Sunday, April 12, 2009

A wonderful video for Easter

Antwerp Station like you have never seen it!



Antwerpen Centraal gaat uit zijn dak want Op zoek naar Maria komt er aan! Bekijk hier hoe meer dan 200 dansers en danseressen het station op zijn kop zetten op het klanken van de Sound of Music!

Inspiring Video from Susan Boyle

47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britain's Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.

She proves that you should never judge a book by its cover!


The Easter Kitty Came!

Thank you Easter Bunny...Bbbaaackk, bbaaacckk!
Wonder who will remember that reference!

Our Beeten Bunnies struck again this year. We are always tickled pink to get our visit from the Easter Kitty!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Best commercial ever...Go Honda!

For those of you who haven't seen this, I wanted to share. It is an amazing engineering masterpiece.

I received this in an email, and it came with text that is good to read before you watch the video. Here it is:

There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in these images.Everything that you see happened in real time exactly as you see it.

The recording required 606 takes and in the first 605 takes there always was something, usually of minor importance, that didn't work. It was necessary for the recording team to install the set-up time after time and it took several weeks working day and night to achieve this effect.The recording cost $6M & took 3 months to finish,including the engineering design of the sequence.

The duration of the video is only 2 minutes, but every time that Honda shows the commercial on British television,they make enough money to support any of us for the rest of our lives. However, this commercial has turned out to be the most displayed in the history of the Internet. Honda execs think that it will pay for itself simply because of the free showings (Honda is not paying one cent for you to see it) When Honda senior execs viewed it, they immediately approved it without hesitation-including costs.

There are only SIX Honda Accords built by hand in the whole world, and to the horror of Honda engineers, the recording team disassembled two of them for the recording.Everything you see in the sequence (besides the walls, floor, ramp and untouched Honda Accord) is part of those two automobiles.

The voice is Garrison Keiller's. The commercial was so well received by Honda execs when they saw it, that their first comment was how amazing the computer graphics were. They almost fell out of their chairs when told that the recording was real without any graphics manipulation.

By the way, about the wind shield wipers in the new Honda Accords, they are sensitive to water and designed to start working as soon as they get wet.



Monday, March 23, 2009

Cool Optical Illusions Explained

The Cafe' Wall Illusion

A new person on Twitter is following me. I checked out a great link from them:

Optical Illusions

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Another Year...

The bar was set very low last year. All birthday's will be better than 2008.

As my sweet brother said in 2008, "It's just another day fruitcake!"

Yeah...he will never live that one down.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

1 year has passed, and it is still unbelievable

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years"...Abraham Lincoln

Kaylee Marie McElhenie Eller Bungee Jumping.

Kaylee and Melissa driving