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Darice is a web developer who likes reading, watching TV shows, taking the occasional photos and play a tennis game now and then. Darice has been blogging on her own weblog since 2003 and joined Forever Geek in January 2010. When not coding, writing or reading she can be found in the kitchen cooking.

Moving Photographs

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Moving Photographs

Remember how GIF animated icons used to be all that in the early days of internet? Then they became the bane of the internet. Even in these days I have had clients requesting to use GIF images on their website. Big and blinking still are the big no no that some people want. Photographer Jamie Beck has taken the GIF format and redeemed it completely with his photography work. Moving photographs, wherein a photography scene, one subject is repeatedly moving at a normal pace. When I see his photographs it makes me think, genius and why no one thought about it before. The fact that Jamie carefully chooses which object Read more »

Terminator 2: T-800 Brain Chip Replica

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Terminator 2: T-800 Brain Chip Replica

On April 19th at 8:11 PM, Skynet was supposed to become aware. In the Terminator franchise that day is known as Judgment Day, when the machines turns against us. On April 19th Judgment Day didn’t come obviously. Twitter though was buzzing with the fact that they day had arrived. I’m sure the die hard fans secretly hoped it would happen, just for the fascination of time travel. Sheldon Cooper even added a Skynet clause to the roommate agreement with Leonard specifying about when one friend needs help to destroy an artificial intelligence he’s created and that’s taking over Earth. As a fan of the Matrix franchise I also wonder sometimes Read more »

Artistic Movie Posters

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Artistic Movie Posters

If you like movies, art and wall decorations you should check out Tomasz Opasinski’s work. He creates abstract posters of movies like, Inception, Tron, Black Swan and even A Nightmare on Elm Street. For a lot of the posters he uses a plain or modified munny doll. Tomasz art is very abstract and modern. If you have outgrown the standard movie posters but still like to have something movie related in you home, some of these posters are perfect. I really liked the Inception version, the movie itself has become a cult, one that will stay on the list of best movies for a long time to come. Having the Read more »

It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2

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It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2

Almost one year ago I wrote Bang! An Illustration About The History of Everything, about an illustrated book for children (and grown ups) that teaches them about the Big Bang. The text is written in rhyme and the characters are an elderly couple. The writer/illustrator, James Dunbar has since then organized himself better and started a Kickstarter project to fund book 2 which is illustrated in color. Within five days he reached the $1000 pledged and by the end of the pledge he raised $6144. With that amount he created It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2. An illustrated book about the origin of life on Earth. There is an Read more »

Rebirth of the Commodore 64 PC

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Rebirth of the Commodore 64 PC

Commodore has re-booted their 64 PC line, now packing more power than the first release in 1982. Keeping the same, now retro casing, but fully fitted with the most recent technology. Offering 5 price class, from a barebone case of $250 to a fully equipped case, containing amongst other a Blue Ray drive and 1 TB disk for a grand total of $894. That is way pricier than a Mac Mini. I don’t think they will sell a huge amount of it, but there certainly is a niche group of hardcore Commodore fans. The fact that the case is the same as almost 30 years ago and it comes with Read more »

The Body Shop Mix Ups

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The Body Shop Mix Ups

Fictional mechanical characters are very popular amongst geek. Yes, The General Lee is as much a character in The Dukes of Hazzard as Daisy Duke is. Same goes for Ecto-1 in Ghostbusters and several other movies and cartoons. There is always new fan designs to be found based on popular cars, robots, characters, etc. Artist Brandon Ortwein has a thing for cars. In November I wrote about a design by him, It Would Have Been Cooler As A Van. A poster containing several cars but as a van instead. Brandon got creative again with a couple of cars, planes and robots. He imagined that the cars, planes and robots where Read more »

The Pathology of Inactive Life

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The Pathology of Inactive Life

MBike, a bike brand, has a very unique ad campaign using a threesome of fictional pathology illustrations depicting the consequences of an inactive life due to our modern way of life. With computers and machines doing most of the work, we humans spend a lot more time sitting behind a computer than 60 years ago. Not only for work, but socially also. MBike made good use of that fact using pathology illustrations of humans with symptoms such as Deskorheea, Chronic Computerosis and Armchairitis. Read more »

9 Peanuts Tattoos To Drool Over

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9 Peanuts Tattoos To Drool Over

In keeping up with the tattoos series, I looked around the internet for Peanuts tattoos. Who doesn’t know Peanuts or it’s main character Charlie Brown? They never bore, each year without missing they are on TV for the holidays in the U.S. The comics are full of imparting wisdom’s. I found nine tattoos good enough to be posted here. There are lots of tattoo photos but personally I find only a handful good. People have different tastes, but some tattoos we can all agree are ugly. I choose nine tattoos, mostly Charlie Brown that are nicely done. Read more »

JJ Abrams Super 8 Trailer Released

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JJ Abrams Super 8 Trailer Released

Since the TV show ‘Alias’ I have been a fan of JJ Abrams. He went from producing a show like ‘Felicity’ to the mega cult show ‘Lost’. I must admit form those three I only watched Alias mostly, Lost also, but I never really got into it. Those familiar with Abrams work might have also seen ‘What about Brian” which was canceled after two seasons. ‘Fringe’ is his latest TV show feels like a way to keep the Lost fans. The point is clear, JJ Abrams can manage more then one genre, he is an all around producer/writer. He knows how to attract viewers and keep them enthralled. It is Read more »

Auto Ink: An Art Machine

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Auto Ink: An Art Machine

Artist Chris Eckert designed and build an ink machine. The main idea was to make it a tattoo machine, but currently it is fitted with a custom ink pen. The idea for the machine is inspired by religion. Chris believes that you are born into your religion, thus being defined by geography. Chris states that religion should unite every one from different religion instead of excluding people, which is what most religion do. It took a year to design, build and program the machine, which I must say is something you might come across hidden in centuries old pyramid or an artifact designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Read more »