Awesome Star Wars

Louis C. Hébert made portraits of Star Wars characters out of smaller illustrations. Part of an ad campaign for the Star Wars Identities exhibition. View the full posters on Behance.

An old man goes on a rampage after waiting in vain for fellow train commuters to offer him a seat. It’s like an animé version of Epic Beard Man, mixed with Star Wars and a dash of morbid humor.

(NSFW: Lyrics) R2-D2 has a very important holographic message to deliver to Luke and Obi-Wan. But Leia is nowhere to be seen, and this hologram is looking for Snoop Dogg and Dre.

The spectacularly-named How to Carve Roast Unicorn offers now offers up tees inspired by both Star Wars and famous brand identities – based on his Barn Bocock’s clever logo series.

This pirated copy of Revenge of the Sith bought in Shanghai has English subtitles. Or at least the words are English. Their meaning is another thing altogether. Watch the opening scroll here.

Sam Hallows made five illustrations of Star Wars characters, vehicles and ships. They’re bare sketches, but what makes them impressive is that they were each made with a single, continuous line.

Cats will be cats, and sometimes they just need to work things out. But there are times when claws and paws aren’t enough, and they require some bigger weapons. Here, these should do the trick.

Whether you think it looks awesome or awesomely bad, we still want to play Kinect Star Wars – if only to stomp around as a Rancor so we can crush Jake Lloyd and Jar Jar in Mos Eisley.

Geeks around the world had a collective nerdgasm when LEGO revealed this 2127 piece, 12″ tall R2-D2, complete with turning head, retractable third leg, and fold-out tools. More pics here.

Movie fight scenes are often more hilarious than exciting, but the lightsaber ballets battles in the Star Wars prequels are so awfully choreographed that they’re almost not funny anymore. Almost.

Artist Ryan Renders created this very clever and perfectly detailed bust modeled after one of the greatest mashups of evil ever conceived. Lightsaber Power Sword ftw.

More proof that dogs in Star Wars costumes can melt hearts. This is Momo the dog dressed as an Ewok. Or is she an Ewok that looks like a dog? Also we want some of whatever it is she’s on.

Our call for more Wampug has been answered. Chubbs does his own version of Luke’s battle with the Wampa. But it’s just not the same if we can’t hear Chubbs’ enthusiastic panting.

Sneaky Studios pays tribute to Star Wars with two clever tees – one is a classical depiction of Darth Vader as a well-known religious figure, and the other a stylized playing card graphic.

Stephen Sanderson designed a NASA-style patch for the ragtag crew of the Millennium Falcon in honor of one of the most dangerous missions ever completed, here or far, far away.

(NSFW: Language) YouTuber Belated Media re-imagines Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, focusing on Obi Wan, streamlining the action and of course doing away with Jar Jar Binks.

(NSFW: Language) Instead of re-releasing the Star Wars films over and over, Lucasfilm should just have funny people like Brock Baker dub over them. Chewie is freakin’ hilarious.

CGI stop-motion video showing the assembly of the LEGO Millenium Falcon. Francisco Prieto spent three years modeling bricks and animating. The song is Chambermaid Swing by Parov Stelar.

Shepard Fairey’s famous Obey poster inspired artist Robert Mangaoang aka Doom CMYK to make this imposing poster of the Sith Lord. Printed on 11″x17″ glossy paper and limited to 50 copies.

Having powers is extremely convenient, but humans being humans, convenience is the path to the Dark Side. Convenience leads to sloth, sloth leads to extinction, and that doesn’t lead anywhere.

OneMinuteGalactica starts the year with a poot, defiling Yoda’s death scene in Return of the Jedi with the dumbest of jokes. Stick with it though, we promise you’ll be giggling by the end.

Force Dance! In the recently launched MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, typing “/getdown” makes your character dance. It also bestows invincibility. Skip to 0:25 to see the funky moves.

The guys from Retina Burn explore how Darth Vader’s image has been used for both good and evil in commercials. But do you really think that putting him silly situations makes him any less evil?