Category: Videos

The 1980s – Cars as Superheroes

I know that I watched entirely too many “genre” shows growing up during the 1980s. This is clear from a work conversation about Knight Rider, which reminded me about how many “vehicle as superhero” series existed during the early part of the decade:

Less remembered are the shows that appeared mostly in syndication a few years later:

And of course, the return of Knight Rider in 2008.

Unfortunately, I think the overuse of cheap computer effects really hurt the genre with Viper and the 2008 KITT having ridiculously impossible transformations and silly “powers” that appeared out of nowhere and were sometimes never used again. But superhero cars will likely always be with us in some form, like Coulson’s Lola from Agents of SHIELD.

Animalympics (and Other Oddball 80s Animated Movies)

The return of the Olympic games reminded me that I hadn’t seen Animalympics in a few decades. If you had HBO in the early 1980s, you probably saw this 78 minute animated gem about anthropomorphic animals competing in their own Olympic games several times a week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48AihwuY2OI

That of course reminded me of the other “classic” animated films seen on early cable movie channels that all but disappeared when the 80s ended… Continue reading “Animalympics (and Other Oddball 80s Animated Movies)”

From Kerbin to the Mun

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EirfDhevvs

My latest Kerbal Space Program project (CODENAME: Munraker) is a basic Mun shot with a mid-stage lander behind fairings, like Apollo 11.

Kerbal Space Program is a wonderfully addictive game that allows you to build, fly (and hopefully not crash) rockets and spaceplanes with little green kerbal astronauts.

The game features physics that allow you to get elbow deep in orbital physics, while also offering a number of mods and plugins from the KSP community to help give any skill level pilot a great time blasting off into the inky darkness outside of the planet Kerbin.

For more about the game, visit kerbalspaceprogram.com

Erie to Ashtabula – 45 minutes in 45 seconds

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgMEYGmCa00

I wanted to test out the time-lapse photo capturing ability of the Drift HD 720 action cam I picked up cheap. I attached the camera to my motorcycle and captured the 45 minutes of ride time between Erie, Pennsylvania and Ashtabula, Ohio as 2800+ photos. Stitching them all together as frames in a video allowed me to show the 45 minute ride in 45 seconds.