This isn’t a full-fledged THAT’S METAL! post. I just saw three videos this morning that I thought would brighten your day, because they brightened mine.
ITEM ONE
The first one relates to that photo above. I’m a sucker for cats, large or small, and I’m a particular sucker for cheetahs. If you don’t give a fuck about cheetahs, you’ll want to move on to our second item. But if you do, I found a video that you need to see.
It was made at the Cincinnati Zoo by National Geographic using a Hollywood action crew and a Phantom camera filming at 1200 frames per second. Using an installed track, they kept pace with five different cheetahs, from both alongside and in front, as the cheetahs hit speeds in excess of 60 mph chasing a lure. At that frame rate, they were able to create a crystal-clear, super slo-mo film of the cheetahs in action. If you hang in ’til the last part of the video, you’ll see how they did this, and you’ll see how fast the cheetahs were really moving.
To me, this is amazing to watch. There’s only one problem with the video: the soundtrack. It’s one of those angelic, ultra-gooey things that Hollywood uses to over-dramatize things that are already dramatic enough. I mean come on, a cheetah is a fuckin’ predator. If there’d been something alive in front of it instead of that lure, there would have been blood spray at the end of the chase.
In other words, this video needs music that’s more appropriate to the subject matter. I think Krisiun will do nicely.
See if you can make this work: I turned down the volume on the video before capturing the embed code, and so the volume on the video should be muted. Start the video, and as soon as you’ve done that, press play on this song:
Krisiun: “Blood of Lions”
[audio:https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/02__Krisiun_-_Blood_of_Lions.mp3|titles=Krisiun – Blood of Lions]
Cheetahs on the Edge–Director’s Cut from Gregory Wilson on Vimeo.
ITEM TWO
The next item is also really cool. It’s a mash-up of clips from the trailers of 300 movies released during 2012 so far (go here to see the list of all the movies featured in the mash-up). The music is better than in that cheetah video: “Pruit Igoe”, composed by Philip Glass; “Tick Tick Boom’, performed by The Hives; and “Outro”, performed by M83.
I had two thoughts as I watched this: Shit, I’ve missed a lot of movies this year. Wow, what if this were a trailer for a single movie!
(via TYWKIWDBI)
ITEM THREE
Last but not least, the following video is a compilation of every zombie death on the first two seasons of The Walking Dead cable TV show. Do I really need to explain why a montage of zombie kilings is metal?
(also via TYWKIWDBI)
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CHEETAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, I would sell all of you to pirates for a cheetah. I wouldn’t even regret it the next day when the cheetah mauled me to death because there was no one there to help me.
CHEETAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m pretty sure the zombie montage is going to be the highlight of my day. It was going to be breakfast but my fucking wife is to hung over (pussy). Also, I would sell all of you to pirates to be able to re-enact every one of those killings every morning as soon as I wake up. On zombies, of course. Not real people. Of course.
I would also sell all of you to pirates to go to fucking breakfast.
I think fucking breakfast sounds painful if you’re having pancakes.
Horrible, horrible joke.
I’ve come to expect more from you, Phro.
Why would fucking pancakes be painful, apart from the mild heat?
I would just like to sell all of you to pirates.
But then who would you have to talk to?
I talk to God. Also, please change your NCS tag.
there is no god here
Au contraire, mon frere: What I mean to say is that I talk to myself.
Um… All of us are already in your head. How do you expect to ever get rid of us?
Fuck that fucking cheetah. I can’t believe how much time that animal spends completely airborne, like all four feet off the ground. Fuck.
Also, while watching the zombie montage I had this music in my head:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=JcNhDstL4-k
HA! We must be drinking the same brew for breakfast, because that music actually makes sense to me.
What if that were a trailer for a single movie?… Well, it still wouldn’t beat the awesomeness that is Movie: The Movie