Alphabet by Dilute

 

This is a math rock song by a band called dilute I love this song, it's calm and

peaceful in a way, but it has a radicality and a mystery to it that really shouldn't be there

but refuses to leave. It makes me think of Lectus and Ether and this is one of the songs I use to write them. I kind of want it on the commercial for the animated version of their comic if I ever go that far with it.

 

Needs more love.

Know Your Enemy by Yoko Kanno

Good for writing (particularly Greyblade), but mainly just really, really pretty.

Doctor Who: The Lost Episodes

Do any of you know about the lost episodes of Doctor Who? The missing ones, you know, the junked, erased, or just plain forgotten about? If so, you may really appreciate these next couple of videos. It's a sort of a documentary commemorating and explaining rather thoroughly, with as much objectivity as can be mustered, the details of this less fortunate part of Doctor Who's history.

If you don't know what the heck I'm talking about (and have always wanted to learn more about Who's past as a television program in the Era-of-no-Sci-fi), you could watch it anyway, see what you think. I certainly enjoyed it. But I'm...well...me. o.O

Anyway, informational, enthralling, and kind of a thrill for Classic Who fans (probably anyways; no guarantees!), let's have at it, shall we?

Doctor Who 101 (the Actual Video)

Ha! Silly me. XD I just realized I could embed this video, even though I knew how to before (well, it hasn't really worked on the Ipad so far, but whatevs...). Anyway, Enjoy! :)

Manos: Hands of Fate

You'l laugh, you'll cry, you'll wish it was never made.

Seriously, the only good thing about this movie is that you can make fun if it. The MST3k crew are the sole reason I don't acitvely wish it would have traded places with the Evil of the Daleks. :(

Aw, great, now I'm gonna cry again...

Oh well, MST3k is just the remedy I seek. ;D

Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

I hate to be a trend-follower, espeically when it comes to music, but I just have thing for this song; I've pretty much been lsitening to it repeatedly, almost non-stop for the past few days. The sense of epic, of enormous power, purpose, and victory is incredible and suprisingly healing of the spirit. It's great for getting the creative juices flowing if nothing else (partiuclalry when writing sci-fi/fantasy epics and such). If you haven't already, try it. I think you'll like it...

Doctor Who 101

Well, in case you haven't noticed, and I really hope you have because if not it means you neither read my blog nor surf my pinterest boards and that hurts a bit, I've gotten into Doctor Who recently. And I do mean recently, as in maybe a couple of months ago. and I do mean I've really gotten into Doctor Who, in the I-jump-at-sounds-that-could-be-the-TARDIS-rematerializing-I-know-facts-about-every-era-I-own- a-plush-TARDIS-keychain-that-makes-the-VORP-VORP-sounds gotten into.

And it has come to my attention that not all of you are exactly aware of just what Doctor Who really is. May be you vaguely recall a zany, curly haired man with a very long striped scarf from your childhood (as I did), or maybe you've heard your fellow nerds and geeks discussing it during lunch break at various gatherings (again, as I), or perhaps you just spend too much time on the Internet (...yeah. -_-), or perhaps, and this is certainly the worst of the possibilities, you've NEVER heard of Doctor Who. (In which case, I pity you. I dearly pity you...) but not to worry, because there is much to learn and much to be said, and I know many of them the direction in which I may point you.

To put it simply, Doctor Who is a British Television Sci-fi Drama (the longest running Sci-fi drama in the world, with over 32 seasons of television cannon and spanning over 46 years of time. Since 1964, baby.) about a human-like alien known simply as the Doctor, who travels in space and time in near-magic-like blue police box called the TARDIS (a Type 40 TARDIS, to be precise, the last of her kind), a super advanced time/space ship that is far, far bigger on the inside. He hops around the cosmos, doing his best to fix things that go wrong and save people. He travels with passerngers known as companions, often humans (as they are his favorite species), whom he shares his adventures
with, and who protect the Doctor as much as he protects them.

It's completely and utterly awesome. 

I could on and on about the show, but instead I am going to recommend what I feel is the best introduction pretty much anyone could have to the series--this ten minute video by SF Debris, which explains everything you need to know to get started. Enjoy!  (sorry I can't post it directly on the blog, since it's not on YouTube. But here is a link to his site and blip.tv, his chosen video hosting site.)

To the SF Debris site.
To blip.Tv.

Found here.

The Littlest Cosmic Hobo

Like I mentioned on my pin of the same video, I have a huge soft spot for the 2nd doctor. I love all the doctors, but he's just so...so dear. And kind. And fun. And he inspired pretty much all of the dearest, kindest, funnest doctors afterward. Oh, and despite all of that (or perhaps, because of it all) he could also be one of the most clever, cunning, devious doctors there was. Thank you so, so much Mr. Troughton. 

Sunshine is Better than a Hallelujah Sometimes (part 2)

Feeling down? These songs will cheer you up, I promise!

This one is Sunshine Girl by moumoon.

Sunshine is Better than a Hallelujah Sometimes (part 1)

Feeling down? These songs will cheer you up, I promise!

This one is Better Than A Hallelujah by Amy Grant.

Noah Mash Up of "Ain't No Sunshine" & "Harder to Breathe" by Bill Withers/Maroon 5

This. Guy. Is. INCREDIBLE.

Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)

Ha! I watched this when I was little. I love it a lot more now, being much more into mathematics and such... Crazy....


Discovered (or rather, rediscovered) here:

http://wildaboutmath.com/2012/03/23/1959-donald-duck-donald-in-mathmagic-land/

Yoko Kanno-- Moon

*Sigh* It's like pretty much every song by Yoko Kanno is...magic...

Smart

The song Smart, by Girl in a Coma. Amusingly, I first saw this video in an Arby's, on the music channel on the TV in the restraunt. And I fell in love with it. :)

Antiquated

I have an interesting secret. Care to hear?

When I was a little girl, I joined a ballet class. I didn't like it at all. The teacher was strict, the dance was strict, and everything was frilly, girly, difficult, and operated in a manner alien to my own.

In my later years, I grew to appreciate it more (with some help from a much nicer dance teacher, annual Nutcracker viewings, and Princess Tutu [that last one, BTW, a much better show than it sounds. XD]).

Well, anyway, here are some of the oldest recordings of Ballet performances I've ever seen (and I'm pretty sure are some of the oldest in existence). Enjoy!

The upper one is from 1903, but shorter. The lower one is the same dance, but from 1906, and longer.  



Prodigy--One Love

Music from the movie Hackers. Not sure about the movie (yet...), but I'm in love with the soundtrack. It makes me feel like hacking. :)

Analyzing the World

The beautiful world of robot minds.

Robot readable world from Timo on Vimeo.

Cog

An awesome Rube Goldberg-like system, consisting of car parts, from a UK Honda commercial.

"If You've Made it This Far..."

"You're where...Dragons...are..."

Points to whomever recognizes that quote paraphrase...

Wow, you're memory must be good. (Or you really liked that movie for some reason XD. I know I did :D)

Anyhow, this is the Japanese version of the opening (as I understand it) from How to Train Your Dragon. 

It's awesome by the way.

I really liked the Jpop twist, and I think the song both works with the movie, the characters, and the visuals, as well as corresponds to the glow-y, fantasy/adventure...ness How to Train Your Dragon entails. It also reminds me heavily of an anime theme song, and thus bring the presence of Japanimation to the movie; a strange, but no less tasty combination.

But I do digress...

...XD

This video was found here, at Character Design Info. I highly recommend you check it out, it's a fantastic blog. Enjoy! :)