I'm very, very skeptical that party balloon use is the major user of helium gas. Sure, its "wasted" on entertainment, but there are industrial uses for large amounts of helium (MIG welding and such).


ALSO, I was under the assumption that Helium can be pulled down from natural gas production (if there is money in it).

Some very pretty shots, like at 2:50.

However... rarely does music make a thing more boring... I had to mute it.

Also the color contrast is really maxed out on a lot of these segments... looks weird and unnatural.

very neat... at 0:44 pup begins carefully pawing to the side of the ball, so as not to knock it away

I immediately went to youtubemixer (http://v3ga.net/YouTubeMixer/) and played your video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4) with Flight of the Valkyrie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGU1P6lBW6Q)... was not disappointed.

>> ^vaire2ube:

lest we not forget this recent one:

those tiny laserbeams will sting!

Reminds me of the trailer for 'Moon'... you come away with the feeling that you've basically watched the movie, but in that case the journey and the characters and the concept were so well done that the general plot twists were icing on the cake. Hopefully 'Prometheus' will be similar in that regard.


>> ^Hybrid:

>> ^hpqp:
Beautiful indeed, but I have one serious gripe (with this and most Hollywood trailers): what's with revealing the whole story in the trailer? Can't they leave us a bit of mystery?

Given how coy and secretive Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof were in the Q&A session yesterday regarding plot, I think there's plenty of surprises, twists and unexpected sub-plots waiting in the film.

It was an attack on a school converted to a shelter. Very, very sad.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jan/21/gaza-israelandthepalestinians?intcmp=239


>> ^cracanata:

>> ^bamdrew:
holy shit @ the picture @ 1:29

It's the Israeli attack back in 2009. It's speculated that they used white phosphorus as urban warfare which let alone that's burning even underwater but the smoke can melt your lungs.
White phosphorus, ‘terror weapon’

Agreed; Dante's "Inferno" and the expressiveness of the Old Testament and Apocrypha in general no doubt have inspired reams of artistic works. I suppose my point was we often don't think of the day-to-day lives of celebrated old artists... and how a church/state commissioned 'Lamentation of Christ' alter piece that is now seen as a masterwork was at one time seen as a safe bet to generate some income, which could fund experimentation with capturing more personal themes and illustration of the natural world.

(I should say "may have been seen as a safe bet to generate some income", as this is my own impression)

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> Undoubtedly true, but at the same time I think it would be wrong to say that none of the artists involved in creating great works were not genuinely inspired by their faith. I don't just mean the likes of the Sistine Chapel either, but lots of smaller non-commissioned work.
Although you could argue that that is art inspired by faith rather than religion.

I used to note 'artistic inspiration' in conversation as a plus-side to Religion, but then grew to understand that the majority of great artists actually painted religious themes for exactly the same reason they painted important people of the times... money. So now, that plus-side is just 'funding some great artists'.

One look at the Pope and you can see religion has money to burn on ornamentation, and so great artists sought to be on great terms with that major patron.


>> ^ChaosEngine:

>>
To be fair, there is a cultural debt to Christianity. Religion has inspired many great works of art,

Meh, they're just trying to make a buck... I actually like Time's LightBox two-page spread (http://lightbox.time.com/), with a single, large, usually topical image.

Time can be light on its international stories lately (certainly compared to, say, The New Yorker), but I've caught a few well written short articles on domestic problems recently.

oooph... thats pretty bad. Reminds me of a large poison ivy blister I had on my shin as a kid.

That is gonna be a lot of nerve damage, but at least its not titled 'removal of necrotic fingers after frostbite'.

... jeez, what a bitch.




END OF STORY! relax everybody, I mean come-on.

I really liked the alien autopsy scene...

a fast edit with wardrobe/props telling all this backstory, and then the funny response & stuttered dialogue... magnifique!

You were half correct,... and sometimes that's the best kind of correct.

>> ^RadHazG:

>> ^Stu:
you know he isn't white right?>> ^RadHazG:
White men CAN jump! HA!


Nope. Guess it just looks that way on the video. Hopes suitably dashed.

>> ^ghark:

The thing I hated the most in the lab was having to constantly deal with formaldehyde - a pretty potent carcinogen.



Yeah... still dealing with this myself in lab. Its so commonly used that people just messily use it like its sucrose or something.

National Toxicology Program 'Report On Carcinogens, Twelfth Edition (2011)'
pg.195
"Formaldehyde is known to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient
evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in humans and supporting
data on mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Formaldehyde was first listed
in the Second Annual Report on Carcinogens in 1981 as reasonably
anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence
from studies in experimental animals. Since that time, additional
cancer studies in humans have been published, and the listing status
was changed to known to be a human carcinogen in the Twelfth Report on Carcinogens (2011)."