03-10-10 – I’m a Geek, and I’m Proud of It

So I’ve had a couple of really good ideas for this week. One of them was the really great low angle shot of some first edition D&D books, with dice scattered across the table, gloomy shadows in the background, perhaps something like a Gothic college hall…however, I needed two things to make that happen, A Tilt-Shift Lens and a Gothic College. I have neither of those two things, though the college hall would be easier and cheaper. The other idea was shooting an actual game of D&D in which I was ALL the players, but that requires Photoshop. Based on how I looked in them, my self portraits are out.

I guess my question is, if I submitted shots I took at last years New York Renaissance Festival, would that qualify in the theme? While I am not IN the Festive I did, after all, GO to a Ren Fair, which is VERY HIGH on the Geek ladder. 😳

It’s my own theme and I have a question. Go figure.

What I originally wanted to put in were pictures of a hard drive being taken apart (my ultimate geeky thing to do). Only issue was that taking pictures of me doing it, didn’t come out so well. Plan changed photograph someone doing it, but we have no hard drives left to take apart. :(. I am having my Hubby put together, though, a wind chime of the hard drive platters, which started the whole thing anyway. He had a suggestion for putting it together that I can’t quite follow (dense on directions, here) and what I thought would work has thus far failed. It all came from my idea(s), though inspired by him. That still counts, right? Essentially, the picture will be of the hard drive platter chime. I’m quite certain I’ll have to leave some text with the picture on it anyway as it will be shiny, but based on looking no one’s really going to know why its geeky.

Other than that, the best geeky things I could think of were my music stuff and my scrapbooking, but I’m not even sure the latter qualifies as geeky, but probably more of a hobby type thing. Oh right, and I also have a tribble, gray. Not sure what to do with that though just yet. Come to think of it, we do have one of the Star Trek movies (though not any of the others just yet, even though I want them, so I might somehow use that, too.

I could have spent all weekend on this, but instead I just lazed about in the sun while it was out making a blanket and reading, then when we were inside watching my Netflix movies, and continuing said blanket.

I just pulled a few books from my bookshelf. In my current apartment there is only 1 shelf of books, so not a large selection to choose from, but I was able to make something very, very geeky. (Featuring a FFXIII Elixir)

And then another entry is geeky in how I use the picture, and what is in the picture.

I fear my entries are going to revolve around books.
And what is that drink like? I keep seeing it in the convenience stores here, but I haven’t got around to trying any yet.

Hmm, revolving books?

It was kind of a berry soda. I just got the can, I didn’t go for the ?1000 pack with the figurine.

I’ve got a couple of ideas…the difficulty is going to be making them interesting :/

Heh. I’m inundated with ideas at this point. Some of which cover both geeky and badass. Let’s hope the voters agree.