BBC news, hilariously remixed by cassetteboy. Most definitely not suitable for work, especially if you happen to work for Hillary Clinton, Boris Johnson or any UK government office for that matter.
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Surf Video
Stunning super slow motion video of surfer Dylan Longbottom gliding through a 12 foot barrel wave. The scene was shot with a special HD camera that can film at 20 times the normal speed. This clip is taken from a BBC documentary that looks at the islands of the South Pacific.
From the BBC site:
“I really wanted to slow the wave down, so it was like being there,
immersed in that environment,” says the BBC’s Huw Cordey, series
producer of South Pacific.
“I wanted to capture the scale of the event.”
Doing so took special skills and equipment. Australian cameraman
Bali Strickland, renowned for filming expert surfers at some of the
best surfing sites in the world, had to float in the water as the wave
passed over him.
He filmed the wave using a £66,000 ($100,000) high-speed camera that
captures the action at 20 times slower than normal speed, and in high
definition.
The kit required a special housing unit designed and built by German
specialist high-speed cameraman and technician Rudi Diesel.
Until this film, no one had ever tried using this type of camera underwater before.
The spectacular results show the wave barrel closing over Australian
big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom, who rode the wave to illustrate the
scale and power of the water.
Clearly visible are long underwater vortices created by the moving
wave, a feature the BBC team believes has never before been caught on
camera.
“So much is revealed by slow motion,” says Mr Cordey.
“We saw these vortices on one shot, which I don’t think anyone has
noticed before. It opens up this huge insight into the birth of a
wave.”
The vortices only appeared once, despite the team filming more than 10 waves, he added.
“Maybe it’s when the wave gets to a certain height or size. It
wasn’t a scientific experiment, so its difficult to judge. But its
interesting we only saw it the one time.”
Classic April Fool’s Hoax
On this day in 1957, the BBC broadcast its highly respected Panorama documentary show which contained a segment about pasta sprouting trees in Switzerland. From the BBC web site:
1957: BBC fools the nation
The BBC has received a mixed reaction to a spoof documentary broadcast this evening about spaghetti crops in Switzerland.
The hoax Panorama programme, narrated by distinguished
broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, featured a family from Ticino in
Switzerland carrying out their annual spaghetti harvest.
It showed women carefully plucking strands of spaghetti from a tree and laying them in the sun to dry.
But some viewers failed to see the funny side of the
broadcast and criticised the BBC for airing the item on what is
supposed to be a serious factual programme.
Others, however, were so intrigued they wanted to find out where they could purchase their very own spaghetti bush.
See the complete BBC article and video clip of spaghetti farmers.
Also check out an extensive article on Swiss Spaghetti Farming at the Museum of Hoaxes.
