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Alors, these eyeless French beasts are monstrously gorgeous!

We’ve got a few new monstrous faces and FX creatures for you to consume this holiday weekend. Plus, a first look at the ultra-slick Russian scifi film Target. The Pack (La Meute) Way back in 2009, we showed you these freaky stills from the beastly French film The Pack by Franck Richard. Naturally, the no-eyed…

Movies Meredith Woerner

io9 Weekend Roundup

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: DO PHOTOBOMBS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? | Sean Young and Harrison Ford, circa the filming of Blade Runner. Check out more photos here. https://gizmodo.com/check-out-sean-youngs-candid-polaroids-from-the-set-of-5806638 Meet the gremlins who haunt Katie Holmes’ house in the full “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” trailer https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-gremlins-who-haunt-katie-holmes-house-in-the-f-5806470 Not to be confused with that freaky Nickelodeon show, Don’t…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Cosplay from Hell = giant screaming baby masks

Need that special costume for casual Friday? Landon Meier of Hyperflesh specializes in oversized latex infant craniums. They each cost $250, but you’ll inflict an incalculable amount of psychological torture. It’s like an Aphex Twin video in reverse! [Via Mishka Bloglin]

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Let’s go to the Gnomon School, the place where scifi concept art is born

This life-size, old school Iron Man armor was on display last night at LA’s Gnomon Gallery, alongside props and concept art from Avatar, the Iron Man movies, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, I Am Number Four, and more. We headed to the gallery, located on the campus of the Gnomon School of Visual…

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Terrifying juggling machine can toss around five billiard balls at once

This a robotic juggler built by the Department of Control Engineering at Prague’s Czech Technical University. Researchers have taught this machine to lob and catch five billiard balls all on its own. It’ll someday do the same with our skulls. As its creators explain: The juggler model consists of two mechanical vertical arms that are…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Is this the most confusing scifi TV ad ever filmed?

Say what you will about Saul Bass’ 1974 sentient ant film Phase IV, its TV ads did not give anything away. Rather, the Phase IV commercials regaled viewers with cryptic narration and drunkenly edited images of ants and explosions. https://gizmodo.com/phase-iv-a-film-about-super-smart-communist-ants-and-m-5771223 Hey Hollywood, this how you sell a movie: by making sure the audience has absolutely…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Check out Sean Young’s candid Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner

While filming Blade Runner, actress Sean Young (a.k.a. Rachael the replicant) took these charming Polaroid shots of the cast and crew goofing around. They’re like Hipstamatic shots of C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. You can see many more at Young’s website. Also, here’s her Super 8 footage of the filming of…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Why doesn’t our solar system have any gas giants close to the sun?

As we learn more about far distant solar systems, it becomes clear just how weird the universe really is. And, more disconcertingly, how unusual our own solar system is. And that starts with our curious lack of so-called “hot Neptunes.” Hot Neptunes- and their even bigger counterparts, known as hot Jupiters – are gas giant…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The mystery behind history’s most important isotope is solved at last

Most radioactive isotopes of the lighter elements decay in minutes or less. But one particular isotope of carbon takes 6000 years to decay, and that fact has revolutionized archaeology. But why it does that has long been a complete mystery. This isn’t really a small problem – the isotpe in question, carbon-14, takes roughly three…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Vacation like a Bond villain in this invisible room near the Arctic Circle

If you’re a discerning evil zillionaire looking to get away from it all, the Mirrorcube hotel suite in the Swedish forest is a wise choice. Some well-placed mirrors + a seemingly floating cube = the final word in “No Solicitors.” The Mirrorcube is part of the Tree Hotel, a forested collection of fantastical elevated rooms…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Lasers reveal exactly how guitars create music

When you play a stringed instrument, the strings vibrate against the soundboard, amplifying the sound created by the string. The vibrations involved are tiny, as little as a millionth of a meter, and that’s why researchers got out their lasers. By shooting laser beams at a soundboard during vibration, it’s possible to track all the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Is this a Christian icon in space – or a fire in microgravity?

Fire takes a different form away from the force of gravity. Now a kaleidoscopic shot of heptane combustion from the International Space Station shows the unusual way fuels burn in weak gravity. As part of an experiment assessing combustion and fire suppressants in space, a 3-millimetre-wide drop of heptane fuel was ignited and filmed as…

io9 Caitlin Stier - New Scientist

What if Dino-Riders took place in medieval times?

It’s common knowledge that lasers and various high-tech accoutrements improve sauropods immensely, but Dinosaur Battle Town, this cute short animation by Eddie West, demonstrates that dinosaurs benefit from low-tech weaponry too. A Tyrannosaurus always needs a good rampart. [Eddie West via Metafilter]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Mirrors can actually create light through the magic of quantum weirdness

If you take two flat mirrors and place them very close together, the virtual particles that pop into existence between the mirrors will actually force them together. But that’s nothing compared to when mirrors approach the speed of light. We’ve talked about virtual particles before, but for our purposes all we really need to know…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Sweet Christmas! Watch the Old Spice Guy play Luke Cage

We know that professional handsome man Isaiah Mustafa has talked to Marvel about the possibility of playing Luke Cage, and now check out this promo video of the actor as Power Man. Neat stuff, but there’s no disco tiara. https://gizmodo.com/awesome-casting-rumors-for-the-hunger-games-luke-cage-5795115 [Via CBM]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

True Blood BTS pics

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Pow! Zam! Nyet! Superputin battles terrorists, protesters in online comic

Dictators are used to having their manliest poses carved into stone statues, or their most avuncular portrait printed on posters. But one Russian artist is bringing authoritarian iconography into the 21st century by drawing Russia’s boss-for-life Vladimir Putin as an ass-kicking character in an online comic book. Radio Free Europe reports that Russian writer, Sergei…

Books & Comics Adam Rawnsley - Danger Room

Students banned from high school graduation because of lightsaber battle

A choreographed lightsaber battle in their school cafeteria landed two Westfield, Massachusetts seniors a two-day suspension and a blacklisting at their high school graduation. I presume this school district’s had a spate of Sith gang violence, hence the zero-tolerance policy. I also love how the local news anchors chose to interview — of all the…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Phantasm: a cult classic about the zombie Jawa industrial complex

Phantasm is a 1978 gothic horror fantasy written and directed by Don Coscarelli. It spawned three more sequels, all of them about evil dwarf minions and flying silver balls that love exsanguination. A. Michael Baldwin plays Mike, a recently orphaned 13 year old living with his adult brother and guardian, Jody (Bill Thornbury). When Jody’s…

io9 Jason Shankel

Gnomon Gallery Pictures

Iron Man – Life-size original Iron Man armor Iron Man 2 – War Machine Iron Man 2 – 1/6 size Iron Man model Iron Man 2 – 1/6 size War Machine Model Iron Man and Iron Man 2 – Various masks Avatar – Neytiri maquette Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – Voodoo Man…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Alors, these eyeless French beasts are monstrously gorgeous!

io9 Weekend Roundup

Cosplay from Hell = giant screaming baby masks

Let’s go to the Gnomon School, the place where scifi concept art is born

Terrifying juggling machine can toss around five billiard balls at once

Is this the most confusing scifi TV ad ever filmed?

Check out Sean Young’s candid Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner

Why doesn’t our solar system have any gas giants close to the sun?

The mystery behind history’s most important isotope is solved at last

Vacation like a Bond villain in this invisible room near the Arctic Circle

Lasers reveal exactly how guitars create music

Is this a Christian icon in space – or a fire in microgravity?

What if Dino-Riders took place in medieval times?

Mirrors can actually create light through the magic of quantum weirdness

Sweet Christmas! Watch the Old Spice Guy play Luke Cage

True Blood BTS pics

Pow! Zam! Nyet! Superputin battles terrorists, protesters in online comic

Students banned from high school graduation because of lightsaber battle

Phantasm: a cult classic about the zombie Jawa industrial complex

Gnomon Gallery Pictures

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