Design #6

I have to say I am really proud of this design, but I am so disappointed that not that many people where able to recognize it. I still love it and I think it looks so great, one of my best so far I think. I mean I have played so much this game that I practically did the screenshot without even looking. For those people that don't know it, they are The Lemmings, a very addictive game.

For those who do have not played this game I post a link where you can be able to play it, it's just so much fun!

Geek youtube covers

Youtube is a world of its own and you can find sometimes some awesome videos that every known geek should see. I am subscribed for example to many Youtube-channels that make covers of songs. One of them are The Piano Guys, a group that does classical versions of pop songs with piano and cello. I am so happy every time I see that they uploaded a new video because I know they do not let me down. But I must say although they have some pretty good songs going on, my favourite is a medley featuring my beloved Star Wars.

Here you have the video, simply a master piece. Check out the special effects, can't stop watching this.

 

Design #5

I still keep playing nowadays with Pokemon, one of the most played games of gameboy ever, and I wanted to show my love for Pokemon in one of my designs. So I decided to draw a Pokeball, one of the most known icons of the series. It is simple, but I think it looks great and looks even more awesome when I am wearing my own DIY Ash Ketchum cap.

Space Invaders Sofa

As I commented before, my dream is to have an entire house made of geek furniture or decorated with geek motives. We started by the living room and we will keep on going.  The last time I commented on the functional Nintendo controller table and what would go better than a Space Invader Sofa. 

A geek must have. Here you can see other pic, where it shows it can store things too.

The designer of this outlandish sofa is Igor Chak, and there is an option to buy it for 5000$ in his web.

Crafty Sunday

Nowadays I try to stay home on Sundays and leave time to myself and do some crafts. That is why I wanted to start to post every sunday some kind of craft. I will probably start with the ones that I have already done, and keep going on posting some cool stuff.
This time I wanted to post one of the crafts I am most proud of: my comic heels. I actually learned decoupage from my aunt, but did not became a real fan until I saw the geek potential they have, for example with the comics. I saw at first this tutorial  where you can see the details of how to make the shoes:

Well, I mean you see them and you just have to make own of your own don't you?

But I must say the best tutorial I have seen so far is this one by Celesteknowsbest I think it really takes into account all the details and problems while doing this craft.

Here you can see mine which are based on cyclops and jean grey, one of my favorite marvel characters.  The sad thing is I don't have any picture wearing them on :(. But you see them quite well.

You know the best part about this project: you can use some shoes that you already have, like I did, that you just don't wear them anymore and revamp them with less than 5€ (cause you I got about 3 comics for 2€ in a local store and i already had the decoupage glue). Do not forget that they look adorable :)

I would like to know if you have made some shoes of your own, and post the pictures.
If you want one of them without doing the effort you just can find tons of shops in etsy that do them, and if you want you can try to contact me, and I can make some for you and a reasonable price :).

Blackmilkclothing

As a geek girl, I find it difficult to find geek clothes that I like, cause the geek clothes are always made for men and you don't really see things that are feminine and geeky. But the the world is getting more conscious that we represent a gap in the market and the clothes that we were dreaming of are starting to become something real. One of the ones making this dream come true is the Australian online shop: blackmilkclothing.  Maybe you have seen already some of the famous Star wars and Lord of the Rings clothing but there is much more.


 Here you see some of my favourite:

I want to have all of them, the thing is they each cost more than 70 Australian dollars (which is about 50 Euros) and you could not buy all of them as many of them are limited edition. But that is something I would totally have in my wardrobe.

Design #4

I had to have a Zelda design, eventhough I did not have that many pixels, and this is what came out. I would say this design it's not that good as the other ones, but at least it has Link on it (one of my favourite chracters ever) and I love the heart, must do that again.

Videogame review: Machinarium

Being fan of the old Lucas Arts videogames like Monkey Island, Loom and Day of the Tentacle, I sometimes miss new good point and click games. Thanks to a friend and the magic of The Humble Bumble I discovered some awesome new indie point and click games. One of them I wanted to review here: Machinarium (by Amanita design). Is one of the best new adventure games I have played lately. Even though the dialogue is non-existent, the story is catching from the beginning and the gameplay keeps you interested all the way. I even know people that are not really fan of this type of adventure and got totally hook up. 

The story is adorable, the soundtrack a little piece of art and you can even get to play the space invaders inside the game itself: genius. In The Machinarium's own website you can play a free demo and buy it, compatible with all operating systems, for $10.  Amanita design has also other games like Botanicula and Samorost which I shall be reviewing soon. 

Here I leave you with the trailer:

If you have a game that you would like to recommend please comment, I always like to hear about new games :). Comment if you like the game too. 

Design #3

One of my favourite Atari games: PONG, and it just became my favourite design at the moment :).

Pokemon dresses

As a geek, I spent most of my time surfing the internet and looking for geek stuff in other websites and blogs. I came by coincidence to a blog where a girl designs outfits inspired in all the first 150 Pokemon and I totally fell in love with it. The blog is 29CentPens and there you can see the awesome things this Canadian artistic student. It is been some months since she last published something, but you can still see the amazing designs of about 50 Pokemons already. You should check it out, I just love it.

You can see here some of my favourite designs and Pokemons too:

I hope she keeps doing them, they are amazing. I would love to wear them, they are so cool.

Design #2

The second design of my super cool Uanyi backpack, I still have to get more pixels though, they look a bit sad.

Geek Furniture: Functional Nintendo Controller table

As a true geek, I like everything of my life to be customized. One of the things in my list of things to do before I die is have all of my house with geek furniture. There are some quite cool geek tables for example, but I think the winning price goes to the functional Nintendo Controller table. Cause it is already cool to have a table with the shape of a NES controller, but being able to play with it: just genius. In this one for example it even has place for storage and some screenshots made of perler beads to decorate. You can see here more photos of this model made by a geek name "jocke" which says that the table cost about $200 in materials and 70-100 man-hours.Which I find totally worth it for this result.
Here you can find some the instructables by thisissafety where he explains how to DIY this awesome table.
For the ones that would not like to do the table on their own, there is an etsy shop called the bohemianworkbench where you can buy this table without the storage box for 3,500$ the functional one and for 2,300$ the non-functional.

The perfect backpack for a geek: Design #1

I just got the perfect the present for my birthday: a Uanyi backpack, the coolest thing ever for a retro gamer or just someone who wants to be original. You can choose between different models and colours, I got the backpack cause is the one I use the most, but there are plenty of things you can choose from, and prices vary from 50 to 80€. You get up to 240 pixels free, and you can start doing your designs as soon as you get the backpack (which was about 5 days for me). The thing is that for more complicated designs you should buy the colours separate cause you dont get much with the first bunch of pixels, so I try to improvise. I try to do a design each working day, cause I was challenged by my co-workers so here I go.

This is my first design: Luigi

Comic con San Diego 2013

One of the most geek events of the year is the Comic Con of San Diego, its been on since 1970 and since then is one of the most known and crowded from the geek culture. It normally takes place in the summer, this year was held this weekend, from 18-21 of July. As I live in Europe I have never been able to attend this convention, but is certainly on my bucket list, and  I would strongly recommend to go anyone that has the change to.

For the people like me that did not get the chance to go this year, I leave you with some videos, showing some cosplays of the Comic Con. The first one is by Sneaky Zebra, a youtube channel dedicated to geekery which as many videos about cosplays of diferent conventions, which I really recommend.

The second video is from one of my favorite cosplayers, DPiddy, he is internationally known for his videos in his awesome Deadpool cosplay (specially for his Gangam style) you can follow him on facebook and you can check his other videos on his youtube channel. He has actually 2 comic con videos but I am only linking this year's. You should check the others, they are wickedly entertaining.

DIY Ash Ketchum cap

A few months ago there was some party in my home university where we had to dress up with the theme of cartoon characters. I dressed up as one of my childhood idols: Ash Ketchum. Looks so cool and is so easy to make.

 You only need some green gloves, some jeans, red belt, a black t-shirt and some sneakers, the 2 more difficult things to make are the jacket and the cap, and it was easier than expected too. You just need a red cap, that I bought for about two euros in local cheap shop, some fabric paint and some masking tape. Cover the edges of the cap with the masking tape so you do not paint on the rest of it and paint the design on the front. It just looks adorable and you can just wear it as a usual cap as I do.

It looks good with everything and gets you prepared to catch them all!