This was another fun-filled weekend of staying in. I did have some friends come over Friday night and we played a little Xbox 360 and Trivial Pursuit (the DVD version) . We got bored of answering the card questions and started only playing the video questions which are usually only meant for the pie pieces.
On Saturday and some of Sunday I caught up with my usual places on the web and watched some video podcasts as well. Here is a list of the internet jewels I found along the way. Most of these are videos so sorry to those at work (my office blocks streaming video, something about losing productivity).
First we have the latest episode of Diggnation Episode 134 “Dreaming of the SuperBowl” Is it me or are they less funny when they are not drunk? During this episode, Kevin mentioned how he hated some of the features about youtube like its crappy compression and talked about another service he liked called Vimeo which he left had some good content plus HD video. I checked it out and found a killer video someone took in Japan showing 3 areas at night sped up.
Which brings me to my next video which is part of a series called landscapeHD. If you want to see it in HD click this link.
LandscapeHD from LandscapeHD on Vimeo.
Saturday evening was also the Season 2 Opener of Torchwood on BBC America. First of all if you are a fan of the Dr Who series then you will love Torchwood. Man of you will recognize Captain Jack Harkness who popped in and out of the Dr Who series. Episode 1 entitled “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” is a good summary of the episode. This did have alot of kissing both guy-on-girl, and guy-on-guy. The “bang bang” part stems from the fast pace the characters are reintroduced to us and well as the quick return of Captain Jack Harkness, who mysteriously disappeared at end of Season 1. Special Guest star is James Marsters, who you might recognize as Spike from the Buffy series. Very good episode indeed. For a more in depth review of the episode check out Newsday.com’s review.
The last thing is this awesome demonstration of what 4 days, a video camera, alot of running, and some green screen can accomplish. This is a behind the scenes look at a video shoot for a BBC2 TV show called Time Watch:Bloody Omaha. Theses 4 videographers were able to capture the look and feel of the battle of Normandy on a shoe string budget with the four of them taking video on the beach and alot of green screen. Once you see the result you will be blown away. Here is the article and here is the video.
