Justin

New Zealand South Island in Winter

It has been over a year since I moved to New Zealand for half a year. Here is an impression of my travels through the South Island, mainly during winter, some autumn. It is paradise on Earth if you ask me. Only 1 million people, a 70x lower population density than the Netherlands. True but accessible wilderness. Alps, gold beaches, glaciers, rain forest and desert, all within a 4 hour drive or cheap flights. Relaxed and friendly people; British culture, but laid-back. 3rd in the UN development index 2010. Perfect climate. Cheap housing and land. The only major drawbacks are low internet speeds, isolated from the rest of the world and bad currency rates if you travel abroad. I may go and live there at some point in my life (not now), you should all join me ;)

Bealey Spur, 1500 m.

Start of the Kepler track.

Franz Josef glacier.

Kepler track sunset.

Forest on Stewart Island.

Kepler track Mount Luxmore.

Milford Sound.

Victory Beach, Otago Peninsula.

Orua Wairua, Marlborough Sounds.

Awaroa Hut, Abel Tasman track.

Pukaki Valley, Mount Cook.

Abel Tasman track.

Tim Minchin has to do a polite song that may last only three minutes

Fire Ants vs Water

Binaural Recordings

You'll need headphones for this to work. Make sure there is no noise around, close your eyes, turn the volume up a little bit, hold and press headphone on your ears for better hearing, play it and enjoy this impressive audio work ( illusion ). Not a screamer not a prank!

Binaural recording @ wiki

This clip also has some effective examples. This clip is also quite good.

Supernova vs (dusty) Galaxy

"Far away, long ago, a star exploded. Supernova 1994D, visible as the bright spot on the lower left, occurred in the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC 4526."

BBC Human Planet: The Douche

High-end Toilet

Swimming Pool

How does Venice work?

Terrifying Tsunami video

Airplane flight timelapse from San Fransisco to Paris

Epic timelapse! There's more info on the YouTube page.

Frontpage paper

I've made a little funny in my latest article. this is my frontpage. Look at the posture of the big-guy what that pose remind you of?

Today I learned about Tumbling

Why is this not a standard olympic event?

Jiskefet - Boekenwinkel

Een klassiekertje...

Thank god for science

Other videos made by Jesusophile

Gooble Gobble, one of us

This is the clip I talked about recently, it's from the 1932 movie Freaks. Embedding is disabled on the video so you'll have to use this link.

South Park even spoofed it.

Synchronized Fireflies

Shitty quality video, but an amazing phenomenon. BBC needs to film this in HD.

Unreal Engine 3: Nerdgasm

Be sure to watch full screen HD.

Making of Inception corridor & zero-gravity sequences

If you haven't seen the movie yet I would skip this, and watch the fucking movie already :)

So awesome that no CGI was used in these shots.

Uncut HD Tsunami footage

Be sure to watch at 720p.

Tsunami footage taken from helicopter

Don't know if you've seen this, it's new to me.

Couldn't find a better source for this footage so here's the link.

Naming the Colonies

Girlfriend on April Fools Day: I'm breaking up with you

Not funny when it's actually happening. And true.