The Empire wants you to buy Make magazine. (via Neatorama)
Time to vote the fanfilms!
Official Fan Film Award nominees are up now. Watch and vote for the Audience Choice Award today.
I’m kind of disappointed I don’t recognize any of these, with all that great fan video out there. Not all may be eligible, but submit to the contest, guys!
Fan Eye for the Plastic Guys
There are pictures of several Club Jade creations in the latest issue of Bantha Tracks. Alas, the feature is viewable by Hyperspace members only.
Sockpuppets, ‘ship wars and wank: The infamous Msscribe saga
Everyone actively involved in a fandom – any fandom – should read the story of Msscribe, a woman who allegedly went to extraordinary lengths to get in with a certain group of well-known Harry Potter fans and be popular in the fandom.
There are ten chapters in total at the Bad Penny community, mounting evidence, a Fandom Wank report and a whole lot of dropped jaws.
DIY fandom
The New York Times profiles
Meanwhile, Bryce Zabel writes about rebooting Trek with J. Michael Straczynski. Never got off the ground, obviously, but it’s an interesting read.
Video Monday
The spotlight clip this week is Solo: The Movie, a cute re-creation by some fans out of Los Angeles.
– Fanboy Moment: Star Wars vs. Star Trek
– Fiddling Vader
– Steve Jobs joins the Dark Side
– Classic Clip: Thumb Wars
From the Blogside
Ash Grey Sky has done some hilarious recaps of Eragon,making me once again grateful for my knee-jerk ‘hells no’ response to generic sword and sorcery and books written by 16-year-olds.
This is from last year, but it made me laugh: Charles Miller’s Things I Learned Watching Revenge of the Sith.
Shati and readers imagine Buffy’s Oz in a variety of fictional situations, including Titanic, Lord of the Rings, and Apocalypse Now.
Lord_Noctifer takes a look at Anakin Skywalker as chaos archetype.
Video Monday
In one of the most horrific acts of cross-fandom pollination known to man, Leonard Nimoy sings about Bilbo Baggins and commits it to film.
The rest of the garbage…
– Gnarls Barkley’s MTV Movie Awards performance.
– One fan’s tribute the Wilhelm Scream.
– James Luceno talks about Dark Lord.
– Mashup: Sith City.
– Harry Potter battles the monster Pubertus.
– Classic Clip: Jedi Hunter. Crikey!
Freeze framing is the Devil’s work
Tovors Mind is quite obsessive about the Coruscant landscape. But hey, at least he’s doing something productive with it.
From the Blogside
There’s something in the pixels at blogs.starwars.com lately… How else can I explain this Darth Morbus guy? He’s doing Blogside-worthy posts on a daily basis! I can’t keep up!
Lord Noctifer ponders the Jedi and the Grail Quest. Of course Luke is Percival… I’m more familiar with the Galahad version, but that parallel works too: Lancelot fails in the grail quest because of the whole Guinevere mess, but his son Galahad succeeds because his heart is pure. For more Arthurian exploration, we turn to Darth Morbus.
Meanwhile, The Toastman goes back even further into storytelling history to bring us this look at Oedipus and Star Wars. (Although – the inspiration for the entire trilogy? I’m not so sure.)
The Dark Moose on Talifans. Did you know the Karen Traviss hating versions are based out of a Star Wars vs. Star Trek site? That explains everything!
For the economists in the house: Sunnyskywalker considers the changing face of commerce in Star Wars.