Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks

[Axtremus]

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:

Link to video

If you want the whole series, try this playlist (from start of the series to date):
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBakWosU0sfjM2fMNt8JJApFSNj49UXwF

[Axtremus]

Link to video

Great rearrangement, virtuosic execution.

[Rainman]

Ax, that's just dumb and disrespectful, and I don't mean M Jackson.
But I guess if you like it, go for it!

[George K]

If the mask is part of the outfit, I get it.

Otherwise, it's just stupid. It was uploaded yesterday, ffs.

Not my style, but I admire the talent.

[Axtremus]

@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.)

[Axtremus]

Look at that technique, so smooth, so matter-of-fact, so graceful, so efficient and economical!
Lots of fine muscle control too subtle to be captured by the camera.

Link to video

[taiwan_girl]

That is impressive.

[Axtremus]

The physics behind old school electric rice cooker design:

Link to video

How 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.

[taiwan_girl]

That was neat. I did not know the exact operation either.

[jon-nyc]

Cool

[Axtremus]

Celtic Rasputin on drugs … well, a different kind of drug, probably Adderall.

Link to video

[Axtremus]

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.

Link to video

Link to video

[Axtremus]

Rickroll Variation classical piano concerto:

Link to video

@George-K if you’re looking for new classical orchestra works to listen to, give this a try.

[taiwan_girl]

Pretty unrecognizable as the song. LOL

[Axtremus]

Link to video

Be sure to see the part where a liquid nitrogen cooled steel ball is pressed again the 2010 armor. Very dramatic ending!

[Axtremus]

Dude chillin’ with a piano.

Link to video

[George K]

Nice. I wonder how much of that was improvised on the spot.

I'll never understand people like that - they speak a different language than I do.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

I'll never understand people like that - they speak a different language than I do.

There's a couple of jazz pianists I really enjoy listening to talking (and playing) about jazz on a podcast called 'You'll Hear It', on YouTube. There's quite a bit of chat, but some real golden nuggets in there, and they go some way to describing the language and the tricks and techniques. Quite a lot of it is totally beyond me, but I still like watching.

[taiwan_girl]

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

Be sure to see the part where a liquid nitrogen cooled steel ball is pressed again the 2010 armor. Very dramatic ending!

The technology improvement is interesting, but also sad.

I am sure that there are weapon designers out there looking at super-cooled ammunition to use against armor.

(BTW, they were lucky no one was injured or hurt)

[Axtremus]

The Erodium Copy "robot."
A very simple idea, all biodegradable, seems to have large potential.
Many times the narration oversells the idea, try to overlook that.

Link to video