Cocktails top 5

Not that I want to encourage anybody to drink alcohol... but in case you do it anyway, here's some ideas.

5. Gin and Tonic
Ingredients:
Gin
Tonic Water
Lime
Quantities for one drink:
2 oz Gin
5 oz Tonic Water
1 Lime Wedge
Blending Instructions:
Pour the gin and the tonic water into a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes
Stir well
Garnish with the lime wedge

4. Tom Collins
Ingredients:
Gin
Lemon Juice
Sugar
Club Soda
Maraschino Cherry
Orange
Quantities for one drink:
2 oz Gin
1 oz Lemon Juice
1 tsp Superfine Sugar
3 oz Club Soda
1 Maraschino Cherry
1 Orange Slice
Blending Instructions:
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin, lemon juice, and sugar
Shake well
Strain into a collins glass alomst filled with ice cubes
Add the club soda
Stir and garnish with the cherry and the orange slice

3. Cuba Libre
Ingredients:
Light Rum
Lime
Coca-Cola
Quantities for one drink:
2 oz Light Rum
Juice of 1/2 Lime
Coca-Cola
Blending Instructions:
Pour lime juice into a highball glass over ice cubes
Add rum, fill with cola, stir, and serve

2. Caipirinha
Ingredients:
Sugar
Lime
Cachaca
Quantities for one drink:
2 tsp Granulated Sugar
1 Lime (8 Wedges)
2 1/2 oz Cachaca
Blending Instructions:
Muddle the sugar into the lime wedges in an old-fashioned glass
Fill the glass with ice cubes
Pour the cachaca into the glass
Stir well

1. Mojito
Ingredients:
Light Rum
Lime
Sugar
Mint
Soda Water
Quantities for one drink:
2-3 oz Light Rum
Juice of 1 Lime (1 oz)
2 tsp Sugar
2-4 Mint Sprigs
Soda Water
Blending Instructions:
Lightly muddle the mint and sugar with a splash of soda water in a mixing glass until the sugar dissolve and you smell the mint
Squeeze the lime into the glass, add rum and shake with ice
Strain over cracked ice in a highball glass
Top with soda water, garnish with mint sprig and serve

Best print advertisements ever

Advertising is made to sell products or services. But at it's best advertising can be so much more. It can shock, ravish, create a buzz, and even become part of our culture. Unfortunately 99,9 per cent of advertising is lousy, weak, repetitive, and downright obnoxious. But admen of today can't blame the lack of good examples. Here are some milestones of print advertising.























5. Apple
Apple recruited Gandhi, Einstein, Hitchcock, Picasso, Edison, Dalai Lama, Miles Davis, Maria Callas, and many other originals for this incredibly confident, plain, black and white campaign. But how in hell did they get all the rights?

















4. Benetton
Benetton showed penises, dying aids patient, bloody clothes of a soldier, crimson red newborn, and other shockers, and created a lot of fuss. But did these ads sell sweaters? Yes they did. Because all of a sudden everybody had an opinion about about a sweater-maker called Benetton.














3. Economist
How do you sell your product to a smart target group? By being smart.


















2. Silk cut
Where Economist used only words on a red background, Silk Cut didn't use words at all. There wasn't even a logo! You had to find the brand name from the picture yourself. Great example of creative advertising of the 80's.
























1. Lusitania
Shortly after Germans sank the ocean liner Lusitania on 1915 and killed almost 1200 people, this poster was published in USA. According to a legend one female victim was found with a baby still in her lap. So there was no need for the advertising guys to exaggerate or commercialize the story. Just paint the picture and add one single word. Needles to say the campaign was hugely successful.

Metallica's Greatest Hits

5. For Whom the Bell Tolls

4. Until it Sleeps

3. Master of Puppets

2. The Unforgiven

1. One

Best movies ever made

Here is the subject of countless debates. I just have to go by my own personal taste and ignore all those expert opinions, i.e. Citizen Kane. Newest movie of the list is from 1984, but it doesn't mean there haven't been good or interesting films since. Sin City, Lost in translation, Magnolia... they are all fine movies. But not quite top five material. And as much as I would have liked to add some films from Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong, they remain a mere curiosity... just don't make it to my absolute top 5.

5. On the waterfront (1954)

World's greatest actor in his greatest movie. "I coulda been a contender." No, he was a champion!

4. La Dolce Vita (1960)

Just the one scene alone, where gorgeous Anita Ekberg wades in Fontana di Trevi makes this Fellini classic worth watching.

3. Clockwork orange (1971)

I think this is Kubrick's best film – not Dr. Strangelove, or 2001: A Space Odyssey. A rare example where the movie is actually much better than the book it's based on. Great sets, great language.

2. The Godfather, parts 1 (1972) and 2 (1974)

Powerful saga of the Corleone mafia family. Brilliant acting, great story, great directing. Much copied and quoted, it has become a part of the modern culture.

1. Once upon a time in America – C'era una volta in America (1984)

I'm probably overusing the word "epic", but here it's needed again. Unforgettable story of Jewish gangsters. Violent, touching, very sad, full of brilliant performancs. There's no other movie where the music score accompanies the story so perfectly and beautifully, thanks to the collaboration of the two masters, Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone.

Bubbling under:

Duck Soup (1933)

If I had to add one comedy, it might have been this one. Marx Bros at their very best. Fast, furious, crazy, surreal, very funny.

Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939)

Superbly directed by Frank Capra, this movie grabs a hold on you on the first seconds, and doesn't let go until the end.

Once upon a time in the West (1968)

...and all the other films by The Maestro.

Most legendary WW2 fighters

Thanks to the movie "Battle of Britain", all the Airfix and Rewell scale models, and the Finnish editions of Commando comics, the only time I didn't sleep through history classes at school was during the courses about the World War II. And the most fascinating parts of the war were definitely the daredevilish air battles.

5. Messerschmitt Me163 Komet
I saw one of these at the Luftwaffe Museum near Berlin. It was small, ugly, ridiculous... and revolutionary! Rocket engine made it fast, but it was also unreliable and vulnerable. And what the hell was that tiny propeller in the tip of the nose for?

4. North American P-51 Mustang

One of the best planes of the war. It was faster and more agile than Messerschmitt Me 109 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190, and far superior to Mitsubishi Zero.

3. Messerchmitt Me-262

One of the first jet fighters, it was the fastest and most modern fighter of its time. Joined the air battles in May 1944, too late to make a difference.

2. Supermarine Spitfire

A war hero like no other, a genuine stuff for legends. I must have built dozens of Spitfire scale models as a kid.

1. De Havilland Mosquito

Because of the shortage of aluminium in the wartime this plane was built of plywood, thus light as a mosquito, and lightning fast too. It was used as a fighter and a pathfinder, as well as a light bomber.

Greatest comic book heroes

Why were comic books always more interesting to us kids than schoolbooks? Could it be that we just couldn't identify with the real-life heroes like Churchill, Einstein, or Gagarin?

5. Charlie Brown

Now there was a cartoon character you could really identify with.

4. Marv

New age, new values, new moral, new heroes... and a whole new kind of artwork.

3. Batman

Ok, guys, hands up everyone who had a toy Batmobile as a kid. I know, it was the best!

2. Asterix

Brilliant humour for children and grown-ups alike. Uderzo is a master illustrator, and René Goscinny was a genius.

1. Tarzan

Great story, great characters, great location. My top five Tarzan artists: 1. Russ Manning, 2. Joe Kubert, 3. Burne Hogarth, 4. Ruben Moreira, 5. The rest of them.

Greatest tourist attractions made by nature

Mother nature must be the greatest architect. Just take a look at these incredible achievements!

5. Uluru

It's a sacred place for the aboriginals and an amazing sight in a sunset when the colour of the rock changes its tone.

4. Grand Canyon

I've only seen it from the plane, but it was still impressive. Like a huge wound on the surface of the Earth.

3. The Alps

Because these mountains are younger, they're also more dramatic than the Andies and Himalaya. With breathtakingly beautiful valleys.

2. Amazonas

There's still some places here where no civilized man has stepped his foot in. Good.

1. Ngorongoro

It's a collapsed volcano top in Serengeti National Park, where there odds of spotting the "Big 5" on a same day are extremely high. My childhood dream-come-true.