🏰 A huge abandoned "fortress" in the desert, #Jordan
Rising from the sands of the Wadi Rum desert, this fortress is not an ancient ruin but an abandoned TV set. Built for the short-lived gameshow Les Forges du Désert (2001), designed to mimic a historic stronghold. If you know what Crystal Maze is, it was very much like that!
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/other/french-fortress-desert-forges-jordan/
#Fortress #Abandoned #Photography #Desert #WadiRum #AbandonedPlaces #Explore
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FILI BIBIANO OF FORTRESS
Recently our writer Mark caught up with the very talented Fili Bibiano of the band Fortress for an exclusive dive into the band and music. The band are currently celebrating the release of their brand new album “Death Is Your Master” which is the follow up to 2021’s “Don’t Spare The Wicked.” However this time around the album is fuelled by Fili Bibiano as well as new members Joey Mancaruso (drums) and Juan Aguila (vocals). Fili is known for his musical talents with Fortress as well as Intranced (featuring James-Paul Luna (known for Holy Grail and White Wizzard). But now it is clear that he wants to bring Fortress more into the spotlight and take the band worldwide!
https://thenwothm.com/2026/01/23/review-fili-bibianos-fortress-death-is-your-master-2026/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fortressheavymetal
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortressheavymetal/
Bandcamp: https://fortressofficial.bandcamp.com/
High Roller Records: https://www.hrrecords.de/FILI-BIBIANOS-FORTRESS-Death-is-Your-Master-LP-BLACK_1
#DeathIsYourMaster #DonTSpareTheWicked #FiliBibiano #FiliBibianoSFortress #Fortress #HeavyMetal #MarkPruett #NewAlbum #NewWaveOfTraditionalHeavyMetal #thenwothm #thenwothmComTransformation of Poggibonsi, Italy, from a fortified settlement to a fortress
#Fortress (2021) is an abysmal movie.
The protagonist, with whom we are apparently meant to sympathize, being a cryptocurrency scammer trying to fleece his parent for more money, was not a good start, and it went downhill from there. Pretty much everyone's acting was either completely over the top or wooden as Hell. The plot was ludicrous; the ubiquitous special effects mist and random camera angles, annoying.
The final straw, at which point I just stopped and deleted it from the TiVo, was when the character who had been speaking with a vaguely Australian accent for the entire movie until that point apologized to another character for putting on a British accent.
Apparently, they made a sequel at the same time. Avoid both.
Grenoble
Friday, November 14th, 2025 @ Grenoble, France
https://www.rovingsun.com/2025/11/14/grenoble/
After breakfast at the InterContinental Lyon, we headed over to Grenoble and visited the Museum of the Old Bishop's Palace and adjacent Notre-Dame Cathedral. After lunch, we took the gondola up to the Bastille, a fortress that overlooks the city, and walked back down.
#InterContinentalLyon #OldBishopsPalaceMuseum #NotreDameGrenoble #GrenobleBubbles #BastilleGrenoble #fortress #Grenoble #France
Beyond the Crystalline Lattice of the Universe - A Conversation with the Observers
And this is my drawing based on Lufia (SNES). The crystal lattice of the universe has opened slightly. And we find ourselves behind this lattice of ice crystal. Inside the crystal is the world we live in. And beyond the crystal are the Observers of the worlds. They are also its creators.
#snes #16bit #rpg #crystall #castle #fantasy #dreams #beyondtheworld #fortress #traveller #beyondtime #icewall
Pirate fortress of the Murakami Clan, Japan, 15th century AD
Remains of the wall at Fort Rashkan, Iran