Saturday, February 22, 2014

Geek-a-ify everything!

Hello Fellow Geeks and Geekettes!

lately I've been in the mood to do crafting projects. So I decide to geekaify  something for my bathroom. I need more and better storage for my earrings and such, So here what I did.


Supplies
Mog pod
sissors
paint brush
paper plate
fabric ( of whatever you want to use a a cover, I've comic book strips, to newspaper )
Iron
item you are geek-a-ifying




1. Pre-plan where you want your fabric to lay.

2. Trace any area you want to cover that you can't eyeball.

3. Iron out all the wrinkles out of the fabric and cut out the traced pieces.

4. Take you paint brush and  began to lightly cover your area that the fabric will .



I was just having fun with the Maco setting on my camera

5.Option, since Mog Pod  dries clean I decided to cover the whole thing in Mog Pod to project, and let it sit over night. 

Here what my bathroom looked before.



Such a mess of my earrings 

after! 

I used tiny little plastic  containers to strong my earrings 


Second drawer is tooth and mouth related items

I gotta see! 
 In all, I hope to try thing again with something else in mind, It was fun little project I hope to see projects from ya'll soon too! Please tweet us photos of your projects!


Stay Geeky
Dalek Chick





Saturday, February 15, 2014

Minecraft: Geek Edition for Beginners

Even if you've never played it, it stands to reason that at some point within the past five years you've likely heard or seen something related to Minecraft. If you're one of the few sitting there about to open a new tab for Google, let me save you a step or two: the Minecraft Wiki describes it as being "a sandbox construction game...[that] involves players placing and breaking various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment"; just typing the title into YouTube will present you with hours of play-through footage and how-to's on building structures and mechanisms.

Sometime around the end of January, I was finally able to get the Playstation 3 edition, largely because:
A. I already have a PS3 - the PS4 edition is slated to come out in March of this year - and
2. I'm not an avid PC gamer, and it's not practical to me to have a game that can consume hours of free time when there's only one [shared] computer in my house.
I started my own little world in Survival Mode, digging and mining and building and farming.

Then I started a second world in Create Mode.

Holy hole in a donut, Batman! I found my niche in the game. Being someone who thoroughly enjoys games like LittleBigPlanet and The Sims, Minecraft fits right into my personal preference of being able to create my own content within it.

So, what kind of stuff did I build?

I started with simple structures, such as shelters, and just playing around and seeing what I could do, and then I had an idea: I wanted to build the Ghostbusters logo. So I did a quick image search for reference and set to work placing wool blocks, removing wool blocks, repositioning wool blocks, and I came up with a decent-looking replica. Then I had the idea to grab some graph paper and colored pencils to create a sort of guide for other beginners like myself who want to recreate some of their favorite geek icons.

Materials used: Red wool, White wool, Black wool, and Glowstone (border)
 The 2's you see indicate that if you stack an additional block on these places it gives the logo depth. Next, I wanted to try something just a bit more challenging:

Materials used: Lime wool, Green wool, Black wool, Gray wool, White wool, Brown wool, and Red wool
With this Hitchhiker's-themed build, I also added "DON'T PANIC' to the side in Glowstone. It sits along the top edge of my world and is visible whether it's day or night. Stacking the brown and red blocks makes the tongue seem even more as though it's sticking out. Then I had another fun idea:

Materials used: Red wool, Orange wool, and Yellow wool
What geek build would be complete without a display of cunning? Jayne's hat is incredibly easy, and sits next to the last thing I decided to show you:

Materials used: Blue wool, Light Blue wool, White wool, Black wool, and Glowstone
My project just didn't feel complete without a TARDIS. And none of these are difficult to make by any means, but I wanted to give you an idea of what you can do. You don't necessarily have to stick with battling Creepers and Zombies, nor do you have to endlessly mine, farm, and collect resources. If you're like me, any new opportunity to build and create opens up a Pandora's Box, so to speak, of ideas waiting to exist and to be shared.

If you have your own Minecraft creations you'd like to share, whether it's PC/PS3/360, please don't hesitate to do so. I'll even make a photo album to embed within this post if enough pics are received. I look forward to seeing what you all have to share.

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Sunday night at 10pm EST
Season 3 of Harmless Content begins on Trek Radio
with Captain Atomos and the crew of the Watchtower
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Sci-Fi Expo !!

Am sorry it's late but here why it was late!!
This my good friend and I with Karl Urban!! Please remember to follow me on twitter!  

Stay Shiny
Dalek Chick 

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Tale As Old As Time








Beauty and the Beast will always be my all-time favorite movie: it was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 4, nearly 5, and my mom was very pregnant with my sister. I remember the ballroom scene was supposed to be a big deal at the time because while the rest of the movie is hand-drawn animation, the ballroom itself is computer-generated.

In 1993, two years after Disney's release of the film, Beauty and the Beast made its debut on Broadway. It was nominated for many Tony Awards, winning one for Best Costume Design, and nominated for many Drama Desk Awards in 1994; the original London production was nominated for three Laurence Olivier Awards, of which it won one for Best New Musical in 1998.

All these years I've wanted to see the Broadway production, and last night I finally did and I was not disappointed. The acting, the effects, the lighting, the sets, the costumes, all of it is breath-taking and amazing. I love that they've given a bit more depth to the characters as well, with the servants slowly becoming household objects - at one point Cogsworth, Lumiere, and Mrs. Potts discuss two other servants, one being vain and turned into a vanity and the other being dumb as a brick and turned into a brick wall, and eventually a wind-up key appears on Cogsworth's back, signifying all the more how time is running out to break the spell.

In the film, Belle asks her father if he thinks she's odd and that's the last you hear of it. In the production, Belle uses that as a way to connect with Beast, saying she understands what it's like to be surrounded by people and still feel lonely. Even Beast, after he scares Belle away from the west wing, quickly, if even too late to stop her, begins apologizing for scaring her. Before the ballroom sequence, Beast sits with Cogsworth and Lumiere,  listening to their advice on how to woo Belle, and he voices his fear of her laughing at him if he tells her how he feels about her - they tell him he has to speak from the heart and take the chance.

Darick Pead & Hilary Maiberger


There are also more songs including Human Again, which was originally cut from the film. Other added songs include: Me (Gaston), Home (Belle), How Long Must This Go On? (Beast), If I Can't Love Her (Beast), and A Change In Me (Belle).

I highly recommend seeing it if you can. You definitely get your money's worth.