true gentlemen vs real men

change

You walk by a man and he asks you for some change.
You go to a fancy restaurant with your friends and hear them how they want to change.
You see people talk about it on tv, radio, the internet, even on the random street corner.

Everybody wants it!

So here I am, standing proud and tall on the porch of 2012, looking with hope and gleam at the horizon.
I'm not on a horse but I believe I have some change in my pocket. I'm not sure how much though...

What I do know is that each coin is shiny, new and bearing an evil looking grinning man on one side, and a question mark on the other.
"In you we trust." says the message imprinted on the side.

I guess it's up to me to figure out how much change I really have. More so, how much I really need.
Then again... the best things in life are said to be free, so I'll probably keep some change for a coffee.

Deep serious shit, I know.

BAC 2011

In 2011 you don't fail bacu', bacu' fails you.

tomb raided

I've always been a big fan of the games, and when I saw this figure I knew I had to have one.
Now I do, and this be the photo review of said figure, Tomb: Raider: Lara Croft, by NECA.

The packaging was fairly what you might expect, with everything neatly tied in place.

Out of the box, the contents are pretty diverse. Lara comes with quite a nifty array of weapons: her iconic twin pistols that can be holstered in her hip holders; a pump-action shotgun; a grenade launcher and a very funky sword of some sort.

The figure of miss Lara Croft is surprisingly detailed, from the articulated torso, neck and arms, down to the brown boots. The colors are great, and most important: the face is realistic. This usually is a major issue with action figures, as they tend not to look like the character they were made after.
This is not the case here, as Lara's action figure looks gorgeous.

Hit the road, Jack!

She's a blast. :)

Due to the high level of detail, close-ups of miss Croft were possible, and not only that, they also looks amazing. More so, one can improve upon the original images and create some surreal pieces of art.

And here's where she stands.

Now, one might ask: do Batman & Spider-Man guard Lara, or is it the other way around? Hmm...

the tinkerer

As a kid I've been fascinated by pocket knives. I had one I used to fiddle around with sticks and to carve my name in trees and such. I still have it. It's old and needed resharpening a few times, but it's still there, in a box somewhere.

Today I got that which I wanted for a long time, a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife, the Tinker model.
I feel like saying more about this whole obsession, but I'll just post some funky pictures instead. :P

 

 

snail

It rained today, slightly more than one might have expected for this time of the year.
And yes, that's a snail.

mqotd.com

My most recent project. :)

the elf's self is watching himself doing the same thing

If you look in the mirror you see yourself. Does yourself see it's self? Does yourself's self see it's self, or an elf? Or was that you?

Is the world we live in real or just a reflection of one of it's many selfs? And where is the mirror?
I know, the elf must have it! Or was it himself who had it all along?
Hidden in plain sight, under our very noses, shiny noses. So shiny that one may see the elf behind him holding the very glass object in which he resides. A shiny object so clean and without flaw that one may mistake himself with another, due to the perfection of his very own reflection.

Am I on a horse?

cookie chaos

"Most people like cookies, with milk." That apparently is not the same as saying "People associate cookies and ominously arranged paper clips with chaos."
Ah well, I tried. :)

80s burglar mopping

Listen to song, relax in home. Calm dusk. Blue-ish light fills the
room. Red-to-orange sunset window view.
Cue burglar entrance scene.
Camera panning by: bad guy's head as head looks behind corner. The
same bad guy's head at end of shotgun barrel.
Foot tapping on song rhythm; guitar solo starts. [bass boom]
Mopping up on the beat of remaining song.
Precious moment. :)

Adam's apple

Adam's apple

From the tree
to the woman
to the man
to the bitter knife,
it was bitten.

Cue in humanity,
stuck with heavenly glue to it's mortality.

model

Or how a small car can make a big difference.
From someone who apparently cares and listens.
Thanks, D. ;)

cvartet

The sun was up, the day was hot;
All the lilies were in the pot, baking
golden threads of joy and happiness.
Ah, humbug...

As I looked up, into the great blue yonder,
I took a moment and began to wonder:
Truly magnificent things
these... bridges over water.

Walk across the wall guided by the light,
See the pretty pictures, glowing oh so bright.
They'd be really neat, if not in black and white.

Carved in wood... engraved in stone...
It will chill you to the bone
And your soul will shape and turn,
As you both by then have learned
to love.

Humbug?!

servers crashing

I was walking home one evening.
And it was quiet; there were not many people around.
As I passed a coffee shop I overheard 2 guys talking about computers.
One of them was apparently very upset because "le-o cazut astora niste servere" [translation: some of their servers crashed]. The other guy was laughing.
I also find this kind of situation funny, since my imagination [being very active by nature] tends to take things literally. So that brief moment was the inspiration for the following doodle.
More to come. :)

avatar aftermath

My 2 cents:
This is not a review of the movie. There are plenty of those out there, lots of which are more in-depth than I could ever write. Still, if you just landed on Earth [Welcome!] or if you simply do not follow any of the media phenomenons and you wish to know a pertinent opinion regarding the movie, here's one: The movie sucks!
Note that I said that the "movie" sucks; I haven't seen it in 3D, since I consider all of that stuff to be just a silly and distracting nuisance.
So, this article is going to try and explain why the movie sucks, not by detailing the scenes or anything closely related to the movie itself.
Since I first heard about the movie and that it was going to be made using "revolutionary" 3D technology, I had a bad feeling that it was going to suck, from an artistic point of view. And, of course, I was right.

Now, I am quite a fan of James Cameron and of his early sci-fi movies like: Terminator 2, The abyss and Aliens. Heck, I even liked Titanic.
But, and this is a big "but", when those were made, the sci-fi cinema industry was still in it's experimental phase; computer generated images were rarely used, and they had to improvise a lot in order to create the envisioned concept. So the concept was very important, and it was reiterated until it looked good.
Also, I cannot explain why this is so, but back then [the pre '00-ish era], the plots had a habit of being good. They addressed a "mature" public; and by mature I don't mean p0rn.
Avatar not only sucks story wise [true, the story is ok-ish, but not even close to the alien encounter of Aliens or from that of the Abyss] but it also sucks because it comes out as a kids movie. That would have been ok, if they would have stuck with this idea, but they mixed in some would-be "mature" scenes; and yes, this time I do mean p0rn, and other things that are the main ingredients in almost all Hollywood productions today.
The movie also has striking resemblance to some other flicks you may have seen. Again, there are a lot of articles out there detailing this idea; I found the movie almost identical to Terra, story-wise. One would think: has JC spent all those years to write a simple oppressor-vs-oppressed struggle, with some inter-species romance? Aren't we sick of that from watching Star Trek?! I mean, you get all the drama and action from Avatar in one episode from the above mentioned franchise.
Now, my opinion is that James Cameron gave the public what it wanted. Much as Caesar did when he gave bread and blood to the roman people. That didn't make him a lesser military genius, nor a lesser leader.
So, should we blame it on the public? Yes, mostly.
For some years now standard movie quality has decreased at a frighting rate. Sure, there were always bad movies. But now-a-days, the so called "good ones" are beginning to get bad, or... not so good. Or am I getting to be a tough critic?!
Anyway, I feel we shouldn't blame James for what he did. Maybe he wanted Avatar to be just a money making kids movie.


Timmy: Maybe he's getting old?!
Mr. Reviewer: Who, Cameron?
Timmy: Yup.
Mr. Reviewer: Well, Timmy, you might be right. Just like George Lucas, right?
Timmy: Yup. Or... or, maybe he'll pull a rabbit out of the hat in his next movie?
Mr. Reviewer: You mean Avatar 2, Timmy?
Timmy: Oh...

regarding Easter eggs

from the series: grab an egg and eat it while it's still unaware of it's fate :P

portal

the passage between two worlds
[mall opening day]

ants

day 5
They sent me out again.
For food.
More food.
They said they need it
for the new arrivals.
I do not believe them.
I went out to gather food.

day 6
I brought back extra food yesterday.
I got to keep some.
"For meritory achievements" they said.
I was just hungry.

day 9
ergo day 5

day 10
It is hot today.
We have lost some of us out there today.
They were looking for more food.
I'm not hungry anymore.

day 11
The new arrivals are here.
We are all tired.
They are not happy.
They told us to leave.
there was not enough food

day 300
They sent me out again.
For food.
More food.
She said that we need it.
I believe her.
I went out to gather food. :)

end of log.

descent to madness

Random stuff, really!

Holy Blog Of Doom, Batman! I just got slapped with a wet salmon - really - I have not updated this since they let me out!... You would not believe the amount of people that are totally stalking me. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!.

I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with work, a ticking crocodile, just generally being a nuisance to society in general, my day drifts aimlessly from dawn to whenever. I am convinced that I absolutely deserve this after all my hard work. maybe tomorrow.

I won't promise anything to you but that when the weather turns bad, I will blog more often. No, really! What do you mean you don't believe me?

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