My one gripe with this metal sculpture lamp table of Predator with nunchucks is that Predator doesn’t need nunchucks. He’s PREDATOR.
However, this table is also available with a machine gun, sword and spear (clearly the more realistic options).
I think if I were to purchase a Predator sculpture, I’d want it to be about seven feet tall and serve no other functional purpose but to stand in place and look intimidating.
I’ve had these three images bumming around on my desktop for a while.
I love this picture. The balloon really gives it a special touch, don’t you think?
Alas, poor Yorick…
This gets my vote for a mass produced child costume:
Since I’m a bit of an image junkie (okay, a tremendous image junkie), my desktop is always filled with random pictures that struck my fancy during Internet perusals. I try to offload them daily because they pile up fast.
Here are a few lurking there right now, waiting to be filed.
This one’s getting me in the mood for an upcoming trip to Maine:
Check it out. A Krampus named “Walter” (I don’t care that it’s out of season):
And a treat from Thrifthorror…orthropedic high heels? Yes, someone manufactured this design. If anyone can find the Bumpers brand shoe site responsible, please share!
This one is for my dad, and the other Star Trek fans I know.
Kellogg’s has surprised fans with waffles that have edible images on them of Star Trek characters, planets, logos, phrases, and technology. There are more than 25 different waffles available with this limited edition item.
Naturally, they came out in conjunction with 2009’s Star Trek movie (wouldn’t it be wonderful if vintage movies were randomly selected for artistically rendered waffles, without a remake to market?).
I like the retro feel of the images…
It’s quite a dilemma for collectors though. Eat them? Photograph them? Try to find some sort of high tech preservation method?
My personal favorite:
Sometimes life gives us pleasant synchronicity. I was planning to post my old collection of Russian spaced themed Christmas cards, and woke up to an email from Vlad containing a portion of the cards in my collection…and then some!
I’m not sure why I love the combination of outer space and Christmas so much. Perhaps it’s because if we’re going to celebrate a man who defies the laws of physics, why not go ALL OUT with it?
Wow…a lot going on here…
I could easily use up my image space by posting many more…but I’ll hold off.
See more here.
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has an awesome collection of sci-fi Christmas illustrated covers by Ed Emshwiller.
Space helmets on reindeer!
I love this series so much. See the rest here.
I’m a bit out of the bubblegum card loop (I think I stopped collecting after I amassed thousands of Garbage Pail Kids in the 80’s). Are there any modern cards as awesome as this Mars Attacks series from 1962?
I’m sure many of you are familiar with the Tim Burton flick, featuring these lovely martians:
But I encourage you to check out the original art by comic/pulp artist extraordinaire, Norm Saunders.
(Might I suggest the photo above as an e-card announcement for newly engaged couples?)
See the whole series here.
Artist site
And thanks to Monster Brains for reminding me of these.
As much as I love io9, I must admit that I went through this post like a child skipping text to look at pretty pictures in a book. The post itself may be helpful for those looking to write an epic space novel. The rest of us can just sit back and enjoy this spectacular sci-fi pulp art:
As a connoisseur of retro sci-fi pulp images, these are among my favorites that I’ve come across in a while.
Monster Brains just featured a great collection of vintage sci-fi book cover art. I have a few favorites from the bunch.
This one definitely warrants a caption contest. What exactly is the facial expression on the giant fish creature as he drains the blood of the young boy? Is he awestruck? Terrified? Aroused?
This enormous, lush-lipped bat seems to have whole forests on its hind quarters, and possibly a castle:
And you have to commend the imagination of this psychedelic, robotic, architectural, ant infested, lupine, space-collage skull…thing:
Remember the classic Twilight Zone episode Nick of Time, in which William Shatner becomes obsessed with a table top penny fortune teller called the Mystic Seer?
Well, now there is a prototype for a Mystic Seer bobble head!
It looks like they are making it in black and white. There’s something intriguing about a single object creating a observational time warp.
It seems there used to be a Mystic Seer Kit:
The finished product:
There is also an Invader prototype:
You’ll remember this fellow as the one who battled the giant woman in The Invaders.
These are actually reasonably priced enough for me to get (only $13). Going on the wish list…
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