Beware May the 4th!

Brought to you by The Emperor's Committee to Destroy May the 4th and Geek Tyrant

Caffeine Powers Activate!

Coffee and geeks are the perfect match: coffee gives us delicious, delicious energy and we show our devotion in a variety of creative ways. For example...

T-shirt designs:

Coffee shop signage:

Spotted in a coffee shop in New Jersey and posted all over Pinterest

"It's Lion-oh so good!" by Sara Jahn

"Voltron, Defender of the Universe, welcomes you..." Sara Jahn strikes again.

Mug designs:

Gives you a handy spell and a Grim to freak out your friends

Han & Leia's relationship summed up.

 Personal statements:

The right way to give Nathan Fillion his coffee :)

One blogger's message to Vermont Public Television's Facebook page

 Latte Art:

Awesome television episodes:

Looking Up

I have a confession to make: I did not love the movie Up (in fact, aside from the cone of shame and "squirrel!" I didn't even find much to like). But I love the idea of attaching balloons to my house and floating away. Who wouldn't? These people clearly agree with me...

Up-inspired hot-air balloon

A closer look

While the hot-air balloon is pretty sweet, this is an actual house suspended by balloons, floating on its merry way. Some people (in this case at National Geographic) are so literal. Literally awesome. Adopt me?

 

 

 

Originally found here and here.

Fine Art for Geeks

"Neutral Zone"

You know the kinds of bland, inoffensive artwork you see in office buildings and hospitals? Well now it's available in a Star Trek version: four paintings by Jeff Foster featuring four different ships from the franchise and available for purchase at Think Geek. If that's not enough to get you, the words "officially licensed" just might.

Originally found here, although after writing the words "Star Trek" multiple times they still mislabel it as "Officially licensed Star Wars art." For shame, Geek Tyrant.

Batman vs Sherock: Epic

A friend of mine told me about Epic Rap Battles of History and sent me the link to Batman vs Sherlock Holmes. At first I just thought it was weird--then I was hooked. How could you not be with matchups like Doc Brown vs Doctor Who, Master Chief vs Leonidas, and Einstein vs Stephen Hawking? Weird or awesome? You decide...

Doctor Who Meets Dr. Pepper

Well, not really as this TARDIS soda machine doesn't dispense Dr. Pepper, but I couldn't resist. I don't even drink soda (or pop, as we call it in these parts) but I am intensely jealous of this machine.

 

Read more about it here and find out which Doctor gets to be Sprite and which one is stuck with Diet Coke...

Mix it Up

While I prefer my own mixer with its original 'Empire Red' paint, a lot of people get creative with theirs, and in some quite cool ways. If you go looking you'll find a lot of flames, swirls, flowers--even writing (and at least one with the inexplicable addition of Guy Fieri's image). But this Boba Fett design is my absolute favourite. The colours, the worn paint...nicely done, DeviantArtist tommyfilth.

Read more here.

Visit Beautiful Cloud City

The best part is, you really can visit Cloud City, only instead of Bespin this city is on Earth, in Dubai to be exact. Sometimes even real life can be awesome...

 

And whatever else, just remember:

Inventors, Get Inventing

These products and ads don't really exist...but they should. Click on images for original sources...

Evil Dead Lincoln-Log Playset

There was a noble attempt to get LEGO to produce this. Alas, it was deemed there wasn't enough of a market for it. Firefly gets screwed again.

How cool would this be?

If 1950s America were populated by vampires...

If only...

There are claims that this is a real vintage ad but seeing as it makes no sense, I somehow doubt it. I'd like to think it's the handiwork of some creative Futurama fan.

You can buy the poster but what we really need are the robots themselves. For protection against zombies. Really.

And my personal favourite--how I wish these existed.

In Stitches Pt 2

In my last post I shared some awesome geeky needlepoint. So this time I thought I'd offer up my latest obsession: amigurumi aka super cute crochet goodness. Click on the photos to go to the original source and enjoy (try not to squee too hard).

Proving that bow ties are cute as well as cool (click on the photo to see all eleven Doctors)

Gnome! And a free pattern too (personal use only)

Link seeks to save the yarn princess (and another free pattern)

As seen on TV (the doll too). And yes--another pattern! Crocheters are a generous bunch.

The hero of Canton in cunning doll form

Make a Ms Pac-man of your very own

The Force was with this crafter

One more doctor: Zoidberg