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Politics / Re: Hoodlums Fight For Money Found On Crash Victims by Gigastar(m): 9:38am On Oct 04, 2013
Ag@gu don vex o

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Phones / Re: Please Convince Me To Hate Blackberry by Gigastar(m): 9:07am On Oct 04, 2013
Don't be stubborn, there are no much amazing things about blackberry. Go 4 android.

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Romance / Re: Why Do Ladies Adjust When They See Me? by Gigastar(m): 1:27pm On Oct 02, 2013
@ op, I also notice this, thank God it is not only me. Anytime I pass female side, they always adjust. 
It's no joke at all
Romance / Re: Has Anyone Done This Before by Gigastar(m): 7:57pm On Oct 01, 2013
Ma guy, givers never ever lack, shebi it's just 1500, send it.
Phones / Re: Radio Uses Human Blood by Gigastar(m): 7:43pm On Oct 01, 2013
Don't u know that human body is a conductor of electricity?

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Phones / Re: Tecno N3 Discussion Thread by Gigastar(m): 3:32pm On Sep 24, 2013
damatolnew:
Same problem i have 2gig of partition lying wasted, checked the storage info of the partition with link2sd and its below 50% yet my phone started complaining of low memory whenever i want to install applications. Interner memory is 14mb free. Any idea?
Guy just relink library files in link2sd options
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Is Cristiano Ronaldo The Most Complete Player In The Planet? by Gigastar(m): 6:17pm On Sep 20, 2013
If Messi leaves barca, he is still going to outshine his colleagues but he can't leave now due to the condition on ground, u understand

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Phones / Re: Tecno N3 Discussion Thread by Gigastar(m): 2:25pm On Aug 31, 2013
Thanks @ all, hav got mine working
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 2:24pm On Aug 31, 2013
All ma brothers who haven't got it, u just av 2 use ur brain. Have got mine, all wat they posted, sent are rubbish, just go to n3 thread and use ur brain. Peace.
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 10:41am On Aug 31, 2013
@namzy pls email me dat urfreedom cheat tmighty180@gmail.com
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 8:51am On Aug 31, 2013
@debulous, upload ur terminal emulator 4 us now
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 8:48am On Aug 31, 2013
sheelay:
Don't know how to do it o, blackmart alpha is an app on its own where paid app can be downloaded for free....
when u browse with ur droidvpn, does it disconnect when u reach 2mb and reconnect again?
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 8:42am On Aug 31, 2013
lordsbiz: i got alot of thank you message in ma inbox already
U b comedian o, but y not on nairaland
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 7:01pm On Aug 30, 2013
lordsbiz:
they already have it now
yeah we have it but the terminal emulator is not workn making it look lik we receive nothing
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 3:20pm On Aug 30, 2013
uche715: hello guruz,this is h@ck for DROID VPN to
use Premium Servers.
This is For Rooted Android phone only.
Don't ask for pc,because i don't know.
so here is trick
Requirements:
1. Rooted device.
2. DroidVPN 1.8.7b (not the latest
version)
3. Terminal Emulator.
1. Download and install Terminal Emulator
and open Terminal Emulator and
type su and click enter
give root permission
2. Download and install DroidVPN 1.8.7b
(uploaded)
3. Connect to any premium server.
4. Wait until successfully connected
upgrade later
5. After successfully connected minimized
the application or press the home button.
6.now goto Terminal Emulator.On terminal
Emulator type ping google.com and click
enter
7.Then go to your task manager and kill or
close droidvpn.
note: Let the terminal emulator run in
background(do not exit terminal
emulator) and do not close the
droidvpn by going to the main application
(droidvpn). just kill it using task
manager.(see pic)
8. Done! now again press home button and
surf anything u want.u r using premium
servers.
9.now as u know premium servers allows
only 2MB ,but with this trick u can use any
amount of data.

After 2mb, it disconnect , after some minutes it reconnect, which is somehow frustrating. Pls are u people really making use of this thing
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 3:09pm On Aug 30, 2013
It did not even ask for permission
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 2:54pm On Aug 30, 2013
sheelay:
Whenever I ignore it, the emulator just crashes
it shows force close
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 1:56pm On Aug 30, 2013
lordsbiz:
once you get it done correctly you dont even need to calculate anydata useage, if you like stream football match or watch movies on youtube, na your palava. you can surf with you bbc subscription without any 100mb limitation
Babooo! the emulator dey ask me 2 download something and it's showing error wen downloading and also are we connecting to free servers or premium servers
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 12:56pm On Aug 30, 2013
Pls, o tmighty180@gmail.com
Romance / Re: Guys Opinion On Stretchmarks by Gigastar(m): 3:09pm On Aug 25, 2013
OceaneKhadija80: I take it you are not aware that men also have stretch marks??
I agree
Romance / Re: Guys Opinion On Stretchmarks by Gigastar(m): 2:39pm On Aug 25, 2013
Yeah, am listening
Romance / Guys Opinion On Stretchmarks by Gigastar(m): 2:38pm On Aug 25, 2013
Guys, how would u feel going down there and u realised that her bu*t and b**bs are stretchmarked badly. Will u continue or stop?
Phones / Re: Have You Seen This Picture And What Does It Depict On ANDROID 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD? by Gigastar(m): 2:42pm On Aug 23, 2013
This 1 looks like heaven
Phones / Re: Have You Seen This Picture And What Does It Depict On ANDROID 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD? by Gigastar(m): 11:49am On Aug 23, 2013
A Zombie Examiner vs jack larson


Denver Zombie Examiner: First of all,
how does one fall into the zombie
portrait business ?
Jack Larson: I started painting zombies
last summer almost exclusively. At first
they weren’t necessarily the undead, but
I was trying to come up with the concept
of collectivism gone bad. The idea of how
when people start competing or they join
some group, they trade in their mind,
their individuality, and become extensions
of the herd. The consequences are
abundant. If you look at all forms of
collectivism, be it communism or fascism,
people are reduced to animals. And it’s
such a re-occurring theme, I could
explore it endlessly. I really thought this
particular theme of painting people as
zombies would’ve faded after Halloween,
or that the interest would’ve waned, but
it has surprised me.
DZE: How did you get your start as an
artist?
JL: I was really into artwork in high school
and my art teacher made it clear to me
that it’s not really a career. She insisted
that if I wanted to make a living this way,
I would have to find a career that might
actually reward me for the artwork. I was
already painting headlines at the time—
I’ve always been obsessed with the
news, especially bad news—which kind of
had this morbid aesthetic to it. So
anyway, she suggested I become a
mortician. She said it would be a good
way for me to explore my fascination with
the macabre or death and she considered
it to be kind of an artistic profession. I
don’t know if she was joking or not.
However, I took her advice and I went
into the army, into what was Graves
Registration --or today they call it
Mortuary Affairs-- and it put my
education on hold, but it got me into the
mortuary field, and then shortly after that
I started painting again.
DZE: That is quite the unique path... But
why zombies?
JL: I have seen so many dead bodies
working as a body transporter or
embalmer or crime scene responder. I’ve
come across so many cadavers at various
stages of decomposition. I’ve handled so
many that drawing these things is very
intuitive. I know the textures. Why I do
it? It’s not very macabre necessarily. I
think that this fascination with zombies is
so huge. The people who are buying
these paintings from me aren’t horror
movie fans. I think the spirit of it is more
the spirit of levity. It’s sort of like the
Mexican Day of the Dead, where death is
charicaturized and made fun of in a sense,
in a light-hearted way. And the Day of the
Dead artwork, they’re always brightly
colored and smiling and celebrating. I see
the same spirit in the way that most
people are taking to the zombie thing.
It’s not so much horror as making social
commentary about human beings
becoming like zombies.
DZE: I definitely agree. It's a pop culture
phenomenon, and I'm not quite sure
myself where it came from, but your Day
of the Dead theory is one of the better
ones I've heard.
JL: One woman who emailed me had a
son who was turning 4 and they were
having a zombie-themed birthday party.
I’d never questioned it, but I thought,
that’s very enlightening! I never would’ve
thought! But I did the painting, the kid
loved it, and it was the centerpiece of the
party. At that time I thought, maybe
we’re witnessing here an emerging
cultural phenomenon here in America, a
new tradition, analogous to the Mexican
Day of the Dead. I don’t know what
brought it on, but it’s definitely not going
away, and it has nothing to do with
Halloween.
DZE: When I first looked at the cover of
Brian’s book [Dead Beyond the Fence by
Brian Kaufman
], it reminded me of “The Scream” by
Munch. Is he one of your influences?
JL: I definitely like that particular
painting.* As far as my influences: I’ve
always been interested in a lot of the
medieval art portraying people being
tormented. Basically, religious
iconography, anybody illustrating stuff
from Dante’s Inferno …It’s funny: We
have the modern surrealists, but you look
back at a lot of the artwork inspired by
stories of hell, and a lot of that stuff is
pretty surreal. When I was growing up I
used to look at album covers all the time.
One artist, Wes Benscoter paints album
covers for heavy metal bands. I think the
most famous band he did was Slayer.
When I was learning to paint I used to
copy his CDs. Another influence would be
this guy Joe Coleman. His work is kind of
an amalgamation of surreal and hyper-
detailed comic book art.
DZE: This sounds weird, even to me, but
tell me more about your experiences
with the dead.
JL: Not at all. I was stationed in Fort Lee,
Viriginia, which is the Army Mortuary
College. That’s where I got my training.
The actual training that we did was
conducted at the Richmond morgue. After
that I became an embalmer as a civilian. I
took a job with a morgue, and my job
there was picking up bodies from scenes
of death, accident sites, murder even, or
decomposition. After awhile, if someone
dies in a house, they’re left there to rot
and if there’s no one to claim them... So
I started a business on the side. My night
job was picking up bodies, and I’d come
across scenes where there’s blood on the
walls or blood seeping into the floors, and
then on my own time I would clean up
the remains and bill the insurer. It was
lucrative for awhile, but there came a
time when I stopped working for the
morgue.
DZE: Why did you quit?
JL: Not because I couldn’t handle it
anymore, but because I was pretty sick of
it. It wasn’t just the bodies, it was being
on call. Sleep got interrupted. I would
wake up with panic attacks, because you
never know what’s going to happen.
Some weekends I would have 2 or 3
bodies to pick up, other weekends it
would be 15 or 20. So I decided to go
back to what I was doing before the army,
which was the artwork. And I got right
into selling murals. And I tried to do
custom portraits, but I found that to do a
portrait right, it takes a lot of time and
people can be very fickle, so it wasn’t
very lucrative. It’s a lot easier to do a
charicature or a zombie of someone than
a final, polished painting. It was like
serendipity, I just stumbled into this
niche.
DZE: What's the strangest portrait
request you've ever gotten?
JL: I get cats, I get dogs. One person
specifically wanted his cat to be eating
someone’s brain. One guy said, “I want to
have a portrait of me eating my
girlfriend’s brains, and I want my guts
hanging out.” I would say the strangest
ones I get are when people ask me for
political figures or celebrities, because I’m
not sure what their position is. Someone
asked me for Nancy Pelosi, and I don’t
know if that person was liberal or
conservative. I did a Sarah Palin, which
I’m pretty sure was for a democrat. I do
get a lot from the military actually. I’ve
had 4 of those so far. Sometimes they get
them for their friends, sometimes in
uniform. The strangest one I think was
this guy had me paint his baby, crawling
across the floor.
DZE: Have you ever done a self-portrait
as a zombie?
JL: I haven’t yet, although I’ve been told
many of the generic zombies that I just
sort of paint in the background kind of
look like me. I haven’t yet, though I
probably should. I think it might be a
good piece. I mean, you know your own
face, so I think you kind of do it
subconsciously.
DZE: Or you could just keep putting
yourself in the background of everyone
else's portraits . What's next for you?
JL: That reminds me: I loved your column
about the zombieness of Jesus . You know
the whole South Park fiasco with drawing
the Prophet Muhammed? I’m almost
done with a zombie Muhammed.
*A week after our interview, Larson sent
me a picture of his most recent creation,
titled "Something to Scream About",
inspired by Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
and our conversation.
Stay informed, stay alive: Check out
more of Jack Larson's zombie artwork on
his website, and order an undead portrait
of your own! You can also follow Jack on
Twitter for instant updates on new
portraits.

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