humanity
Humanity or geek-manity? Humanity topics include pieces on the real-life lives of geek advocates and influencors.
The Stardust in My Happy Place
When I close my eyes and imagine my happy place, I am in a warm, cozy room. There is a fireplace on one wall and the other walls are just saturated with books. Sunken in bookshelves, inlaid jewels of literature. I'm under several blankets, on a plushy armchair, listening to Christmas music and petting the little Maltese dog who miraculously is not barking, he's just sitting in my lap. And all of my books will have been recommended to me by one of my new favorite YouTubers; the lovely Artisan Geek.
By Adeleine Grubb5 years ago in Geeks
Blerds Could Get A Real Wakanda With A Global Reach via Time Travel To The Past
For the sake of transparency I'm not a blerd. I'm not even nerd and never was one. In school I was considered a freak, a smart long hair into things that weirded out the nerds, like oscilloscope animation, building guitar effects from scratch, starting rock bands and being a prolific and published performing poet.
By Marshall Barnes5 years ago in Geeks
Stage 284's 'The Secret Garden' was a Night of Illuminating Success
On March 12, 2020, my cast and I received awful news. After a couple of months of working hard on blocking scenes, choreography, and learning the utmost beautiful music, The Secret Garden could not perform. Having to shut down for safety due to the rising pandemic, nobody was sure when we were going to perform this lovely show in front of an audience.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Geeks
My Road So Far
I cried in a tattoo shop. Not from pain. This baby didn't hurt. I wasn't necessarily sad, but I was emotional and it was bittersweet. I got a tattoo last November because that March, it was announced that Supernatural ( the tv show ) was going to air it's finale season. There are those that make fun or call it silly to cry over a tv show but Supernatural isn't any old show. Supernatural goes beyond that, way way beyond that, its like the Falcon and its going at warp speed. Just like Han Solo, it has defeated the odds. Almost got cancled twice and a company executive that did her best to kill the show by outting it on friday where shows go to die; but just like its characters it never could die. It coundn't die till the boys said. And evem now with the show nearing its last 7 episodes, it won't die. It can't die. The Supernatural Family is too big, the cast and crew too in love with the characters and fans and its influence too big. Supernatural was a show that never got those big awards or the true recognition it deserved but I believe what was created outside of the show is an award no show will ever know. I was 12 when the show aired. I saw it in my tv guide and thought the boys were cute. So I sat down on its air date, in the dark and with a pizza. That day I realized this show was much more than some pretty boys fighting monsters. I always say, I came for the pretty boys and stayed for the story.
By Catherine Agati5 years ago in Geeks
Anime and Yaoi helped me understand my grammar and punctuation.
When it comes to anime shows, there not only exciting, but they are also unique. I love the stories as much as the background and the characters. The design of their personality is always impressive. I love how anime shows are developed from urban legends, mythology, or just a previous experienced the writer or the creator, or maybe the director went through. I love reading the stories on how these shows are created. I would always write stories like fan fiction in a journal.
By stephanie borges5 years ago in Geeks
My journey
I am not a writer. I am a visual creative. But I am going to do my best to share my story. I never thought I would be where I am today; I don’t think I even thought it was a possibility. I was always a creative at school from art and graphic design to photography and media but I was convinced I would be a fashion designer. When everyone went off to University I went straight into work. Learning the front and back ends of the retail world. The goal was to spend 3 years gathering fashion business experience and knowledge and at 21 I would have my own fashion line. As you can see that didn’t happen and life took me on a different path. Unfortunately my dad passed away shortly after, it was a real wake up call. Going back to work wasn't the same. I needed an escape so I packed a suitcase and headed to Miami.
By Gabriella Kingsley5 years ago in Geeks
July 25, YouTube invites you to be part of a historic global documentary
YouTube launches a new global participatory feature film produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald. To participate, on July 25th you will have to resume your day and tell what is important to you in this 2020.
By Marco Bonomo5 years ago in Geeks
Unprecedented
UNPRECEDENTED A short film I created in the early stages of the Covid-19 Lockdown in the UK. Thinking about how everyone is being affected by this, thinking of my own story, my friends and family's stories, stories from the different industries the have been hit by this, I realised that while everyone's experiences have been so different, this time that we are all existing in together is one of the most powerfully unifiying factors of the pandemic. Everyone has been affected differnently, but in unity.
By Jamie Buchanan6 years ago in Geeks
My F.R.I.E.N.D.S Story
It all started one day while I was in fifth grade. My mom was re-married and I didn't really know my new dad at the time, (don't worry we are awesome now all these years later) I was sick at home one day and watching whatever was on TV, if you were sick from home back then you know what was locally available. My dad came in and looked at the TV and asked me if I liked what was on I shrugged and told him , "Not really." He went back to my parents' room and came back with a set of VHS tapes and he popped one in. It was Season 1 of FRIENDS, yes people we have LIFT OFF.
By Ashley Wentz6 years ago in Geeks
My First Wednesday in FL
I went to a movie audition for a “Christian” movie, despite my misgivings about acting for people’s imaginary friends. I had set the audition for an hour before I had to to work because the community center I was told it was being held at was 10 minutes from the office where I worked. I arrived at the community center in the email, surveying the park it was in, only to see no film crew, and no one waiting outside as advertised except a portly, balding African American gentleman talking to himself in gym shorts and a blue Carolina Tar Heels hoodie in the distance while he did karate and a hunched over homeless looking man wearing all red with his head cast downward sitting on a park bench near the entrance. Could this be the site of the crips and bloods finally making peace in the Tampa area? I did not want to stick around to find out, but I swallowed my visions of gang shootouts and gatherings of street thugs and chains and went inside the Community Center where I was immediately greeted by the sweat soaked humidity laden air of a fitness center, because that’s how they build community down here, the middle class divorced overweight people come to sweat out their pre-alcoholic aggressions on treadmills and stair masters, instead of their children.
By Brandon Beckham Aylor6 years ago in Geeks
Dangerous Lies - A Netflix Movie Review
Always be careful about what you tell people. You never know what lies will come back to haunt you. Dangerous Lies is a 2020 Netflix film about a young couple under investigation after the death of their wealthy foreman. Having left his estate to his caregivers in his will, Katie investigates further while Adam takes advantage of this new opportunity.
By Marielle Sabbag6 years ago in Geeks
