Rune’s webclips

my shoebox of cool stuff from around the web

Michael Kamen's Quintet (Canadian Brass)

A lovely piece by Michael Kamen, commissioned by the Canadian Brass shortly before he passed away.

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Posted March 8, 2010
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Apple Mac Music Video - "Again and Again" by The Bird and the Bee

Not the actual video for "Again and Again", but an incredibly well made Mac showcase video set to the song.

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Filed under  //   Mac   music   video  
Posted March 7, 2010
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Ken Lee

English. Um, yeah. Couldn't you tell?

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Filed under  //   funny   humor   video  
Posted November 23, 2009
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Who said walking should be easy?

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Who said walking should be easy? Plenty of challenges of the fashion industry, I'll say.

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Filed under  //   funny   humor   video  
Posted October 29, 2009
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Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen

LOL! "This is not a game of who the f**k are you!"

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Filed under  //   animation   funny   humor   Lego  
Posted October 27, 2009
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Darth Vader Plays Golf

Cheating is allowed on the dark side.

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Filed under  //   commercials   funny  
Posted October 27, 2009
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How do you like my centrifuge, mister Bond?

Haha, love this one!

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Filed under  //   cartoons   funny   humor  
Posted October 22, 2009
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A handful of Neill Blomkamp short movies

Here are a few YouTube short videos by "District 9" director Neill Blomkamp:


"Alive in Joburg", the short movie which "District 9" is based on.


"Yellow", a short movie created for adidas.


"Halo: Landfall" short film set in the Halo-universe.


"First Robot Police Tetra Vaal Robotics", a fictional commercial.

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Filed under  //   video  
Posted October 15, 2009
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Wardrobe (The Closet) - Canal plus

Very funny, surprising and well-made commercial for Canal plus.

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Filed under  //   commercials   funny   video  
Posted October 13, 2009
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Musical tribute: Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)

Absolutely brilliant song remix from Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and Stephen Hawking's "Universe"! And it's catchy too!

Lyrics (from the blog Unfiltered Perception by Gunnar Tjomlid):

[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it’s own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we’ve waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting

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Filed under  //   music  
Posted October 10, 2009
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