International Children's Day

International Children's Day

June 1, 2015 in the World

Make your children happy! Kids are our future! 

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Killer Cars in Mad Max: Hold Your Breath and Enjoy!

Recently the world has been presented with the next chapter in Mad Max movies franchise – a new film “Mad Max: Fury Road” and it's been a splash of action and car races for life!

This movie shows us a post-Apocalyptic world, full of risky adventures, dangerous people and quite possibly the most explosive, adrenaline-fueled car chases of late!

The movie opens with an extremely high-speed chase into the desert as Max (Tom Hardy) strives to escape a band of crazy white-painted War Boys hunting his Interceptor coupe. The next two hours you will spend glued to the screen fascinated by the non-stop insane car races, high speed chases and constant tension for the events will never stop evolving, dragging you more into this mad world of post-Apocalyptic future.

The cars in Mad Max are absolutely gorgeous and we can say that they alone could make the movie a hit, as they're so unique and totally awesome! We can give our thanks to Colin Gibson, who was responsible for creating these beasts, these pearls of automotive industry. The cars totally have personalities of their own and give an impression about their owner, too. Cars in this post-Apocalyptic desert wasteland are viewed as your weapons and your god.

“No one taught me about cars,” Gibson shares. “But I knew I wanted to find things that were beautiful. No matter how horrific the circumstance that doesn’t mean you aren’t trying to create something beautiful. We just wanted to find something iconic, something worth salvaging.”

The cars in the movie are all about surviving in hard desert conditions of the new world and it's hard conditions, so you will not find nothing fancy here – only hard-to-kill metallic beasts. Gibson points out: “Let’s be honest,” he says. “Nobody is going to schlep a Camry halfway across the desert.” So all the cars in the movie are vintage and that adds to the stunning appearance and looks most impressive.

For the main story line, Gibson created 88 final cars, each with its own story and team of mechanics.

“There were cars that would only drive in reverse, and some had to snap in half,” Gibson says. Many of the wide-range shots were filmed with helicopters and drones at up to 100 kilometers (62 miles) per hour. All the stunts were real.

“The camera department was terrified,” he says. “When you have 80 cars flying at 80-km per hour, occasionally you have some that don’t keep up. We destroyed more than half of those in the actual making of the film.”

But, due o the professionalism of the team and the their agility there are no injuries to report about during the film-making process, save from some occasional bruises: “We had a lot of chapped lips,” Gibson says, laughing. “I made the mistake of not putting in windscreens.”

Mad Max's Interceptor

Max still drives his black 1974 XB Ford Falcon Coupe made famous in the first films. It looks as impressive as ever and even gets some new devices to improve speed and power, like a massive new engine, new chassis, it also gets buffing to a matte silver.

Furiosa's War Rig

It's driven by bionic-armed Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and they both make for a spectacular sight. The car is a Czechoslovakian Tatra and Chevy Fleetmaster fused together into a six-wheel-drive 18-wheeler powered with twin V8 engines, also possessing a long, bulky fuel tank and a fuel pod trailer hanging off the end. Welded to the hull are Volkswagen Beetle and Track cabin shells that are like mobile forts for the War Boys to hang onto during supply runs and battle missions. The rig also has racks of tools and concealed weapons along its entire body, along with such details as a wirework steering wheel affixed with a skull, all very impressive.

“I don’t think there’s anything Charlize couldn’t do,” Gibson says. “She didn’t always have to be responsible for driving it, particularly when it was going over 80 km per hour, but she most certainly did drive it.”

The People Eater's Mercedes Limousine

The perfect car for Gas Town's fat bureaucrat is a stretch Mercedes limo with lattice cut windows. It all tells about excess in everything. The People Eater has mounted dozens of fancy car grills on his car that depict everyone he has consumed.

Immortan Joe's Gigahorse

Joe’s car is made of two 1959 Cadillac Devilles split, widened, and mounted with jacked-up fins along the side and rears. It's a car made for a tyrant. The car boasts a custom gearbox, with two V16 engines and two-meter-high double-wide wheels. It also has a whaler's harpoon and a flamethrower along the rear.

Gibson says the tail of the 1959 Cadillac stood out to him as something exceptionally beautiful and worth salvaging. “In a world where nobody had one of anything, it seemed a fait accompli that he would have a pair of 1959 coupe DeVilles,” Gibson says. “We spent two months making them operational.”

Doof Warrior's Doof Wagon

This is possibly the most crazy and insane motor of them all. Warner Brothers calls it a “sonic carmageddon,” which describe it well enough. It sports speaker-stacked, guitar-thrashed monstrosity style, meant to rally the troops in the way drummers marched with soldiers in ancient battles. Possesses a supercharged V8 engine with a mobile stage, a wall of speakers and sub-woofers, and air conditioning ducts meant to drive home the beat of the accompanying Taiko drummers.

The Buzzard Tribe's Spiked Jalopies and the Buzzard Excavator

Again, no spoilers, but these tribes drive things that would crush, puncture, and tear, and tunnel underground. The Buzzard Excavator was built from a M.A.N. 6X6 tractor and has 1,757 steel spikes all over its body.

Nux's Chevrolet Coupe

War Boy owns a hot car: a Chevy 5-door coupe with a super-turbocharged, nitrous-boosted, steel coil, V8 engine. The whole thing shows off canted wheels and swooping exhaust pipes. It even has details of things Nux picked up in his short life, such as a doll-face steering wheel.

“Because he was a young man, he was screaming out for a young man’s hot rod,” Gibson says. “The '32 Deuce coupe is the perfect little hot rod to drive to Valhalla—everything we did to that car was to fetishize it.”

Rictus Erectus's Bigfoot

The slow-brained son of the Warlord himself drives a 1940s-era Fargo truck equipped with a harpoon, a belt-driven machine gun, and a supercharged V8 engine. The 66-inch, all-terrain tires and heavy axles are taken from a military supertanker.

The Bullet Farmer's Valiant Tank

The Bullet Farmer drives a 1970s-era Valiant Chassis welded to the body of a US Ripsaw Tank sardonically named "the Peacemaker." It has a machine gun, tank treads, and a torpedo slated over a water-cooled Merlin V8 engine. It also has mounted aviation parts, a sharp mouth of bullets, and a huge armory behind.

The Rock Riders' Yamaha Motorcycles

The rock riders appear in the movies driving Gas Gas and Yamaha motorcycles made with supercharged weaponized caltrops.

War Boys' Claw Cars and the Ploughboy

The Ploughboy is an EH wagon jacked onto an off-road frame and then rigged with harpoons and hydraulic ploughs, a total destruction machine.

“We had dozens of professional drivers make these cars work—they made the cars sing,” Gibson says. “But of course, you do lose some along the way. It’s the nature of war.”

And for the dessert, the video of the official trailer to get a better view of these beauties in motion. 

Acne Transformation- How to cover Acne

There are lots of people who are suffering from the skin imperfections and feel down having those marks on the skin. In this video you will see useful tips on using your makeup, the beauty products that can be acquired to cover up the acne signs on your face and make your skin look great! 

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Happy Mother’s Day from Export Portal!

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
– Sophia Loren

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Happy May Day!

Makeup Trends Throughout History - See How Much Has Changed In Beauty Standards

We all know that make up has never been out of fashion through the centuries. It's just the styles have been so different in every culture and era that it's fascinating to see the transformation in a woman it can make when applied.

Women have been wearing makeup throughout most of history. Beauty trends obviously come and go but leave us something to admire and use ourselves if we're attentive.

Here's a video showcasing makeup trends throughout history, from ancient Egypt to the modern era. It’s very interesting to see which cultures and which eras favored heavy makeup. Probably closest to modern era beauty are Ancient Greek and Victorian Era beauty standards, which favored more a more natural look.

  

ITALY’S FOOD AND BEVERAGES EXPORTS UP

Italian food exports reached record high in 2014,  according to Italy’s agricultural producers association. The article lists some of the most famous Italy’s food export successes:

Cheese exports – especially the exports of parmigiano reggiano and grana. Italy represents one the most important players in the dairy industry. The national production combines tradition, top-quality and volumes. Last year Italy exported 321.989 tons of cheeses, confirming a positive balance of trade for dairy products. These figures confirm the quality and the reputation of Italian cheese production, that offers the world a great variety of traditional cheese. All these cheeses are unique in their nutritional characteristic and processing technique.

Wine Exports – it is a well-known fact that Italy produces great wines. The country’s rich and diverse wine heritage dates back more than two thousand years. It is rivaled in this regard only by France and Spain.

Olive oil exports – The ancient Greek poet Homer referred olive oil as “liquid gold”. Not surprisingly, considering the fact that olive oil has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet for centuries. Italy is considered one of the primary producers of olive oil. The country was also the most award-winning nation at the international competition in New York, winning 87 awards.

Pasta exports – Italy is famous for pasta. Pasta is integral part of Italy’s food history. Unlike other famous products like tomato sauce and pizza, which have a fairly recent history, pasta has a much older pedigree, dating back thousands of years.

Italian beer – Beer is booming in Italy. The country brews some excellent and interesting beers which have been gaining popularity abroad due to the Italian’s dedication to their craft and their expertise.

The Future?

A great number of countries around the world represent potential markets for foodstuffs “made in Italy’. For instance, the dried version of pasta, with its long life should be easy to export all over the world.

Then there are many emerging and developing markets. China, Africa, Brazil, and India are expected to come on stream soon.

Italy’s food industry is very healthy and it has all the chances to become a major driver in Italy’s economic recovery.