Sydney Harbour Cruise

March 3rd, 2010 by Brad Heap

I filmed this a few weeks ago but forgot to upload it until now, it is a little random as I just let the computer decide what to chop together.

Top Gear in New Orleans

March 2nd, 2010 by Brad Heap

I just watched the Top Gear America Special on TV it is a few years old but I had not seen it before. The end of the episode has a really serious side to it and Jeremy Clarkson provides a real stinging but truthful social commentary as shown in this clip:

The Day Obama Care Died

January 23rd, 2010 by Brad Heap

I am a fan of Obama, however, this video is a very good piece of political satire.

Magnify at Parachute 2009

December 13th, 2009 by Brad Heap

I just stumbled across this video of Magnify performing at Parachute Festival earlier this year.

Parachute will be one of the things I miss about NZ the most when I move. The festival is awesome – I have been 6 out of the last 7 years.

Crowd as seen from the Mainstage

Crowd as seen from the Mainstage

The reason why I stumbled upon the video was because I was looking for a clip of an older song, In Wonder:

Which of course the Newsboys remade, and around a month ago was played as the wake up music for one of the astronauts on the space station:

The defining moment of the last decade.

November 28th, 2009 by Brad Heap

It is an almost scary idea that in 5 weeks time the first decade of the 21st century will be over. I can still remember the celebrations at the turn of the century ten years ago (at the time I was only 12 years old!).

In the herald this morning there is an article on the defining moment of the last decade.

The writer of the article makes an interesting choice for the defining moment:

The defining moment of the last 10 years wasn’t George W. Bush reading “The Pet Goat” to a bunch of kids on 9/11 while New York was burning, or the Hadron Collider finally producing its first bang this week. I fear the true essence of this decade was captured in four minutes of a flash mob video of 20,000 perfectly syncopated bouncing Oprah fans “spontaneously” erupting in a choreographed dance to a Black Eyed Peas performance in the middle of Chicago’s main thoroughfare.

However the article also makes a point that we have gone too far with the mass publicity of our private lives:

It took radio 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million. Facebook got there in 24 months, according to Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod’s now infamous “Did You Know” series. To put this in perspective, Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter didn’t exist at the start of this decade. I can be patient. We’re bound to outgrow this over-sized hyper-connectivity lust. I’ll be the really edgy, new advocate for two people just sitting in a room talking – because that’s all it needs to be sometimes.

Personally I have not given much thought to what the defining moment would be, there are a lot of things that could be considered. Maybe that is the topic for a future blog post?

Liberal’s don’t allow kids with Down Syndrome

November 26th, 2009 by Brad Heap

I have heard Fox News make some silly comments at time. But this is one of the best, in reference to Sarah Palin:

She has 5 kids. Liberals don’t have 5 kids. One of them has Down Syndrome. Liberals certainly don’t allow that to happen. – Bernie Goldberg

The entire clip is below. This is not news, and it is hardly commentary either it is clear bias (no surprises there) and completely misrepents and mispaints an entire political viewpoint.

New HD Video Camera Test: Long Bay

September 29th, 2009 by Brad Heap

I picked up a High Def Video Camera duty free when I came back into NZ on Saturday.

So on Sunday I took it for a test run walking from Long Bay to the Okura River and back.

The great thing about the camera is it is full 1080 HD. The bad thing is it stores the videos in AVCHD format which is near impossible to edit with free editors at the moment.

The video below has been edited in Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Trial, it is USD $40 ($55 NZD) so I will probably buy it so I can edit movies in the future. The footage itself is pretty rushed together, I have pretty much cut each clip into 2 – 6sec chunks and put them together, it was a test of the camera rather than trying to film anything spectacular. The best thing about the video though is the penguins up at the Okura River.

Enjoy.

Obama’s Healthcare Plan in 4 seconds

September 27th, 2009 by Brad Heap

From the wonders of YouTube

Skillet Monster – Official Video

September 4th, 2009 by Brad Heap

Got released yesterday in the states. Also Awake is number 2 for most brought album on billboard.com yeah!

It’s War!

August 30th, 2009 by Brad Heap

I shouldn’t have got distracted by Facebook and Blogging.

Birthers Debunked Yet Again. NBC.

August 5th, 2009 by Brad Heap

Okay a week or so ago I blogged about Jon Stewart and The Daily Show taking the mickey out of WND.com and a variety of other nutcases.

However the issue will just not go away so here is another news article that shows the reality of the situation.

NZ a great place to bring up the kids.

July 28th, 2009 by Brad Heap

From the wonders of YouTube:

Universal Healthcare – The Daily Show Version

July 17th, 2009 by Brad Heap

In my last blog I touched on Universal Healthcare. Which interesting enough the Daily Show looked at last night:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Drag Me to Health
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show
Full Episodes
Political Humor Joke of the Day
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Drag Me to Health – Universal Health Care
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show
Full Episodes
Political Humor Joke of the Day

Fresh Ideas or Election Result Deniers

July 15th, 2009 by Brad Heap

Hat tip to Whale Oil and a number of other sites on both the left and the right for this.

The video is very slick but I have to ask the question of the real power behind it. Showing what Labour delivered in the past is not going to get us into the future. Especially given all the things highlighted National have kept. So your real point is?

(oh and I hope Kiwibank go after them for copyright breach like the electoral enrollment centre did over the orange man.)

NZ Tramping Montage Video

July 12th, 2009 by Brad Heap

Well one of my work mates recons that with my effort on the Turoa video that I would pass Year 10 Media Studies.

So in light on that I went through my digital photos and form some short video clips that I have edited together.

Enjoy: