Have you heard of Crystal? In short, it’s a web app that attempts to analyze and summarize your personality through your web presence. Its main objective is to help improve communication — you can look up anyone you wish and their Crystal profile will tell you how best to communicate with them. Some have found […]
CSS Sans: A Typeface Made Purely of CSS
Yusuke Sugomori, who describes himself as a “creative technologist,” has created a project called CSS Sans — a font collection that is created purely from CSS. A cool feature of the webpage is that as you mouse over a particular CSS class, the portion of the font for which it is responsible gets highlighted: Are there […]
The Inspiration Behind Lando Calrissian’s Helmet Design
Costume designer Nilo Rodis-Jamero recalls: “Every Friday afternoon, we would play baseball and once I jokingly put a glove on engineer Wade Childress’s head…” Via Reddit. (For more Star Wars designs and their origins, check out one of my most popular posts ever, Top 5 Star Wars Designs and What Inspired Them. It used to have a […]
The Secret Lives of Superhero Toys
Warning: some of these are NSFW. But the creativity and technique of photographer Edy Hardjo are well worth a look…especially if you’re into the Marvel and DC superhero-verse. Enjoy! You may also like: Suck My Brick Lego Representations of the 50 States Kids Recreate Best Looks from the Golden Globes Engagement Photos of the Year [Zombies]
Parody Posters of 2015 Oscar Nominated Films
Presented to you by the 2nd Annual RIPTcademy Awards. I would totally watch some of these; The Grand Arkham Asylum looks especially badass! And Quailman? I used to love the show Doug! The Theory of Everything – The Theory of Everything is AWESOME! American Sniper – Canadian Sniper You may also like: Horror Movies, Vampires, and Fizzix! Illustrator […]
Into the Great Unknown
YOU. GUYS. You’re probably aware of the fact that both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies were made by the same production company, Lucasfilm. And you have to know that Han Solo and Indiana Jones were played by the same actor, Harrison Ford. (Right?) So what if they could meet?!??? “Into the Great Unknown” is a 10-page non-canon […]
Marvel’s STAR WARS #1
This past week was a big one for us Star Wars nerds fans. Even if you’re not into the greatest sci-fi franchise ever created, you may have heard about a certain comic book already breaking records before its official release date. 😉 That’s right — Marvel’s Star Wars #1 was released on January 14th, 2015! Did you know that these days, major […]
Illustrator Gives Western Fairy Tales a Korean Makeover
Korean artist Na Young Wu has recently unveiled a series of illustrations which combines well-known western fairy tales with the Korean manhwa (the equivalent of manga in Korean) as well as the traditional Korean drawing style! They’re quite stunning, to say the least. The Princess and the Frog: The Little Mermaid: Snow White: You may also like: The […]
5 Things I Found on the Internet This Week
1. Do you want to code a snowflake? Disney Interactive and Code.org has teamed up to inspire future computer programmers — especially girls — to learn some basic coding skills in a fun, visual way. Head on over to the Frozen Hour of Code to help Anna and Elsa create shapes and patterns on ice using simplified blocks […]
Suck My Brick
I love these LEGO creations by Flickr user SuckMyBrick. Can you guess the pop culture icon depicted in each sculpture? (Highlight just below the photo to see the answer.) Michael Jackson