Who doesn’t love Mortal Kombat? Great games until MK3 and a great movie. YES Im one of the small group that actually LOVED the Mortal Kombat movie. part 2 on the otherhand was HORRID! But some good news on the Mortal Kombat front for the fans. There has actually been a trailer released for the new game, which looks like they are going back to the old style. w00t. And It looks GREAT.
But there is something even better. There are plans for a new Mortal Kombat movie. And this is the pitch trailer they’ve sent in.
Totally f*cking SICK! I hope Warner Bros. picks it up. This could be a KICK ASS movie.
Yesterday I went to my first ever pro-league baseball game in Japan. And it was A W E S O M E. I lurved it. Actually baseball is not huge in Holland and I was never that interested in the game, but since I played it with a friend of mine in Tokyo 5 years ago for fun I started liking it more and more.
Since I live in Osaka, the Osaka team Hanshin Tigers is the one to root for. I’ll have it no other way. The Hanshin Tigers rock. Well except yesterday. Exactly the game I see live and they lose. Hey its NOT my fault, lets get that straight heh.
Japanese sports are soooo very different from European sports. Everybody is so cheerful and happy, EVEN when they lose. That is one of the reasons I seriously HATE sports in Europe. Always hooligans, always drunk (well here too actually hehe) and always fighting. It should be like the sports here in Japan. The thing is, f.e. amongst the hundreds and thousands of Hanshin fans there were a few Hiroshima fans shouting. You CANT do that in Holland. If f.e. a Real fan is amidst of Ajax, Arsenal or Roma fans, it will be his last match. Not here.
My friend and I were actually sitting at the quiet side of the stadium, right across the field was the core of the fans, singing, chanting, waving huge flags. I learned that Hanshin has a few songs/cheers/anthems, but I couldn’t make out any of them, so we just hummed the same sounds heh. Plus they use these 2 plastic bats, smash them together on the beats.
Check it out in the video, not really clear, but in the end you can see some bats being smashed together.
The first 4 innings went smooth, points for both teams. Hanshin Tigers had a bit trouble getting into the game but managed to score 4 points in the 3rd inning. After that it went downhill for Hanshin. for 5 straight innings they didn’t manage to score 1 single point.
BUT, the crowd didn’t give up. Almost at the end of the 6th inning everybody in the audience started inflating balloons. The audience was completely filled with balloons and when the teams changed at the 6 to 7th inning. PWROAP!!!
Thousands of balloons flew in the air. What a friggin nice sight. And it helped. Hanshin Tigers got strength again. from a 5-11 score they score 3 points and made it 8-11. But unfortunately, not enough.
European (soccer)fans should take an example of this. This how sports should be.
Go Tigers.
a crappy video I made with my cellphone. Note to self: bring HD camera next time.
For you 3d designers out there. You might wanna keep an eye out on the latest version of 3d max coming out this Spring. It is looking HOT and loaded with lots of new cool stuff.
The Dutch / European version will be sold with a copy of “The Dark” an short animated film made by my previous well pre-pre-previous company www.nmtrix.com and its LOVELY. Check it out:
Today, January 17 2010 it has been exactly 15 years since the terrible Hanshin Earthquake. The earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 (which is not THAT big, but shaked horizontally instead of vertically (or so I have been told) took 6434 lives and left more than 300.000 homeless.
I thought back about what I was doing at the time the quake hit, 15 years ago. I was only 15 back then, and I didn’t get much info about the earthquake then. Maybe because it was a far from my bed story or maybe I was just too busy playing. In the last 2 years Ive picked up a lot of information and insights from the quake.
The quake that had its epicenter in Awaji an Island below Kobe, had a magnitude of 7.3 which isn’t extremely high. But the quake in Kobe apparently shaked horizontally which is why is caused way more damage than any other earthquake with the same magnitude, not to mention of course that everything in Japan is built adjacent.
Here you can see what I meant:
I found a HD documentary about the earthquake in English which is self explanatory.
Check it out.
