Author Archives: Franky Branckaute

Franky has been member of Splashpress Media since before the creation of Splashpress. Today he is not only writer, editor, muppet on duty but also CEO of Splashpress Media. In his free time he loves to write for this site, sadly finding available time is a much more difficult task.

Come Out of Your Feed Reader, Get off Twitter! Check Our New Design Out!

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Come Out of Your Feed Reader, Get off Twitter! Check Our New Design Out!

It has taken us a really long time to decide whether to redesign or not. In all truth I was asked early 2009 already if FG needed a new design but there was something about the old design. The brand that ForeverGeek is had grown and was really recognisable but… times have changed and our content has changed and become more and more visual, with lots of images and video. “…we want something simpler but spiffier” Some days ago I already posted a teaser about the new design. We had finally decided to change and brought the awesomely talented Ia Lucero in to redesign our site. The brief was not Read more »

The Social Network Soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus EP Now Available for Free

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The Social Network Soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus EP Now Available for Free

The Social Network, the movie poking fun at Mark Zuckerberg will be in theaters on October 1st, 2010 but the soundtrack will be released some days earlier already. Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails fame and Atticus have scored the soundtrack of the among geeks highly anticipated movie. In good old fashioned Trent Reznor lingo this means that their will be a free download available and today the day has come and the Sampler EP of The Social Network movie is now available for download. Physical copies of the complete soundtrack will cost $8.99 and a digital album download will be available on September 28th for $2.99 on Amazon.com during Read more »

Zynga Statistics: The World of Zynga Games, Demographics, Platforms and Timeline

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Zynga Statistics: The World of Zynga Games, Demographics, Platforms and Timeline

The colleagues over the Blog Herald analysed the complete Zynga platform and returned some amazing numbers in a great infographic. The startup which was only launched in 2007 is said to be making north of $1 million per day already and has not stopped growing. With more than 360 million players, Zynga has grown to become one of the major players online.How did the platform grow this fast? The view the complete analysis of Zynga, an infographic created by Read more »

The Best Use of Louis Vuitton Products You'll See All Week

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The Best Use of Louis Vuitton Products You'll See All Week

There’s something totally wrong about Louis Vuitton and it’s not particularly the price tag. Who cares about price tags when there’s Dubai and hopefully soon Marvel Land or the huge amount of counterfeit articles making LV accessible to anyone who wants to inflate their own ego with some cheap fashion. The main problem with LV though is when men start using it as a ‘man bag’. Big was my surprise around 4 minutes ago when I finally saw a smart use of Louis Vuitton fabric: create bugs in LV design!. Yes, bugs. Sculptures actually but what’s in a name? Kyoto-based artist Mitsuhiro Okamoto set out and created 9 different sculptures, Read more »

Buy Your Own Tardis. You Won't Be Able to Timetravel but It's Still a Tardis!

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Buy Your Own Tardis. You Won't Be Able to Timetravel but It's Still a Tardis!

I really must be desperate right at the moment because chances that within the next 90 seconds you bunch are going to exterminate me are highly likely. Fact is that I am going to agree with Stephen Fry. I know this doesn’t happen often but last week the man bag carrying ‘geek’ was bang on when criticised the national religion institute The Beeb for their religion Sci-fi series Doctor Who. The only drama the BBC will boast about are Merlin and Doctor Who which are fine, but they’re children’s programmes. Here at FG HQ we love to ignore the Doctor (hey stop digging my iPlayer logs!) just because although the Read more »

Marvel Reinvents Iron Man. Less Iron More… Whatever They Were On I Want Double

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Marvel Reinvents Iron Man. Less Iron More… Whatever They Were On I Want Double

If ever you had wondered how Iron Man might evolve and age, Too Much Free Time’s rendition was very telling and probably spot on. Until now, now that Marvel.com went ahead and reinvented Iron Man. And I really mean reinvent. To do so they got Alan Aldridge in and he went beyond what he ever did so far: remember him from Beatles covers, collaboration with Elton John. Of course that alone could make one worry but things could not have been worse this time. Worse or mroe awesome, depending on what you’re on that would be. And how much you took. I’ll have double, thank you very much. Can you Read more »

Train Wreck Potential: Improving The Hoff

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Train Wreck Potential: Improving The Hoff

Has it ever happened to you that you thought ‘Whoa this is actually cool but how can I admit that it is to anyone?’. Yes? Great, because I’m really struggling with split feelings for this one. The problem’s simple: it involves a man known from things such as this. Or this and more recently this even. Here at FG we prefer to remember him for his awesome in Knight Rider though. K.I.T.T.’s awesomeness we mean, pardon the lapsus linguae. If this were the early 80s, we would probably all want to look like this and things could always have been worse. So before you go ahead and judge me, keep Read more »

Star Wars Race. I Want This. NOW!

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Star Wars Race. I Want This. NOW!

Long time no see, right? Don’t worry, I’ve been bathing myself in even more Star Wars pr0n than I could remember to share with you. Sue me. But I’ll make up for it. Right now. Or maybe not yet, I think first I am going to watch the ‘War of The Stars’ grindhouse movie and then I might come back and post about ‘Sherlock Holmes, The Mockbuster’. Or not. First… first… first I feel the urge to spend money. And I want to keep things simple. Let’s start with a T-shirt. A Star Wars T-Shirt. We love our Star Wars shirts here at FGHQ. Let’s buy more! I have a Read more »

8-Bit Pixel Art with Music Producing Software Ableton

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8-Bit Pixel Art with Music Producing Software Ableton

Argentinean DJ Zantho (Santiago Luini) has discovered what is probably the most amazing use of Ableton Live, the well-know and popular sound editing suite. In true FG fashion, DJ Zantho took true childhood heroes and converted them with Ableton to amazing ’8-Bit artwork’. Among the awesome works: Donkey Kong, Mario, Darth Vader, Mega Man, Zero and many more. It may be really hard to believe but this appears to be really done in sound editing software. Mac boys, run to GarageBand and now make something similar, while respecting the Apple UI Guidelines! Read more »