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Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal
As someone who cannot stop watching a Michael Bay film once I've started (Armageddon, I'm looking at you!) I found this hilarious. It is what the title says Michael Bay Eating a Bowl of Cereal.
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Music rec
There is this strange Scandinavian tradition to read and watch crime stories during Easter. In fact, the bloodier the better. Why this is I have no idea, but in honour of this morbid tradition have a look at this creepy, wonderful video by Swedish artist Fever Ray.
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Into Great Silence and Homeric Proportions
As part of my job is watching a lot of movies (oh the hardship...)I figured I might as well make a list of what I have seen, and write a snippet or two about them. For some strange reason I decided to begin with a film about hermit-monks.
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Franciscan Road
While in Rome I caught up with one of my friends, and she is currently writing about the Franciscan Monks. She kept insisting that the Franciscans had wholeheartedly adopted popular culture, and since I at first didn't quite believe her she presented proof:
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Photoshop Petersburg
I find these images more than a bit eerie, and quite fascinating:
Old photos from the WWII siege of Leningrad photoshoped and blended in with modern day images of St. Petersburg.
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The Pacific
First real sneak peak at the series The Pacific, aka the new WWII series by the team that made Band of Brothers. Due for release in 2010. Why, yes - I am excited.
As far as I know it is based on Eugene B. Sledge's book "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" which is pretty good as far as WWII-memoires go.
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Photochrome fjords
Now this is just cool. The US Library of Congress has uploaded hundreds of old tourist photos from Norway. Not only are they from around 1890 to 1900 but they are in photochrome! Please, allow me to geek out and be a nerd, but I love the strange colours of photochrome.
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Mad Men art
I might be late to the party here, but I love, love, love this artist's take on Mad Men
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Morris dancing
To me this news item has something of a Terry Pratchett vibe. The BBC reports that Morris dancing is in danger of becoming extinct. Young people are just too embarrassed to take part. But the leader of the Morris Ring, Paul Reece, says there is still hope and ads:
"There is still time for new blood to get ready for the spring fertility offensive ( Read more... )
