Space Zombies [the multipying monsters thread]
 

This might be the last meta-thread I'll be creating here, not because I've gotten tired of organizing select things into select listings, but because I'm plum-tuckered out from the more than 4 dozen ones I'm already involved in.

So, this idea spawns from my idea of being a lazy, crazy, aggregating purveyor of all things specific, creative and hilarious.
It will be my new main repository for the following themes, and additional types of creatures of lore:

• zombies (otherwise known as the 'walking dead') | a guide to surviving them found here
• robots (whether the automaton is defined as killer or not is fine; also available: robo-mechas)
• spacemen (cosmonauts, and their un-cuddly creature counterparts, extraterrestrials)
• ninja (those black-cloaked mercenary agents of deception and technique; also available: the honorable samurai of feudal Japan)
• cowboys (those "gun-slinging", keyword, gallon-hat-wearing characters referring to the old Wild West)
• unicorns (the famed steed of peace) | future posts can either be submitted here, or there
• narwhals (the true sea sword warrior) | as well as the above, submit a post here, or there
• domo-kun (now the face and unofficial mascot of Japan; also available: his popular-rising buddy, the paper robot Danbo)
• munny (also can be referred to as 'dunny'; the blank dolls, produced by kidrobot)
• clowns (the happy-go-lucky-fright-stalkers of circuses and children's parties; their cousins: mimes)
• dinos (otherwise more formally known as 'dinosaurs', or terrible lizards; an addendum: Godzilla is now classified as such)
• muppets (newest addition! The popular puppet characters created by Jim Henson; also available: the neighbors of Sesame Street and the critters of Fraggle Rock)

* my one general rule that I insist must be utilized (just for the sake of my perfectionism):
for any thread participants, I ask that if you could, please, just make a small note at the top of each post that shows what you are featuring;
it might seem redundant, but it helps allot this into this and those into that. Thank you.

In all likelihood, this topic may just be too nonsensical for some, and that may be why it might just be myself here, adding content for the next few pages, but still, I like order to everything, even my chaos.

While this OP may still not be finished, I'll begin nonetheless.
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zombies + spacemen

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...yo1_r1_500.jpg
"Zombie Trek" by Molitorious

article on zombies
 

Brian Crecente did some nice work here in finding out why Zombies have gone from the rising dead to the transformed by a virus.


[nerdology.]

Domo-Kun was the mascot for the GSC Supra when it ran in the One Lap of America a couple years ago.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...16552824_l.jpg

robots + masks

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...ph89o1_500.jpg
"the mask of a hunter", by Javier Alvarado, on the Behance Network

zombies + video games

Zombie Street Fighter, illustrated/created by Manuel Augusto Dischinger Moura
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...navao1_500.jpg

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...navao1_500.jpg



[kotaku.]

spacemen

http://15.media.tumblr.com/2m8BXUfri...KeVFo1_500.jpg
It took me nearly an hour, but it is awesome that I actually came away with a source.

the discussion: lady-spaceman-explore


the woman: Anna Lee Fisher, M.D., is an American chemist and a NASA astronaut.


the image enlightened:
http://i.imgur.com/7WBWY.jpg

Domo-kun
For those unaware of the mascot of NHK televisison station, based in Japan, and has now morphed into something grander, becoming the darker, male-affiliated-counterpart icon for Japanese kitch marketing, juxtaposed against Hello Kitty, I'll give a brief synopsis of the story of Domo.

Domo-kun was created in 1998 as NHK’s satellite broadcast mascot, and Domo has been gaining great popularity worldwide.
The name "Domo" was acquired during the second episode of his show in which a TV announcer said, "dōmo, konnichiwa" (どうも、こんにちは?),
which is a greeting meaning something along the lines of, "Well, hello there!", but which can also be interpreted as "Hello, Domo!", and thus is
a convenient pun ('dajare'; you just learned a Japanese word). The kun suffix on "Domo-kun," the name used to describe the character in the
animated shorts, is a Japanese honorific often used with young males. He has appeared in several 30 second stop-motion sketches shown as
station identification during shows (these station-ID-mini-commercials are known as 'bumps' in American syndication).

And, so, a Domo was born.

robots + what are you listening to right now?

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...0o1_r1_500.jpg
Krafts, by Christopher Golebiowski

a nifty remix of Kraftwerk’s Man-Machine artwork.

unicorns + narwhals

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...e39024d1_m.jpg
The Clash for The One True Beholder of the Horn

spacemen + masks

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3426/...b4bab165_o.jpg
(the source for eabove image is unknown -- if you are a resident of the 80s,
do you think you can recall a memory of the above image from a film, or maybe a video game?)

Monster Chart and Identification Spreadsheet
 

looking over these two educational charts to spotting monsters and past oddities in archetype, I can't help wondering if I've limited myself here.

idea and artwork by Jacob Borshard

robots + zombies + unicorns + spacemen + [unmentioned] + (dinos) + (ninjas) + (pirates) + (vampires) + (werewolves)

http://i51.tinypic.com/50p0k0.jpg

+ BONUS

http://oi54.tinypic.com/acbfjt.jpg

zombies

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...rfpso1_500.png
by Skinner

robots

http://i44.tinypic.com/2hriaup.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...583xo1_500.jpg
Willie the robot, designed by an engineer at Westinghouse.

[pour15minutesdamour.] + [cyberneticzoo.]

(click the image directly to download the sketch at 1,200 x 1,507 pixels)
 

robots

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...fkwoo1_500.jpg
A Day of Fire, by GrainGnome.

spacemen + robots + zombies

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Peter Clute’s Buzz Lightyear / Terminator custom toy mashup


[gizmodo.]

どーもくん (Domo-kun)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/HkRoY8IM8...jjHu4a_500.jpg
by verrymerry

Munny

A Munny doll is a blank figure the owner can decorate using pens, pencils, markers, paint, and other pigments.

http://i42.tinypic.com/6oljdy.jpg
the above is a base, uncustomized munny doll.
I think it is the tangible (corporeal?) alternative to "coloring-by-numbers"

robots

http://27.media.tumblr.com/pDwVHkRSE...C0oZo1_500.jpg
#1 (mechanized-violin-playing-near-sentient-scrap-heap) by Avi_Abrams

spacemen

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...7zrao1_400.jpg

Inside the splendid Ieronimus Cathedral, built by Episcope de
Salamanca in 1102 A.D., among the fascinating carvings of
mythical animals and saints, we find – a NASA Astronaut…


[indianpad.] + [10e.]

zombies

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...wgg9o1_500.jpg
The Video Dead (1987)

ninjas

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...izldo1_500.jpg

from somewhere in outer space, no doubt.....


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...g?t=1272839291

robots

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...kdy9o1_500.jpg
Polaroid 130 by rob.spicer

details:
Robot on the roof. Ghibli Museum, Tokyo.
Polaroid SX70 Land Camera, 600 film + ND filter

cowboys

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...6f9yo1_500.jpg
The Killer Inside Me

dinos + spacemen

http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/wp-c...urs-lasers.jpg

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zombies + spacemen + robots

http://www.mattbusch.com/matt2_sm.jpg

munny + clowns (technically, it is the clown's French cousin, the mime, or as its' sometimes referred by in English, a "mummer")

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/...6bb2f494f0.jpg
monnaie by by loonerspacecraft

spacemen + robots + pin-ups

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...583xo1_500.jpg
created artwork by Todd Schorr

A key player in the so-called "low-brow" or surrealism art scene, Schorr takes his
love of the pop culture Icons he grew up with and pounds them into new and exciting shapes.

dinos + (cowboys)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...pe8uo1_500.jpg
Pencil Vs Camera - 10 by Ben Heine

author's comments:
This is a photo I took from Montmartre's hill in Paris, France. I also made the rough sketch.

along with...

A poem by Peter S. Quinn (in dedication)

Because people were getting rough
They say I move too much about
Like a gangster getting tough

I only wanted some France food
But they said I wasn't polite
They thought my attitude was rude
And eating folks caused a fright

I know I’m only a little dinosaur
And I’m merely a tourist here
My clumsiness is in peace not war
And we ruled once everywhere

***

All I am saying
Is give dinosaur a chance
The little fellow is just playing
He wants to see you dance

He’s much for the rumba beat
And wants to see you all hop
He’s got the guns and big feet
So dance, dance on - don't stop!

Much talk is about his robbery
But he only stole some apples
He needs to have foods for free
So he can do more wiggles

***

They say I’m a mere joke
A Ben Heine’s pencil stroke
That might not be telling a lie
Though I have a different alibi

I was sent from gangster’s dinosaur
Since their town isn’t safe anymore
They are attempting to come back
Through a time machine walk

This is just the beginning of the end
I’m the 1st one to Earth send
The guns are just extra kick
Next comes my fiancé Ms Dinosaur

robots + superheroes

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...qzkko1_500.jpg


[1/6-warriors.]

clowns + (some weird dark personas, and a desk clerk)

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw...pwi0o1_500.jpg
The many faces of one Tim Curry.


[reddit.]

munny (some refer to it as a 'dunny')

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...sc86o1_500.jpg
iPod Dunny by ~silke3d

どーもくん (Domo-kun)

http://28.media.tumblr.com/HkRoY8IM8...iNnseK_500.jpg
courtesy of blueone

spacemen + (what some aeronautical pioneers are bound to encounter from time to time: Gremlins)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...nd83o1_500.jpg
Gremlins

unicorns

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...1zngo1_400.jpg

cowboys + masks

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...navao1_500.jpg
"La felicidad paradojica" by asanisimasa lait

ninjas + Made in Japan

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/97...bfd8f4b09e.jpg
by uninvolved observer

robots + (miniature yourself)

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...nd83o1_500.jpg
IF, courtesy of SKI - FFY

author's comments:
The Ultimate Re-sowing of the Human Race - 4000 AD by Anton Kurka ; featured on the cover of If Worlds Of Science Fiction Vol. 1, No. 7 (Jan 1953).

zombies

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8...1629981709.jpg http://i54.tinypic.com/4t8rax.jpg
Zombie Prom. It's a glorious spoof of 50s era bad boys and the obvious good girl who must ditch her prudish, poodle skirt clad scruples
or forever miss out on true love. Of course this all takes place in a high school, under the watchful eyes of strict, yet lovable teachers.


[techland.]

That biker jacket with all the eyelets in it is totally gnarly.