Force Friday Fun: Build a 1:18 Scale Cardboard U-Wing from Rogue One
An incredible 1:18-scale cardboard Star Wars U-Wing with free, downloadable plans.
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This Retro Futuristic Ray Gun Is Upcycled and Awesome
No self-respecting interplanetary home owner would be caught without this ray gun stowed in their rocket ship.
Giaco Whatever Builds an Industrial Style Space Lamp
What’s the easiest thing to start making? A Lamp. Giaco Whatever demonstrates with a cool space inspired lamp.
6 Sci-Fi Cat Dwellings That Let Your Pet Make a Giant Leap for Feline-kind
Does your cat spend all day dreaming of exploring the stars? Well, there’s no way to prove they don’t, so here’s six Sci-Fi cat houses.
The Out of This World Air Show
One of the reasons people build scale models is for the suspension of disbelief they can experience while contemplating their finished creations. When you build a spaceship, you have your imagined moments inside that ship. Same with a muscle car. Or a WWII diorama. So it only makes sense, in our increasingly analog-digital hybrid world, […]
Babystepping Towards the Holodeck
Sci-fi fans have grown up dreaming of stepping into a virtual world that’s indistinguishable (in sensual terms) from this one. Just load up a program and you’re in different a time, or another world. As technology has advanced, we’ve seen virtual worlds and characters become increasingly realistic, but we’ve only had a chance to view […]
Alt.Comic-Con: The Shortening Distance Between Imagination and Media
On Friday, I spent a lot of my time focusing on the Small Press Pavilion and other publishing efforts on the indie end of the Comic-Con spectrum. Given the immensity of the con, and the fact that the rather small Small Press Pavilion is literally in the shadows of big media company booths, it definitely […]
