Rocky Balboa got his statue

Today, 18.08.2007. Rocky Balboa got his statue in the downtown of Zitiste, Serbia, all along with Chicken Fest in that part of country. There was a lot of people, food and drink, and rock concerts. Tonight the bands "Rambo Amadeus" and "Van Gogh" made this ceremonial bigger, and later there was a firework :)

X edition event

Yesterday (21.07.2007.) I was at MAGICANA in Novi Sad on 10-th edition event. I had really great cards, but I didn't play so good :(
Here is my deck list:

U/G

1 x Llanowar Elves,
2 x Giant Growth,
1 x Skyshroud Ranger,
1 x Grizzly Bears,
1 x Aggresive Urge,
1 x Treetop Bracers,
2 x Canopy Spider,
1 x Sage Owl,
1 x Merfolk Looter,
1 x Rootwalla,
1 x Lure,
1 x Cancel,
1 x Horseshoe Crab,
1 x Counsel of the Soratami,
1 x Cloud Elemental,
1 x Whispersilk Cloak,
1 x Troll Ascetic,
1 x Rootwater Matriarch,
1 x Icy Manipulator,
1 x Overrun,

1 x Quicksand,
9 x Forest,
8 x Island

Inspiration is everywhere

I've took some pictures from the internet - like when u cut pictures from the magazine, and make a story out of that, and I had fun. Maybe I'm gonna make more of that :P

P.S. It's a true story - beleive me, hehe

Look for more artwork at my gallery.

INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF TECHNIQUE AND TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS (UFI)

8th - 12th May, 2007

This year, The Fair of Technics and Technical Achievements from 8th to 12th May had highlighted buy teh six national exhibitions, andby awarding the traditional fair prizes.The number of exhibitors and visitors confirmed that the Belgrade Technical Fair is the leadinglarge scale event in the scientific achievements and technological splutions in that region.

Industrial branch – Event brief description:
INTEGRA, TRANSPORTECH, SHIPBUILDING, INNOVATIONS, PROCESSING TECHNIQUE, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, LIGHTING, POWER ELECTRONICS, INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, MEASURING EQUIPMENT AND INSTRUMENTS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, HOUSEHOLD ELECTRONICS, HOUSETECH, HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT, PROFFESIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT, NEW TECHNOLOGIES, SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL LITERATURE, NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS.

Exhibit range:
Electronic industry, electrical engineering, machinery, metal and transportation industry, shipbuilding.

Future Sight - prerelease deck

1 x Rift Elemental,

1 x Augur of Skulls,

1 x Grave Peril,
1 x Soultether Golem,
1 x Feebleness,

1 x Mogg War Marshal,

1 x Grapeshot,

1 x Bogardan Lancer,

1 x Stronghold Rats,

1 x Ichor Slick,

3 x Grinning Ignus,

1 x Sudden Death,

1 x Fatal Attraction,

1 x Faceless Devourer,

1 x Shivan Sand-Mage,

1 x Empty the Warrens,

1 x Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore,

2 x Death Rattle,

1 x Festering March,

1 x Lim-Dul the Necromancer,

1 x Zoetic Cavern,

9 x Swamp,

7 x Mountain

Magic The Gathering - Drafting e.g.

1 x Spiketail Drakeling
1 x Looter il-Kor
1 x Veiling Oddity
1 x Viscerid Deepwalker
1 x Slipstream Serpent
1 x Errant Doomsayers 1 x Fathom Seer
1 x Stonecloaker
1 x Ivory Giant
1 x Flickering Spirit
1 x Benalish Cavalry
1 x Castle Raptors
2 x Zealot il-Vec
1 x Duskrider Peregrine
1 x Whitemane Lion
2 x Shade of Trokair
1 x Aven Riftwatcher
2 x Pallid Mycoderm
1 x Snapback
1 x Chronatog Totem
1 x Temporal Isolation
1 x Sunlance


9 x Plains
6 x Island

Belgrade Fair International Motor Show (OICA)

March 23rd. - April 1st. 2007.

Belgrade Fair and Association of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers of Serbia and Montenegro were the organizers of the international exhibitions the automotive industry witch is the oldest official international exhibition of the road vehicles in that part of Europe. In its traditional term according to the Calendar of the International Association OICA, is gathering each year the World leading vehicle manufacturers, parts and equipment. Moreover, the participation of entire domestic car and ancillary industry, as well as the presence of the traditional exhibitors in the region confirm its leader position and importance.

Exhibit range: Motor vehicles, designers and chassis manufacturers, motorcycles, trailers, petrol and diesel engines, equipment, garage-maintenance and repair equipment, fuels and lubricants, financial institutions and insurance companies, media.

Iron Maiden - Show In Belgrade

Iron Maiden had a great headline show in Belgrade on Wednesday March 14th 2007 as part of a short run of dates in mid March. The venue is the 18,000 capacity Belgrade Fair Indoor Arena.

Like Steve Harris sad: "I'm pretty sure in saying that this will be the first time we've been to Belgrade for just over 20 years back on the Somewhere in Time tour so I'm sure many of our fans in Serbia will be very excited at the news that we're making this visit that some would say is long overdue! As we said a couple of years ago we would try and visit new places and cities where we haven't played for a long time when the opportunity to do so came up and this is just such an occasion. And we are very much looking forward to it".

It was awsome ..... atlast... after 20 years

\m/___(O.O)___\m/

Stop Motion Movie

I have allways think that stop - motion animation is great. Few days ago, I've watch this Tony VS Paul and make me search for some tutorial and I found it at Photojojo. Here it is:

Stop motion or frame-by-frame is a generic general term for an animation technique which makes static objects appear to move. Stop-motion animation is one of the simplest, most fun animation techniques. You can use just about anything in your stop-motion animation, and thanks to digital cameras and computers, creating one is now fun & easy. There are many ways to go about shooting, editing and finalizing a stop-motion. Don't be discouraged by the number of steps! It's much easier than it first appears.

Step 1: Shoot Your Animation

Step 2: Download Your Photos

Step 3: Find Your Photos in iMovie

Step 4: Animate Your Photos

Final Touches: Music and Sharing

more >>

Even amateurs can try stop motion with most ordinary video cameras with a few simple steps:

1. Use a tripod, a chair or something else to secure the camera;

2. Toggle recording modes until you find the appropriate mode;

3. Start shooting clay models, LEGO, action figures, or any other desired object.

Have fun :)

If you are wanna to learn aboute history of stop - motion animations try on Wikipedia

Conquer online

I've been playing Conquer online for a year, I have 2 characters there, FireTao and Archer, with one I play, and other is in market selling stuff. About Conquer online I've heard from my brother, he has started to play and give me the link. It is free to download, free to play.

"In the mythical ancient Kungfu circle, an evil guild has risen in power to dominate the once peaceful world. Living under its terror, a group of courageous men and women has gathered to improve their skills to fight against the evil guild and bring justice back to people's lives. Experience the ancient Chinese Kungfu and magic, enjoy the endless beautiful scenery and mythical environment in which you can develop your own character and interact with other real-life and imaginary beings. This marvelous MMOG (Massively Multi-user Online Game) conquers the hearts of millions of players.
Beautiful 2D artistic backgrounds and advanced 3D effects bring characters and environments to life. Sophisticated equipment system with exotic ancient weapon and customized motions designed for each weapon. A lot of treasured gems are waiting for you to explore, which will grant unimaginable power to its owner."
- taken from Conquer online website

Encoding DVD to MPEG-4 AVI using MEncoder

1. Introduction

MEncoder is a part of MPlayer package, a movie player for Linux that can play most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. MEncoder (MPlayer’s Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, capable of encoding the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer, to all the codecs of FFmpeg’s libavcodec.

more >>

Originally posted by Pantokrator, see complete text and more of related topic.

Magic The Gathering Type 2

T2 is really wide open format, can be so hard to create a deck. My friend Vasa create a B/W splash U deck and give me to test it at the last T2 tournament. Deck list:

4 x Condemn,
4 x Momentary Blink,

3 x Temporal Isolation,

4 x Orzhov Signet,

2 x Azorius Signet,

2 x Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII,

3 x Teysa, Orzhov Scion,
3 x Faith's Fetters,

1 x Return to Dust,

1 x Wrath of God,

2 x Dread Return,

3 x Belfry Spirit,

4 x Skeletal Vampire,

2 x Angel of Despair

10 x Swamp,

7 x Plains,

3 x Azorius Chancery,

2 x Orzhov Basilica,

1 x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth,

1 x Orzhova, the Curch of Deals

Sideboard:

2 x Necrotic Sliver,
1 x Wrath of God,
1 x Stormfront Riders
1 x Phthisis
1 x Exhumer Thrull
1 x Return to Dust,
4 x Mortify,
1 x Faith's Fetters
2 x Ghostway

- First match I had, was against Boros... I won 2:0,

- Second match against B/W deck with Hypnotic Specter, Blind Hunter, Sudden Death, Wrath of God, Last Gasp, Griffin Guide (thats are the cards I've saw) and score was 2:1.. I have lost one because I didn't got mana (4 Lands for 10 turns),

- The next was 1:1 my opponent had very good deck (don't know the name of deck, but he got in it:

4 x Loxodon Hierarch,

4 x Angel of Despair,

4 x Teneb, the Harvester,
4 x Damnation,

4 x Wrath of God,

4 x Wall of Roots,

4 x Farseek,

4 x Persecute

- And then some guy with:

4 x Rakdos Guildmage,

4 x Dark Confidant,

4 x Demonfire,

4 x Rift Bolt,

4 x Shock,

4 x Volcanic Hammer

just run over me ....

Mine conclusion is .... This deck is really good to play, I just have to learn to play :)

© 1995-2007 Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Magic The Gathering

I've been playing Magic The Gathering for some time and the best format to play for me is Booster Draft. Last draft I've made Mono White deck and it was really good, but some guy with Vesuvan Shapeshifter combo deck defited me in the finals... He has one life, and when I didn't manage to remove Vesuvan Shapeshifter from the game, he got control and that was the end. He played Blue,

Black and splash Green ..... and he has:

2 x Vorosh, the Hunter,
1 x Liege of the Pit,
1 x Vesuvan Shapeshifter,
2 x Fathom Seer,
1 x Tolarian Sentinel,
1 x Mystical Teachings,
2 x Skulking Knight,
1 x Strangling Soot,
1 x Feebleness,
1 x Assassinate.....



I had:

2 x Amrou Scout,
2 x Amrou Seekers,
1 x Benalish Cavalry,
1 x Castle Raptors,
1 x Cavalry Master,
2 x Cloudchaser Kestrel,
1 x Pulmonic Sliver,
2 x Sidewinder Sliver,
2 x Watcher Sliver,
1 x Zealot il-Vec,
1 x Gaze of Justice,
1 x Fortify,
1 x Aven Riftwatcher,
1 x Pallid Mycoderm,
1 x Poultice Sliver,
2 x Sinew Sliver,
1 x Riftmarked Knight,
1 x Shade of Trokair,
16 Plains

All cards u can find at Gatherer

© 1995-2007 Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved

World Of Warcraft

Lot of people play World Of Warcraft, and every day we thanks to Blizzard (tm) for creating games like Diablo and WorldOfWarcraft (my favorites), but how seriously and with how much passion you create your character? Try to answer some questions and see what D&D character are you , what class and race best describe you. Try this before creating your character and let me know was this helpful. Take some time and comment this subject here.

Respect, have fun and enjoy WoW TBC (WorldOfWarcraft - TheBurningCrusade)

I'm gonna put some ScreenShots, just to sort them a little :)

And here are some ScreenShots :D

©2007 Blizzard Entertainment. All rights reserved.