So that Vader with Brita picture some have been giggling over all week? It’s apparently art. That explains everything!
In that vein, The Real World: Darth Vader.
The more you tighten your grip…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, or at least a version of it, is indeed online… And the torrent is linked on Boing Boing. (No spoilers, just link.) Wonder how long that’ll last? I’m just not obsessed enough to squint my way through 400+ JPGs, but to each their own.
Harry Potter Week: Fan Art
Be sure to click through to see the whole thing!
Lord Voldemort by the illustration team of Tania Juárez and Carlos Vélez. They also have several other Potter characters in their gallery, including Sirius Black and Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore.
Growing up with Harry
One of our own recently had a wonderful essay published in the Time Argus about having grown up along side Harry Potter. (There are no spoilers in this article.)
Kudos, Caroline!
I got a forest moon to sell ya…
Livejournaler No_Sleepie runs across a familiarly-named real estate company in the wilds of Illinois…
Out this week
Expect to see Dark Times #4 and the Endgame 30th Anniversary collection on comic stores shelves Wednesday.
Harry Potter Week: Morning newsblast
Jim Dale, who reads the Harry audiobooks, knows how it all ends, and he can’t even tell his grandkids. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the NYT, a look at the directors of the HP films. Or simply keep up with their Harry Potter index. (Thanks, Liz!)
Meanwhile, no one has any business being surprised that Order of the Phoenix is tops at the box office, making about twice as the nearest competition, Transformers.
Also…
- The leak is out there. Spoilers at every turn!
- No Potter for ASDA supermarket chain. ASDA is the second largest retailer in the UK – and a subsidiary of Wal-Mart. Ha-ha.
- Deathly Hallows is as green as an almost 800 page book could possibly be.
- Booksellers gird their loins.
- Books still under warehouse guard.
- HP release sure to effect workplace productivity. Hey, we’ve all been there.
Jedi to be permanent fixture at Disney
The Jedi Training Academy moves above and beyond Star Wars Weekends. A new stage is being constructed and may host up to eight shows a day for young would-be Jedi.
CE: Media behaving badly
I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence or what, but all the Celebration Europe press I ran across today is so… sensationalist.
First, Daily Mail reporter Tanya Gold doesn’t even get a paragraph into her CE experience before breaking out the requisite ‘Get a life’ comment. Keeping reading – it’s full of such classy gems. Although I do like the description of Steve Sansweet as George Lucas’ “representative on Earth.”
As for the real stars of the CE experience, we have comments from Anthony Daniels, admonishing Sir Alec Guinness and a trifecta of Mark Hamill comments that the blurb artists are trying their damnedest on: ‘wanting’ to be Vader; the Luke warehouse; and the one with the legs, Portman’s a babe.
Sci-Fi Channel: Farscape lives! Sort of.
Yesterday, Sci-Fi Channel announced that they’ll be producing 10 webisodes of Farscape. No stars are attached but hopes are high it could leave to a revival of the popular series. Among Sci-Fi’s other announcements is a second Battlestar Galactica webisode arc, a six-hour miniseries based on The Odyssey and co-created by Farscape and Stargate SG-1 actor Ben Browder, and of course Battlestar Galactica: Razor, which is due on November 24th.