Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

“Ruined Spanish Fresco Monkey Jesus” is 2012’s hot Halloween costume

You may remember how an eighty-year-old Spanish woman lovingly trashed the fresco Ecce Homo in a failed art restoration attempt. Reddit user Spinjump took inspiration from this “very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic” and recently debuted this gold-star costume at Anime Weekend Atlanta. We anticipate a veritable Planet of Deformed Messiah Apes come October…

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Craigslist ad seeks topless Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master, “serious applicants” only

Do you live in the Washington, DC area? Are you free on October 10? Are you a woman who enjoys going to random strangers’ houses with the promise of mad bills, ochre jelly, and naturist good times? Then do we have the Craigslist ad for you. Here’s an unvarnished blurb from the site that has…

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Tonto flaunts his bird-hat in the first trailer for The Lone Ranger

The first trailer for Disney’s The Lone Ranger has hit the scene. According to these minutes of teaser footage, it looks like Cameron Winklevoss has time-traveled back to the Old West to prevent a chrono-hopping Mark Zuckerberg from building the Transcontinental Railroad. Or something of the ilk: Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar Oct 3

Welcome to New York 2023, where every surface is a DNA scanner

Here’s Plurality, director Dennis Liu’s 14-minute concept piece about a futuristic New York where every handrail and wall can read your genetic material, rendering credit cards and keys contrivances of the past. This newfangled Bentham Grid also has a side that makes civil libertarians cringe — namely that law enforcement is now using it to…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 3

This animatronic baby Tyrannosaurus costume was made for board meetings

If you need to convey to your peers that you are the apex predator at but the nascency of your powers, you could do worse than this 16-foot-long, 53-pound baby tyrannosaurus costume by Wizart Studio. Watch this costume running amok through an alley, and note the car in the background doing a double take. PS:…

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Star Wars characters holding bunnies. Human art was meant to culminate in this moment.

Bad news, artists. Humanity has fulfilled its aesthetic potential with this series of paintings by Kelly Kerrigan. Everybody out of the art pool and go home. C’mon, shoo. There are no more zeniths left to scale. I’m putting a lock on the art fence. Anyone who’s stuck inside will be considered a trespasser and arrested…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 2

Androids, Comics, and Ghost Prostitutes: A Conversation With The Legendary Lance Henriksen

Throughout his career, Lance Henriksen has played everything from curious androids to paranormally powered FBI agents. But with his upcoming comic book To Hell You Ride, the actor gets to spin a Weird Western horror yarn that’s been haunting him for decades. (Also, what did Bishop himself think of Prometheus?) Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics,…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 2

This short film is the next best thing to a new Swamp Thing movie

Here’s Gloam, a visual effects piece by David Elwell & Gareth Hughes. With nary a word, the filmmakers communicates how living in the forest as an antlered wood-beast is not particularly conducive to making new friends. Also, the creature’s design bears a resemblance to Swamp Thing’s recent sartorial shift, so roll with that as you…

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Watch an octopus steal food and beat up a shark AT THE SAME TIME

Octopuses are absolutely hilarious, what with their penchant for puzzle-solving and infinitely useful tentacles. Just check out this video by Lauren De Vos of the University of Cape Town’s Marine Research Institute — while filming a bait canister in Cape Town’s False Bay, a thieving octopus managed to undo the humans’ cable ties and wrangle…

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In this week’s comics, Daredevil kicks the bucket (sort of)

New comic day tomorrow, what do we got? First off, author Andy Diggle and artist Mark Buckingham team up for a brand new Doctor Who comic book from IDW Publishing. Marvel publishes the Minimum Carnage miniseries, which sees Venom and Scarlet Spider teaming up against the least polite of Spider-Man’s symbiote foes. There’s also the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 2

Hail Satan, is 666 Park Avenue a goofy show

Oh man, the pilot episode of ABC’s Satanic apartment building drama 666 Park Avenue debuted last night. And it is silly. How silly? We’re talking Passions levels of hilariousness. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-ridiculous-science-fiction-plots-from-actual-s-5879651 Seriously, in the opening five minutes, a violinist who sold his soul for musical talent tries to welch on his demonic contract. He’s sucked back…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

Queen + Van Halen + Giant Robots Puppets = YEEEEEEAAHHH

When it comes to matters science fictional, the band Queen is best known for their soundtrack to Flash Gordon (although Freddie Mercury’s encounters with Wolverine are near and dear to us). https://gizmodo.com/wolverine-meets-freddie-mercury-the-greatest-marvel-c-5905016 But back in 1983, Queen guitarist Brian May teamed up with Eddie Van Halen and members of REO Speedwagon and Alice Cooper’s and…

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Watch the autobiography of a guy who turned himself into a lizard

Over the course of his life, Eric Sprague has tattooed and modified his body such to give himself the appearance of a human lizard. What inspires a dude to file down his teeth into fangs and ink scales on his epidermis? Allow Sprague to explain in his own words. This fascinating short film by William…

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What if Disney villains all won their respective movies?

What if the evil stepsisters had perfectly sized feet? What if Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was ten minutes long? What if Cruella de Vil evaded the authorities and those animal hoarding charges? Such scenarios have been realized by Justin McTwisp in this series of portraits of Disney films gone tremendously awry. Will there…

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This student film feels like a Moebius comic come to life

This is Eclipse, a short film from students at Paris’ Gobelins School of Image, which previously brought us that lovely short about a magical, geography-jumping house. https://gizmodo.com/a-sweet-animated-short-about-a-man-whose-house-teleport-5943577 This concept piece by Théo Guignard, Noé Lecombre and Hugo Moreno reminds us of the comic work of Moebius, right down to the stippling, stark cosmic landscapes, and…

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The internet, according to Playboy magazine, in 1996

Back in the mid-1990s, everyone was exceedingly jazzed about the internet. In fact, people were so darn excited that it was impossible to leave the house without being smacked upside the head by such jargon as “electronic mail,” “mouse,” or “CD-ROM drive!” And nobody was more enamored of the promise of the cyber-frontier than Playboy…

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What would happen if every creature in the animal kingdom had a human skeleton?

Who needs a fascinatingly creep-ball cartoon to kick off October? We’re going to veto the lone dissenter in the peanut gallery because Hominid — this short animation by director Brian Andrews — is icky in all the right ways. In addition to this short, Andrews creates composite photography (which can be seen here) that tosses…

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Solomon Kane: Like Game of Thrones with Pilgrims!

Today, the long delayed cinematic adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane tales comes to North American theaters for a limited release (it’s also been on video-on-demand across the land for a while now). Despite opening in Europe way back in 2009, the stateside release of Solomon Kane was mysteriously hamstrung until this summer, when…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Sep 28

What would Mr. Burns from The Simpsons look like in real life?

Bad news first. Robert Goodin’s long-running Covered blog — which attracted comic book cover remakes from such luminaries as Steve Rude, Art Adams, and Matt Kindt — shuttered its digital doors today so that Goodin can pursue new projects. But one of the final remixes was artist Charles Guthrie’s delightful and realism-tinged take on 1997’s…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Sep 28

Here’s what it’s like to swim in a feeding frenzy of 100 sharks

We’ve seen some gee-whiz diving videos from underwater videographer Sarosh Jacob, but none quite like this. Here, he braves a feeding frenzy of over one-hundred silky sharks feeding on a school krill off of Mexico’s Socorro Islands. What fun! https://gizmodo.com/and-now-some-sharks-swimming-to-massive-attack-5937318 https://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-to-swim-through-a-wall-of-jellyfish-5804254 [Sarosh Jacob via Jason Sondhi]

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“Ruined Spanish Fresco Monkey Jesus” is 2012’s hot Halloween costume

Craigslist ad seeks topless Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master, “serious applicants” only

Tonto flaunts his bird-hat in the first trailer for The Lone Ranger

Welcome to New York 2023, where every surface is a DNA scanner

This animatronic baby Tyrannosaurus costume was made for board meetings

Star Wars characters holding bunnies. Human art was meant to culminate in this moment.

Androids, Comics, and Ghost Prostitutes: A Conversation With The Legendary Lance Henriksen

This short film is the next best thing to a new Swamp Thing movie

Watch an octopus steal food and beat up a shark AT THE SAME TIME

In this week’s comics, Daredevil kicks the bucket (sort of)

Hail Satan, is 666 Park Avenue a goofy show

Queen + Van Halen + Giant Robots Puppets = YEEEEEEAAHHH

Watch the autobiography of a guy who turned himself into a lizard

What if Disney villains all won their respective movies?

This student film feels like a Moebius comic come to life

The internet, according to Playboy magazine, in 1996

What would happen if every creature in the animal kingdom had a human skeleton?

Solomon Kane: Like Game of Thrones with Pilgrims!

What would Mr. Burns from The Simpsons look like in real life?

Here’s what it’s like to swim in a feeding frenzy of 100 sharks

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