Week 19 of the WWW

Another late post this week. It's been beautiful weather and to be perfectly honest, I've been out a lot rather than in the office. I'm sure you understand. I've now got 30 minutes before dinner is ready and guests arrive (we eat early now we're parent type people), so I'll try and make this post have some kind of coherence. Not that they usually do but who cares?

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We lost Terry Pratchett this week. Very sad news. He's been a figure in most of my life, thanks to my brother who was a big fan. I'll admit I've never read his books. I was never a huge fan of fiction, but I've started to lean that way these days. Despite my not reading his books, I still found his last tweets and the emotional response to his death overwhelming. 

Find out what made Terry, and the rest of us, human, in this very nice parallax site from the beeb. 

I've never been on a cruise ship, but I've always been tempted by it. There's something intriguing about living in a contained area for a certain amount of time. Great for people watching too. 

The mighty, mighty mountains. I've also never been to the Himalayas, and given the choice between them and a cruise ship, I'd get cold any day of the week. 

The aerial cinema experts at Teton Gravity Research release the first ultra HD footage of the Himalayas shot from above 20,000 ft. with the GSS C520 system, the most advanced gyro-stabilized camera system in the world. Filmed from a helicopter with a crew flying from Kathmandu at 4,600 ft. up to 24,000 ft. on supplemental oxygen, these are some of the most stable, crisp, clear aerial shots of these mountains ever released, which include Mt. Everest, Ama Dablam, and Lhotse. Sound design and mix by Jeff Cormack at Play+Record

Here's a taste of Austria. I have been to Austria. Twice, so there. 

The scenery of our home country Austria is beyond compare. We live in the heart of Europe where we have a spectacular combination of cultural and natural attractions. No matter what time of year, Austria will welcome you with „Schmäh“ and „Gemütlichkeit“. We hope you enjoy this glimpse into the atmosphere of Austria’s cities and landscapes. By the way: The voice-over is original footage of Felix Baumgartner's stratos mission in 2012. Technical Details: After 2 years (2013-2015) of filming in the whole country, we gathered about 600 time-lapse clips, which is about 5TB of raw footage. Produced by: Thomas Pöcksteiner // Peter Jablonowski www.filmspektakel.at Equipment used: + Dynamic Perception Stage One + Emotimo TB3 + Pocketslider + Canon 5D Mark III + 2x Canon 6D + Canon 600D + several Samyang/Walimex 14mm F2,8 (Boy, these break easy.. :P) + Canon 24-105mm F4 + Tamron 150-600mm + Tamron 24-70mm F2,8 + Tamron 28-300mm F3,5-6,3 _________________________________ Visit our website: http://filmspektakel.at Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/FilmSpektakel Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FilmSpektakel Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/filmspektakel For licensing & inquires please contact us via email: info@filmspektakel.at All shots are available in 5K!

Excellent drone footage through the Crossrail tunnels in Loondon. I've never flown a drone, but I did see one crash into a crowd watching a cruise ship dock in Hamburg (apparently it was a very exciting cruise ship. New or something). 

That's it! Go about your weekend. 

Chapter 6 of the World Wide Web

This week is late, and not very long. The reason it's late and not very long is because I became a mother on Thursday. The little gentleman was four days early, so was a bit of a surprise. Seeing as I had been pressuring him for weeks to arrive on the 10th (you know, for 10/12/14), it hardly seems fair to blame him. Anyway. Here is the internet, last week, now. 

I'm afraid we're going to look at space again. I know I go on about space, but just...just...OK? Here is a cinematic tribute to that big old...space out there. Odd that Contact isn't in there. Thought that was very beautiful, and man! Talk about a twist. 

Music: Hans Zimmer - Mountains (Interstellar Soundtrack) Lyrics: «Do not go gentle into that good night» by Dylan Thomas Voice: Anthony Hopkins FILMS: «2001: A Space Odyssey» (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick) «Alien» (1979, dir. Ridley Scott) «Aliens» (1986, dir. James Cameron) «Armageddon» (1998, dir. Michael Bay) «Avatar» (2009, dir. James Cameron) «Battleship» (2012, dir. Peter Berg) «Cargo» (2009, dir. Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter) «Elysium» (2013, dir. Neill Blomkamp) «Europa Report» (2013, dir. Sebastián Cordero) «Event Horizon» (1997, dir. Paul Anderson) «Gravity» (2013, dir. Alfonso Cuarón) «Guardians of the Galaxy» (2014, dir. James Gunn) «Interstellar » (2014, dir. Christopher Nolan) «Lockout» (2012, dir. James Mather, Stephen St. Leger) «Lost in Space» (1998, dir. Stephen Hopkins) «Man of Steel» (2013, dir. Zack Snyder) «Mission to Mars» (2000, dir. Brian De Palma) «Moon» (2009, dir. Duncan Jones) «Oblivion» (2013, dir. Joseph Kosinski) «Pandorum» (2009, dir. Christian Alvart) «Prometheus» (2012, dir. Ridley Scott) «Solaris» (1972, dir. Andrey Tarkovskiy) «Solaris» (2002, dir. Steven Soderbergh) «Star Trek» (2009, dir. J.J. Abrams) «Star Trek: Into Darkness» (2013, dir. J.J. Abrams) «Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope» (1977, dir. George Lucas) «Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi» (1983, dir.Richard Marquand) «Starship Troopers» (1997, dir. Paul Verhoeven) «Sunshine» (2007, dir. Danny Boyle) «The Fountain» (2006, dir. Darren Aronofsky) «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» (2005, dir. Garth Jennings) «The Last Days on Mars» (2013, dir. Ruairi Robinson) «The Signal» (2014, dir. William Eubank) «Thor: The Dark World» (2013, dir. Alan Taylor) «Transformers: Dark of the Moon» (2011, dir. Michael Bay)

I love this flashback to my youth, in the shape of a cassette tape achieve called Tapedeck. "apedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette."

This is from 2012, but so what if it's old?! 

London's Crossrail project is churning out some stunning images. What I'd give to get into one of those tunnels. 

Mad Max is looking really good. I'm actually looking forward to this. 

The world goes mad Summer 2015. https://www.facebook.com/MadMaxMovie From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary "Mad Max" franchise, comes "Mad Max: Fury Road," a return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone.

Well that's it for this week as I think I have a good excuse so there.