Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks

[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.

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[Axtremus]

Rickroll Variation classical piano concerto:

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@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]

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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!

[Axtremus]

Dude chillin’ with a piano.

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[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.

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[taiwan_girl]

Watching this during a meeting (shhh) so had the video off. How is this an improvement over just dropping seeds?

[Rainman]

Go for it, I say. Go for it, lad. Not sure how it will work unless nice soft soil, but hey, maybe it will work better than nature with birds, rodents, etc.

[Axtremus]

This is new:

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[Axtremus]

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[taiwan_girl]

That was cool

[Rainman]

So beautiful and intriguing how it's done. Thanks, Ax!

[Axtremus]

I have always been curious about how one manufactures those "a solid object inside a solid frame" trinkets where it appears that the solid object inside should have been impossible to fit inside the frame. Now that I have watched this video ...

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... I am still not sure how such trinkets are made.

[Rainman]

I watched it and still don't get it.

[Horace]

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

I have always been curious about how one manufactures those "a solid object inside a solid frame" trinkets where it appears that the solid object inside should have been impossible to fit inside the frame. Now that I have watched this video ...

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... I am will not sure how such trinkets are made.

They take a solid block of wood, then remove the wood that isn't the captive ball in sphere.

[Axtremus]

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[Axtremus]

Just something that I never thought about, thus interesting for me to see how it can be done.

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