Strange that now when I have one more day to sit in front of this laptop before we leave for a small holiday trip, I have some stories to share. I posted a few and the rest I keep for the next year. Till next year as I already said enjoy my selection of movies.
Now I really have to stop, I will be without my laptop for a week or two.
Enjoy the stuffed turkey and the cookies, I will!
Have a nice Christmas and some Happy New Year.
I never thought of making a top ten worst movies ever but this one for sure is going to make into the top 3 of the list. Plot summary from IMDB:
Martians, upset that their children have become obsessed with TV shows from Earth which extoll the virtues of Santa Claus, start an expedition to Earth to kidnap the one and only Santa. While on Earth, they kidnap two lively children that lead the group of Martians to the North Pole and Santa. The Martians then take Santa and the two children back to Mars with them. Voldar, a particularly grumpy Martian, attempts to do away with the children and Santa before they get to Mars, but their leader Lomas stops him. When they arrive on Mars, Santa, with the help of the two Earth children and a rather simple-minded Martian lackey, overcomes the Martians by bringing fun, happiness and Christmas cheer to the children of Mars.
Back in the summer, while driving home from a supermoto race, and being pissed off by the result because somebody forgot to pack the wet condition tires I was thinking to turn the KTM 560 SMR into a café racer. My intention was to use an old fuel tank which was sitting on a shelf in the garage and to modify the rear end of the SMR. My intention was to build a new rear end from scratch and to use a Megaton muffler instead of the old Akrapovitch ready to race kit.
I never started the project because the SMR had to run a few more races but a photoshoped a picture with the bike as I imagined it. The rear end is going to be built first in 3d using a CAD software.
Today surfing the net I found Roland Sand’s take on transforming the KTM 560 SMR into a café racer. I have to admit that he has done it in a fever steps and it looks classy with an original take on replacing the side covers from the fuel tank. I could not help myself not to write a thought about his bike.
The SMR 560 has to run the 2010 season and after that it is mine to be chopped into a café racer.
Share on FacebookI think that our role is to share something with a human being so I took the easy road and picked a list of 15 movies for this winter. It includes the new Sherlock Holmes where he at least is smoking the right pipe (more about this later), Nasty old People which can be downloaded for free from here, Endless Sumer, the ultimate surfing adventure, crossing the globe in search of the perfect wave and stops at the most anticipated movie for me this year – Where the wilds things are.
This is going to be the last post for this year, I will take a break till next year somewhere in January till then enjoy the movies. Follow this link.
Have a nice Christmas and some Happy New Year.
Share on FacebookI don’t know much about this contraption except that in was built in the 20′s when the slim mustache had not been spoiled for ever by a political extremist who started a war.
The “motorcycle” run on a single track similar to a tank and was able to crawl over almost everything. If you know more about it please leave a comment.
In August of 1982, Spider Man fan Randy Schueller received a letter from then editor in chief of Marvel Comics: James Shooter. The letter simply begins with – I want to buy it! and it was the response to an idea sent by Randy.
The idea was simple – turn Spider Man’s costume black with a red on the chest change which also upgrades the super hero’s powers. Great idea! As we can read in the letter he also received a hell of a deal, not the 220 dollars. The chance to write the script for an issue of Spider Man where he tells the story how the super hero gets the new costume.
Marvel editor – James Shooter and Tom DeFalco – writer did not dig Randy’s script and to be honest he was right not to make an issue of Spider Man based on it. As DeFalco said in an interview: “To write a story, you need hundreds of ideas, and if you don’t realize that, you shouldn’t be writing.”
The editor and writer were right but at least they could have given Randy the credit especially that over years the black Spider Man costume has evolved into Venom, the symbiote star of the movie Spider Man 3 from 2007.
I have to admit that back in my childhood when I saw the first issue of the black costumed Spider Man I was thrilled and now that Randy’s letter has surfaced the world wide web I want to thank him for the idea and Shooter for sticking to the black costume concept .
And I want to buy it! – the original letter.
Randy’s and Shooter’s recollection of the affair can be read at Comic Book Resources.
One speed is enough. By Macaframa
Share on FacebookIt is almost impossible to watch a modern action film without at least one automobile wreck. Why do we find interest and excitement it new versions of the same event? Why are we not satisfied? Cars are extensions of our body and our ego. We buy or modify cars that reflect our personalities and egos. When we see an automobile destroyed, in a way we are looking at our own inevitable death. This moment is, because of it’s inherent speed, almost invisible. We have slowed the event via film and video but only from a cameras perspective. We never get to see the transformation of living breathing car too wreck in its entirety, in detail. This piece offers the viewer the ability to examine in three dimensions the collision of these cars. A moment that might take a fraction of a second in an actual collision will be expanded to take days. by JONATHAN SCHIPPER
Moving the content of the site from indexhibit to this blog structure I forgot to transfer some content about my latest work. During this summer in an enduro trip, I found a Hondal XL 125 from around `78. It was in a very bed shape but the engine was working. I thought it is going to be a nice re-building project. I started with a complete disassembly of the motorcycle. Next came the cleaning, sand blasting and repainting of the frame, fender and fuel tank. Next on the work bench is going to be the engine if only I find some spare parts on eBay.
I still don`t know if it is going to be an accurate rebuild or a cafe racer.
Reading an article about dada art movement and its relevance in contemporary art I thought about an experiment.
I took a quotation for Shakespeare`s Romeo and Juliet and I have run it through Google translate for a few time. I used for the first try languages form Europe and for the second time languages from an imaginary naval trade route from England to India and back. The text was only copied and pasted exactly as the software translated it without any alteration from my part.
Original:
“Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.”
Take one – I picked the languages going through neighboring countries from England down to Croatia and back up to Scotland. This is the result:
Romeo
If I profane my unworthy hand
Saint, gentle sin
Two red lips pilgrim ready
Smooth and rough with a soft market.
Julian
Good pilgrim, hurt trade
Bollywood Show compliance on this issue;
However, we accept the sacred pilgrim phone
Palma is a sacred pilgrim market. ”
Take two – A trade route from England to India and back, it starts with on the sea and I choose languages from some major ports but then I changed the rout due to a ship wreck and the journey continues on land.
“Robert April.
My threats and I have Unworthiest.
This is noble and sacred like this sin.
Two blushing pilgrims my lips, ready stand.
Light bulbs with Nakakaugnay coarse leaves.
Juliette.
Better target the wrong hands, you too.
What experience shows commitment.
All Saints and pilgrims hands do not have hands.
Palmer with handfuls fresh “sacred.
We and up with two new characters – Robert April and Julian, somehow Bollywood is involved in the story and we have the following facts- Palma is a sacred pilgrim market and All Saints do not have hands. Thank God that today news and other information is so accurate and does not involve many people from different countries sending e-mails translated with Google and tweeter feeds back and forth.
Outside it started to snow.
So here it is the perfect song for this:
Even readers not familiar with manga or anime will immediately notice the retro artwork in Mikiya Mochizuki’s Wild 7—and for good reason. This multi-volume series of collected reprints has material dating back to 1969 (although there’s no word of it on the front or back covers). Instead, it is presented as a modern graphic novel; only a peek at the copyright date reveals its origins, at least in the first book. Released during the biker craze of the late 60s—most likely after the chopper classic “Easy Rider” had hit theaters—Wild 7 is a fast-paced adventure which has the Japanese government hiring a gang of hoodlums, led by Hiba, to defend themselves from any threats to their power. The dated storytelling will remind many anime fans of Speed Racer and other vintage Japanese cartoons
The theme of “Wild 7″ is one that never gets old in manga and anime. A team of skilled outlaws striking out against criminals when the government is powerless to stop rampant crime has been done many times. However, a team of motorcyclists with sidecar missiles, bikes that can go in reverse, teamed up with a director working secretly from inside the bureaucracy, now that is Manga! The “Wild 7″ team is a diverse collection of ruffians, including a hip young delinquent leader (guaranteed to pull in the older teen guy crowd of the era), a hippy anti-occupation militant, a baseball player who was nabbed for breach of contract (?), a former yakuza boss, a knife throwing ex-circus performer, a former chef and drug manufacturer, and rounding out the team is an explosives expert charged with weapons manufacturing. Their boss, Kusanami, is a maverick, fed up with a system that allows criminals to go free too easily, and so he enlists the team to do whatever it takes to take down mobsters and other criminals who blatantly flaunt the fact they are above the law. Whether they are taking out bank robbers, mob bosses with skyscraper fortresses or biker gangs dressed s knights (complete with jousting lance sidecars!) the Wild 7 team does so with more than enough explosions and bloodshed. It makes me wonder what teens who grew up on Wild 7 must have thought if they say the antithesis to this violent drama, the similar, but squeaky clean “A-Team.”
The series was unique (besides for the violence) in which each of the 7 members had a different motorcycle, each specially fitted. Team leader Hiba rides a Honda CB 750, “Hippy” Tom rides a multi-wheeled Harley FL, Oyabun rides a Suzuki Hustler 250, Chasu rides a Suzuki GT 380, Sekai Rides a Harley, Otto rides a Norton Cafe Racer and Ryogoku rides a Kawasaki 500 SS Mach3 equipped with a rocket launcher sidecar.
The art in Wild 7 is probably one of the reasons that the book is a hard sell in today’s manga market of slick new anime styled characters. Mikiya Mochizuki’s style is firmly rooted the 60s and 70s manga aesthetic of fast paced, often rubber looking characters who bend and twist depending on how extreme the action is in each panel. Even vehicles are somewhat malleable in Mochizuki’s world, a trait often seen in other books by such legendary manga-ka as Tezuka and Monkey Punch. The panels in “Wild 7″ tend to be a bit busy, but there is almost always action on every page. Mochizuki’s action sequences are the driving force behind the manga, and there are some great pieces in the first volume alone! On their motorcycles or off, the Wild 7 team is a force to be reckoned with, and page after page delivers criminal busting, smash-em up action.
Text inspired from : Atomic Avenue & Japan Hero
Searching for ways to boost up the internet traffic I was told to try out Facebook. Said and done, now Dark Satanic Mill si on Facebook. For years I did not see a bigger useless crap than social networking, but hey it helps spread the news. Personally I have one e-mail account and one phone number, but with this project I already have two e-mail accounts, a Facebook account, one for WordPress and some more for a few forums.
Great.
I wonder how my electronic footstep left all over the internet is going to look in a few years.
Share on FacebookFollowing Advrider.com for years, I noticed a new interesting post – Let`s see your Man Castel – it started with the words:
“Come on admit it. In many of our lives the garage may be the only room that you have complete control over. So show it off. Let’s see your Man Castle…” this was back in 2007.
Now there are more the 100 posts with garages. It is a must see, you will find from a humble cottage to a palace. But all are somebody’s castle.
picture taken by OLGV
