Club Jade

Babble magazine goes inside the world of pop-up books with Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. Reinhart is responsible for 2007′s A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy, above.

Blogger Jason Moore has gathered The 50 Most Unique Representations Of Darth Vader. Many are familiar, some less so… In fact, the saddest thing is that I’ve seen or blogged so many of these. I’m also kind of sad he missed my Darth Vader pimp cup, but then I’ve never seen it online at all.

The Renaissance bit is pretty clearly a formality at this point (Dali, Whistler, & Hopper? Not even close!) but I’ll let it slide. Because who doesn’t love a Star Wars/fine art mashup? (via)

Bonnie ran a whole collection of photos through the Tilt Shift Maker, transforming the realistic into toy-like miniatures. Not surprisingly, the effect is particularly impressive when used on Stormtroopers!

Remember last week’s drive-by Stormtrooper? Well, the folks at Kinod Photography got Vader in on the action as well. There’s even a wallpaper version.

You missed one. io9 lists the most ridiculous evil twins in the multiverse, tragically ignoring Star Wars’ Thrackan Sal-Solo. Okay, sure, so maybe a mention for a C-list Expanded Universe character is too much to expect, but he’s the identical cousin of Han Solo! But evil! With a mustache! He led an organization called the Human League! What’s not to mock?

• My Little Pony: Bonnie interviews Mari Kasurinen, who has a new custom – Han Solo!

• The blogside: Qui-Gon Jinn is an America tourist. (via)
• Copyright: Flickr is still silent on the Heilemann deletions. I’m mourning that I never got to icon any of them.
• Random: Star Wars Designer Edition. I am 99% sure I’ve seen these before (the Insider?) but I can’t remember where and searching the blog has proved fruitless. So, enjoy.

Here’s hoping these guys are better at driving than they are at shooting.

Michael Heilemann’s collection of Star Wars pictures is, as far as I know, unequaled online – and he just announced that he’s added “a couple of hundred” new images. Go forth and check them out.

(We’ve previously featured his McQuarrie and storyboard collections.)

I really wish StarWars.com would put out a simple, easily browsable selection of photos like this… Of course, that might mean they’d shut Heilemann down. Still, the popularity of these sets – you can’t go anywhere on the internet this month without seeing a link to the storyboard gallery – shows there’s plenty of interest for this sort of thing.

You may have already seen Michael Heilemann’s collection of original trilogy storyboards, as they’ve been all over the internet by now, but what the hell.

There’s no fooling around at the Concept Ships blog. You know exactly what you’re getting, and there’s a hell of a lot of it! Almost overwhelming, but totally worth it. The image above by John Wu. (via)