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Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks

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    Hong Kong “kungfu cop” movie, probably from the 1980s.
    Fighting sequences are very well done. The whole movie is quite fun to watch. Feels like the missing link between Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Sammo Hung delivered the sort of fungting style later popularized by Jackie Chan (minus the “comedy” from Kackie Chan’s ”action-comedy“), but at the time Sammo Hung still immitated Bruce Lee‘s high-pithced vocalizations.

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      Hong Kong/Communist China’s “RoboCop” movie. Overall a pretty silly movie.

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        Ignore the “level” designations, just enjoy the music!

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          Very good rundown of the the evolution and state of the art of foldable screens (for mobile phones):

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            Classic Mr. Bean

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              The dialogue is actually in English, despite the cover graphics.

              It's a video on job performance review.

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                  Pollinating the Figs:

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                    A nice Star Wars short with nice character development.

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                      Lirone, a bowed string instrument that’s great at playing chords (but not much else):

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                      @Axtremus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

                      Lirone, a bowed string instrument that’s great at playing chords (but not much else):

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                      Fascinating -- I'd never heard of the instrument before, though it sounds so familiar.

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                            The Lock Picking Lawyer‘s keynote at a (computer) security conference, dated Nov. 2021, so it’s very recent.

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                              Making of a pair of bespoke hiking boots:

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                                @Axtremus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

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                                That was neat!!

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                                  Parts of Moonlight Sonata and some Chopin mixed with some modern stuff.

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                                    Parts of Moonlight Sonata and some Chopin mixed with some modern stuff.

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                                    @Axtremus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

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                                    Parts of Moonlight Sonata and some Chopin mixed with some modern stuff.

                                    Hated it.

                                    Sloppy playing. Every competitor in a major piano competition has more piano skills.

                                    The arrangement was not very innovative. No really new ideas. He barely changed anything except adding drums and chords.

                                    If you want to make an arrangement of a famous classical piece, you really have to reinvent it, in my opinion.

                                    Here's an example of an arrangement that succeeds in my opinion.

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                                      @Axtremus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

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                                      Parts of Moonlight Sonata and some Chopin mixed with some modern stuff.

                                      Hated it.

                                      Sloppy playing. Every competitor in a major piano competition has more piano skills.

                                      The arrangement was not very innovative. No really new ideas. He barely changed anything except adding drums and chords.

                                      If you want to make an arrangement of a famous classical piece, you really have to reinvent it, in my opinion.

                                      Here's an example of an arrangement that succeeds in my opinion.

                                      Link to video

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                                      @Klaus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

                                      Sloppy playing. Every competitor in a major piano competition has more piano skills.

                                      The arrangement was not very innovative. No really new ideas. He barely changed anything except adding drums and chords.

                                      If you want to make an arrangement of a famous classical piece, you really have to reinvent it, in my opinion.

                                      I quite agree with these points.

                                      My favorite good examples of rearranging well-known classics with modern idioms (outside the piano realm) are these:

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                                        I'll see your David Shire and Walter Murphy, and raise you this:

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                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                          From hydroponics to potato chips.

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