Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Vacation!

'Ello everybody!

As you may be able to tell, Funny little features is a bit dead at the moment due to that fact that all of its members are rocking and partying all night long! In other words, we are resting our tiny heads now that we finally are able to do it, because it is our long-awaited summer vacation!
Sadly it is soon over and school will once again get a grip on all of our brains, but at the same time, we will probably start posting again soon!

We hope you can bare with us for a little longer! Love yooou.

Shia

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Creepypasta Recommended #3

Hello everyone!

I apologise many times for the four day late post from me on Funny little features. I have been to Norway visiting a friend of mine, and I only just came home yesterday which is the reason for the missing post.
As I haven't actually been able to find some really good stuff to talk about, I will be continuing my Creepypasta list which makes this the second part!

First part is here: Creepypasta Recommended #2

Because of how long the stories were in the last Creepypasta Recommended post, I had some issues which made it impossible to actually read them, and it took me quite a while to fix the problem. Therefore the creepypastas will be shorter in this post so I won't have to do everthing over again as I did last time - and shorter stories means that lazy people can read them too ;)






That's all for today! I hope you enjoyed the creepypastas! I sure did when I read them the first time!

Shia

Monday, July 15, 2013

Plans for the Summer

As I am writing this it is not Monday but Wednesday - why you may ask? Because I'll be in Greece Monday and I'm beyond excited, even though I've just returned from Roskilde festival and I'm a bit bombed; psychically and emotionally but it's all good and my spirit is high so whatever.

Roskilde festival and Greece are not the only places I'm going to have been this summer, because I am actually going to London as well! I know right! Can't believe it either. Me and my wonderful friend Susannah from the Netherlands are going to meet up there in the end of July/start of August and then we're going to watch musicals en masse. I can't describe how excited I actually am for this trip - it has been something I've wanted to do for quite some time and now it's happening!! Only 20 days left!

We've already bought tickets for Les Misérables, Wicked and Phantom of the Opera and especially the last two ones are those that make me toss and turn of excitement in the night. I am 100% sure I am going to shed a tear or thousand when I'm sitting there in theatre watching what I've been dreaming of watching since... I don't know... It feels like it has been forever.

Those are not the only shows we are going to watch though, because we are planning on queuing for a few other shows as well in the morning when the ticket office opens to see if we can get some cheap tickets for them - and I really hope we can get some for Once and Matilda, because I just want to watch them so bad even though they're a bit expensive.

Even though my summer is a bit packed I don't really mind because it's all great things happening and I don't know whether to cry or smile of happiness. I guess both is good? ;) I hope you have an amazing summer as well and I'll see you next week - if I don't forget it, that is. Sorry for not posting an entry last week - I'll make it up for ya!

Susannah and I as Phantom and Christine ;)

Lovelovelove,
Rebecca

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Sorø Regatta

Last weekend was crazy. We went to a regatta which means lots of hard work and waking up way too early. So didn't have time to write  my entry last Saturday - Sorry! I do think if I tell you a  bit about my weekend, you might better understand, why I had no time at all at hand.

This is what happened:

Thursday: Training and afterwards packing the boats. I'm still not quite familiar with the routine so it took a looong time.

Friday: in the afternoon we drove to Sorø (a danish city where the regatta was held) to unpack the boat trailer and try the water. Very confusing and challenging because my club isn't the only one who thinks it is a good idea to row on the lake before the actual race. So many, many boats! Also, the first thing I did after I began training was to row directly into some willow, right in front of every body. Embarrassing... I got home from Sorø at 9.30 in the evening, made a huge lunch pack and went straight to bed.

Picture: Peter Skafte, www.rofotos.dk
Saturday: Woke up at 5 p.m - yep, no kidding there, I seriously woke up so early. Left my house at 6 o'clock, arrived in Sorø at 7 p.m where I had to wait two hours for my race to begin. I was so nervous I thought I was going to puke. And the race was absolute crab. So basically I woke up when the sun rose just to get my arse kicked viciously four hours later. Great day... And I didn't get home until late in the afternoon, so just yay, yay, yay. Went to bed at 8 a.m, I was so tired.

Sunday: Believe it or not, Sunday I woke up even earlier, at 4.50 p.m. Left my house at half past five, arrived in Sorø half past 6 and rowed my race twenty minutes to eight. In the goddamn morning. To. Fucking. Early. But I did way better this day, even though I didn't qualify for the finals. For the next 8 hours I just wandered around doing nothing until it was time to pack things up and go home. All in all I was home at 8 o'clock in the evening. Totally wasted, with a huge minus on my sleep account but happy. All in all it was a very good experience :)


I am already looking forward to my next regatta in a month,which is even combined with a little training camp. I'll keep you guys updated!

Love as always
Christine

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Run!

'Sup!

Yesterday i went on a gamesite to play a coop flash game with my cousin, and to the right in the game recommendations was a game that I hold very dear to my heart. If I have any sort of brain damage or the kind, it is most definitely because of that game.
So of course I had to play a bit of the game after I was done playing with my cousin - and today I have also been playing for some time.

 
The game is a simple flash runner game with the fitting name "Run", where you have to control a little cute grey alien-ish figure. You use the left and right keys to control your movement and use space to jump - as it is in most other flash games. In the game you pretty much have to keep yourself on the platforms without falling off which is indeed very simple. The cool twist in the game is that you can turn the 'screen' around by walking to one of the sides which gives off this 3-dimensional feeling.

Find the game here: Run

I used to play this game a while back, 3-4 years ago, and I found it very hard, but at the same time fun. I used to play it for hours everyday, so it should be fair to say that I was quite the addict. As I played it today, I didn't find it that hard - I made it to level 40 in a short amount of time. I probably still got it in me from all those hours of practise years ago ;)
I have looked through the comments though, and there are various opinions on the difficulty of the game, but if I have to say anything, it is that even though a level can be hard, it isn't impossible. There are routes that are easier than others, and after a few tries on a level, you will surely be able to figure out a good route.
I agree with many other players of the game that the respawn time is almost 'God-ish', since there is no retry screen, no long pause or anything after you fall off and die. You just respawn where the level starts, and if you're not ready, the little guy will just fall off the edge, and *plop* he's back at the beginning, and you can start again! Fast respawn time everyone!
The game isn't too fancy, as I have mentioned before, it is very simple. But to me that simpleness is what I like about the games - yes at some websites there are upgrades, but if you keep away from registering on any websites, you will pretty much be seeing nothing but a grey guy jumping on colorful platforms.


As I googled the game, I found out that there has been made a "Run 2" game, where you can choose between two kind of 'aliens' - the runner and the skater, and the sequal of the game really took a hold of the 3-dimensional look. I can't review the game much though, since I haven't actually played that much of it.

Find the game here: Run 2
 
Game credits: Programming by Joseph Cloutier, Animation and Art by Alex Ostroff. 
That was all for today!

Shia

Friday, July 5, 2013

Sound of Friday pt. III


This weeks post will be a short one, because of the Roskilde Festival going on right now!!
So you will get some of my "Sound of Friday". Please enjoy!

1. The Old School:  Chinese Man – I’ve Got That Tune


2. The Legendary: Lana del Rey – National Anthem



3. The Electronic: SBTRKT – Wildfire


4. The Soundtrack: Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack – All Is Love


5. The Hip Hop: Rizzle Kicks – Mama Do The Hump




Freja

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Game Parody Videos

Helloo!

So since I have had litterally no time to write today (mostly because I spent most of the day enjoying life with Chris(Sunday) watching Man of Steel, which I must say was very.. different than what I expected -cough- Aliens -cough-), I won't be able to write about something very interesting.
Therefore I figured I would use my secret weapon today! Game parody videos! Unfortunatly I haven't found that many parody videoes yet, so you will have to live with the very little variety in games that the videos are based on.

Game parodies:
 

 
Youtuber: Dan Bull
Game: Bioshock Infinite  
Extra:
I review this game in an earlier post here.
 

 
Youtuber: Peter Coffin
Game: Bioshock Infinite
 

 
Youtuber: BlahBlahBlahGaming
Game: Minecraft
Extra:
This song is about the ever-so-famous Herobrine, and I have written about a few Herobrine maps for Minecraft in an earlier post. You can read it here!
 
 

 
Youtuber: Bebop Vox
Game: Minecraft
Song: Last Friday Night - Katy Perry
Extra:
This song fits me so much. The night in Minecraft is very very scary.
 

 
Youtuber: CaptainSparklez
Game: Minecraft
Song: Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Extra:
I have cried several times to this video. Yes, I'm not even kidding - this is some sad shit!
 

 
Youtuber: Tobuscus
Game: Dead Island Riptide
Extra:
I really enjoy this song - even if it's a parody, I find the song extremely beautiful!
 

 
Youtuber: Smosh
Game: Assassins Creed III
 

 
Youtuber: TheWarpZone
Game: Halo 4
 
Shia

Monday, July 1, 2013

Once

Today I want to talk about an absolute wonderful movie I watched a couple of months ago. I was having a kind of bad day and was in need of something to make me forget everything. And this movie certainly helped, even though I was weeping like a baby in the end. Not because it's that sad, but because it's an extremely well written and such a beautiful story.

I'm talking about the movie Once.



Set in Dublin it revolves around a Guy busting in the street and a Girl, who is a Czech immigrant who randomly meets. It is a story of friendship, love and the special bond music can create between people. 

I absolutely love everything about it; from the low-budget filming (which only adds its own charm!) to how natural and real Markéta Irglóva's and Glen Hansard's portrayals of the Guy and Girl is. It is such a real movie that really captures life with it's "raw" pictures and how unexpected it can turn out. Once really proves that as long as you have a story to tell, you do not need a lot of money or the most high-tech equipment. As long as you have your heart in it and makes the best of what you have in hand it'll work! 



The movie has a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack composed by Irglóva and Hansard and the song Falling Slowly actually won an Oscar. Don't fret when I'm mentioning it's a musical though, because it is so well made and the song just fits that it never seems very musical like. It is just a part of the story, just like the music is a part of the Guy and Girl lives.

I am a very, very big fan of it and I hope other people will give it a chance as well. It really deserves it.



Hope you have a brillant next week and happy July 1st!