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During my recent trip i had the opportunity to visit Mastermind. They are the geniuses behind this Z06 swapped S13. Besides a motor swap it also got a facelift, a front end off a Honda Odyssey. It sure was a sight to behold. If you're looking to import parts from Japan, these are the guys to go to!
All of my Cali pictures can be found in my feature!
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Boss and Davide are the masterminds of the crew!!!
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Update
Davide crossed the Rainbow Bridge on June 25th, 2012 killed by kidney failure.
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Hollow Triumph
Paul Henereid: You’re a bitter little lady.
Joan Bennett: It’s a bitter little world.
Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Planar 1.4 50 ZF.2
Edited in Lightroom.
From People's Square, Shanghai, China.
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During my recent trip i had the opportunity to visit Mastermind. They are the geniuses behind this Z06 swapped S13. It sure was a sight to behold. If you're looking to import parts from Japan, these are the guys to go to!
All of my Cali pictures can be found in my feature!
www.drivenmotive.com/friendships-memories-and-california/...
I haven't been to Mastermind Toys in probably two years and actually bring something home. Their Siku selection is generally miserable at best. But this time around, I had to hold back a bit.
youtu.be/QZqOe5LXu1w1948 Chapter 1 part 1.
youtu.be/bMvDNgfni44 Chapter 1 part 2.
Columbia 15-episode serial, Superman (aka The Adventures of Superman). B-movie hero Kirk Alyn starred in this first live-action Superman serial, that was one of the most successful multi-chapter films ever made.
This serial is mostly a fun ride with a lot of positive factors going for it (but also two or three big drawbacks). We start with a quick rundown of Superman's origin on doomed Krypton, his upbringing by the upright Kents and his arrival as a goofy Clark Kent at the Daily Planet, then most of the story shows him going after the nefarious Spider Lady.
Superman's considerable physical advantages are offset by the villains' clever tricks, the threatening of Lois and Jimmy to distract the Man of Steel and the fortuitous arrival of a Kryptonite meteor right near Metropolis (lucky for the bad guys that it didn't crash unnoticed somewhere in the Outback, eh?). So it's not a five minute serial showing Superman smashing through a few walls and rounding up the crooks.
Kirk Alyn gives an energetic performance as both Superman and Clark Kent (who he plays as distinct personalities). Alyn isn't imposing in the muscular way Tom Tyler was as Captain Marvel, who looked like he could actually slam you across the room. Alyn's Superman is agile as a dancer, light on his feet and grinning delightedly as bullets ricochet of his chest. Noel Neill as Lois Lane has the same likeable qualities she showed on the TV show, although here she looks like she got the Dailey Planet job right after high school; Tommy Bond is a funny looking kid, and his Jimmy is more like a Lower East Side ruffian than the gee whiz youngster we usually find. It's very cool to see Perry White as a hardnosed old-school editor who has no hesitation trading punches with a thug (hard to imagine John Hamilton throwing a few hooks) and who, after being hurled out his office window and barely hanging on, immediately barks that they still have a paper to get out. That's a newspaperman of the classic type.
The Spider Lady herself is a disappointment. For a supposed criminal mastermind, she never seems shrewd or intimidating enough to even be in a gang, much less lead one. Despite the fact she's an impressive blonde in a black gown, she's not using sex appeal as a tool either. Carol Forman seems to be trying to sound tough, but it falls flat. Either she should have gone for the seductive female spy angle, or they should have picked an older actress who could have put some cold menace in her performance. (Her best moments come when posing dramatically in front of the big metal spiderweb she uses to electrocute folks.)
And then there are the flying scenes. Come on, Sam Katzman, spring for a few bucks. Since THE WIZARD OF OZ a decade earlier and the Republic serials with their life-size papier-mache figures, it was shown a convincing flying man could be done. Instead, cheap cartoon animation was used here. Whenever Superman takes off, he's replaced in midframe by a flat unshaded cartoon figure. Once or twice, this seems effective but most of the time, it just slaps the viewer in the face and dares us to believe it. Even worse, as long as they were using this technique, they might as well have shown our hero hurtling through the sky with real momentum and forcefulness; instead, he wavers and sways from side to side as he were about to drop back down.
Too bad. Aside from the dismal flying scenes and a lame mastermind, SUPERMAN is brisk and inventive. The Reducer Ray (which is a long range disintegrator, not something that shrinks objects as you might expect) gives the Spider Lady a little extra leverage. Superman roughing up the thugs is staged with some enthusiasm. They don't even try to break their fists on him, usually making a run for it after bouncing a few bullets at that S symbol, and he flings them all over the place, picking up two at a time and clunking their heads together in a way George Reeves would later emulate.
The creepy-old-man of the Brotherhood of Mutants. Seriously, in Avengers: Origin, he's properly lechy about Scarlet Witch. *shivers*
"A dreamy-eyed child staring into night
On a journey to storyteller's mind
Whispers a wish speaks with the stars the words
Distant sigh from a lonely heart
I'll be with you soon,my Shalafi
Grey Havens my destiny."
[Wishmaster - Nightwish](www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5GWyV05tgM)