I have just crawled back from the gym. They haveall new equipment at Goodwood. On the treadmill you can connect your IPod and watch any music or videos you have recorded. You can also chose to watch TV including the news if you want to be depressed. (Its interesting to note that my bank has in theory been nationalised. Who would have thought this would happen a year ago!) The machine also shows in graphic form myheart rate. The best thing I can say about that is that it recovers fairly quickly. On the spinning bike you can watch a video of a male blond very fit Californian fitness instructor. Not my type. I won’t be watching him again.
The whole experience is quite addictive which is good as I spend more time oin the machines without the boredom factor.
I have seen two films in the last week. Slumdog Millionaire and Young Victoria. Both enjoyable fils for different reasons. Slumdog nearly ended up as a film going straight to DVD thus excluding it from the Oscars. It was brave of the Academy to give it the best picture Oscar. The film does deserve it and even though it is uplifting at the end, it depicts a very violent underclass in India.
Young Victoria is quite a different film. It is semi truthful depiction of the young Victoria prior to her becoming Queen and her relationship and eventual marriage to Albert. It has stunning scenery including Arundel Castle, but there is no real depth to the film.
This is a talk in the TED series about the computer grahics that went to make ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. I will be seeing this film next week.