Winchester massive, brockout!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Transistor Rhythm
THIS is Electro.
Cybotron - Clear
Slingshot - You Shook Me All Night Long
Extra T's - ET Boogie
Jozun Crew - Pack Jam (Look Out For The OVC) Instrumental
Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf
QED.
Cybotron - Clear
Slingshot - You Shook Me All Night Long
Extra T's - ET Boogie
Jozun Crew - Pack Jam (Look Out For The OVC) Instrumental
Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf
QED.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Bring it on home!
Here's some stuff about ridiculous super-vehicles from the world of television and cinema in the 80s.
STREET HAWK
Street Hawk was a television series that ran for one season, originally aired in 1985. The premise is that a police officer, who was also an ex-dirt bike racer called Jesse Mach, was chosen to test a top secret all-terrain attack motorcycle. With guns. That could exceed 480 km/h.
Now one of the crucial aspects of this bike was the fact that it could travel at almost half the speed of sound. Accessed via the oddly-large looking control console, the Hyperthrust can be engaged. Think of it as a sort of super insane NOS injector that boosts the bike to completely unreasonable speeds that, in reality, would take it way past it's physical limits. It's basically the motorbike version of Airwolf.
AUTOMAN
OK, so Tron was pretty big in the 80s. Knight Rider was a hit too. Holograms are pretty futuristic, and everyone loves a cop show. Surely it stands to reason that combining all four would result in a world-wide hit?
Now I understand, hard sci-fi aside, most science fiction can be pretty liberal with the science part in order to facilitate the story, but hostly ..who would want to be in that car when it turns corners? LOOK at it. I once got mild whiplash in my mates 1987 Daihatsu Charade stopping abruptly at a set of traffic lights, imagine what would happen in this thing.
Something else they seem to have thought would work was deciding that holograms were made of electricity. Or something.
MEGAFORCE
If I was in charge of the secret, phantom paramillitary outfit known as Megaforce I would be having some serious discussions with my R&D team. Years of research, untold amounts of money poured in to testing and development, and the best they could come up with was trail bikes and dune buggys with missiles on the side? Yeah, I know the dune buggys actually have lasers, but still.
In this absolutely incredible scene we see the bikes from Megaforce going through some sort of fruity training run, where it appears the objective is to fire rockets and machine guns at some party ballons filled with rocks. Note overdubbed jet engine turbofan sounds on the bikes, it really adds to the illusion.
Oh fuck, did I mention the bikes can fly? That's right, some fold out two foot wings over the back tyres converts these badboys in to air combat units! Just watch and be amazed in what must be one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history (I'm not quite sure if I'm joking there or not).
STREET HAWK
Street Hawk was a television series that ran for one season, originally aired in 1985. The premise is that a police officer, who was also an ex-dirt bike racer called Jesse Mach, was chosen to test a top secret all-terrain attack motorcycle. With guns. That could exceed 480 km/h.
Now one of the crucial aspects of this bike was the fact that it could travel at almost half the speed of sound. Accessed via the oddly-large looking control console, the Hyperthrust can be engaged. Think of it as a sort of super insane NOS injector that boosts the bike to completely unreasonable speeds that, in reality, would take it way past it's physical limits. It's basically the motorbike version of Airwolf.
AUTOMAN
OK, so Tron was pretty big in the 80s. Knight Rider was a hit too. Holograms are pretty futuristic, and everyone loves a cop show. Surely it stands to reason that combining all four would result in a world-wide hit?
Now I understand, hard sci-fi aside, most science fiction can be pretty liberal with the science part in order to facilitate the story, but hostly ..who would want to be in that car when it turns corners? LOOK at it. I once got mild whiplash in my mates 1987 Daihatsu Charade stopping abruptly at a set of traffic lights, imagine what would happen in this thing.
Something else they seem to have thought would work was deciding that holograms were made of electricity. Or something.
MEGAFORCE
If I was in charge of the secret, phantom paramillitary outfit known as Megaforce I would be having some serious discussions with my R&D team. Years of research, untold amounts of money poured in to testing and development, and the best they could come up with was trail bikes and dune buggys with missiles on the side? Yeah, I know the dune buggys actually have lasers, but still.
In this absolutely incredible scene we see the bikes from Megaforce going through some sort of fruity training run, where it appears the objective is to fire rockets and machine guns at some party ballons filled with rocks. Note overdubbed jet engine turbofan sounds on the bikes, it really adds to the illusion.
Oh fuck, did I mention the bikes can fly? That's right, some fold out two foot wings over the back tyres converts these badboys in to air combat units! Just watch and be amazed in what must be one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history (I'm not quite sure if I'm joking there or not).
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