Saturday 11 July 2020

Biggus Dickus - Monty Python, Life of Brian.


Just one of many brilliant scenes from the epic comedy "Life of Brian" by Monty Python.

Thursday 9 July 2020

Sunday 5 July 2020

Daft Punk - Vegoose 2007 - Las Vegas - Full-Show


New 3-Cam video of Daft Punk's 2007 set at Vegoose.  Free fan video created using previously unseen media.  1080p60fps render (MiniDV Master sources). 

Daft Punk
October 27, 2007
Vegoose

Tracklist:

0:00 - Robot Rock / Oh Yeah
6:23 - Television Rules The Nation / Crescendolls
11:14 - Too Long / Steam Machine
17:53 - Around The World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
23:58 - Burnin' / Too Long
31:09 - Face to Face / Short Circuit
35:48 - One More Time / Aerodynamic
42:16 - Aerodynamic Beats / Forget About the World
45:19 - The Prime Time of Your Life / The Brainwasher / Rollin' & Scratchin' / Alive
56:00 - Da Funk / Daftendirekt
1:02:51 - Superheroes / Human After All / Rock'n Roll

Encore / Rappel:
1:08:46 - Human After All / Together / One More Time (reprise) / Music Sounds Better With You

Friday 3 July 2020

This Speech Will Change Your Life - Carl Sagan


From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer,
every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps a no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Wednesday 1 July 2020

Kayaker Saves a Deer from Drowning in Italy


Fabulous action by whitewater kayaker Fabrizio "Gass" Capizzo who saved a deer from drowning while paddling with friends on the Candigliano river near San Marino in Italy. The funny part is he almost cares more about the deer than his fellow paddler who swam... :-)