Erratic Hiatus!

Due to life and its infinite mysteries and cheekiness, I am unable to take time to post amazingly really random ramblings at a regular interval. Sorry! But I'll try to do at least one a week :) Meanwhile have a great October / Halloween / November / Thanksgiving / December!

Happy Birthday Cupcake!!! :P

 

Also I found you? Lindsey Stirling - Full Live Show Rockefeller Oslo Norway 27-06-2013

Hot Pot + Mucho Mango + Gravity

Fridays I work at SD (Slickdeals.net - for newcomers), and this Friday for entertainment, we (couple of SD-ers) decided to have hot pot for dinner and watch Gravity that just came out and apparently had high reviews.

Noodles Exchange is a Chinese restaurant located at Gold Coast Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Their main speciality or super popular dish is hot pot. As seen in the picture below, a pot of brew is placed in front of you along with raw ingredients that you drop in the pot while the brew is heated to boiling point. Once the ingredient is cooked to your liking, you take it out and dip in sauce (optional) before eating it. While we didn't get that much food shown in the picture, it was still plenty enough to fill me up. I got the beef platter (other choices was seafood and lamb). The beef platter came with beef (duh!), fish balls, taro, radish, daikon, lettuce, tomato, noodles, enoki mushrooms, and couple other veggies. The stew (I ordered spicy) came with tons of red chillies, and spices - garlic, cardamon, cloves, cinnamon sticks, etc.

 

After hot pot for dinner, we still had an hour and few minutes more to kill before the movie started, so we decided to hit Snowflakes Shavery for desserts. Snowflakes Shavery serves shaved ice of various flavors some includes green tea, strawberry, sesame seed, mango, mochi,  chocolate, etc, along with condensed milk and chunks of fruit if you ordered a fruit flavored one. I got the Mucho Mango which looked like this:

After that, we had like 20mins before the movie started, so we all rushed back to Brendan theaters which is right across Gold Coast to watch the movie Gravity staring Sandra Bullock. We watched the IMAX 3D version, and my opinion is that movie is only worth the time if you decide to watch it in IMAX 3D, anything else it is not worth the trouble. Especially since the plot was more or less obvious and predictable with each development in the story. There couple of flaws, but that aside, watching the Sun, Earth, occasionally the Moon and the billions of stars in space was really fun :D. Honestly, watch The Heat if you like Sandra Bullock, this one is just... meh.

Thanks again for inviting me along SD-ers!

Hofbräuhaus

So this Wednesday was the birthday of my friend An, and a couple of friends decided to hit up Hofbräuhaus which is right next to campus to celebrate it! First and foremost, that place is LOUD!!! You have to scream on top of your lungs to speak across the table! Also Hofbräuhaus imports their beers from Munich, occasionally people get on top of the table or the floor to dance, sing, and make ruckus! Sadly no bar fights erupted while we were there...

We were attended by a german-maid dressed server who took our orders for beers, couple of pretzels and cold meat platters. While waiting for the food, friend E bought friend An a fireball shot and spanking from another waitress.... Yes, spanking is given out at this establishment, waitress walk around with paddles.... After most of the food and 2 litres of german beer, and another round of free spanking for the birthday boy from our maid, we headed out and split into two groups, while I went home, An and rest of the group headed off the strip to walk around and tour other drinking establishments.

Elemental Iceland!

Iceland! A mysterious, wonderful island located off the shore of Greenland (which mostly appears white on the map from all the ice)! Iceland on the other hand... is not filled with ice! Check out the amazing video!!!


Elemental Iceland from Stian Rekdal on Vimeo.
BEST VIEWED IN FULLSCREEN HD - SCALING OFF

This is some of the timelapses I shot in Iceland in september of 2013.
Over three weeks we drove nearly 5500km taking more than 40000 photos on the way.
Shot with Nikon cameras and lenses. Post-processed with LRTimelapse, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe After Effects. Motion control sequences done with a Stage One dolly from Dynamic Perception and a Celestron Skywatcher pan/tilt head.
Thanks to Micheal Levy for his excellent photographer's map of Iceland - http://international-photographer.com/maps/iceland/

Music:
'Chasing Time' by Dexter Britain
Licenced from TheMusicBed.com
Individual scenes available for licensing in up to 4k / UHD resolution
If you would like to see more of my work, check out these links:
Facebook - facebook.com/stianrekdal
500px - 500px.com/plan9
Flickr - flickr.com/photos/stianrekdal/

Courtesy: Gizmodo

Tap Dance - Moses

What not to love about a ghost girl tap dancing with a pair of enchanted shoe??? Aside from the girl being a ghost... and a pair of enchanted shoes tapping their way around singing... "Moses Supposes"....


義足のMoses from ががめ on Vimeo.
FRENZ2013に参加させていただきました！
ちょっと画質劣化してコマが飛んじゃってますが･･･。
『雨に唄えば』に衝撃を受けて、2年半くらい温めてたアイディア、
形にすることができて良かったです。
素敵な映画なので観たことない人は是非！
She likes movie show !

Courtesy: Gizmodo

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) Trailer!

Roughly 2 months till this movie comes out on December 13, 2013 - a Friday... Another Friday that is 13th... Well good news is that week would the final exams week at UNLV!!! Which means, this would be something to add to the list of things to wait for... somewhat patiently to do after the stress of exams!



Courtesy: The Mary Sue