Estonian artist Igor Loskutov is responsible for this impressive dragon bench. He made the whole thing with a chainsaw. You can keep check of his artwork over at Facebook.
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A treasure trove of Creative Commons pixel art
DeviantArt user Kaiseto, aka Kevin Chaloux, offers up some fantastic pixel art. A few years back he made the effort of converting most of them to Creative Commons. What does this mean? It means you can use the art for yourself providing you do not make any money off it. For example, you could use […]
Why did so many medieval knights fight snails?
If you’ve ever looked at medieval art you might well have seen images of knights fighting all sorts of monsters. And snails. Actually, you might have noticed knights fought snails often. Why is that? This video from Vox looks at the observations of Michael Camille and the theory of Lilian Randall. The snails, suggests Randall, […]
Competition: Geek Native sweatshirt
We’ve a Geek Native sweatshirt to give away to one lucky reader! The black sweatshirt has a word cloud made from Geek Native’s tags (how we describe posts) based on the blog’s content after the rebrand from GameWyrd. The cloud is shaped to look like a wizard’s hat. This is the only branded item of […]
RPG City generator
Do you need to generate a map for a city and do it quickly? A strong recommendation is Oskar Stalbery’s City Generator. [Show me more] You simply click on the grid to start and the city grows before you. Click again and the city grows again, pick the square you want to add more detail […]
Kneel before this Cthulhu statue
[I need this] Talk about a statement piece! This resin Cthulhu status is 5.5″ tall and hand painted. It’ll only set you back €33.50 and shipping from the US. It’s either because you’re hardcore and can decorate your apartment as you want or you’re about to run a LARP. The store behind this creation, Dellamorteco, […]
Jawdropping Eldar Howling Banshee cosplay
This stunning costume is the work of cosplayer Narga. In addition to some fantastic shares on Instragram the costume maker has also put together some behind the scenes YouTube footage. This is an Eldar Howling Banshee. They’re an all-female combat troop from Warhammer 40K and represent the War God Khaela Mensha Khaine. If you’re not […]
Towering Titanicus model
Titanicus is a Kaiju from 2012. It wasn’t an iceberg that sunk the Titanic – it was this monster. This is the first model from Titanic Creations and they’re on Kickstarter to fund it. At the time of writing there’s 14 days left to pledge, they’re asking for US$60,00 and have nearly US$20,000 in the […]
Grotesquerie as a sub-genre: a disturbing narrative or a unique perspective on taboo themes and imagery?
If you’re interested in sub-genres of science fiction, one you may not have heard much about this particular sub-genre, grotesquerie. There is not an very much information available on it and you might think it is more of an amateur fiction genre not worth serious exploration. However, it has a rich and meaningful range of […]
A million people have watched this blue marble
Have you ever let a marble roll down your desk? Maybe at school? Kaplamino says this took about three months and more than 500 attempts to make this work. I believe that! You follow a single marble in this… the little blue one. Yeah, sure, sometimes heavier marbles move in order to judge the little […]
