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Dict: Sweding (swē-ding) = To re-make something from scratch using whatever you can get your hands on.

Recreating movies from scratch with whatever we can find, we bring the joy and hilarity of movie magic back to life.Born out of the mispronunciation of “sueding” (as in fake leather) by French director Michael Gondry, sweding’s roots lie firmly in the movie industry. …

This is a beautiful Torchwood episode 2x13 “sweded” by a group of geeks during the “Over The Air” conference in London in April 2008.

Film and actor crew consists of people such as Ewan Spence, Matthew Cashmore and Tom Morris (also seen at other cool events, e.g., HackDay London or BlogTalk Cork). Great work! And very entertaining.

The “swede” is very much inspired by the movies “Be Kind, Rewind” and “Son of Rambow” (and also had a Monty Python reference). One of pages on the web mentioned that all this “hack” was created within 1 day (or 24 hours?) but I can not find that web page any more.

There’s more information about sweding and this particular hack on Torchwood Swede blog. A HD version and outtakes from the production process can be found here: http://www.vimeo.com/sweded

Related news:

The next episode of Doctor Who (which Torchwood is a spin-off of) will air on BBC 1 today at 18:45 (a little more than 45 min from now, since time zone of this blog is +2h). One could just wish for it to be available on BBC iPlayer outside the UK too.

Space Shuttle can get very hot during re-entry into atmosphere. So hot (almost 3000 F or 1650 C) that the air around the orbiter is turned into glowing hot plasma.

Here’s how it looks from inside the Space Shuttle during re-entry (see the video). At start it is too bright outside to see any colors - they are washed-out, then at ~1 min into video you start to see orange-yellowish color of the glow:

On Flickr you will find a computer generated image of how an orbiter might look when coated in plasma - see “Shuttle returns” (flickr.com).

It points to some more YouTube videos such as this: “NASA Shuttle Endeavour Re-Entry Video”. Those Shuttle cockpit view videos rock!