Flash news for 2008-04-22
It’s official: FOX Renews Sarah Connor Chronicles for Season 2 - finally!
Sackhoff & Padalecki: Tv’s sexiest stars
Guess Who’s A Voice In WALL-E?
Empire’s quiz “how you know you become a Sci-fi TV geek”.
Robots made from sans-serif fonts.
Scientists on their
life-changing books.
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Flash News for 2008-04-20
The International Space Station from Above [PIC]
Worlds Collide as ‘Mortal Kombat’ Meets DC Comics
Inside Story of <em>Galactica</em>’s Crazy Closers
1972: Apollo 16 safely on Moon after engine crisis
Are You Prepared For The Paranormal? Most Haunted Series 9 On DVD
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Sci-fi artists: Carl Critchlow
Image via Wikipedia
First time I stumbled upon Carl Critchlow’s work is about 7years ago when I was first introduced to Magic: The Gathering card game. MTG features a lot of famous and some less famous artists but Carl’s pictures were sticking out of the bunch.
Carl Critchlow is a British artist working in mainly in the field of science fiction comics. His fully-painted style contributed to Judge Dredd series such as Son of the Mean Machine and “Dredd versus Batman” adventure The Ultimate Riddle. He also worked with Pat Mills on the third book of the series Flesh, entitled Flesh III: The Legend of Shaman. He created Thrud The Barbarian’ while still in at art college, in 1981. He also worked on such titles as ‘Mean Machine‘, ‘Magic the Gathering‘, ‘ABC Warriors‘ and ‘Lobo‘.
I used information about Carl Critchlow found on Wikipedia and Lambiek.
You can also check out his online gallery at www.carlcritchlow.com.
Here is some of his art:
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Cool Star Wars Urban photography
French photographer Cedric Delsaux has created a series of photos where he puts Star Wars characters and vehicles and transplants them into modern day urban locations.[Slashfilm].
For more pictures, go to Cedric Delsaux’s official site.
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Creating Compelling Characters - E.E. Knight
As an occasional writer I can say with much certainty that interesting and distinctive characters are the most important ingredient of a good story/book. That’s why I’m bringing you this article from E.E.Knight, pulp writer who writes his online journal - Bohemian Word Werks - and shares his experience and expertise with us:
Ask any editor, agent, or reader what really draws them into a story, and you’ll usually get some variant of “someone who is interesting caught up in a difficult situation.”
So how does a writer go about building a compelling character? It’s not so hard – if by “not so hard” you’re comparing it to juggling chainsaws or getting an IRS audit. But there are a few tricks of the trade we authors use to save us a whole lot of effort and readers thinking.
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Cool scifi movie posters
Abduzeedo, site about design, looks at some sci-fi movie posters. Not all of people like science fiction, they say, but no one can say that sci-fi doesn’t have coolest posters. Just look at some of them:
Click here to look all the posters.
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Hypercube rotating in 4dimensional space - gif
It’s confusing and cool - I can’t take my eyes of it 
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Nerd alert - cardboard Star Wars
Cardboard Star Wars?? I mean really, you guys don’t have anything else to do?
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Make a cylon contest
Dvice, Scifi.com and Make magazine started a Galactica themed contest. The idea is to have contestants mod something and to make it look like a Cylon robot. You can put photos of your entry on Flickr or video on YouTube with a special tag or just send them in to a specific e-mail address they’ve set up. The best ones will be featured on the Scifi channel.
PRIZES
The best entry or entries will be featured on the SCI FI Channel. Other prizes include:
- • Battlestar Galactica DVD box sets for seasons 1, 2 and 3
- • Battlestar T-shirts, posters and other exclusive swag
- • 10 MAKE year one box sets signed by the MAKE team!
For more information go visit Dvice contest page.
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Summer Glau in Vanity Fair
This is her picture from Vanity Fair magazine as a part of their “retro bombshell” portfolio. Doesn’t she look spectacular? 
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