Won Park’s incredible collection of well known objects, such as vessels from Star Trek and Star Wars, pretty much made exclusively from dollar notes.
To boldly go where no origami artist has gone before
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 28 January, 2010 to the design and art subset
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Chewbacca was far more than just Han Solo’s sidekick
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 18 January, 2010 to the movies subset
From 2005, an article about the original Star Wars movie (Episode Four, A New Hope) that somewhat revises the significance of Chewbacca (Chewie), and a number of other seemingly second-string characters.
Then, on the verge of escape, Vader himself turns up only yards from both of his children, one of whom is leaking Force [...]
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It surrounds us and penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 27 November, 2009 to the comment subset
Imagine that if in a certain far, far, away galaxy Facebook, not the Force, had bound the galaxy together.
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The making of the Death Star’s stolen animated plans
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 9 November, 2009 to the technology subset
The animated Death Star plans – as seen during the Rebel’s pre-attack briefing in the original Star Wars film – was created through a painstaking process of sketching, digitising, and programming.
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Star Wars episode four remastered in… ASCII
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 26 October, 2009 to the movies subset
A version of Star Wars episode four rendered entirely with ASCII characters, created by Simon Jansen.
And if Jar Jar Binks was not your cup of tea then you may enjoy the ASCII version of his (fanciful) demise.
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An atlas of the – not so big – Star Wars galaxy?
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 31 August, 2009 to the design and art subset
Yes, there’s been a few mentions of things Star Wars here recently, and here’s another item, an atlas of the Star Wars galaxy…
One recurring source of amusement for me across the movie series was that fact that no matter how “remote” or “far-flung” a certain planet or location in the Star Wars galaxy was, [...]
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Hopefully the force will compensate for some of our bad design
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 to the movies subset
It’s only science fiction, but for a highly developed civilisation with many thousands of years of technological know-how behind them, a lot of the design of the Star Wars universe is highly flawed to say the least.
R2-D2: Sure, he’s cute, but the flaws in his design are obvious the first time he approaches anything but [...]
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What really happened during the filming of Star Wars
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 21 August, 2009 to the photography subset
Talking of Star Wars here is another “rarely seen” collection of photos taken during the production of the original Star Wars movie.
And for a snigger there’s also this Magnum PI versus Star Wars YouTube video that’s been doing the rounds.
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A galaxy far, far away that was choke full of mistakes
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 to the movies subset
Seven of the most significant blunders from the Star Wars movies…
In Episode IV, Admiral Motti, riding high on the whole “Death Star” thing, finally decides he’s going to tell Vader off just like he practiced over the phone with his mother. After bragging that he’s not scared of Vader, he tells him that his “sad [...]
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Architects vote on their favourite ten Star Wars buildings
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 19 June, 2009 to the design and art subset
A look at the architecture of some of the Star Wars movie series most prominent props, including the second Death Star, and old republic capital, Coruscant.
Like adding New York to Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, then squaring the result. The capital of the Old Republic takes urban sprawl to the extreme and realises the vision [...]
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