Spocktober by J.J. Lendl

On social media, #Inktober is when an artist creates and posts a new sketch each for the month of October. Over the past few years, #Spocktober has become a popular offshoot of this. This year, one artist's work in particular caught my eye. You might know J.J. Lendl from The X-Files Poster Project but his Spocktober work is truly excellent as well. Here, with permission from Lendl, I have collected all of his Spocktober 2017 pieces for your enjoyment.

I think this work is a wonderful tribute to Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Please visit jjlendl.com and follow him on Twitter.

Renaissance Spock

Have you all checked out the Renaissance Star Trek Photoshop page?  There have been some great Spock entries.

Rocket Mortgage Ads

Paramount and Quicken Loans are doing some cross-promotion in the lead up to the release of Star Trek Beyond.  They have released two commercials featuring a Vulcan called Sevek and his mate to advertise Quicken's Rocket Mortgage.

I can't evaluate the quality of Quicken as a company or their Rocket Mortgage as I have never dealt with them but I found the ads amusing.  The actors they cast as Sevek and his mate do a good job and I enjoyed the set decoration -- the Vulcan Lyre and paintings were nice touches.

Below are links to the two ads that have been released thus far.

"How To" 60 seconds

"Doors" 30 seconds

Quicken has also updated their website with images of Sevek.

Vulcan Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day from Vulcanology!