The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they’ve done.

Jean-Luc, blow up the damn ship.

scifigeneration:

televandalist:

Jedi Sanders

what you know about…

starwarsuncut:

Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut

Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The Director’s Cut is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.

Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.

The Story:

In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.

We can’t thank everyone enough for making this such a special project.

Watch it now.

wookieekisses:

everythingelseilove:

Star Wars

 HA!  Love

fystarwars:

Lord of the Lightsaber, Bob Anderson, dies (1922-2012)

Rest in Peace.

scifitwin:

ratherchildish:

Hold that Slave high. (Kenner, 1980)

I miss this toy. It was awesome.

…the one that got away. I didn’t have this one. I was a Landspeeder and Falcon owner, though.  I have to admit I wasn’t a “fan of the Fett” until years later. I remember seeing this advertised on TV and thinking,  even then, that the ship’s design could use just  one more revision. Wheras the Falcon was just perfect to me.

crookedindifference:

A Guide to Bad Space Science In Movies

Sorry to ruin your enjoyment of Mission to Mars—or, fine, Aliens and Star Wars—but it joins a host of sci-fi movies that just can’t quite get their space science right. Here are the most common offenses and offenders.

You’ll note that The Right Stuff and Apollo 13, the two movies that are based on actual events, come off clean. Everyone else? Fast and loose with physics! But if you thought the most unbelievable part of Armageddon was that there was sound in space, well, maybe you just know more about asteroid drilling than I do.

The Making of Star Wars

The special was hosted by Anthony Daniels (as C-3PO) and R2-D2. A voiceover narration was additionally supplied by William Conrad. (Because…who knows what Kenny Baker sounds like. No, really. Do you?)  It features behind-the-scenes footage from Star Wars, and interviews with writer/director George Lucas, producer Gary Kurtz, and castmembers Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Alec Guinness.

ronworkman:

Imperial Star Destroyer & X-Wing Blueprints – by Vespertin

(via:tiefighters)

The Rebellion supports open source. Love it.

theatlanticvideo:

How NASA’s Kepler Plans to Find Another Earth

Kepler is NASA’s first mission capable of finding habitable planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. This overview from NASA explains how Kepler works, and why it matters.

pacalin:

AT-AT in Chicago – by Tony Bamber

tiefighters:

NYC Lightsaber Battle

Several hundred Star Wars enthusiasts filled Washington Square to swing Light Sabers at each other and celebrate culture from a galaxy far, far away. See the full set of photos at Dave Bledsoe’s flickr.

via: gothamist

kevinblog:

- Nerd or Geek ? -

More than questionable.

via : http://gizmodo.fr/

Okay can we get past the Star Wars v. Star Trek thing? It is totally possible to like both. Also, everyone knows that true geeks are Blake’s 7 fans. So there.

trappedonearth:

Star Trek vs. Star Wars (by WilliamShatner) #StarWars #StarTrek

I love them both, but I will have to disagree with William Shatner here. Star Wars is not derivative of Star Trek. Sure there are some influences, but there are influences from many works and genres present. Also ILM worked on every Star Trek film (and I believe TV series) to some degree from at least Wrath of Khan going forward (I can’t speak to the JJ Abrams’ 2009 remake and ILM may have been absent for Star Trek V).

That said, I think even Shatner knows he is just being a goofball here in this interview.

life:

NASA said its Kepler telescope found a planet that orbits two suns — a larger a K dwarf and a smaller red dwarf, seen above in an illustration. The planet has been nicknamed Tatooine, the “Star Wars” body that also had two suns.

see more — NASA Envisions Alien Worlds

I’m just saying…No Star Trek planet names were available?

jedigrrrl:

Star Wars Ren II – “Death Starry Night”

via RobotVSBadger and Worth1000

sheedo:

little nostalgia – Ad by Disney – getting everyone excited for their StarWars Weekends

I’m all in!

totalfilm:

The Story Behind Star Wars

Star Wars starts with George Lucas, the boy from Modesto (the nearest thing they have to Tatooine in California) who grew up to be the bearded billionaire king of blockbusters.

Born in May 1944 to a stationary store-owning father, George grew up watching Buck Rogers serials and racing cars. He studied anthropology at college (“How society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest. [It’s] where mythology comes from, where religion comes from”) before heading off to USC to enrol in the university’s new film course…

The most-ignored remake-worthy film of the 1980s.

The Last Starfighter (1984) dir. Nick Castle

(via ambientcentre)

Oh snap, it’s Star Wars, MST3K’ed!

ratherchildish:

Pendulum Press, 1978. (via theforce.net)

starportone:

scifitwin:

ratherchildish:

I can’t even count the ways.

I love all of Winkie’s work.

hold up. what?

justinrampage:

Being bored out of your cranium when buying batteries could be a thing of the past, if designer Spencer Bigum has anything to do with it. His new iconic promo packaging designs would make sure of that!

Duracell Promo Packaging by Spencer Bigum (Facebook)

Via: Flooby Nooby | Lovely Package

VIDEO: A Tribute To Sci-Fi.

This was really well and thoughtfully done.

apio:

We all know how I feel about sci-fi?  Well, now you can see why.  I made a mashup of the sci-fi films that defined my lifetime—a tribute to the greatest of all genres.  Best viewed with volume high, in 480p.

starwarsappreciation:

Star Wars themed home movie screen.

…yep. That’s pretty much the story.

…a little late now, Anakin.

VW: The Dark Side Episode II

VW is threatening Earth by opposing cuts to C02 emissions. Join the Rebellion and turn Volkswagen away from the Dark Side.

tashistation:

Well… hellooooo Ms. Vader.

It’s just not the same without the cape.

mothlightmagazine:

Cast and crew on the Tatooine set of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)

No school like the old school.

geekleetist:

geekchicla:

On second thought mom, I think I will give you a grandkid… Or two!!!

•Geekleetist: My testicles exploded!•

creolesoul:

Years before the Star Wars franchise lit up the eyes of adults and children alike, the US Army was working with General Electric on the “Walking Truck” project, basically a large walker which was controlled by a lever-pushing operator.

Called the Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (or CAM for short), the walker may not have been used by the US Army in combat on rough terrains, but the idea was certainly explored by them in the early ’60s, as the video here shows.

Unlike the At-At walkers, a human had to actually sit in the CAM and control the walker using hydraulic levers. Its strength seems pretty high, considering it can kick a small Jeep aside with ease, but according to the video it was possible to be gentle too, with the operator able to feel the resistance when the walker’s foot was touching an object.

At the time the video was filmed, the CAM was sitting in an Army warehouse in Detroit somewhere, but it appears to have been painted red along the way, and is now on show at the US Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis. There’s something rather spooky hearing that “the technology that went into its creation is available for future applications,” and that back then they believed “the interfacing of this technology with a more advanced one will bring us that much closer to the realization of a mechanical man.”

(via Gizmodo)

A full authentic Jedi manual. I’ll take one of these. Thank you.

(via figure.fm, cosmonium)

comicscavern:

The Worst Couple in the Universe: Han and Leia

dbsw:

Warping In // by captchaos

creolesoul:

#DeadbeatDadWin

getemoutforthelads:

YES

Absolutely.

creolesoul:

#DeadbeatDadWin

getemoutforthelads:

YES

Absolutely.

laughingsquid:

R2-D2 Grabage Can

that’s…a LOTTA time on somebody’s hands.

afterthoughtswithhieu:

Did every filmmaker in the 1970s have a beard or something? LOL

comicbookcovers:

Star Wars #2, August 1977

“The more you…

1978 Star Wars Underoos commercial. Yes, the R2D2 Underoos were for girls. I don’t know. But there they are.

Here are some images of swag that will  be available from May 20 when Star Tours: The Adventures Continue open at Disneyworld. As cool as this is,  and for as much as I’ll totally be there for this…I’m a little salty that Star Trek:The Experience  in Las Vegas is still closed. I still have the stuff I bought from there during “Nemesis”, yeah,  but still…
(via geektyrant)

Here are some images of swag that will  be available from May 20 when Star Tours: The Adventures Continue open at Disneyworld. As cool as this is,  and for as much as I’ll totally be there for this…I’m a little salty that Star Trek:The Experience  in Las Vegas is still closed. I still have the stuff I bought from there during “Nemesis”, yeah,  but still…
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nerdcandy:

Unreal 3 Will Power ‘Star Wars’

LucasArts has announced a multi-year deal to utilize the same engine technology that powers Gears of War.

The new agreement indicates that LucasArts will use the ubiquitous technology of Unreal Engine 3 across all platforms, including mobile, PC, current-gen consoles, and the inevitable next-gen consoles.

“Unreal Engine 3 is a forward-looking solution that shortens the path between inspiration and execution on a wide variety of gaming platforms. We are thrilled to add another exceptional tool to our technology mix,” says Zak Phelps, director of technology at LucasArts.

Anyone else ready for a new Jedi Knight game, this time powered by Unreal?

nerdcandy:

Unreal 3 Will Power ‘Star Wars’

LucasArts has announced a multi-year deal to utilize the same engine technology that powers Gears of War.

The new agreement indicates that LucasArts will use the ubiquitous technology of Unreal Engine 3 across all platforms, including mobile, PC, current-gen consoles, and the inevitable next-gen consoles.

“Unreal Engine 3 is a forward-looking solution that shortens the path between inspiration and execution on a wide variety of gaming platforms. We are thrilled to add another exceptional tool to our technology mix,” says Zak Phelps, director of technology at LucasArts.

Anyone else ready for a new Jedi Knight game, this time powered by Unreal?

thefrogman:

The Social Empire

fuckyeahfictionalmaps:

Star Wars Galaxy map.

…you’re welcome.

tk9415:

Yes!!!

justinrampage:

Note From Artist: “These are the droids you’re looking for! Express your feeble human emotions with these new wallpapers from Paperbeatsscissors.”

Droid Feelings by Chris Gerringer (Blog) (deviantART) (Facebook)

laughingsquid:

Video of The 1996 High School Production of Star Wars the Musical

“I Think George Lucas is gonna SUE somebody!” – Chris Rock

svalts:

Hoth’s Prisoner // by Loisel Jerome

pacalin:

Foreign Workers – Singapore – by Brendan Fitzpatrick

A series dedicated to the vast and anonymous army of transient workers who maintain Singapore’s services and infrastructure.

Check out the other photos here.

neighborhoodr-seattle:

Star Wars Exhibit comes to Pacific Science Center. At the “Star Wars”-themed exhibit, you can climb into the cockpit of Han Solo’s ship the Millennium Falcon and, as it rumbles to life, it actually feels like you’re jetting through space.

abcworldnews:

Very Cute! Little Girl Decides to Join the Dark Side on Family Trip to Disneyland

Hilarious. This girl is living the dream! 

The Star Tours section of the parks is fun,  a must visit, and one of the highlights of Hollywood Studios in Florida.

assorted-goodness:

May newton’s second law of motion be with you.. okay then.

Hello, my name is Captain Piett, and this is how my Monday started. I have since been promoted. So, there’s that.

Stabbing at Leia’s (Uncensored)

(an ill Star Wars Fan Film) 

scifitwin:

I knew that bit from Spaced about Jar Jar would get him in trouble.

thebeeobee:

I missed this episode of antique roadshow.

apparently, so did I.

dbsw:

Knight of Passage // by Jerry Vanderstelt

Get a hand signed giclee print here.

(via pacalin)

svalts:

Into an Asteroid // by Dane Ault

Millenium Falcon

Website || deviantART

theforce:

Star Wars R2-D2 Xbox 360 with projector

yeeeeah. The detail, the detail!!!

theforce:

Charlie Sheen’s Rant v Darth Vader – SHEEN WARS Mashup

Oh no.

collegehumor:

SOTW: Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s ‘Star Wars’: A few days ago in a desert not so far away…

Very often, people will say that…

MAN did I get a good chuckle out of this!

But sometimes, it works. The Ferrari Puma stuff, for example. Love it. They’re mostly the only red items of clothing I own, actually. I also love the Ecko Star Wars stuff, and when I thought about it, I’m totally waiting on the Ecko/Timex watches (Boba Fett Indiglo. Yeah.) so I wondered…could Adidas do something I’d actually wear (with the Ecko stuff, preferably?)

And if not, is it something cool enough for my Clone Wars-loving son to rock?

Yep. This is Star Wars gear even a Trekker can love.

credits for the video ad:

Agency: Sid Lee
Director: Nima Nourizadeh
Production House: Partizan
Editing: Daniel Sherwin
Special Effects: The Mill – London
Sound Design: Mathieu Lafontaine
Mix: Boogie Studio
Production: Jimmy Lee

Plus, their online campaign is wonderful. It’s one of the few campaigns that is truly geeky, in that the time and budget it must have taken to A) line up David Beckham and Snoop for these ads and B) code the facebook connect functionality for the landing page — is to much for a niche segment of the brand. No, someone at Adidas loves them some Star Wars. And God bless ‘em for it!