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Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. You have to admit that geek is quite THE word today. No kidding, everyone is talking about it, and everyone wants to be one. When you think about the fact that a few years ago, wearing a Darth Vader t-shirt or admitting that you were a video game player or a RPG player was the equivalent of a social suicide, you may think that society evolved quite a bit. But it’s okay, because one day, the geek won’t be as fashion as they used to be. One day, the world will leave us alone, and the consumption society will find new mascotts. Who knows, maybe the dolphins lovers, or the beer caps collectors, or the tunning fans. There is at least a good point in all of that : the fact that the geek universe influenced a lot of people and things around us. On this blog, I will focus especially on artists and art in general. Graphists, painters, sculptors, illustrators, photographers… They are numerous to have fallen to the dark side by working with comics characters, or video games heroes, or Sci Fi universes… And I do really think that it kicks ass. On this blog, I will try to share with