Wednesday 24 September 2014

Viral Vid: Cutest dog having fun in a water fountain

It happened outside Central St Martins College in Kings Cross, London.  Martha Bellingham was on her way to work at the College when she spotted this dog "dancing" and generally having fun in the water fountains outside. 

She says, "It is amazing how animals have the ability to teach humans to enjoy the simple pleasures in life."  It seems quite a few humans have simple pleasure from the video, as it gradually goes viral.

Friday 19 September 2014

UK man caught in the act in art gallery (CCTV)

In the video, we see a man casually strolling around in an art gallery, viewing the paintings.  Suddenly, he finds a handy and small painting and attempts to put it under his jacket (without success).


He decides to take a chance and attempt to stroll out of the Castle Fine Art Gallery in Birmingham with the picture under his arm.  However, thanks to CCTV surveillance, gallery staff were aware of what was going on and confronted him outside the gallery.  He man returned the painting, but left in a hurry before police arrived.

What would you do to avoid your car getting towed? Watch what this guy did!

Apparently the Waltham Forest council in the U.K. sent a tow truck to take away a car that was illegally parked.  The man objected, got on the truck, into his car, and simply put it in reverse ....


Someone watching the incident caught the whole thing on video.  What language they are speaking is unknown..  :)

Wednesday 17 September 2014

VIRAL VIDEO: Girl on a motorcycle exacts revenge against those who litter

A girl on a motorcycle in Moscow in Russia has had enough of people dropping litter in the streets from their cars. 

With a GoPro on her helmet she caught it all on the video below, as she got revenge on the nasty litterbugs.

Dragon Cat and Doggie Bee going a tad too far? (Video)

While the animals themselves look completely relaxed and happy, it makes you wonder when you see a cat dyed and trimmed to look like a dragon and a dog styled to resemble a bumblebee at a pet salon in Yekaterinburg, Russia...


Do you think this is taking things just too far?  Let us know in the comments section...


Tuesday 16 September 2014

Shocking Video: 8 killed, 6 injured as truck crashes into bus stop in China

A truck crashed into a bus stop in northern China's Hebei Province Tuesday morning, killing eight people and injuring six more.  Captured on CCTV cameras, we see the accident from several angles.

The crash happened in downtown Zhangjiakou City after the truck's brakes failed, causing it overturn before crashing into the bus stop. The injured were rushed to hospital.

Monday 15 September 2014

Plagiarism is not a form of flattery and I've had enough

Anyone out there that writes, especially for a living, knows just how bad it is when someone steals their hard work. There is at least one little Macedonian guy out there doing it on a regular basis and making money with Adsense in the process.

What makes it even worse, they are not only stealing every single article I (and various other authors) publish on Guardian Liberty Voice, but in the process they are taking credit as author on the home page, butchering the English in the article to the extent that it no longer makes any sense, and then, heaven forbid, even leaving my name at the bottom of the article.  They even come up in certain Google searches, for goodness sake.

Have a look at this... these are the latest articles published by me on Guardian Liberty Voice:
http://guardianlv.com/author/sewellanne/

and here we have a list of articles, stolen and butchered by our Macedonian plagiarizer - I searched his site using my name:

https://www.empoweryourmind.info/?s=Anne+Sewell

See what I mean?  Guardian Liberty Voice is taking action against the guy, but this has been going on now for well over a month.

Besides leaving the odd rude note on his G+ and Facebook profile pages, has anyone got any good ideas how to stop this thieving moron?

The photo isn't the actual criminal BTW, and is CC-by-SA and courtesy Ed and Lex



Sunday 14 September 2014

Sunday fun: Circus in an abandoned factory (Video)

Circulus have come up with something a little different in the way of entertainment. Based in the U.K., they call themselves an innovative new circus company.


According to their website, Circulus brings together the most promising circus and theatrical production in Britain.

"Our brand of fast-paced, immersive and exciting live circus arts, coupled with bespoke, digitally enhanced performance spaces culminate to create a truly visceral art form that appeals to a modern audience. Performing in found and forgotten spaces in London and the UK we aim to transform a space, inviting our audiences to step from the mundane drudgery of the streets into a totally immersive, modern circus experience. Leaving it exactly as we found it, coming and going, a finite entity…"

Enjoy their talents in the video below and see more excellent videos on their YouTube channel.

Video: Short SciFi Film: 'Entangled' gets you right on edge

Ever wished you could be in two places at one time?  So did this guy, and he managed to do it, but with bad consequences.

One of you is more than enough it seems..  and if you have 15 minutes to spare, watch below.

"Forced to care for her catatonic lover Malcolm after a secret quantum experiment goes awry, Erin is determined to uncover the cause of his condition — even at the risk of her own life. This riveting contemporary science-fiction story, from one of the writers of Orphan Black, bridges alternate dimensions as it explores how far a person will go for someone they love..."



Entangled | Short Cuts Canada | TIFF 2014 from TIFF on Vimeo.

Video: Palestinian Parkour free-runners soar over Israeli occupation hurdles

It is a hard life in the Gaza Strip and West Bank for young Palestinians, but they are showing they can take their minds away from daily struggle of living through occupation and Israeli bombardment by taking up the free-running sport of Parkour.

For many of them it is their form of protest and they won't be intimidated and forced off the streets while doing it. RT's Paula Slier watched and interviewed some of them.


Saturday 13 September 2014

Ever wondered why beans make you fart? Here you go...

For anyone who has ever wondered why beans make you fart, below is the answer... so now you know... don't say I never tell you anything...  :)



Men's Health // How a Bean Becomes a Fart from Giant Ant on Vimeo.

The Spanish News in English: Spain hit by two possible Ebola cases

The Spanish News in English: Spain hit by two possible Ebola cases: Two people have been admitted to hospital this week with fears that they may be infected with the very contagious Ebola virus... read more

Thursday 11 September 2014

Earthlapse: Timelapse video of Earth ... from space

While the music could maybe be a bit more dramatic than mere house music, this timelapse video is absolutely stunning.  

It was created from photos taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst while orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.

The video was created in Ultra High Definition - the highest available, so if you have the bandwidth, for full effect don't forget to change your settings on the YouTube video while watching...




According to the description on YouTube, basically this time lapse video is a sequence of still photos, taken at a resolution of 4256 x 2832 pixels at a rate of one every second. The high resolution allowed the ESA production team to create a 3840 x 2160 pixel movie, also known as Ultra HD or 4K.

The artistic effects of the light trails from stars and cities at night are created by superimposing the individual images and fading them out slowly.

Alexander Gerst is a member of the International Space Station Expedition 40 crew. He is spending five and a half months living and working on the ISS for his Blue Dot mission.



Monday 8 September 2014

Video SpaceX launch: Falcon 9 propels AsiaSat satellite into space

The tenth Chinese AsiaSat satellite was launched on Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Watch as the AsiaSat 6, developed by Hong Kong-based Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) Company, blasts off with the help of a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket...

Friday 5 September 2014

Israel Blocked EU Fact-Finding Delegation from Entering Gaza

Israel Blocked EU Fact-Finding Delegation from Entering Gaza



Bentley luxury car gets coated in concrete in Russia (Video)

It is probably a good idea to know if there is construction work happening in the parking garage you use. 

This luxury Bentley car, along with several others, got thoroughly coated in concrete during the process.  Apparently it belongs to a Russian celebrity... bet he or she is not happy ...




Thursday 4 September 2014

Video: IKEA heads to the future, with old-school technology

Taking the Mickey out of Apple has never been done quite so well as with the latest IKEA ad, introducing their brand-new catalogue, with all the latest major features... clever stuff indeed!  

Upload yourself to your nearest IKEA store now... or watch the ad below.

Game of Thrones Auditions Continue in Spain

Game of Thrones Auditions Continue in Spain






Wednesday 3 September 2014

Romantic diner hit the jackpot with five pearls in one oyster

Romantic diner hit the jackpot with five pearls in one oyster



Video: Russian road rage driver attacked by SpongeBob SquarePants & Mickey Mouse

An angry driver in Russia got more than he bargained for when, in a fit of road rage, he stopped a van on the highway and ended up being attacked by, among others, a full-size SpongeBob SquarePants.

The whole thing apparently happened in the city of Chelyabinsk at around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. Some guys were driving along when they captured on their dashcam what looks like a vehicle stop, followed by a little road rage, and then the most amazing scene.

As the "road rager" stands shouting at the van, from the other side, out pops SpongeBob SquarePants, Mickey Mouse and what looks like a bear and a giant squirrel. The life-sized cartoon characters then proceed to beat the man up.  The men filming the incident laugh as the victim lies on the road helpless.

It is not sure if this was an actual event, or if it was staged, but it certainly caused a lot of laughter - watch below...




Video: No chance for the fish as 100s of pelicans dive en masse

Hundreds of pelicans were seemingly rather peckish when they carpet-bombed, en masse, the waves in this seaside spot.

While the voice of the videographer is speaking Italian, there is no indication of where this actually happened, but it sure brings up memories of Hitchcock's "The Birds"... a tad scary perhaps?



... and as one clever commenter posted, "Angry birds are not as fun in real life..."


Tuesday 2 September 2014

Video: Street Dancing Japanese Style

All scenes filmed with a pre-release model of the Sony Alpha a7S Full Frame Mirrorless Digital Camera in Japan, May 2014.

They used Metabones adapters for various lenses from Sony, Canon and vintage Nikon glass.  Music "Handle With Care" by Du:it

Video produced by YAK films.

Viral Video: Watch a tornado caught live on a dashcam

This video appears to have been taken back on 03/01/13, but was only uploaded to YouTube on September 1st this year by user Bulat Nazarov.

It is unknown if there was anyone in the car at the time, but the dashboard camera captured the damage caused by the tornado, apparently in Bashkiria (Republic of Bashkortostan) up close and personal.  

It certainly looks like the car did better than the building did ...

Jennifer Lawrence, nude photos and what the hell was she thinking

In this current surveillance state of a world that we live in, why did this celebrity take naked photos of herself with her own phone, and either leave them on the damn thing or upload them into that tenuous and insecure entity called "the Cloud"?


Back in July this year, that famous NSA whistleblower, Ed Snowden, informed the world of how, among other nasty little things, guys who work for the NSA on a routine basis pass around naked photos and videos taken from people's private mobile phones worldwide.  They have a good laugh while they are doing it too, no doubt.

So if this spoiled little madam is upset about her naked pics being shared around online, let this be a lesson to everyone.  If you don't want your nude pics passed around like last week's dirty laundry, don't make the bloody things available!  Remove them from your phone, do not upload them to the Internet or the "Cloud"... it's sort of simple really.  I am now picturing everyone reading this, madly scrolling through their photos on their very insecure cell phones.

And it further seems from the evidence, if something is up in the "Cloud," like rain, it can fall anywhere.... especially into unscrupulous hands.