Surf’s Up — A Practical Guide to Making Waves
Behind-the-scenes look at Surf’s Up, Sony Pictures Animation’s second all-CG feature-length animated film which has been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Animated Feature Film of the Year, 10 Annie Awards and 4 Visual Effects Society awards.. Surf’s Up is an animated documentary that delves behind the scenes of the high-octane world of competitive surfing. The film profiles teenage Rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf), an up-and-coming surfer, as he enters his first pro competition. Followed by a camera crew to document his experiences, Cody leaves his family and home in Shiverpool, Antarctica to travel to Pen Gu Island for the Big Z Memorial Surf Off. Cody believes that winning will bring him the admiration and respect he desires, but when he unexpectedly comes face-to-face with a washed-up old surfer named Geek (Jeff Bridges), Cody begins to find his own way, and discovers that a true winner isn’t always the one who comes in first.
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Watch Entire Show: www.youtube.com More Shows: www.youtube.com Episodes 15 and 16 of James Burke’s Connections², which is the first of two sequels to the original Connections series. In this series, Mr. Burke continues his investigations into the interconnectedness of ideas and inventions that, usually serendipitously, led to important changes our modern-day world. The format has changed to 25 minute episodes with each episode less focused and much more free-form. Mr. Burke may take a particular historical figure and then expand on an array of subsequent, and important discoveries or inventions directly, or indirectly resulting from there, or else he may take several origins and show how they ultimately came together resulting in some unexpected consequence (as in Connections 1). From a K-web point of view, this series may be visually seen as type of random-walk exploration through “connection space” as a child may do on their first visit, perhaps before discovering a particular topic or thread they may wish to pursue in more detail. Visit k-web.org for more information. See channel page for purchase options.
