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Back when I originally stumbled across this film, I had no idea what I was in for. It remains one of my absolute favourite short films ever. Enjoy. Directed by Michael Please.
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Finally, we have an answer. In 1958, America accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon on two little girls' playhouse - IO95/24/2014  "The task was doomed from the start; later testimony indicated Kulka had no idea where to find the locking pin in the large and complicated bomb-release mechanism. After a tense 12 minutes searching for the pin, the bombardier decided, correctly, that it must be high up in the bomb bay and invisible because of the curvature of the bomb. A short man, he jumped to pull himself up to get a look at where he thought the locking pin should be. Unfortunately, he evidently chose the emergency bomb-release mechanism for his handhold. The weapon dropped from its shackle and rested momentarily on the closed bomb-bay doors with Captain Kulka splayed across it in the manner of Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. Kulka grabbed at a bag that had providentially been stored in the bomb bay, while the more-than-three-ton bomb broke open the bomb-bay doors and fell earthward. The bag Kulka was holding came loose, and he found himself sliding after the bomb without his parachute. He managed to grab something-he wasn't sure what-and haul himself to safety. Moments later the plane was rocked by the shock wave of the blast when the bomb hit the ground."
http://io9.com/5904633/in-1958-america-accidentally-dropped-a-nuclear-weapon-on-two-little-girls-playhouse  He's been busy since the end of Pink Floyd.
"Mechanical things are just... brilliant," says Nick, gently tapping on a Ferrari that falls closely to hand. "You can fettle and tune and take them apart - but in my case I usually have to get someone else to put them back together again. Then the little adjustments you make turn into tangible things like faster laps and higher top speeds. I'm very grateful to have a passion for cars." http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/nick-mason-car-collection-2012-05-04  Google Books has a wealth of old magazines uploaded that you can read for free, whenever. It's amazing, curious and sometimes disturbing to see into the past this way. Here's the May 12, 1947 issue. http://books.google.ca/books?id=ZEgEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA42&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false  
 Slow, weird, mechanical cars are way more interesting than supermega hypermachines.
"Tired of speeding tickets? Try trading your new Porsche Turbo for a 53-year-old Volvo 544. Your 0-100 km/h time will go from four seconds to about 30 (give or take), and top speed will be slashed from 300 to about 145 (depending on wind conditions and other factors)." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-life/cheney/it-takes-skill-to-squeeze-speed-from-a-slow-poke/article2406407/singlepage/#articlecontent There's a new Ninja Turtles movie coming out. It's not this, but it should be this. "The Sagan Series is an educational project working in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population. Created by @ReidGower http://twitter.com/reidgower"
Get ready. This was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 and is totally thrilling. It never becomes boring, bringing anyone and everyone into the amazing, exhilarating, funny and sometimes poignant world of motorcycles and the people who ride them. "On Any Sunday" (1971) "A lot more art goes into a film like "On Any Sunday" that might be apparent. It's tremendously hard to get the footage, first of all; a surfer on a wave operates within a relatively small area, but a two-mile motorcycle race requires thousands of feet of footage from several cameras to be adequately covered. Brown has somehow accomplished this (with some financial backing from Steve McQueen, who turns up in the movie a couple of times). What's better, having done it he doesn't tell us about it." --Roger Ebert |
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