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This is a very nostalgic, if sad video I discovered today, thanks to Pete Cherches.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQQBIgNDkQ

Ron Thorne wrote:This is a very nostalgic, if sad video I discovered today, thanks to Pete Cherches.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQQBIgNDkQ

What else is the rascal up to?

This is one of those videos that truly must be seen to be believed. There are other earlier videos of these two characters, but I saw this one first this morning, thanks to a friend who sent me a link in an e-mail.

Bluenoter, this one has your name written all over it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWhD5bc6Fmg

Scott Dolan wrote:I never realized barn owls were so social.

With other species, they're not. Gebra isn't a wild barn owl. As an owlet, she was hand-fed and trained for falconry; as an adult, she's still hand-fed, but she hunts for her own food about 30 percent of the time. She's "not a typical falconry bird" (e.g., she's now allowed to fly untethered), but she is essentially a domesticated barn owl. A wild barn owl would never behave that way with a member of another species. (If you want to see wild barn owls interacting with each other, have I got links for you!)

The owl and the pussycat met when they were each a month old. Unfortunately, Fum used up his ninth and last life in May (he died of a feline illness).

http://FumandGebra.com/

Thanks, Ron!

Couldn't get this to embed, but the video is here:

http://sciencefriday.com/video/08/05/20 ... topus.html

An amazing look at the way cephalopods use camouflage. Watch it, it's very cool!

I've had trouble embedding as well. (But then again I've had trouble just trying to post something publicly - often accidentally sending PM's instead. D'OH!)

Next time I have a video to post, I'm going to try hard to do the embed thing correctly. I remember that the instructions made it seem easy.

Thanks for finding the YouTube source, Rita! My suspicions are therefore correct, you can embed YouTube or Vimeo but not other videos. Oh well.

I have NO idea what this is about, but it's funny as hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

Stick with it, the real story starts a couple of minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33zPlnhymCU

This is cool. TV shows are getting more realistic.

From Vincent Laforet's blog:
HBO’s True Detective series by Director Cary Fukunaha and Australian cinematographer Adam Karapow may just be the most amazing I’ve ever seen in a television series… As the slogan goes: "It’s not TV, it’s HBO."

The astounding part about this shot revolves around the fact that no compromise, or very little, is ever made in terms of framing let alone pacing. Heck it doesn’t ever feel like a "one shot" which is perhaps the ultimate compliment one can pay such a shot… The high level of action and intense acting carries the shot throughout. The fact that the team decided to keep pushing their luck the longer the shot went helps bring this to the very top of my list of one-shot wonders in all of cinema history.