My first endeavor as the official SXSW correspondent for the UPROXX Network (spoiler alert: I'm the only one who lives in Austin) was to take in the festival's ScreenBurn Arcade, the Alienware-sponsored three day expo that has become the hip new place for video game industry announcements, product demos and game tournaments.

The IMDB trivia section is a treasure trove of interesting information (some of it fake, I'm sure) that I'd probably tap into more often if I wasn't sure most of it would be met with comments like "This is OLD NEWZ, how about some NEW NEWS that happened TODAY, STUPID," or "I liked this story better when I read it TEN YEARS ago, on YOUR MOM'S PUSSY, YOU LIMP-DICKED SLOTH KISSER.

There isn’t much that brightens my day more than nerdy pop culture fan art, other than really, really awesome nerdy pop culture fan art.

Members of the Iowa National Guard deployed in Afghanistan were dealing with a logistics issue.

Earlier this month, car enthusiasts from around the world gathered in Frankfurt, Germany for the biennial Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung, AKA the Frankfurt Motor Show.

<a rel="attachment wp-att-44332" href="http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2011/09/the-steampunk-metal-sculptures-of-kreatworks/il_570xn-258517086"></a>In Thailand there is a group of artists called <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Kreatworks?ref=seller_info" target="_blank">Kreatworks</a> that are making sculptures of your favorite pop culture robots and aliens.

Today's mashup dump is a bit different in that we don't have as many videos as usual, but the videos make up for it with awesomeness.

Were the ninjas in the <a href="../2010/11/cowboys-and-ninjas-cowboys-and-ninjas">previous post</a> not quite crazy enough for your druthers.

Adrien Brody - actor, movie star, possible monster rapist.

Welcome to another exciting installment of FilmDrunk Comments of the Week, in which I reward your charming vulgarity and hope the people who give us free DVDs never get wise.

German YouTube user <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Rick9635">Rick9635</a> makes awesome movie props in his spare time.

OK, so "AvP: Requiem" was so bad, it made us long for the days of "Alien Resurrection", but as long as we've got decent fan films like this, the franchise will probably live on, even with Adrien Brody, action hero in the next Predator movie.

German scientists Tolga Ergin and Nicolas Stenger at the <a title="Karlsruhe Institute of Technology" href="http://www.fzk.de/fzk/idcplg?IdcService=KIT&lang=en">Karlsruhe Institute of Technology</a> have created a small-scale, 3-dimensional invisibility cloak that works in the infrared spectrum, very close to visible light wavelengths.

Good afternoon you princes of Maine, you kings of New England, you stalkers of <a href="http://www.uproxx.com/gammasquad/tag/dolph-lundgren">Dolph Lundgren</a>.

ABOVE: A picture that would have fit right into this gallery of Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy costumes.

"Enter Sandman" as performed by lolcats [4chan via <a href="http://redux.com/stream/item/719863/Enter-Sandman-lolcat-version">Redux</a>]  You'd have to be a sexual ty-ran-no-saurus to drive a chopper like this.

Here's a 2007 Suzuki Hayabusa customized to look like Predator by Roderick “Slick Rick” McCullough, which you can currently see rolling around the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Those wily dudes over at Latino Review got their hands on a July 12, 2009 version of the <a href="http://www.latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-first-look-at-robert-rodriguez-s-predators-8112">Predators script</a> written by Robert Rodriguez, Michael Finch and Alex Litvak and it sounds awesome.

A "reboot" (that's when they make, say, a Terminator movie whose plot ignores all previous Terminator movies) of Predator from <a href="http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/?p=7127" target="_blank">Fox</a> would normally sound like an awful idea, but the rumor is Robert Rodriguez is attached.

This video was on <a href="http://gorillamask.net/" target="_blank">GorillaMask</a> a few days ago, and I should be flogged and ridiculed for missing it.