Vids other than surfing thread (cool doccos, movies etc)
truebluebasher wrote:
NZ from a Train SBS (Expires in 2 days)
2 Part journey from North > South becomes more breathtaking with each minute.
Stunning scenery...rare ecology...deluxe narration, storytelling, cinematography & music score.
This Vid will surprise...last train departing now...get on board!
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/new-zealand-from-a-train
loved it, tbb, cheers, engaged me with sbs again too, might give Rick McCrank's 'abandoned' a go.
The Big Country is on 9Gem at 3.30pm AEST
Great movie (Facto disagreed with me) with a few lessons for today’s Insta youth, especially young blokes.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned in here but just started watching Clarkson’s Farm. As in Jeremy from Top Gear.
Pretty entertaining so far, I hear it gets a bit more serious later on as he takes issue with farming/government rules and regs.
The tattooist of Auschwitz.
Just finished this on Stan.
I’ve read the book but being reminded again what those people went through… fuck… I find it hard to comprehend that it’s real and wasn’t even that long ago.
Some great old footage here. Note Goldy and Sunny. Also briefly when the Bribie bridge was a toll bridge. Also for people that know the Apollonian pub at Boreen Point some brief footage of it in its original locale in Gympie. Film continues northward in Queensland along the Bruce.
seeds wrote:
Some great old footage here. Note Goldy and Sunny. Also briefly when the Bribie bridge was a toll bridge. Also for people that know the Apollonian pub at Boreen Point some brief footage of it in its original locale in Gympie. Film continues northward in Queensland along the Bruce.
Watched a bit more and there is brief footage of budgie smuggler clad long boarder in Mackay.
Zen & I were getting into the difference between eastern and western ways of seeing the world.
There is a theme of the Japanese doing European fairy tales, and depicting European medieval stories. The first ones must have become available here in the early 80's along with shows like Astro Boy I guess. These were a series of beautiful fairy tales from my childhood - from what I can remember ABC must have run a Japanese company's early animated fairy tale series. I find the narration and story telling just wonderful, even today. Here's the Don Quixote episode:
OK so what was this? It was the 'Tales of Magic' series:
https://en.kinorium.com/292107/
And here's a playlist:
https://archive.org/details/TalesOfMagicVol01
I'd unironically recommend this as children's bedtime stories ahead of a lot of the stuff produced today! You get the eastern view of western mythology - told with tenderness and compassion.
Awesome VJ- back at my desk but gonna save it so I can appreciate it.
Tbh- that's why I kinda like Anpanman for kids. There's no violence, no jealously, no one-upmanship and no concept of money.
That's the way. Maybe watch out as the wolf might eat Grandma, we're talking 1970s here and much closer to the source material! Anpanman is great, you mentioned it after that manic mascot drummer, the idea of him providing food from himself for starving people is just so weird - but now I understand it.
Was watching Godzilla - Minus One last night, epic, recommended! (They got the ships right, too)
:) that one is like a fantastic fever dream Jelly. Definitely a Japanese setting and mythology in that one, endearing too.
Nausicaa is probably the favourite here, came across it when I was sent remote and it just came up on the hotel's SBS, forgot about it, then a few years later remembered & bought a copy for the kids. Ponyo is lots of fun too.
I've found some intellectual stuff on why Japan does cartoons of Euro settings like this, might link that up in a bit but for now let's just enjoy the links.
I watched your link last night VJ and enjoyed it so much. Cheers for that and the one above too.
Great breakdown of Sento Chihiro and other Ghibli movies Jelly. I have to admit, I'm not a huge anime fan but I enjoy the Ghibli movies- Sento Chihiro (Spirited Away) and Raputa are favourites. I actually stayed once in the Onsen Spirited Away is loosely based on- It's in Gunma and it was the hottest night I think I've ever experienced. Most of the guests had opened up their rooms and were sleeping on the tatami in the hallway. It was quite festive actually.
One of Studio Ghibli's most famous is Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies). I defy anyone, man, woman, child even with the hardest of hearts not to tear up. I've heard grown men sob watching it. It's beautifully animated and gut-wrenchingly sad. The Jappies sure do cartoons well.
Can highly recommend "This Town", currently on SBS on demand. It is brilliant. Takes in the Troubles, Thatcherite England and the Midlands music scene (Coventry, Birmingham, think Specials, the Beat ,Funboy 3). Fun, clever and a great soundtrack. Rude boys.
I just LOVE finding out how things work. Electrics are a bit of a mystery though. And we all love a cheap ebay bargain. Imagine my joy when I found this channel:
^ ha, that's the leura cascades picnic area, isn't it? where the old katoomba baths were.. good on her, living in a $800,000 man-made slab, in kook-tourist central. Beautiful nature, Aus's most desirable non-coastal address?
udo wrote:
How neat. She’s got it all sorted, a very uncomplicated life. She’s happy with very little. Maybe society could learn a little from her and others of her ilk.
Simple, can be good. AW
Darko Desic Part 1
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Hoping that One Day Brendan Abbott gets to tell his Story :-]
I find this fellow's channel quite relaxing. He pulls down blown up motors and describes the engineering snafus along the way.
Modern motor design has abandoned much of the longevity and simplicity of the past, and little chunks of metal in places they are not supposed to be can result.
so right @roker! Posted this here, as McKallaster transcends sport.. 10min piss-fart funny, everyone would watch soccer if they had him in their lounge..
Every one likes hot chips don’t they? I like crinkle cut. Can only get them in the freezer isle these days.
That’s really disturbing. Especially the spread of HIV simply because of lack of availability of syringes.
Bleach ya works if you’re doing that sharing.
Drug addiction is one thing but rampant HIV is shocking. So sad for Fiji.
Ive been getting into this guys docco's of late, mostly filmed in USA, he does a pretty good job and talks to lot of interesting people.
Finished that Amish docco, man that Amish guy was such a level headed nice guy and not cagey at all.
These comments really sum him up perfectly.
Well worth a watch, almost makes me want to go back to basics and live off the land.
"Lost traveler spends 13 years building resort in paradise" (in Indo)
I have mixed feelings about this docco on one hand im like, *rolls the eyes*, another naive bule arrives in Indonesia buys(leases) land and builds a resort.
And it doesn't help that through the docco when staying in Bali, he is always based in Canggu.
On the flip side, the dude had a dream and never gave up, and you have to respect him for that and that he learnt Bahasa Indo too.
No idea how he remained single for 13 years in Indo though, it would have been ten times cheaper and easier if he had an Indo partner.
Anyway still worth a watch
Indonesia is full of so many contradictions in so many different ways but this place takes the cake.
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