This silent film remake of a scene from “The Empire Strikes Back” is great. I love the music.
My favorite scene from my favorite movie. It makes me happy that I have this film on my G1 phone!
If you are in need of a public Notary, check with your local bank. Our Capital One has a notary service that is free for its customers. So convenient! I also read that you can check with your local library as some of them also provide the service. Can save a bit of lunch money.
While looking through the Aerostich catalog I noticed they were selling an anime named “Kino’s Journey”. I checked for it on Netflix and saw that the 15 episode series was available so I put it in my queue. The story is about a traveler, Kino, and her talking motorcycle, Hermes. They travel the semi-fictitious world, stopping and visiting many different countries. These countries vary in size, technology, and culture. Each episode is a small self-contained story and usually has some insight into human behavior. I found the series to be pretty interesting, sometimes shocking, sometimes funny. But most of all, I enjoyed the motorcycle footage. It looked like a cool “motorrad”. The opening and closing theme songs are really good too. When I was riding my motorcycle last week, I couldn’t get the opening song out of my head!
We saw the IMAX Hubble 3D movie on July 4th at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. It was incredible, fantastic, awe-inspiring, and actually made me proud of the good ol USA. (A couple tears welled up even) The footage of the space shuttle blasting off was amazing. Hawaii got some screen-time as well, with a great shot from orbit and opening/closing IZ song. I highly recommend this IMAX feature!
I bought a new Panasonic DMC-TS2 point & shoot camera to replace my old Canon SD200. I’ve wanted a waterproof camera for a long time and this one looks to be a pretty good one. Last year I looked at the Canon D10 which seemed to be the best camera out there, but it did have a couple things that I didn’t like. First, the video recording wasn’t any kind of HD and secondly the camera was physically bulky. At the time, Panasonic had their DMC-TS1 which seemed good but the disadvantage was that it was only waterproof to 10 feet. With the new DMC-T2, Panasonic increased the depth to 30 feet. Combine that with a small form-factor and 720p video and it became the camera to get. So far I am pretty happy with it. I’m already comfortable with the controls and the image quality seems pretty good. I am really happy to have a camera that can take some abuse and I don’t have to worry about it getting damaged around the pool. I can’t wait to take some underwater photos and video!
Another of my favorite songs by ZARD. The more rockin album version of this song is here.
Mikey sent me a link to a really comprehensive post all about ZARD and Izumi Sakai. Thanks Mikey!
A couple remixes of some classic Ghibli tunes. This one has Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Totoro, Laputa, Have a nice week!
