Tonight's musical interlude - from Sachal Studios, Lahore, Pakistan, doing their take on Take Five, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet:
Law, politics, art, humor, constitutional rights, self-defense, and whatever else catches my fancy.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
No more dammed river
Tonight's time lapse dam destruction:
From the video's description:
From the video's description:
The White Salmon River in Washington state is flowing again as the nearly 100-year-old Condit Dam was disabled with explosives Wednesday. The reservoir draining took about 2 hours. ...
Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Starlings
Tonight's avian video - wildlife cameraman and travel journalist Dylan Winter captures flocks of starlings in flight:
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Musical interlude
Tonight's musical interlude - Keith Medley plays Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King on his 27 string guitar:
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Happy Thankgiving!
Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. And as we thank God for our many blessings, let us not forget to also help all those who are in need.
Tonight's musical interlude - Thanksgiving, by George Winston:
Tonight's musical interlude - Thanksgiving, by George Winston:
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Musical interlude
Tonight's musical interlude - guitarist Chris Quiray performs his percussive guitar solo Self Indulgence:
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Made in Iceland
Tonight's pedestrian travel video - Klara Harden takes a hike through Iceland:
Read more about her trip here.
Read more about her trip here.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Landscapes
Tonight's time lapse landscape video - scenes from Arizona and Utah, shot with a Canon 5D2 DSLR:
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Musical interlude
Tonight's musical interlude - the Copenhagen Philharmonic does a flash mob performance of Ravel's Bolero at Copenhagen Central Station:
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Parachuting Into Michigan Stadium with the 101st Airborne Division
Tonight's football delivery service:
From the video's description:
Note the service members on the field to retrieve the American flag when he lands so that the flag doesn't lay on the ground.
From the video's description:
Sgt. Adam Sniffen from the 101st Airborne Division delivers the game ball via parachute before the Michigan vs. MSU game at Michigan Stadium on Oct. 9, 2010.
Note the service members on the field to retrieve the American flag when he lands so that the flag doesn't lay on the ground.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Goes, well, like a rocket
Tonight's rocket launch:
From the video's description:
From the video's description:
On September 30, 2011 at 11:08am, Derek Deville's Qu8k (pronounced "Quake") launched from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to an altitude of 121,000' before returning safely to earth. Above 99% of the atmosphere, the sky turns black in the middle of the day and the curvature of the earth is clearly visible. The rocket motor produced 4,000 lbs of thrust for 8 seconds accelerating the vehicle to over Mach 3 at over 10,000'. After that, momentum carried the rocket skyward for another 84 seconds to a peak altitude of 121,000'.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Musical interlude
Tonight's musical interlude - Zoe Keating, a San Francisco-based musician who uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to create her music:
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Quantum levitation
Tonight's levitation video - from a demonstration at the Association of Science-Technology Centers 2011 conference, held in October at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore:
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
When turkeys attack
Tonight's not-so-intrepid mainstream newswoman - a producer from Sacramento's KXTV gets chased by a turkey: