There’s no question that Shain Erin simply oozes talent. It takes a special doll for me to sit up, stare and think “Look at /that/!” and that’s exactly what Shain’s dolls do. These are freaks. These are nightmare monsters that would seem to have escaped from a particularly good Hellraiser movie. The dolls themselves can […]
Archives for October 2010
Smashy! Boom! Nitroglycerine meets hammer!
What happens when you smash a hammer down on a small puddle of Nitroglycerine? Okay. Imagine then that you’ve a slow motion camera filming the explosion too. What would that explosion look like if you slow things down by a factor of 100, 200 or even 600? The truth is that liquid nitroglycerine transforms into […]
Halo Ghost model
The one-man Covenant vehicle officially called the Type-32 Rapid Assault Vehicle is a fan favourite. That’s to say; it’s more commonly known as the Ghost. The Ghost is about 4.2 metres long, weights in at 560 kilograms and uses a Boosted Gravity Propulsion Drive. The weapon system is a Vairant Class-2 Engery Weapon. If you […]
Banksy does the Simpsons: MoneyBart
“This is what you get when you outsource”, jokes The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean. He’s talking about The Simpson’s title created by the British graffiti artist Banksy. The sequence shows a dark vision of a 20th Century Fox production line as it malefactors Simspons merchandise. In reality the bulk of the animation is outsourced […]
Fountains of Blood
Is it the end of the world? Is it another ad campaign for True Blood? Has a World of Darkness LARP got out of hand? Again? Or have the vampires finally taken over Europe? No. These fountains in Bucharest are running with blood (fake blood, of course) to draw attention to international hemophilia day (that’s […]
Portal bookends
Is Portal the game with the most geek cult cred of all time? Is Portal 2 for science, you monster and is cake a lie? There are so many questions. What we have now, though, is one answer. We now know the best, most geeky, most gamer-cult, way to keep your hardback RPGs from falling […]
Disney Princesses as superheroes
For one reason or another one of the most popular posts to Geek Native this year has been the sexy princess series which had a Topcow art style approach to the tradition Disney princess. Here’s another take: Disney princess superheroes. The Deviant Artist in question this time is Kreugan. From Kreugan’s own post it looks […]
Ultramarines get new trailer and pre-order
The animated Warhammer 40,000 movie Ultramarines movie is getting much closer. Empire magazine got the exclusive for the second trailer – and they seem to be letting blogs embed the video so here it is below. On the Empire article they make mention of the Eldar twice and suggest the grim future would make Star […]
AKB48 find success through anime music
AKB48 is an interesting Japanese pop group. They’re interesting not just because they had origins in indie music in Japan but also because there are 48 members of the group! AKB48 are so far, in fact, that they’re split into several teams; Team A, Team B and Team K – currently with 16 girls in […]
Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars trailer
Stephen King‘s Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four long stories. I think Stephen King’s novella offerings are some of his strongest and so Full Dark, No Stars is a book worth paying attention too. The first story, “1922”, is that of a farmer who tries to murder his wife in order to […]
