Category: Creativity
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The Force Is Strong With The Cupcake Wars on Food Network!
Sooooo, I have been keeping this a secret for a long time but I am so excited to finally announce that I had the AMAZING opportunity to be a guest judge on this Sunday’s brand new Star Wars episode of The Cupcake Wars! I am a self proclaimed cupcake connoisseur and when I got the […]
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501st at Dragon*Con 2012 – My Kind of Convention: Fearless and Inventive
As the curtain slowly fell on the splendor of Star Wars Celebration VI, with many members of the 501st already beginning preliminary plans for Celebration Europe II, a small, but hardy — some might say die-hard — detachment of troops made their way up to Atlanta, Georgia after a few days recovery for the majesty […]
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Dragon*Con Star Wars Costume Contest: Where do we go from here?
If there’s one thing that’s central to the Dragon*Con experience, it’s costumes. You can’t wave a stick in any of the host hotels without whacking a costumed attendee. (Please, don’t wave sticks at cons with the intent of whacking people.) And because the con is so huge, most tracks have their own costume contests, in […]
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I can’t come to school today, I have to go to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters.
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SWCVI: Ralph McQuarrie Retrospective: First 4 Minutes
On August 24, 2012 at Star Wars Celebration VI, fans witnessed the premiere screening of the Ralph McQuarrie Retrospective. Now, take an exclusive look at the first 4 minutes of the film.
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SWCVI: Japanese Star Wars Vegetable Carving
A sushi chef from Japan, Okitsugu Kado, is also well known for his talent in vegetable carving. Oki started creating intricate Star Wars vegetable pieces after making his very first simple R2-D2. His vast amount of talent and love for his art got him on the cover of the UK edition of National Geographic with […]
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UPDATED WITH WINNERS: Star Wars Celebration VI Fan Video Contest
Congratulations Week 4 Winner: Jedi Jesse
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SWCVI: What I Want to Do, Part One
Each Celebration, while working on the programming for the show, I come up with a mental list of what I would do if I were coming to the show as an attendee rather than as part of the production. Don’t get me wrong – what I do is really fun. I can’t think of any […]
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SWCVI: Come get Dirty with us… Return To Tatooine Diorama Builders Booth
As you can see, Katie is already painting her Slave Quarters Tatooine creation that you and your family can also choose to build at this years Celebration VI Diorama Builders booth, but I am getting ahead of myself…
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Star Wars Uncut: Kent Meloy
Star Wars has long been opined as a continuation of the Western, complete with saloon shootouts, lone/Solo rangers, and bounty hunters. Some have paid homage to this inspiration with cinematic comparisons or reimagined action figures.
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SWCVI: Your Guide to the Celebration VI Tattoo Pavilion
Ink Fusion mastermind Marc Draven and myself, are proud to bring you the biggest and best Celebration Tattoo Pavilion we’ve ever hosted at a Celebration event! To help make your Celebration tattoo experience the absolute best possible they’ve put together this handy guide detailing all of the Star Wars tattoo-tastic goodness you can expect to […]
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Star Wars and Origami, a Match Made on the Freeway
A long time ago on a freeway far, far away . . . . I was driving home after teaching some kindergarten students how to make an origami penguin when it occurred to me that a penguin and a B-Wing starfighter are very similar. In my head, I figured out how to rework the penguin […]
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SWCVI: Jeffrey Brown and Son
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Dork Vader
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SWCVI: How Star Wars Saga in 60 Minutes Came to Be
Ten years ago, George Lucas asked me to do something. And I didn’t do it. I didn’t not do it to be a jerk. I didn’t try and wait to give myself time to grow a better beard than him. (I couldn’t do it anyway. That dude knows how to rock a beard, especially as […]
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SWCVI: We Call Her Roxy
As a member of the 501st Legion’s Florida Garrison since 1999, I’ve been fortunate enough to take part in dozens of trooping events throughout the Sunshine State. And out of all of those memorable dates, none has stood out so much in my mind as Star Wars Celebration V two years ago. When I found […]
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SWCVI: So you want to build a droid…
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SWCVI: “The Imperial Dogs” Prop Crew Mission Report
“Many Star Wars fans will come to Celebration VI? … Personally?? … THEN we will DOUBLE our efforts!!!” For us, It doesn’t take an emperor visiting his Death Star construction site as motivation, we just do our very best for all the fans! Today I’ll take you with me, to the very heart of our […]
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SWCVI: The Art of Ralph McQuarrie
It sounds like a cliché, but when it comes to The Art of Ralph McQuarrie, preparations for the next Star Wars Celebration pretty much begin on the flight home from the last one. Despite having exhibited at all seven prior Star Wars Celebrations, Celebration V was a particularly challenging undertaking for us. For the first […]
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SWCVI: The As You Wish Helmet Project: Boba Fett
I could talk for days about Boba Fett, his popularity in modern culture, his mystique and his infamy, but my true passion for Boba Fett, as with so many things in Star Wars, is not so much the character of Boba Fett (after all, he was little more than a minor background figure with only […]
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DIY Jabba the Hutt Shoes
It’s no secret that I have a crush on Jabba the Hutt. What can I say? I find his laugh irresistible. So what better way to show my love for the coolest gangster in the galaxy than by wearing him on my feet! Recently crafters have been hand-painting TOMS shoes with their favorite Star Wars characters. There have been […]
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Jedi Paper Tricks
Fumiaki Kawahata’s amazing Origami Yoda is a very busy paper Jedi. There is usually a pretty steady stream of people discovering him and then tweeting their friends: “Someone make me one of these!” Or “Hard to fold this looks!” And every once in a while the stream turns into a flood, as happened a few […]
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SWCVI: A long ten years ago… Celebration Diorama Workshop was born
If you are a fan of custom dioramas, you may know me already, for those not yet familiar, let me introduce myself… my name is Frank D’iorio, I am a native Montrealer who by day works as a freelance motion picture digital compositor and on weekends, builds Star Wars action figure dioramas. Like most of […]
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SWCVI: Target in Range: Celebration VI… Maximum Firepower!
We can officially tell the world that the Belgian prop crew is back in action for Star Wars Celebration VI. My crazy crew has been assigned the mission to return to Orlando and join the biggest Star Wars party in the galaxy, and bring along the biggest Star Wars props in the galaxy!
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SWCVI: The As You Wish Helmet Project
Star Wars: Celebration V was an amazing experience for me as it was my first Celebration. I have attended dozens of conventions but none have compared to the magnitude of a gathering that is 100% STAR WARS! Years ago, I had seen the Vader Project, online, and was very impressed by it, but hadn’t thought […]
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Darth Wader
Enjoy this quick cartoon based on a joke a little boy told me at San Diego Comic-Con. He was pretty proud of the pun and told me I should draw it (pushy little guy!). Katie Cook is a cartoonist and writer. She is kind of a big deal… to her cat. You can find her […]
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Star Wars Uncut: Malcolm Sutherland
When Star Wars Uncut was first released I was curious to see if fans could not only recreate Star Wars, but also reimagine it. Just two months after Uncut’s release, Montreal-based animator, Malcolm Sutherland, submitted three scenes that blew everyone away.
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Introducing… Casey Pugh
Editor’s Note: If you haven’t heard of Star Wars Uncut, you must have just recently discovered the internet (in which case welcome!) but as quick refresher to those of you with internet access and short memories, Star Wars Uncut is a film made up of hundreds of fan-created 15-second segments put together to create a […]
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… And Tarfful is on the synchronized swimming team
Katie Cook is a cartoonist and writer. She is kind of a big deal… to her cat. You can find her art and comics at katiecandraw.com, gronkcomic.com and find her mumbling like a raving lunatic at on Twitter @katiecandraw.
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