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Check out iPhone app, LEGO Photo. It converts any photo to look like it's built from Legos. Best of all, it's free. I used a photo of a dinosaur I submitted to a previous challenge in Giveaway Tuesdays. See the original here. Taken at the Dinosaur Wall @ the Museum of Natural ...more
Looking for a guide on how to beat the Blind Justice Challenge Room? Look no longer, because this Giant Bomb Batman: Arkham City walkthrough will show you how its done. You'll need to dash and punge your way through the enemies, but once it's all said and done, you'll walk awa ...more
A close up of a Blue Morpho butterfly.
OLE! Yes it's time for another tutorial on the awesome PS3 game, God of War 3. In this video, you'll be finding out how to beat the El Matador-Ole challenge using some helpful tips and tricks. What you basically need to do in order to complete the challenge is don't get gored ...more
Wushu at the beach!
As if answering Apple's major iPhone event on Tuesday, Chinese mobile giant Xiaomi held its own product launch event the following day. And while the various smartphone offerings from the tech giant were impressive, it's the smartglasses product that the company revealed that ...more
Took this picture with a Canon Rebel XS from the top of a 30 foot tree- not sure why but it looks like I'm 10 feet up... The scary part is that the wind MPH was 50+, and this wasn't a strong tree. Every few seconds I would be half crushed by this "puny" tree (it was still bigg ...more
Oooh. Since I already eliminated myself, I can just fill up the corkboard. Ok. I really won't do that. But I had to share this one. I think this is my favorite abstract light painting. This was taken in Las Vegas. I think this was using lights from one of the hotels in the Man ...more
This next tutorial will show you how to beat the Silent Knight Predator Challenge in Batman: Arkham Asylum. Completeing a certain number of challenges and receving a certain number of medals will not only show you have what it takes to be the Dark Knight, but also unlock some ...more
Cell phone camera filter shot competition: Crossprocess app --> Instagram
I don't think I should be eligible to win the prize since I'm an admin over at Math Craft, so I decided I might as well contribute a few random bug shots. Butterfly: Millipede: Moth: Just the moth's wing: A fly on a flower petal: Where little ants come from! The one on top is ...more
Submission for weekly staff contest. Full flickr set : http://www.flickr.com/photos/87457200@N00/sets/72157629081335634/with/6780458228/ location : /sethome mgabrys contemporary treehouse 1, island of trees, ruin garden, and cove (for future ruin project), 2.5 evenings of ...more
Staff, thus exempt... Taken with Instagram.
May have went overboard but it was fun playing around.
Instagram Challenge: Here is a pic from my vintage PC game collection!
Shot and edited with iPhone 3G.
FX photo studio and Snapseed
My husband is Arab, and this dish is one of his Mom's most popular dishes. She stuffed cucumbers with rice and ground meat, and we finished it by simmering it in tomato sauce on the stove top for an hour and a half. That was soooo delicious.
Ah, the beauty of our sky!
It's been almost two years since Apple added the TrueDepth depth-sensing camera of the iPhone X for Face ID and Animojis, but now Google is ready to upgrade the front-facing camera on its Pixel series. On Monday, Google posted a preview of some of the new features coming to t ...more
Taken with Instagram!
This was a quick snap shot of some flowers in my kitchen. I used a Canon Rebel XS with the 18-55 lens that had a screw on macro lens ($30).
To enter this week's Giveaway Tuesdays Photo Challenge, you'll need to create a shudder-inducing photo of some kind. You can use props or makeup, play with lighting or show off this year's Halloween costume… or you can play with Photoshop or Gimp. How-To Geek has a great tuto ...more
Thought it would be fun to mix filters and bokeh.
Taken with Decim8.
Thomas orders purple contacts off of the internet and insists the he is now to be referred to as "TimeCat," whatever that means.
If you're playing Batman: Arkham Asylum, you may already very well know about the challenges in the game. These can be completed to help you collect medals and eventually achievements. In this tutorial, you're going to find out how to complete the Record Breaker Extreme Preda ...more
I know the bottle tripod isn't completely my idea, but the camera phone mount is. I also made a how-to on WonderHowTo for this, so look for it.
Can't say I'm big into fan art, so when this challenge got me to search the web for some recent fan art drawings, I was surprised to just how NSFW they were. I came across some weird Glee animal hybrids making love and some true Linsanity on the basketball court. But as this i ...more
If you know your internet history, then you fondly remember the Star Wars Kid and his epic lightsaber display on YouTube. Now, many years later, everyone is following in the footsteps of the Star Wars Kid thanks to the Lenovo Mirage and the new Star Wars: Jedi Challenges app. ...more
The Hell's Gate Challenge Room in Batman: Arkham City has three unlockable medals that you earn depending on your performance. This Giant Bomb video guide walks you through the different waves of enemies and helps you figure out what enemies to focus on so you can get all thre ...more
Splits on the ground challenge your lower body strength, working your hamstrings, thighs, calves, and glutes all at once. But do a split in the air and you add your core and upper body to the grab bag of muscles you're working out. Learn how to do a standing split by watching ...more
In this helpful video tutorial, you'll find out the secret to beating the Population Control challenge in the popular PS3 title, God of War 3. It's a pretty simple challenge that needs to be completed in a certain amount of time. You basically just have to make sure there are ...more
This shot was taken at my desk at work. I have huge windows behind me that always seem to blast out any photo taken in that area. This time I tried to use it to my advantage.
Contest entry
My zombie costume with makeup that took 4 hours to do, but it turned out awesome! :)
These firework went off at Dogwood Dell in Richmond, VA. We watched them from Byrd Park, which is right beside the Dell. I though the lines of the explosion looked like lightning bolts or electrical charge off.
Here is my entry for this weeks giveaway Tuesdays. It is my home made potato cannon rev2. The next step is to spray paint it so the purple isn't showing and to fix the valve. It was originally all 1inch PVC pipe but i cut the chamber and barrel off and made it 2inch PVC for bi ...more
I'm not eligible to win, but I like to participate. Little girl in Lombok, Indonesia holds baby octopus in her hand.
Taken using a Canon Rebel XT using the Poor-Mans-Macro technique. Low-Key Photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/electroloki/sets/
Continuing with my "Animals in Iraq" series, we have a poor little puppy who's succumbed to heat and starvation, but not in your ordinary way. Food is hard to come by for the stray dog population, but there's tons of trash around for them to dig through. This poor pup tried to ...more
After a long rainy day of walking around in Central Park I came upon this large puddle on the ground. I put my camera next to hit and tried a long exposure. This is the result. Not much bokeh but a lot of blur.
Mixed reviews of Magic Leap One aside, it would be hard to deny that Magic Leap has had a big year. And the AR unicorn isn't coasting to the finish line, with a number of new apps dropping and prescription frames finally arriving to bring relief to those who wear eyeglasses. ...more
Trying to be a good father and listen to what my son has to say. It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.