Geek Media Round-Up: July 16, 2010

Art

• Blastr has a gallery of The 10 most gorgeous blasters and ray guns in science fiction.
• Cliff Chiang has releases a set of Star Wars propaganda posters that will be available at Comicon and Acme this week.
• i09 points the way to this Western-themed interpretation of The Lady in the Lake.
• KlingPost has posted a gallery of the 3D Street Art Paintings of Edgar Mueller.
• Undead Disney Princesses have their own Deviant Art Gallery.

Comics

• Interview: Newsrama has an interview with Robert Kirkman of Walking Dead.

Cross-Media

• Complex names The Hottest Nerds and Geeks on TV and Film.
• SyFy names its choices for the Top 10 Vampires From Film and TV.

Film

• Interview: Techland discusses Inception with Ellen Page.
• Interview: Theatre of the Mind profiles Christopher Nolan.
• Blastr has a funny gallery of Movie posters that answer the question What if Hollywood’s sci-fi blockbuster titles were honest?
• The Entertainment Weekly offers the First look at Ryan Reynolds in his Green Lantern costume! It’s not quite as bad as everyone feared.
• Metacritic looks at Nicolas Cage’s best and worst reviewed movies.
• Premiere names 7 Movies Not Meant for In-Flight Viewing.

Internet

• Interview: Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, discusses the future of news.
• ChaCha explains How to Win Rock Paper Scissors Every Time.
• The guys getting sued by George Lucas for selling “real-life light sabers” are auctioning off their original LucasFilm Cease and Desist letter on eBay.
• Pleated Jeans charts out Maslow’s Hierarchy of Internet Needs.
• Twitter’s #dearpublisher hashtag takes off.

Literature

• Interview: Charles Stross and Gary K. Wolfe interviewed at ReaderCon 2010.
• Interview: Locus interviews Laurence Yep, author of City of Fire.
• Carrie Vaughn discusses Real World Research or Building a Better Werewolf.
• The Guardian praise The art of slow reading.
• The Huffington Post rounds up videos of the Best Author Appearances Of TED.

Writing

• i09 considers the question of How much should you compromise your vision to get published?

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