Geek Media Round-Up: December 22, 2011

Art

• 10 More Nerdy Christmas Ornaments
• Amazing Morrigan Dragon Age cosplay
• Great Zombie Apocalypse Charlie Brown
• Left 4 Dead Fan Film
• Tintin meets Lovecraft. Madness ensues.
• Worst Star Wars Costumes Ever

Cross-Media

• Interview: Making It with Joss Whedon.
• 6 SFF Characters We Want to See Go Evil
• The 10 Creepiest Santa Clauses

Film

• Interview: ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Star Rooney Mara Says Role Was ‘Internal Experience’
• Interview: Motionographer talks to Big Lazy Robot director J.J. Palomo about the stunning trailer for Keloid, an as-yet-unrealized film
• Interview: What Has Rooney Mara Retained From ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’?
• News: Nolan refuses to change Bane’s voice even if Warner Bros. is nervous
• As the trailer for Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Hobbit premieres online, it’s worth remembering that this isn’t the first take on the journey of one Bilbo Baggins. There was the 1977 animated version as well. Here’s some screencaps and a trailer. Of course, if that’s not enough for you, you could just watch it on Youtube (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). And before it was a film, it was something called… a book? Here’s pictures of the cover of this ‘book’ thing from all over the world.
• Best And Worst Sci-Fi Movie Posters 2011
• SFX picks the Top 25 Films Of The Year
• ‘Star Trek 2′ Will Feature “Original and Unique” Approach to Villain
• Two new official stills from The Avengers, in case you’re getting anxious.

Literature

• Interview: George R.R. Martin visited the offices of Audible where he was interviewed by Steve Feldberg.
• Interview: Locus interviews Charlie Stross, author of The Jennifer Morgue.
• Interview: Richard Morgan plugs his new book, The Cold Commands
• Interview: SF Signal chats with Stations of the Tide author Michael Swanwick
• Interview: SF Signal Podcast has a panel on the topic of Sword & Sorcery.
• Interview: Take Five with Lucy Snyder, author of Switchblade Goddess
• 7 Free eBooks Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Every Intelligent Person Should Read
• Game of Thrones is ‘fantasy gateway drug’… only that first hit ain’t free.
• Helen Lowe on Having Fun with Epic Fantasy: The Soul-Sucking Sword
• ‘Hunger Games’: Top 10 Awesome Young Adult Dystopian Novels
• The overlooked sci-fi of 2011
• Straddling the divide: Michael Chabon has mixed feelings about e-book rights
• While E-Readers Get Cheaper, E-Books Make Up For It With Rising Prices

Technology

• 6 Google Projects Ripped from Sci-Fi
• Will future tech read your mind?

Television

• Interview: “Eureka” star Colin Ferguson talks about the future of the show
• ‘Bag Of Bones’ – The Book Vs. The Miniseries
• Infographic: 48 years of Who companions, foes and more

Writing

• Fifty things I’ve learned about the literary life

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