Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

What if the Disney Princesses aged in real time?

What if the Disney heroines were as old as the movies they starred in? This oddball question is answered by artist Taija Vigilia, who depicts a 75-year-old Snow White, 21-year-old Belle, and so on. She even threw in a smidge of Downton Abbey aesthetics for the heck of it. This is a lovely little tableau,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

Under a microscope, the smallest animals on Earth become beautiful nightmare fuel

Biology student and photographer Daniel Stoupin takes animals — some of them so tiny they can’t be detected with the naked eye — and fires up his microscopes so that they get the extreme close-up they deserve. In Stoupin’s shots, the most mundane critters become a squirming menagerie of phantasmagoric wonder. Behold mayfly larvae, miniature…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

The first trailer for Safety Not Guaranteed, that time-travel movie based on an internet meme

Here’s the debut trailer for director Colin Trevorrow’s Safety Not Guaranteed, which takes an internet meme from 2005 and spins it into a wistful indie comedy. Here was our Sundance correspondent’s verdict on the flick, and I do wish they maintained the power mullet of the original illustration. Safety Not Guaranteed hits theaters June 8.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

And now, Frankenstein dogfighting Nazis over London in 1941

And he’s in a downright terrible mood. For the final issue of the military comic Men of War, DC Comics has tapped both present and future Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E. writers Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt for the story of a one “Project Green Man.” Courtesy of DC, here’s an exclusive sneak peek at the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

The 10 Most Baffling Moments In Lois Lane And Superman’s Love Life

Lois Lane and Superman are the iconic comic book couple, but their romance has weathered some rough patches throughout the decades. Here are ten of these head-scratching occasions. Who could ever forget the time Lois borrowed a time machine to make out with Kal-El as a toddler? 10.) Superman and Lois Lane’s Baby Wedding In…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

Local politician promises that his 9-foot-tall alien mother will not affect his civic duties

When Simon Parkes was elected to the town council in Whitby, England last month, nobody was aware of his lifelong conviction that his real mother is actually a nine-foot-tall, eight-fingered space alien with a kite-shaped face. Which is rather odd, given that he’s incredibly forthcoming about his extraterrestrial parentage. It was just last year that…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

Alexander Graham Bell’s 130-year-old record collection has been resurrected

In the 1880s, Alexander Graham Bell and his associates at Washington, DC’s Volta Laboratory experimented with different methods of audio recording. These 19th century audio engineers immortalized snippets of nursery rhymes and a Shakespearean soliloquy to wax discs. The recordings would languish in the National Museum of American History’s archives for decades, as curators lacked…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

Watch as lasers transform a centuries-old church into a psychedelic freakout

The projection mapping artists at the Macula Project have done something incredible with this baroque chapel in the Czech town of Olomouc. By using interactive light technology, they converted the church’s interior into a massive musical instrument that can be manipulated by laser-pointer-wielding visitors. It’s pretty trippy when they begin playing individual angel statues. Explains…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

Michael Bay, take a cue from these Ninja Turtle designs

The latest curveball to come swerving out of Michael Bay’s alien Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle reboot is the revelation that the title will be simply Ninja Turtles. (“Paramount marketing changed the name,” said the producer.) https://gizmodo.com/we-wish-you-a-turtle-christmas-and-other-proof-that-mi-5895703 So if this movie’s title is going to ride on a single adjective, Bay and company would be wise…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

Japanese handshaking robot will inevitably be used for evil. Sexy evil.

Meet Osaka University’s remote handshaking telepresence device. Combine it with the Telenoid R1 sperm monster and the remote kissing machine for an erotic fiesta of disembodied horror. https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-telenoid-r1-a-casper-like-robot-that-will-hau-5601761 https://gizmodo.com/long-distance-relationships-of-the-future-will-be-more-5798457 [Via Diginfo]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

Your very first look at Hellboy’s trip to Hell

Hellboy’s been in a rough patch lately. It was only in last year’s miniseries The Fury that one of Big Red’s supernatural nemeses tore out his heart and killed him. Now that Hellboy’s dead, his final destination should be pretty obvious. Indeed, courtesy of Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics, here’s an exclusive first look…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

The Avengers and X-Men prepare for war in this week’s comics

What’s new at the comic shops come Wednesday? The Avengers and X-Men get cantankerous, new Atomic Robo, Warren Ellis’ recent Secret Avengers stories get the bookshelf treatment, and some necrotic shenanigans in jolly old London. First Issues Marvel’s Avengers vs X-Men summer event releases its prelude #0 issue, which sees the impending brawl between the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

This necrophiliac ant gang bang is just about the worst thing in the animal kingdom

Holy hell, is this unpleasant. We recently saw how improperly used ant pheromones can cause some pretty dunderheaded behaviors, such as the spiral of death. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-create-an-ant-spiral-of-death-5895435 Now — courtesy of photographer Adrián Skippy Purkart — here is a crab spider eating the head of a queen Prenolepis nitens ant while her horny drones go to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

An absolutely gorgeous animation about an 1800s Arctic expedition

This is Longway North, a movie pilot from France’s Sacrebleu Productions and director Rémi Chayé, who worked on The Secret of Kells. The animation team assembled this short film as a pitch for a longer production that should hopefully be out in 2014. Here’s a synopsis: Sasha, a young Russian aristocratic girl at the end…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

Artist attempts to teach geese to fly to the Moon. Adorableness ensues.

The year 1638 saw the publication of The Man in the Moone by English bishop Francis Godwin. In this utopian fantasy tale, humans travel to the Moon by harnessing a flock of specially trained, especially hearty geese, vacuum of space be damned. The realities of physics haven’t stopped artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis from training a flock…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

No, the Magic Eye from Mallrats was never a sailboat

In director Kevin Smith’s Gen-X staple Mallrats, the character Willam (Ethan Suplee) spends the majority of the film fruitlessly attempting to see a schooner hidden in a Magic Eye stereographic image. But thanks to some 21st century Photoshop manipulation, we learn that there’s good reason Willam never could see that damn sailboat. How immensely cruel.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

A sperm whale in a mecha suit needs no introduction

For this delightfully absurd test animation, 3D designer Hauke Scheer has imagined a dark polluted future where humans have teamed up with cetaceans in battle suits. Ergo, Mechawhales. Watch as the Human-Whale Alliance battles extraterrestrials invaders of the year 2037. The sheer impracticality of the whale’s exoskeleton absolutely kills me. [Mechawhales via Cartoon Brew]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

Turkish Star Wars action figures are gloriously awful

These aren’t action figures depicting characters from the Turkish Star Wars (a.k.a. Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam or The Man Who Saved The World), but they’re almost as great. Hailing from Turkey, these are Uzay action figures, an unabashed rip-off of Kenner’s Star Wars line from the 1980s. https://gizmodo.com/head-splitting-karate-chop-makes-tie-fighters-explode-356105 In a comical attempt to skirt copyright, the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

There are few things creepier than an abandoned Japanese sex museum (NSFW)

Like any reasonable human being, you’ve thought to yourself, “Man, I wish there was a building where I could wander around in total darkness and decrepitude, surrounded by giant stone genitalia at every turn.” Well rejoice, because there’s a place in Japan where your fantasy is a reality. Welcome to the Mansion of Hidden Treasure.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

Check out art from the Lucasfilm Willow cartoon that never was

Despite boasting memorable scenes of Val Kilmer going barbarian and the most phallic dragon in movie monster history, Ron Howard and George Lucas’ 1988 fantasy film Willow didn’t tear up the box office. That probably explains why this Willow animated series never got off the ground. Here’s a rich sampling of rare sketches and character…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

Cyriaque Lamar

What if the Disney Princesses aged in real time?

Under a microscope, the smallest animals on Earth become beautiful nightmare fuel

The first trailer for Safety Not Guaranteed, that time-travel movie based on an internet meme

And now, Frankenstein dogfighting Nazis over London in 1941

The 10 Most Baffling Moments In Lois Lane And Superman’s Love Life

Local politician promises that his 9-foot-tall alien mother will not affect his civic duties

Alexander Graham Bell’s 130-year-old record collection has been resurrected

Watch as lasers transform a centuries-old church into a psychedelic freakout

Michael Bay, take a cue from these Ninja Turtle designs

Japanese handshaking robot will inevitably be used for evil. Sexy evil.

Your very first look at Hellboy’s trip to Hell

The Avengers and X-Men prepare for war in this week’s comics

This necrophiliac ant gang bang is just about the worst thing in the animal kingdom

An absolutely gorgeous animation about an 1800s Arctic expedition

Artist attempts to teach geese to fly to the Moon. Adorableness ensues.

No, the Magic Eye from Mallrats was never a sailboat

A sperm whale in a mecha suit needs no introduction

Turkish Star Wars action figures are gloriously awful

There are few things creepier than an abandoned Japanese sex museum (NSFW)

Check out art from the Lucasfilm Willow cartoon that never was

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