This is a damn fine looking cake. It’s the result of a request from a 9 year old brother. You can see below how it was built with chocolate brownies for the square layer, then smoothed over with chocolate butter cream and then given a marzipan layer. Impressive stuff and especially attractive to any one […]
60 year old book Leia battles screen Princess Leia
At the start of March we discovered that Suvudu would run another Cage Match of science and fantasy. On one side we had book versions of characters and on the other screen versions of characters. They would fight until the last one was standing. Each fight was imagined by an author and decided by a […]
3 impressive Minecraft cakes
Gamer parents often mean gamer kids. What does it mean to have gamer kids? Increasingly it means Minecraft birthday cakes! This trio of Minecraft cake blocks should help inspire a new wave of baking this year. By Love is Cake By Melissa Flynn By Sunny by Design
The Creeper in the TARDIS
Made as a birthday cake by CuriAUSSIEty Cakes this Minecraft Creeper in the TARDIS cake feels appropraite for sharing at New Year too. I’m not sure how the Creeper got in the TARDIS but the tasty blend of geekdom in cake format can hardly go wrong.
Music video: Ores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynX9WAEi7z0 Katy Perry has a single called Roar. Ores is a spoof. It’s a Minecraft spoof of said song. These guys are certainly more successful than my first Minecraft adventure in which I wandered off, got lost and only survived the night by clinging to the top of a mountain as to stay out of […]
Geeky sumi-es
A sumi-e (or sumie) is a Japanese art form; an ink wash painting. Ink wash paintings were developed in China during the Tang Dynasty and it was the 8th century poet Wang Wei who was first credited for adding colour to existing ‘literati paintings’. These geeky sumi-es are the work of the American collective ‘MyCKs‘. […]
JazWares shows off latest range of Minecraft papercraft
JazWares is known for their geek popular range of Minecraft loot. The company produces sold figures, Minecraft plushies and papercraft and reaches retailers like Amazon. The company now has their latest range of models on display and you can sample the range of papercraft below. There’s enough here for Minecraft fans to build up their […]
Drawing a Minecraft Diamond Sword in 3D chalk
If you had a) art skills and b) a knowledge of Minecraft what would you do? In this video Chris Carlson picks up a packet of chalk and create some pretty cool 3D chalk artwork. Chris draws a Diamond Sword (which I’ve never had in Minecraft) to great effect. We get to see the maths […]
Pacific Realm: Minecraft does Pacific Rim
What if you could recreate one of the impressive Pacific Rim trailers in Minecraft? As it happens Steelehouse Digital have the skillset necessary for such a feat of geeky mashup glory. Pacific Realm is a homage to Guillermo del Toro’s mech vs monsters summer movie. I’m looking forward to it.
GMOD offers a client to manage your mods
Are you a fan of modding? That’s either the creation of new bits of software for your favourite game or simply grabbing someone else’s published creation and adding it to your game. One of the first mods I saw that caught my attention was one that changed zombies to Teletubbies in Left4Dead. I’ve never applied […]
