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Google Goggles

hroman — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:14:07 +0000

Ridiculously cool experimental app from Google:

Reminds me of the TED Lecture from Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry on MIT’s “SixthSense”.

Do Not Make Me Tell You Again About The Scooching

hroman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:13:18 +0000

Plastered all over the interwebs, you’re more than likely to have seen Christopher Walken perform Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” on BBC1. If not, you’re in for a laugh:

Naturally, nostalgia reigns supreme at these moments: who could forget the original, Walken performing “Three Little Pigs”?

And there’s the classic Simpsons take – with the scooching.

No Rose Without A Thorn, Or Love Without A Rival

hroman — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:45:03 +0000

Oh, it’s on.

The Log Driver’s Waltz Pleases Neighbours Completely

hroman — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:07:31 +0000

Some time ago, I received a friendly note from the National Film Board of Canada regarding a post I did about the Log Driver’s Waltz.

I wrote:

The National Film Board of Canada, in 1979, produced one of the greatest short animated vignettes in Canadian history. The three minute song, called “Log Driver’s Waltz,” is so famous that CBC still gets asked for copies of the cartoon. Unfortunately, they do not own the rights to it. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, however, we can now re-live the past.

Well, it seems that the National Film Board of Canada has now made that video (along with a tonne of other videos) available on their new beta site¹:

http://beta.nfb.ca/

The videos are also available in High Definition. I must say, browsing through the site is quite a pleasure. The repository is vast; I even ran across the 1952 Oscar-winning short-film “Neighbours” (embedded below, along with the Log Driver’s Waltz).

I heart the NFB.

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The Log Driver’s Waltz. (video source)

Neighbours, by Norman McLaren. (video source)

Four months new… I am a little late responding to emails.