Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

The directors of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance talk demon bikers and hellfire ski lifts

In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Crank and Gamer directors Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine take us to the highways of rural Turkey where Nicolas Cage’s head explodes into a vengeful fireball. io9 spoke with the directors about the craziness of the film’s shoot and Cage’s voodoo method acting. First off, one of the most…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Feb 16

Holy crap, it’s The Matrix for chickens

During the short six-to-seven-week life of a factory-raised broiler chicken, the bird is crammed into close quarters with thousands of other chickens selectively bred to mature at an unhealthily fast rate. Given the broilers’ uncomfortable living conditions and the ever-growing demand for poultry, Royal College of Art architecture student André Ford has proposed that we…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 15

Can Green Lantern defeat a spaceship the size of a solar system?

The Green Lantern corpsman Kyle Rayner has an extremely big problem. Just how big is his quandary? Well, it’s the size of an artificial solar system. Check out an exclusive sneak peek of next week’s issue of Green Lantern: New Guardians, in which Kyle tries to beat an astronomical war machine with a little help…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Feb 15

The 10 Strangest Short-Lived Supervillain Makeovers

Every now and again, supervillains will try a new outfit or modus operandi to thwart their do-gooding nemeses. Sometimes this tactic works, and the new schtick becomes part and parcel of a character’s mythos. Other times, this change lasts 15 minutes and everyone forgets it ever happened. These are those times. 10.) Juggernaut is an…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Feb 15

The deranged 1989 Swamp Thing PSA, wherein our hero berates children

Around the time The Return of the Swamp Thing hit theaters in 1989, the mossy hero collaborated with Greenpeace on this bizarre anti-littering public service announcement. I’m pretty sure Swamp Thing used his eco-powers to transform those children into peat mummies once the cameras stopped rolling. [Via The Retroist]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Feb 15

If you have $50 million, this roller coaster that simulates weightlessness could be yours

Most roller coasters try to keep regurgitating riders to a minimum. But with this coaster by BRC Imagination Arts, queasy patrons may be inevitable. The design firm has taken a cue from NASA’s KC-135A “Vomit Comet” aircraft and drafted plans for a coaster that mimics microgravity for up to nine seconds. The only downside? Such…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 15

Ravers getting high off of cobra venom in India

Remember those rare cases of down-and-out souls getting loaded off of snake bites? Well, it looks like cobra venom has gone mainstream for a certain demographic of Indian partygoer. https://gizmodo.com/getting-stoned-on-cobra-bites-is-totally-not-advisable-5757176 India Today reports that Delhi police have busted snake smugglers who were corralling serpents to sell off their deadly saliva. Authorities recovered four cobras and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 15

World’s tiniest chameleon is the size of match’s head

Meet Brookesia micra, the newly discovered world’s smallest chameleon. This wee creature was discovered on an island off of Northern Madagascar, where a biological expedition found these tiny beasts snoozing in vegetation a mere four inches off the ground. Juvenile specimens of Brookesia micra are the size of a match head, whereas the adults can…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14

Artist transforms bonsai trees and empty cans into insane Lilliputian cities

Japanese artist Takanori Aiba has taken bonsai trees, food packaging, and even a tiny statue of the Michelin Man and constructed miniature metropolises around these objects, thus creating real-life Bottled Cities of Kandor. Explains Aiba of his artwork: My source of creations are my early experience of bonsai making and maze illustration. These works make…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14

Jon Snow goes to Iceland in the new Game of Thrones making-of video

The latest on-set video from Game of Thrones takes us beyond The Wall to the wilds of the Frostfangs Iceland. Watch as the Night’s Watch tromps around a glacier and looks extremely fricking cold. No filming at an indoor ski slope for these guys. Hat tip to Radiosilence!

Television Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14

Why McG’s new romcom is secretly a Star Trek movie

Today is Valentine’s Day, a holiday which commemorates the armistice between global cacao manufacturers and the prophylactic industry after their centuries-long shadow war. To capitalize on this day of demure remembrance, the popcorn-industrial complex has released This Means War, a new motion picture event by director McG (Terminator Salvation, the music video for Sugar Ray’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14

Moebius, angry trucks, and the B.P.R.D. invade comic books on Wednesday

Happy Valentine’s Day, kiddos! For those of you who hate this 24-hour celebration of doilies and copulation, rejoice in the fact that absolutely nothing Valentine-themed is hitting the comic book stands tomorrow! Yay! Let’s see what’s in store for your hungry eyes. First Issues A lot of stuff for horror fans this week. There’s BPRD:…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14

Behold, the Aztec mecha and Mayan cyborgs of our Mesoamerican future

The works of Mexico City artist Raul Cruz envision a far-off future where Aztec and Mayan aesthetics mesh with yet-to-be-invented technologies. In his Mexican futurist illustrations, the Heavy Metal artist depicts mecha guarding Teotihuacan, temples orbiting Earth, and massive robots carved out of stone. Cruz has been illustrating for three decades, so he’s amassed an…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14

Cost of Living, a 10-minute movie about bored security guards at a monster factory

A few weeks back, we took a look at production video from director BenDavid Grabinski’s short scifi movie Cost of Living, which stars Bret Harrison (Reaper) and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) as two night-shift security guards with terrible existential malaise. https://gizmodo.com/your-first-look-at-the-monsters-versus-security-guards-5877197 Of course, they also work at a monster factory run by an evil corporation,…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14

The Best (And Weirdest) Science Fiction Toys from Toy Fair 2012

Over the last few days, we’ve taken a look at the latest Toy Fair offerings from Hasbro and LEGO. Today, we hit the floors around New York’s Javits Center and perused the panoply of playthings on display. Here’s an overview of the upcoming collectibles you may covet out of niftiness and/or sheer weirdness. https://gizmodo.com/rzas-g-i-joe-action-figure-jar-jar-binks-in-carbonite-5884343 https://gizmodo.com/lego-lord-of-the-rings-avengers-and-deadpool-debut-at-5884429…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Feb 13

If Battlestar Galactica was a nature film, it would look like this

For his time-lapse movie of the South Dakotan night sky, photographer Randy Halverson recruited Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary (who we recently chatted with here) to supply an original soundtrack. The result is Temporal Distortion, a short film that will make you feel like a Cylon sleeper agent staring at the stars. Explains Halverson: https://gizmodo.com/bear-mccreary-reveals-the-physics-behind-your-favorite-5883406…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 13

Remember when Nikola Tesla teamed up with Optimus Prime to battle Lovecraftian Decepticons?

Remember those curious Cthulhu Transformers? Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here’s a sneak peek at the second issue of the Infestation 2: Transformers miniseries, which features more tentacled robots and Optimus Prime meeting Tesla. Edison was hanging out with the Gobots, presumably. This issue hits stores Wednesday, February 15. Here’s the plot synopsis: https://gizmodo.com/cthulhu-transformers-something-wed-never-thought-wed-5879730 Infestation 2:…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Feb 13

It’s Honest Abe versus bloodsuckers in the first Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter trailer

The trailer for the Tim Burton-produced, Timur Bekmambetov-directed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has hit the web. After Lincoln’s mom is offed by hungry Nosferatus, he decides to build a log cabin out of their fangs. Will there be a stovepipe hat made of garlic? We will see June 22.

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar Feb 13

The St. Valentine’s Day Rollerdisco Massacre of 2008 = Important Medical Research

In 2008, Liverpool University decided to commemorate Valentine’s Day with a festive rollerdisco party. Little did the organizers know this party would be immortalized in a keystone piece of medical research, the 2008 paper “The University Rollerdisco: An unusual cause of a major incident” in the journal Injury Extra. According to the researchers, that evening…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 13

Dr. Seuss taxidermy is equal parts disturbing and charming

Sculptor Carl Turner has created a series of half-realistic, half-fantastical mounted animal heads that were seemingly poached out of a Dr. Seuss book. According to Turner’s back story for this project, these extinct specimens were acquired by zoologist Erasmus P. Jiggins and Sir Bartholomew Scoffer during an 1863 expedition to a lost island somewhere in…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 13

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The directors of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance talk demon bikers and hellfire ski lifts

Holy crap, it’s The Matrix for chickens

Can Green Lantern defeat a spaceship the size of a solar system?

The 10 Strangest Short-Lived Supervillain Makeovers

The deranged 1989 Swamp Thing PSA, wherein our hero berates children

If you have $50 million, this roller coaster that simulates weightlessness could be yours

Ravers getting high off of cobra venom in India

World’s tiniest chameleon is the size of match’s head

Artist transforms bonsai trees and empty cans into insane Lilliputian cities

Jon Snow goes to Iceland in the new Game of Thrones making-of video

Why McG’s new romcom is secretly a Star Trek movie

Moebius, angry trucks, and the B.P.R.D. invade comic books on Wednesday

Behold, the Aztec mecha and Mayan cyborgs of our Mesoamerican future

Cost of Living, a 10-minute movie about bored security guards at a monster factory

The Best (And Weirdest) Science Fiction Toys from Toy Fair 2012

If Battlestar Galactica was a nature film, it would look like this

Remember when Nikola Tesla teamed up with Optimus Prime to battle Lovecraftian Decepticons?

It’s Honest Abe versus bloodsuckers in the first Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter trailer

The St. Valentine’s Day Rollerdisco Massacre of 2008 = Important Medical Research

Dr. Seuss taxidermy is equal parts disturbing and charming

Southwest Is About to Limit Power Banks on Flights

Damn, the ‘Power Rangers’ Reboot Could’ve Had Four Movies

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‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Will Please Gross Horror Fans

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