“The elephant is a symbol of Thailand.” Said Tony Jaa of the the fighting style his character uses in The Protector “…I was inspired when I had my own elephants at home. In this movie, I wanted to show the art of the elephant combined with Muay Thai. Any direction that the enemy comes from — whether from the back, side or front — we can always use the elephant gesture to take down the enemy. If the enemy comes from the back, we use the arms as tusks to throw them on the floor, then we use the elephant’s feet to step on them.”
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: This time I’m not kidding
OH HAY GUYZ
Pictured above is the Large Hadron Collider. It is the largest particle accelerator on the planet Earth, and it is about to go online. When activated, the LHC will either:
Create a Strangelet, also known as Anti-Matter to you plebes, causing a chain-reaction when it latches on to normal matter and reducing the Earth to a cloud of hot gas
The North Hollywood shootout, which eventually led to a shootout that claimed the robbers’ lives and left 17 LAPD officers and civilians injured, was modeled after Heat.
