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Travel: Historic tours of NZ Northland and Angkor Wat in 1930/40s
Two film documents of travel 70-80 years ago from the Travel Film Archive (link below) that has many other history film documents from places around the world.
The first one is a tour of the ancient Cambodian temples of Angkor Wat and Bayon in the 1930s. If you recently had a chance to visit these wonders of the world, you will realize from watching the film how much this place has deteriorated within about 80 years.
The second film (in color) shows you around the New Zealand Northland popular with many tourists touring from Auckland. Many places there are now…
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Cartoon: Presidential Cheat Codes
Great idea from LukeSurl.com.
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Animation: A Gentleman’s Duel
A must see animation from Californian animation studio Blur.
Outstanding work.
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Photography: Tokyo Reality - Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Interesting what you can do with the latest top-of-the-line digital SLR cameras. Tokyo Reality is a 6 minute movie shot with the new Canon EOS 5D MarkII that comes with full High Definition video capability.
In Live View Mode, this digital master piece from Canon allows to shoot uninterrupted at full HD, 1080 resolution with 30fps. The movie was created within 3 days from 74GB of rushes (after processing).
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Music: Stina Nordenstam
Two great songs from Swedish singer, songwriter and musician Stina Nordenstam.
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Weekend Activity: Make some Paper Planes
Here’s a great way to create a F-16 Falcon Paper Airplane. The Amazing Paper Airplanes web site (link below) has detailed instructions plus a video and a PDF file for the coloring.
The Amazing Paper Airplanes web site has many more plans and instructions including the F-117A Nighthawk, Space Shuttle and Concorde.
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Music: Bob Marley - Natural Mystic
One of Bob Marley’s greatest songs “Natural Mystic” with images from the funeral of Hon. Robert Nesta Marley 1981, Kingston Jamaica.
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Video: Chocolate Love
One for the night or Saturday morning depending wherever you are on this planet.
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Data Visualization: U.S. States as N.Y.C. Boroughs
The boroughs of New York City as U.S. states based on their closest population analogues.
Manhattan becomes Idaho, the Bronx becomes Maine, Queens has as many people as New Mexico, Brooklyn as Nevada and Staten Island as many as Wyoming.
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Gadget: TeddyTaurus
If you liked to play with Teddies when you were younger and believe been seen with one at your age might not be such a great idea - here a two options:
A fried of us a while ago - always in the evening - was having a small white teddy bear looking out from one of the pockets of his jacket. Believe it or not - great success with the girls. Maybe it was the type of the bear.
The other option is more for home use: The TeddyTaurus.
Made by the great German toy company Steiff, the TeddyTaurus is most likely the first…
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