This Nerdy Proposal Is Seriously Impressive (Capitol Romance)
Google Glass Is A Total Headache...Literally (The Consumerist)
Some People Really Hate Valentine's Day, But Few People Hate It This Much (Geekosystem)
The BBC Sure Loves Robin Hood (The Mary Sue)
Image: The Coolest Murphy Bed Ever (Incredible Things)
(Map: Google)
Geldrop is a town in the southern part of the Netherlands. One of the neighborhoods in that town is named for characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books.
I don't see a Sauron Street. If there was a Sauron Street, I would move there just to have that address.
-via Geekologie
There have been 13 incarnations of the title character in the BBC series Doctor Who since 1963. Although it may be hard for fans to imagine any other actors playing those parts from the past, they do have to get used to someone new in the role every few years. An even more jarring shift would be to see the Doctor as an American. The Tumblr blogger Smug Mode came up with some interesting casting of American actors in each of the Doctor Who eras. Do you agree with the selections? See them all, in order at Geeks Are Sexy.
This Is Some Serious Puppy Love (YouTube)
Facebook Is Now Open to More Than Just Male/Female Gender Preferences (Geekosystem)
5 Ridiculous Arguments That Have Scientific Answers (Cracked)
A Map Showing Where Freedom of the Press is Strongest and Weakest (The Presurfer)
Image: Quilled Anatomy of the Human Head (Improbable Research)
In fantasy art, women's body armor is often depicted in ways that may appear unrealistic. This may come as a shock to some of you, but in the opinion of some critics, the popular chainmail bikini is designed to appeal to male visual taste, not practical protective abilities.
This is, of course, a great misunderstanding. Artist Stjepan Sejic explains the science behind this popular trope. Read the whole piece here and get educated.
-via Geek Art Gallery
Turkish artist Murat Palta blends the art style of his native land with pop culture scenes from his modern geek heritage, creating art prints that look like they would fit right in during the Ottoman Empire or a geeky fandom convention.
Each piece is rendered in Miniature Style of the Ottoman Empire, and Murat’s choice to keep the characters simple, with an aged and weathered aesthetic, really adds to the charm of pieces depicting iconic scenes from geek friendly films such as A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars, Alien, The Shining and Scarface, just to name a few.
-Via Beautiful/Decay
Gamers were blown away by the surprisingly detailed pixel art graphics created for the intros and cutscenes used in Nintendo Entertainment System games, especially the adaptations of movies and TV shows.
Players weren’t staring at an abstractly arranged pile of pixels, they got high quality 8 bit art with their updated console gameplay, and the crowds went wild. But how close were those pixel art masterpieces to the actual movie footage?
Technologically advanced duo Brother Brain and Low Interest have created some scintillating morphing image GIFs as a futuristic form of side-by-side comparison.
The conclusion- game artists in 1985 were really good at replicating the original source with a limited color palette and a handful of pixels, and these morphing images would make totally rad wall art pieces.
You can see ten of these amazing morphing NES screen GIFs here.
It’s a good thing Link didn’t have to wait for a map of Hyrule to be cross stitched while on one of his epic journeys, or he would have been waiting so long he probably would have given up the whole adventuring biz!
A dedicated geek, and meticulous crafter, who goes by the name tibtibs on Reddit spent nine long months of her life bringing this amazing cross stitched map from Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past to full term, spending around 500 hours working on this incredible piece based on a pattern free to download online here.
If you don't have anything to do for the next nine months, and need a new map of Hyrule for your guild lodge, then you should follow in tibtibs footsteps, but beware- creating this map is an epic adventure in itself.
-Via Nerd Approved
When a newly initiated Dungeons and Dragons player cracks open a copy of the original Monster Manual and sees all the wild creatures that reside inside their mind begins to race with the gaming possibilities.
But those original drawings are sorely in need of an update, and although the creature designs have been re-drawn multiple times there’s nothing like the look of a good ol’ fashioned D&D dungeon dweller created in the shiny new(ish) digital sculpting program ZBrush.
Level 18 Paladin and epic level artist Patrick Farley has been working through the original Monster Manual in ZBrush, bringing the iconic creatures like the Beholder and the Gnoll, and the more obscure/oddball creatures like the Xorn, to life with his incredibly detailed 3D models.
The most amazing part of Patrick's series- he has only been working in ZBrush for a little over a month and has already created five creature models. At this rate he'll be on to the Fiend Folio by the end of the year!
-Via Boing Boing
We've previously posted Paul Michael's delightfully geeky ring designs, including those inspired by Wonder Woman, Han Solo and the Death Star. He recently posted these two designs on his Facebook page.
I love the starship design! Michael has already made a wax mold and is working on a making this design a reality. The Starfleet logo is also nice, though one commenter notes that it could be difficult to make a Vulcan salute if the ring is worn on the middle two fingers.
-via Nerd Bastards
This Doorbell Plays Sounds From Super Mario Bros. (Laughing Squid)
These Four Olympians Actually Rejected Their Medals (The Presurfer)
So....Pizza Hut Has An OK Cupid Page (Geekosystem)
Five Fun Facts About Monty Python (Unreality Mag)
Image: Game of Fries (Imgur)
Nerdist presents Mark Hamill, who was once Luke Skywalker and may be again, showing off some viral Star Wars fans you’ve seen here before, from the cutest little commentators to the Unipiper. It’s all leading up to a contest in which someone will visit Skywalker Ranch to visit with Hamill and George Lucas (charity donation required). Warning: he says “backslash” when he means “slash.” -via reddit
Elisa Naranja Metálica Insua, 24, is an artist in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She’s self-taught but clearly talented. Look at the sculptures and paintings that she can make! She fits all sorts of random objects into clearly conceived mosaics and sculptures.
I especially like her painting of Yoda as a fortune teller. I’d definitely sit through a tarot reading if Master Yoda was conducting it.
-via Technabob
Geeks Are Sexy gives us a steady stream of female cosplayers who go to great lengths to make awesomely accurate and attractive costumes. Now here’s an attempt to level the field just a little by focusing on the guys- and the cosplayers they selected are indeed tops at their craft. It was hard for me to select one for you to preview: should I focus on the costume or the player? The costume won out, although the player look good too. This is Jeff Siegert (Xailas) as Raiden from Metal Gear. See the rest at Geeks Are Sexy.
(Image credit: Erik Estrada)
Iconic Punch Scenes from movies and TV shows have been overshadowed for decades by their more likeable siblings the Kiss, the Heroic Monologue and the Speech That Conveniently Ties Up All Loose Ends.
Artist and designer Aled Lewis has created a pixel art series dedicated to these underrated scenes, and it’s about time those “pow, bang straight in the kisser!” moments were given their day in the sun.
The pieces in Aled's series "Pixel Punches" are reminiscent of character designs from classic beat ‘em up video games like Double Dragon and Final Fight, which is an appropriate era reference since many of the scenes are from classic movies like Groundhog Day, Back to the Future, and Ace Ventura, with a Joffrey slapping scene from Game of Thrones mixed in for geek color.
-Via Pleated-Jeans
