Hasta La Gadget!

Doctor Who gets mashed up with Adventure Time in this amazing piece of art by James Hance. You got your Doctor Who in my Adventure Time! No, your Adventure Time is in my Doctor Who!

It is absolutely perfect. I would pay to see this show. Finn is the Eleventh Doctor and Jake is the Tenth. Lumpy Space Princess is an Adipose. Of course. Ice King is a Weeping Angel, while Gunther and his pals are Daleks. The TARDIS? BMO of course. The only thing missing is that he should have put Princess Bubblegum in here as Amy Pond. How perfect would that have been?

This mural  is done with acrylic paint, measures about 4×5 feet and is now on the wall of Hance’s 9-year-old daughter’s room. I wish I had this on the wall of my house. Thankfully, James does plan on offering the design on prints and t-shirts in the next couple of weeks. Mathematical!

[via Neatorama]

I’ve always thought it was creepy to hang the heads of dead animals on your wall. They always look like they are watching you as you move around the room. If you are a big fan of The Empire Strikes Back, you might not mind hanging this animal head on your wall.

What we have here is a DIY Wampa head made out of cardboard boxes, newspaper, tape, glue, faux fur, and a few other household items. It looks a lot like paper mache, but it’s not. It was made by the fine folks at OurNerdHome, and its builders say they spent only about $20 on the project.

While there aren’t step-by-step instructions, the images do give you an idea of what you need to do to make your own. I wonder what kind of fur was used. It looks sort of like the fur on that Wampa rug we talked about a while back.

This is certainly one of the coolest DIY Star Wars projects I have seen.

Gremlins was one of my all-time favorite childhood movies. It featured just the right proportion of slapstick humor, gore and action for a teenage boy. In tribute to this classic popcorn flick, one talented artist has created a fully-functional puppet version of Stripe, one of the eponymous gremlins.

RPF contributor Batgremlin built this DIY gremlin using cast flexible foam, and built mechanical moving arms with articulating fingers, and even moving eyeballs for the little green dude. Check him out in action in the video below – my favorite part is when the puppeteers are revealed against the greenscreen.

Batgremlin doesn’t share too many details on how he built it, but I’m betting he made a Gizmo puppet first, then fed it after midnight.

[via The RPF]

It’s hard to know where to begin describing artist Jan Manski’s brutal new show forthcoming at London’s BREESE LITTLE gallery. Called "Possesia" and opening to the public on February 26, it’s a surreal and over the top look at "archaic instruments" turned into end-of-the-world machinery used by some unnamed conquering force of the future.

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This new RoboCop movie does not care that anyone might compare it unfavorably to the original 1987 RoboCop movie. It has been programmed not to care about these things. The most readily available metaphor, which is also true, is that the new movie has killed the human mind and guts of its predecessor and kept the cold mechanical body. The whole thing is flat and obvious; even its musical cues land with the clanking unsubtlety of its protagonist’s metallic footsteps.

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