO’s Cereal
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 14, 2006 in Star Wars
A crunch new “force” at breakfast:
See You in the Funny Papers
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 14, 2006 in Comic Books
A great review of “Masters of American Comics” which runs through Jan. 28 at the Newark Museum in NJ and the Jewish Museum in NYC:
“The show tracks a century of formal comics invention (in Newark, mostly early strips; at the Jewish Museum, different comic book incarnations) through what are meant to be mini-retrospectives. This means Elzie Crisler Segar’s “Thimble Theater,” which introduced Popeye (he was far, far darker than the spinach-addled television cartoon), and Milton Caniff’s superstylish “Terry and the Pirates.” It means Frank King’s languid “Gasoline Alley” and Chester Gould’s “Dick Tracy,” which set the standard for hard-boiled grit and packed a visceral punch that came from tightly organized colors and shapes (Mr. Spiegelman calls it “blueprint Expressionism”) until Mr. Gould went kind of gaga and launched Tracy into outer space to fight bad guys on the moon in a rocket-powered garbage can.”
Spiderman’s Giant Robot
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 13, 2006 in Comic Books
I had no idea that Spiderman owned a Japanese giant robot! Here’s a vintage commercial from Japan selling a toy version of the robot:
Star Wars USB Flashdrives
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 13, 2006 in Star Wars
Mimoco is created a limited run Darth Vadar USB flash drive! They’re quite cute too:
The Cult of Khan: Director Nicholas Meyer
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 12, 2006 in Star Trek
Wrath of Khan was perhaps Star Trek at it’s very best. This is a great interview with writer and director Nicholas Meyer who discusses the making of the film, Spock’s death, Khan’s chest, the movie’s connection to the Horatio Hornblower novels:
‘The Cult of Khan’: One on One with Star Trek director Nicholas Meyer
“It wasn’t even my idea to bring him back (Kahn), it was just one of the things we all agreed on that we liked. They showed me the episode. At the very beginning, when I first went in, I didn’t know anything about Star Trek. They showed me the Robert Wise movie, and they showed me four or five episodes from the original series; I sat and watched, and said: “Ah! Hornblower…in outer space”.”
Grind House Trailer Released
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 12, 2006 in Cinema
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarrantino are back with Grind House! The following trailer is very graphic and features all sorts of zombie gore:
The Bionic Woman Returns: Why?
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 11, 2006 in Television
A remake of a spinoff? Is there a law in Hollywood against doing something new? And I bet those bastards don’t even let poor Lindsay Wagner get a cameo role, thus forcing her to do more matress commercials:
“David Eick, executive producer of SCI FI Channel’s original series Battlestar Galactica, will reinvent another 1970s SF show: The Bionic Woman, which he will executive-produce with film writer Laeta Kalogridis for SCI FI’s parent TV network, NBC, Variety reported. The original spinoff of The Six Million Dollar Man starred Lindsay Wagner as tennis-pro-turned-superwoman Jamie Sommers; it aired for two seasons on ABC before shifting to NBC in 1977 for its final year.”
We found the above Bionic Woman lunchbox photo at Eric Neely’s website.
Lego Chewbacca
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 10, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections, Star Wars
A Wookie made of little plastic brick bits:
MTV George Lucas Interview
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 10, 2006 in Star Wars
This is cool, it looks like Lucas may do a live action TV show:
“In 2007, Lucas will begin work on a live-action “Star Wars” show set during the 18-year gap between Episodes III and IV. “We haven’t started yet; I start that next year,” the filmmaker said, adding that he’s determined to write an entire first season before shooting begins on the show that will star “background” characters from that time period.
None of the Skywalker story, none of that stuff is in there,” he explained, shooting down any depiction of a young Han Solo acquiring the Millennium Falcon or running with Lando Calrissian. “It’s completely different. The animated series has got all the characters in it. The one that comes after, the live-action one, is with people who were in ‘Star Wars,’ but they’re not the main characters.” Lucas said the plot will be steered by characters such as Tie-Fighter or Rebel pilots, most only briefly glimpsed in the six “Star Wars” films.”
Alien Loves Predator
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 9, 2006 in Comic Books
A silly webcomic worth checking out:
