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Wampa Rug is Star Wars Sexy

J. Matthew Zoss — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:30:55 +0000

I really can’t see how any self-respecting Star Wars geek could pass this up. Think Geek has an amazing Wampa skin rug on sale for$100, which is a small price to pay for how much nerd girl/guy action you’ll get from it.

The 62 x 30-inch rug is made of synthetic fur and has a non-slip backing, which is an important feature for many reasons I can think of. Unfortunately, the rug doesn’t include a hot slave Leia.

Seth Green Behind New Star Wars Sitcom, Really

Nick Upton — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:30:08 +0000

Lucasfilm and Seth Green are behind a new animated sitcom, and are going to great lengths to tell everyone that it won’t be bad.

“Let us assure you this isn’t going to suck as much as you think it is,” said Seth Green.

But with Lucasfilm producing the show and “shaping the type of comedy we’re looking for and the look of the show,” one wonders how funny it will be. I’m all for Seth Green making bank off the Star Wars franchise, but I’m not going to get my hopes up for the obscene or outlandish humor from Robot Chicken.

Green’s salesmanship of his show didn’t really pike my interest either.

“We can’t guarantee its excellence, but we’re swinging by the fences,” said Green.

Jennifer Hill, a Daytime Emmy winner for “The Backyardigans” is producing for Lucasfilm.

Hill told Daily Variety the length of the episodes have not been decided, but they will be no longer than half-hours. No network or start date has been set for the laffer.

Todd Grimes (“Back at the Barnyard”) will direct. Brendan Hay (“The Daily Show”) will be the head writer and Lucasfilm expects to hire a staff of up to 10 more writers.

There is no air date or network set yet, but I’ll be watching at least the first episode.

[Via VarietyVariety]

Art For Geeks: Star Wars Mosaic Last Supper

Nick Upton — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:34:42 +0000

A big, big time Star Wars fan spent two weeks creating a mosaic version of Eric Dechamps‘ Star Wars themed last supper painting — and he created it completely from frames of the movies.

Avinash Arora created the image from 69,000 images, or what he said amounted to one of every 20 frames from the entire series.

… There are mosaic maker programs out there, and that’s how I started. I used a program that does it for you, didn’t like the way it was turning out, and couldn’t process large files. I “hacked” the program and wrote in my own algorithm, which is a slightly modified version of theirs and requires a really…REALLY powerful computer to compute.

Since mine’s just above average it took a long time for the initial composition. Then about 6 compositions later I started working on it manually. By rough estimation, i’d say I replaced about 1200-1500 images manually (cut/crop, etc.) and it improved the image DRASTICALLY. For this reason there are likely to be doubles, but I tried to avoid it.

Arora said that he touched up the colors too to make it look better.

At the end he wound up with a 2GB image that would have measured 5 feet by 11 feet, but the printer’s computer wasn’t powerful enough to open the file. He said he also saw the genius of grommets, but only after his poster was complete.

I didn’t get grommets put in on the first one, and now I’m regretting it… how the fuck do I hang up a 6 foot long 3 pound poster???

For a link to a larger version or more about the process go to Arora’s site; which also provided the images.