Friday Six: Pacific Rim, Build-On Brick Mug, Boba Fett Screentest, Redshirts, and More
[dc]T[/dc]oday on the Friday Six: Wedding invitations, Build-On Brick Mug, digital Image Comics, Redshirts, Pacific Rim, and an early Boba Fett screen test.
[ ] Wedding invitations are in the mail! Which means my sanity will slowly regenerate (not that it was in much abundance at the start). I drew the invitations and complied all the elements in Photoshop. I’ll have a post, with pictures, soon. Related: Stephanie and I were engaged a year ago last month. Time flies!
[ ] ThinkGeek Geek Thing of the Week: This Build-On Brick Mug!
Finally, a legitimate reason to have coffee stains on my LEGO. (…Which sounds painful). According to ThinkGeek, while this mug isn’t officially licensed by Big Brick, it is compatible with:
To paraphrase Logan’s Run: “Build, builders!” And bring me a coffee. Make it two. BONUS FRIES: ThinkGeek has a 4th of July Sale right now, until July 7th. Get 20% off $40 or more. That’s a lot of LEGO brick mugs.
[ ] Congrats to John Scalzi for his novel Redshirts winning the 2013 Locus Best Science Fiction Novel award. Redshirts was the first book I ever purchased on my Kindle (roughly a year ago) and it is a fun read—especially, as the title suggests, for Star Trek fans.
BONUS FRIES: You can download the first four chapters of Redshirts to your Kindle for free.
[ ] Image Comics opened up their own digital comics store, and the comics are DRM-free (always a plus). I don’t read too many digital comic books from the big publishers, and my experience so far hasn’t been the best (difficulty getting comic books to load, readability issues, and so on). I am not against digital comics by any means though, I just need to give them another chance.
Do you download any comic books?
[ ] Via BoingBoing, a screen test of the early stages of the
Boba Fett costume (one of my favorite Star Wars characters, after Metal Bikini).
Boba Fett in white! He dares to wear white? Related: I’m still addicted to the Boba Fett pinball game I mentioned in last week’s Friday Six.
[ ] Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim opens next week (July 12th), and I am super-excited. /Film had the latest trailer, which focuses on the human cast, instead of the giant robots and monsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5fyl7AzU68
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Humans are fine and all, but they had me at ‘giant robots.’
Do you plan on seeing Pacific Rim?
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