This is a homemade R2-D2 crash helmet lovingly constructed by artist Jenn Hall. However she is not REQUIRED to wear it, so don’t ask her if she licks bus windows (trust me, she took offense when I did). Tell me a little bit more about that sweet R2D2 helmet you’ve got. How did you make it? Did you start off with some sort of simple one and paint it? Initially, it was the ugly duckling of helmets. It looked pretty jacked up before I did my fairy godmother thing to it. It was an odd, dark maroon color and it had been used as a rental helmet, so it had sustained damage over time. Long story short, I did a lot of spray painting and clear coating. Okay, I want that. And not just so I can recreate the scene where R2 gets spit out by the Dagobah dragonsnake swamp-monster, BUT HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE? “Like a 6 out of 10.” Jesus, that’s it?! Well I’m not gonna do it if it’s less than a 7. “Is there a chance you’ll die?” Haha, a HUUUUGE one. “It’s an 11.” Awesome — ready my cannon. Hit the jump for a bunch more of Jenn modeling the helmet and a link to her personal art page.

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R2-D2 Crash Helmet: Please Tell Me You Made That To Get Shot Out Of A Cannon

This is a shot from the recent Otakon of Krystal Belcher in her custom-painted pixelated Samus Aran costume taken by deviantARTist chozoboy . It is most clever. “I could do better.” No, you couldn’t. You could say that having never done it before but then if you actually tried you’d realize just how inept you are at cutting cardboard and painting different colored squares and have to give up to go troll the internet some more. “Jesus GW, it’s like you’re in my head!” Head, or stomach? Get it? Because I hid a scab in your Subway sub in the breakroom fridge. “That wasn’t my sub.” Oh good, because I actually just ate it. “SONOFA!” Haha, I knew it was yours. Hit the jump of several other shots.

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You Blocky, Girl!: Pixelated Samus Cosplay

Nobody told me it was bring your superhero to work day. A Chinese telecom worker, having decided casual Fridays were just way too f***ing casual , decided to show up for work last week in his homemade Iron Man Mk 1 costume, scaring the tech-supporting shit out of his coworkers, who probably assumed he was the lovechild of the Tin Man and a Terminator coming back to seek revenge for poor cell phone reception or something. That, or that he was a walking time-bomb. ‘No colleagues knew my mission, and some of them froze there in seeing me approach,’ he said. ‘Some were even screaming for being scared.’ He began building the costume at the end of February and it took him around three months to complete, at a cost of around $450. But Wang said the effort had been well worth it - with his costume drawing praise from his bosses and compliments from women. He claimed some had even ‘fallen in love’ with him because of it. ‘They said I am a happy and creative man, and they wanted to know me,’ he said. Oh sure, this guy wears a homemade Iron Man suit to work and gets praised by his bosses and worshipped by women and I wear my Superman pajama set and get “sent home early” and “asked why there’s skid marks on the ass.” THEY’RE FROM A BOTCHED LANDING, GOD. Hit the jump for a couple more shots and a video that really could have used a tripod/not a spaz filming.

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Iron Man Mk 1 Suit Gets Worn To Work

Huh? No not yours! Note: Worthwhile high-res version with four pics HERE . This is the Michelin Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (of Ghostbusters fame, derder!) stuck between a rock and a hard place piece of chocolate and graham cracker . Unfortunately, he’s not really edible, as everything’s made entirely out of modeling clay. “That’s never stopped me before!” Ha, me neither. They actually made me pay double lab fees for the pottery course I took in college because I was eating like two pounds a week. God, don’t even get me started on the glaze. Like Betty Crocker icing. S’more Puft [reddit] via Stay-Puft Man Trapped In A S’More [buzzfeed] Thanks to Chloe, who has the same name as my dog. You must be thrilled about that.

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I’ll Eat Your Ass!: The Stay Puft S’more Man

Picture moderately unrelated. The Healing Heroes Project is a nonprofit venture by do-gooder Josh Jenkins in which he gives terminally ill children in the hospital superhero “templates” to color and create the way they’d like, then Josh uses them to customize existing action figures into one-off’s of the children’s own designs. *wiping tear* Sorry — I think I got a shard of glass in my eye. Healing Heroes is a project dedicated to helping critically and terminally ill children. The aim of the project is to bring a little happiness into these childrens lives in a time when things might not be looking so bright for them. And what makes a kid happier than toys! More specifically the goal is to have the children design a superhero and within a week have an actual 1 of a kind custom action figure made for them from their design. It is my hope that this will in some small way help the kids through a really tough time in their lives and give them something positive to focus on while in the hospital. Josh is currently seeking action figure donations to help get the project underway (or start a massive action figure collection on the cheap), so if you’re interested in helping out be sure to go check out his website for details. Then, pat yourself on the back and pray Ol’ St. Nick wasn’t f***ing napping. I EXPECT BIG THINGS THIS YEAR, FAT MAN! The Healing Heroes Project Thanks to Taylor, who wishes all the sick children Wolverine-like recoveries. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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Good Causes: The Healing Heroes Project

This is Freddie Wong’s take on Mario Kart in real life. It’s different from Remi Gallard’s versions because, instead of relying on being a jackass, Freddie relies on computer effects . Me? I rely on side effects. ‘Don’t Mix With Alcohol’ my ass — it’s the only way daddy gets drunk anymore! “GW, those are prenatal vitamins.” Haha, I have been pissing a lot of iron lately. Also, pumpin’ it . Roid rage — ROID RAGE! *dry-humps a Bowflex into a pile of dust* Hit the jump for the short but worthwhile video.

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BOOM, RED SHELLED! More Mario Kart IRL

But that rug really tied the room together! Using 3-D video-mapping technology, the guys at Mr. Beam were able to transform a plain white living room filled with plain white furniture into whatever kind of fancily decorated living room they desired by projecting different patterns onto the various elements. Coooooool. Now make the couch look like a pile of skulls! We created an unique physical 3D video mapping experience by turning a white living room into a spacious 360 projection area. This technique allowed us to take control of all colors, patterns and textures of the furniture, wallpapers and carpet. All done with 2 projectors. Granted it’s not very practical for an actual living room unless you live entirely in the kitchen and only admire the space from the tent you built out of a bedsheet and barstools, because once you step foot in there you gonna be casting all kinda shadows. And, just like that, your cool-lookin’ living room turns into less of a place to relax, and more of a place to be blinded by a projector and stub your toes on the f***ing coffee table. You think I won’t saw that leg off?! CONSIDER YOUR ASS TRIPODED! Hit the jump for the very worthwhile video.

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Eye Candy: 3-D Video-Mapped Living Room Is Like Having A Million Living Rooms In One

Remember the Street Fighter IV ultra combos video from a couple weeks ago? Pretty awesome, right? Yeah, TOO BAD IT WAS A TOTAL SAUSAGE LUNCHEON. So to make up for all the man-meat, the creators decided to shoot another video featuring ladies bringing the pain to a bunch of goofuses. How these dudes even got in the Street Fighting league is beyond me, but I suspect it has something to do with having a rich uncle alumni. Which, fun fact, is the only way half our youth is going to get into college after filling out their entrance essays in text-talk. Just watch, in twenty years there won’t even be any new scientists. Strippers and cheap laborers, yes. “I’m cool with that.” Oh I know you are, buddy. “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” HA! You do realize you just admitted you’re still a one-off, right? Hit the jump for the femme fatales in action.

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Street Fighter Ultra Combos: Now With Ladies

I am impress. Granted I thought it was a peen-eating plant growing out of a vagina at first, but you know what they say: you see what you want to . Anyway: a LEGO still-life of a spraypaint can exploding made by Cole Blaq (who also made this piece featured earlier). I swear, people can get so creative. Like last night when I was stumbling home from the bar I saw a man who, in lieu of a public restroom, was dropping his kids off in a storm drain . It being clearly marked ‘NO DUMPING: DRAINS TO RIVER’ aside, the Los Angeles River isn’t so much a river as it is a concrete cesspool THAT I STILL SEE PEOPLE FISHING IN anyways. So yeah — not feeling so creative now are you, Da Vinci?! “For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” What. in. the. — ARE YOU HIGH AGAIN?! Paint me naked? One more shot after the jump, along with a link to Cole’s website with a ton more LEGO works (a lot of which are spraypaint themed for some reason. I suspect huffing ).

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Exploding Spraypaint Can Made In LEGO

This is the video for Daft’s Punk’s first single, ‘Derezzed’, off the TRON: Legacy soundtrack. It’s pretty badass. The song too. Almost enough to make me forget Disney is behind the whole production. Almost . But like another famous mouse once told me, “Here I come to save the day!” Dammit — not you, Mighty. “Where a kid can be a kid?” Close enough, Chuck — TO THE BALL-PIT! Hit the jump for the very worthwhile song and video.

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Daft Punk’s TRON-Inspired Music Video