Club Jade

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!

• Smooth. Lando, the cologne. Because, why not?

• Fanmade: Look, I’m usually all over the My Little Pony mashups, but Mari Kasurinen’s Chewbacca pony scares the living daylights out of me. It wants your soul. Much less terrifying is Boba Fett.
• Lists: Topless Robot has the ten best action figures based on real people. Jorg Sacul is #7. Also, you can’t make a top five space cowboys list without Han Solo.
• Video: Attack of the Clones in 5 seconds. Obvious spoof is obvious, but worth a giggle.

So last time, the traffic killed his server, but now he’s back with the third and final installment… Plus Zahn.

As I’m technically still reading the most shameful series of my adolescence, linking MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits might very well be an act of supreme hypocrisy.

Oh well. I might still be an Expanded Universe fan (or am I?) but at least I never read The Wheel of Time. It’s a slim victory if anything, but I’ll take it. At least until I remember how many Melanie Rawn novels I own in hardcover.

UPDATE: But wait, there’s more!

Also on io9 (Weekend blogging now? Argh.) are a few suggestions for J.J. Abrams, who a week or two ago admitted he wanted to bring a little Star Wars pizzaz into Trek. (I’m sure the Trekkies just loved that.) In any case, io9 tables some suggestions, along with a bit of wholly unexpected photoshoppery.

In what is either the best or worst timing ever, Club Jade will be gathering for our first JadeCon since 2006 starting in the morning. So, sorry to disappoint, but (serious) blogging may or may not resume until Thursday. Or maybe Monday. Tuesday? (I’ll try – but bet on not – history agrees.) In the meantime, keep an eye on our pals at StarWars.com, TFN, EUC, and Lightsabre for actual news.

Or you can look at this:

I blame Yav.

There’s a shocking amount of Photoshop talent in this one. (via)

…With an aged link.

Worth1000′s latest PhotoShop contest ups the sci-fi quotient in movies that are decidedly not sci-fi. I, for one, mourn the lack of Steel Magnolias. It’s right there, people!

The Alexander entry is sheer perfection.