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dhampyresaDID YOU KNOW THAT THEY RECENTLY FOUND MORE OF THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH? Now you do. What an amazing find.
Did you know, and I kid you not, that's there's an entire ~90mns musical based on Andrew Wiles' solving of Fermat's Last Theorem? It's called Fermat's Last Tango and you can watch it on youtube. It's surprisingly catchy as well as entertaining and moving. I'm quite impressed by the fact that there are only 7 actors for the whole play. I appreciated the attention paid to the maths -- because that could have made or broken the musical and it made it. I just really like that it's basically all about how maths is awesome. (And I find the references to Évariste Galois, really a propos, for several reasons.) Also, it's funny: "How did you get in my attic? Not to mention, this century?" Look, there's an entire musical number on the beauty of numbers, okay, I am weak in front of this sort of thing.
Speaking of being weak in the face of SCIENCE! Can I introduce you to Ambition, a SF short film made by the European Space Agency (ESA)? It's fucking gorgeous and science-y and hopeful and amazing and wonderful and awesome in the purest sense of those terms: that creates wonder, that causes awe. It's about an Apprentice and her Master and the Rosetta mission. If you've read Mike Carey's Lucifer comic, you'll know what I mean when I say it reminded me of issue 58 (The Yahweh Dance). If you haven't, it's about... Actually, it's lasts about 5mns, excluding credits, so there's no point in spoiling it. Here you go!
Yeah, I've been browsing the yuletide fandom promotion post. It's also brought me Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003) - Short Film, an adorable short film about Yu Ming who learns Irish to move to Ireland and escape his dreary life in China. You may notice a slight flaw in this plan. Happy ending, though!
While I was browsing the yuletide fandom promotion post, I also found this lovely little music video. It's very cute.
I keep thinking about all the things I didn't think to mention in that one Arthuriana post...
Did you know, and I kid you not, that's there's an entire ~90mns musical based on Andrew Wiles' solving of Fermat's Last Theorem? It's called Fermat's Last Tango and you can watch it on youtube. It's surprisingly catchy as well as entertaining and moving. I'm quite impressed by the fact that there are only 7 actors for the whole play. I appreciated the attention paid to the maths -- because that could have made or broken the musical and it made it. I just really like that it's basically all about how maths is awesome. (And I find the references to Évariste Galois, really a propos, for several reasons.) Also, it's funny: "How did you get in my attic? Not to mention, this century?" Look, there's an entire musical number on the beauty of numbers, okay, I am weak in front of this sort of thing.
Speaking of being weak in the face of SCIENCE! Can I introduce you to Ambition, a SF short film made by the European Space Agency (ESA)? It's fucking gorgeous and science-y and hopeful and amazing and wonderful and awesome in the purest sense of those terms: that creates wonder, that causes awe. It's about an Apprentice and her Master and the Rosetta mission. If you've read Mike Carey's Lucifer comic, you'll know what I mean when I say it reminded me of issue 58 (The Yahweh Dance). If you haven't, it's about... Actually, it's lasts about 5mns, excluding credits, so there's no point in spoiling it. Here you go!
Yeah, I've been browsing the yuletide fandom promotion post. It's also brought me Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003) - Short Film, an adorable short film about Yu Ming who learns Irish to move to Ireland and escape his dreary life in China. You may notice a slight flaw in this plan. Happy ending, though!
While I was browsing the yuletide fandom promotion post, I also found this lovely little music video. It's very cute.
I keep thinking about all the things I didn't think to mention in that one Arthuriana post...
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Date: 2015-10-05 02:52 pm (UTC)Okay, I have decided to take Galois' Dream (English trans. of Garoa no Yume) for my airplane reading today--it's on Galois groups of differential equations IIRC. It's been like 15 years since I studied it in college. :p
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Date: 2015-10-05 02:58 pm (UTC)I posted about it back when Rosetta and Philae did their thing, and I said: "Anyway, I'm sure that if the timing had been different, this would have been at least one if not several Yuletide fandoms. I expect that by next year I will have forgotten all about it, and have new bright shinies. But, yay Rosetta! Yay Philae!"
And sure enough, I forgot about it. But now, rereading my post, I wish I had remembered to request Rosetta and Philae as characters in Space Vehicles - Anthropomorphic....
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Date: 2015-10-06 03:14 am (UTC)!!!! SO EXCITING!
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Date: 2015-10-06 09:25 am (UTC)What awesome news about Gilgamesh!
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Date: 2015-10-05 03:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2015-10-05 10:59 pm (UTC)Also, "Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom" is SO cute, and I love the "Girls Like Girls" music video.
Make another Arthuriana post! I'd be interested in more.
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