The following videos give some sense of Matt Hoffman’s Aggro Circus located at the Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios Orlando Florida. The show consists of number of stunts/tricks in the form of BMX, Skateboarding, Inline Skating and Motorbikes. Much of the BMX and Skatebording tricks are performed on a half-pipe. The Ball of Death/Globe of Death varies from one to three motorbikes circling around within it.
The following photographs are just a small sample of a mornings adventure through the David Welch Winter Gardens at Duthie Park Aberdeen. You will see a great splash of colour in the following images, enjoy. Further images from this photo set may be seen within the following Album.
Short video showing the interplay of Hard and Soft Light as the clouds pass overhead at the New Build Robert Gordon University, Garthdee, Aberdeen, Scotland. The footage was recorded over a period of about 12 minutes or so and sped up using time remapping by around 400%. This footage was recorded around half six in the morning.
Dolphins – Why do we love them so? What is it about them that make them seem so friendly. Is it the smile of their mouthline, is it because they always seem so playful. I am sure many of us have spent many an hour sitting down watching episodes of Flipper. We all know that they are amongst the most intelligent animals on the planet. There have been many instances reported of dolphins saving people at sea, are they the lifeguards of the deep blue sea and as such have a kind and friendly demeanor.
Is it perhaps their proportions that make them so appealing, we see the golden ration / golden section appearing in so many places. You will see from page 9 of the following pdf document that “the eye, fins and tail all fall at golden sections of the length of the dolphin’s body”.
Slow Motion video where you can enjoy the fluid grace of their motion through the air
Real-time video of the above slow motion footage
Highlights summarized in five minutes from the Blue Horizons Show
I hope you enjoy the photos below of Dolphin’s performing some jumps the the Blue Horizons Show, Sea World Orlando.
Obi-wan Kenobi is well known for referring to the light-saber as an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. This light-saber fight of the olden days shows two medieval knights of old doing battle in a night time duel, but unlike the standard fare when one fights with swords these two are dueling with swords of fire. You could say that this sort of dueling is a bit like old school lightsaber battles! This duel took place during a fire eating show in Linz,Austria back in 2008.
The video below is of another duel as you can guess from the video still.
Should you wish to see more videos like this then check out my youtube channel.
This is a short video showing the process of installing an Intel Core i7 3930K Hexacore CPU on an ASUS Sabertooth X79 Socket 2011 Motherboard.
This is just one of a series of videos showing the developments of an Extreme Gaming PC Build within a Cosmos 2 Ultra Tower PC Case. This is one of two videos recorded at different angles showing the process. On a number of occasions during the year I visit various secondary schools to give a series of workshops on the likes of Xbox Programming, Computer Networking and of course Building a PC. Hence these videos should prove useful for the Build a PC workshops.
The following video is showing an alternative angle on the CPU installation process.
The show lasted about two hours, it began with some BMX bike tricks and some motorbike wheelies, we were then treated to a good deal of motorbike tricks, jeeps and buggies driving on two wheels, lots of motorbike jumps, a human torch, the crashing of cars into one another and the rounding up of the show with some monster trucks. Go to http://extremeeventseurope.com to see details of the show and tour dates.
The following issome footage of the two Monster Trucks from the Extreme Stunt Tour jumping their way over four cars. The footage has been slowed down in a number of places via the application of time remapping.
A series of jumps by two motorbikes during the extreme stunts show held in Aberdeen July 2012. The footage was recorded at 25fps, but has been slowed down via time remapping to create the slow motion effect you see here. Some of the tricks include One Footer to No Footer, No Hander, One Hander, Lazy boy,Tsunami,Seat Grab, Superman,Heal Clicker,Nine O’Clock,Tail Whip,Double Seat Grab Superman,Heart Attack and the Backflip. One can view a playlist of all the edited videos from this event here.
A series of BMX bike stunts in slow motion.
Slow Motion video of the Human Torch being set alight at the Extreme Stunt Show. Be sure you stand way back as those flames are 600 degrees or more.
Two Monster Trucks called Extreme and Lil Devil getting some big air as they may their way over four cars that are fit for the scrap heap. All this is in real time, so you can both the machines themselves and the roar of their engines.
A series of jumps carried out by some motorbikes and a buggy.
Check out my youtube channel for further videos from this and other events.
Towards the end of the two hour show, two monster trucks came on the scene. One of them however suffered a blow out upon landing to one of the front tires. It did get some fairly big air, you can see the video of this below.
It has been just over a month since I posted the last set of photographs on the 12th June. In the past month there has been quite a good deal of work carried out, in particular, quite a substantial amount of the glazing units for library tower have been fitted in place. The main entrance walls are also coming along well. The walls have been constructed from brick and then faced off as you can see in some of the photos below. I took the first set of photographs looking from from Tullos Hill shortly after six o’clock in the morning, it was fortunate I began at this time, as when I got to the bottom and had packed away the camera it began to rain. At the present rate of progress all the exterior cladding and the installation of glazing units should be completed fairly soon, thereby setting in place the completed look and feel of the building. Additional photographs from the set below may be seen by accessing the following Album.
Photographs of other University Campuses and Buildings 18th May 2012 – University College Dublin 17th May 2012 – Dublin City University 15th May 2012 – Western Gateway Building, University College Cork – Computing, Maths & some other units 30th March 2012 – Sphere within Sphere at Trinity College Dublin 29th March 2012 – The Quad and Honan Plaza at night, University College Cork
How often do you clean your Screen / VDU / Monitor? It can sometimes be difficult to see where the dust particles are. So here’s the answer! Below you will find a series of blank screens of various colours that run for a duration of ten minutes. Some months ago I posted two videos each a minute long of a black and a white screen. Surprisingly they have both received a good number of views over their short lifetime online. So I hope you find these solid colour videos to be of use in your PC maintenance routine. On the other hand if you just want to chill out and a watch a youtube video without any audio or motion on screen that you may need to concentrate on then this may be just the ticket! Enjoy. If you would like a similar screen of a different colour then let me know and I’ll see what I can do (an RGB value would be useful).
Its lunch time at Blackpool Zoo for the Penguins, they however must be fast at downing the fish as the Seagulls are primed to swoop down from above and devour the lot. Is this survival of the fittest or just the most daring.
Having managed to fend off the Seagulls and devour their lunch the Penguins straight away set off on a post lunch swim around to pool. I guess the general rule of waiting an least an hour after eating before going for a swim doesn’t apply to penguins!
Just another normal day at the office. The giraffes seen here seem to be taking everything in their stride. As you can see they just do their own thing (chew, chew, chew) and are not bothered in the slightest by any of the human visitors to the viewing gallery within their house. If only we ourselves could be so relaxed and chilled.
A POV ride on the Blue Flyer Roller Coaster at Nickelodeon Land Blackpool Pleasure Beach. It runs for a length of 2293ft (299m) and reaches speeds of 40kph. The ride lasts about a minute and reaches a maximum elevation of 25ft (7.6m). Was previously known as the Zipper Dipper and Warburtons Milk Roll-A-Coaster.
Ankle Cam POV footage of the Avatar Airbender ride at Nickelodeon Land Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Prepare to get spun around 360 degrees whilst moving from side to side on a semi-circular vertically aligned track.
Hold on tight its the Infusion Roller Coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. The ride runs for a length of 2260ft (690m) with a maximum speed of 80kph. One can pull up to 4.5G during the ride.
A POV video of what its like on the Infusion Roller Coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. This video should provide a slightly different POV than that seen in many other videos as the cameras POV is that of ones ankle.
An impressively rugged looking shark just swimming by in front of the camera. Listen for the comments from another visitor to the aquarium – woah – I’ve just seen the big daddy.
Lets move on to some rock climbing Lobster style.
Some Sharks and friends swimming around happily at Sea Life, Blackpool, UK. Can you identify the various sharks seen in this tank?
A family of Dwarf Mongoose cuddled together, now this is what one may call shared bodily warmth. Is this not the cutest family group you have ever scene. They typically live in groups of about a dozen plus individuals led by the parents. Everybody takes turns to forage for food and take care of the babies of the group, hence they being known as babysitters. It must be really cozy being right in the middle of that pile. In the second half of the video they become more far more active. How many can you count? http://www.blackpoolzoo.org.uk
