Fear And Bending In Brooklyn

It had never occurred to me before seeing this image, but yeah, Bender makes an excellent Hunter S. Thompson. (Jared Wright for Bottleneck Gallery's Gizmos and Gadgets show)

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Fear And Loathing On Sesame Street
Fear and Loathing In The Mushroom Kingdom
When The Going Gets Weird, The Weirdo Turns Pro

Here I Am, Brain The Size Of A Planet...

How many of these robots can you identify. I got 19/30 — not bad, not great. (Famous Robots by Daniel Nyari)

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Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Heavyweight Champion Of The World
The Birth Of Robot Punk
Vitruvian Robot

These Are The Droids You're Looking For

"Ok we all know what happened here, Stolen Death Star plans handed back and reward taken..." Bender's got to look out for Bender, baby. (Chris Thornley for Art V Cancer)

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Watchin' Calvin & Hobbes
May The Futurama Be With You
Robot Spare Parts

Who Watches The Egg Council?

Easter egg decorating has come along way since I was a kid. Geek culture has taken over. Above, Rorschach, the Comedian's pin and Dr. Manhattan Easter eggs, via The Sci-Fi Guys.

Bite my shiny, metal egg. Bender Easter egg by Rakka.

Master Shake Easter egg by Rakka.

Super Mario Bros. Easter eggs, via Instructables.

More Geek Easter egg goodness:
Neatorama: 14 Wonderfully Geeky Easter Eggs
Blastr: 12 sets of sci-fi-themed eggs
Dorkly: Hidden Easter Eggs
Gamma Squad: 30 Geeky Easter Eggs

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Chocolate Bunny In Carbonite
Battlestar Galact-egg-a
How To Tell Your Kids About The Easter Bunny

Robotic Companions

Some of Nathan Stapley's recent pieces for Gallery 1998 are up for sale as prints, letting me revisit one that I didn't get around to posting — Robotic Companions. I really like the look of his work, especially when it involves 15 awesome robots.

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Where's WALL-E?

Exterminate! Exterminated

Robot Spare Parts

Forbidden Planet Express

Bender: I came to Earth with a simple dream: To kill all humans. And this is how it must end!?

Bender is Robby the Robot in this Forbidden Planet/Futurama mashup. Leela's looking good though. (Forbidden Future at shirt.woot, link via Shopped Sci Fi)

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Exterminate! Exterminated

Robots On The Horizon

Famous Robots Roles During The Robot Apocalypse

Famous Robots Roles During The Robot Apocalypse

There are some small errors in this (seems C-3PO becomes a Borg during the apocalypse and Bender's primary objectives are bending, "cheesing" it, and killing all humans,) but I love how they all turn on us in the end. (Robot Roll Call by Pleated-Jeans, via zupaztrupa)

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Robot Spare Parts

The Android Team

I Fought The Laws...