Archive for July, 2006
Apparently, Mel Gibson was busted for drunken driving on Friday and let loose with an anti-semitic rant during the process of being arrested. The scriptwriter/ director/ producer/ funder of the movie The Passion Of The Christ told the police "F*****g Jews…The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." And also asked a [...]
Live Action Need For Speed Video
Monday, July 31st, 2006
Did you ever want to know what it really feels like to drive a breakneck speed through a bustling city like in Electronic Arts‘ racing video games Need for Speed series? This is probably the closest you’ll ever come. The description for this short film, C’était un rendez-vous, is from Google Video:
On an August morning [...]
Sony Bravia Commercial
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
Remember that wonderful 2005 ad for Sony’s Bravia LCD display featuring 250,000 brightly-colored superballs bouncing through the streets of San Francisco? A follow-up Bravia commercial is in the works, judging from these citizen generated video clips take in Glasgow:
From clyderidesagain at YouTube (via Boing Boing–see QT version here):
And, from JasperNewton1986 at YouTube (sorry it’s sideways, [...]
Flinstones Cigarette Commercial
Friday, July 28th, 2006
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, boyyyyyz (and I do mean boys)! From guydmann at YouTube:
Roman Baths Documentary
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
This NOVA special, Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath, runs 56 minutes long.
While some Roman baths were palatial and luxurious, the bathhouse wasn’t the exclusive haven of the privileged. Surrounded by sophisticated vaulted ceilings and revolutionary heated system, men and women from all classes and backgrounds bathed, drank, shouted and sang in a daily [...]
Big Bang Documentary
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The following copy for this NOVA documentary, Origins: Back To The Beginning, is from Google Video:
Has the universe always existed? How did it become a place that could harbor life? What was the birth of our planet like? Are we alone? NOVA presents some startling new answers in "Origins," a groundbreaking four-part NOVA miniseries hosted [...]
Lost Treasures Of Tibet Video
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
The following copy is from Google Video for this NOVA special:
Join the race to save the surviving sacred masterpieces of an ancient Buddhist kingdom. Mustang (moo-stahn), one
of the last outposts of Tibetan culture, is so isolated and protected, no Westerner set foot inside its
borders for centuries. But in the early 1990s, this untouched society [...]
How To Build Egyptian Pyramids
Monday, July 24th, 2006
The following copy is from Google Video: NOVA reveals the secrets of how the ancient pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonemason, Roger Hopkins, join forces in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza to put clever and sometimes bizarre pyramid-construction theories to the test. [...]
Primus – Tommy The Cat Video
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Tommy the Cat by Primus (official site) found at Google Video. Absolutely amazing bass guitar work:
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21st Combat Support Hostpital In Iraq
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
This is a NOVA show examining the doctors, surgeons, and military staff of the 21st Combat Support
Hospital in Iraq. The following copy is from Google Video:
The film follows the daily drama of life and death in a tented hospital in
the deserts north of Baghdad. Building a state-of-the-art hospital in
the dust and heat is a [...]
