The trailer for the second part of The Hobbit is now out – seems to take a bit of a detour from the books, but we’ll see more when it comes out.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer
Posted: June 12, 2013 in fantasy, MoviesTags: fantasy, movies, The Hobbit, video
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Short Film – The Reward
Posted: April 9, 2013 in GeneralTags: animation, fantasy, fantasy adventure, heroic fantasy, video
The following is a short animated film, around 9 minutes in length, about a pair of unlikely adventurers. It is very much in the heroic fantasy style of adventuring (think Conan) than the high fantasy style.
There is also a kickstarter project to turn it into a series.
For such a short film, it packs quite a tale into it.
Castle/Firefly TV Intro Mashup
Posted: April 3, 2013 in General, tv showsTags: castle, firefly, nathan fillion, tv shows, video
I saw the following video yesterday, a mash up of two of my favourite shows – Castle and Firefly. (Both, oddly, starring Nathan Fillion.)
It takes the theme and style of Firefly and uses the cast of Castle. And its great.
With one week before Doctor Who starts up again, a short prequel to the first episode, The Bells of Saint John, has been released.
March 30 sees the return of The Doctor, with the second half of the current season of Doctor Who
To whet our appetites, a new trailer has been released.
Century old Aussie rules footy film
Posted: September 20, 2012 in GeneralTags: aussie rules, video, youtube
Now this is rather awesome.
The Grand Final of the Aussie rules footy season is almost upon us, one of the oldest sporting competitions in the world. As a reminder of just how old it is, recently footage has been discovered of it being played – from 1911. And it is actually only the fifth oldest footage known to exist.
One thing of interest is to see what the people in the crowd are wearing – women in their big hats and men in their three piece suits. It was a different time indeed.
Lego Men In Space
Posted: January 29, 2012 in GeneralTags: lego, space, space travel, video, youtube
Now this is amusing – a couple of Canadian teens have sent a lego man into space. Well, near space.
They strapped the lego man and a camera to one of those high altitude balloons and launched it, getting to the edge of space – and they were able to recover the lego when it finally came crashing back down to earth as well.
At least they can launch something into space nowadays, unlike the Australian space program, which vanished way back, or even the US one, which seems to be scrapping any prospect of manned space flight in the foreseeable future. That kind of thinking seems very short sighted.
Baker Rifle and Brown Bess Musket In Action
Posted: August 9, 2011 in GeneralTags: 95th Rifles, baker rifle, musket, Napoleonic Wars, video, youtube
While looking through youtube yesterday, I came across a series of videos made by the 2/95th Regt (Australia) – a group of Australian reenactors based on the famous 95th Rifles, written about by C. S. Forester in Death to the French, and by Bernard Cornwell in his Sharpe series.
In them they test the Brown Bess flintlock musket and the Baker Rifle that were used by the Britsh forces during the Napoleonic Wars, testing for rate of fire, accuracy and more. The information that I gleaned from it will be very useful – I’ll have to change a few things in the revamp of the various stories to take into account the new data I got from it.
Baker Rifle Ammunition and Accuracy
Brown Bess Musket Accuracy
Flintlock Musket Tap Loading
Baker Rifle Sustained Fire
Trailer for Second Half of 2011 Doctor Who Season
Posted: August 1, 2011 in GeneralTags: doctor who, tv shows, video, youtube
We have a trailer now for the second half of this years Doctor Who season – can’t wait.
Lets see, we have Weeping Angels, Cybermen, Hitler, Rory punching Hitler, what looks like the eye of the Face of Boe and possibly River being eyepatch lady.
Mist and Shadows 