Photo Galleries

The matryoshka doll -- or as it is better known, the Russian nesting doll -- has always fascinated me. If it's miniature and obsessively detailed you can pretty much count on me loving it. Apparently there are a few geeks out there who agree with me, and have taken it upon themselves to configure these super nerdy nesting dolls based on film favorites like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. As usual, Star Wars seems to reign supreme when it comes to geek toys. Check out some of my favorites in the gallery below. Nothing says cute like mini-me Stormtroopers!



[via Buzzfeed]

Read that title and you might be asking yourself: what's up with this crazy chick posting images from Italian men's Vogue on SciFi Squad? One look at the images will hopefully ease any concerns. The photographs, shot by Steven Klein in 2006, depict Vogue's play on a post-apocalyptic style -- before things like steampunk became uber popular.

The images are quite stunning -- and I like that the clothing used for the shoot isn't dripping with Victorian flourishes or is totally futuristic. The look is achieved instead with simple black and white, with touches of red, and a few basic details that suggest vintage/modern without screaming it. So, even if you don't like gazing at fashion spreads, just take a peek because these photographs look like they could be stills from some kind of decadent sci-fi nightmare. Some of my favorite images are in the gallery below.



[via Haute Macabre]

English model, actress, designer, and television presenter Kelly Brook teamed up with Total Film Magazine in Los Angeles for a set of film-related bikini photos -- including a super hot slave Leia costume. Other iconic film bikini shots include one inspired by Sophia Loren and what appears to be a little Raquel Welch, among others. Check it out in the gallery below. Also, there's a little video tease after the jump. Thank me later.

I'm a sucker for all things retro. From the 1930's to the 1970's, I just eat it up - furniture, genre films, clothes, etc. One of my favorite aspects, though, is that technicolor space age idea of the future that so many artists and architects expressed. Much of the fictional approaches were packed with danger and impossible creations - the suburbs of Mars, killer robots, or space travel to to unimagined cosmos. Yet all of this had a candy-coated optimism about it. It was simple and vibrant, despite the subject matter. While I don't know if the style has a specific name, you'd recognize it immediately. It graced the covers of model kits and scifi paperbacks for decades. It's pulpy and extraordinarily detailed.

Pink Tentacle has a spread of a particularly recognizable and prolific artist, Shigeru Matsuzaki. I haven't been able to find much about him online, but if any of you have any information, I'd love to have some prints or at the very least a coffee table book of this guy's work. I've grabbed one of them past the jump for you to check out. Head on over to Pink Tentacle to take a look at the rest.

Ain't it Cool News has posted a handful of reader-submitted pictures from the goods the Tron Legacy viral marketing campaign is currently dishing out to those who are playing along at home. I've included just one of these pictures above, for the Encom game Vice Squad, but AICN has a bunch more worth your perusing.

Now this is precisely why I think the Tron Legacy campaign is better than every other viral movie campaign out there. Here the studio is actually rewarding its die hard followers with collectible, tangible memorabilia throughout the campaign; not just during Comic Con or on selected days.

If you can't ride around in the Millennium Falcon or your very own X-Wing fighter, then maybe the next best thing is a bitchin' custom van plastered with a customized Star Wars mural. That's right -- custom vans don't just come with barbarians and babes on them -- some enterprising individuals have used their wannabe RVs to show off their love of George Lucas' iconic series of films. These rides won't take you to a galaxy far, far away, but they will draw the attention of love starved soccer moms.

German ad firm Butter wanted to prove that pin-ups weren't just for "craftsmen" with their latest ad campaign -- a sexy calendar far more at home in a doctor's office than ... wherever craftsmen hang out these days.

The calendar features models placed in seductive pin-up poses, then photographed to highlight medical imaging firm EIZO's newest "high-precision displays for the examination and diagnosis of radiographs." If you're into bony girls, and favor calcium over silicone, then these images will really do it for you. For the rest of you, they will probably just make you feel fat.

Get boned in the image gallery below.



[via Geekosystem]

For years, cosplayers (those who dress up as their favorite anime/movie/comic/videogame characters at conventions) have lived with the reputation that they're not scoring with the opposite sex. That may be true for guys running around in full Klingon regalia, but we've stumbled across visual proof that guys dressing up like Hobbits are definitely making inroads with the ladies.

Swedish Bed provides numerous examples of short dudes with hairy feet making love connections well outside of Middle Earth. Each one is equal parts magical and hilarious -- guaranteed to warm even Smaug's black heart while making the Balrog giggle at the absurdity of it all.

In the photos, Hobbits work their mojo on not only one, but often two fair maidens. Shy hobbits get cozy with tall Elvish chicks and their chest pillows. These curly-haired bigfoots have some serious skills. Check out the hotness in the gallery below.



[via The Swedish Bed]