It was back in May when Geek Native covered news of a fresh blood art competition to support the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie. It was a chance for your design to become a real thing and to spend the day with street art experts End of the Line. This is what the agency published […]
A LEGO Turing Machine
Today is Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. He’s seen by many as the father of both computer science and AI. If you’re struggling to solve today’s Google logo then imagine the insight needed to create a working Turing machine out of LEGO. That’s what Jeroen van den Bos and Daby Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica […]
Solving Alan Turing’s 100th birthday Google
Alan Turning was a British mathematician and cryptanalyst. He is considered by many to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. His 100th birthday is the 23rd of June in 2012. Alan Turing was prosecuted by the British goverment in 1952. Why? For being homosexual at a time when homosexual acts were illegal in the […]
Seven fantastically horrible Beholder illustrations
The Beholder is one of the most iconic Dungeons & Dragons monsters. According to Wikipedia it has appeared in every version of the game since 1975 and it is one of the few monsters protected by Wizards of the Coast’s attack lawyers. There is no historical or mythological basis for the Beholder. It spawned from […]
A quick tour of the 8-bit art world
What is 8-bit art to you? Is it just nostalgia? There are now “8-bit artists” who have pushed the genre beyond nostalgia and into something contemporary. The culture includes 8-bit painting and even 8-bit music that is composed on GameBoys and still looks to evolve beyond gaming. Examples of 8-bit art
Incredible LEGO Superman mosaic
Based off Jim Lee’s Superman is this impressive LEGO mosaic from Dave Ware (aka BrickWares). What does the Jim Lee artwork look like? Glad you asked. Image via Brothers Brick. Original here.
6 amazing buildings that adventurers would distrust
You know the score – there are some dungeons, some structures and some buildings that any savvy gaming group would take one look at and be concerned. We’re talking about those dungeon doors that inspire wizards to stock up on anti-undead spells or the suspiciously long shadows that encourage the entire party to make sure […]
6 items of awesome brain slug fashion
Brain slugs are the underrated invention of Futurama. As far as I understand, they’re helpful little creatures that boost your intelligence, charisma and physical strength. If you’re ever gaming in a Futurama setting and you spy one of these cute little green creatures the thing to do is scoop it up and place it gently […]
Can you date the toys?
Intel, the chip people, have Project Monument going over at MSN at the minute. It’s a campaign that lets people reminisce over their favourite stuff. Think of the Facebook timeline – but in the traditional horizontal and focused on things that you remember fondly. Monuments, perhaps, momentos certainly. I’ve had fun trying to guess the […]
Collider #2 and an interview with Mike Garley
Mike Garley is a writer and editor who lectures, professionally, on writing for comics as well as the use of comics in transmedia campaigns. He runs the comic anthology Dead Roots based on a zombie plague. It is no surprise that Mike is the lead author for the comics in the transmedia franchise Collider. Alongside […]