All photos courtesy of Nick Romano

Brooklyn’s McCarren Park, normally the place for children’s kickball games, was riddled with people hopped up on energy drinks for the Red Bull Creation showcase this past Sunday. Teams of machine-savvy makers from all over the country were brought together and given 72 hours to build a new kind of vehicle for mankind without using fossil fuels. The pay-off? $5,000 and 40W Hobby Laser Cutters from Full Spectrum Laser. All the fatigue, sweat and shakes from too much Red Bull paid off as the creators displayed their work to the public.

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All photos courtesy of Nick Romano

This past Tuesday at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, a mix of nerds and curious spectators came to witness the culmination of video games and hot chicks in a production titled Played by Geek Girl Burlesque.

Mistress U Betcha, clad in a bosom-squeezing dominatrix outfit, hosted the show while the audience sat back cheering on as their come-to-life gaming heroines stripped off their clothes. “How it got started was actually on a dare,” producer Chris Lee told Gamma Squad. “About two-and-a-half years ago I was at an amateur night…and I got dared to perform. So, I started performing and performing led to meeting more performers and then I realized I wanted to start my own troupe.”

Now, Geek Girl Productions has a consistent slot at the Bowery Poetry Club every second Tuesday of the month. Next month’s show will have a back-to-school theme, which I can only imagine to mean sexy school-girl outfits. How is it possible to score with such sexy geek girls such as them, you might ask? To find out, I sat down with the girls to talk about what turns them on and what geek guys can do to better their chances.

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