Epic 8-Bit Art: Beaded Ico Art

Trust 25pert WM, originally uploaded by Mystic Violet.

Mystic Violet, who doesn't understand the meaning of the word, small, decided to hold a contest and give away a free bead piece. The winner requested a Ico design and this is what Mystic Violet came up with .... a giant bead mosaic of the painting done for the game's marketing campaign.

Colour me impressed. The piece is made up of approximately 13,000 fuse beads and measures 24 inches x 20 inches.

Another Image Thief: Beeliciouss

One of the forum members posted this site today and I just about fell over from all the images this person had ripped off from all my fellow bead artists.

Beeliciouss posts on (her?) site that she just came back from the US and while there, she met an artist that created all these fabulous creations which she wants to help sell. Problem is all the crafts she's trying to sell on the site for her "artist friend" are actually all crafts from various bead artists (that I know) and not just one person. Plus one of the images is actually mine and I sure as hell didn't give her permission to sell my work.

Actually if a person really paid attention to the images and the payment options on the site, they could see the whole thing is a scam. The images don't match up in some cases, for example, the Owl brooches/pendants - she shows you a picture of a hair accessory but offers to sell you a pendant. The payment options don't include anything that would allow you to secure your purchases like a creditcard or Paypal would, so basically she can take your money and run once the transaction is complete. Personally I don't buy anything online anymore unless I can purchase it with Paypal and even then I do my homework before I buy.

I really hate when people do this. It's one thing to rip off someone's idea and sell it as your own because then you are at least doing the work for the money, but this woman probably just googled a bunch of bead art and posted up on a site in hopes she could con a bunch of people into sending her money in exchange for nothing. Though honestly, if any one is dumb enough to buy anything off an unsecure site at almost triple what they are worth, then maybe they deserve to get ripped off.

UPDATE: So Beeliciouss has blocked me from her page and made it accessible only to certain logins, so you will have to check out this link instead - http://beeliciouss.livejournal.com/ another site full of other people's items she's offering to swap or sell items but again she's using pictures from other people's sites. If you scroll down the page, you'll see another bead art group of items where you can see a picture with a watermark that she's tried to erase as much as possible without erasing the actual products in the picture. You can still see though the www.mi .... a.livejournal.com which obviously isn't her blog address.

She's really clever doing the whole item swap thing on the one site because people are even more likely to trust item swaps and she'll end up with a whole bunch of free stuff, but again if you pay attention to the requirements of her swap - she wants specific items in exchange for her items. In the end, she gets something she really wants and you will get nothing.

From Retro to Renew: Battle Chess

So when I was a kid I played I a lot of PC games my Father would trade from friends and such. One such games was called Battle Chess which was released by Interplay in 1988. I wasn't really good at playing chess but I loved watching each character battle it out for the chess spot. Each Chess piece would react differently to another piece type and it was so cool to watch their battle moves.


SouthPeak Games is coming out with a new version of this classic game, Battle vs Chess and has a new trailer posted for it. It looks pretty darn cool and again, though I sucked at chess, I would totally play this game just to watch the pieces battle it out for the space

To quote Ron Wesley "That's Wizard's Chess!"

Trailer: Epic Mickey Intro

One more great reason I continue to keep my Nintendo Wii - Epic Mickey! I can't wait for this game to come out - it looks so amazing. I hope its as good, if not better than all those retro Capcom Disney games.

Teletoon Superfan Fridays: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Preview

Here at The Girl Gamer, we love things all geek ... videogames, crafts, movies and especially cartoons! So when the people at Teletoon, the most awesome Canadian cartoon station asked me to come down and check out the first two episodes of the new 3rd season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I couldn't refuse.



So next Tuesday I am heading down to T.O to the Teletoon offices to mingle with the Superfan Friday Team and check out some sweet Star Wars action. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is part of the Superfan Friday lineup on Teletoon every Friday night from 7pm to 9pm. Other cartoons in the lineup include Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Justice League and Wolverine and the X-Men.
The 3rd Season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars starts September 17.

I will have more about the 3rd season when I check out the show next week.

Epic 8-Bit Art: Absolut Solid

Absolut Solid by =johnsonsan on deviantARTSNAKE!!!!!!
Okay, so this is just ... WOW! Deviant Art user, Johnsonsan created this epic bead piece of Solid Snake and I am uber-impressed. Honestly I think sometimes if I had more time away from my store orders I would definitely sit down and do I bigger piece for once - something totally epic for my living room wall.

Maybe during Christmas break ....