Safety is definitely a huge factor if you are planning on getting a motorcycle. Well, considering there is a huge amount of customization going on for motorcycles, why not put your personal touch on your helmet as well. Especially if its something bad ass like an Iron Man custom paint job. Safety is definitely key, but you shouldn’t have to give up style. Just don’t be a douche and put some lame ass fluorescent colored plastic mohawk on your helmet. Thats just tasteless and… well I guess douchey.
Hit the jump to check out some geek motorcycle helmets.
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IGN resident geek gamer “hot girl”, Jessica Chobot put her boobies up for a great cause. Well kinda… In support of the Keep-A-Breast foundation to promote breast cancer awareness, Jessica had her goodies cast in plaster and Sony artist, Erik San Juan than painted the cast in the theme of God of War III who he actually worked on.
Several months ago, I was approached to work with IGN staff writer and videogame vixen Jessica Chobot on a project to promote breast cancer awareness, through a non-profit foundation called Keep-A-Breast.
Keep-A-Breast’s fundraising efforts include plaster casts taken from stars and then painted over by artists to be auctioned for charity. I was tasked with giving Jessica’s cast a “God of War” flavor as I am one of a few artists from different studios who will be working with Jessica to represent the video game community.
Jessica and Erik’s creation is on display at Gnomon Gallery in Los Angeles in an “Art of God of War III” exhibit and will be auctioned off in the near future. Boobs and charity? I’m down.
Hit the jump to check out more pix of Jessica and the GOW III “breast plate” art piece!
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Illustrators Shy Custis and Coey Kuhn out of Colombus, Ohio seems to have an uncanny ability to make something as gruesome and terrifying as Big Daddy and Big Sister from BioShock 2 actually cute and adorable. Featured on DeviantArt, Shy and Coey (Shy does the pencil work while Coey does the coloring), has an array of illustrations of your favorite characters from various games such as Zelda Twilight Princess, Silent Hill, Left 4 Dead, etc with a cute “chibi” twist. Whats cooler is that you can get these little works of fan art are available to own as bumper stickers for a dollar each at Shy and Coey’s web store. Damn that Big Daddy looks bad ass!
Hit the jump to check out more of Shy and Coey’s chibi works of art!
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Well, if anyone has $100,000.00 laying around under a mattress or a sock, you can go and buy yourself a working 1:1 scale replica of the Batpod from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight. badrobot2002 of Satellite Beach, Florida is selling his Batpod that him and his brother took several months to build. badrobot2002 and his brother are metal fabricator and custom bike builders by trade so you can rest assure that this Batpod runs well and is built like a tank (that rolls on 2 wheels… heh~). The mock up was originally built with wood and PVC pipes, but over time, the brother completed the bike completely in steel. The big wheeled beast runs a single cylinder/four stroke motor that runs at about 650CC just the like Batpod used in the movie.
The frame and all tubing were built from hardened steel and welded together for an unbelievable rendition of this famous vehicle. The covers and arm guards, which are formed with high tensile strength fiberglass, hide the actual engine which is a high output 650cc 4 stroke, water cooled engine with direct port nitrous injection delivering amazing power in a compact shell if it were ever needed. The front and rear tires measure 508 millimeters across and it is outfitted with grappling hooks, grenade launchers, and 50 caliber machine guns for those traffic jams on the freeway. (No… they don’t really work.) The pod has never been ridden on the street but has been tested in a controlled environment. This one-off custom would be the perfect addition for the collector who has it all, or for a museum piece that will draw a crowd like nothing else.
badrobot2002 has his bike on sale on eBay now starting at a hefty price tag of $100k and is looking for serious bidders. If eBay is unsuccessful, the Batpod will make its way to the famous Barrett Jackson auto auction. Unfortunately, the seller is NOT willing to offer free shipping… BOOOOO!!!
You can check out the auction here and hit the jump to check out more pix of badrobot2002’s Batpod.
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If you are a die-hard geek, you can’t have just any old wedding cake. Ya gotta give it a geek twist and make it one of a kind. However, if you don’t have the cash to pitch out hundreds of dollars to get a custom cake made for your wedding, why not go with a bad ass geek cake topper. Etsy community member, Hilda Fernandez (AKA HILDOOM) offers a cool variety of cute geeky cake toppers like Han Solo and Princess Leia from Star Wars (pictured above). If Star Wars isn’t your thing (and shame on you if it isn’t), she also offers custom cake toppers of Link and Zelda from… well, Zelda, Jack and Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas and Mario and Princess Peach from Super Mario Bros.! Even Luigi gets some time in the spotlight in his own cake topper with Princess Daisy! Each of these adorable cake toppers are hand sculpted and made of polymer clay and colored using acrylic paint. HILDOOM also takes special requests so if you want something different from what she has to offer on her Etsy shop, just drop her a line. Considering each of these cake toppers are each created by hand, she only charges around $85 each (more pending on the difficulty of the request)! A small price to pay to personalize your big day and to have a keepsake from your wedding that screams geek!
I too have requested the services of HILDOOM to create a one-of-a-kind cake topper for my wedding next week (and yes, I am getting married…). Unfortunately, as much as I would KILL (KILL I said!) for a pair of his and her Scout Troopers beating down on an Ewok as my cake topper, I will be getting two frogs named Kerori from Sanrio, because Mrs. geektrooper said so. Sigh~
Check out HILDOOM Etsy shop and hit the jump to see more of her awesome geek cake toppers!
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