Two awesome videos: the crazy insides of Kowloon city and 270 movie clips from 2010 in 6 minutes with thematic splicing

BLOT: (15 Dec 2010 - 09:30:23 PM)

Two awesome videos: the crazy insides of Kowloon city and 270 movie clips from 2010 in 6 minutes with thematic splicing

Working on a story-by-story review of Black Wings that I should post tomorrow. It's a collection of 15-20 (too lazy to count) new stories set in and around various Lovecraftian motifs: mythos, dreamscape, obsessions with the past, artwork, etc. I've greatly enjoyed the collection, and look forward to a Black Wings II coming out, and wanted to get my thoughts down.

Two videos showed up in my Google Reader selection last night and just had to share. I'll just link to the io9 article of the first one: "Incredible claustrophobic footage from inside the Kowloon Walled City". A section of city built around a buddhist temple (apparently, though not show in the video) where housing got tighter and tighter until every bit of space was taken up. Alleyways and roadways were just swallowed by the structure and houses were built on the outside. According to the one of the comments, the temple was still in the middle up until the demolition, and mostly untouched. It was a small temple grove surrounded by artificial light with this catacomb of housing wrapped around it. How flipping cool is that? In my Shadowrun session, the city still stood and was nearby where the player characters lived. Eventually it was going to have to be introduced.

This other one I'll embed. About six minutes long, it features 270 clips from various movies (largely the trailers it looks like) with music and spliced together thematically so they flow together and sometimes are actually set to play off of each other. Kind of fascinating. This is the list of movie clips. The link above, the Youtube page for the video, includes info about the various music used.

BY WEEK: 2010, Week 50
BY MONTH: December 2010