The Somewhat Ambitious

From all reports, Paul is becoming slavishly addicted to the new Star Trek MMO (especially now that his WoW account has been hacked and his favourite character Stormbarrow has been reduced to a mere herb-farmer in the northern reaches – a travesty), so I thought this would be a good opportunity to throw down some hardkaw STAR WARS action in his face. And yours. Personally, I still don’t think he’s ever forgiven me for breaking the hushed silence at the premiere of the last Star Trek film with the line “So, when do we see the Jawas?” That and continually dropping deliberately inflammatory remarks such as “Star Trek totally ripped off Star Wars” and “Han Solo is a better Captain than Kirk could ever be”. I swear he came close to punching me once. Say what you will about him, the man is remarkably protective of his science fiction franchises.

Two pieces today from the good folk over at (the far more immodest) This Blog Rules. First up is a selection of hyper-abstract Star Wars posters from Soviet Russia. Obviously not being able to properly sanction anything that smacked of capitalist values, certain liberties had to be taken with the depiction of films. And when I say ‘certain liberties’, I mean it looks like they drew these before having seen the films and with the aid of naught but a 25-word precis. Something along the lines of “It’s a western film set in space, with robots, aliens and colourful swords. And when they fly fast in their spaceships lights start appearing. Twenty-five”

Han Solo really should have worn a hat that looked like this

… What the hell is that thing?

And second, there’s this series of really quite amazing photos from a French photographer Cedric Delsaux, basically exploring what it would like if Star Wars happened on Earth. More specifically, in Dubai. And what would happen? TOTALLY AWESOME SHIT WOULD HAPPEN!… It also looks like the Earth would be reduced to a bit of a lifeless wasteland, but hey, you take the good with the bad.

Sigourney Weaver in: AT-ATs in the Mist

Darth Vader waits for his date. His HOT date.

Just some bros. Chilling.

/Luke