Young boy showing off his hip hop skills
A random video I found on YouTube. It’s cute. 
Mummies Revealed
Not sure about the rest of you, but I’m the kind of person who works best with sound in the background, so it doesn’t feel too quiet. Most use music, I use documentaries. Lately, I’ve been watching one in particular called Mummies Revealed.
In it, they take a cadaver and using ingredients from Egypt, Libya, etc, they mummify the body to find out how the Egyptians went about mummification. After 35 days, the body looked much like the mummies of Egypt did. So time wasn’t the factor in their distorted image.
In another place, a cache of mummified royalty was found.
In yet another, a tomb was left unfinished when the Pharaoh died before it’s completion. On the walls, you can see the red grid lain out to show the artist where to draw all the images…An outline of a figure that was later drawn smaller because it was the size of a god instead of a mortal…partially chiseled images which halfway down the wall weren’t complete. The day the Pharaoh died.
Further on, they show Lenin mummifed in Russia. The best maintained mummy who now is either buried or will be buried, since the Russian government no longer pays for those services.
It was a very enjoyable documentary, so I thought I’d put the embeds here. If they no longer work by the time you read this (After August 24th, 2009), let me know by commenting. I’m trying to find out who exactly sells the DVD for it, so others can go ahead and buy it if they want to.
If you love mummies, you’ll love this.
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Sebastian’s Voodoo – 5th NFB Online Short Film Competition Winner
The 2009 NFB Online Short Film Competition Finalist is Sebastian’s Voodoo by Joaquin Baldwin (Seen below).
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
For more information, such as the titles of the runner’s up (there were quite a few good ones this year), please visit the NFB’s press release.
The competition was held by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Short Film Corner and in association with YouTube.
