A few months ago, photographer Bill Watters got in touch with me to offer me to cover various conventions for the site, and naturally, I couldn’t refuse the offer! The last set of pics I got from him comes from WonderCon 2012, and even though the event took place last month, I’ve decided to post […]
Another year, another fantastic PAX East event! Here are some of the creative commons-licensed pictures we’ve discovered while browsing Flickr this morning. Plus, bonus video of some breakdancing zombies by [GAS] reader Raymond right after the gallery! [Picture Sources: martin.grondin | FirstPerson Shooter | Bill Hinsee Photography]
TV Shows get cancelled. It happens. There are a lot of reasons they decide to swing that axe, but at the end of the day, nothing lasts forever. Even with the Simpson’s seemingly unending parade of seasons, that too will one day end. So with last week’s news that Terra Nova has been cancelled, a […]
The intention of this project is to stress the importance of advancing the space frontier and is focused on igniting scientific curiosity in the general public. [Scrunchthethird]
> We all love looking at great photos of cosplayers, but what we see is just the end result of a long and rigorous process. Resident cosplayer Meredith / Ana Aesthetic takes us behind the scenes of a typical day in front of the camera, and offers up some tips to those looking to delve […]
By J David Osborne Contributing Writer, [GAS] On the phone, director Andrew Stanton comes off as wildly enthusiastic for his soon-to-be-released adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1912 classic, John Carter. Burroughs wrote eleven of the Carter books, starting with A Princess of Mars, upon which this upcoming film is based. The books are written in […]
The world is definitely catching on at how sexy us geeks are. Science is the future; we’re the ones who are going to build the robot that’s going to kick your robot’s ass. It’s time for the spotlight to swivel over to the scientists who are changing the world, and are going to change the […]
By R. S. Guest Blogger Share It’s safe to say that we now live in a geek’s world. One only has to look at the way gadgets and the Internet dominate every aspect of modern existence. Geeks are essential to the normal functioning of billions of lives daily. Without them, civilization as we know it […]
Photographer David Ngo attented Megacon 2012 in Orlando, FL last weekend and took plenty of photographs of cosplayers during the three-day event. Here is a selection of our favorites. Many thanks to David for allowing us to post those! Enjoy! [David Ngo]
A baked clay cylinder from two and half millennia ago could very well be one of the most influential objects of the last few millennia. Written in Babylonian cuneiform script, the “Cyrus Cylinder” originally recounts how Cyrus, the king of the Persians, invaded, destroyed, and liberated Babylon. This the region we now call the Middle […]