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Our Review of Beatles Rock Band, Clooney Has a Naked Man Fan, and Using Facebook Instead of 911?!

Molly — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:17:19 -0700

Beatlemania returns today as The Beatles: Rock Band hits stores, and we're here with GeekSugar's review of the hotly anticipated new game! Plus, watch cute clips of George Clooney's indecent proposal and David Beckham with his family on Ellen. All that plus two Australian girls who got lost and instead of calling the police, they updated their Facebook statuses to get rescued. Check out PopSugar Rush now!

America's Next Top Model Video Game Hits Stores Nov. 7

GeekSugar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:02:14 -0700

If the movies Clueless, Mean Girls, and Pretty in Pink can be turned into video games, are you actually surprised that Eidos is creating an America's Next Top Model video game for the Nintendo DS? You'll take control of one model, and just like the show, aspiring models will compete in challenges related to fashion, makeup, photo shoots and they'll even get to test out their catwalk skills. After the competitions, scores will be tallied and one model will be eliminated. Pick up your copy on November 7!

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Nigel Barker From ANTM Dishes on His Favorite Laptops

GeekSugar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:15:23 -0700

Photographer extraordinaire Nigel Barker may have a lot to say to model-hopefuls on America's Next Top Model, but did you know that he is also a laptop expert? Barker not only uses a Sony VAIO and an Ego Signature on a day-to-day basis, but he also knows about what's hot and what's not about all the other leading laptops on the market today!
Laptop Mag got all the goods from Barker, including his thoughts on the teeny, weeny MacBook Air! To see his "reviews" of various functional and fashionable laptops, click "start slideshow"!

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Watch Hit TV Shows On MySpace

GeekSugar — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:02:03 -0700

Networks like The CW and NBC are trying to tap into highly trafficked social networking sites like MySpace by offering video streams of popular TV shows. According Broadcasting & Cable, when The CW promoted America's Next Top Model on MySpace, their season-premiere ratings increased 36 percent among teens compared to its 2005 debut.

With over 61.5 unique visitors in January and even more in February, MySpace has become one of the best places for networks to showcase their goods.

MySpace also plans to launch a service where users can stream or 'host' shows on their MySpace page. As well, starting this summer NBC Universal and News Corp. will be launching a site with MySpace being their primary source for distributing TV and videos. Great - even more reasons to stay glued to my laptop!

The 13 Most Beautiful Avatars Of Second Life

GeekSugar — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:00:08 -0700

No this isn't a post about America's next top avatars contest, but it is about the model-like beauties of Second Life. Based on Andy Warhol's short films: 13 Most Beautiful Women and 13 Most Beautiful Boys comes a serious of canvas mounted portrait prints by the Italian artists Eva and Franco Mattes. Actual Second Lifers originally created these creative avatars. What are your thoughts? Do they scream beautiful in a virtual, digitally enhanced sorta way? Leave your comments below.
[via play-girlz] Want to know more about Play-Girlz's co-editor Ingrid Diaz? Check out my Geeky Girls We Love interview with her.

Why Does the Camera Add 10 Pounds?

GeekSugar — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:00:10 -0800

If you've ever seen my lookbook, you know I don't have my America's Next Top Model poses down. I don't know what it is, but I'm just not one of those women that can jump right into a camera-ready angle in two seconds and it's not like I'm the hunchback of Notre Dame or anything. When considering this I got to thinking, what are the best camera angles and why is it that the camera adds 10 pounds?

According to Slate Magazine's Michelle Tsai the answer is mostly bad lighting. She says:

The flat, even illumination on the red carpet makes it hard for the camera to capture dimension, unlike in a photo shoot with flattering soft lights. Cast from an angle, light creates shadows that sculpt the face and body by hiding unwanted flesh. Softer lights can hide wrinkles and smooth out the skin for women, while harsher lights on male faces exaggerate lines for a chiseled look. Without the aid of shadows, however, light exposes the imperfections of the face and body and makes the resulting image bigger and flatter. That's why everyone avoids white dresses-which cast fewer shadows under even lighting-except the thinnest actresses, like Nicole Kidman.

For tips on flattering camera lighting, just read more

High front light (sunlight)
We are trained early on that high front light is the best type of light, and often it is. The pro of high front light is the fact that the scene will be well lit and that the colors of the scene will be extra bright. The negative aspect of lots of sunlight in a picture is that your subject may squint and very high sunlight (seen at noon) will create deep shadows under eyes and chins, unless you use fill flash.

Front light
Front lighting illuminates the portion of the subject facing the photographer. Your camera's flash is the most common type of front lighting. It's great because it provides the most information to the camera by lighting the entire scene. It's also the easiest type of light to deal with photographically because there are fewer shadows to confuse the camera's light meter. The trouble is textures and details are minimized and scenes appear flat with few shadows.

Check out my guide to lighting: Photo Tips: Check Light Source, Strike Pose

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Top Model's Adrianne Curry Gets Geeky

GeekSugar — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:30:25 -0800

In late 2006, Adrianne Curry, winner of America's Next Top Model and star of the Surreal Life and My Fair Brady, became the world's first real-time virtual 3-D celebrity. She worked with NVIDIA to create a digital version of herself that is, well, almost as sultry as Adrianne herself.

For spicy close ups of digital Adrianne, just read more

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