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Artistic, musical, creative, and entertaining topics of art about all things geek.

8 Mysterious Paintings that Break the Fourth Wall
In European art and literature, everything has a structure. A story has grammar, syntax, plot, characters, and setting. Paintings have colors, shapes, textures, techniques, and symbols. Part of this logical schema of the arts, is the concept of art coexisting with real life. Does life inspire art, or vice versa, or both, or neither?
By Cheryl Lynn7 years ago in Geeks
ReFrame the World: Gender Parity Success Stories
Tribeca Film Festival keeps delivering a great selection of series and panel discussions, year after year, including women's stories, talks of diversity and inclusion.
By Lia F.7 years ago in Geeks
Disney Tattoos So Magical You'll Immediately Want to Get One
Disney's movies are something that many people around the world have grown up with. They recreate stories we've known for years, and introduce us to original characters we can't help but fall in love with. Regardless, whether we watch Disney movies as adults (and I know many of us do), the tales of our childhoods will always be stamped on our hearts.
By Leah Phillips7 years ago in Geeks
Dear Fan Art and Dear Original Art
I grew up in an incredibly artistic community. Thinking back, I remember the Red Barn fondly, a place my siblings, mum, and I would go for art gatherings, Shakespeare workshops, theatre, and band practice. In town, there were two artists I remember often visiting, and my excitement for seeing them. The one was cluttered with art supplies, bits of paint on old wooden surfaces, and unique cups filled with paint water and pencil shavings. An extra plus was her Pokemon card collection. The other artist's home was on the river, mini Canadian flags in the grassy lawn. Jack always ended up spending most of the visit at his easel. Sometimes, I would just stare at his brush, enjoying seeing him fill the bristles with paint, then lean back with a squint.
By 'Toto' (Aleksina Teto)7 years ago in Geeks
Action Figure Customs
I originally started working for a business in 2015 that did custom action figures. I had a background my whole life with pen and ink, painting and some sculpting. I have always been great at arts and crafts, so I picked up the action figure creating really fast, in fact, I excelled way faster than expected! I parted ways with the owner, as we both had creative differences over styles. I couldn't make them how I wanted and had to paint just like he did. I moved to England in April 2016 while I was in the middle of my first custom, Ash Williams from the Evil Dead series.
By Shane Conway7 years ago in Geeks
'Knight and Day'—Review
So over the last few months, I have been on a real Tom Cruise kick. I have rewatched all the Mission Impossible films, Rain Man, War of the Worlds, Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky, and now Knight and Day. I remember watching the trailer for this film when it came out and it looked like a fun movie, but for some reason, it just slipped through the cracks until now. However, after watching it, I wasn't too upset that it took me this long to watch it because the one word I can use to describe this movie is "lazy".
By Brandon Wettig7 years ago in Geeks
The Master of Meaning: Gaspar Noé
The Argentinian/ French auteur Gapar Noé has been recognised as a contributor to the rise in French Extremity cinema. Within the content of his work he explores deep, dark, and controversial parts of the human experience, having to use a variety of techniques to make the characters empathetic for an audience in the challenging, sometimes unbearable viewing content. There are arguments for and against his attempts to shape meaning as being successful and unsuccessful; he has a variety of creative techniques he uses to construct and explore narrative. I will use three of Noé’s films as examples to analyse; Irreversible (2002), Enter The Void (2009) and Love (2015). These films showcase Noés talent and track his development and further explorations of reoccurring themes such as love, violence, and drug use.
By Aidan Kirwin7 years ago in Geeks
Why 'Avengers Infinity War' Was So Successful (No Spoilers)
Currently Marvel studios has two movies in theaters that are producing a lot of money in the box office. Infinity War brought in $1.8 Billion. Deadpool 2 was able to move Infinity War out of the number one spot for the past 3 weeks. The reason Infinity War was so successful was because of the mystery behind the plot till it came out. Many of the trailers did not give away much of what the movie was showing. Comedy is always alluring to younger and older crowds especially if that comedy is able to cause a few out loud laughing in the theater while the movie’s end was very sad. (No spoilers.) It had the combination of many different Marvel characters from all of our favorite movies; Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, Black Panther (which just came out in February of 2016) and the original Avengers. This combination of movies that also just recently came out made it more attractive to super hero fans of all types even if you only had seen one movie. Since Marvel has released 3 major box office movies in the past few months, their ability to captivate the audience grew creating a reminding factor to the consumer. While we all hate how expensive the movie theaters are, we still go to see our favorite releases and different movies that have sequels can bring in a lot of money. Why write another storyline when we can continue with the one we have? The separation and elongating of the story line will cause huge amounts of people to go see the new movie that just came out all at once. The first few days a movie is released is when they will receive a fair majority of their proceeds. As a Marvel fan, for many years seeing a new Marvel movie became something to look forward to for months. You hear the movie is coming out and you almost always plan on seeing it the first week or two of its release. The same type of commitment goes with Harry Potter fans; all 8 movies came out far enough apart to create that urgency when they are released. The marketing model behind this is to bring in the four P’s: Product (the movie), Price (varies between theater), Promotion (little is needed when you already have a massive fan base), and Place (has to do with timing of releasing each movie).
By Siera 8 years ago in Geeks
The Artistic Creation of Life
The art of creating characters is a representation on reality. In other words, characters in books and films do not actually exist. However, a good creation of a character causes the audience to temporarily forget that the character is only an artistic creation. In order to create a character, the artist needs to give it life. This illusion of life includes, motion, imagery and emotions. This can be done by giving the characters animation and personification. What is the difference between the two? Do the characters need to be both personified and animated? In the picture book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss and in the film Pinocchio by Walt Disney productions, there exists both animation and personification. To clarify, animation is the artistic creation of life and movement. Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to something non-human.
By Test8 years ago in Geeks
Move Over Belle And Cinderella, 'Wonder Woman' Could Be A Disney Princess!
The recent super heroine film, Wonder Woman, came out kicking and lasso swinging as it left satisfaction among its viewers. The blockbuster broke the traditional aesthetic surrounding comic book films, introducing a new way to save the world with your friends –– and while doing so, included a scene touched with a bit of inspiration from one of Disney's popular animated films, The Little Mermaid.
By Ricksen's––A––"Neo-Manteau"8 years ago in Geeks
Poor Fairy Tales With Valid Messages
A lot of fairy tales are obscure for a reason, and in the cases of these mentioned below, the obscurity is probably something to do with how poorly they executed otherwise genuine messages.
By Conor Hufton8 years ago in Geeks
These Hauntingly Realistic Images of Disney Villains Will Chill Your Core
First, he gave us these beautiful Disney Princesses. Then, of course, the devilishly handsome Disney Princes. Now Finnish artist Jirka Väätäinen is back and this time, he made a realistic rendition of the infamous Disney villains.
By Karina Thyra8 years ago in Geeks