Geek Media Round-Up: July 4, 2012

Art

• 8-Bit Gary Oldman
• Sweets: Ark of the Covenant Cake
• Iconic Images Recreated With Star Wars Mini-Figures
• Millennium Falcon Wedding Cake
• Reagan Riding a Velociraptor
• Rule 63 Thor cosplay
• A set of three Lord of the Rings commissions by Katie Cook. Now someone commission her to illustrate the entire series. Seriously.
• TARDIS Cake

Comics

• If Nick Fury thinks an order is illegal, is it?

Film

• Interview: Director Gary Ross Talks The Hunger Games, Deleted Scenes
• Interview: Emma Stone on Branching Out With ‘Spider-Man’
• Interview: FX Master Jerome Chen Brings Spider-Man to 3-D Life
• Interview: Hugo Weaving Talks LAST RIDE, Working with the Wachowskis Again for CLOUD ATLAS and Returning to Rivendell for THE HOBBIT
• Interview: Steve Schklair, Lead 3D Producer for “The Amazing Spider-Man”
• News: Luc Besson to write-direct ‘Valerian’ adaptation
• News: Marvel unveils top-secret ‘Avengers’ short film ‘Item 47′
• 11 new images show off Peter Jackon’s gorgeous Middle-Earth in The Hobbit
• Alan Moore’s reaction to the Before Watchmen comics re-enacted with puppets.
• ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movies
• Are superheroes losing their edge? Characters with incredible powers have been flying or racing to the rescue of mankind since the Thirties, says Tim Martin, but they face a tougher challenge battling to evolve and stay relevant for a tech-savvy 21st-century audience
• The Dark Knight Rises viral campaign continues to chug along with a review of John Blake’s performance, and a rather interesting email exchange.
• Ender’s Game Film Blog
• If Michael Bay Got His Hands on The Hunger Games
• Nine Reasons Why ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Will be a Blockbuster
• Rebooted Hollywood Rom-Coms Starring Cthulhu
• Sci-fi And Fantasy’s Greatest Reboots
• Top Ten Spider-Man Villains Not Yet Featured in a Film
• Why John Carpenter’s The Thing Still Matters At 30

Internet

• The Giant Robot Invasion has begun! I suggest you take this opportunity to learn How To Survive A Robot Uprising before it’s too late!
• In a sort-of-related bit of news, National Geographic conducted a survey that reports, among other things, 2/3 of those surveyed think Obama is better suited to handle an alien invasion.

Literature

• Interview: Charles Stross AMA
• Interview: Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson talks with cultural historian James Carrott about steampunk, Vintage Tomorrows, and playing with the past as an expression of the future we want to live in.
• News: This abandoned Walmart has been reclaimed as a public library
• Graham Joyce’s top 10 fairy fictions: From Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus to Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, Graham Joyce chooses his favourite books in which the Fair Folk find themselves in fresh landscapes.
• SF Signal asks Has Space Opera Lost Its Luster?

Science

• How sci-fi writers like Arthur C. Clarke imagined we would feed space colonists.

Technology

• News: FAA Predicts Space Tourism Will be Worth $1 Billion in 10 Years
• Samsung Introduces Interactive Posters Alongside New Phone
• Time To Apply The First Law Of Robotics To Our Smartphones

Television

• News: CDC Uses The Walking Dead to Teach Emergency Preparedness. Check out the CDC’s Zombie Survival Comic.

Writing

• The Most Important Rule for Writing: Be True to Yourself

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