Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Ancora Imparo

Things I learned today:

(German translations)
Baustähle = Structural Steel
Hitzebeständige Stähle = Heatproof Steel
Gußeisen = Cast Iron
Messing = Brass

And the fact that antimagnetic submarine steel must be sawed with blades composed of 8% cobalt and 10% molybdenum.

It’s amazing what you can learn in this business.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Bunny Drama

Love. Murder. Mayhem. Adventure. Sharks with bunny ears and buck teeth.

Usually reserved for dream sequences brought on after eating a whole bag of baby carrots right before bedtime, these elements combine harmoniously and hilariously at the curiously named Angry Alien Productions website. While there are very few aliens on the site, you will find many bunnies. Many, I tell you. Many.
And while these bunnies are adorable (as all bunnies are), their most striking feature is their great talent for acting. Angry Alien provides 30-second streaming videos of some of our favorite movies – condensed, parodied, and acted out entirely by bunnies. Don’t be fooled into thinking that the parodies have been tamed by their fluffy auteurs, though. All of the lines are lifted directly from the original movies, so things can get a bit racy. The Reservoir Dogs video manages to cram over 20 f**ks into 30 seconds of film. So pay attention to the “Viewer Discretion Advised” labels if you’re not quite ready to see long-eared leporidae spewing profanities and spraying bullets.
Some of my favorites: Jaws (look for the bunny ears tied to the shark’s head), Titanic, Casablanca, and the James Bond medley. I suggest that you stick with films that you’ve already seen, so that you can appreciate each fleeting second of cottontailed conviviality.