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Cheetahs on the Edge by Greg Wilson

A National Geographic film crew captured stunning slow motion footage of cheetahs running in excess of 60 MPH using a Phantom high speed camera filming at 1200 frames per second. The camera was mounted to a high speed track.

The cheetah can run faster than any other land animal— as fast as 112 to 120 km/h (70 to 75 mph) in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to over 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds.

Combining the resources of National Geographic and the Cincinnati Zoo, and drawing on the skills of a Hollywood action movie crew, we filmed cheetahs in a way that’s never been done before, for an article in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. See it at: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/201….

The extraordinary footage that follows comes from multiple runs by five cheetahs during three days of filming

V&D sentiment by Wim Goossens

The Bimbo Box (also known as Aapjeskast) is the name given to a rather unusual but fun type of Jukebox, featuring mechanically animated toy monkeys dancing along to whatever record is chosen – typically Tijuana Brass and similar genres of music. They were built during the 1960s and 1970s in Keulen, Germany, and widely used throughout the Netherlands in large shops, like V&D (Vroom & Dreesmann)  and other department stores.

Made with ‘Recycled Youtube Material’ (ReYoused)

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All These Things Are Gone by Han Hoogerbrugge

Hoogerbrugge was born in Rotterdam, where he is still based, and started out as a painter and cartoonist until he found the internet in 1996. He is the creator of the extremely popular Modern Living Neurotica series as well as his current interactive series Hotel, created for the online SubmarineChannel.

“All These Things Are Gone” is the title track  of The Young Punx 3rd album. An epic 14 minute long journey. The track is accompanied by a masterful video by esteemed Dutch multimedia artist Han Hoogerbrugge, who has collaborated with The Young Punx across all 3 of their albums.

http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/
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Strandbeest by Theo Jansen

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began what he is known for today: building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own, known only as Strandbeest. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering; in a car company (BMW) television commercial Jansen says: “The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.” He strives to equip his creations with their own artificial intelligence so they can avoid obstacles by changing course when one is detected, such as the sea itself.

http://www.strandbeest.com/

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A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la Lune) is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne’s novels From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon’s surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. It features an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers, led by Méliès himself in the main role of Professor Barbenfouillis, and is filmed in the overtly theatrical style for which Méliès became famous.