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Official Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer hits YouTube

November 28, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Seen everyone raving about Star Wars: The Force Awakens while many bemoan that it’s only on QuickTime? Not great news for Apple. The official trailer, not one of the clever fakes, is now on YouTube via the Star Wars account. What do you make of the teaser? Has it done enough? Are you an old […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Jedi, sith, star wars, star wars: the force awakens, stormtroopers, teasers, trailers

Actual alternative: A review of The Star Wars

November 18, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Star Wars is already an award winning comic; picking up the Diamond Gem Award for Best Licensed Comic in 2013. This graphic novel came out this winter and feels like an ideal gift for any Star Wars fans. You can imagine that Star Wars (A New Hope) had a script that was worked on […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: darth vader, george lucas, J.W. Rinzler, Jedi, Mike Mayhew, reviews, sith, star wars

Short film: SubWars

June 25, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Blood and gore splatter aplenty when an old man isn’t offered a seat on a busy subway. The Force is strong with this fellow. He looks the part, I admit, and I don’t think anyone is surprised when he pulls out a red lightsaber. The question is; why didn’t anyone offer him a seat. Would […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, short film, sith, star wars, sub wars

Gently killing the Star Wars Expanded Universe

April 30, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At a glance this video is a lovefest for the old Star Wars Expanded Universe (the EU). We’ve the new Star Wars team raving about how much they’ve enjoyed it. Read between the lines, though. This video is gently letting us know that the EU is there to fuel and inspire the next set of […]

Filed Under: Comics, Movies Tagged With: darth vader, Jedi, knights of the old republic, sith, star wars, star wars ix, star wars vii, star wars viii

Darth Drogo – The Star Wars Game of Thrones mashup

October 4, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This remarkable illustration is the work of JB Casacop, a professional digital artist from the Philippines. The piece is called “Darth Khal-Drogo” and depicts the dark lord of the Khalasar as a Sith. What else could he be?

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: game of thrones, jb casacop, sith, star wars

Star Wars propaganda posters

December 18, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These posters can be yours. Artist Patty McPancakes has a store on Etsy and is selling them at affordable prices. These are World War II style propaganda style posters and some of them are translated into Galactic Base Standard. Enjoyed this collection? You might also check out this sample of join the Rebellion posters. Via […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: At-At Walkers, darth vader, sith, star wars, stormtroopers

A review of Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare

May 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This Star Wars guide from Jason Fry, with help from Paul R. Urquhart, is a clever book. It’s aimed firmly at the hardcore Star Wars fans and its success is to hit so many interest points at once. Art and illustration is an important part of this Star Wars guide. At the back of the […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Ahsoka Tano, Ansel Hsiao, Bruno Werneck, Chris Scalf, Darren Tan, darth vader, Dave Seeley, Drew Barker, Ian Fullwood, Jason Fry, Jason Palmer, Jedi, Jon Vanfleet, Modi, Paul R. Urquhart, Paul Youll, sith, star wars, Stephan Martiniere, stormtroopers, Titan Books, Tommy Le Edawrds

If Sith lords did Tron

August 24, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Roderique Arisiaman has an interesting vision. It’s a vision in which the powerful Sith lord, former Jedi, Darth Vadar explores a virtual world inside an old computer game. This vision is manifest through art. Shiny blue art. Art that can only be called Darth Tron!

Filed Under: Art, Geek Stuff Tagged With: darth vader, sith, star wars, tron

R’lyeh removed from Google Maps; some geek alternatives

June 26, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

It was once possible to find R’lyth, the home and resting place of Cthulhu, on Google Maps and on Google Earth. The video at the end of this post acts as evidence. Today it’s not possible to find R’lyeh on either of those two properties. Aww, shucks, Google. I hope you had good reason for […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Aragorn, Battlestar Galactica, cthulhu, Frankenstein, Galadriel, google, Jedi, lord of the rings, maps, sith, Thor

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