Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks
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Senior citizen rom-com with a diamond heist adventure. Very well executed and fairly fast paced, but perfectly tame and completely benign. No deep philosophy, not much moralizing, and no heavy social commentary, you can turn your brain off and just watch it with your old ball and chain for a relaxing hour and a half.
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Off string yo-yo!
Haven’t pay attention to yo-yoing for many years, just catching up to the “off string yo-yo” innovations, as in yo-yos that can be completely detached from the string.
Brief explanation of the physics involved:
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Off String freestyle by a world champion (Rei Iwakira):
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Then it hit me that it’s just a miniature version of a traditional Chinese circus act, like these:
By amateurs:
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By a professional:
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Pluto’s psychotherapy session:
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30 minutes talk followed by 40~50 minutes Q&A.
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Quite a few gems here and there.
The one idea about “capitalizing a bunch of kids” that came up in the Q&A really piqued by interest.
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Mortdecai, art heist film.
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Super old Hong Kong kung fu classic: Buddha’s Palm
These two (out of a series of four) are from around 1964, many years before Bruce Lee came onto the scene to show the world how it’s done.
By modern standards, these are poorly produced movies — simplistic script/plot, mediocre acting/direction, bad animal costumes, worse than cartoonish “special effects”, forget about period authenticity ... they are really, really bad.
Nonetheless this series of movies brought a lot of foundational kung fu mythologies to the silver screen, their many elements are widely derived, referenced, or otherwise paid homage by later kung fu movies, novels, and graphic novels.
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“BKO: Bangkok Knockout”
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Thai parkour and martial arts action flick.
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RWBY: Volumes 1 through 4 now available on YouTube.
The animation style gets a bit to get used to, but you get used to it very quickly, and the action sequences are GREAT !!!
Link to videoThe above links to Volume 1, the YouTube side bar on the right should take you to the other volumes. Enjoy!
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16 ways to wrap a dumpling.
No need to understand the audio, just watch the video.
1 through 8 can be boiled in water.
9 through 14 can only be steamed.
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John Carnac talks about the physics of light and computer rendering at Quake Con 2013:
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Lirone, a bowed string instrument that’s great at playing chords (but not much else):
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