An awesome moment from the motion picture Argo

An awesome moment from the motion picture Argo

Ok first thing's first. For those of you have seen Argo, you have seen, in my opinion, one of the best political thrillers in a while. For those of you haven't seen Argo, you're missing out! Argo is unarguably the best "based on a true story" movie I've seen in a long time. For those who haven't seen it, I repeat, you should! Argo is one of those few movies that can be watched over and over again and doesn't feel boring at all. Here's what I mean...

      So near the end of the film,there is this moment when I was like "Holy Cow! That's just amazing"! In this film moment, Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) was flying back to the USA from Tehran with the six US embassy personnel. Five minutes after sneaking past the airport security, the seven are in the air. Then the air hostess comes on the intercom and says "We will begin serving alcoholic beverages shortly, Thank You!". Tony and the six ex-hostages are completely ecstatic at this moment. You might think, "Were they drunkards"? But in reality, alcohol is not allowed in Islamic countries. So the moment the plane left Iranian airspace, the air hostess had made her announcement and made seven people the happiest people in the world. This moment is my most favorite, because just that one statement has so much meaning and pizazz, thus it is was very memorable for me. I say that Argo is the best movie of 2012, and so does the American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences!

Joe and His Unexpected "Walk"

Joe was the last person on earth I expected to do that. He just doesn't seem like that kind of person. He is too shy, too small and too rotund (5'2 and 150 pounds last time he told me). Yet this morning, there was a video of Joe Mohican (his last name for SURE) on Fox 5 Morning Edition--TIGHTROPE WALKING across the five mile wide Grand Canyon. Not only did he walk the whole five mile span; he walked it in five minutes without quaking ONCE. An apple I was eating literally dropped out of my mouth. I just stared at the TV screen, rubbing my eyes out with disbelief.  Just last week, I was at his house for one of his random parties in downton Buckhead. He and I walked out to the balcony to get some fresh air. Slowly, we chatted about the end of our high school lives and what we were going to do next in our life. As I looked out to the street, 100 feet below us, Joe took one look and dashed back inside. He later told me that he was scared of heights. It doesn't make sense. How did he go from downtown Atlanta to the Grand Canyon? I tell you NO ONE could have forgotten the face of the shy, pale seventeen year old. It seems to good to be true, and I feel that Joe might have done something inhuman to accomplish this Herculean task. Now I have a question for my readers: How can a human being be scared of a height of 100 feet one week, and then tightrope walk across a five mile wide, one mile deep chasm a WEEK LATER? How is it POSSIBLE? 

What if your camera was able to record 1,000,000,000,000 frames per second?

In this TED talk video, Ramesh Raskar, an MIT professor, and his team have created and 

developed what is known as femto-photography. Basically this new type of photography   can record videos at one trillion frames per second; this allows video recording at the speed of light. But what is so useful about this fascinating technology? According to Professor Raskar, this technology can help soldiers look around corners, without actually having to put their lives at risk. Professor Raskar uses his audience's appeal to logos wisely and shows a simulation of the femto-camera's use in the military to detect hostiles around corners or inside buildings. This appeal works mainly because Professor Raskar effectively used videos and pictures of the femto-camera in use, to allow the audience to see the usefulness of the femto-camera. 

This TED talk is pretty interesting, and is worth the watch. Bits of jokes keep the audience's attention on the professor. The moment Professor Raskar made the statement that the femto-camera could record objects at the speed of light, I was just shocked. I was not able to imagine something at this microscopic of a scale. This visual reference to light, and the use of the femto-camera was what made this TED talk seem so realistic. This TED talk is just an awesome tool of rhetoric that Professor Raskar used to convey his point about the usage of the femto-camera in real time and the world.