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Still Life by Muzzle Flash Media. (click to enlarge)

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USMC Portrait Pictures by Louie Palu – GREAT STUFF!

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Louie Palu ~ Garmsir Marines, Afghanistan
20” x 24” (50cm x 60cm) Silver Gelatin, Bromide Prints
From a series of 15 portraits
Artist proofs from from an edition of 25

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Louie Palu is a documentary photographer whose work has appeared in numerous publications, festivals and exhibitions internationally, which includes the photojournalism festival Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France, New York Photo Festival and Baltimore Museum of Art.

Palu is the recipient of numerous accolades including a National Magazine Award, Hearst Photography Biennial, Photojournalist of the Year, Hasselblad Master Award, Alexia Foundation Documentary Photography Grant and is currently working on a 2011 Bernard Schwartz Fellowship for a study of the U.S./Mexico border.

Palu’s work has been commissioned for, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time magazine, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Paris Match, BBC, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Sunday Times Magazine and many others.

Louie Palu’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Library and Archives of Canada, Portland Art Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography and George Eastman House International Museum of Film and Photography.

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Check out his amazing work and especially the  Afghanistan-The-Void-of-War gallery, too! Fresh stuff!

DIY – Labels, Sheets, Stickers #1

How much time do we actually spend on BB battle fields or participate in living history, crazy cos-play or terrific milsim events when it comes down to our hobby? 20 Percent? 10 percent? Or even less?

Most of our hobby we do at home, thinking about new pouches, MOLLE-gear layouts, soldiering batteries, dusting blasters, digging Ebay or do in-depth research.

Everybody is looking for amazing Do-It-Yourself projects that turn boring evenings into satisfying happenings. But these days are rare! It`s not a complete paintjob on a (new) gun that make us cum (we crazy Krylon wankers!) only, often little projects become big fun to do and elevate impressions to another level.

So how about some stickers`n`sheets (in EXCEL format) to start a new DIY project and/or pimp your existing gear?

Perhaps you thought about doing a signal flare from scratch? Do you need some stickers?
Here you go: M126A1 Sticker

Or how about some new or better stickers for your old MBITR shell?
Try this folks: PRC148 Sticker and PRC148 Battery Sticker!

Or some new ones for your MK141 ???

How about pimping your Chinese Bucket? MICH Helmet Sticker

Feel free to alter my Excel sheets to your liking and try various printer settings to get proper results! Happy pimping!

There will be more sticky stuff, soon! Stay tuned!

Brilliant WW2 Animation Movie: Paths Of Hate

If you`ll know and love “The Cockpit” from Matsumoto (1993), then this will be for you: PATHS OF HATE – a new short animation movie directed by Damian Nenow, produced by Platige Image. 100% DOPE!

Damian Nenow – a graduate of the National Academy of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz. His first year film, THE AIM (2005), received a special award at the festival “ReAnimacja”in Lodz, and first prize at the festival “Under 21 years ” in Tarnow. Realized in the second year of study film The Great Escape was displayed at many international film festivals.

Specialist in many areas related to computer graphics. Creator of short animated films, illustrations and concepts. Currently working in the studio Platige Image, where he is directing, animation, editing and wider 3D graphics.

“Paths of Hate” is an audiovisual project in the truest sense. Nenow creates his films from the very beginning, assuming that music and sound is no less than half the final result. However, what made the film music for this animation is quite a surprise even for the artist: I never expected it to rise to my film fully worthy rock hit – Damian Nenow.

Picture of the month: “Marines – The Few. The Proud.”

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First Game This Year…

Last weekend I managed to start my BB season 2012. It was a beautiful (summer) day, tons of sun and very warm (28°C). My loadout of that day was a very wildstyle and simple one, an *I don`t care – no impression fashion* mix. I was more interested if all my blasters (+repairs and mods) were working properly, so I decided to focus more on the technical side of Airsoft that day .

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All in all it was an amazing day. It was big fun and a good thing to leave the stinky city again.

Due to the risk of avalanches caused by the ongoing snowmelt, we played on different parts of the regular area. These games turned out to be interesting ones, because everybody was new to that playing ground and almost no charge-/rapid movements were seen. Everybody was watching, studying, thinking and analyzing the area, looking for advantages and/or better shooting positions. Our splendid view:

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To get a better understanding of the area, let`s turn left and take a look:

And a bit below some shooting takes place (do you see some players?):

If we`d turn 180 degrees now, it`ll be look like this:

In the background you`ll see a small river that we are going to cross now! On the other side we faced a completely different area. I call it the WW1 Trenches area.

Let us step down to get a better idea:

Another ingame picture with my M1 PENCIL BLOG man, kicking the ugly, bad guys outta da fokkin wet trenchez  – fierce CQB at it`s finest (I love my mesh-mask)!

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I had a great day! Everything worked out fine and I still feel some muscles aching (that`s the price for being a lazy (fuck sports) desk worker… hahahaha! )