Dakuwaqa’s Garden – Underwater footage from Fiji
An evening pause: Dakuwaqa’s Garden.
Tag: entertainment
Cleopatra enters Rome
An evening pause: As today is the Ides of March, I am always reminded of Julius Caesar. With that thought in mind, here is a clip from the 1953 movie, Cleopatra, staring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton. The movie overall isn’t very good, though the first half with Rex Harrison playing Julius Caesar is worth watching, partly because of Harrison and partly because it is very clearly inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s play Caesar and Cleopatra.
That first half also includes the scene below, when Cleopatra enters Rome, bringing with her her son by Caesar. A more classic example of late Hollywood spectacle would be hard to find. It is silly, absurd, impossible, and yet totally engrossing. And it was done with no computer effects. When Hollywood PR used to say a movie had a “cast of thousands,” they really meant it.
Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind
An evening pause: Performed live, 1974.
Kevin Olusola on cello
An evening pause: Kevin Olusola doing some hip-hop improv on cello.
Les Paul and Mary Ford – How high the Moon
An evening pause: From the late 1950s, Alastair Cooke introduces Les Paul and Mary Ford, who then demonstrate some advanced music technology (and some smokin’ music) that would only become commonplace in the coming decades.
Cat walking upside down under the bed
An evening pause: Sometimes, it’s just more fun to do things differently.
Dominic Boudreault – The City Limits (music by Hans Zimmers)
An evening pause: Time lapse photography by Dominic Boudreault, music by Hans Zimmers.
Chicken Chicken Chicken
An evening pause: For anyone who has ever attended a science conference and listened to the presentations there, this presentation embodies that experience better than any I have ever seen. It was so good it won an Ig Noble award.
If you want to read the whole paper, you can find it here [pdf].
Dicken with Milah and Korben – Everything Counts
An evening pause: As my wife Diane said after watching this, “Gee, I wish I had had a cool dad like that.”
Ronald Jenkees – The Fast Song
An evening pause: How about some amazing piano jamming by Ronald Jenkees.
Mirusia Louwerse and André Rieu – Ave Maria
An evening pause:
Why do cats run the internet?
Under Pressure – David Bowie and Annie Lennox live performance
An evening pause: Yesterday I showed the rehearsal. Here’s their live performance of “Under Pressure” at the Freddie Mercury tribute, April 20, 1992.
Under Pressure – David Bowie and Annie Lennox rehearsal
An evening pause: Rehearsing for the Freddie Mercury tribute that was held on April 20, 1992.
Stanley Brothers – It Takes A Worried Man
An evening pause: How about some classic bluegrass?
The Page Turner
An evening pause: Rube Goldberg would be proud.
Davy Jones of The Monkees has died
R.I.P. Davy Jones, 66, of the Monkees has died.
Pentatonix – Somebody that I used to know
An evening pause: Man, they know how to sing.
Charlie Puth & Emily Luther – Break Again
An evening pause:
Aladdin – A Whole New World
An evening pause: “Don’t you dare close your eyes!”