Movies

Movie genre’s

We are movieholic’s. Watching everything. Sometimes we thing “why the F did we watch that” other times it’s a pretty unknown jewel.

We loved “De kijk van Koolhoven” a dutch tv serie about movies, by our dutch director Martin van Koolhoven.
He explained why he liked certain movies. Tarantino did simular but couldn’t find much about that

We started watching the top 250 IMDB movies a few years ago. Comming a long way, and has been a treat.

Below a list of top movies i could thing of in serveral genre’s.
Nowhere complete, and probably forgot better ones

Action

  • 3 days of the condor
  • Snowpiercer
  • Maze runner
  • Inferno
  • Bourne series
  • Enter the Dragon
  • Fugitive
  • John Wick

Animation

  • Akira
  • Ghost in the shell
  • 9
  • 5cm per second
  • Tintin (2011)
  • Beowulf
  • Coco
  • Song of the sea

Comedy

  • guest house paradiso
  • Life of brian
  • “100-year old man who climbed out of the window”
  • Blues brothers
  • “Dont look now we’re being shot at”
  • Groundhog day
  • The man who sues god
  • Mash attacks
  • Modern times
  • Great Dictator
  • Airplane

Crime

  • 12 Angry men
  • The sting
  • The Mule
  • Oceans series
  • “No Country for Old Men”

Drama

  • Roma
  • A beautiful mind
  • Bicycle thieves
  • Cast away
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Green book
  • Kite runner
  • Man on the moon
  • Seven samurai
  • American Sniper
  • Wadjda

Dutch

  • Amsterdamed
  • De Lift
  • The Johnsons
  • “Schippers van de Kameleon”
  • Michiel de Ruijter

Fantasy

  • The BFG
  • Hobbit
  • Lotr
  • Labyrinth
  • “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
  • Time bandits
  • City of lost children

Film Noir

  • Double indemnity
  • Touch of evil
  • Sin City
  • M

Horror

  • Alien
  • Saw
  • The Platform
  • Underwater
  • Them
  • The Thing
  • Troll hunter?
  • Braindead

IT-Related

  • Antitrust
  • Hackers
  • Tron
  • Matrix
  • Source code
  • Swordfish
  • Takedown
  • War games

Mindfuck

  • Looper
  • Memento
  • Oldboy
  • Vertigo
  • The Prestige
  • Primer
  • Time lapse

Pre-1940

  • The general
  • Metropolis
  • Modern times
  • Gold Rush
  • M

SciFy

  • Bladerunner
  • Metropolis (silent)
  • Attraction
  • Inception
  • Interstellar
  • Martian
  • Terminator
  • Avatar
  • Arrival (2016)
  • Incredible shrinking man
  • Them (1954)

Fun to watch

  • 4Latas

War

  • Live is beautiful
  • Great escape
  • Dunkirk
  • The pianist
  • T-34
  • Oorlogswinter
  • Schindler’s list
  • Das boot
  • Downfall
  • Inglourious basterds
  • The imitation game
  • Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
  • Escape from Sobibor (1987)
  • painted bird (2019)

Weird

  • Funky Forrest
  • Existence
  • Delicatessen
  • Meet the feebles
  • “Requiem for a dream”
  • Swiss army man
  • Tenet
  • A clockwork orange
  • “Curious case of Benjamin Button”
  • The Lobster
  • Zardoz

Western

  • Revenant
  • Brimstone
  • Hang m high
  • Good bad and the Ugly
  • Magnificent Seven (1960)

Woman Power

  • Jackie Brown
  • Hidden figures
  • Color Purple
  • Moana / Brave
  • Roma
  • Alien
  • The Piano
  • Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • A League of Their Own
  • 9 to 5
  • Kill bill

List for Maryse

  • Zwartboek
  • Red sea ding resort
  • The pianist
  • Schindler’s list
  • Zwartboek
  • Son of Saul
  • Boy in the striped pyjama’s
  • Waltz With Bashir
  • La vita è bella

Indian movies

  • Taare Zameen Par (2007) – Like stars on earth (is a tearjerker)
  • 3 Idiots (2009)
  • Slumdog millionaire (Techinally a british movie)
  • Dangal (2016)
Uncategorized

Where have we been map

Generated a world map where we’ve been … biggest red part .. seen the least of it 🙂
Vacation or work
A small part of the US, and a small corner from the westcoast of Canada.

Countries/places on our todo list:

  • Mongolia
  • Japan
  • Cuba
  • Greece
  • …
  • …
  • America : Coline
  • Austria : Coline, Monique
  • Belgium : Monique, Coline
  • Bolivia : Coline, Arja
  • Cambodia : Coline, Monique
  • Canada : Monique, Coline
  • Canary islands : Coline
  • Czechia : Coline, Monique
  • Denmark : Coline
  • Egypt : Monique, Coline
  • England : Monique, Coline
  • France : Monique, Coline
  • Germany : Monique, Coline
  • Hungary : Monique, Coline
  • Iceland : Arja, Coline, Monique
  • Ireland : Coline, Monique
  • Italy : Monique, Coline
  • Laos : Monique, Coline
  • Malta : Coline
  • New Zealand: Coline
  • Peru : Arja, Coline
  • Romenia : Monique, Coline
  • Scotland : Monique, Coline (Many many times)
  • Spain : Coline
  • Sweden : Coline
  • Switzerland : Coline, Monique
  • Vietnam : Coline, Monique
Computer, Movies

Kodi movies and metadata

UPDATE: 20220307

I’m using Kodi for a long time now, but never was really satisfied with the results of automatically scraping metadata.

Movie names had to be just right, and changing some metadata was hard.

A while ago i made a NFO generator for own movies, digitized 8mm material, mobile movies etc.

So for movies/tv shows i started using Tinymediamanager for metadata management. You have more controll over your NFO files.
Don’t forget to add media sources to Kodi, selecting the ‘local NFO scraper’ option.

I’m using TVDB scraper in TMM, and trakt to mark seen.
But that way i’m missing IMDB top 250.

Fix:

  • Scrape metadata for selected movies
  • Choose IMDB as the Metadata scraper
  • Remember to DESELECT ALL metadata options with the exceptions of Rating , to keep your existing metadata.
TinyMediaManager Scraper page

UPDATE:
Problems with premiered date/release date showing up as movie date in kodi? Here is my fix.

find . -type f -name '*.nfo' -print -exec sed -i -e '/<premiered>/d' {} \;
Music, Pipes / Folk / Instruments

Folk band instruments 2021

Flute Coline
Bunch
o whistles
Low-D Coline
Smallpipes Henri
Highland pipes Coline
Low-G Coline
Low-D Henri
Uilleann Henri
Highland Pipes Henri
Whistles
Border Pipes Coline
Bouzouki Henri
Bodhran Henri sometimes borrows
Keyboard Coline
Accordeon Henri
North Umbrian Pipes C
Border pipes Henri
Autoharp
Mandolin Henri
Smallpipes Coline A/D
High whistle Henri
Banjo Henri
Concertina Henri

Today newest addition Concertina

Bert Visscher and Herman Finkers

IOT / Domoticz

Hacking a hikvision doorcam

I don’t like cloud enabled devices, except if it is my own cloud!

I bought a Hikvision doorcam, when i researched the diverse doorcams where was a hikvision which could use a existing doorchime.

When i got mine in, it did not have this feature.
Damn what to do!

Where where several solutions i could think off:

  • Use as is .. a no-go for me
  • Offload SSL on a proxy and try to reverse engineer the https communication
  • Or a hardware solution

I looked at the electronics and tried to find out how things where connected and where things where you could make use of.
I soldered some wires to a little print where the pushbutton was located.
Now i could read the button press, video was easily captured by using a RTSP port.

Does it work? … yes, but i’m not happy about it

Video playback in Zoneminder or VLC

rtsp://admin:secretpassword@hikvisionip:554/Streaming/Channels/101

A solution i used before for a generic doorbell

Just read the gpio pin with Arduino or raspberry.
A generic optocoupler will work, just check your resistor.

3dprinting, Hobby

Uboot Game

2019-06-08 I’ve bought myself Uboot the game.

It is one of my favourite board games.

Playing with a cardboard uboot is … okay. But when you have a 3D printer .. do i need to say more?

Parts printed

3D printed version assembled and completed in Jan 2021

All assembled and put Leds inside.

Led’s are controlled by a Arduino, Mqtt or a fysical button can be used.

Computer

Rubber duck debugging, Pair Programming and more

Why “rubber ducking’’? While an undergraduate at Imperial College in London, Dave did a lot of work with a research assistant named Greg Pugh, one of the best developers Dave has known. For several months Greg carried around a small yellow rubber duck, which he’d place on his terminal while coding. ( From “The Pragmatic programmer” page 95)

Why rubber ducking?

A very simple but particularly useful technique for finding the cause of a problem is simply to explain it to someone else or even a object. Explain out loud (or in your mind to the duck) what each line of code is doing.
Often while doing so, you will see the problem.

Why Pair Programming?

It is no secret, i like working on a problem alone. Let me do my ‘thing’. But i like the idea of Pair Programming, why?

  • Differences in thinking, gives alternative solutions
  • 4 eyes principle, typo’s will be seen
  • When working with a novice:
    • Teaches the new guy
    • Give the other space to ask stupid questions, maybe they are NOT!
  • The knowledge of the new code is now known to > 1 person!

Art, Computer, Photography

Wacom tablet doesn’t behave

Changed some code controlling my wacom drawing tablet.
I use this one to draw Art, diagrams and touch up photo’s.

When using multiple screens, i had the problem it would stretch the draw area over multiple screens, streching the ratio. Or it took the work screen to work on.

#!/bin/bash
# using xinput here, check post about two mouses/keyboards on one machine

# Use xrandr to check names check 
MONITOR="DP-1"
PAD_NAME='Wacom BambooFun 6x8 Pad pad'

#undo
xsetwacom --set "$PAD_NAME" Button 1 "key +ctrl +z -z -ctrl" 
xsetwacom --set "$PAD_NAME" Button 2 "key e"
xsetwacom --set "$PAD_NAME" Button 3 "key h"

ID_STYLUS=`xinput | grep "Pen stylus" | cut -f 2 | cut -c 4-5`
xinput map-to-output $ID_STYLUS $MONITOR
ID_STYLUS_2=`xinput | grep "Pen eraser" | cut -f 2 | cut -c 4-5`
xinput map-to-output $ID_STYLUS_2 $MONITOR

exit 0

Most of the times i use Krita and Gimp.

"If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing."