Singers' view on the world

Great video of how much different TV-shows and movies actually use a green screen when they are shooting scenes. It’’s kind of a sudden wake-up because everything looks so real. Some places they are really hard to spot, but I promise you that after you”ve watched this little video you”ll be able to spot green screens a lot better.

It almost seems like Ugly Betty is being shot entirely in front of a green scene, which is kind of disappointing. I”ve never actually watched the show but I like to think that the casts are actually out in the real world doing their acting. This is a lot cheaper for the studios because they don”t have to pay for transportation, expensive actors and lighting on location.

[That''s How It Happened]

This is an amazing 30s video of a pigeon riding the subway. Now you might think, well how is that cool -- if you take a look at the video it’’s pretty clear that the pigeon knows where it needs to get off. The speaker announces the next station, it starts walking around, the doors open and the pigeon quietly walks out. It’’s quite impressive that the pigeon have learned to do this, or was this just a coincidence?

This video reminded me a lot of Moscow’’s stray dogs who has adapted to the way humans live and get around. Scientists have studied groups of these dogs and they seem to have a hierarchy which is really close to that of a wolf pack. The stray dogs found out that people were more likely to give them food at subway stations. It’’s really interesting how these animals adapt to the way we live.

You can read more and see picture of Moscow’’s stray dogs: “Smartest Dogs: Moscow’’s Stray Dogs”

Each war is different, each war is the same

Every Saturday I’ll share photos that amazed me in the last week. So enjoy this great photo.
This is a photo taken by Kevin Dooley in Santa Monica, California.

Talk about a picture that say more than a thousand words.

The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde aka. brokep together with Linus Olsson aka. bonq, have just launched a new project named Flattr – combination of “flatter” and “flatrate”. It’’s still in the early beta stages and an invite code is required upon sign up. The video below describes the idea behind the service very good.

You sign up for a Flattr account like you would with any other social network like Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon etc. You can then choose your monthly flatrate amount, there is a minimum of at least 2 EUR/month. For you as a content provider you have to be willing to give if you also want to receive, so if you want to add a Flattr button on your site then you will have to sign up for the monthly flatrate first. This isn”t a one-way service, it goes both ways.

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