Visiting the website of Canadian company Split Reason is like opening the doors to a geeky dream closet. It’s hard to pick just one thing to wear, as there are so many winning selections.
Linked
“Inspired by that dude with the pointy ears, and we don’t mean Mr. Spock,” Split Reason’s line of Zelda-based apparel will enchant Nintendo fans on a quest to tap into the power of the Triforce, and tide over followers of web series The Legend of Neil who are currently waiting on poll results for official show t-shirts to be made. The Linked design, available as a men’s hoody and t-shirts in men’s and women’s baby tee sizes, incorporates all the iconic images associated with The Legend of Zelda video game and is printed on a thick, Link-green fabric that’s double-stitched for extra durability. The t-shirts are soft, pre-shrunk, 100% cotton, while the sweatshirt is a warm cotton-polyester blend with a double-lined hood that helps hide pointed ears on travels outside of Hyrule. Split Reason also offers a Hearts Mug to sip your favourite re-energizing potions out of while playing Zelda or watching The Legend of Neil. Final score for Linked: three out of three healing hearts.
If Mario is the franchise that makes you jump for joy, Split Reason has a bunch of related garb featuring the Super and 1-up Mushrooms. Get set to power-up and earn extra lives when you wear these stylish and brightly-coloured threads!
Grow UpGet a Life
The Grow Up and Get a Life t-shirts, like the Linked design, come in men’s and women’s baby tee sizes made of pre-shrunk, double-stitched cotton. A snuggly Grow Up hoody is listed only in men’s sizes but will fit women who order a size smaller than they normally would.
Tree of Lives
Greedy gamers who think one mushroom just isn’t enough have the option of laying claim to the entire Tree of Lives. “It does exist!” Split Reason insists, “and if you can only ascertain its location, you can ditch the fountain of youth and simply feast on its fruit and 1UP your way to immortality!” Whether this fabled tree of the Mushroom Kingdom really exists or not, it makes a peachy image that proclaims to the world that you are the master at cheating digital death.
“Every day you wake up and have to get dressed, why not get dressed with a little geek and gamer pride!” Split Reason enthuses. “Now go forth young Jedi and spread the word about the geek and gaming haven that is Split Reason.com!” Split Reason’s playful attitude, coupled with first-class customer service, is why it pwns its competition. That, and an interactive website, more playground than place of business, where geeks congregate to compete in weekly contests, earn rewards by submitting pictures of themselves in their new gear, trades ideas and feedback for Gold Pieces that can be redeemed on future purchases, and submit ideas and designs that their peers are then able to vote into actual production. The company even has a 30-day money-back guarantee on the loot you drop your hard-earned coin on, so what are you waiting for? Go do some retail damage!
Order directly through the Split Reason website. For all the latest news and special offers, follow Split Reason on Twitter, join their Facebook group, friend them on MySpace, add them on Flickr, subscribe to their newsletter and RSS feeds, read their blog, and listen to their Paused podcast.
Evening Arwen at Etsy provides unique, customized costumes and corsets for roleplaying or fancy dress events. You can choose from premade designs or draw up the blueprints for your outfit completely from scratch. Either way, you will get a costume that wows all who see it.
How many out there love Halloween? Or have themed birthday parties? Maybe even there’s a huge movie premier that you want to dress up as your favourite character to? If you agree to any of those things than you and I have something in common… costumes. We clearly love to dress up and be something that in real life we probably never could, such as an elf or a jedi.
While I love the main characters of our blockbuster films I also love some of the side characters that you never seem to see costumes of. I’ve also found that nothing is worse than spending a lot of money for a costume that feels like it was made out of something that maybe resembles cotton and was made one size to basically fit all. And that’s where I come in…
My goal is to create movie replica costumes for almost any character out there that you could possibly want to be. On my page you will see costumes that inspired me to want to create them and they are listed up here to give you an idea of what I can do. But the purpose of this site is so you can contact me with who you want to be and then we will discuss in detail what your budget is, the colors, material and accessories that you would like to include with the costume. My prices I know are on the more expensive side but a lot of that is due to the fact that the materials I use are very high quality and the outfits made require quite a lot to create it as a whole. All pieces though can be sold/made seperately and if you only have under $100 dollars to spend then I will do my best to create something for you that’s still beautiful and will fit like a glove for that price.
I’m here to help you be the talk of the party… in a good way. = )
Becky
Becky’s most talked about creation at the moment is the Star Trek Inspired Corset, based on the Star Trek: The Next Generation jumpsuits.
The corset is available in red, blue, and yellow, so you can get decked out in your Star Trek uniform of choice. No need for shore leave on Risa when you’ve got this sexy little number hanging in your closet!
Add a little whimsy to your interior decorating with Streamline, the New York-based company that specializes in funky décor and accessories, and “dedicates itself to the design of all things wonderful for those who are fashionable and fun at heart!”
Toadstool Table and Toadstools
The storybook-inspired Toadstool Table and Toadstools set, a 100% organic design cast in solid resin and painted in naturalistic colours, looks like furniture pulled straight from a fairy garden or the world of Alice in Wonderland. Just like real toadstools, these jumbo versions are weatherproof, so they can be planted either indoors or out in the yard. The Toadstool Table is the “perfect table to throw a tea party at or doodle daydreams with friends”, its matching stools providing a place to “enjoy reading a good book upon”. Sure to become a cherished childhood heirloom, the Toadstool Table and Toadstools will also appeal to adults seeking to bring a little magic into their living space. The table makes an ideal end table or display stand for fantasy books and art, and the stools are small enough to serve as accent pieces in the kitchen and anywhere else toadstools seem likely to crop up.
Navy Blue Intergalactic Juicer
Streamline’s Intergalactic Juicers are gadgets for those who like a little science with their fantasy. Touted as a “modern accessory for the kitchen capable of making morning moon juice”, they come in four stellar colours: Navy Blue, Lime, Bright White, and Posy Pink. Except for the minimalistic Bright White, each style has a design printed around the edge of the saucer ring, the most fitting of which is the Navy Blue’s Space Invaders pattern. The plastic juicers pop apart into four pieces for easy cleaning and, instead of a messy pouring spout, they have a hole in the bottom of the saucer that allows juice to drain straight through into any container the UFO hovers over.
Yellow Submarine Radio
For a bit of retro kitsch, there’s the Yellow Submarine Radio, which will be an immediate hit with fans of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine song and animated film. This rubber bath radio has scan and volume buttons, and produces very clear sound in AM/FM. It’s waterproof, but is labeled “do not immerse in water”, so children should be supervised when playing with this little musical sub. In summer weather, the radio can travel from the tub to the wading pool on the deck, where, as Streamline suggests, you can “relax in the pool and listen to your favorite team at play”. Music and news are just more fun when broadcast from a novelty radio.
Order directly through Streamline’s online retail website, Karma Kiss.
The items mentioned in this article are distributed by Streamline and its associated Representatives.
Retro sci-fi and steampunk fans, rejoice! Weta, the company best known for creating the sets, costumes, armour, weapons, creatures, and miniatures in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, presents Dr. Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators & Other Marvelous Contraptions.
Dr. Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators is a line of 1:1 scale antique styled, sci-fi hand weapon props, conceived by Weta designer Greg Broadmore and meticulously built by master model maker David Tremont. With charming 1900s contraption styling and finish, the Rayguns evoke the nostalgia of a lost age of exploration and discovery, and possess an intentional sense of humour and fun in their design.
Six years ago, Greg started illustrating classic Rayguns, and after creating a series of nine full-size illustrations on canvas, he showed Weta Workshop’s Richard Taylor, who, in turn, asked for a painting of his own. Greg agreed and tentatively suggested launching a range based on these drawings. And the rest is history.
“Dr. Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory plays to all that Sci Fi imagery I love”, grins Broadmore. “It’s full of bizarre inventions and man-melting weaponry. The three Rayguns are featured alongside many others including Servile Automatons, War Wagons and even Mass-mo-trons. Almost all of them are capable of accidentally crippling the user or worse. That’s one of the things I loved about the classic Science Fiction machinery. They all looked like death traps. Just as likely to kill you as your enemy.”
The Rayguns have exploded onto the web, featured in collectors’ Christmas and birthday wish lists, and have been featured on International Directory BoingBoing.net and Gizmodo.com, who dubbed the Rayguns “your weapon of choice… a Raygun that’ll blast away giant monkeys… or evil wizard dudes”. WIRED Magazine recently featured a six page spread on the making of these weapons and New Zealand daily newspaper The Dominion Post dubbed the heaviest of the Rayguns, the Goliathon 83, “Weta’s Alien Buster”.
Creator Greg Broadmore, a self-confessed gun nerd, says the contraptions have been a long time coming in his mind. “I clearly and fondly remember watching the old black and white serials on Sunday afternoons as a little kid and the classic Sci Fi imagery has always stuck with me”, says Greg. “The swept shapes, spikes, fins and beautiful forms that are all jammed together with boiler plate and extraneous mechanical detail. That’s how I saw Flash Gordon, Tarzan, King Kong and others. But what I’ve [always been] fascinated by is the macho idiocy of the ‘hero’ in science fiction. The ‘heroic’ attitude of killing anything and everything in sight, especially if it’s jeopardizing the swooning heroine.”
The guns are limited edition pieces. There will be only 500 of each gun made worldwide, except for the Victorious Mongoose, of which there are only 400. All of these are handcrafted and made out of metal with some glass parts. Every Raygun comes with its own Moon-velvet lined pressed tin case, Certificate of Authenticity and an assortment of implements and crafting tools. Not only that, these bad boys will be a decent punch of metal — with each gun weighing in at over 7 pounds, these are no light investment.
“The original three Rayguns were previewed at Comic-Con San Diego 2006, and went on sale the following year at Comic-Con 2007, each limited to an edition size of 500. In under two years, 1000 of those original three high-end collectible Rayguns have sold, and a further three Rayguns have been released,” says Tim Launder, General Manager of Weta Limited. “We sold more than half of the Ray-Blunderbuss guns within the first month of release — including edition Number #1. Since Dr. Grordbort’s launched in 2006, we have had an overwhelming response to Greg Broadmore, the Rayguns, and to the world in general. This includes the Rayguns being voted #1 Best Toy in 2007 by Figures.com; Greg Broadmore being featured as ‘Tomorrow’s People’ on the cover of Idealog [September 2007] and a four-page spread in Wired — all about the Rayguns, Greg and Richard. We’ve even popped up on YouTube in an online ad in Australia.” The online viral campaign for the Rayguns has also been greatly successful, garnering several international awards:
NZ Direct and Interactive Marketing Awards 2008: Winner (Gold)
Caples Awards 2008, in New York: Winner (Gold)
ECHO Award 2008: Winner (arguably the most coveted award in global direct marketing, the presentation takes place in Las Vegas on October 14, hosted by Jay Leno of The Tonight Show)
Cannes Lions Advertising Festival 2008: Product Launches Finalist
Cannes Lions Advertising Festival 2008: Direct Response TV Finalist
Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory
Doctor Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory cleverly uses the style of old Victorian advertising leaflets to showcase the Dr. Grordbort’s line, all the while maintaining, with a wink and a nudge, that everything within the faux catalogue’s pages is real. The full-page artwork is printed on heavy cardstock, and each page is laden with information and humorous asides about the many types of rayguns and other improbable inventions attributed to Dr. Grordbort and his cohorts, including the rayguns that Weta has already released as props. The Destroxor Labs Pearce 75 Atom Ray Gun, with its glossy red accents and stabilising fin, is the classic image of a Buck Rogers-era weapon, and will hopefully will be next up on Weta’s production roster. The Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory also contains a page of testimonials from “customers” who have tried the catalogue’s products (and survived to tell the tale); a short comic portraying a typical day in the life of the stereotypicallly English, world famous naturalist, Lord Cockswain; and postcard art. It’s pulp fiction at its sly best.
Dr. Grordbort's Satchel
Once you’ve perused the catalogue, you’ll naturally want to set out and explore. Every adventurer needs a pack while out in the field, though, so Weta has thoughtfully provided Dr. Grordbort’s Satchel. It’s the perfect bag to tote your copy of the Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory around in, and, until February 28, it comes pre-stuffed with a Wave Disruptor Gun keychain, Goliathon 83 Infinity Beam Projector pin, four postcards featuring Dr. Grordbort art, and a Dr. Grordbort’s Laboratories Schemes & Schematics notebook, each lined page stamped with the Dr. Grordbort logo. Even with all these bonuses, the bag is roomy enough to hold the rest of your steampunky supplies. For ladies, the canvas satchel also makes a creative alternative to a handbag. This is an accessory that will get noticed, and coveted, by fellow steampunk geeks.
F.M.O.M. Wave Disrupter Gun, Miniature Version
Now that you’ve got your field guide and a kit, you need to invest in some self-protection. If you don’t have the pocket change to expend on a full-scale raygun, then the F.M.O.M. Industries Wave Disrupter Gun, Miniature Version, is the firearm for you. Released in a Limited Edition of 900, it’s an itty bitty clone of the standard Wave Disrupter Gun. As the package describes it, “You cradle in your limp mitts a marvel of modern miniaturisation; Dr. Grordbort’s F.M.O.M. Wave Disrupter Gun, impoverished in scale by one of his ingenious contraptions. Golly!” It may be small, but this raygun is crafted with every bit of the care put into its bigger sibling, down to the weathered aging. (It’s also more concealable at this size.) In another nice touch, the gun separates from the base it rests on, so you have a choice of displaying the raygun with or without its stand. The attention to details is simply tremendous, an example being the tiny, amusing notice on both the model’s base and box which reads:
Made on Venus*
*not actually
The sturdy cardboard case the mini Wave Disrupter Gun comes in is numbered to match the collector’s model it houses. Shaped like a book, it’s coated entirely with glossy paper and printed with sepia-toned art and photos of the enclosed figurine. The hinged lid fastens shut with a concealed magnet, so once the flocked tray and other padding materials are removed, the box makes an ideal storage place for Dr. Grordbort pins, keychains, and other small treasures.
Fans of Dr. Horrible‘s Evil League of Evil will thrill to the upcoming Goliathon 800 Moon Hater Death Ray, as nothing quite says “mad genius” like a lair equipped with an old-school weapon of mass destruction. Order one, and you’ll be the envy of all the other supervillians.
Once you’ve stocked up from Dr. Grordbort’s catalogue, head on over to the official website to leave a testimonial and assert your bragging rights in the forums. The site carries full descriptions of all the raygun collectibles currently on the market, an image archive, and web comics, as well as a bestiary that describes and illustrates the many alien creatures you’ll be chasing down with your new raygun. According to Weta, there’s much more in the works for Dr. Grordbort fans to look forward to, such as designer t-shirts, pins, key-rings, postcards, limited edition art prints, and, one would assume, brass goggles. New pieces will be launched every few months.
For product details and purchasing, please visit WetaNZ.com and Dr. Grordbort’s. Select items are available through the Dark Horse Comics website (search keyword: “weta”).
Amanda Tapping of Stargate SG-1 and Sanctuary will be raising funds for charity this weekend on eBay
Actor/Executive Producer Amanda Tapping of Sanctuary and Stargate fame is sponsoring a very special online auction to help raise funds for North Star Montessori Elementary School in Vancouver, BC.
Amanda has always been a champion of charitable and good causes. She has a particular interest in lesser known causes which ordinarily have no access to mainstream fundraising. This is a small local school that could really use the support.
This auction will serve as a template for a larger fundraising initiative that Amanda plans to launch later this year, which will support children’s charities and not-for-profit organizations.
Date: Friday, February 6th – Monday, February 16th, 2009
Time: Auction opens at 9pm (PST) and closes at 9pm (PST)
2. Arm sling worn by Samantha Carter, in Stargate SG-1. Amanda wore this for a number of episodes. This piece is signed by Amanda and other cast members.
3. Behind the scenes set visit and lunch with Amanda during the filming of her new series, Sanctuary, in Vancouver, BC
The long overdue and eagerly awaited follow-up to Dead Like Me, "Life After Death" will be available on DVD February 17, 2009
Bryan Fuller is a genius. A self-professed Star Trek geek, he was such a huge Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fan that he set out to write for Star Trek. Because he had the talent and imagination to match the desire, he made his dream come true. When DS9 came to an end, he ended up working on Star Trek: Voyager but he felt restricted in his writing because the syndicated format prevented deep multi-episodic story arcs and he longed to write more emotional depth into his characters. During his tenure with Star Trek, this desire drove him to write Dead Like Me, which he quickly sold as a pilot. Dead Like Me is a deeply emotional and sometimes disturbing fantasy (what could be referred to as Urban Mythology) full of layered, ongoing storylines and flawed people.
I first saw Dead Like Me in reruns on SCI FI channel. I loved the story, the characters and the macabre events and how they entwined and unfolded to tell a very solid and entertaining story. I was disappointed to learn that it wasn’t getting picked up for a third season, another blow to sci-fi and fantasy fans like me who had just dealt with the loss of Stargate SG-1. In hopes of not only supporting the show (and praying maybe SCI FI would pick up a Season 3 if there was enough fan interest), I bought the DVD box sets. I was surprised when I watched them because of the mature content that I was seeing for the first time, some of which seemed to distract from the story for me. (The producing network Show Time is notorious for this though, even forcing Stargate SG-1 to put nudity in its premiere episode, something that has never been done since without harming its success as it went on to show for ten seasons before making its move back to direct to DVD films in 2008.)
While Bryan went on to other projects soon after production on Dead Like Me began, the show went on to gain a cult following that is still begging for more several years later.
Dead Like Me follows the life and after-life of smart mouthed and deeply antagonistic Georgia “George” Lass. Disillusioned with life at a very young age, she has estranged herself from her mother (whom she loves to offend and annoy) and her sister (who worships her but is virtually invisible to George) as her father drifts emotionally further away from the family. At the age of 18, her philosophy is basically that bad things happen to you whether you are a good or bad person, so why bother to be anything special. While drifting listlessly through life, feeling no particular desire or value for it, she suddenly loses it when struck by a toilet seat that fails to burn up during reentry from a de-orbiting Russian space station. Moments after her death, she meets Rube. He’s a Grim Reaper and the team leader of a group of Reapers. He explains to her that taking souls is a public service of the afterlife and, until her time comes to “go into the light”, she, too, will now have to fulfill that public duty. Reluctant and rebellious as always, George struggles with her new reality while trying to come to terms with the life she left behind and the new afterlife she’s facing.
In Life After Death, we catch up with George five years after her death. While she seems to have finally grown up and come to terms with her afterlife, suddenly everything changes again. It’s great to see a return of so many familiar faces. Rube, their no-nonsense team leader who hands out their daily assignments on yellow Post-its each morning at breakfast at Das Waffle Hause has gone missing and is replaced with a new leader who has a completely different approach to running the business of death; Roxi, the tough-as-nails cop and former dancer who was strangled in the 80s by an overly ambitious friend who wanted to steal her invention that would later go on to become an icon of a generation; Mason, a young man whose ambition in life to remain on a constant drug-induced high led him to drill a hole in his own head, seeking euphoria; Daisey, the Hollywood starlet-wanna-be who “died tragically in a fire on the set of Gone with the Wind“. While dealing with this new set of changes, George is suddenly confronted with her old life once again when she unexpectedly crosses paths with her mother, Joy, and sister, Reggie.
Once again, the show is heavily laden with examination of the themes of life, death, love, family, ambition, temptation and a myriad other conditions of being human. For anyone who loved Dead Like Me, Life After Death will not disappoint. It is full of the same dark humor and wit that made the television series hugely entertaining. While Rube’s presence is sadly missed, they handled the absence well and the plot allows for it to stand alone or springboard into a new series or series of movies.
Fans of web series The Guild will be familiar with J!NX by way of the official Guild Jinx Store. Series creator Felicia Day (pictured above) set up shop at J!NX in November, posting on the show’s blog that “the quality of the shirt will be much better than the print-on-demand we’ve been providing before.” J!NX fulfilled Day’s promise by delivering a higher-quality version of the classic Cast Logo t-shirt initially offered through CafePress, followed by a Knights of Good design that coincided with the second season premiere of The Guild.
Knights of Good
“Become a member of the guild inside The Guild with this shirt,” Day enthuses, winkingly adding that “Vork would approve”. What better recommendation is there than one from The Guild‘s all-business guildmaster? The colourful crest, a humorous, medieval stained glass image illustrated by Guild fan Jeff Carlisle, is beautifully reproduced on Light Steel (grey) for men and Asphalt (darker grey) for women.
J!NX also has an extensive line of clothing and accessories — hats, keychains, patches, buttons, pins, stickers, wrapping paper… even a Talking Murloc plush — based on World of Warcraft, the game that inspired The Guild.
World of Warcraft /Dance
A stand-out in the WoW collection is the sexy World of Warcraft /Dance tee, essential garb for ladies playing a Night Elf character, but J!NX makes sure that the entire family can show its gamer pride with an epic selection of Blizzard-themed items for adults, youth, and babies. For non-WoWers, there are many other licensed properties to choose from at J!NX, including StarCraft, Dungeons & Dragons, AdventureQuest, Apache, Collusion, commandN, CrankyGeeks, DEF CON, DL.TV, Dr. Horrible, Duels, GameBanshee, GameSpot.com, Hak5, isoHunt, MajorGeeks, MiniNova, MMORPG.com, MusicScene Network, Packet Storm, Phrack, Project Lore, Safer Networking, The Totally Rad Show, and TorrentFreak.
Maze
Be sure to check out J!NX’s original creations, like the Pac-Man inspired Maze, as well. The current “Design of the Week”, a timely Buffy Staked Edward t-shirt that will appeal to Whedonites exasperated by all the Twilight hype, perfectly demonstrates why J!NX has such a dedicated community. This is a company that knows pop culture and how to cater to its fanatics. w00t!
Order directly through the J!NX website. Bonus: each package comes with a sticker sheet plus any available catalogues or other promotional materials.
The Coraline movie premieres on February 6, and what better way to count down the days than to read, or reread, the award-winning children’s book by Neil Gaiman?
When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own… except that it’s different. It’s a marvelous adventure until Coraline discovers that there’s also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to keep her forever.
Coraline must use all of her wits and every ounce of courage in order to save herself and return home.
Coraline: The Movie Collector’s Edition is a new hardcover edition of the 2002 novel. It retains the original book’s interior illustrations by Dave McKean, but now has a movie art cover and an eight-page insert of full-colour images from the film. A section at the back of the book, entitled “Extra Delights for the Coraline Reader”, features a note from Neil Gaiman about director/screenwriter Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach), a note from Henry Selick about author Neil Gaiman, and an excerpt from Henry Selick’s screenplay for Coraline. Even if you have the first edition of Coraline, the Movie Collector’s Edition is well worth getting for these bonus materials.
Serving as a bridge between the novel and film is Coraline: A Visual Companion by Stephen Jones. This weighty coffee table book, with a foreword by Neil Gaiman, is a comprehensive guide to the making of the Coraline movie, divided in four parts:
The Book
The Movie
The Characters, and
The Other Coralines, a catch-all category covering Coraline‘s related projects:
the 2004 short student film of Coraline that combined live-action and cut-out animation.
the 2006 touring stage production of Coraline by Irish theatrical puppet troupe Púca Puppets.
the 2007 touring stage production of Coraline by Swedish children’s and youth theater group Mittiprickteatern.
the 2008 Coraline graphic novel adaptation by P. Craig Russell.
the 2009 Coraline: The Game, D3Publisher of America’s game adaptation of the film for PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, and Wii.
the 2009 Coraline musical, a theatrical adaptation with music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt and book by David Greenspan, produced by MCC Theater and True Love Productions off-Broadway at The Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York, set to have its world premiere on May 6.
movie tie-in marketing campaigns, such as in-store promotions with American fast-food restaurant chains Macy’s and Carl’s Jr., cards and gift-wrap at Hallmark, and toys created by NECA.
Glossy pages trace Coraline‘s path from novel to stop-motion film in lush detail, accompanied by a wealth of behind-the-scenes production photos, preliminary sketches, illustrations, character designs, conceptual art, and completed images from the movie. Interviews with cast members Dakota Fanning (“Coraline”), Teri Hatcher (“Mother/Other Mother”), Ian McShane (“Mr. Bobinski”), Jennifer Saunders (“Miss Forcible”), and Dawn French (“Miss Spink”) — John Hodgman (“Father/Other Father”) curiously absent — and the film’s crew, including Neil Gaiman, add further insight into the film’s creative process. Coraline: A Visual Companion is a peek behind the animated curtain “that will appeal to Gaiman fans, cinema buffs, visual art enthusiasts, and all those who fall in love with the inquisitive young heroine of Henry Selick’s extraordinary film.”
Once you’ve read Coraline, and spent time in its Other World, you’ll never look at buttons the same way again. (Trivia Note: The fear of buttons is known as “koumpounophobia”.)
Coraline: The Movie Collector’s Edition and Coraline: A Visual Companion are distributed by HarperEntertainment and William Morrow, imprints of HarperCollinsCanada and HarperCollins Publishers. For more information on Coraline, visit the Neil Gaiman website and its related website for young readers, Mouse Circus. Neil Gaiman may also be followed on Twitter.
Glen Mullaly (a group admin) says: Welcome to Growing Up Star Wars!
With the creation of this group you now have permission to post that Polaroid of yourself as Princess Leia in 1977 (I’m talking to you, Bob) or that crayon portrait you did of the Death Star Droid that hung on your parent’s fridge for months in 1979 until someone spilled Kool-Aid on it. Even that great shot of your little brother meeting an off-model Darth Vader at some local in-store promotion in 1983.
Let your vintage Star Wars fan freak flag fly free!
About Growing Up Star Wars: 1977-1985
A nostalgic look back at the world-wide Star Wars phenomenon through the creativity of the first generation of young people to experience it. Vintage photographs and scans of childhood Star Wars drawings, costumes, toys, homemade crafts, birthday cakes, local showings and events (and local ads for such) and more. The focus is on the personal experience and the variation & customization that was common in the early days of Star Wars.
Only vintage (1977-1985) photographs, or scans/photos of vintage kid’s art & crafts please. Found photos are fine, but need to be from your own collection. No borrowed or swiped internet photos without express permission of the owner! Photos of toys need to be vintage, not just of vintage toys. Also — please be sure that the Star Wars elements of the photo or scan are large enough to see clearly and that you DATE THE IMAGE. Sorry, but images that do not fit within the rules of this group may be removed.
***** A quick note to all those visiting from outside of the Flickr community: We’re really happy you’ve stopped by, but just to let you know that not all images will be visible until you join the group. Most, just not all. Thanks!
You’ve seen her as Codex of The Guild, Penny of Dr. Horrible’s Sing–Along Blog and from many roles in hit TV shows and movies including Monk and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Here’s your chance to meet actress, writer and producer Felicia Day for a 30-minute live video chat.
The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation donates new and refurbished musical instruments to underserved schools, community music programs and individual students nationwide, in an effort to give youngsters the many benefits of music education and inspire creativity and expression through playing music.
Will you lend a caring hand? Please join me in supporting the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation. That’s got to be worth at least 10,000 experience points!”
— Felicia Day
Humanety is an exciting new method for you to connect with your favorite celebrities in support of charity. Your winning bid goes to a worthy cause, and you get to enjoy quality one-on-one time with some of the most interesting people in the world. Please join Felicia in giving the gift of music to students everywhere.
Bonus Loot! The auction includes a DVD of Season 1 of The Guild autographed by the cast!
