Purple Keel is a Q3 CPM movie i've been working on for about 3 weeks.
CPM is smooth and fast. That's what this movie is supposed to be. Captured at 50fps and first person only. I asked for demos, nice people sent them to me. I wanted to make a simple movie that was about the frags matched to a good beat. Nothing too fancy, no gimmicks, no BS. I hope you like it.
Posted by tom @ 17:20 UTC, 19 February 2014 - iMsg
yo ima make a new cpm frag movie. it'll be short n sweet. spiritual successor to midget but a bit more chill. you want in? you send me frags. duel is cool. tdm frags, especially quad/bs runs etc. ctf is cool too if good flagrun or holyshit etc. none of this DMing in mid @ ctf type frags. no need.
contact me @ irc in #uscpmpickup or imsg me for an email or upload them suckers right here.
Posted by tom @ 22:29 UTC, 15 December 2013 - iMsg
Hey
I play on an older laptop because that's all i have right now. my ping sucks, which is fine, but more importantly so do my FPS. Afaik i have everything on the lowest detail but i still can only get 125fps on smaller, older maps like 3a,22 etc. Any TDM or CTF maps or even pukka3 i hover around 90fps or lower in battle It sucks. I've uploaded my cfg. If someone could run their eye over it and see if i'm missing something easy to help with my problem please let me know as this kinda sucks.
laptop specs are:
duel core T4300 2.1ghz
4gig RAM
onboard GFX card (this is clearly the problem)
Even though i have onboard gfx you would think that running picmip 16 and lowest settings i should be able to get 125fps steady? no? Maybe not.
Advice is super welcome.
Thanks
Attached Misc File: 98927-tom.cfg (15 Dec 2013, 11KB, 141 downloads)
Posted by tom @ 22:26 UTC, 18 November 2013 - iMsg
hi
lets say i wanted to make a cpm movie, with a cpm hud etc basically all first person. how would i best go about this? its been a long time and i remember q3mme being annoying.
Hello old people. This is a long shot but about 10 fkn years ago or more I made a shit UT99 CTF movie called something like 'XLV The MOVIE'. Does anyone happen to have this utter piece of garbage on their computer or backup? I would love to watch this total trainwreck of a movie again but I can't find it anywhere. Can YOU help?
electronic music is stupid. someone has a great idea, works on it and creates a sound. somebody uses that idea to create their own take and the progression begins. for a while everything is great and there's this new music that is different to what everyones been listening to since this last happened. more and more people pick up on it and then some producer makes a record that is good enough to hit the mainstream and become a success. radio plays & interviews, world tour bookings the lot. at the same time the sound spreads worldwide and everybody and their grandmother is taking 'lock stock and 2 smoking barrels' quotes and putting it to a beat. the whole thing gets watered down and you have to shift through shit to find gold. but it's still there, and it's good.
i made a new mix of some good stuff, maybe you'll like it:
if you're a hater don't waste your time because we all know how
a) repetitive it is
b) easy it is to make
c) shitty gay faggoty trash that was cool back in 1995 til all the dubheadz blahblah cause its blahblahblah
in this thread post a few of your loved tracks for others to listen to. don't spam 15 shitty gabba tracks on one post that we all have to scroll over (p0rt), just keep it a few tracks per post or whatever. even write a bit about each one if you're feeling especially spergy.
ok
go
bit of a crime posting something this in low quality. The bass sounds so much better in HQ but whatever, it's a killer track. shackleton makes great dark 'bass driven' music but this is his best for sure. i even have 2 copies on vinyl.. just incase.
robert hood has been around forever and is still a master of his craft. hypnotic, progressive, trippy techno at it's very finest
straight outa '94 when drum and bass was the shit. i used to listen to my sister play this stuff when i was a youngun' and i guess it suck with me. features the only MC i know that can sing a tune.
finally something in HD. i don't know anybody that makes tracks like this with such 'emotion'. listening to a burial album is like a journey. he makes vocals that sound like a mix of euphoria and sadness at the same time. here's a great interview with the fella after his first album release: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/347/ (i recommend listening to his music while reading it ofc)
your turn
Edited by tom at 17:06 UTC, 3 August 2011 - 16378 Hits
kinda throwing a bunch of 'dubtronica' genres into 1 mix
girl unit - shade on
instra:mental - tramma
sbtrkt - rundown
scuba - tense
the streets - blinded by the lights (nero mix)
zomby - rumours & revolutions
breakage - together
nit grit - babylon
von d + dj madd - its over
kyptic minds & youngsta - cold blooded
emika - double take (pinch mix)
headhunter - prototype (modeselektor mix)
dark sky - something to lose
crystal fighters - i love london (brackles mix)
dj madd - detroit skank
starkey - black monolith
maybe you like maybe you dont
yessir
Edited by tom at 20:29 UTC, 4 June 2010 - 17896 Hits
i haven't really updated my journal in forever. sometimes i like to do it just because it's fun to write it down, and perhaps some people might get a kick out of the photos. of course this journal is about me
Edited by tom at 20:12 UTC, 9 August 2009 - 11417 Hits
To politicians, we're little more than meaningless blobs on a monitor. Bring on the summer of rage
We're the ants in their garden. The bacteria in their stools. Politicians have nothing but contempt for us
Any abusive relationship tends to end with a long, slow phase of mounting disappointment followed by a sudden, irreversible snapping point. The descent to rock bottom may take years but when you get there, the force of impact still shocks, and it's precisely this shock that gives you the strength to walk away. Take smoking, for instance. You can light up for years, hating yourself and the habit a little bit more with each accumulated puff, yet remain hopelessly locked in nicotine's pointless embrace, until one day you find yourself scrabbling through the kitchen bin, picking potato peelings off a dog end because it's 11pm and the shops are closed and GOD YOU NEED A FAG . . . when you catch sight of your sorry junkie-arsed reflection in the shiny bin lid and undergo an epiphany of self-disgust, vowing to quit there and then.
I bring this up because I suspect that across the country, people are undergoing similar epiphanies every day. Not about cigarettes, but politicians. My personal snapping point was reached last week, at the precise moment Jack Straw announced the government was vetoing the Information Tribunal's order for the release of cabinet minutes relating to that whole invasion-of-Iraq thing. Come on, you remember Iraq: that little foreign policy blip millions of us protested against to absolutely zero avail, because Straw and his pals figured they knew best, even though it turned out they didn't and - oops! - hundreds of thousands of lives were lost as a result. Remember the footage of that screaming little boy with his limbs blown off? Maybe not. Maybe you felt a shiver of guilt when you saw that; guilt that you hadn't personally done enough to prevent it; should've shouted louder, marched further. Or maybe it stunned you into numbness. Because what was the point in protesting any more? These people do what they want.
They do what they want, these people, and you and I are cut out of the conversation. I'm sure they're dimly aware we still exist. They must spot us occasionally, through the window, jumping up and down in the cold with our funny placards . . . although come to think of it, they can't even see us through the window, since they banned peaceful protest within a mile of Parliament.
Instead they pick us up on a monitor, courtesy of one of the 15bn CCTV cameras that scrutinise our every move in the name of security. On the screen you're nothing but a tiny monochrome blob; two-dimensional and faceless. And that's just how they like it.
Straw and co blocked the release of the minutes, claiming that to actually let us know what was going on would set a dangerous precedent that would harm good government. Ministers wouldn't speak frankly at cabinet meetings if they felt their discussions would be subjected to the sort of scrutiny that, say, our every waking move is. In other words, they'd be more worried about the press coverage they'd get than the strength of their arguments.
Well, boo hoo. Surely craven pussies like that shouldn't be governing anyway?
Having pissed in the public's face, Straw went on to shake the final drips down its nose, writing a defence of the government's civil liberties record in this paper in which he claimed "talk of Britain sliding into a police state is daft scaremongering, but even were it true there is a mechanism to prevent it - democratic elections . . .
People have the power to vote out administrations which they believe are heavy-handed." Thanks, Jacksy - can I call you Jacksy? - but who the hell are we supposed to vote in? Despite a bit of grumbling, the Tories supported the veto. Because they wouldn't want cabinet minutes published either.
It's all over. The politicians have finally shut us out of their game for good and we have nowhere left to turn. We're not part of their world any more. We don't even speak the same language. We're the ants in their garden. The bacteria in their stools. They have nothing but contempt for us. They snivel and lie and duck questions on torture - on torture, for Christ's sake - while demanding we respect their authority. They monitor our every belch and fart, and insist it's all for our own good.
Straw wrote, "If people were angels there would be no need for government . . . But sadly people are not all angels." That rather makes it sound as though he believes politicians aren't mere people. Maybe they're the gods of Olympus. Maybe that's why they're in charge.
Thing is, they could get away with this bullshit while times were good, while people were comfortable enough to ignore what was happening; when people were focusing on plasma TVs and iPods and celebrity gossip instead of what the politicians were doing - not because they're stupid, but because they know a closed shop when they see one. But now it looks as if those times are at an end, and more and more of us are pulling the dreampipes from the back of our skulls, undergoing a negative epiphany; blinking into the cold light of day.
Consequently the police are preparing for a "summer of rage". To the powers that be, that probably just means more tiny monochrome blobs jumping up and down on the long-distance monitor for their amusement. Should it turn out to be more visceral than that, they'll have no one to blame but themselves.
Edited by tom at 03:04 UTC, 4 March 2009 - 5919 Hits
Finals of FragDominant. Not great games but its so you can see for yourself the amazing array of cheats walter and kgb are almost certainly not using.
Wheats casting is here
Maps OSPDM6 Q3DM7
Edited by Nicky at 07:26 UTC, 22 February 2009 - 7282 Hits
cl_avidemo in CPMA currently captures all images in TGA format. I have a problem that means if i capture in tga i get random black images half the time. This is due to antialiasing on my gfx card but sadly i have no way of controlling/changing that on my laptop. The only way round this is for me to capture in JPEG. I can of course do this in Q3 MME but i really want to use the CPMA hud, as MME's is super shit. Is there a way round this? It can't be that hard to enable jpeg capturing can it? I also do not want to capture with the /video feature for various reasons.
I'm dying to make a VQ3 movie from this year's games :/
I don't think I know many bands that consistantly put out great albums over and over apart from TC. Everything they release is solid and this RR is no exeption. If you haven't heard of them before but like trip-hop such as Massive Attack, Bonobo etc then grab a copy. 'Beautiful Drug' is the coolest track i've heard in a while. The whole thing has been pretty much on repeat for a week.
Edited by tom at 21:29 UTC, 2 October 2008 - 4660 Hits
Posted by tom @ 00:47 UTC, 30 September 2008 - iMsg
Yo does anyone happen to have some good NA ips for duels? I'm in canada so the further north the better. I've found a few public ones but sometimes i have to idle for hours before someone joins, and even then the skill level is even worse than mine. And if anyone fancies a few games contact me on #esreality.
Posted by tom @ 18:19 UTC, 22 September 2008 - iMsg
I've recently bought a mouse so i could play some Q3 on my laptop. It runs like shit and i can only just manage 125fps sporadically on dm6 with picmip 16. This doesn't really bother me as it's still playable. The real problem is that the further into a match i play, the less responsive my laptop becomes. An example of this is stair jumping. When i first start i game i can slam jump as i run up stairs as much as possible and the computer responds to the command, but after perhaps 5-10minutes of play, my keyboard won't register one jump. The game just becomes more and more sluggish the longer i play.
This also applies to weapon change, i can press the plasma key and it will appear perhaps 1-2 seconds later, even though i have a low ping. (I'm using Q for plasma, whilst my movement is WASD - maybe the close proximity to buttons that are being held down all the time may have something to do with it?)
I've tried enabling only one core but it doesn't change anything. Perhaps some memory issue?
I'm on a 2.1 dual core, 3gig memory, an intel graphics card and i'm playing on servers that i ping fine to.
Sorry for the ramble. Any ideas?
Edited by tom at 18:20 UTC, 22 September 2008 - 4325 Hits
Posted by tom @ 17:27 UTC, 18 September 2008 - iMsg
ESWC Athens has not only suprised us all with another Quake3 tournament, but it will also possibly witness the return of arguably the two strongest Quake4 players in history to their original game. SK Gaming reports that although both players have signed up no commitment will be made to attend by Toxic until he learns what monitors are to be used, whilst Stermy admits missing 1v1 competitions in an interview with Carmac.
Why have you signed up for Athens?
stermy: I signed up hoping they will be using Quake Live already for this event. I really want to play in some FPS 1v1 tournaments again and unfortunately I did not have this opportunity in the past year because of lacking of tournaments and schedule conflicts between the CGS and other events.
As soon as I got back from the US this August I started playing QuakeLive and I'm definitely enjoying it so far so I was just waiting for a big tournament to come up. Unfortunately I don’t know if this ESWC Masters in Athens will be Quake 3 CPMA or Quake Live already.
Cooller had an epic win against ZeRo4 yet lost to lesser known chance, vo0 still hasn't made it into the top elite, rapha forced Cypher into a /quit and neither noctis, matr0x, if-22 or dkt advance. After a first day with some insane games, suprise results and a few upsets we're left with eight hopefuls! Who is your top3 in what could ultimately be the final major Quake3 tournament!?
Edited by tom at 04:10 UTC, 26 August 2008 - 17983 Hits
Many of us have been following the Olympics. And as usual when this sort of thing rolls round gamers cry out that there's no reason as to why video games aren't featured among the most prolific sports in the world.
Well known British comedian Dom Joly has written a short article for The Independent stating just that. He also makes some arguments against having such sports as football and tennis at the tournament.
And I'm not joking about video gaming either – with the advent of online gaming, hundreds of millions of people are already involved in vast virtual worldwide competitions and the possibilities for games are endless. What big difference is there between someone squeezing the trigger on an air pistol and a button on their joystick?
I would even venture that the skills and training needed to get to the top level in a video game like, say Call of Duty 4 are far superior to those required of an air pistol "athlete".
Edited by tom at 19:57 UTC, 16 August 2008 - 48300 Hits
For those that might care here i've been in Canada now for just over two months. Times gone pretty fast - I spent 2 or so weeks in Calgary/Lethbridge with relatives then made a spontanious decision to fly out to Ottawa on the otherside of the country to spend a week with some old friends. The flight gave me an idea of the scale of the country, 4 more hours and I would have pretty much been home!
Well anyway, I hung out with those guys for a week sleeping on a couch outside on their balcony which overlooked Ottawa. I'm really not a big city person but Ottawa is very green and has a huge crop research farm in the middle of the city, which is kinda weird.
My Bed/Couch for the week
I flew back to Calgary, spent a little more time with my relatives and decided that it was time i got my ass in gear and got on with finding somewhere in British Columbia to live, after all by now i'd been in the country for a month or so.
Two days out of Calgary, I end up in Nelson. Nelson is famous for two things; snow and being the weed growing capital of North America. Anyway in Nepal I spent about a week trekking with a guy from this town, he told me about how beautiful it is and how epic the snow can get etc and said I should swing by and put it on my itinerary. Well 1 month on and i'm still here.
Spent the first 2-3 weeks in an awesome hostel and met a load of people, partied, explored the town, met up with my friend from Nepal etc. It didn't take me long at all to realise this is where I wanted to settle. Accommodation is natoriously hard to find around here, and luckily I teamed up with a friend at the hostel, who was also looking for somewhere. After a week we managed to find ourselves an awesome place right on the beach (the town is on a huge lake). So here I am, still looking for a job. I've been really fussy so far, but i've figured i'm going to have to just get any old shit in the meantime and look for something better to turn up. Hopefully i can find something on the ski-hill for the winter.
Anyway that was an epic monologue with hardly any photos because I forgot my camera in fucking Calgary.
The past few days I haven't had Internet and to entertain myself when I'm not being blasted by the 35deg temperatures, i've been trying to teach myself Sony Acid so I can create mixes. I really don't think it's the best program for mixing so if anyone knows anything better let me know.
Recently I got into Dubstep and figured I should make a small mix with the limited colleciton that I have. The mixing isn't top quality and isn't nearly as fun as doing it on my decks back home but theres still some satisfaction there for sure. So if you like electronic music then have a listen, I really hope you like it. Please tell me what you think.
Burial - Night Bus
Appleblim vs Peverelist - Over Here
Uncle Sam - Round The World Girls (Tes La Roc mix)
SubSwara - Inshallah
TRG - Hoods Up
SubSwara - Belgrade Riddim
Burial - Shell of Light
Geiom - Island Noise
Geiom - Futuristic
Skream - Rutten
Kode 9 - Magnetic City
Conquest - Forever
Burial - In McDonalds
Ok that was really long, sorry.
Ciao
Edited by tom at 15:36 UTC, 24 July 2008 - 11805 Hits
Uh oh! Our little Internet website isn't working properly. Comments don't register or are thrown onto completely different threads, posts completely disappear along with a number of other frustrating little errors. The people that need to know are already aware and as far as the rest of us are concerned there is nothing we can do to fix it. So hang tough Internet gaming gang, normal service will at some point return, there is no need to post new threads regarding this problem. In the meantime play promode or worms.
Edited by Nicky at 21:10 UTC, 1 August 2008 - 36581 Hits
Controversy and nerdrage is once again sweeping our INTERNET website. Whether its a lengthy rant from Jamerio, questions on life the universe and everything from Jonesy or Monkey_Business, or the newest Walter and noctis demos. Who from this list of little terrors do you hate the most!?
Bunch of photos that i've taken over the past few months as usual. The borders on some of them are too big imo. I try to edit in photoshop as little as possible. All but last taken near home.
Flikr page thing
Edited by tom at 22:46 UTC, 2 February 2008 - 23907 Hits
Produced by renk of Hybrid Movies comes Mozaik, probably the most technical Quake 3 movie in terms of editing released. Naturally the tricks are mighty impressive, but they are also accompanied by a very refreshing soundtrack, steering away from the all-too-common psynerd beatfest.
Weighing in at a reasonable size considering its length and high quality, this movie should be downloaded, not streamed, to fully appreciate its visuals.
Starring: m3n$ro0m, Buddha, Nibbit, Flayzerannyx, Breach Length: 15 min The creation progress: 5~6 months Used Programs: q3mme 1.52 (1920x1080 resolution), Virtualdub, Sony vegas Music:
The sinner - cells
Muse - New born
Placebo - Bitter end
Rihanna - Umbrella
Movie File - HQ xvid 720p (and stream) (Mosaik) 561MB
I've always wanted to make a traditional frag movie, and I guess "soon" is about as close I will manage. Split into three main sections: TDM/Duel/CTF, each with its own personal soundtrack that I believe represents its game play style best.
Made for my friends in Lobstarz, and many thanks to Team Zissou for hosting the premiere.
I apologise for the filesize/quality. Rendering etc is not something I am good at or particularly care for, perhaps if enough people request it I will try to do an x264 release. I am also sorry if you do not like the music, that is something that you simply can't please everybody with.
i went to Applecross on the west coast of Scotland again a few weeks ago. I took a few photos of which a few i like, so incase you're interested they are below.
Sorry some of them being too small/large, ESR doesn't allow pictures outside the post borders now :( You can see them all + more on my rarely updated Flickr account.
that way we can stream them first, and if we like download afterwards. the website is bloddy brilliant and far far better quality than own3d.net or whatever that other streaming site for quake movies is. make the most of it before it sells itself to some shite corporation that sticks adverts all over the place or something.
Has anyone seen this? I'll dig up a review tomorrow because i can't write. The whole thing should be watched for the final shot alone, which is probably one of the most amazing things i've seen on film.
You don't need to like Daft Punk, non of their music is used and although the movie may seem pretentious i really don't think it is. No dialogue and huge dramatic long shots (some with stunning scenery), it's not for everyone.
Edited by tom at 22:01 UTC, 8 July 2007 - 5532 Hits
I've been pulling my hair out for a few weeks trying to remember the name of this guy, he was similar in weight to that of "Clamp" from Q4 fame, except he played cpm much worse than anyone else... Stuff like doing ix impressions and swearing like "fucking tosser" during important games. Here's everything I remember about that fat guy to try and jog some memories:
- his dad owned a sweet shop but the sweet shop went bust cos this guy ate all his dad's stock
- he's currently unemployed
- he had a tube up his penis for 2 weeks
Does anybody have any idea what the name of this guy? Or any other information you can remember about him? Extra points if you can guess his weight
Pretty sure he was fat (or really fat) for that I can be certain. It was a UK guy of course.
Thanks for any help.
I will plus the tits off anyone who gives me the correct answer (and can confirm it)
Edited by tom at 16:44 UTC, 11 June 2007 - 13028 Hits
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
After the positive feedback from mix #1 I really felt like doing another, sadly I sort of never got round to it till yesterday, but now here it is: Mix #2 for ESR! It's kind of a bit more techno than the last, which might put a few people off, but perhaps you will suprise yourself. I fully understand most people don't like this kind of genre, so it's got a pretty small audience here really.
I'll apologise in advance for the skipping records, especially near the start and any weird noises that don't really fit in, that's my mixer playing up, it likes to play the muted channel sometimes thanks to a broken crossfader.
Enough from me, just sit back, head over and stream or download the set straight here on ESReality
Karizma - God made me funky
Daft Punk - Burnin'
Mark Knight & MTV feat E-Man - A new reality (John Dahlback dub)
Paul Kalk Brenner - Atzepeng
Nathan Fake - The sky was pink (Holden mix)
Paul Kalk Brenner - Keule
Glenn Underground - Indians & bagpipes
Fish Go Deep feat Tracy K - The cure & the cause
The MFA - The difference it makes
Bushwacka! - Healer
Edited by tom at 18:51 UTC, 2 February 2007 - 6733 Hits
Here's are a random few photos from the past months. I didn't take many too recently because the weather has been jive. I do realise that many of these are sunset/rise related photos, that's because i like them and when i go to and from work that's normally whats happening, otherwise it's dark. A few are from Canada and perhaps 1 from France
ONWARDDDS>>>>
ok i'm spent, hope you like. If you wanna see fullsupersize ask and i'll upload, they all look crap at 640x480.
Edited by tom at 19:19 UTC, 30 January 2007 - 12226 Hits
dYe aka Riccardo "vicious" Zanocchio and David "jewins" Vanoli have already set to work on their WCG2006 movie. Just days after the event has finished the teaser has already been released. Focusing only on the Quake4 tournament, this will be something for all FPS fans to look forward to.
This subtle little teaser is a promising look for what should become an interesting documetary, covering all the stuff you didnt get to see on the VODs or hear on the streams. Get behind the monitor with Blood is Love.
OK, so i thought i'd upload a mix for you seeming as a few people asked. It's electro-house with a little techno thrown in for good measure. If you don't like that genre that's cool and i completely understand, just don't bother commenting. For those that might care its an 80mb file and 1hour long, mixed in my bedroom on my decks. That's all.
Please let me know what you think.
dave island - stalker (from 1995 btw!)
bodyrox - yeah yeah (ramirez mix)
underworld - JAL to tokyo (paul woolford mix)
junkieXL - today (king roc mix)
king unique - music please
daft punk - alive
mark knight & MTV ft E-Man - a new reality (john dahlback mix)
the futureheads - worry about it later (switch remix)
vitalic - valletta fangares
vitalic - my friend dario
king unique - lighters
vitalic - poney party
depeche mode - i feel loved (danny tenaglia's mix)
mekka - diamondback (angeles mix)
I won't bore you with the details but Coldcut did a mindblowing DJ/VJ (visual jockey) set. Mr Scuff and Gilles Peterson were also pretty splendid but i didnt get any pictures because my camera has broken. So many bands i can't be bothered to type them all out. Good times.
Edited by tom at 12:56 UTC, 7 August 2006 - 6639 Hits
... Then i suggest you get the torrent below. Basically their liveset from the Coachella event in the US back in April. It's a DVD that some guy put together taking footage from a load of different people who took their camcorders to the event. He's synced the music in time (with good quality) to the footage and the result is fkn awesome. Regardless of what you think of Human After All you gotta get this. I'm putting it on ESR as it has no copyright, either.
Sorry for the delay, i've just been a bit lazy. I havnt touched any of these up in Photoshop because my copy is shite and i cant be bothered with the hassle, so it's a bit of the spur of the moment rush job. Hope you like them, maybe i'll get a new camera one day.
Basically We spend 7 days circumnavigating the Monte Rosa, which is a m-m-m-monster mountain that has the Swiss and Italian borders split down its middle, so half the trip was in one country, half the other. It was fucking brilliant; sunshine everyday, big mountains, big days, big beers. I won't bore you with the details but we basically started in one place and ended up in Zermatt, Switzerland.
This hut is where we spent the first night, behind you can see the Monte Rosa. We were the only people there, with lightning all night. In the evening we 'broke into' a big ski lift station thats abandoned in the summer, you wouldn't believe the disgusting mess those guys leave on the enviroment. (i'd still use them in winter, though :( )
This is a madonna on the ridgeline, it is fkn huge.
Up close.
Not much to say really, it was pretty powerful...
Out here helicopters are used to transport food and essential items to huts on remote mountain sides.
:)
The most picturesque hut ever. It was pretty damn nice.
Puffy.
We got very lost this day.
Eventually we arrived at the Matterhorn from the Italian side and stayed the night at a hut on the border between Italy and Switzerland.
Our final day of the main walk, we crossed a glacier and made our way down into Zermatt with the mighty Matterhorn on our left; probably the most pictured mountain in the world.
After a wee rest day i was getting itchy feet so walked upto the start of the main climb up the Matterhorn (which conveniently has a hut nearby). It's a monsterous mountain, and probably the most dangerous in the Alps.
One day maybe..
Sorry, these photos don't really tell a story of my journey as such. Basically a week of 5-9 hour days up and down. Thousands upon thousands and thousands of feet gained and lost. And not one blister to prove it.
I also appologise for the size of the pictures. Currently ESR doesnt allow them to go outside the border of the journal like they once did :(
Hope you liked them anyway, thanks.
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The Big Chill festival at the start of August! 3 days of relaxing in the sun with some awesome sounds, Gilles Peterson, Jose Gonzalez and Aim to name a few :D
Edited by tom at 07:22 UTC, 13 July 2006 - 4223 Hits
The Decerto COD2 frag movie featuring top North American players has been released. By far the best Call of Duty picture to date, it manages to create smooth fast-paced viewing for what is otherwise a rather slow game. Well constructed with slick editing, matched with solid music and insane frags this is worth its weight in megabytes.
dignitas/tom vs [nEB]Xhep^ on wdm2 from the Excello 1v1 wsw cup. I don't think either of us were on top of our game but its nice and close. Quite a few people wanted it after hearing the shoutcast.
Edited by Nicky at 09:18 UTC, 4 February 2008 - 8680 Hits
We all know CPMA is played around the world. From USA to Sweden, from Brazil to Poland, the game is loved by approximately 9% of the population. Yet even 20,000 leagues under the sea there are crustaceans trying to master the 5second cap on CTF2. Somehow 8bitlobster managed to use his clumsy claws on a mouse and keyboard (!) in conjunction with a video editing program to whip up a CPMA movie for all to see. With a funky soundtrack that will make you want to dance the robot and featuring frags from players across the community.
This is one viewing that will set your gaming fever to boiling. I sentence you to 10:39 of lobster-tastic CPMA action! - ITS THE CLAW!
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The Decerto COD2 frag movie featuring top North American players has been released. By far the best Call of Duty picture to date, it manages to create smooth fast-paced viewing for what is otherwise a rather slow game. Well constructed with slick editing, matched with solid music and insane frags this is worth its weight in megabytes.
[nEB]Xhep^ on wdm2 from the Excello 1v1 wsw cup. I don't think either of us were on top of our game but its nice and close. Quite a few people wanted it after hearing the shoutcast.
