Thrones goes Disney

A bunch of us at work – who conveniently all sit in one corner of the studio – are big Game of Thrones enthusiasts. This means that our conversations are filled with references to the show and discussions about the latest episode. Unfortunately two out of five of us are not up-to-date with the latest season… WHICH WAS AWESOME BY THE WAY – because I most certainly am up-to-date (plus, I’ve read the books). The remaining three of us have only been able to have cryptic conversations regarding the season finale to ensure we don’t give anything away! Spoiler-sports suck.

BUT we were all able to enjoy these incredible Disney-style illustrations of Thrones characters that Dale found earlier today – as they contain no spoilers… at least, not for season 5 anyway.

These are the work of Fernando Mendonça who has lots of other great illustrations on his Deviant Art page. He’s certainly made me want to watch a Disney Game of Thrones…

On a Diseny-related note: I am watching Frozen for the first time tonight.

Rail Transport in Westeros

I’m a big fan of transport maps, I’m a big fan of maps of fictional places and, of course, I’m a big fan of Game of Thrones. So this map of Westeros based on US Subway systems (would have been nice if it was the London Underground instead, but oh well) is incredible. The level of detail and accuracy that its creator, Michael Tyznik, has put into it is crazy.

The map, and an extended map of all known lands in the books, are available to buy as prints. I need one for my flat.

Game of Phones

So, you know how I wrote a blog about emoji, expressing my appreciation for them, on Friday? Well now my appreciation for emoji has been combined with my love for Game of Thrones. (Season Four premiere last night was excellent by the way.)

DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SEASON ONE–THREE (OR READ THE BOOKS, OBVIOUSLY). SPOILERS!

Unless of course you have no intention of ever watching or reading Game of Thrones. In which case, watch away and enjoy the epic music. Or stop reading now and go watch cat videos instead.

He Knows Nothing

Jon Snow that is. Ygritte of Game of Thrones, Roy Lichtenstein-style.

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Paper cut Game of Thrones

These intricate paper cut Game of Thrones characters are an on-going project by Emma Jackson, an excellent illustrator and friend of mine. She’s just completed her degree at Falmouth University and the degree show opens to the public today. If Falmouth wasn’t so far and I hadn’t already visited briefly last week I’d love to go down and see the graphic design and illustration degree shows. Alas, Falmouth is 300 miles too far away.

Davos Seaworth

Jaime Lannister

Robb Stark

Daenerys Targaryen

You can buy these and other paper cuts/print at Emma’s etsy store.

The dragons are here

An excellent bit of advertising for Game of Thrones Season 3 – the event I’m most excited for in March, even more so than my birthday (although technically the first episode of Season 3 airs on the 1st of April in the UK). I am currently re-reading the third book in preparation.

Dragons can also be found on buses – I’m assuming these are only in USA.

Nice little Hound

Stupidly excited for the 1st of April and the return of Game of Thrones. A Clash of Kings (the second book) is possibly my favourite in the series and is what season two of the show is based on. Sandor Clegane, otherwise known as The Hound, is my favourite not-so-major character.

This amazing illustration is courtesy of this deviantart artist person. Although I had to track the artist down through Tumblr. I hate Tumblr for its endless re-blogging without giving the original author/artist credit. Bah.

Valentine's

I haven't the slightest interest in Valentine's Day, although I am attending a tapas night for singles tonight which will be great, but I do have an interest in Game of Thrones. So this, by Chris Bishop, is very nice.

As he says in his blog post, he has GoT prints for sale here.

Heartbreaking

Or heart-wrenching, as I put on Twitter. This is tragically beautiful.

A Hound and a Little Bird by Tribemun on deviantArt.
I love the (vaguely) graphic novel style.

Illustrating a part of the battle of Blackwater scene from A Clash of Kings, when Sandor offers (somewhat violently [but with love in his heart, honest]) to take Sansa away from King's Landing. You should have gone with him Sansa!

Sandor is seriously my favourite character in A Song of Ice and Fire, and he's not even a main character. I can't wait for season two of the tv show to see this scene, and others. Good book that second one.

Off With Their Heads!

I like history and I like learning. But I don't know much, so I bought a(nother) book. It helps when a history book is nicely designed and simplified into the "best bits of British history - with all the boring bits left out."

There are cute little character illustrations for various periods of history,
such as Henry VIII for the Tudors. I rather like the Viking chap (Early Middle Ages).

So I'm retiring to bed to read me some history. I've been hooked on George R.R. Martin's Clash of Kings for the last four days, but I finished the 900 page beast of a book last night. Brilliant, but I'm having a days break before I tackle the next book!

Game of Thrones

Over the past two days (plus Friday last week) I watched pretty much the full first season of Game of Thrones. I'd previously watched the first episode in April, before I went back to uni. Luckily my parents recorded the whole series for me, as it's shown on Sky Atlantic in the UK, and I've been able to watch them all back to back.

The title sequence is pretty darn awesome.

In fact, the whole series was awesome. I am was/am hooked. As a lover of the medieval fantasy genre anyway (need to read/watch Lord of the Rings [I mean again, not for the first time]), it was perfect.

EDIT: Check out this amazingly detailed map of the 7 Kingdoms.