Beast. Composer/Sound Designer for Interactive Multimedia (I write music for video games)
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
(Source: olgie13)
In 1808, Napoleon, running out of scenic holiday destinations to invade, somehow totally forgot about his neighbor to the south, Spain. So that year he dispatched his troops, kicking off the Peninsular War.
Only 20 years old and working as a barmaid in the town of Valdepenas, Juana Galan was not expecting a surge of French soldiers to come storming through her village. But on June 6, that’s exactly what happened. At that time, most of the men were fighting Napoleon’s forces elsewhere in the nation. Juana, unfazed by things like rifles and Frenchmen and French riflemen, began organizing the women in her village to form a trap for the approaching army.
When the army arrived, Juana and her friends were ready. They dumped boiling water and oil on the French troops, which by all accounts will instantly take the fight out of pretty much anyone. Then Juana, armed with only a batan, beat back the heavily armed French cavalry with her squad of village women, almost none of whom were armed with guns.
The French retreated, giving up on capturing not just Juana’s town but the entire province of La Mancha, leading to ultimate Spanish victory. Today, she is seen in Spain as a national hero, a symbol of resistance, strength, patriotism, feminism and hitting shit with a stick.
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That’s one hell of a portrait.
-One hell of a woman.
(Source: lady-eboshi)
Minecraft.
Somebody help.
-From what I can tell:
1) Apollo # blibbitty-blah (US Space Program)
2) Pokemon Map?
3) Quiddich Green (Harry Potter
4) Muthafuggin’ Junon Harbor (FF7)
5) A Big Ass-Tree (anyone know?)
6) Kick-ass Pirate Cove
7) Manhattan (or similar cityscape)
8) Ancient Egyptian Architecture (Temple of Horus at Edfu?)
9) Some Jive-ass Turkish Pirates and Shit
10) Minas Tirith (Lord of the Rings)
Video Game Posters
Now these are some professionally done posters! I highly recommend you check out the rest of the gallery if you like these ones. There’s also some other galleries on his site with movie posters if thats more up your alley.
Created by Marinko Milosevski
(Source: pxlbyte)
Wait. Can we please talk about this please? The entire end battle of this movie. For most of the movie, Mulan has felt out of place. She doesn’t know where she fits in. Covering herself in femininity doesn’t work, like, at all. The scene of the matchmaker…I don’t even have to explain to show you how much that is not her. But then she runs away and poses as a man. She tries her hardest to blend in and be a guy, but at the same time, covering herself in the masculine just doesn’t work. She’s still awkward and out of place. The men eventually embrace her as one of their own, see her as a guy, but they see her as a strange guy, a very effeminate man. But this scene, this final part of the movie, she has finally found her place. She is short haired (masculine) and wearing a woman’s outfit. She has found her place as a tomboy, somewhere in the middle of extremes.
But to continue on and dissect this final battle, Mulan is facing Shan Yu. Shan Yu is huge and muscled, where Mulan is smaller, slimmer, but no doubt she is toned from all the training she’s done. Still, Shan Yu has his big ass sword and all she finds she is equipped with is the fan she and the other men used to sneak into the castle. She is equipped with a traditionally feminine object and Shan Yu is equipped with a traditionally masculine object. She uses that fan to disarm him, then uses the sword to trap him. Not only is this badass and clever, she uses an object she was uncomfortable with in the beginning to take a weapon she was also uncomfortable with earlier on in the movie and uses both of them to defeat a man twice as big as her with a much longer and much more extensive history of fighting and battles than she has. She, at this point, has learned to embrace both of the aspects of herself and use this to her advantage. She finally realizes by this time that she is not the traditional, overly feminine daughter her society wants her to be, but she isn’t the other extreme, either, the man’s man, lets-scratch-our-butts-and-fight-for-no-reason type seen when she first comes into the camp. She is a little bit of both, and realizing this and embracing it allows her to be more sure of herself and fully embrace who she is, making her happier, but also more confident (do I even need to point out how she stepped up as leader and showed the men a way to sneak into the palace? Oops, I already did), and a better fighter. She’s just all around awesome and this move she does when she disarms Shan Yu always makes me feel enormously proud of her and how far she’s come.
Why I love Mulan!
Also why I wish we’d get more images of her (pins, dolls, etc.) from THIS part of the movie. We get so many in her impress-the-matchmaker gown, and a number (at least of Disney pins) in her warrior garb as Ping.
THIS is the Mulan I want lots of pins of!
This scene is everything.
(Source: goldenstories)
Sometimes I think of how one tiny mutated cell can wipe out our whole civilization, but then I watch a video like this and think “nah, we’re way too awesome of a species to be defeated.”
I feel like my life is complete after watching this.
(Source: adrians1)
Lego Metal Gear REX Costs $900 To Build
This is a hulking giant replica of Metal Gear REX made up of about $900 worth of Lego pieces.
Check out the video below for a better idea of how huge this thing is and how it moves.
Check it: More Metal Gear posts on Albotas
Buy: Metal Gear Solid Omnibus
The Legend of Zelda Advertisements by Steph Chow.
(Source: freefolking)
Chell meets Freeman. For those of you who have also spent hours imagining this scenario, together we can be glad that this video exists.
Directed, Edited and Visual Effects by Michael Shanks
-THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!
Mass Effect Oils -Garrus- by =SaturnsGate
“Exploring an abandoned area, expecting something mechanical and nasty to jump out at any moment. Just like old times.”
- Garrus Vakarian
