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Happy New Year! We Finer Arts mods have once again compiled a list of threads from our forums that you may find interesting! Creative Convention
The Traditional Art Thread: Let's Get Our Hands Dirty: A thread for posting and discussing natural media, like paints, clay, fiber, printing, etc. Show off your work, ask questions, or just enjoy the thread as a Goonseum of Fine Arts. Glitch Art - I l*(e you: Weird, haunting, beautiful images created by messing around with files in ways they were never meant to be abused. Open up a .jpg in Audacity and get crackin'! Thunderdome: A weekly winner-take-all, no-holds-barred, hyphenated-phrases-are-great short fiction competition with rotating themes and FABULOUS PRIZES* *fabulous prizes not available in all areas The 3DCG Thread: Revenge of the NURBS: Great big thread of 3D modeling/rigging information and critiques. The Dorkroom
The Film Thread: Is film your thing? Come watch a bunch of old men talk about it and post pictures of film scans as both their equipment and sources of film gradually deteriorate along with their will to live. The Food Thread: Come post Bon Appetit style bespoke food photos, or post photos of a toilet bowl full of nachos. It's all good in the food thread. making GBS threads birds, for n00bs, using camera: Everyone loves bird photography / birds. Check out this thread for techniques for and tips on photographing birds, as well as to see neat bird pictures. Mostly of them making GBS threads, frankly. Cinema Discusso
Trailers and TV Spots: Productive Posts About Post-Production: Here we discuss the merits and flaws in movie trailers both new and old, and get an informative look inside the trailer creation process from people who make them! Pick a Director. Watch Every Movie: Exactly what it sounds like. Witness goons just like you undergoing cinematic challenges and exposing themselves to backlogs they've never experienced before. Take up a challenge yourself and join in! South Korean Film Megathread: There are a lot of films coming out of South Korea right now. Like, a lot. And most of them are pretty good. And there's a big interesting story behind their existence that's detailed in the OP. Come learn about all the cool cinema being produced on the other side of the world! The Book Barn
The Science Fiction thread: It's not just movies and comic books, or strictly science. The Book Barn's Recommendation Superstation: This is the place to go looking if there's something you want to read but aren't quite sure what, what's good or what's a complete waste of time. What did you just finish: Come see what goons think of the book they just finished, it happens more often than you might think! The TV IV
Sleepy Hollow: On paper, Sleepy Hollow seems like a mess. A Revolutionary War era Oxford professor turned soldier defects to the US to fight under George Washington, gets almost-killed, sleeps for 250 years, wakes up, dreams about his dead wife (who is also a witch) and now has to stop the apocalypse along with his new partner, a small town lady cop with a mysterious past? Sounds terrible. But it's not. It works, and it's some of the most fun you'll have watching TV this year. In the thread we throw away our goony cynicism, and enjoy the ride. And did we mention the Headless Horseman uses machine guns? Yeah. Arrow: In the time it took you to read this sentence Arrow just dropped three game-changing plot bombs. It's a balls-to-the-wall rollercoaster of a show with a balls-to-the-wall thread to match. Nowhere else in TV IV will you find such pure excitement for watching television. The discussion remains positive even when critical and never gets lost in talk about the original story medium. And with the show available on Netflix you have no excuse on missing out if you like badass action scenes, lightning-fast plots, washboard abs or fun. Saturday Night Live: A show that thrives on the here and now in multiple ways, and the discussion threads for it do too. Instead of long, inevitably cyclical dirt fights about minutiae, just sit back and relax with your (mostly) weekly dose of topical humor and absurd late night jokes. Trust us, it's better than you think it is, and if it isn't, we're ready to hatewatch it with you! You'll find the link here taking you to the SNL general discussion thread and you'll find the weekly threads linked there for every new show. Batman's Shameful Secret
Godzilla: Half-Century War - A Love Story Between A Man And A Giant Monster: America is trying it's hand at making another Godzilla film so everybody will have giant monster fever again. Why not read the best Godzilla story ever told by James Stokoe. It's got monsters, giant robots and some of the best art around. Kimota: This Mike Moran Thread Is Transformed Into A Miracleman Thread!:The story behind Miracleman is almost as good as the book. Written by both Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman during the 80's the book has languished in trademark and ownership rights hell for years without being printed despite being one of the greatest comics. Thankfully Marvel has used some of that Disney money to sort out and will be republishing a remastered version of the book this January. Come join BSS rediscover a classic. Thor Discussion Thread - Raining Lightning From A Lacerated Sky Do you like vikings? Gods of Thunder? Violence?  ? Gods punching space sharks in the face? Come find out about the most metal comic around.ADTRW
SPACE☆DANDY: The new anime by the team that made Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. It follows a dandy punk in space as he tries to discover new life with his cat alien partner and roomba. Each planet has its own different designer to give them a unique feel. It's being simultaneously aired in the US on Adult Swim. ADTRW Simulwatchathon XV: The Tatami Galaxy and Serial Experiments Lain: ADTRW's 15th thread where we watch some old good anime like they're new. Starting January 6th, we're watching two more artistic anime that buck the typical "anime" mold. Onepunch-Man: A wannabe-hero gains incredible strength after undergoing grueling training no mortal man could hope to survive. Problem is: he's too strong, to the point where nothing poses a challenge defeat anything with a single punch. Also: it made him go bald. It looks pretty good, too. Rapidly Going Deaf
Thrilling Adventure Hour: Old-timey style radio plays, done as episodic serials. They're recorded as monthly live shows, then broken up and released as podcasts. The Historical, Informational, and Educational Podcast Megathread: Sometimes you just gotta learn a thing. Check out Mike Duncan's Revolutions, an ongoing look at various revolutions in history (currently: the English Civil War). The F Plus: The internet is weird. Here is a series of podcasts of people reading real excerpts from people being weird on the internet. It has an episode dedicated to a guy's stories about Roy Orbison (and only Roy Orbison) being wrapped in clingfilm, because that's someone's fetish for some reason.
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