Outer space & Pop culture (intersection of tags)
132 Outer space posts • 249 Pop culture posts • 16 in common
- Photo taken on Mars looks like Star WarsJawas on Mars?
- How to count to ten in Estonian and EwokeseLearn how to count to ten in Ewokese, or Estonian. Which is which? One language is spoken by short furry creatures on the Forest Moon of Endor. The other language is spoken by Finnic people in the Baltic region of…
- 8-bit Ewoks in Tiny Death StarWhat can be cuter than 8-bit artwork of ewoks? Thankfully the ewok card came to me early in the iPhone Star Wars game, Tiny Death Star. The card proudly proclaims, “Furred natives of the forest moon of Endor, the Ewoks…
- A surface graft for planet EarthWhat if we took another planet’s surface and grafted it onto part of Earth’s? Mars would make quite an impact. It would be like dunking the Earth in some powered chocolate. We’d have a ton more iron. I’d imagine with…
- Transformers 4 filming returning to ChicagoA movie-filming helicopter floated above my head while walking home tonight. Memories of Transformers filming in Chicago rushed through my head. Having downtown Chicago taken over by Transformers made the summer of 2010 much fun. Hearing gunshots outside my window.…
- Transformers “Dark of the Moon” movie filming Chicago on Wacker Drive, Optimus Prime kicks butt sceneA giant fireball explodes on Wacker Drive for the Transformers 3 movie, “Dark of the Moon.” Now that the trailer is out, we know that this is the location where Optimus Prime kicks some serious butt with his sword. This…
- Space shuttle complainersIDW G1 Card – Astrotrain by *Guidoarts Chicago didn’t get a space shuttle. But are we complaining? Nope. But it’s fun to hear the other cities complain. From CNN: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the Johnson Space Center in…
- What would an ewok trade to get the Death Star’s laser pointer?The commanding officer of the first Death Star has a laser pointer. He’s willing to trade it to you. What would you offer to the Death Star Commander? Now, let’s add another layer to this. Let’s say you are an…
- Give birthday greetings in ewokeseEver draw a blank for what to write on someone’s facebook wall for a birthday wish? Draw a blank no more! Why not wish your friend a happy birthday in ewokese!? It’s a real language with a dictionary on the…
- Good examples of photographing LEGOI’ve been into the idea of photographing LEGOs, so I did some research on flickr to see what was possible. Here are photos by other flickr members: These are all in my flickr favorites
- New word: KaminoNew word: Kamino definition: to disappear Ok. Not so much a new word, as a new definition for an existing word. Kamino is the planet in Star Wars that was erased from the official library records. The planet virtually disappeared!…
- My favorite spudart blog posts of 2007My top six favorite blog posts of 2007 (in no order): A wallet full of only two-dollar bills Spending only two-dollar bills has been lots of fun. How to have fun on IM with the Spongebob theme song This is…
- Brewster Rockit sales kitThis appears in the 2005 Graphic USA Design Annual. Tim Rickard sent Tribune Media Services a comic strip proposal for Brewster Rockit. TMS decided to take Brewster under an 8-week development deal to help improve the strip before syndicating it.…
- Frog foot scraper, Punky Brewster, Disposable Swimwear and moreLTD Commodities sell items for every down-home American. Some of the stuff is cool, most of it is odd cheesey stuff. My friend updates their weekly “new and exciting” section. It’s always got a few noteworthy items. But this week…
- Which muppet is George W. Bush most like?A lot of people voted for Bush, because they like who he is. Straightforward. But his administration runs the show. He just gets up there all hokey dokey and looks all cute for the cameras. Look at me, I’m human…
- radio tower on the moonClaudio Maccone for Astrodynamics in Turin, Italy is proposing that a radio tower be built on the “radio oasis” on the “shielded zone” of the moon to observe “clean” radio waves from space that aren’t cluttered up from planet earth…
