Crash Twinsanity: Boss Remakes – Part 2: N. Gin
In the second part of the first boss you fight N. Gin, controlling Mecha Bandicoot. The music is N. Gin’s theme from Crash 2, found here: www.youtube.com Crash Twinsanity: Boss Remakes is a series where the music from bosses in Crash Twinsanity is replaced with the music from their counterparts in the old PS1 Crash games. It was inspired by NoBillsOfCrashDamage’s Crash Nitro Kart series, where he replaces the music with Crash Team Racing music. I decided it was an interesting idea, so I applied it to the bosses in Twinsanity. Here is his channel: www.youtube.com This part looks a little different than the last because it was edited in iMovie rather than Windows Movie Maker, which wasn’t working very well. Unfortunately, that meant I had to transfer the video between computers, then convert it to work in iMovie. I think the converting program squashed it, but at least it takes up the whole video area now rather than a small part of it. The video quality seems worse (though that could be due to it being larger), but I’m still trying to figure out the best options when making these.
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Visit the USGS Multimedia Gallery (gallery.usgs.gov for this video and others. This four minute short movie depicts the hatching of a Mojave Desert Tortoise. This is the continuation of a sixty million year process for this threatened species. One of the surprising moments in the movie is when the hatchling tumbles from its shell and is propped up by its yolk. This is an evolutionary adaptation where the young absorb the yolk over several hours and they then use that nutrition to sustain themselves during the first few months of their lives. This is an especially handy adaptation as the young tortoises hatch in late summer when temperatures can exceed 110 degrees making the search for food especially difficult. The images shown here are part of a larger movie expected to be released by the USGS in November, 2009. That program will depict the USGS research program on the Desert Tortoise and the role of that research in managing desert environments to allow the species to recover and escape the threat of extinction. This movie was produced by the USGS Western Ecological Research Center and USGS Western Region Office of Communications in cooperation with the Las Vegas based Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Nevada Department of Wildlife and the San Diego Zoo.
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