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Videos Of The Day: ‘Kids Ask Strax’, ‘He Said, She Said’

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May 152013

Today we found two videos we really wanted to share with you. Rather than choosing which one, we just chose both. We’re lazy that way.

Commander Strax’s Q&A

Commander Strax finds himself at the Monster Day Out, Cardiff, answering questions from miniature humans. They ask Commander Strax all sorts of interesting questions about Strax and his life as a warrior of the glorious Sontaran Empire.

He Said, She Said – A Prequel for The Name of the Doctor

Fans are either excited, or outraged, or both. There’s some serious and heavy debate about whether the true name of the Doctor will – or should – ever be told. (If there is actually any truth to the rumor that some people got the Blu-ray of the current season with the final episode in advance shipped to them in the U.S. before the show had actually aired, hush you.) Here’s a tantalizing prequel telling both sides of the coin from the perspective of both Clara and the Doctor.

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Video Of The Day: Cmdr Chris Hadfield & “Space Oddity”

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May 132013

David Bowie’s Space Oddity is one of the modern classics of geek pop, but it’s never actually been performed on location in space – until now. Chris Hadfield has done a cover of it to mark his return to Planet Earth today aboard the Soyuz landing craft, but rewrites the lyrics a bit so that the ending isn’t so much of a downer. He really is a good singer, and does the song justice – and watching that guitar floating gracefully down the interior of one of the modules of the pressurized habitat aboard the Internation Space Station gives us chills.

And naturally, you’ll hear this version on Krypton Radio at any time during our broadcast days if you tune in to listen.

Enjoy.

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Video Of The Day: One Last Song Before Planetfall

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May 082013

For his last downlink before returning to Earth, CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield performed I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing) with hundreds of students at the Ontario Science Centre and nearly a million people, mostly students from coast-to-coast Canada and around the world, performing the song in unison from their location. CSA Astronaut Jeremy Hansen was present at the history-making Music Monday event at the Science Centre and moderated a Q&A with students and Commander Hadfield.

I.S.S (Is Someone Singing) is a song co-written by Hadfield and the Barenaked Ladies’ front man Ed Robertson. (Credit: CSA /NASA)

We had to post this – we sang along, and not without tears in our eyes.

Enjoy. And, safe journey home, Commander Hadfield.

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Video Of The Day: Battle Of The Spocks

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May 072013

The caption on the YouTube video we found reads “What happens when old school goes head to head with new school in a battle of speed and wits? Leonard Nimoy takes on newbie Zachary Quinto and his all-new Audi S7.”

Okay, yes, the car is cool. But frankly, all anybody’s going to remember is how much fun these two cultural icons have playing off one another in this epic Battle of the Spocks over who has the better car.

Enjoy.

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Video Of The Day: ‘The Allure’

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May 022013

Why did the creature cross the road? A small critter is attracted to a light glowing on the other side of the road. What is the allure?

In this stop motion animated short subject by Christopher Kezolos, a small furry creature with more instinct than common sense attempts to find out.

The video is funny, but also deeply disturbing.

A note of warning: if blood and guts disturbs you, you probably want to give this one a skip. You’ve been warned.

Christopher Kezelos has been a filmmaker for over a decade creating ads, corporate films and shorts through his production company Zealous Creative. His recent stop motion short films ‘Zero’ and ‘The Maker’ have screened in over 100 festivals, been nominated for two AFI’s and won 36 awards. Visit his YouTube channel to see more of his work.

The film was done in cooperation with Stage 5 TV, the same people who brought you the latest Team Unicorn music video.

As is often the case with these things, the money to make them has to come from somewhere. In this case it was sponsored by Red 5 Studios and Firefall, which is a free-to-play open-map sci-fi MMO featuring jet packs, gliders and vertical exploration. It’s still in beta but looking pretty faboo from what we can tell so far.

The Allure is creative and inventive, with some surprises (and some moments you can only describe as eeeeewwwwwWWWW!!)

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Video Of The Day: A Boy And His Atom

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May 012013

The role of the atom in this short film created by IBM Research was played by an actual atom. Well, a molecule, really. But a really small one.

You’re about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film. The ability to move single atoms — the smallest particles of any element in the universe — is crucial to IBM’s research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other), all in pursuit of making a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times. A movie made with atoms.

The background is an ultrasmooth silicon surface, made of atoms too small to register as distinct details, so it appears smooth. But the kicker? The atoms that make the pixels are carbon monoxide molecules. Yup. IBM has gone down in history as the first people ever to animate smog.

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Video Of The Day: HIchop! (‘Kiss Me’ In Klingon)

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Apr 262013

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Somehow anything is better when performed in the original Klingon.

It’s a little known fact that nearly every significant work in the history of Earth was originally borrowed from a Klingon idea. Shakespeare, for example, copied his works from an unknown Klingon poet during that poet’s undocumented and unauthorized visit to our planet.

Today’s example comes from Jen Usellis, as conceived and produced by the Improvised Star Trek comedy podcast. The popular hit Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer turns out to have been translated from the original Klingon for the American ear – in its original form, the song is a tad more violent, and you can hear the traditional DIr ‘In drums carrying the rhythm as you would in a classical war ballad.

In case you don’t actually speak Klingon, don’t worry – the video is subtitled in English. There is no actual word for “kiss” in Klingon, by the way – the original phrase turns out to be “bite me”, which for a Klingon is approximately the same thing as a kiss would be to a Terran.

Improvised Star Trek follows the voyages of the USS Sisyphus, a less enterprising starship via a biweekly podcast and a monthly live show at the iO Theater of Chicago.

It was translated by Robyn Stewart, Chris Lipscombe, Christopher Kidder-Mostrom, Jeremy Cowan, and Ali Kidder-Mostrom of the Klingon Christmas Carol.

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Video Of The Day: Spider-Man’s Bad Day

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Apr 252013

Everybody has a bad day once in a while. Even the Amazing Spider-Man. This is the first of a series of animations by Stan Lee’s World of Heroes depicting superheroes having the worst days of their lives.

If even superheroes can have days like this, maybe you’re not running your own life so bad after all.

Enjoy.

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