Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

In this week’s comics, Venom recruits the new Fantastic Four! Also, Cthulhu Robots!

Tomorrow brings a ton of new releases to your local comic book store. Witness new stories from the early years of the Jedi order, Bucky Barnes striking out on his own, environmental apocalypse from the writer of DMZ, and scads of other groovy funnymags. First Issues Ed Brubaker pens a new ongoing Winter Soldier series…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jan 31

This incredible Antarctic seal’s call sounds like Pink Floyd and beatboxing

Humpback whale songs are absolutely haunting, but here’s a marine mammal whose call is even more alien. This is the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), an Antarctic pinniped whose vocalizations both underwater and top side resemble ambient techno. These pulses and chirps have territorial and mating functions and will probably give you chills. You can listen…

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Lord of The Rings LEGO sets turn Gollum into precious plastic

We’ve seen some pretty spectacular LEGO brick recreations of The Lord of The Rings, and it looks like the toy manufacturer has noticed these fan dioramas as well. To coincide with the upcoming release of The Hobbit, LEGO is releasing a series of LOTR playsets this summer. https://gizmodo.com/the-battle-of-isengard-from-lord-of-the-rings-depicted-5845739 https://gizmodo.com/lego-mordor-cannot-be-reached-with-plastic-eagles-5815605 https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-first-trailer-for-peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-n-5869942 LEGO recently unveiled a tiny…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 30

Wild 1969 Japanese magazine art imagines the hellhole at Earth’s core

Here’s something that should appeal to fans of Gōjin Ishihara’s profoundly weird children’s art. In 1969. a Japanese magazine published these exceedingly intense depictions of life at the center of our planet. Taking cues from Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Lost World, these drawings and diagrams are the strange remnants of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 30

Mostly naked South African man training to become real-life Tarzan

Never mind real-life superheroes, 24-year-old DeWet Du Toit of George, South Africa wants to become the flesh-and-blood incarnation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Lord of the Jungle. The ex-security guard/jobless bodybuilder spends his days caroming through the forest, communing with the animals, and abstaining from human vices: I certainly never get drunk […] I prefer to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 30

The Dark Knight rides a shark in bondage-crazy 1960s Batman art

In 1966, famed pulp artist Norman Saunders — who illustrated the 1962 Mars Attacks cards — produced a series of magical paintings for Topps’ Batman trading card line. https://gizmodo.com/robots-mad-scientists-and-damsels-astounding-pulp-cov-5834890 https://gizmodo.com/hang-the-martian-invasion-on-your-living-room-wall-5550481 These illustrations often featured the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder being tied up or dolefully getting clobbered by bad guys (such as The Joker,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 30

The 1989 Avengers Male Beauty Pageant Informed Us Hawkeye Had A Fantastic Ass

With The Avengers hitting theaters this summer, audiences are eagerly anticipating a chiseled parade of superhuman beefcake saving the world, not unlike if the Chippendales were conscripted as U.N. Peacekeepers. But did you know that Marvel Comics actually rated The Avengers according to hotness two decades ago? It’s true! In November 1989’s Avengers West Coast…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 30

A new scene from Avatar: The Legend of Korra, featuring Metalbenders!

Scenes from the upcoming Avatar: The Legend of Korra are coming out in dribs and drabs — take a look here if you haven’t seen them — but we’re never ones to complain. https://gizmodo.com/first-scene-from-avatar-the-legend-of-korra-shows-our-5876238 The latest tidbit picks up where the last clips left off. A group of Metalbending police officers have come to arrest…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jan 30

In this time-lapse movie, Mongolian nomads build an entire yurt in one hour

When you’re living a nomadic lifestyle, you need to travel light. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a deluxe roof above your head. Here, videographer Dan Grossman filmed Shagdarsuren Herelchuluun’s family punching out a multiperson ger (or yurt) outside of northern Mongolia’s Lake Hovsgol. The whole process took give or take 67 minutes, but…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 29

The Wicker Man + True Blood = The Wicker Tree

Moviegoers are familiar with two vintages of The Wicker Man. There’s Robin Hardy’s 1973 still-potent horror flick and playwright Neil LaBute’s accidentally hilarious 2006 remake, which is most famous for Nicolas Cage caterwauling about bees. For The Wicker Tree — Hardy’s new “spiritual sequel” to The Wicker Man which draws from his 2006 novel Cowboys…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 28

A strong contender for the greatest movie trailer of all time (NSFW)

Dear Hollywood, please stop making movie trailers. Why? The art of the preview was perfected 29 years ago in The Philippines by the 1983 horror movie The Killing of Satan. Does The Killing of Satan also win the best title of all time contest? I wouldn’t bet against it. In TKOS, a mustachioed Catholic wizard…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 27

Inarguably the cutest Harry Potter cosplay ever

Even if you don’t know a Golden Snitch from a frumious Bandersnatch, it’s absolutely impossible to remain churlish at life when this duo is around. If anybody knows who could have done this, drop us a line and we’ll credit Fluffy and ‘Arry accordingly. On an unrelated note, Cerberus is the new vampires is the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 27

Make your guests ill with a nausea-inducing floor rug

Under the right circumstances, a home furnishing has the power to make visitors green around the gills. Such is the findings of a recent paper published in the journal Perception, “The sickening rug: a repeating static pattern that leads to motion-sickness-like symptoms.” In this study, researchers from Saint Peter’s College discovered a particular carpet that…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 27

Watch one woman’s quest to build her own TARDIS

German teacher and YouTuber Sillysparrowness had a simple goal — to build a transportable TARDIS for daily usage. She succeeded in building a full-scale police box that can be assembled in under 10 minutes. More than enough time for an alacritous getaway! You can watch her procedure above or check out her progress on TARDIS…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jan 27

Visit The Village from The Prisoner on Google Maps

And by The Prisoner we mean the 1967 “Patrick McGoohan tooling around in a Lotus 7 Prisoner,” not the 2009 TV miniseries nobody particularly enjoyed. In the Welsh county of Gwynedd, you can visit the faux-Mediterranean Portmeirion resort, which served as the shooting location for the cult classic television series. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-iconic-stylish-and-just-plain-wacky-opening-5741823 45 years later, much…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 27

Cthulhu Transformers = Something We’d Never Thought We’d See

Boy howdy, this is one of the strangest comic previews we’ve ever run. Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here’s an exclusive preview of the first issue of Infestation 2: Transformers. In this seven-page sneak peek, a bunch of Lovecraftian Decepticons in the 1800s rise from the depths to brawl with a group of steampunk Autobots. Riverboat…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 26

The Disney Princesses, if they lived in Williamsburg or Portland

We’ve seen the X-Men receive the club kid treatment. Now artist Viria13 has given the Disney Princess pantheon new duds (presumably in the spirit of a certain internet meme). In short, Belle’s on her way to the Belle and Sebastian concert, Snow White communicates solely through Theodor Adorno quotes, and Ariel has an entirely non-ironic…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 26

It took 1,000,000 spiders to weave this single cape

This cape — which required four years, one-million Malagasy golden orb spiders, and eighty workers to catch and release the two-inch arachnids daily — was commissioned by Nicholas Godley and fabric researcher Simon Peers. Every day, weavers would extract up to 40 yards of silk from a single spider before returning it to the wild.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 26

Snoring dormouse is so adorable your head will explode

What you’re seeing here is a hibernating dormouse filmed by Dave Williams of the Surrey Wildlife Trust Mammal Project. Despite his log-sawing, this slumbering little guy isn’t in any trouble — he’s just an unusually stentorian sleeper. Dormice can hibernate for up to one-third of their lives. They wake up in the springtime (minus one-quarter…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 26

Fantastical places around the world where you can live in a cave

You don’t need to be an eccentric billionaire or rugged survivalist to take up residence in a cave. All around the globe, living in an rocky recess is just a fact of life and can be way more homey than any manmade structure. Here are some real estate destinations to investigate should you attempt to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 26

Cyriaque Lamar

In this week’s comics, Venom recruits the new Fantastic Four! Also, Cthulhu Robots!

This incredible Antarctic seal’s call sounds like Pink Floyd and beatboxing

Lord of The Rings LEGO sets turn Gollum into precious plastic

Wild 1969 Japanese magazine art imagines the hellhole at Earth’s core

Mostly naked South African man training to become real-life Tarzan

The Dark Knight rides a shark in bondage-crazy 1960s Batman art

The 1989 Avengers Male Beauty Pageant Informed Us Hawkeye Had A Fantastic Ass

A new scene from Avatar: The Legend of Korra, featuring Metalbenders!

In this time-lapse movie, Mongolian nomads build an entire yurt in one hour

The Wicker Man + True Blood = The Wicker Tree

A strong contender for the greatest movie trailer of all time (NSFW)

Inarguably the cutest Harry Potter cosplay ever

Make your guests ill with a nausea-inducing floor rug

Watch one woman’s quest to build her own TARDIS

Visit The Village from The Prisoner on Google Maps

Cthulhu Transformers = Something We’d Never Thought We’d See

The Disney Princesses, if they lived in Williamsburg or Portland

It took 1,000,000 spiders to weave this single cape

Snoring dormouse is so adorable your head will explode

Fantastical places around the world where you can live in a cave

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