From their debut album incredibad, The Lonely Island has Jack Black special guest on this track and while I’ve got a lot of love for the both of them respectively, the two together is just the best combo ever. Check it out.
The awesomest job requirement, a real life jewel heist, space stuff still rules and freaky gross nature video…
Shooting the boss (and getting paid for it)
To thank him for letting them spend the last two hours of their workweek playing video games on the company dime, Kevin Grinnell’s employees often single him out and shoot him in the head.
    To be fair, the employees at Grinnell Computers aren’t firing real weapons at their boss but are instead releasing the stresses of their week in a multiplayer online game known as Combat Arms. [full article]>£1m reward offered over gems raid
A £1m reward has been offered for information leading to the capture of robbers who stole jewellery worth £40m during a raid in central London. [full article]US probe captures Saturn equinox
Raw images of the moment Saturn reached its equinox have been beamed to Earth by the US Cassini spacecraft. [full article]‘Alien scene’ of tadpoles’ feast
“Alien-like” scenes of tadpoles feasting on eggs emerging from their mother have been caught on camera. [full article]
With just five features in 13 years, Wes Anderson has established himself as the most influential American filmmaker of the post-Baby Boom generation. Supremely confident in his knowledge of film history and technique, he’s a classic example of the sort of filmmaker that the Cahiers du cinéma critics labeled an auteur—an artist who imprints his personality and preoccupations on each work so strongly that, whatever the contributions of his collaborators, he deserves to be considered the primary author of the film. This series examines some of Anderson’s many cinematic influences and his attempt to meld them into a striking, uniquely personal sensibility.
Great series of videos, worth checking out for any fan. Posting just the first video, the rest are through this page here.
Naked Man in Wrong Room
The man told police he been brought back to the hotel from town by a woman but at some point wandered out of her room into the hall stark naked.
” He then wandered into another room, occupied by a husband and wife, had curled up and gone to sleep, he said.” [full article]Spy probe images Apollo landing sites
NASA’s newly launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped images of hardware left on the moon by the Apollo astronauts… [full article with gallery]Giant ‘soap bubble’ found floating in space
It looks like a soap bubble or perhaps even a camera fault, but the image at right is a newly discovered planetary nebula. [full article]NASA Wants To Move The Earth
Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet overheating: move it to a cooler spot.
“All you have to do is hurtle a few comets at Earth, and its orbit will be altered. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system.” [full article]
My brother sent me a video this week of a 3D render of the galaxies imaged in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (wikipedia entry): a series of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope between 2003 and 2004 that looks back approximately 13 billion years ago and images about 10,000 galaxies.
Not stars mind you. Galaxies. Each one possible of holding billions or trillions of star systems.
And this wasn’t through a big patch of the sky either, but in a tiny region of space the size of a square millimeter held a metre away from your eye. That leaves out 12.7 million single cubic millimetre patches of sky that possibly yields some similar results.
Like the following video says, all those figures are too huge of a figure to just compute in the human brain. And I’d agree.
I read of this image being taken some years ago, but it wasn’t till about a year ago when I stumbled across this image file that compares the scale of our solar system to that of the known universe and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field itself, that I had the pleasure of properly getting my brain’s nutsacks blown off.
It’s a big file (approx 1.5megs), so I’m not gonna post it here directly, but check it out and scroll through from the top and It’ll be sure to put some decent insignificance spice into your food for thought soup. Trivial things happen every day and our lives continually shift because of it, but with a little science, it’s pretty easy to put things into perspective of how tiny we all really are and blah, blah, blah, the existential thinking, just check out what I’m talking about here.
Anyway, going back to the original point of it, here’s the video and a full in depth examination article of the Ultra Field worth checking out here.
Yeah, I know it’s been almost two months since I last blogged anything. I think that’s the longest I’ve ever gone without posting something in all these years of blogging. But I could be wrong.
Anyway, since then, I’ve moved house again, caught a buttload of films at the film festival, celebrated several events, saw off an alarming number of friends going abroad and bought and watched many more movies. There’s also been some writing going on, but that’s still on the down low.
Plenty of people have been chasing me up on the fact that I haven’t blogged in a while and well… Can’t argue with that. But now I’m coming back at it like a crack addict.
Have spent the week writing up some new code and adding to this website (which is another thing I’ve been long overdue in doing). You probably wouldn’t have noticed, but there’s a [#] symbol under the titles of each post now. Clicking on them or the time posted or the post titles themselves now lead to that particular post on its own page. Something I had meant to do since forever and finally figured out how to.
The film section has now been expanded and each film has it’s own subpage, though there are some are still lacking in a video, but that’ll be fixed soon. The current place I’m at is great, but it’s severely lacking in a decent internet connection. More specifically, I’ve had to do all my surfing at a horrible dial up speed, which makes the prospect of uploading videos to be a tedious task.
There’s also now finally something in the extras section: The Saga of the Seafood Stalker. It’s something that has been going on for the last few months and while I’ve been updating people on these strange events through facebook, I’ve always meant to dedicate a whole section for it here and for the rest of the web to see.
Given the lapse in time since the last post, I figured it’s as good an excuse as any to finally get around to writing these pages and have something to show for the near two months of silence, as opposed to a post that just says whoops. Plus I just covered that in the title.
Anyways, enough of all that, I’m back and onto the real blogging…
Well shit, I’ve taken a bit more of a break from blogging than intended, but ah well here’s the catch-up…
Been working well too much in the last week, balancing filming and working. Still have to work on actually combining the two into a one regular thing.
48 Hours continues to be prevailing. C4 is currently screening three 48 films from this year every night at 11pm on a weeknight. Starting Wednesday, they’ll be screening the regional winners, Friday will be the wildcards as picked by Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro (super cool) and Saturday will be the televised finals (at 9pm if you are interested in watching). Our film will be screened last on Wednesday night which will be really cool and you’ll get to see our retarded intro and possibly my retarded interview as well. Past that, we don’t have any illusions of actually winning the entire competition and while it is an international competition and there’s no telling who could be picked for whatever reason, I highly doubt we’d win anything and it’s basically just cool, if not still surprising, to have gotten this far again.
Oh and if you’re unable to watch any of the episodes of the 48 Hours tv show, they’re online at the C4 website here. It’s pretty much how I’ve been following the show as I’m working when its on and come to think of it, might not even be available to watch the finals when they screen.
There’s plenty of other things to mention, but I’ll save it for another post. This week shall just be catch up week really as I start sorting out what I need to do next. Room currently looks like a post-tornado site and the boot of my car is filled with just as much junk to go through.
In the meantime here are some videos:
A very cool ‘stop motion’ video with post its and computer who ha.
An online comedy video series thing that’s pretty funny and manages to keep being so in subsequent videos.
And my current favourite awesome, the latest N.A.S.A. music video for the tract “A Volta”. Totally brilliant.
Also a few New Scientist articles I’ve enjoyed and cause the tabs are still open…
Seven things that don’t make sense about gravity.
10 scientific objects that changed the world.
And the very cool article on The inside story of the Conficker worm.
Haven’t neglected you, just too busy to do a proper update. But it will come soon. Here’s some tetris orgy in the meantime…
New Bob Dylan music video is ‘o’ for intensely awesome.
Been dead on my feet the last few days with the flu which has been incredibly hindering considering the amount of things I’ve got to do at the moment.
Just dubbing another copy of our 48 Hours film to be sent to C4. The good people charged with producing the series requested an anamorphic copy of the film and it took the better part of a day and night to convert it from its original full-frame cut to a 16:9 version. It was orignally shot anamorphic, so you’d think this would be easy to do, but re-going through the files, it turns out I’d done so much strange tinkering to the edit during the 48 weekend, it took almost as long just to figure out what I had done. Gotta love the effects and fallout of a near sleepless weekend.
But anyway, techno mumbo jumbo aside, C4 will be running a 48 Hours TV series starting next week that will showcase some of the 48 Hours films from this year, which eventually runs the city winners and then the wildcards and then on the 20th of June, the national finals will be presented as an awards style ceremony, where I have no idea how that’ll go down, but if it’s anything like the Oscars or some kinda audience sit in awards type show, you can bet I’ll be wearing a top hat and monocle.
Also have to film an intro/interview style video tomorrow sometime with the good people making the TV series. Same good people from 2 Heads Production who filmed us last year and it’s something positive this week to look forward to, even though we’ve barely sorted out a location or confirmed who else can actually make it to the shoot.
Other things on the plate include moving my stuff in storage again as the good people who were looking after some of my things are themselves, moving; paperwork and some mail to send back that I really should have earlier, but was too sick to do anything about; some organising of things in prep for a friend’s birthday; sort out the planning of a filming job I just got handed for next week and various other bits and bobs I can’t even remember now but know I’ll recall at an inconvenient time.
Bitch. Bitch. Moan.
