Retro Geek

Fashion School!!!

August 25, 2011

Guess what… I’m going to fashion school! I’m currently debating whether to start a whole new blog or just add a new category to this one. But considering I can’t even find the time to regularly update one blog let a lone two, I think I’ll stay here for the time being. So, Welcome to [...]

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An Ode to The Mysterious Cities of Gold

January 4, 2011

One of the greatest cartoons (and memorable cartoon theme songs) of all time. It’s South American history and archaeology, mixed with science fiction! Estaban is a young Spanish orphan who was saved from a ship wreck at sea.  The only clue to his origins is a strange medallion around his neck. He is taken to [...]

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An Ode to Ulysses 31

October 6, 2010

“Great Galaxies!” An epic space odyssey to defy the gods… One of my favourite 80′s cartoons, based on the epic trials of Ulysses, but set in space. Pure awesome! Pro’s: Ancient Greek gods & goddesses -in outer space! One of the coolest 80′s theme songs in the entire history of kids television Expands your everyday [...]

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Sweded Filmmaking: Intro

August 20, 2009

A few months back my friends at Brisbane SciFi & Fantasy (BSFF) made a ‘sweded’ version of X-Men. If you don’t know what ‘sweding’ is all about, check out the movie “Be Kind, Please Rewind“ starring Jack Black and Mos Def. It’s the film that started this craze. In the movie, the clerk of a [...]

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Supanova Update: Too Many Costumes

February 20, 2009

Well, the famous guests arriving at Supanova this year keep getting better! www.supanova.com.au Now, (and this is just in Brisbane) we’ve got: Hayden Panettiere (the indestructible cheerleader from Heroes) Morena Baccarin (“ambassador” Inara from Firefly(TV) and Serenity(movie)) Richard Hatch (Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica, and Tom Zarek in the new show) Peter Facinelli, [...]

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Supanova ’09

December 20, 2008

Well, it’s time to start planning my costume for Supanova ’09! Supanova Pop Culture Expo is the funnest festival to hit Brisbane. Check it out here: www.supanova.com.au . Me & my Brisbane Sci-Fi crew go every year. Each year the costumes get more and more elaborate. It’s one of the few times of year where [...]

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Exciting New Project… COMING SOON

May 13, 2008

There are stirrings on the etheric plane that something big is coming. It’s on the table; in the works, but I’m not quite ready yet to say what it is. But it’s going to be HUGE… hopefully…… but if not, at least it will be SUPER FUN    Coming soon! Super-awesomness!  

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Holiday Adventures #2 Sydney NYE

January 16, 2008

NYE was awesome for me because… While it rained back home in Brisbane, and fireworks were canceled along the Gold Coast due to freakish weather, I was living it up in beautiful Sydney! Darling Harbour! Getting back here was fantastic, and not only because we had the best spot (right on the water) for the [...]

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Best children’s TV shows of the 80′s! #2

November 14, 2007

We continue our series of retro-geek-funness, with three more TV shows which SpaceFairy loved when she was a kid in the 80′s. Some are obscure, some are more popular, but all of them ROCKED… enjoy! MASK logoUlysses 31 MASK M.A.S.K. (an acronym for the Mobile Armored Strike Command) was like a hybrid between Transformers and [...]

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Best children’s TV shows of the 80′s! #1

November 9, 2007

I love YouTube! Tonight I had a flash-back-o-rama to the 80′s when I discovered the opening theme to one of my favourite TV shows, Secret Valley. Does anyone remember it? They always had so much fun on that show (do kids these days still have food fights or does that only happen virtually on Facebook [...]

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