This weekend, during Philadelphia’s intense three day 4th of July celebration, the NBA and Sprite are looking for the best dunkers in the city… and sadly, my skills with a chicken nugget will not qualify me for a damn thing. But you… you, my dear readers, perhaps some of you partake in outdoor sports, and can claim a prize or two for yourself in my stead.

The event is free and will take place on an outdoor basketball court, which will be set up on the Ben Franklin Parkway between 21st and 22nd, this Saturday on July 4th. The competition kicks off at 4PM. People watching will cast their votes for the winners via SMS, and ultimately, the four winners get flown out to Dallas for a large competition.

For those of you who can’t make the event, you can enter online by sending in a video. Get the details on that, here.

There’s a promo video for the event here, have a look, and good luck to anyone who enters. We’ll be giving away a gift card courtesy of the NBA over on Twitter, so keep an eye open folks. Have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Poster Illustration by Eamon Dougherty / Design by Chogrin

Featuring works inspired by the glorious Golden Age of Comics and Animation, the Autumn Society is hosting their 4th gallery show at Brave New Worlds this Friday night. Stop by and pick up some awesome work from some of Philly’s most talented artists… and say hi to the Geekadelphia crew. We’ll be there, lurking in the shadows the way most bloggers do. After all, light hurts our eyes.

You can get a sneak peak at a lot of the art in the show over on the Autumn Society’s blog.

Golden Age of Comics & Animation Gallery
Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Brave New Worlds
45 North Second Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 925-6525
www.bravenewworldscomics.com

If you ask me the one thing that always bothered me about the new Transformers movies, and no I am not going to rant about plot acting or anything else I think Dustin covered that pretty well and honestly whenever Hollywood remakes anything it’s almost guaranteed to screw it up. The thing that always seemed l like a “I can believe you screwed that up” is Bumblebee is supposed to be a yellow Volkswagen Bug hence the name, Bumblebee. He was not a 2008 Camaro! I am sorry why would you name a 2008 Camaro Bumblebee was there a rights issue with Ladybug?  With a Camaro I would have named it something a bit more masculine like Snake or since it’s yellow, Yellowhammer that may be a really cute breed of bird but you have to admit, it sure sounds manly. I know they got a bucket of cash from Chevy for what basically amounted to product placement but they could have at least changed the name and left my childhood out of it.

One man in California has taken matters into his own hands and created a an 18-foot-tall, 1200-lbs. statue of Bumblebee, the REAL Bumblebee. Tom Rhodes and a friend spent a year making the statue out of a real Volkswagen Beetle. While doesn’t look quite as polished as Michael Bay’s Bumblebee you have to admit it’s pretty impressive for a guy who built it in his yard. Rumor is the next project will be made out an old semi. I can’t wait.

More Pics after the jump!

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