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Samsung 360
This is really just a tech demo, but man oh man, I can’t believe that this is where we’ve gotten with regards to video technology. Fully 360 video. Click and drag the mouse to move around. Amazing. Can you imagine … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Ric Flair Cuts a Promo in 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANKDVFxkbo Yesterday, Cracked.com published my latest article I wrote for them, “5 Famous People With Mind-Blowing Connection to Evil Crimes”. Since one of the entries on the list covered Ric Flair’s dark origin story as a black market baby in … Continue reading
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A Tribute to Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
On June 11th, we lost one of our most prolific character actors of all time- Christopher Lee. As hard as it might be to believe, Lee was the brunt of bullying during his formative years. As to be expected from … Continue reading
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I Wanna Feel Good
Now this is how you sell coffee. This bizarre and awesome short film by Jennifer Lynch doubles as a commercial for David Lynch Signature Cup Coffee, and it makes me wish that there was a whole TV network that only … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Plays in the 1995 Orange Bowl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA1cSySfvig Before he became one of the world’s biggest movie stars, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was one of the world’s biggest pro wrestling stars, which became his inevitable career path after an attempt at a pro football career went nowhere. … Continue reading
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Talk About a Disaster
As we all know, nothing is equally matched against Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Not swashbuckling wisecrackers. Not a British hoodlum. Not an island of carnivorous creatures. And especially not a seismic earthquake. In this week’s jingoistic (an American flag exploitatively … Continue reading
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The Pop Culture of Tomorrow Today
The future of civilization looks pretty bleak. Certainly I sound pretty cynical and nihilistic when I make statements like that. But filmmakers like George Miller have taken a telescope and looked deep into our inevitable fate and it’s not all … Continue reading
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Always Remember to Stretch
This weekend marks a departure of sorts for Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s been the superstar Austrian Oak with the impenetrable accent for so long that it’s difficult to imagine him vanishing into a character who doesn’t blow people up. In the … Continue reading
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Quality Short Films (on the cheap)
If you’re attending Ottawa ComicCon this weekend, then you should drop by Meeting Room B at 2:00pm to see my panel! My collaborator Grant Jeffery and I will teach you how to make short films on a shoestring budget. And … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: 15-Year Old Mike Tyson Boxes in the 1981 Junior Olympics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqwV_UnB1EQ Since I posted footage yesterday of a young Floyd Mayweather qualifying for the 1996 Olympics, I thought I’d go back even further and dig up a clip of another famous boxer’s roots. So here’s a much scrawnier Mike Tyson … Continue reading
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