Category — Popular Culture

If you’re a fan of cosplay and didn’t make it down to Comic-Con, thank Maximum PC for going all out to get 600 photos of cosplayers at the event.

The Comic-Con 2009 Cosplay Gallery — 600 Amazing Costumes

Hot!

Via The Awesomer

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Wow – what is there not to love about carnival? I think London’s Notting Hill Carnival – the only one I’ve been to – shames in comparison to efforts from places like Sao Paulo, Brazil!

Carnival from The Big Picture

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I love these illustrations converted to target posters featuring a slew of movie and game baddies. A simple and effective idea by Olly Moss.

via Josh Spear

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An acquired taste if you like your pin-up girls zombified! My Zombie Pinup calendar gives you 13 months of glorious photography.

Check My Zombie Pinup calendar

Via Urlesque

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The winners of the CGTalk forums’ Star Wars steampunk contest are up and there’s some good stuff there, such as the following.

See more on the CG Society forum

Via The Awesomer

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Siggeir Hafsteinsson brings Star Wars to Iceland with these old halftone art photos that depict storm troopers, Nebulon-Bs and AT-ATs. Reykjavik will never be the same!

More on Siggeir’s website

Via The Awesomer

Also check out the previously posted photos by French Photographer Cédric Delsaux’s Real Life Star Wars Series

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Like coin-ops? Then you’ll love this Flickr set of vintage coin-op machines.

The Coin-Op collection on flickr is a superb collection and example of what a wonderful sight old coin-op machines can be. Good visual reference for that mechanical vintage look.

See Retro Coin-Op Collection Photos

Via UrbanRetroLifestyle

Technorati Tags: coin-ops, design, popular culture, retro

If you collect designer toys and are mclovin’ the DIY kind, then check out this selection to download and make.

Artist Chris Beaumont has promised to bring us a new cube styled paper toy every week, available at CubeCraft.com and there are a few more on 4Kids.tv

Download at Cubecraft.com

Download at 4Kids.tv

Via UrbanRetroLifestyle.com

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If you like Lego, you’ll love the Brothers Brick Lego block, which touts contributions featuring interesting and unique, fun Lego creations.

I’ve featured Lego here before (Iron Man lego) and although I’m not fanatical about the brand, interesting Lego models do catch my eye, especially if they’re not too “Lego-like”.

Licenses also get my attention and there’s a crop of models currently being released for the forthcoming new Indiana Jones film.

This one below is quite an impressive diorama, displaying the temple escape from the beginning of The Raiders of the Lost Ark.

For more Lego creations, check out The Brothers Brick blog

The Indy diorama was discovered on Gizmodo

Via NotCot

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I’m not heavily into tattoos, but this post (admittedly from a few weeks ago) did strike me as a pretty good use of computer graphics. If you forget the effort needed to generate a CG likeness of the person. And the fact this idea won’t save the world.

But for those who would like a tattoo, but aren’t sure, or even those who would just like to see what a tattoo would look like on them, this application seems blindingly obvious. An example of a good idea just staring you in the face, maybe.

I guess it just needs a few more years of development to make the process quicker and more accessible/affordable, and whether the idea has potential in other areas too.

The software was developed by computer graphics artist Loic Zimmermann.

Via Gizmodo

Technorati Tags: computer generated tattoo, ideas, popular culture, tattoos