Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

Brilliant YouTube series mashes up classic scifi with cheesy 1950s instructional movies

YouTube user OneMinute Galactica takes your favorite science fiction scenes and characters and redubs them using stilted, dated, and backwards 1950s educational film dialogue. The Day The Earth Stood Still becomes a solemn warning about the dangers of homosexuals and Indiana Jones’ stand-off at the Obi Wan nightclub is transformed into an etiquette lesson. My…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 12

Scrapped Thundercats test footage reveals a goofball Lion-O and the evil Slithe (UPDATED)

Test footage from the upcoming Thundercats series has leaked. Check out a less than regal Lion-O messing around with the Sword of Omens and an ambush from the villainous Slithe. Between this footage and the series’ Pokémony take on the once loquacious Snarf, how are you feeling about this? UPDATE: It looks like this is…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 12

The Atlas Shrugged trailer stars a bunch of people yelling about the railroad industry

The first trailer for Atlas Shrugged: Part I director Paul Johansson’s big-screen adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged has hit the web. In all honesty, it looks like a slightly duller remake of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. That being said, I’d watch the crap out of Atlas Shrugged if Steven Seagal played John Galt…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 12

Cartoon turns the human digestive system into a crazy cybernetic factory

We’ve sung the praises of German artist Fritz Kahn’s retro-cybernetic anatomical art in the past. Now check out this animation by Henning M. Lederer of one of Kahn’s most famous diagrams, “Man as Industrial Palace.” Indeed, you are filled with little men who hate their jobs. [Spotted on Boing Boing]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 12

What would a Settlers of Catan game look like if giants played it?

Settlers of Catan, that addictive German board game that prompts otherwise normal people to start screaming about wheat and knights and sheep and ore, received a giant-sized treatment at Burning Man 2007 thanks to Julie Von Bergen and Matt Bell. You can see more photos of its construction at Matt’s Flickr account, and yes, the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 12

Getting stoned on cobra bites is totally not advisable

Well, McGruff the Crime Dog never warned you about this. Two bizarre case studies involving men with herpetological substance abuse problems come to us from an outpatient facility in Ranchi, India. The first is about a one Mr. PKD, who recruited snake charmers to get his unusual fix: [The] patient learned of the intoxicating effects…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 12

What’s up with DC’s next Blackest Night? Flash artist Francis Manapul gives us hints

This summer, DC kicks off Flashpoint, a line-wide alternate reality tale with The Flash at the center. We recently caught up Flash artist Francis Manapul and asked him what it’s like to draw the Scarlet Speedster and what we can anticipate from DC’s next big story. How would you say drawing the Flash is different…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 9

Handy timeline breaks down the history of the Battlestar Galactica universe

Need to know the exact whens and wheres of the Battlestar universe? This diagram by Billy Ray Stephens Jr. breaks down the chronology of all things BSG. Doesn’t matter if you’re human or skinjob, you’ll find it helpful. Thanks for the tip, Jim!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 9

Who’s the newest member of the Fantastic Four?

In the wake of the death of Johnny Storm, the Fantastic Four are getting both a new member and a name change. Today Marvel announced that Spider-Man would be joining the ranks of Reed Richards, Sue Storm, and Ben Grimm, starting in FF #1, which comes out March 23 with the creative team of Jonathan…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 9

10 celebrities who’ve moonlighted as ridiculous crimefighters

Being perpetually in the public eye can be stressful, so sometimes celebrities get away from it all by smashing evil robots, dismantling global crime syndicates, or donning steampunk bustiers. Here are 10 instances of famous folks dispensing justice…fictionally, of course. 10.) Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos This 1986 cartoon ran for five episodes. The show had…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 9

Meet the CIA’s robotic animal agents: Charlie the spy fish and the robo-dragonfly

The CIA recently created accounts on Flickr and YouTube. Most of what’s been uploaded is underwhelming and weirdly mundane — for example, you can learn about a satisfying career as a K-9 bomb-sniffing dog — but there are some oddly intriguing mechanical animals on display, namely the robo-fish Charlie and a “dragonfly insectothopter,” which the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 9

Meet the Land Battleship, the biggest $#@?! tank that never existed

This absurdly oversized vehicle is the Land Battleship, a juggernaut that supposedly ran over Nazis in World War II. This 1941 illustration from Mechanix Illustrated is, as commenters over at Modern Mechanix astutely point out, an artistic embellishment of real Soviet tanks such as the KV. From now on, I’m just going to refer to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 8

This robotic infant head was designed not to scare babysitters

This is Affetto, a robotic baby head built by Hisashi Ishihara, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Prof. Minoru Asada of Osaka University. Professor Asada built this bodiless baby to observe how humans interact with robotic children, as prior studies using more mechanical babies wigged out would-be caregivers. Here’s a paper on Asada’s creation of the robot (mostly…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 8

Erotic superhero insanity with Bored to Death’s cartoonist Dean Haspiel

If you’re a fan of HBO’s mystery comedy Bored to Death, you’re already familiar with the work of New York cartoonist Dean Haspiel— he designed the show’s opening credits (which he won an Emmy for) and supplies the drawings of Zach Galifianakis’ character, superhero cartoonist Ray Hueston. Since 2006, Haspiel has helmed ACT-I-VATE, one of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 8

What if Superman was a Disney cartoon?

Robb Pratt, who’s animated for Disney films such as Pocahontas and Fantasia 2000, has created this marvelous Man of Steel short, Superman Classic. It’s absolutely charming and brings to mind Max Fleischer’s old-school Superman serials, right down to the clanking robots.

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 8

Wednesday’s comic haul brings the Flash and 1980s Marvel mania

What’s new in comic shops this week? New Scarlet Speedster tales, the undead versus the crew of the Enterprise, and a ton of issues from your favorite creators. Indeed, true believers — comic book Wednesday shall soon be upon us. Brace yourself. Let’s start by taking a look at some first issues. Chris Robertson pens…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 8

Model spacecraft demonstrates the real-world principles behind a tractor beam

Joseph Shoer of Cornell University has built a levitating model spacecraft to demonstrate how a tractor beam could potentially work in real life. In the video, Shoer uses a “ludicrous” neodymium magnet to manipulate his non-ferromagnetic model which floats on air. Says Shoer of his experiment: The [tractor beam] would work by pumping changing magnetic…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 7

An early obituary for Smallville, the show that just wouldn’t die

Smallville is a show of beguiling contradictions. It’s about Clark Kent, but no one refers to him as “Superman.” It’s steeped in DC comics arcana, but began its existence as a WB teen drama. It’s been on the air longer than Seinfeld, but almost no one owns up to watching it. Let’s delve into those…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 7

What if you died on the most important day of your life? Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon talk Daytripper

What would it be like to die on the day you met your future spouse? How about the day your career really took off? Or the day your first child was born? Such is the conceit of Brazilian twin brothers Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon’s new graphic novel Daytripper (DC/Vertigo). The book follows Brás de…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 7

400 hungry wolves overrun Siberian town of 1,300

Frigid temperatures in the small town of Verkhoyansk in Russia’s Sakha Republic have led to the formation of an unnaturally large pack of livestock-hungry wolves. In the past four days, 30 horses have been devoured by this massive pack. Temperatures in Verkhoyansk can hit -56.2° Fahrenheit, and this particular cold winter has limited the wolves’…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 7

Cyriaque Lamar

Brilliant YouTube series mashes up classic scifi with cheesy 1950s instructional movies

Scrapped Thundercats test footage reveals a goofball Lion-O and the evil Slithe (UPDATED)

The Atlas Shrugged trailer stars a bunch of people yelling about the railroad industry

Cartoon turns the human digestive system into a crazy cybernetic factory

What would a Settlers of Catan game look like if giants played it?

Getting stoned on cobra bites is totally not advisable

What’s up with DC’s next Blackest Night? Flash artist Francis Manapul gives us hints

Handy timeline breaks down the history of the Battlestar Galactica universe

Who’s the newest member of the Fantastic Four?

10 celebrities who’ve moonlighted as ridiculous crimefighters

Meet the CIA’s robotic animal agents: Charlie the spy fish and the robo-dragonfly

Meet the Land Battleship, the biggest $#@?! tank that never existed

This robotic infant head was designed not to scare babysitters

Erotic superhero insanity with Bored to Death’s cartoonist Dean Haspiel

What if Superman was a Disney cartoon?

Wednesday’s comic haul brings the Flash and 1980s Marvel mania

Model spacecraft demonstrates the real-world principles behind a tractor beam

An early obituary for Smallville, the show that just wouldn’t die

What if you died on the most important day of your life? Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon talk Daytripper

400 hungry wolves overrun Siberian town of 1,300

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