This statement comes from the monty python's the meaning of life. More specifically a little number that ends the film called the galaxy song.
This is the feeling I got after watching a video created by the AMNH (American Museum of Natural History) called the known universe
"The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. "
The digital atlas is available for download. Just follow the link and you thought google earth was fun.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Not why we made this blog but fun
So While trying to find a link for this in google many searches of combinations of First Impressions Youth Theatre blog/blogger/blogspot and the like (Most of which found me at blogs about *blah blah's* first impressions of youth theatre. There are a lot of them.) led me to find this blog by a man known as "man about town" about us.
Not only that but maybe two days ago "man about town" sent out a blog to participants of the melbourne zombie shuffle. Asking to help identify the owner of a photo for press use.
This has me thinking about somethings, to bring it back around to the intention behind this blog, Flash mobs is one of them.
I wanted to post this video but couldn't download it properly so follow the link. The music is irritating but the video is entertaining. This is the zombie shuffle I was in, I am in this video twice that I saw but I doubt you'll see me, Also unbeknown to me two separate friend groups were in the shuffle the one you'll know is andrew, also seen in the video.
Flash mobs can be fun. Probably the most famous one is the freeze mob
but mobs come in many forms:
Ninjas
Mexiacan stand offs/Gun fights
Human dominos
Chickens
Bubbles
No pants
Dance
Red heads
Seeing the dominos made me think of Rube goldberg machines. What are Rube Goldberg machines you ask? Why possibly only the best thing in the world. Take a simple task like say turning on a light switch ths is a machine which is specifically invented to do that in the most round about way possible.
They even have competitions 2010's challenge is to dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer.
Some images I found. I like the spiral staircase because it's distinctly an area I know in melbourne but transformed by the presence of something unusual. The other two just make me laugh.
Not only that but maybe two days ago "man about town" sent out a blog to participants of the melbourne zombie shuffle. Asking to help identify the owner of a photo for press use.
This has me thinking about somethings, to bring it back around to the intention behind this blog, Flash mobs is one of them.
I wanted to post this video but couldn't download it properly so follow the link. The music is irritating but the video is entertaining. This is the zombie shuffle I was in, I am in this video twice that I saw but I doubt you'll see me, Also unbeknown to me two separate friend groups were in the shuffle the one you'll know is andrew, also seen in the video.
Flash mobs can be fun. Probably the most famous one is the freeze mob
but mobs come in many forms:
Ninjas
Mexiacan stand offs/Gun fights
Human dominos
Chickens
Bubbles
No pants
Dance
Red heads
Seeing the dominos made me think of Rube goldberg machines. What are Rube Goldberg machines you ask? Why possibly only the best thing in the world. Take a simple task like say turning on a light switch ths is a machine which is specifically invented to do that in the most round about way possible.
They even have competitions 2010's challenge is to dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer.
Some images I found. I like the spiral staircase because it's distinctly an area I know in melbourne but transformed by the presence of something unusual. The other two just make me laugh.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sign up to the feed inoder to be updated
I have a feeling that only myself and probably Martin have actually signed up to receive the email notification when something is posted, which essentially means I'm talking to myself here. However if you are reading this do sign up to email notifications. At the top of the page is a link to follow this blog just sign your email address up follow any prompts and voilà. Delicious feed.
So hopefully someone will receive/read this post sign up and post something. If you are reading it feel free to comment and let us know whose actually out there.
I've been reading a lot lately and for lack of anything else I thought I'd share what I've been reading.
I just finished He died with a felafel in his hand
Great book which if any of you end up with crazy or overly pedantic housemates can remind you it could be worse, or could be good for them to read if you can convince them.
Also a good film.
Garfield minus Garfield
This is a collection from the website I linked above it "is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb" I found it really clever and entertaining. I'd recommend going through them for yourselves though.
Mr Nonsense
Roger Hargreaves beloved Mr men characters wouldn't normally be something I'd actively seek to read but it was given to me as a gift. Still it's a fun read.
Uno's garden
Another gift but still a good book. I've been a fan of Graeme Base since I was young and interested in becoming an illustrator my parents bought me Animalia and The 11th hour to inspire me.
The elephant vanashes
A collection of short stories by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. I found myself able t conect with the slightly surreal and strangely solemn characters and situations his writing style is somewhat western to my knowledge but I don't really have an eastern frame of reference, any recommendations?, he's won awards and is considered to be an important writer in the post modern movement what honestly drew me to him, as I'd not heard of him when I read the book, was the intrigue of the titles of his books (The elephant vanishes, The wind up bird chroncles, Norwegian wood, The hard-boiled wonderland at the end of the world).
The pig of happiness
A gift I gave. It's author, Edward Monkton, says it's written to make people happy. Which made me think of international talk like a pirate day the intention behind which was to make the world less boring. This is the only other monkton story that could be found in print online. It's about dinosaurs.
Roar!
While I live
The first in the trilogy of book that follow the tomorrow series. I'm not very far into it, I'm sure I've read it once before and remember bits but need to re-read before moving on to the rest. The characters are familiar as is the writing style the world is almost the same but not quite we shall see where this takes us, I've heard a lot of negative things.
Gotrex and Felix The third omnibus
This is an indulgence book for me. It's set in the fantasy world that makes up the tabletop game Warhammer. Two hero characters, the titular Gotrex and Felix. The stories, now numbering 12 I think
(this third omnibus being the 7th 8th and 9th) plus the characters appear in other short stories, tell the story of Gotrex a dwarf who seeks his doom in battle due to a misdeed in his past. In this universe dwarves who feel particularly ashamed may become slayers who give thier lives in battle to atone for a sin and Felix a former young noble who in a drinking session promised to follow Gotrex to record his doom in an epic poem. The stories cover most of what you need to know if you are a novice or uninitiated in the warhammer universe.
Junky
The semi auto-biographical story of William S. Bourroughs, the titular junky, his experiences are told in fine detail and the unrelenting nature of the description and delivery had me hooked. A relatively easy read but one I'd recommend . Burroughs is more rock star than any rock star I know and he lived in a time before the birth of rock and roll.
Y: The last man
I'm stuck with this one. I've found two omnibuses and was unable to find the other half of the story I am engrossed though it's an intriguing story of a world where all the mammels with a Y chromosome on earth die but one and his capuchan monkey and the aftermath of the disaster. This graphic novel is an award winner and is highly praised. For those who enjoy that sort of thing it's littered with all manner of references but for those who tend to miss that stuff it's still a great read, what I've read of it anyway.
If you've made it this far I'm pretty impressed. I have a large list of books I'm working through but am open to suggestions. At this point the following suggestions I wont follow but if someone else might like them then maybe tell the blog, Twilight, Harry Potter, The novel series trueblood was based on. If you want to know about any of the books more than what I've posted and linked then feel free to discuss it. I hope this has inspired you to read or post about something, anything. Just keep it alive and remember to sign up to the feed om nom nom.
So hopefully someone will receive/read this post sign up and post something. If you are reading it feel free to comment and let us know whose actually out there.
I've been reading a lot lately and for lack of anything else I thought I'd share what I've been reading.
I just finished He died with a felafel in his hand
Great book which if any of you end up with crazy or overly pedantic housemates can remind you it could be worse, or could be good for them to read if you can convince them.
Also a good film.
Garfield minus Garfield
This is a collection from the website I linked above it "is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb" I found it really clever and entertaining. I'd recommend going through them for yourselves though.
Mr Nonsense
Roger Hargreaves beloved Mr men characters wouldn't normally be something I'd actively seek to read but it was given to me as a gift. Still it's a fun read.
Uno's garden
Another gift but still a good book. I've been a fan of Graeme Base since I was young and interested in becoming an illustrator my parents bought me Animalia and The 11th hour to inspire me.
The elephant vanashes
A collection of short stories by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. I found myself able t conect with the slightly surreal and strangely solemn characters and situations his writing style is somewhat western to my knowledge but I don't really have an eastern frame of reference, any recommendations?, he's won awards and is considered to be an important writer in the post modern movement what honestly drew me to him, as I'd not heard of him when I read the book, was the intrigue of the titles of his books (The elephant vanishes, The wind up bird chroncles, Norwegian wood, The hard-boiled wonderland at the end of the world).
The pig of happiness
A gift I gave. It's author, Edward Monkton, says it's written to make people happy. Which made me think of international talk like a pirate day the intention behind which was to make the world less boring. This is the only other monkton story that could be found in print online. It's about dinosaurs.
Roar!
While I live
The first in the trilogy of book that follow the tomorrow series. I'm not very far into it, I'm sure I've read it once before and remember bits but need to re-read before moving on to the rest. The characters are familiar as is the writing style the world is almost the same but not quite we shall see where this takes us, I've heard a lot of negative things.
Gotrex and Felix The third omnibus
This is an indulgence book for me. It's set in the fantasy world that makes up the tabletop game Warhammer. Two hero characters, the titular Gotrex and Felix. The stories, now numbering 12 I think
(this third omnibus being the 7th 8th and 9th) plus the characters appear in other short stories, tell the story of Gotrex a dwarf who seeks his doom in battle due to a misdeed in his past. In this universe dwarves who feel particularly ashamed may become slayers who give thier lives in battle to atone for a sin and Felix a former young noble who in a drinking session promised to follow Gotrex to record his doom in an epic poem. The stories cover most of what you need to know if you are a novice or uninitiated in the warhammer universe.
Junky
The semi auto-biographical story of William S. Bourroughs, the titular junky, his experiences are told in fine detail and the unrelenting nature of the description and delivery had me hooked. A relatively easy read but one I'd recommend . Burroughs is more rock star than any rock star I know and he lived in a time before the birth of rock and roll.
Y: The last man
I'm stuck with this one. I've found two omnibuses and was unable to find the other half of the story I am engrossed though it's an intriguing story of a world where all the mammels with a Y chromosome on earth die but one and his capuchan monkey and the aftermath of the disaster. This graphic novel is an award winner and is highly praised. For those who enjoy that sort of thing it's littered with all manner of references but for those who tend to miss that stuff it's still a great read, what I've read of it anyway.
If you've made it this far I'm pretty impressed. I have a large list of books I'm working through but am open to suggestions. At this point the following suggestions I wont follow but if someone else might like them then maybe tell the blog, Twilight, Harry Potter, The novel series trueblood was based on. If you want to know about any of the books more than what I've posted and linked then feel free to discuss it. I hope this has inspired you to read or post about something, anything. Just keep it alive and remember to sign up to the feed om nom nom.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Kat, check this out:
Its by an artist called Hamish Ta-Me. There is also this video about the creation of the image. I thought you would like it.
Enjoy it. xo
I think I have finally worked it out
here is the film i showed on my presentation incase anyone would like to view it again
and a couple of images that have recently inspired me for shoots -
Just threw in the last one i think its pretty inspirational ;)
Will post more when I have the time about to run to work.
Okay.
I've taken 5 mins away form work to work out this gmail account business and it appears to have worked. If you also wish to contribute to this blog it is very easy follow this link you will need to have a preexisting email account which you use for verification enter the email address create a password of 8 or more characters, probably best to do one that alphanumeric as we don't want to be hacked, you will need to create a user name and enter the letters in one of those word verifications boxes, the name of which escapes me, and I needed to put in my mobile number for verification purposes. It's really simple get on it.
SO I suppose I'll post something while I'm here. I've been listening to a lot of podcasts recently while doing some admin work, they are strictly an audio medium and thus I can listen while I work, there is filmspotting.net they just reviewed a film I've been waiting for for a long time The Road based on a book of the same name, which we wont see in our cinemas until janurary 28th. *sigh*
This blog is however a once a week occurance so I've needed other sources of infotainment thus I've discovered stuffyoushouldknow @ podacst.com I recently listened to "How hunger cravings work" "How hostage negotiation works" "How near-death experiences work" "Will the large hadron collider destroy the earth" "10 odd town festivals" as you can tell there is an eclectic list of podcasts to be listened to. Also the live feed and podcasts from triple J are somewhat entertaining.
Enjoy.
I've taken 5 mins away form work to work out this gmail account business and it appears to have worked. If you also wish to contribute to this blog it is very easy follow this link you will need to have a preexisting email account which you use for verification enter the email address create a password of 8 or more characters, probably best to do one that alphanumeric as we don't want to be hacked, you will need to create a user name and enter the letters in one of those word verifications boxes, the name of which escapes me, and I needed to put in my mobile number for verification purposes. It's really simple get on it.
SO I suppose I'll post something while I'm here. I've been listening to a lot of podcasts recently while doing some admin work, they are strictly an audio medium and thus I can listen while I work, there is filmspotting.net they just reviewed a film I've been waiting for for a long time The Road based on a book of the same name, which we wont see in our cinemas until janurary 28th. *sigh*
This blog is however a once a week occurance so I've needed other sources of infotainment thus I've discovered stuffyoushouldknow @ podacst.com I recently listened to "How hunger cravings work" "How hostage negotiation works" "How near-death experiences work" "Will the large hadron collider destroy the earth" "10 odd town festivals" as you can tell there is an eclectic list of podcasts to be listened to. Also the live feed and podcasts from triple J are somewhat entertaining.
Enjoy.
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