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Archives for January 2013

Black Milk does The Hobbit

January 18, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Geek Native readers will be familiar with the Black Milk style by now. This clever fashion company is really making geek chic. They take iconic geeky images and turn them into leggings, dresses and swimsuits. They’re expensive enough to be exclusive while being perfect eye candy for bloggers to leap on. The difference between this […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: black milk, fashion, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Wonder Woman as a Scythian warrior

January 18, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wonder Woman is supposed to be something of an Amazon. Not from Brazil, but a culture more like Greek Amazon from mythology. The Amazons, who fought in the Trojan War, were supposed to be from the region of Scythia. It may be the case that rumours of actual warrior graves in Scythia, in which burried […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Wonder Woman

Competition – How they made the Life of Pi

January 18, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you seen Life of Pi? The film by Ang Lee has some amazing special effects and tells a story that asks questions about life, death, religion and nature. The Making of Life of Pi is a hardcover from Jean-Christophe Castelli. Castelli has worked for companies like Vanity Fair and Esquire before he started to […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: competitions

How The Hobbit should have ended

January 18, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tiny risk of spoiler here. Tiny. You have to be someone who doesn’t know how Lord of the Rings ends, doesn’t know The Hobbit and can’t guess at one important scene. Worth watching for the song at the end. No, really. Comment below.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: dragon, humour, lord of the rings, the hobbit, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Monsters in the Cabinet of Doctor Lukas Brezak

January 18, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lukas Brezak is a graphic designer from Brno in the Czech Republic. You can buy these prints from his Society6 page or sample more of his work at his blog Surgery Minor.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: cthulhu, monsters

Games Workshop boss quits

January 18, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Games Workshop’s CEO, Mark Wells, announced today that he’ll be stepping down. The British company posted their half year performance today and the results are good. In the six months running to December sales increased from £62.7 million to £67.5 million and at the same time the company reduced operating expenses by £1.4 million. Where […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: games workshop, money

Snowpiercer pictures, concept art and music

January 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Snowpiercer is a forthcoming sci-fi film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige. It’ll be directed by Bong Joon-ho and it’ll be his first English language film but he did the screenplay for The Host and his cast is incredible. There’s Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner, Alison […]

Filed Under: Movies, Music Tagged With: Chris Evans, John Hurt, photographs, pictures, Snowpiercer, Tilda Swinton

Competition: Fringe – September’s Notebook

January 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fringe fan? Based in the UK? Got some great news for you – you can win a copy of the “in show” September’s Notebook here at Geek Native. In the States? Sorry, can’t release the book outside the UK but you can pre-order at Amazon US. In the show September has / will (time is […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: competitions, Fringe, sci-fi

Demon Hunter cosplay

January 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This Demon Hunter is from the very popular Diablo III. The cosplayer is Tasha Spcats. Writing in Deviant Art, Tasha denies this is art, it’s just cosplay. Via the cosplay blog.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay, diablo iii

Vampire – Wine Bottle Holder

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s a wine holder with a difference. At the time of posting this happy vampire is out of stock – he must be flying off the shelf. Via Neatoshop.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: household, vampires

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