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Humor: Monty Python YouTube Channel

By fpp ⋅ 19-November-2008 at 3:26 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Finally some of the greatest Monty Python sketches have been made available in high quality from the source.

So far there are 24 videos including “Always look on the bright side …”, “Lumberjack Song”, “Job Interview”, “Four Yorkshiremen”, “Black Knight” and “Killer Rabbit” to name a few.

Guys, you can do better, where’s the “Spanish Inquisition”, “The Funniest Joke” and all the other great ones you’ve done!

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Animation: Burn-E

By fpp ⋅ 19-November-2008 at 2:05 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

A great teaser for Pixar’s new DVD available from End of January 2009.

Like always from Pixar animation at its best.

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Travel: Historic tours of NZ Northland and Angkor Wat in 1930/40s

By fpp ⋅ 17-November-2008 at 19:05 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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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Animation: A Gentleman’s Duel

By fpp ⋅ 16-November-2008 at 13:52 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

A must see animation from Californian animation studio Blur.

Outstanding work.

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Photography: Tokyo Reality - Canon EOS 5D MarkII

By fpp ⋅ 16-November-2008 at 13:35 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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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