Controlled explosion.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chimney_blasting.gif

This is so cool the controlled demolishment of a chimney in Frankfurt am Main, apparently this chimney used to be part of the "Henninger" brewery. I love it when things are blown up, there is something very satisfying.

Insightful views into running up that hill (kate bush and Placebo versions)

Oh man, I canny believe I'm going to see Placebo in December, I'm so excited! I have been to all their tours since the black market music tour. I love the cover of Kate bush, running up that hill both the original and the remake are fantastic. I must give credit where credit is due as Placebo have taken a very strong popular song and made it their own. As soon as you hear the opening rift you know its a Placebo song coming. The video is equally as striking, letting the fans get creative with the video was a very good idea. Especially since the original video was so controversial and stunning, if placebo had of appeared in the video it would have sullied the whole concept for me. In my eyes I see a song that relates to so many different desires to be fully understood by anyone. Everyone feels alone, if they are prepared to admit it of course, and this video shows the many different, sometimes conflicting personalities, that are out there trying to explain their feelings and innermost emotions to another close person. Searching for any human being that will or can understand what they are going through as a person and get the same full truthful response back. I think this song fully explores the desire to open up and in essence "swap" lives in order to be able to fully understand where you are coming from. I love this concept and it runs deep in my mind.

Also Kate bush's video was exceptional. Watching the intricate well timed, striking movements of the dancers as they tried to portray the rhythmic intimacy of being hopelessly romantically intertwined was a beautiful experience. I never really approved or "got" interpretive dance until I saw this video and my opinion now is, when done well, interpretive dance is moving and thought provoking. I now understand that its not what the dancers are doing but how that translates to their surrounding environment, how they interact, what is happening immediately around them.

I'd put up their vids but they're on the copyright list, however look up either in a google search engine and I'm sure you'll find one, ps their not on youtube (just crappy covers).

Geology rocks.

O man, I just came across the funniest geology rocks sound! These guys put the ROCK! in geology hee hee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch5i3DxcQPQ


If rockin ain't ur thing then maybe you should try some geology rap:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVkn_ApZHY4&feature=related

Knitted Ipod case

My partner Adrian loves everything geeky so I decided to knit him a holder for his new Ipod. It only took an evening to knit; on the back there are long strap holes to allow the arm strap to go though the holder. However the wool isn't quite as strong as I had hoped so he doesn't really use them. The design is pretty cool though. Here it is:

Poka-dot pillow

Ok, last week I started a little project. I had an old poka-dot dress that I loved and didn't want to part with. Unfortunately it was incredibly small so no longer fulfilled its purpose. Now I'm dreadful at throwing stuff out so decided to try and make a pillow out of the material. It worked! :D I'm going to put a few wee pictures up.

I decided to make a circular pillow however with a radial design centred on a pretty white button in the middle of the pillow.

Palaeogeographic reconstruction of present continent formation

Here is an animation of the paleaogeographic reconstruction of the Earth, beginning from the Cambrian period through to the present day (arthur: EarlyCambrianGlobal.jpg: Dr. Ron Blakey). I love this animation!

Burning diamonds how cool.

I was wondering through the internet today when I came across a really cool open university vid on burning diamonds all you need is some heat and liquid oxygen (like you have that kicking about the flat, hee hee). For anyone that is interested I've put the link below:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mKqtT8J2ms&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgeology.com%2Fnews%2F&feature=player_embedded

The journey begins!

Ok, I'm just new to all this blogging malarky and finding that I'm a little stumped on what to write. I'm sure that will pass. Anyways, I'm think I'm just going to write about all the new things I learn everyday. This will hopefully give me some perspective on what I want to write about. My interests are; geology, knitting, sewing, crocheting, cooking, learning new thing about science and playing the guitar (badly), oh and learning German. Hopefully something exciting will come outta this.......ciao!