It was yesterday when I walked past the Spartan training on the seafront, that I wondered what the training for Spartacus (now in it’s final season) might have been like? Apparently I’m not the only one to wonder. It was gone midnight after I had consumed a variety of Spartacus training special features including Bodybuilder.com’s … Read more
As a long time TED fan I was really pleased to discover that The Royal Institution have developed the RI channel, a new video platform, for both their own and others’ popular science videos and lectures.
Although still in Beta at the moment, it is beautifully designed, with high quality videos, and content is being added regularly.
Edit: Damn, it got pulled. Anyone know if this can be viewed anywhere else, pls post in the comments. Great little featurette about Blade Runner. Used as promo material for conventions at the time, the art direction and concepts for the film are discussed in the actual studio lot that was created for the street … Read more
Found a charming documentary on BBC iPlayer. Naturalist Joe Hutto imprints himself on to a brood of wild turkeys and spends eighteen months as a turkey parent. Beautifully shot, key moments from Joe’s experiences with the turkeys are meticulously recreated, deep within Florida’s Everglades forest. Joe’s gentle narrative and thoughtful, occasionally philosophical observations, combined with a … Read more
Three Final Cut X videos for you. Firstly, the classic “Hitler finds out about..” TeeHee. Also, who’d have thought FCP would have made a segment in Conan O’Brien? Finally, a long, positive run through of some new features, and how it’s not all so terrible, by Evan Schechtman of Radical Media at the NYC Apple … Read more