Believe it or not, here in New Zealand we’ve officially dedicated an entire month to celebrate Kiwi Music. Be it rock, pop, indie, experimental, electro or reggae, Homegrown New Zealand Music Is The BEST!!!
I’ll be posting NZmusic videos throughout the month. But to get you started, here’s a Kiwi classic:
Earth, meet GRB 090423. GRB 090423, Earth.
The fading infrared afterglow of GRB 090423 appears in the centre of this false-colour image taken with the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii. The burst is the farthest cosmic explosion yet seen.
It’s amazing how we can determine depth-of-field in outer-space the observable universe. It’s even cooler knowing that beyond GRB 090423 is unknown; that is to say, if there’s anything out there at all. Only light will tell.
Astronomers have spotted the most distant object yet confirmed in the universe – a self-destructing star that exploded 13.1 billion light years from Earth. It detonated just 640 million years after the big bang, around the end of the cosmic “dark ages”, when the first stars and galaxies were lighting up space.
The object is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) – the brightest type of stellar explosion. GRBs occur when massive, spinning stars collapse to form black holes and spew out jets of gas at nearly the speed of light. These jets send gamma rays our way, along with “afterglows” at other wavelengths, which are produced when the jet heats up surrounding gas.
The burst, dubbed GRB 090423 for the date of its discovery last Thursday, was originally spotted by NASA’s Swift satellite at 0755 GMT.
Read Full Article: NewScientist
[New Zealand] You may have heard of the 48Hour Furious Filmmaking Competition;
48HOURS is New Zealand’s largest filmmaking contest, taking place over a single weekend in six cities with a prize pool worth over $100,000. Hundreds of teams compete, hundreds of thousands watch. Write. Shoot. Cut. Survive!
well the ‘V’48 SECOND Mildly Furious Filmmaking competition is it’s little sister and it works like this:
Simply pick a famous movie scene and recreate it in all its glory featuring ‘V’ cans or bottles. Five of you lucky people will have your films chosen to be shown on National TV.
Here are a few good examples and entries that I admire:
WALL.V [WALL.E]
Vlien [ALIEN]
VT [ET]
[CRANK]
ScarV [Scarface]
Pretty cool huh; well, today I just finished filming my entry! That’s right, I hope to enter this year. I don’t want to say what movie it is yet so I can surprise you in a later post. Just know it’s mildly gory.
The only problem I see arising is the fact I have to upload it onto YouTube, which could prove frustrating. Slow Internet and all… [too much bikini girls Fin]
Here are the details + movie gallery: ‘V’48Seconds
Cartoonnist Chris Gine’s: 165 BotsWithStuff
Each day, this parent draws a fancy peice of art on his kid’s lunch bag. And he’s very, very good. Talk about Father of the Year material:
“A new bag each day for my kids.
I’m the dad. I make these during my lunch break.”
See them all at: Lunch Bag Art
More delicious Game/Anime/Movie inspired lunches from AnnaTheRed: [Lucky boyfriend son-of-a…]
Related Post: Appetizing Bento
Flickr: Obento! / Blog: Bento Factory
“Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I’ve spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms.
These are the results of my findings limited within the state of Victoria, Australia.”
Rhett Dashwood is a Creative Director with experience in a broad range of creative media, including interactive, animation, branding, print, film making and digital art. His newest creation is pretty darn cool; it only just hit me how long it would have taken him to scour the land. Nice job.
Official Site / Letter Locations: Rhett Dashwood
Movie titles with a one letter difference:
I actually wouldn’t mind seeing some of those.
Gizmodo have done it again with another hilarious photoshop contest – Star Trek Ruined in 80 Ways JJ Abrams Could Never Dream Of:
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