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The gloomy beauty of Anton Semenov

February 26, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has featured the haunting art of Anton Semenov before; years back we looked at the Infected Mushroom: Army of Mushroom collection. The Russian artist, posting online as Gloom82, continues to share his work online via his Behance profolio. There’s a collection from his On the Boundaries of Darkness gallery below as a teaser. […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: monsters

Star Wars: The Empire invades Scotland’s capital city

February 26, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Capital Sci-Fi convention is this weekend in Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city. At the convention Glasgow-based designer and animator Mark Boyle will be raising money for the children’s charity CHAS by selling his “Star Wars in Edinburgh” prints. Prices start at only £5. Let’s take a look.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: star wars

Shrike Studio tempts us with Emissary

February 25, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The new UK-based publisher Shrike Studio is doing the sensible thing of putting their first RPG, which is nearly finished, up on Kickstarter for the final push. The science fantasy game is asking for £5,000 in funding and with 25 days, at the time of writing, to go has nearly £2,000 in the bank. You […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Droid translator helmets

February 25, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These helmets are clever Star Wars tech! Created for a Hackmaster competition these helmets allow whoever is wearing them to communicate with each other. The rest of us just hear Star Wars droid bleepling.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: star wars

AMP: Year Three going strong at Kickstarter

February 24, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Third Eye Games are back to Kickstarter as their AMP: Year One range looks to expand again. Year 3 is doing well, still 30 days left to run and yet nearly $6,000 in the bank. The goal? Just $8,000 and you can track it here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eloylasanta/amp-year-3-the-war-of-2017-is-here-modern-supers-r [Back this Campaign] Year One was about hard choices; […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Eloy Lasanta, kickstarters, Liz Chaipraditkul, superheroes, third eye games

The amazing steampunk science of Pierre Jean Tardiveau

February 24, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steamwork fans and inventors should be aware of Paris-based designer Pierre Jean Tardiveau. He makes some incredible ‘scopes. We’re talking about polariscopes, callikryptoscopes and devices like the Juipter Pendulum. The image above is of a wonderful looking steampunk lamp and the videos below will show you how clever Tardiveau’s creations are. This is steampunk science.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: science, steampunk

GLaDOS gijinka cosplay

February 24, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Photographer John Jiao did a great job with this snap. The cosplayer is Lainey Cat, who sells prints via Etsy, and has captured a perfect human-style GLaDOS. Isn’t that exactly the sort of smile that you shouldn’t trust?

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay, for science you monster, glados, portal

Short film: Exode

February 24, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Beautiful and sad. Exode is the story of how the journey of a single, giant, creature in capture the life of an entire people. You can learn more from the production’s Facebook page or simply from the knowledge it has won a ton of awards. Got time for another watch? Take advantage of this teleport […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: monsters, short film

Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #17

February 23, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Time of a round-up of mini anime reviews! It’s Irregular Reconnaissance. The goal here is to give you a quick catchup on the various anime series that are still holding my attention – or an alert on what’s gone horribly wrong and is about to get dumped. Why? So many anime. So little time. Sometimes […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Irregular Reconnaissance, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, log horizon, Naruto Shippuden, one piece, parasyte, reviews

Tempted by rainbow unicorn poop? Or zombie guts?

February 23, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a quirky fashion Kickstarter. I’ve not backed it yet but I’ll admit… I’m tempted. At the time of writing they’ve raised over $11,000 on a target of just below $25,000. There’s 23 days left to at the time of writing. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225737959/unicorn-poop-and-zombie-entrails-stuffed-scarfs [Back this Campaign] All the early bird deals are gone. That means […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: fashion, kickstarters, unicorns, zombies

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