Yesterday’s Winter Solstice lunar eclipse

William Castleman made a time lapse video of yesterday’s lunar eclipse.
This is way better than those cell phone photos you’ve been seeing all day.

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Time lapse video of Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse on December 21, 2010 from 1:10 AM EST (6:10 GMT) to 5:03 AM EST (10:03 GMT) from Gainesville Florida. Music is Claude Debussy Nocturnes: Sirènes.

(credit: Gizmodo)

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New Additions to The Netflix Instant List for 12-12-10

These are the latest additions to The Netflix Instant List
Got anything you want to add that is not already on the list? comment below.

About a Boy
The Beach
The Bourne Identity
Copacabana
Cronos
The Deep
Dollhouse: Season 1, Season 2
Heidi
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains <-- if you have not seen this, watch it!
Frankie and Johnny
Michael Collins
The Money Pit
Precious
Rain Man
Rock Star
The Shining

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What happens when a NASA shuttle launches

The best of the best in film & high def of unseen NASA videos. It pays tribute to the shuttle program, people involved with the launches and give a view to pictures that were used for only engineering purposes. This is what happens when a shuttle launches.
This is a 45 minute video with commentary by NASA engineers explaining all the technical details.
Pretty fascinating.

Photographic documentation of a Space Shuttle launch plays a critical role in the engineering analysis and evaluation process that takes place during each and every mission. Motion and Still images enable Shuttle engineers to visually identify off-nominal events and conditions requiring corrective action to ensure mission safety and success. This imagery also provides highly inspirational and educational insight to those outside the NASA family.

This compilation of film and video presents the best of the best ground-based Shuttle motion imagery from STS-114, STS-117, and STS-124 missions. Rendered in the highest definition possible, this production is a tribute to the dozens of men and women of the Shuttle imaging team and the 30yrs of achievement of the Space Shuttle Program.

The video was produced by Matt Melis at the Glenn Research Center.

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14 Actors Acting

New York Times Magazine has beautiful short black and white videos of 14 different actors doing short non-dialog scenes, just acting with emotions, accompanied by instrumental classic music. Very dramatic.
The actors include Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, James Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Chloë Moretz, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Jennifer Lawrence, Noomi Rapace, Vincent Cassel, Anthony Mackie, Robert Duvall, Lesley Manville and Tilda Swinton.

Watch it here.

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