Pin-up calendar features not-so-sexy monsters in sexy poses

Looking for something a pin-up calendar that’s a little different? How about Nosferatu, Godzilla, and Slimer giving their best come hither looks in a series of prints that proves light-hearted seduction isn’t just for conventionally attractive monsters. Erika Deoudes’ 2014 Sexy Monsters Calendar is 12 months of funny monster pin-ups, available as prints in a…

Scientists listened to the heartbeat of a prisoner as he was executed

Nothing like a big dose of the macabre for the weekend. In 1938, a scientist actually recorded a condemned prisoner’s heartbeat as he was being executed by firing squad. Doctor Stephen Besley was a doctor at a prison. He was, perhaps, not the most sympathetic of physicians, but he was extremely practical. After seeing many…

Corsets meet Star Trek in these Victorian Starfleet uniform dresses

For those times when you’re flung unexpectedly back in time—or if you just don’t want to change clothes between work and your favorite holonovel—cosplayer Genovefa has dreamed up these Starfleet-themed dresses with long skirts and a bit of Victorian-inspired corsetry. Genovefa is modeling the Captain Janeway dress while her friend models the Data version. You…

Why Smaug Still Matters

This week, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hits theaters, introducing us to Peter Jackson’s vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most famous dragon. But in a media landscape overstuffed with dragons, why do we still care so much about Smaug? Top image: Crop from J.R.R. Tolkien’s own illustration “Conversation with Smaug.” “A dragon is no idle…

Just Four People are Making This Stunning Video Game

The rich and beautiful No Man’s Sky has stolen the show at VGX. Check out the trailer below and marvel that just four people are working on this incredible space adventure game.

Night of the Swarming Post-It Notes

Their intelligence told them that adhesive notes would provide the perfect disguise for their drones: innocuous and ubiquitous, found in the highest levels of government and the private sector. But they failed to understand just how out of place the neon bits of paper would be sailing about outdoors. One of many swarming object photographs…

An animated world where people have adjusted to an extremely windy life

Robert Löbel’s whimsical animation WIND exists in a world that is, well, extraordinarily windy. But the denizens of this windy world have found ways to deal with—and even enjoy—the weather. [via Vimeo Staff Picks]

Haven asks: Can you solve one curse with a complementary curse?

As we get closer to discovering Audrey’s proto-personality, Haven is hit by a Trouble that can’t be solved with one of Audrey’s classic pep talks. In fact, the only way to resolve the Trouble may be to give a Trouble to someone else. If there was any question of William’s utter indifference to humanity, this…

The Swedish Chef faces Gordon Ramsay in the ultimate Muppet cook-off

In advance of The Muppets’ Most Wanted, Muppets Studio has released the bite-sized webisode “Food Fight,” in which the Swedish Chef pits his culinary skills against Gordon Ramsay in a reality show-inspired food truck competition. And naturally, our favorite Muppet critics are serving up their judgment with a side of snark. Update: And thanks to…

Two Great Fist-Pumping Moments from Last Night’s Nikita

Aw yeah. Last night’s Nikita gave two of the show’s supporting castmembers a chance to shine, and the results were thrilling. Also, there was an excellent fakeout with Birkhoff, and a lot of spy-vs-spy action. Spoilers ahead… One thing I like in this final mini-season of Nikita is that our heroes are slowly chipping away…

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Missionary Seeks an Alien Convert

Dressed in robes, a human ministers to an alien being. Is he peddling a certain faith, and is the alien buying? This piece was created by Eric Wilkerson for the online magazine Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show to illustrate the short story “Sojourn for Ephah” by Marina J. Lostetter, via r/ImaginaryMonsters. Take a few…

​Dracula faces his greatest foe yet: A board meeting

Here’s how insane Dracula is: It feels like very little happened in this episode, even though there was sex, murder, major goal achieving, the secret of life after death was discovered and Dracula even walked in the sun. Because all this actually is kind of subdued for Dracula. The episode begins with that most feared…

Light-up wizard hoodie transforms its wearer into a Technomancer

On April Fool’s Day 2012, ThinkGeek featured the Technomancer Digital Wizard Hoodie among their fake products. Now they’ve introduced the real thing, a hooded jacket that lights up and makes spell sounds based on the movement of the wearer’s arms. Currently, the hoodie is out of stock, but you can see it with its multicolored…

​Damian from The Omen guest-stars on Grimm

To be fair, Satan is not involved in this episode of Grimm, nor is a Weseen — it’s just a parasite from Jordan that turns little kids into creatures that seem exceedingly Satan-like, but it does provide this week’s Grimm with a bit of balance. First, lets go with the “sub-plots” of the episode, just…

In this Most Dangerous Game, players must stay in close proximity

Ryan Connolly’s short film PROXiMITY takes the familiar concept of “The Most Dangerous Game” and adds an additional rule: players wear ankle monitors that require them to stick close together or suffer the violent consequences. PROXiMITY uses a fairly simple concept to make an exciting, if brief, thriller that forces its protagonist to fully understand…

A Disney artist imagines Wicked as an animated film

Minkyu Lee is an animator and visual development artist who has worked on The Princess and the Frog and Frozen. As part of his visual development portfolio, he imagined how Elphaba might look in her very own animated adventure, based on Wicked. Lee created these images while he was studying at CalArts and interning at…

Winter is Coming: Make Game of Thrones paper snowflakes to celebrate

Krystal Higgins has come up with a series of paper snowflake designs inspired by the great houses of Game of Thrones. Just print out the designs on Higgins’ site, cut along the lines, and paste a flurry of your favorite house sigils to your windows. Free “Game of Thrones”-inspired snowflake patterns [Krystal Higgins via Laughing…

Marvel has confirmed that Drew Goddard will run the show on Netflix’s Daredevil series. The Cabin in the Woods director will write and direct the first episode as well as serve as showrunner and executive producer for the 13-episode series. Hurrah! [via GeekTyrant]

Disaster interrupts an alien mission to rescue the human race

The Fiah’s Exodus mission is a noble one, to remove sentient races from their doomed planet and relocate them to a safer preserve. But Ethma and Endi’s assignment on Earth is troubled from the start, though their crew of accidental human stowaways is the least of their problems when the entire Exodus mission takes a…

Famous Museums Incredibly Recreated in Gingerbread and Candy

Sweet gingerbread cottages have nothing on these sugary architectural marvels. Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves recreate iconic museums and art galleries in gingerbread, licorice, cotton candy, and chocolate. The pair created these morsel models for a Dylan’s Candy Bar display at Art Basel Miami. In addition to the Guggenheim Museum above and the Karuizawa Gallery…