I was exploring Etsy, a site where crafty folks can sell their handywork, and I came across this hand-painted Princess Leia necklace. Naturally curious for more, I went searching and found Duck Vader, a Clonetrooper charm bracelet, a Leia pink leopard tote bag, a wallet made from bedsheets, a record bag, Lego earings and minifig phone charms.
Video Monday
Spreading like wildfire this week is The Vader Sessions, where lines from various James Earl Jones movies are dubbed in over Vader. Honestly, I found this earlier and I didn’t really think it was all that great, but tons of folks are linking it so I’ll let you judge for yourselves.
My vote for teh maxibig funneh is A Beginners Guide To Faking Your Death On The Internet. LOL internets!
Also: Carlos Mencia on Star Wars. Truth!
– Star Wars YMCA
– I have a bad feeling about this…
– Pirates of the Caribbean Dance Challenge
– Park Wars
From the Blogside
In An American Mythology: Why Star Wars Still Matters Steven D. Greydanus looks at the mythic roots of the saga – and a few common criticisms.
Pablo finds an amusing letter in one of the old Marvel Comics…
Darth Morbus ponders religion and the force. Should we tell him about the folks who think they’re actual Jedi?
The Wookiee has no pants explores the use of religious metaphors in fandom.
Taxy’s adorable Pirates review doodle bring up Star Wars similarities. Beware spoilers!
Discussion: Beej wonders why people still make zines. I’ve been wondering that myself for years. Yeah, having fanfic in tangible form is nice, but that’s why Adobe gave us PDF format.
More for Singapore
Lucasfilm Animation in Singapore is expanding, adding two new groups – one for handheld games and another for digital art. (via TFN)
Going to Comic Con?
I completely freaked out for a minute this morning thinking Comic Con started yesterday and I hadn’t yet blogged a thing. But it’s next week, and here’s a handy schedule of all the Star Wars panels so I can blog it now and feel like more of an idiot for admitting that I freaked out.
Club Jade: Free dose of Dunc’s geek shame with every post!
Last of the Jedi: Smackdown!
Ferus Olin vs. Darth Vader. Taking bets now… Does Ferus look like River Pheonix in The Last Crusade or is it just the hair throwing me off?
Also: October Comics.
This year’s trend: Magicians
You know how Hollywood is; they love to repeat themselves. Now, (almost) everyone loves a sequel, but the worst trend is when two studios have competing versions of almost the same exact kind of movie. This year it’s magic, or rather, Victorian era stage magic that may be the real thing! Gasp! Yawn!
Your choices: Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, staring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson or The Illusionist with Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti and my ever-evil Hollywood boyfriend Rufus Sewell.
To their credit, the trailers do make the films look as different as, say, Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love turned out to be. We can hope.
Do you like my Wookiee? Does he excite you?
Chewbacca is Entertainment Weekly’s fourth greatest sidekick of all time, proving that everyones loves a Wookiee. Other geek-friendly sidekicks include Samwise Gamgee (#7,) Ron and Hermoine (#11,) Willow Rosenberg (#17) and Silent Bob (#39.)
LOLtastic Quote of the Day
“The man who played Anakin Beefstroker was actually better than Hayden Christensen.” – Stephen Colbert, while discussing the (fake) porno Sperm Wars II: Attack of the Bones on his show.
45 degrees!
Lucasfilm let hoards of rotation-prone graphic design majors into their packaging design department!
I kid, I kid. The new packaging design is a complete 180 from the retro look they’ve been sporting for the last few years, though.
I like it. If only they’d get a few of those folks to give the Insider a bit of a once-over…
In related news, Hasbro’s Star Wars profits are down.