friday

I've got a lot of respect for Tim Burton as a film maker (not since David Lynch have I been so impressed with one guys warped vision) and although pretty dated looking now, his original Batman was good. However the new Batman Begins knocks spots off it (won't bother comparing it to the sequels...Val Kilmer...*shudder*). Christian Bale is one of top 5 favorite actors and he brings a real presence to the character plus the cinematography is oustanding. Batman has always been a strange character. Perhaps one of the darkest in the DC universe. Unlike his contemporaries he has absolutely no super powers and is, in essence, a rich detective with borderline psychotic and schizophrenic tendencies. Yet he's perhaps the most loved out of them all.

A good one I remember from some years ago was the following answer in a history paper: Christopher Columbus circumcised the world with a 100ft Clipper. Class. :wack:

In the original DC universe it was a character called Joe Chill, a small time thug hired for the job. In the most recent change (alternative universe) it's unclear whether it was Chill and Bruce isn't sure whether it was him or not.

Barely! Will tell you about it on the blower...Lol! In this evening so speak to you later matey :)

Bizzarely I think this is about the third time I've answered this same question on here! (Shomeone do a shearch! :D) There is no real right or wrong (some characters or groups have multiple "universes"...usually when a writer leaves and a new one takes over and wants to do things differently or if they kill off a character that turns out to be more popular than they thought so they switch to another "reality" where they're still alive!) From a purists point of view, the graphic novel version is correct...but I didn't say that and you ain't seen me, right? :D

At the risk of sounding like a comic book spod, both are right, depending on which "universe" you follow. The new film is based on the graphic novels. The previous batman films tweaked the original story line to emphasise the Jokers' influence in his origin. This kind of thing happens A LOT in comic book film adaptions, e.g. the film X-men universe is vastly different to the comic book version. The graphic novel version of events Re: The Joker (done superbly by Alan Moore in "Killing Joke"...check it out): The Joker was an unnamed engineer who quit his job at a chemical company to become a stand-up comedian, only to fail miserably. Desperate to support his pregnant wife, he agreed to guide two criminals into the plant for a robbery. During the planning, the police came and informed him that his wife had just been electrocuted in a household accident involving an electric baby bottle heater. Grief-stricken, the engineer tried to withdraw from the plan, but the criminals strong-armed him into keeping his commitment to them. At the plant, the criminals made him don a special mask to become the infamous Red Hood. Unknown to the engineer, this was simply a way to implicate any accomplice as the mastermind of a crime to divert attention from themselves. Once inside, they almost immediately blundered into security personnel, and a violent shootout and chase ensued. The criminals were gunned down and the engineer found himself confronted by Batman, who was investigating the disturbance. In panicked desperation, the engineer deliberately jumped into a toxic waste vat to escape Batman and was swept through a pipe leading to the outside. Once outside, he discovered, to his horror, that the chemicals permanently stained his skin chalk white, his lips ruby red and his hair bright green. This turn of events, compounded by the man's misfortunes on that one day, caused him to go completely insane and resulted in the birth of the Joker. [taken from Wikipedia] So there you go! :)

Stephen King, Clive Barker, the usual suspects...there's nothing like a good horror story is there? It wakes you up, it thrills, fascinates and disturbs in equal measure. As much as I love them none have had much of an effect on me. I didn't think I'd ever read anything that would actually make me want to look away, to not see the tale through to the end. Until tonight. The story below is something altogether different. Halfway through I had to pause for a cigarette (any distraction would have done). To say it contains "stong adult content" is to put it mildy. You have been warned. Whether you laugh or grimace...enjoy. ;) http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html

Just got back from Russia an hour ago. Feckin' knackered! Shoot went well but never seen so many prossy's in a hotel lobby! Lol! :wack: Buggy photos are still hosted on Photobucket and can be seen in this thread: http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=55764 Have more somewhere if that ain't enough! :)

Post them up :D

How he walked out of that is beyond me. Nasty.

Yes and yes :) I got my Link and sensor from DPMotorsport: http://www.dpmotorsport.com/parts/knocklink/home.htm

I went aftermarket and bought a KnockLink+Bosch sensor which is a good piece of kit: http://www.thor-racing.co.uk/Knock_Link-LNK_KNK_LNK.asp Originally modded it by removing the cover and fitting it behind an ally plate with the lights showing but it's now being moved into the centre of the Speedo cluster so it's directly in line of sight.

In all fairness, without the daft rear wing it would probably look alright...*ducks for cover* :D

Agreed Dave, the nicest of the bunch and well executed. I'd have it myself TBH. :D And the front of the Batmobile: I could fill a thread by myself with the vast amount of custom Zed front ends I have on this computer...some good...some utterly diabolical :D

You want utterly batsh1t rear ends? I think these qualify...you should see some of the front ends I have on file! :eek: ;)

Meh. Tell me something I don't know... :rofl: ;) It's like the Grolsch...you musn't rush perfection. :wack: :rofl: :D ;)

Damd lights on one of my all time favorite U.S. Zeds (which happened to be for sale last year)

Agree with Mark wholeheartedly on this one. The stock/99 spec lights look too Yank for my taste and date the car IMO. I love the "caravan" lights (if they're good enough for a Zonda they're good enough for me :D ;)) but also loved the Damd rear light conversion that is sadly no longer available (have a pic on the other computer, might dig it out)

And to jump in, PACE also did a great job with the custom pulleys (bottom photo shows the old one for comparison):

Cheers both :D ;) A couple o'hundred nubile young women and lil ol' me...what were they thinking? :rofl: ;) Dave: I've been getting more into using filters recently (particularly polarizing filters) and for landscape/automobile photography the effects can be spot on (always impressed with the camera work on Top Gear for example, it's nice to see a program getting creative with it's images)

Nice grass! Lol! :D ;) Having a crash course in my new Nikon D70s at the moment as the photographer for the World Hairdressing Championships in Moscow (yes, you heard right! :D) that my mom is competing in with the British Team and my other half is modelling for, has dropped out and I've been asked to cover the event for the Team! We leave on Thursday! Arrrrggggh.... :eek:

Seen it before a while back but still stunning. Particularly like the design of the photo sorting and mapping...very marketable. Nice to see we're on the road to "Minority Report" style interfaces :)

Hmmmm...I really worry about people sometimes. Quite how, as a race, we've survived this long without blowing each other to smithereens is a mystery (hey at least the days of stockpiling nuclear weapons is over...oh...er...bugger. Thanks Mr Brown you d1ck). Somehow it's difficult to imagine Huw Edwards being quite as forthright (now John Snow...that would be a different bag of badgers...:D)

Her over Britney...now there's an idea...Girl wouldn't walk straight for a week if I had my way...lol! :eek: :rofl: