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Aw, Freddy Krueger!

Master of Puppets on multiple stylophones. I didn't expect to watch it all the way through, but it's oddly hypnotic.

That is fucking brilliant.

That's the best thing I've seen for ages.

Spent the evening watching a selection of short films on Youtube. These were the two that stood out, and well worth your time.

Signs of Love - a modern silent, following a relationship. Great orchestral score, and despite the lack of dialogue I became really engrossed in the story and the characters. Had a bit of dust in my eye at the end. 15 minutes.

Céad Ghrá (First Love) - two Irish schoolboys both fancy the same girl, so they ask her to choose. Charming look at friendship - 11 minutes 40.

I do love that video. I love that he's also done Green Eggs and Ham. My two favourite Seuss stories. But his fox's Sox rendition wins.

Very nostalgic documentary about the Century 21 studios where Gerry Anderson's puppet series were made.


Nebula 75!
Trapped in a London studio flat during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, two Century 21 puppeteers resort to creating an exciting new space action show using just the few odds and ends they have lying around...


It's up to episode 4 now. I especially like the "making of" bits at the end of each episode.

Those are brill, thanks for posting.

I'll see your Master of Puppets and raise you Beethoven's 9th

I'll see your Beef Oven and raise you Toccata and Fugue!

I'll see your high-tech devices and raise you a printer.

Floppotron, natch.

I was watching this just the other day. It made me smile.

Bet there are a few bikers who wouldn't mind one of these!

The casual bare handed wipe across the anvil.

I wear an oven glove on both hands when I'm taking something out of the oven.

Love the pattern within the finished blade!

Mmmm, me too!

What's the stuff he keeps sprinkling on - it looks like ash or something?

Probably graphite to get the level of carbon required for Damascus steel. At a guess.

It's flux, which is needed to get the metal to weld.

(i've watched way too much Forged in Fire)

It’s breadcrumb.

**sigh** Now I'm going to have to learn how to make pattern-welded Damascus steel blades...

Anyway, brilliant story in the first two minutes of this video. The rest's pretty interesting, too.

Alcoholic pets is a significant problem in Rimworld also. Nature finds a way

I think all of the noclip stuff (patreon site here https://www.patreon.com/noclip) is all interesting and really well put together

Context.

Pah. Life's more interesting without it.

This is maybe a bit niche, but I love these air traffic control reconstructions!

Here the solo pilot of a light aircraft appears to be out of it due to oxygen deprivation, so the controllers ask another plane to intercept him and have a look...

Stringfellow Hawke approved!



(Also reminds me of a posh person's Soundtracker...)

Was expecting that to be Carol Baskin wishing Rolf Harris a Happy Birthday.

My son showed me that earlier!

Ushered via a Dave

(updated link to original instead of shitty reposting person)

That is ace. Just done some digging and turns out they're part of a series of videos by an actor called Michael Rapaport

The inbreeding is certainly strong with it...

Michael Rapaport has been in literally every TV and film ever made ever.

This is nice. The comet's tail appears at about 3.20.

Lovely.

Has anyone seen the comet from the ground? I tried to have a look last night (after the quiz) but the direction I need to look has a street lamp , so it makes it harder to see faint things like that.

Going to try and go to a local field tonight (which has a nice little hill in it, should give a good view if it stays clear) or possibly even the moors, but that's more effort and involves a lot of walking on uneven ground in the dark.

I don't really have the equipment to take any photos of it that will work, and I don't really have a very good telescope/binoculars either, but that's never stopped me before!

I tried to look for it a couple of days ago, using Star Walk, but that just confirmed that it was below the horizon at the time.

I had really slim pickings, it was starting to get cloudy as the sun set, I could easily see the plough (It's just beneath that in the sky), and I could see some dim stars in the location, lining our (sub £100, so a really poor kids one, but brilliant for looking at the moon, and you can see the Jovian satellites) telescope up with it, you could see a star with a smudge coming out of the top. So I think that was it, a little underwhelming. I'd love to have better equipment, but alas I don't.

King Crimson/Foreigner founder Ian McDonald, still making music at 74.

Takes a while to learn a new song, eh? Not neccesarily.