Category Archives: Geekery
Project Rooftop Does Green Lantern
I’m a huge fan of Project: Rooftop, the art blog dedicated to cool and fun superhero redesigns. And several times a year, Project: Rooftop holds a fan art competition, with real prizes. If I could draw, I’d totally submit. But I can’t, so I’m left simply enjoying everybody else’s submissions! Still fun.
This time the did Green Lantern, and came up with some petty awesome results!
By Ramon Villalobos
Click the jump to check out my favorites, including the winner! You can also click to check out the site to see all the winners, as well as the runner ups.
Pokemon Fusions Are a Thing, and They Are Amazing
I don’t know if you’ve noticed yet or not, but there’s a meme that’s been going around for awhile now called Pokemon Fusions. It’s this blog – Click Here – that randomly fuses two pokemon together to create a nifty, silly new gene-spliced pokemon. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Here, I made an example:
I know you’re reading his name in Pikachu’s voice
Neat, right? Go ahead and try it out. It’s a ton of fun.
But I’m actually here to tell you that the Internet has taken Pokemon Fusions and done them one better. A bunch of professional artists, or at least people who can really draw well, have taken these Pokemon Fusions drawn them to look real, instead of looking like awkward cut and pastes. The results are both beautiful and horrifying, but all together brilliant. If you want to see an example of the Internet at its geeky finest and most creative, click the jump to see all the freaky and awesome Fusions!
Superman Cereal by Phil Postma!
To prove that I’m not just a Superman Hater, and can be quite sweet to the Man of Steel, I’d like to share these adorable Superman cereal boxes from artist Phil Postma. I’m glad to know that there are people in this world who use their great talent for silliness.
Check out the rest after the jump! The best one, of course, being Bizarre-O’s!
Five Movie Nerds who Aren’t as Nerdy as you Think
One of the most unfortunate tropes in movies is the introduction of a character that you can immediately label. These archetypes help foreign audiences to understand the role of a character, even if they don’t understand that character’s background: The supermodel cheerleader, the suave leading man, the funny fat guy, and the hopeless nerd, among dozens more. As much as we may hate it, Hollywood clings to these archetypes, even if they’re derogatory.
The nerd in film is just there, for the most part, to help the leading man or woman work through the plot of the story and disappear (possibly into a locker). He may make funny jokes (Possibly locker-related), or come up with a clever invention (locker-related) to help save the world: But the nerd will rarely, if ever, have his or her day. But some of these big-screen nerds aren’t as nerdy as they let on. Here are five nerds from film who are secretly awesome behind the scenes:
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You Could Write the Next Doctor Who!
When contemplating the Internet, one must accept that anything you could ever possibly imagine already exists in some far corner of the Information Superhighway. For example, I bring you “6 lines of Java script that write Doctor Who plots indistinguishable from the current series”, created by the fine folks at Us vs. Th3m.
Just click here and the magic of the Internet gives you a Doctor Who plot.
For example:
A malfunction sends the TARDIS hurtling towards a space station in the far-future, but Clara thinks she can hear a child’s tears. Isolated from the Doctor, Clara goes on to uncover the secret of the first Aztecs. Clara’s tears save the day. Michael Caine has a walk-on part.
Or how about:
The Doctor has vowed to return to an underwater base, but the Doctor is worried. The visitors discover the first creatures of Time Lord legends. A nostalgic 90’s pop culture reference saves the day. David Beckham guest stars.
It’s genius!
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