Quark Art Meeting:Papercraft

 Those of you who attended the social heard of our first art meeting of the semester: papercrafting. For this meeting we will come together and assemble papercraft figures made by someone who goes by the name trogdoriangrey, who posts his work both to look at and make yourself here .

Post in the comments section if you plan on coming and which character(s) you want to make. If you have a color printer, or a friend with a color printer, or are a BYU student (and therefore can use the camps printers) then print out the papercraft page corresponding to the character you want to make and bring it on the 11th. If you don't have access to these things, or there are extenuating circumstances, PM me and I'll see that the page(s) you want to use get printed and brought to the meeting.

As for materials, please bring scissors, glue sticks, and fun times with you to the meeting, because this is going to be awesome! If you have questions or comments, PM me or post it in the comments section. See you then!

Who: Anyone
Where: 4186 JFSB
When: February 11th, 7-9pm (Thursday night)

Forbidden Planet is, quite simply, one of science fiction's greatest movies. Quite an accomplishment, despite being from 1956, an epoch known mostly for it's MST3K fodder. Forbidden Planet was inspired by Shakespear's The Tempest, being about Dr. Morbius, an incredible genius who lives on a planet long thought unexplored, all alone except for his daughter and Robby, their robot servant. When a human scout ship arrives at the planet, they are amazed at the level of technology Morbius has, but also very confused and concerned that the rest of the colony he arrived with simply disappeared. Dr. Morbius is obviously hiding something, but what? And what of this alien race that inhabited the planet long before humans? How did they die off, and what secrets do the remains of their technology hold?

While many people may be wary of watching such an old movie, I ask you to give it a chance. While some of the special effects may be cheesy by today's standards, they were top of the line for their day (Robby the Robot alone cost $125,000 to build) and the movie does stand up incredibly well as a movie even today, despite it being almost 60 years old.

And if that isn't enough to convince you, I'll me making and bringing fresh, homemade cookies. So come on down and watch this gem of sci-fi cinema.

Same time and place as usual: B094 of the JFSB at 7:00 p.m.

Anyway. The Dungeonmaster is about a nerdy computer engineer/troubleshooter who has an Apple IIe that for some reason is an extremely advanced AI and can automatically and immediately hack anything. The devil finds out about him, and since he's bored, challenges the computer nerd to "seven challenges". If he fails, the the devil will keep both their souls.

The funny thing is, this movie has seven directors. Apparently it was meant as a showcase of their talents, but it just comes across as a set of really bad rejected Twilight Zone scripts. So come on down and rip this movie a new one like it deserves.

For those of you who don't know what MST3K is, check out the Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mst3k; and then check out Rifftrax to get an idea of what we'll be doing here: http://www.rifftrax.com/

This will take place at Bag End. (Baggins & Cholisose's apartment.) It will begin at around 7:30 p.m.

If you don't know where Bag End is, say so in the comments, and we'll put it up in there for you.

Board Game Night

As a reminder for long-time members, and an announcement for our new friends, board game night will take place on Tuesday at 7PM on the third floor of the Wilkinson Center. We meet every week on the terrace balcony overlooking the Ping Pong Club and Y Juggle.

This week, Appolus' Pink Suitcase of Gaming will include Tobago, Chinatown, Infinite City, Thurn and Taxis, and whatever else will fit.

We look forward to seeing you there!

St. Gamer's Day

This march we will be celebrating St. Gamer's Day in style! I have begun the planning preparations to make this an even bigger succes than Thanksgaming. Stop by the gaming news forum and contribute your ideas.

Thanks everyone for your writing prompts! You all did great.

The tentative deadline for stories will be March 1, 2010. Please email your entries to cholisose@gmail.com, and keep the word count below 1,500. If you need a prompt, email or PM me, and I'll send you a random prompt.

Writers, please hang on to your writing prompts and the accompanying number on the back. Or use this good idea: type it all down and save the prompt and number on your computer.

Check the forum page for further details.

I'm posting up my to-do list so everyone is more informed of where we're at with the site transition. Please add bugs and other requests as comments. These are not in any particular order.