Aurora Award Nominations Now Open

For those of you as yet unaware:

http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/nominations-renewals-and-works-lists/

I don't believe I qualify for any of those at this time, but I will note that, last year, the fan achievement award went unawarded due to insufficient numbers of nominees. If you know someone whom you believe worthy of it, please go nominate them for it. If you want/need my help with that, let me know and we'll see if we can't figure out a way for me to help.

Cartography in Superhero Movies - 3 January 2014

Some interesting mapping linkages re: Detroit and Gotham for the purpose of this movie:

http://whatculture.com/film/batman-v...fan-see.php/19

https://twitter.com/tribluis/status/532676691752386560

What do you see in those visuals?

Helicarrier Innards

This has been gnawing at my brain for a while now. If a classic Kirby-style Helicarrier is as long as a Nimitz-class CVN, what should the innards look like in a "Master Systems Display"-type cutaway, such as you'll see on the TNG/DS9/VOY-era Star Trek shows?

So I took scans of Eliot Brown's work - other people had put them up years earlier - and started running with them.

The dorsal radome encasing the "island" needs work to make it symmetrical, and there's a lot of work after that to get it to the level of an Okuda or a Hansen...



Note to Disney/Marvel legal staff: If you'd rather, I'll take this down. I hope you'll leave it be, as I need the mental exercise of this project.