Oct 6 2009Dino-Rider: Geekologie Writer Vs. The Volcano

Jesse Starr, to thank me for showcasing his incredible Christopher Walken ballpoint pen portrait, took my shoutout at the end of the post, which read, "Thanks Jesse, now how about one of me riding a dinosaur battling a volcano?", and made the dream a reality. This is only a part of the piece, click HERE to see it in all its high-res glory. OH HELL YES! TAKE THAT, VOLCANO. Joe ain't got shit on me!
As an added bonus, Jesse made a video of how he created the piece, which you can see after the jump. But, SPOILER ALERT: there's a picture of my ugly mug involved, so shy away.
Hit it for the video.
Jesse's DeviantART
and
Facebook Page
Thanks again Jesse, I'll have to think about what could possibly top that one.
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Reader Comments
1. Toaster Oven - October 6, 2009 1:55 PM
Holy shi- so awesome!
2. naas - October 6, 2009 1:55 PM
those rex's teeth are too sharp for what i'm thinkin' i'd like it to do...
3. big brown - October 6, 2009 1:59 PM
wow that is freakin awesum!
4. mat_tat_tat - October 6, 2009 2:05 PM
i just looked up Awesome in the dictionary, and right next to my picture was, was this video !!!
5. Daisy - October 6, 2009 2:07 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was walking and some sneakers fell on his head, later the police came by and arrested him and put him in a jail where he needed to dig holes.
6. naas - October 6, 2009 2:09 PM
GW FTW!!!! The hat is appropriate also, great job.
@2 that's not too far off from what I'd say, not bad. Since you're set on duplicating me I'm seeking your information right now........
You're in Washington state.... That's too bad for the residents of your city - which I am going for next. When I have your full real name and home address, would you mind if I posted it here?
7. Pat - October 6, 2009 2:13 PM
I seriously thought this was hand-drawn. Awesome work Jesse Starr.
8. Geekolojew - October 6, 2009 2:16 PM
Must See!!!
http://alturl.com/obg7
________________
9. Leonidas - October 6, 2009 2:16 PM
@7: it is hand-drawn, bunky. Wha, d'you think he used his two left feet to draw it?
10. madgame - October 6, 2009 2:16 PM
AWESOME!!! This is a masturbation session fo sho
11. Ham Bone - October 6, 2009 2:16 PM
my eyeballs were just raped by awesomness
12. lee.harless - October 6, 2009 2:17 PM
well damn. there goes my christmas idea.
13. naas - October 6, 2009 2:21 PM
...massive win Jesse Star, great work!
@2 where'd you go, did you mom come in the room or something? You also have a yahoo email address, we should be linked in the yahoo network - doncha think?
14. mike - October 6, 2009 2:21 PM
wow, epic win..
15. Scooper - October 6, 2009 2:23 PM
So freakin awesome
16. HORSEBITES - October 6, 2009 2:25 PM
Holy crap that rules! Nice song selection too!
17. krespie - October 6, 2009 2:26 PM
BONUS!
The lava flow near the dino looks like the sublime deliciousness that is bacon.
Awesome work!
18. Hawk - October 6, 2009 2:27 PM
SUCKS!
Needs more sex, nudity and gratuitous violence... then it would be awesome!!
... oh, wait you have the violence. Just more sex and nudity then!
19. Anonymous - October 6, 2009 2:29 PM
Dinosaur shirts, horny dinosaurs, dinosaurs on TV, and now a dinosaur drawing! Awesome.
20. jodie - October 6, 2009 2:34 PM
The video was great!
21. Iris - October 6, 2009 2:37 PM
whoa that is freakishly awesome!
I wish i could give gw something as cool as that, oh wait I'm a girl I fer sure can give him something better
great picture and video though
22. Leonidas - October 6, 2009 2:38 PM
@naas: never knew you were such a multi-talented individual. When you get done with this guy, I must pay you sometime to help me with some DDoS bitches that I'm battling.
23. Elwood Moose - October 6, 2009 2:38 PM
Jesse.. I'm fairly certain that that is NOT what GW meant by "RIDING A T-REX". (Which is also full of sin. Sinners.
24. Elwood Moose - October 6, 2009 2:41 PM
Also... I'm not the best at Photoshop, but still.. that guy was FAST!!! I could barely move my EYES that fast, never mind my mouse.
25. Leonidas - October 6, 2009 2:43 PM
Also, am I the only one to realise that this is the first time that the GW's mug has ever been seen in public?
26. Jaycob - October 6, 2009 2:51 PM
lol i want a stylus
27. Ptentacle - October 6, 2009 2:53 PM
Phht. A bazooka? GW wouldn't use that. Bare fists baby.
28. catch22 - October 6, 2009 3:01 PM
GW, you kinda look like a young Quentin Terrintino mixed with Matthew Perry
you can proceed to hate me now
...if it makes you feel better, I look like a wishing troll
29. Jasmine - October 6, 2009 3:03 PM
ROLL TIDE! (Baseball hat in the photo).
30. Youdontnomie - October 6, 2009 3:04 PM
He's no Tom Hanks though.
31. Victoria - October 6, 2009 3:07 PM
Freaking A dude!
WTF, you can't swear any more? Gaaaaaaaay.
32. Durand - October 6, 2009 3:12 PM
Incredible. Where did the GW photo come from though? The most I've ever seen of him was his feet. I didn't know he had a face.
33. naas - October 6, 2009 3:28 PM
@22 - i was just kidding. i'll still help you though, what do you need?
34. glace neuf - October 6, 2009 3:43 PM
i'd hit it
35. A W - October 6, 2009 3:51 PM
That's awesome, GW!! And Jesse Starr; I wish I had even a nanoparticle of your talent.
36. livingjetlag - October 6, 2009 3:58 PM
Welcome back, Daisy. Of course, if you say this is fake, then you have to somehow prove that it's NOT a photoshop job, since it's billed as one originally. It's like that scene in the porno knock-off of Never Back Down where - well, never mind, my Mom reads these comments.
37. wes - October 6, 2009 4:08 PM
hahahaha awesome
-wes-
38. Lain - October 6, 2009 4:10 PM
That's cool and all...but how did this picture (GW) get into his possession? JW.
39. naas - October 6, 2009 4:11 PM
@Leonidas it depends on the circumstances.
@33 I don't kid
40. lainy - October 6, 2009 4:13 PM
Also, this IS a complete photoshop job. HIYO
41. Don - October 6, 2009 4:14 PM
OMFG now THATS EPIC!
42. fudgeguns - October 6, 2009 4:14 PM
@ 25: no i realized that too, ive always wondered what GW looked like.. Good job Jesse, killed two birds with one stone.
43. rad to the power of me - October 6, 2009 4:18 PM
.....yes GW i am jealous of your clout
44. LA0811 - October 6, 2009 4:21 PM
I didn't realize there was an actual GW - I thought it was just 25 monkeys locked in a room, playing with the internet.
45. Tawny - October 6, 2009 4:43 PM
There's definitely nothing wrong with Quentin or Matthew Perry, especially if the combo can battle a volcano. Yum!
46. ciao - October 6, 2009 5:00 PM
LOL, that rocks meh socks
47. jaja - October 6, 2009 5:18 PM
This guy is fu(king insanely talented. I envy his immense skills :/
48. LSDiesel - October 6, 2009 5:23 PM
Finally, we see the GW. I can die happily now.
49. HeyHey - October 6, 2009 5:46 PM
OMG I SAW GW!!!
I feel like I saw Santa!! omg...!
50. bOOBY - October 6, 2009 6:18 PM
FINALLY HIS FACE ISS REVEALED.
51. dang - October 6, 2009 6:23 PM
Gee, GW. You aren't bad looking at all. No sarcasm.
52. Topher - October 6, 2009 6:39 PM
@ 25 and 42, This isn't the fist time he's shown his face. There have been at least 2 other instances I can think of.
53. Durand - October 6, 2009 7:03 PM
I know he's once shown a photo of himself as a very young child, and one of his pants and shoes. That's all I've ever seen.
54. milky - October 6, 2009 7:10 PM
i always thought GW was a chick. i'm disappointed
55. Leonidas - October 6, 2009 7:27 PM
@naas: hey, thanks for your reply!! (Sorry for the silence, I was away from my computer for a while). We run a medium-sized online business, and over the past months, some dude keeps DDoS'ing our website. We've moved to a hosting company that has given us a dedicated server, and each time we get attacked, they put us in their "secure zone" (behind some kind of tough firewall I guess—it's a pretty rough attack too, sometimes many thousands of requests per second). This blocks the attack traffic, but it also blocks most of our customers… the guy gets bored after a week or two and goes away, and then he comes back, and it's slowly bleeding our business dry. I would seriously love to find out who's behind this, so that the authorities can shut him down (and maybe also so that I can make him look it's Picasso what drawed him), but my boss says it will cost hundreds of thousands of $$ to trace the guy. Which is why my ears pricked up when I saw you nailing the troll at #2 ☺
Thanks anyway—if you've finished reading this, you may want to check out some of my other literature (War and Peace is a classic).
56. Free ipod - October 6, 2009 7:36 PM
I SAW THE GW
57. shortygirl - October 6, 2009 7:44 PM
i'm in love with the GW. prepare to be stalked.
58. V - October 6, 2009 7:49 PM
this guy is awesome. i kind of want to be his friend. XD
59. Jesse Starr - October 6, 2009 8:20 PM
Thanks for the comments everyone, it's greatly appreciated!!
@23 - Just wait until he gets done with Mount Cockblock over there...
60. Kelly - October 6, 2009 8:32 PM
Um. GW. What's up with the Bama hat? I just moved to Birmingham and I can say, hands down, Alabama fans are the most obnoxious of all football fans. I don't like Auburn either so this isn't a sides thing. I mean, what's up with the Elephant? And why are you guys so obsessed with Bear Bryant? I love you GW, but I don't think our love will survive if you don't give up the hat.
61. jon - October 6, 2009 8:38 PM
OMG the GW finally emerges.
62. LSDiesel - October 6, 2009 8:39 PM
@59, can you draw a picture of the first thing that pops into your head when you think LSDiesel? PUH-LEEEEEEZE???
63. Iris - October 6, 2009 8:42 PM
OMG! Jesse's freaking hot too!
64. Mr. Krinkle - October 6, 2009 8:58 PM
GW, you on a dinosaur with your pants on? Would never happen.
65. Jen S. - October 6, 2009 9:28 PM
That's great!
Geekologie writer = tres cute.
66. Yakkai - October 6, 2009 9:30 PM
Wow. I don't think I've ever seen a pic of the GW before.
He's actually pretty cute.
67. kraftMan - October 6, 2009 9:32 PM
Ah at last, a face to the wacky way of words the GW finally becomes a person, not a thing.
68. Gail - October 6, 2009 9:59 PM
Holy... freakin... I mean... WOW, y'know? Just... WOW!
69. Maya - October 6, 2009 10:04 PM
I've been setting up the basement so that it will be very comfortable for you whenever I abduct you. I even have a mini fridge filled with dinosaur shaped fruit jello snacks. You will be mine, GW! You will be mine.
70. Bath Captain - October 6, 2009 10:16 PM
I woulds rather see Megan Fox ride a trex
http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/ab130/captinfrey/meganFoxRidesTrexinSpacewithLasersS.jpg
71. NinjaMuffin - October 6, 2009 10:55 PM
I think a laser wouldve been a better choise then the bazooka
72. gooby - October 6, 2009 11:07 PM
He should be fighting robots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
73. NothingSerious - October 6, 2009 11:26 PM
Seeing your photo made me feel like I just saw the man behind the green curtain, GW.
74. Tabloid - October 6, 2009 11:30 PM
I should not have watched the video. He should have refrained from posting the the Geeky writers identity.
There was no greater secret.... except for what really killed the dinosaurs. We know you went back in a time machine and raped them to death GW!!
75. aSsss - October 6, 2009 11:44 PM
WHERE did you get your hands on GW's pic, i'd like to know!
76. Jaycob - October 7, 2009 12:30 AM
yea GW looks like Quentin Terrintino or that canadian guy on Stargate Atlantis
77. Pedro - October 7, 2009 1:02 AM
My reaction when I saw GWs face :O I seriously thought he would look TOTALLY different
78. Truk - October 7, 2009 2:25 AM
I'm pretty sure I saw this on Gizmodo last week.
79. Adam4231 - October 7, 2009 3:07 AM
haha very good painting /drawing i can kinda draw like that but i suck at the colouring and shading
lol u forgot the bacon
80. EroticHamster - October 7, 2009 3:17 AM
It's amazing that it only took you 2 minutes and 7 seconds to make this picture!
81. zips - October 7, 2009 4:13 AM
@76 - I thought everyone on every Stargate minus Richard Dean Anderson was Canadian. I thoguht it was the law :-D
82. Spieltrieb - October 7, 2009 5:18 AM
Strange... I always imagined the GW as a fat guy with long hair....
83. Mvivanc - October 7, 2009 8:26 AM
Pew pew pew missing?
84. I've got a crush on GW - October 7, 2009 9:32 AM
GW: I love a hero
85. SomeChick - October 7, 2009 9:46 AM
hot hot HOT!
86. pirhan - October 7, 2009 10:10 AM
You're too cute GW. <3
87. trent silvey - October 7, 2009 10:13 AM
Wow... that amazing. if i gave a pic could you draw me a bada** pic like that..
88. BlackSamTX - October 7, 2009 11:20 AM
NOFX ftw
89. Pollen - October 7, 2009 11:59 AM
Ugly mug?
Stfu.
Marry me?
*crosses fingers*
90. wesxninja - October 7, 2009 12:27 PM
OMG DAISY IS RIGHT FOR ONCE
91. steph - October 7, 2009 3:05 PM
holy crap! thats awesome jesse star! i wish i was that creative!
secondly, GW i always wondered what you looked like! youre a cutieeee!!!!!
92. Jaded Icon - October 7, 2009 3:39 PM
Any picture of GW will do, as long as he has his trademark red ballcap on...then we REALLY know it him.
93. naas - October 7, 2009 3:50 PM
@Leo I don't know if I can help you or not, but email me - emailnaas@yahoo.com - so I can get some specs from you before attempting any tracerouting, reverse IPing, netjumps, packetsniffing, ect. Finding out someone's information online is easy, everybody has an ip address & even with netmasking everyone still uses an ISP for connectivity. Targeting hack attacks good sir is definitely another story
Chances are if your company has hired someone or involved the authorities on the matter, there probably isn't much I can do from here without being on your server during one of these massive dos attacks
94. eva - October 7, 2009 3:54 PM
I'd totally hit that, GW. If I was a dinosaur.
95. Deanna - October 7, 2009 5:50 PM
Wow. GW's hot O.O
96. Wendy - October 7, 2009 6:01 PM
You're not THAT ugly.
97. dhri - October 7, 2009 6:24 PM
GW is HOT!!
I'm happy we finally see his face. Anybody seen thesuperficial writer's face? Or are they one and the same?
98. Cap'n Jack - October 7, 2009 7:03 PM
GW reminds me of Tarantino...
99. illy - October 7, 2009 8:52 PM
damn it...... i always pictured you hotter. there goes my fantasies.....
100. rebecca - October 7, 2009 9:40 PM
Jesse, how do you do the coloring? (I'm familiar with photoshop & curious)
@97, pretty sure they're the same guy
101. Jesse Starr - October 7, 2009 10:02 PM
The actual drawing is on a layer above the bg layer. It is drawn with black (the gradients are created with the pressure sensitivity of the pen and are required for the coloring to work). After that I create a new layer above the layer with the drawing on it and pick a color to start with. Change the layer style from normal to color and simply color over the greyscale image. Repeat this for each color in the image. I used white with Vivid Light mode turned on for some of the fire and lava glow. After I finished coloring it I make one last layer at the very top and fill it with a color (in this case red) and then apply the color layer style to it as well. All you have to do then is adjust the opacity of that layer down until the image looks right. This will give you the overall color tone that creates continuity and the appearance that everything is in the same place. Look at the difference in the color at the end of the video... I hope this makes sense... I literally slept for 3 hours last night and I'm about to fall asleep, so I might not be making sense... feel free to contact me tomorrow if you have questions starr2099@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/jessestarr Nite.
102. Sinner - October 8, 2009 7:59 AM
wow been away for a while I return, and i get to see GW's face.
cool
103. ObamaPacman - October 8, 2009 10:09 AM
@Jesse,
I think GW meant this when he said riding a dinosaur. =p Well, these are the closest things to dinosaurs I can find anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLXd8tWA7c
104. Sam - October 8, 2009 3:51 PM
Dear GW,
You're cute. STFU. The only negative comments I want to hear should be about robots.
105. ganmerlad - October 8, 2009 10:50 PM
@ Jesse Starr
Your work is amazing, and thank you for the video and the explanation @101 That is seriously helpful, especially seeing that you do b&w shading first and the bit about the last layer tying everything together color wise...I never would have thought of that. I understood exactly what you meant. (I can even do all that with my sad little photoshop elements)
You rock!
106. Red Leader Wannabe - October 8, 2009 10:55 PM
I deny the fact that the GW has a face...
107. Brittney - October 9, 2009 2:09 AM
GW doesn't wear glasses?!?!?!!??!?! WTF!!!
108. Diana - October 9, 2009 2:49 AM
wow Mr. geekologie, not bad, not bad. you are actually quite cute looking!
that drawing is awesome, love his technique.
109. LA0811 - October 9, 2009 5:47 PM
I think GW and the SW are the same person.
110. Rebecca - October 9, 2009 10:15 PM
Thanks Jesse -- very cool, & I'm watching you on deviantart (rbexx)!
111. Rootbeerhead - October 10, 2009 12:50 AM
this is fantastic on so many levels.
yay art
112. noidkiller - October 10, 2009 1:26 AM
oh GW i wish you would acknowledge the danger of noids... I hate it when they bring me my pizza cold!
113. tenerife holidays - October 12, 2009 3:05 AM
Hello all...
It was really nice article about gaming i really like this...
So i will definitely read the whole......
114. noidkiller - October 12, 2009 9:29 PM
...lazy eye
115. tn11 - November 17, 2009 12:23 AM
finally a face to go with the name....