Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks
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Very nice piece, upbeat, lively, very original, and comtemporary.
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Interesting “outro” as well, don’t miss it.
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Very impressed with the quality of some of the animation coming out of China these days. The production quality is absolutely top notch.
This one is “Episode 16” from a fictional series drawn from historical elements from the transition period between the end of the Han dynasty and the start of the “Three Kingdom” period. Great concept, great story/script, great character design and character development, masterful storytelling, fluid action design, convincing period costume designs, convincing set/background designs, superb animation and rendering, convincing facial expressions (very hard to do with CGI animation especially when the underlying style is “realism,” this is the best I’ve seen yet).
Also, careful scholarship: at the end of every episode there is one or more “flash cards” providing footnotes mapping key characters/events to records in historical literature.
Episode 16:
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If you want the whole series, try this playlist (from start of the series to date):
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Great rearrangement, virtuosic execution.
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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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@George-K The mask is part of her brand; as far as I can tell, ever since her fist YouTube video, she’s always masked; quite often different masks for different videos.
Compare to Peter Bence’s “Best It” cover. Bence also made a virtuosic, creative rearrangement, mainly for piano, but also uses other mechanical aids, including looping electronics. (I have linked to Bence’s cover before, so not repeating it here.)
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Look at that technique, so smooth, so matter-of-fact, so graceful, so efficient and economical!
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That is impressive.
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The physics behind old school electric rice cooker design:
Link to videoHow does the old school electric rice cooker know when to stop cooking the rice at just the right time? It has no thermostat, no fancy electronics, yet it works every time. I have been curious about that for a long time, though never tried to research it. This video answered the question for me.
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That was neat. I did not know the exact operation either.
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Celtic Rasputin on drugs … well, a different kind of drug, probably Adderall.
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Contrast between old master (famous since the Chairman Mao era) and a new talent (child of the Internet/streaming media age).
Same ancient piece, “Ambush from All Sides”（十面埋伏）, a signature repertoire for the pipa, long a popular concert and competition workhorse.
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Pretty unrecognizable as the song. LOL
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Be sure to see the part where a liquid nitrogen cooled steel ball is pressed again the 2010 armor. Very dramatic ending!
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Dude chillin’ with a piano.
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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.
