Studio Ghibli characters
Eren in Titan form in Attack on Titan
One Piece
Ponyo
Bulbasar from Pokémon
Michelle, an artist in New Zealand, is a whiz with face paint. She's a big anime fan, too. Here are a selection of her paintings inspired by several popular series and movies. You can view her gallery to find other works as well, including those inspired by Frozen and Despicable Me.
Andy Kluthe at Dorkly has figured out your perfect pet by which game system you prefer, with the reasoning behind each. This explains perfectly why I have four cats, but most of those cats were not my idea- my limit is two cats, just enough to rid the house of rodents and keep each other company. My kids need a goldfish. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Emma J, a member of the Playmobil Collectors Club, made these delightfully steampunk versions of a Dalek and the Doctor's TARDIS. Steampunk is a fun style, but it must aggravate Daleks, as they are once again hindered by stairs.
-via Nerd Approved
Ash Vickers of Megacynics drew this in remembrance of Harold Ramis. She explains how the illustration came about.
When I drew this, the scene popped into my head of Egon actually wanting to know what it was like to go into the trap. I never meant to imply that they'd stick him in the containment unit with the other ghosts ;P. He's smiling and saying good-bye like "no... it's fine, guys. I'll be fine!" More importantly, I was just sad today after finding out that Harold is gone. I just wanted to draw something in tribute to him and this is what popped in to my head.
Harold Ramis, who portrayed Dr. Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters, died yesterday at age 69. -via reddit
Car insurance exists because accidents happen, and when you live in a town that hosts street fighting tournaments there’s even more risk of something bad happening to your automobile.
Turkish auto insurance company Anadolu Sigorta wants you to know that you can rely on them to help you pick up the pieces of your wrecked car, even if the cause of the destruction is a fiery attack by Street Fighter video game star Ryu as he tries to pick up some bonus points by smashing your car to bits.
-Via Gamma Squad
Chinese Schools Are Protecting Student Vision By Putting Up A Physial Barrier Between Them and Their Books (The Daily Mail)
Shocking News of the Day: The Internet Reduces Worker Productivity (The Presurfer)
Zuckerberg Plans to Bring Free Internet to the World (Geekosystem)
The 22 Rules of Pixar Storytelling (Unreality Mag)
Image: Totoro Cosplay Dress (Geek Native)
Batman ski jumping.
Captain America in the luge.
The Punisher in the biathlon.
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi have closed, but not before Marvel and DC heroes had a chance to show off their skills. Francesco Francavilla created several illustrations of them on the snow and ice. You can view them at Geek Art.
This isn't the first time that we've featured Francavilla's compelling work. We've previously shown his 1970s Batman concept art and The Avengers as Vikings.
Adam Baldwin played Jayne Cobb on Firefly. Cobb accidentally became a folk hero to the people of Higgins's Moon when he dumped loot on poor people to flee from a botched heist. To honor the man they call Jayne, Craftster member sharre stitched his words of wisdom on this bag.
-via Geek Crafts
Why Carl Sagan's Cosmos Still Kicks Butt (Flavorwire)
14 Totally Amazing Tree Houses (Web Urbanist)
The Internet Cat Hall of Fame (The Presurfer)
NBC Is Bringing Back Heroes. We Want to Know "Why?" (Geekosystem)
Image: The Toilet Bowl Waterfall (Amusing Planet)
It would be improper for me to be jealous of a 9-year old girl, but I am nonetheless. James Hance, whose geeky artwork we've featured extensively, made this mural mashing up Adventure Time and Doctor Who. Finn appears to be the Eleventh Doctor and Jake the Tenth. Lumpy Space Princess is, appropriately, an adipose.
Hance rendered the mural in acrylic paint. It measures about 4 by 5 feet.
Elsa is pretty down to earth as far as Disney royalty goes- she’s quite adaptable, brave and doesn’t need a man to make her life whole, so when she hands out advice the Disney princesses in attendance had better sit up and take notice.
This well made musical short features some strong singing skills in the style of Disney, an incredibly animated cast and karaoke style captioning so you can sing along.
It was created by AVbyte, makers of other fine pop culture themed musical shorts such as Super Mario World 3D The Musical and the totally timely Hipster Disney Princess The Musical.
-Via Geeks Of Doom
The Legend of Zelda premiered 28 years ago last Friday. The celebrate the anniversary of that video game franchise, Danacem made this pizza. It held up pretty well in the oven, don't you think? Hopefully there's Lon Lon Milk mixed into the dough.
-via Technabob
P.S. Be sure to check out Danacem's Tetris pizza.
Old(er) folks say the darndest things, and when they’re presented with the latest trend in annoying difficult video games they don’t have a problem pushing some buttons and expressing what a hard time they have playing video games, or understanding how such a simple game could have become so trendy.
The Flappy Bird's day in the sun may be drawing to a close, but now a bunch of old(er) folks have been turned on to the nearly impossible to beat Nintendo ripoff, and some of them seem like they might actually play the game again when the cameras are off. Most, however, had their fill in about five minutes!
-Via Laughing Squid
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Cat Bites Give You Depression Somehow (Geekosystem)
This Two Legged Chihuahua and Chicken Are Friends -Adorable Alert! (Incredible Things)
How Much is Your Body Worth on the Black Market (The Presurfer)
Image: Daphne and The Iron Machine (Geek Native)
From the sound of the title you may be expecting to see something perverted, or in the process of dying, in this video. Instead what you will find is a low tech version of the already low tech game that caused a stir on the interwebs before (most likely anyway) Nintendo put enough pressure on the game maker that he finally pulled it from distribution.
Flappy Bird in a box is a side scrolling paper version created by Fawn Qiu, a geek and founder of MakeAnything who strives to "promote creativity and engineering concepts through hands-on kits". Fawn's box hack version is just as hard as the original, but with much more DIY charm.
-Via Nerd Approved
