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Non-Music Videos

Postby Ron Thorne » August 22nd, 2013, 6:16 pm

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


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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby uli » August 23rd, 2013, 4:58 am

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







What else is the rascal up to?
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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby Ron Thorne » September 2nd, 2013, 9:22 pm

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. ;)


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Postby bluenoter » September 3rd, 2013, 3:54 am

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). Image

http://FumandGebra.com/

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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby Tom Storer » September 12th, 2013, 1:20 am

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!
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Postby steve(thelil) » September 12th, 2013, 5:58 am

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.
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Postby bluenoter » September 12th, 2013, 8:46 am

steve(thelil) wrote:I've had trouble embedding as well. . . .

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.
If the video is on YouTube or Vimeo:

--- Copy the link to the video (found under "Share"), not the Embed code. Using the Embed code will not work.
--- Paste the link onto the posting form.
--- Highlight it and click "youtube" or "vimeo" at the top of the posting form, which will enclose it in the correct opening and closing codes.

If the video is not on YouTube or Vimeo:

--- Copy the link to the video if you can find it. Using the Embed code will not work.
--- Paste the link onto the posting form.
Readers will be able to click the link and view the video at its original site. They will not be able to view the video within your post.
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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby bluenoter » September 12th, 2013, 9:49 pm

Tom Storer wrote: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!
Tom---

The video is on YouTube, but that fact is cleverly obscured. Anyway, I picked up YouTube's link, and here's the video (yep, it's amazing):


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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby Tom Storer » September 12th, 2013, 11:37 pm

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

Postby BFrank » September 13th, 2013, 10:19 pm

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

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Postby steve(thelil) » September 14th, 2013, 6:03 am

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

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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby walto » February 2nd, 2014, 3:00 pm

Surely not all of a sudden. Less than half of a sudden at best.
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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby Coda » March 1st, 2014, 4:43 pm



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.
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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby Ron Thorne » July 1st, 2014, 8:49 pm

This one needs no introduction.


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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby Ron Thorne » November 28th, 2014, 7:42 pm

Brilliant, as usual from Lewis Black.


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Re: Non-Music Videos

Postby Ron Thorne » January 14th, 2015, 9:27 pm

This is brilliant! Thanks to my son Darren for this one.


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