Sports Buzz The sporting goods chain GoFree has cornered the Ukranian market on safety helmets.
Propmaker Andrew Ainsworth takes you through a step-by-step process on how to make your very own Stormtrooper helmet. Fun fact: Ainsworth recently defeated Lucasfilm in a legal dispute over the right to sell sculptures of the Imperial headgear, which he designed for George Lucas and sold to The God Of Flannel himself back in the '70s for approximately $32 per helmet. (via.)
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My religion? I created it myself. You've probably never heard of it…yet. Until I take the battlefield wearing this ridiculous dashing helmet.
No, the better question is, “Why wouldn't a lady stormtrooper hug an elephant heart?” Great thigh highs, too.
A telenovela about a dysfunctional advertising agency, revolving around a plucky junior copywriter in a wheelchair and the raging executive who accuses her of stealing bananas. This is, of course, not a real show. But after lines like “You think you're so cool with your fixie wheelchair,” you wish to God that it was.
Daft Punk brought us robot headgear, but now The Sonic Cubes are kicking it up a notch. Recorded by Neon Golden, a visual artists collective from Vienna. (via Distracticon.)
A man with a helmet containing live goldfish showed up at the 2011 Edwardian Ball, a steampunk goth costume event. Daft Punk, take note.