Here at KappaD we don't just aim to entertain, but also to educate :)
Below is a "Snatch"-inspired British Heart Foundation PSA video that combines both these premises.
Former red card collector footballer, turned actor, Vinnie Jones, explains that the "kiss of life" is unnecessary and chest compressions at a steady rhythm are sufficient to help someone who is having a cardiac arrest.
"Did you ever notice how many stupid people surround you? If you didn't, then you might be one of them, in which case you can turn off this video and carry on with your life." "Idiots and morons are the majority of the world's population. They're not suddenly going to get smarter or start acting reasonably. It's YOU who'll have to change". "Life is easier and a much happier place when you're dumb".
I'll stop here and let you watch the rest.
So many truths in this video. I'm tempted, but no thanks. I'll carry this burden till the end.
I'm in vacation mode, so there won't be too many updates in July.
But, I'll try.
Here is a video from Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Hall's harbour is situated on the Bay of Fundy, which is known for having the highest tidal range in the world (source: Wikipedia).
Video from a Greek second division football game between Veria and Levadiakos in 2010.
The players of Veria manage to hit the crossbar once and goal posts twice, before wasting the opportunity (they didn't pay for it in the end, as they won 1-0).
We've seen something similar previously in a game between AEK and Olympiakos in 2007.
I can say from experience that this is true.
I feel that I used to achieve a far deeper level of thinking before the advent of the internet.
Habits need to change.
I always wondered why passersby to a film/TV series crew shooting a scene in the street are so oblivious to what is happening.
I mean... many scenes take place on busy city streets or at sites teeming with tourists.
Places which are practically impossible to close off even for a few hours in order to film a scene.
And yet no one stops to stare at the big (or smaller) stars.
No one is even a tiny bit curious as to how a scene is shot.
Could all these people be so self-disciplined or just indifferent?
Could all these people (sometimes hundreds of them) be extras?
No. The answer is green screen (and CGI).
As you can see from the following, very enlightening video which contains scenes from well-known TV series (I recognized Ugly Betty, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Monk, among them), street scenes are at best filmed on a closed off street, and at worst, completely inside a studio filled with green screens.
So much fakery.
The video is from 2009, so green screen and CGI technology must have advanced even further since then. However, it makes me happy that when I watch contemporary American TV series, I can at least still detect this artificial and confined feel in most of them.
Update:
I just found the 2012 video of the same visual effects company (Stargate Studios).
They are just getting better and better at this.
