War of the Worlds Goliath: An Animated Steampunk Epic

Currently in the works, War of the Worlds Goliath is a sequel to War of the Worlds, pitting giant, steam-powered Tripod battle machines against the Martians.




You can see more concept art here. Via these sites.

*Previously: War of the Worlds book cover collection.

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A flock of plague doctors

A flock of plague doctors descend on a town in the short film La Peste (The Plague) by Supinfocom students, Olivier Dubocage, Michal Firkowski, Benoît Galland and Gildas Le Franc:

La Peste from La Peste on Vimeo.

I took the liberty of whipping up a desktop wallpaper:



Via.

*Previously: Plague doctor mask.

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Video of the world's first zero-g wedding

Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan got married on G-Force One. You can watch video of the nuptials here:



*Previously: Alter-G, the $75000 anti-gravity treadmill.

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Intact, collapsed building (link roundup)

Go here for a gallery of photos of a building that fell over in Shanghai, but stayed more or less in one piece. Via.

And a few more links:

1. By Jason Chalker, Feral guinea pigs and Dia de los Hotrods.

2. Nice gallery of photos of the Mickey Mouse/Optimus Prime Transformer.

3. Star Trek rebooted desktop wallpaper featuring Scotty and his little alien buddy.

4. Three Northern California attorneys and two interpreters convicted of filing hundreds of fraudulent asylum applications.

*Previously: Exposing the truth about that collapsed San Francisco bridge.

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Plankton as Galactus, Lego Plankton, and more

Paul Conrad channels Jack Kirby to draw the Spongebob Squarepants crew. Desktop wallpaper-sized image at the link.





Lego Plankton from Spongebob Squarepants by "Big Daddy" Nelson.


And finally, some bizarre Spongebob Squarepants-filled commercials by Thinkmake and PepperMelon for MTV. I like Spongebob as Shiva.

spongebob hypnosis from thinkmake on Vimeo.

spongebob guru from thinkmake on Vimeo.

Via.

*Previously: Luke Cage, if he'd been one of Kirby's New Gods.

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Giant Ikea storage boxes (link roundup)

Ogilvy turned a bunch of balconies in Frankfurt into storage boxes to promote Ikea. More photos here.

And a few more links:

1. A woman went to the police station to speak to police and while talking to them, a squirrel poked his head up from her cleavage. "The woman was not fazed and gently pushed the squirrel back inside her shirt." Photo link.

2. Apparently 100 people were fired from Fox 11 news (in Los Angeles) last week.

3. Heavy metal demon.

4. Shazam, Betty Boop, and a giant robot.

*Previously: The Today Show asks "Cleavage at the office: Inappropriate?"

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Captain Cutler

Captain Cutler by Shane "Das Chupa" Parker for the Villains of Scooby-Doo contest. Over at Shane's site, Darth Vader gets a hug.

*Previously: Space Kook by Rich Page.

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