Eric Jones is a legendary adventurer. A climber, parachutist, base jumper, balloonist and motor biker whose love for speed and his need for pulse-racing adventure has seen him live an incredible and inspirational life.
Eric is widely recognised as Britain's most successful solo climber. It's the purest and most dangerous form of climbing - solo and with no safety rope.
Now, this 82-year-old grandfather has one last epic climb - back to where it all began over 50 years ago on the dramatic south west ridge of the Torre Delago in the Italian Dolomites.
Eric reflects on his own life, not just his climbing achievements, and how he fell in love with a young Australian teacher who abandoned her homeland for a new life in Snowdonia.
A beautiful, poignant and inspirational film about a great man growing old - but never too old.
Machine Robo: Battle Hackers is a Japanese animated television series produced by Ashi Productions. It ran on TV Tokyo from June 3, 1987 through December 30, 1987.
A crew of young builders, Jamal, Kingston, Miguel, Luke, and Kai take on design adventures around the globe. Together they tackle design challenges and engineering in diverse contexts, applying creativity and technology to drive innovation. At the core of Built From Scratch are three anchors, designing, STEM, and play, which serve as the foundations for every invention, every solution, and every adventure they create together!
Until then is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Polychroma Games. The game follows Mark Borja and his moments of déjà vu months after the events of a global catastrophe known as "The Ruling", which caused widespread damage and casualties across the country.
With the rapid advance of science and technology, artificial intelligence has gained sentience and become godlike beings. The capitalists on the top of the pyramid are not willing to yield to these "Gods," so they conducted human experiments and embedded copies of the "Gods" in humans and obtained powers that could rival the "Gods." Main character Feng Mo is the only survivor of these experiments. This story is about the symbiotic relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, and how they changed their fate in this world of despair.
Something quite unexpected happens when Annie is forced to spend the summer with her aging, warrior grandmother in the sleepy rural town of Singing Rocks, China. It doesn't take long for Annie and her cousin Yong to find out that their grandmother is the keeper of three secret and powerful masks that will guide them in their quest to be the next generation of warriors to help save the world.
Xiao Xiao is an internet Flash cartoon series by Chinese animator Zhu Zhiqiang, featuring stick-figure men performing choreographed fight scenes. Some of the cartoons are interactive and game-like. All cartoons are in the Adobe Flash format, although Xiao Xiao #1 was originally in AVI format. It has now been converted to Flash format.
"Xiao Xiao" literally is the Chinese character for "small" repeated twice in Mandarin Chinese; here this reduplication connotes an affectionate diminutive – an equivalent might be the English expression "itty bitty" or "lil' old". Each Xiao Xiao cartoon is given a Chinese title with the adjective "Xiao Xiao" preceding a descriptive noun phrase. Xiao Xiao #1 was originally titled "Xiao Xiao Zuo Pin", which translates to "A Little Bit of Creative Work". Since then each Xiao Xiao cartoon has had a different noun succeeding "Xiao Xiao" – #4 is titled "Little Sheriff", and #7 is titled "Little Movie".
The term has gradually shifted meaning from the cartoons themselves to the
Atomika, Sun goddess and queen to the cosmos, finds herself living a secret life as a high school student on an earth like planet in order to give a young boy new hope. Things go south when she realizes that neglecting her post to protect the solar system, opens the floodgates to an alien invasion caused by her mother “The BIG Bang”. The discovery of her 7 other sisters spurs sibling rivalry as she now has to lace up, conquer colossal creatures and defend her planets while concealing her true identity from the boy who has captured her heart.