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It’s made by Show Hauler. It sleeps 8 and has 3 air conditioners in the RV for warm season RVing. This motorcoach has 4 slide outs. From what I’ve seen, these coaches can be bought made or adapted to your vehicle, and usually they start with 2 slides. These slides can double the interior space of an RV unit (when you have one on each side, generally).

One of the things about this luxury motorcoach is its higher than typical GVWR. It has a heavy duty truck chassis. This means it has a higher than typical carrying capacity. Wind is also less of a concern –highway crosswinds and oncoming traffic gusts — because the road handling is less affected with the GVWR and chassis.

As for the interiors, these can be customized. They have multiple rooms. Some of them have car garages, or the RV tows a trailer that is a car garage. The builders of these units seem to show a lot of units that feature leather couches, wood floors, fridges, stoves, offices, large beds, shelves and cupboards, bunk beds, ceiling lights, and all the conveniences you typically see in RV conversion units.

Top 5 Horror Movies of All Time

“Top 5 Horror Movies” is a part of an ongoing series, The B-Roll, written by Alex Reid

Horror movies tap into something primal that we just can’t quite describe. What sane person would want to be scared? Turns out almost everyone. It’s the exact same reason why you would go on a roller-coaster. The thrill and the adrenaline are intoxicating and keep you coming back for more. Horror movies have been a part of the cinematic world for some time tapping into the very same basic instinct a roller-coaster does. These are the best roller-coaster experiences of the horror genre, some you might expect, some you mightn’t.

5. Rosemary’s Baby

As a species we are inherently religious and from religion comes some of our greatest fears. What if your child turned out to be the spawn of Satan himself? “Rosemary’s Baby” explores the concept in great depth pulling us in with cramped cinematography and haunting imagery to boot.

4. Nosferatu

The absolute classic of the horror genre. Although not technically the first horror movie ever made, as a part of the German New Wave post-WW1, Nosferatu holds up remarkably well to this day using nightmarish sets and lighting to highlight what isn’t actually being shown on screen. F.W. Murnau meticulously manipulates our focus, the real danger lurking just off screen.

3. Jaw

Jaws is the film that created the modern blockbuster as we know it. Most great horror tries to exploit a common phobia, Jaws is solely responsible for creating a phobia, an accolade that hardly any horror movies can claim for themselves. Classic Hitchcockian shots to create disorientation beside a threat that is never clear result in a film that is still terrifying to this day.

2. The Exorcist

The church tried to burn it, parents around the world condemned it hand in hand as the product of the Devil himself and it lived in infamy among kids growing up after it’s release. The Exorcist remains to be one of the most shocking films of all time taking every taboo that we hold dear and shattering it around our heads. It’s memorable to say the least.

 

1. The Shining

Kubrick is the master of all he touches. The War film in “Paths of Glory”, the Sci-Fi in “2001: A Space Odyssey”, but The Shining is perhaps his crowning achievement. Jack Nicholson lets loose a truly legendary performance truly showing the depths of insanity. The Shining is an exercise in perfection, to such an extent that almost every single shot of the film contains the colour red. That’s dedication to the aesthetic.

Guinness Record Largest Motorhome

This RV, a German big bus-RV, is the biggest motorhome in the Guinness Book.

The “Derbus” RV was awarded the largest motorhome record in 1997 (not sure if it has been supered by another since then. If you know, let us know!).

This is a big RV. Looking at it, everything looks big. Big windshield, but upper windshield, big side windows, lots of upper windows.

The interior has a rounded feel. The upper floor especially is dome-like-shaped — the curved walls and curved windows continue into a rounded ceiling and skylights. There is plenty of seating and living area. And the rounded design continues into the interior, with rounded cushion benches. And it reportedly has a roof terrace.

The washroom is tiled and mostly white, with some light wood color on the counter and a few other spots. White tiles on the walls and shower area.

There’s a bar downstairs and a projection screen, sound equipment, some black leather curved benches and some upright seats.

It seems this motorhome gets used for events, like bike events and things. Seems to be available for rent, in Germany anyway. It’s like a travelling exhibition, according to reports, and can be used for PR or getting attention.

The price for this big bus motorhome is written to be around $600,000 Euros (around $680,000 US dollars).

Yes, It’s A Real Truck. A 1948 Chevy 3800 COE Customized With Trailer

One of the most unique and interesting custom trucks you will see today, maybe, this 1948 Chevy 3800 COE with a custom trailer was last known to be in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pink and yellow in color, it also has a bunch of comforts on the interior. Now don’t expect to see this in your neighbourhood Chevy Showrooms, but it’s certainly worth keeping an eye out for if you’re in the Vegas area.

There’s a kitchen, bathroom, sleeping room, and room to haul an extra car, according to the owners.

The trailer length is “estimated at 42-44 feet,” and the engine is a 10 Cylinder 502 cubic inch big block. It has an automatic transmission. Although in another place it says it has an 8 cylinder.

Other features of the inside of this custom big rig and trailer:
Satellite dish
Sleeps 6 In the Trailer
Fridge and Freezer
Whole Shower
Air Conditioning
In Floor Safe Toilet, Sink
Sleeper cab has AC – trailer 2 AC units
Sleep 2 People right Behind the Drivers Cab

Vehicle details:
Power Steering
Power Windows
Premium Tires
Premium Wheels
Premium Interior
Tilt Wheel
AC: Front
AC Rear
CD Player Single
Premium Paint

As I wrote, this unit was in Las Vegas last and it was for sale. The asking price for this pink and yellow custom machine and its matching trailer was listed as $76,500.

 

Shined Up Cabover

What we have here is stainless steel panels. Polished stainless steel panels. Looks like a lot of chrome. The owner, Canadian Philip Langevin, replaced all the panels with this.

The customization of this Freightliner took 3 months. As you see it (though I don’t know if it still looks like this, customizations change a lot, it seems) this 1980 big rig has a dual stainless steel air intake system, suicide doors, which Langevin, who undertook this first customization of a first-rate rig for himself, mounted with airplane door hinges. It also has a 244-inch wheelbase, a full-length smooth deck plate, WTI fenders, and other custom features selected by Langevin.

The semi and the owner are out of Carleton Place, Ontario, and the shop is Valley Custom Trucks. Reportedly, all the trucks from PA. Langevin (PAL) Transport are decked out.

The truck as you see it was entered in the 2nd Annual Big-Rig Build-Off at the 35th Annual Mid-American Trucking Show (MATS) that took place in March, 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky, which was notable for breaking a ton of truck show records, including attendance (over 80,000 from all 50 US states and 59 countries were there).

This 1980 Freightliner cabover didn’t take a first at the event, though. That award went to a 1998 Peterbilt by Adrian Rocamontes from Texas. A truck called “Sledgehammer.”

From what I can find online, the version of this cabover with the motorhome added to it was taken by Sean Repka. Mr. Repka, if you see this let us know. What does that thing look like inside?

Super Mario Maker: Adventures In Customization!

Arguably one of the best features to include in a video game is the ability to create your own levels. As a gamer I thoroughly enjoy having to create my own levels so that I can test myself in game design. Experimenting with customization is a surefire way of attracting the attention of gamers, and in most cases, keeping their attention throughout the process. In addition to this, it gives you more control over the game, which some people appreciate. This example is shown through Diablo II, and how people visit the unique d2 store design to purchase items that accentuate the game which in turn gives them more control over how the game runs. However, being able to create your own levels is a new and bigger amount of freedom for gamers.

Super Mario Maker was recently released for the Nintendo Wii U and the glowing reviews of this game have rushed in like a raging river. This Mario game happened to be one of the things that gamers have been looking for, and it included many things about the Super Mario franchise that we have come to know and love through the years. If you want your level setting to take on the look of Super Mario Bros. 3, for example, then you have that option in Super Mario Maker. If you want to go really retro and have an original Super Mario Bros. look to your level, then you can do that too. Creating levels in Super Mario Maker is exactly as it sounds. You are creating your own Super Mario adventure by placing platforms, enemies and power-ups wherever you like!

There is pretty much no limit as to what you can do with your custom levels. You can be conservative and throw in just a few things to keep your straightforward, or you can go all out, stack enemies on top of each other, create big gaps between platforms, create a maze full of blocks, and put in an abundance of power-ups.

Super Mario Maker is one way of allowing passionate Mario fans to express their creativity and show other gamers how they would design a single level. Some custom levels are made just right on the first try while other levels need a few rounds of editing before they hit the spot. I believe this was Nintendo’s way of acknowledging that a good chunk of their fan base are talented individuals who can create some interesting content with level creating tools like Super Mario Maker’s.

I have watched some YouTube videos of some fans creating their own Super Mario levels using Super Mario Maker, and I have to say that I’m very impressed with some of the designs and layouts that are being thrown out there. Many gamers are being imaginative and some are definitely being methodical when placing certain elements of a level in certain spots. When it comes to putting in secrets such as invisible coin blocks, this is where the art of discovery is interpreted differently in one sense. If you are desperately looking for a green 1-up mushroom to keep playing, you will have a tendency to jump all over the place and you will hit the blocks that you can see. However, if you find that 1-up mushroom by hitting an invisible block, then it makes that moment of discovery satisfying.

Overall Super Mario Maker looks like a big hit with gamers all across the board and if you are into customization, you might want to consider picking it up!

Can You Name this Beautiful, Historical Boat?

Marked by many as one of the most beautiful boats made, and a part of sailing history, this is the Pen Duick I, and its design has origins over 100 years ago.

Pen Duick yachts are still sailed — and raced. They’re known as ocean racing yachts from the 1960s and 1970s. They were built for French yachtsman Éric Tabarly, and he had a hand in each design. There are six Pen Duicks, and they all race except the Pen Duick IV, rechristened as “Manureva”, which was lost when she and her owner sank in 1978.

The origins of the Pen Duick date back over a century. The 36ft linear rater Pen Duick (formerly Yum) was designed by William Fife III and built in Cork Harbour, Ireland for Cork yachtsman W. J. C. Cummins. The Yum was a successful racer in Ireland, England and France.

Tabarly’s father the bought Yum when Éric was seven, and Eric learned to sail on her. She was offered for sale after World War II, but no one took her, and Éric convinced his father to give him the boat.

Eric rebuilt the boat to preserve her. Years after taking ownership, he was told Pen Duick’s wooden hull was rotten, and being unable to hire a yard to salvage her, he undertook the work himself, making a mold to build her a new polyester hull: It was the largest of its kind at the time. Eric refitted the Pen Duick entirely, with a loftier rig for the southern climes. In the night of June 12 to 13 1998, Éric Tabarly, then aged 66, a spar threw the sailor overboard and he was lost in the Irish Sea, while sailing the hundred-year-old cutter en route to the Fife Regatta in Largs, Scotland. His body was recovered by the trawler An Yvidig.

While these boats all have beautiful boat design and unique looks, that full, rounded keel is only on the Pen Duick, the first one, which was before the Yum.

Pen Duick, former Yum

Architect: William Fife III
Manufacturer: N & J Cummins and Bros
Launching: 1898 Carrigaloe (Ireland)
Hull length: 15,10 m
Waterline: 10.04 m
Master beam: 2.93 m
Draft: 2.15 m
Displacement: 10 000 kg
Lest 6 000 kg
Near surface: 160 m²

Buy this $40 Million Yacht to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

You’ve been there before. You want to sail your $40 million yacht, but you’re worried that using it will increase your carbon footprint. Among the solutions designers have come up with after investing time and effort is this “fuel-sipping schooner.” It’s called the “Monaco Yacht.”

It’s also called the Emax E-Volution solar hybrid schooner, designed by Souter Carbon Offset Design, and it has several power sources: wind, sun, twin engines (which run on marine diesel).

Using the two non-fossil fuel power sources, the yacht can reach 14 knots maximum. With the engines, it reaches 28 knots, according to the designers.

They are making or trying to make this ship. Sauter is partnering with Ned Ship Group of Switzerland, and the estimate is over $40 million.

There will be options, it seems, when you go to buy your “Monaco Yacht.”

“It depends on what the owner is thinking about to put on the yacht,” Ned Ship spokesman Egon Faiss said, as was reported by Wired. “We from our side recommend to go as lightweight as possible, because this is in the beginning the most important step to go the economical way.”

Wired reported the boats amenities would include:

6 guest cabins and 1 master suite

Outdoor cinema

Coat check room

Sun deck

Outdoor sunbeds

Outdoor bars

Pool

 

Wine storage area

Waste recovery system on refrigerator (walk in one)

Wire reported that all of those amenities could be powered by the solar panels embedded into the boats surface carbon fiber. Also, energy is reused, like the waste recovery system on the fridge, it heats the Jacuzzi water in the master bedroom.

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