Geek Feminism Blog | Women, feminism, and geek culture. BefriendAGeek.com - Make a friend this Christmas. Schemes | artsdigitalera (Grants / Residency's / Funding / Scholarship) You can learn more about the background behind the strategy by reading the research paper. This outlines four strands which interconnect at the heart of artistic practice; Audiences, Domains, Incomes and Support. From this, we have identified two pilot schemes, experimenting with new models of on-the-ground support (Geek in Residence) and new commissions (Digital Culture Fund). The Geek in Residence pilot program connects ‘geeks’ (by which we mean technically confident artists and creatively confident technicians) with arts organisations through a temporary subsidised secondment scheme. The purpose of this fund is to enable digital artists and technicians to share their skills and experiences with arts workers. Geeks will be able to share their passion for solving unknown technological problems in creative situations, and arts workers will feel better equipped to work in digital spaces.
UPDATE: A second call for the Digital Culture Fund opened Thursday 12 August 2010. Xkcd - web comic strip. 10 most incredible geeky houses. There’s no stopping a true geek with passion and a dream. For a little Friday fun we scoured the web looking for the most impressive, geek-inspired homes around the world, settling on this list of the top 10 coolest geeky houses. The first on the list was this Hobbit-inspired home built and lived in by a family somewhere in England. The walls and roof are made of mud and straw, cooking is done with gas and food is kept cold year-round in a 6-foot hole in the ground. This house lacks a lot of the modern conveniences with the most significant probably being the lack of hot water. Now we fully realize that this is not a real house that people live in but it has parts that are in a house and it is definitely geeky.
Take a look at this apartment which was transformed by Tony Alleyne of London into a Star Trek Voyager-themed home. This spaceship house had to have been built by a true geek with a love of Sci-Fi. This is a real, $1.6 million home that was seriously built to look like a toilet. Mr Potatohead meets Starwars.