This stunning cosplay makeup was put together by Reddit user /u/nickeilgenesis. She used Mehron’s Paradise Makeup AQ palette, mixing black and white together to get dark grey, but notes that face paint from almost any Halloween store might work. Cosplay seems to go from strength to strength. Sites like EZcosplay now have more than half […]
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Short film: Renegade
Holy cow. I bet you didn’t expect to watch a short film like this. This is a short film and a great example of brevity. We start off with, um, there’s Dr. Monocole and some cultists leading some slaves through the wild with the help of some quads. There’s romance and one of the slaves […]
A TARDIS transformation of a spare room
Stubbs of The Stubby Thumb is a talent. She’s popular too and has a guest bedroom which tends to have a visitor once a week. The problem was a lack of space and the cost of Murphy beds. Murphy beds, also known as wall beds, are those which pull down from the wall when you […]
Gifts for geeks: Geek Native launches a shop
Eagle-eyed Geek Native readers will have noticed the shop link appearing in the upper most menu on the site some weeks back. There have been other clues as well. You can now get your very own smartphone savvy, texting kobold as a t-shirt or warn other gamers that your dice are chaotic evil. Geek Native […]
15 illustrations from Stargaser
Stargaser is a Design Studio run by Matt Gaser. You’ll find a remarkable combination of styles, great imagination and art from various different genres. There’s a sample posted below and you can check out Facebook, a blog and the ofifical Matt Gaser site for more examples. Each click is worth it.
TradeCraft Bonus: 5 favourite must see discoveries from 2014
TradeCraft Bonus is Geek Native’s column for sharing interesting creations made by geeks, for geeks and with geeky uses. It launched in 2013 and looked at clever ideas like dice towers. Ah yes, but what about 2014? There were over 60 different items discovered and shared in 2014. Here are just five that you can’t […]
Turning soda cans into swords
Some geeks are brave. As much as this video is cool I’m not sure I’d be up for working with such high temperatures in such casual conditions. Would you? What would you make? The King of Random is typically impressive; pulling a Zelda like sword from the sands after using his home-made foundry to melt […]
Even anime fans think anime tends to objectify women
What do you think of when you think of anime? Giant robots? Huge eyes? Women in skimpy costumes? Women with huge eyes, in skimpy costumes, riding giant robots? In a competition to win a copy of Patema Inverted Geek Native asked an entry question. This was not a huge competition. People may just have ticked […]
Short film: A-Sixty Tandem
A very short film with some steampunk time travellers and a touch of bleak comedy. It just goes to show that a pair of adventurers are the last thing you want popping into your life. The A: Sixty team like to make this super short comedies. Take advantage of this random teleport link to load […]
Short film: Critters – Bounty Hunter
Do you remember the film series Critters? 18-rated horror with killer fuzzballs. Super-fan Jordan Downey does and spearheaded this fan film. Downey notes that Warner Bros have plans to retrieve the Critters franchise for their digital content unit. This film is his pitch for getting to be part of those plans; as a director. I […]
