The A-Z of video nasties - Weebls Stuff Posted by WilliamsCategory: Articles Any level-headed human with the capacity for reasoned thought would automatically see that this motley selection of shoddily-made US splatter, incomprehensible Italian hippy-crap monster movies, cheap-jack cannibal rubber-chomping gut-fests and nasty Nazi nork-flicks were as genuinely corrupting to public morals as Athena posters soaked in milk. Hell, even the most emotionally immature Iron Maiden devotee would get real bored, real fast, once the thrill of patently fake innards and the odd badly-shaved foreign front bum had worn off. But to a tabloid journalist or an uptight old harridan, these silly, ugly little shockers were the pre-AIDS harbinger of encroaching Armageddon – so come, let us journey back to the halcyon days of 1982, and have a butchers’ at… THE A-Z OF VIDEO NASTIES(This article isn't for kids. ABSURD: ANTHROPOPHAGOUS 2 1981 Italian video by Joe D'Amato You bet your arse it’s absurd! LOVE CAMP 7 1968 US video by R.L.
What To Do If You Lose Your Smartphone At A Party [Android] Tis the season…for parties! Company parties, family parties, or just plain parties – perhaps with some mistletoe or a dash of New Year confetti. Whatever the occasion, parties offer a unique opportunity for many things, such as losing your phone. One moment you’re taking a picture of yourself with some friends, and the next moment it’s gone. Normally you’d be able to turn over couch cushions or survey the floor, but not now. Alert Your Phone Using A Call Or SMS Your first step when attempting to find a lost phone is to try and locate it immediately using the oldest trick in the book – calling it. That’s where apps come in, and Where’s My Droid is the gold standard for finding a lost phone. Where’s My Droid is free and available for Android 1.6 or newer. Track It With GPS If you haven’t been able to locate your phone by activating its ringtone, then your phone may not have been lost in the area you originally thought. That’s where GPS tracking comes in. Wipe The Phone & Reset Passwords
The 50 Greatest Cult Movies of All Time - Page 5 41. Stop Making Sense (1984) People had been filming rock concerts and calling the resulting footage "movies" for decades before Jonathan Demme took command of the director's chair. 42. The coolest thing Bill Cosby ever did was to help finance Melvin Van Peebles' labor of love about a righteous black man kicking ass at a time when pop culture was utterly devoid of such imagery. 43. Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, a couple of hometown boys on their way to becoming legendary, worked together to create one of the most intensely alive visions of New York City ever. 44. Tobe Hooper's nightmare in bright Southwestern sunlight is one of the smartest films ever to be consistently described as "harrowing." 45. Sure, the 1951 original is a sci-fi classic, but the monster that attacks a frozen research base in that film is basically James Arness with a forehead prosthetic. 46. 47. 48. "Warriors... come out to play! 49. 50. Richard E.
25 Things Every Writer Should Know An alternate title for this post might be, “Things I Think About Writing,” which is to say, these are random snidbits (snippets + tidbits) of beliefs I hold about what it takes to be a writer. I hesitate to say that any of this is exactly Zen (oh how often we as a culture misuse the term “Zen” — like, “Whoa, that tapestry is so cool, it’s really Zen“), but it certainly favors a sharper, shorter style than the blathering wordsplosions I tend to rely on in my day-to-day writing posts. Anyway. Peruse these. Absorb them into your body. Let your colonic flora digest them and feed them through your bloodstream to the little goblin-man that pilots you. Feel free to disagree with any of these; these are not immutable laws. Buckle up. 1. The Internet is 55% porn, and 45% writers. 2. A lot of writers try to skip over the basics and leap fully-formed out of their own head-wombs. 3. 4. I have been writing professionally for a lucky-despite-the-number 13 years. 5. Luck matters. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
BBC Radio 4 Programmes - A Strange, Enchanted Boy 6 Ways to Find Your Stolen Laptop Think quick; where's your laptop right now? I bet you felt just a little twinge of worry until you remembered its location, right? Imagine how you'd feel if it was lost, misplaced, or stolen. How would you get it (and your data) back? A laptop antitheft product should keep your data safe, and keep strangers from using the computer. Location, Location, Location When you can't find your laptop, the first thing you want to know is its current location. It's also possible to roughly determine the device's location based on the IP address of the network to which it's connected. Snuko Anti-Theft & Data Recovery Premium ($29.95/year direct, 2.5 stars) uses IP as a fallback if it can't obtain a location using WiFi. If you're at all concerned about privacy, you'll probably decide you don't want the laptop maintaining a history of everywhere you go. LaptopSentry 3.1 ($9.99 direct, 2.5 stars) and Laptop Superhero ($29.99/year direct, 2.5 stars) take quite the opposite approach.
Family - The Marx Brothers On the image above please click on the brother you would like more information about or scroll down to get general information on the Marx family (image only clickable when your browser supports Client-side maps.) This picture shows from left to right: Zeppo, Groucho, Chico, Gummo and Harpo. Chronological history of the Marx Brothers The mother of the Marx Brothers came from Germany. She was born in Dornum on Nov 9, 1864, her name was Miene Schönberg. The family lived in New York. Simon's and Minnie's first child Manfred born in 1885, died in infancy before the age of three. Minnie helped her brother Al Sheen getting into show business and decided early that her children should follow him. The first performance in the Marx Brothers style as we know it was Fun in Hi Skule in 1912. What followed was The Cocoanuts a Broadway show which became their first film. From 1929 on they were mainly active in filming.
thirteen movie poster trends that are here to stay and what they say about their movies 1. Tiny People On the Beach, Giant Heads in the Clouds These movies are always sappy dramas. Do not allow you to be mislead by the trailer or calibre of the people involved into thinking otherwise. It was requested that this post should be edited down So edited down it was. 2. Posters hereThe movies that use this sort of poster will feature a lot of action with a thin veneer of pretentious intellectual posturing. 3. Posters hereThese poster are used for rom-coms that lean more on the comedy side of things. 4. Posters hereThe ultimate false advertising - these movies that use The Bed will feature very little sex and a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of talking. 5. posters hereThere is 98 percent chance that these movies this will be horror. 6. Posters hereUsing blue/picture of planet Earth for nature-themed movies is apparently mandatory. 7. Posters hereBlack/Orange is the other blue/orange of the action movie when the action movie isn't using blue/orange. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
All Documentaries Welcome to the Must Watch section. It is our understanding that for a truly democratic society to exist, there must be a free flow of easily accessible information. For the most part (not including heavy censorship in China), the Internet has allowed for this free flow of information to everyone and anyone with access to the internet and it is imperative that this right continues to be protected. Unfortunately, the principle of free flowing information does not exist in the mainstream media because our governments continue to allow large corporations to consolidate the entire media industry. For this reason, many facts, perspectives, and opinions do not make it to our televisions, movie theatres, newspapers, and radio stations. The documentaries below epitomize the importance of free flowing information and the lack of it in mainstream media. Please take the time to educate yourself and to educate others about the important issues raised in each of the documentaries.
How to Embalm a Body The first dead body I saw was my grandfather’s, at his funeral. More recently, I attended the funeral of a friend who’d died in a car accident. I forced myself to the dais to say goodbye. Looking over at him—he was striking in his beard and suit, clutching a leather-bound book—I thought he didn’t seem quite like himself: I’d never seen him with such cleanly cut hair. Though not entirely lifelike, their embalmed bodies were at least similar to how they appeared in life—similar enough that their casketed images surface alongside my memories of their smiles, movements, and voices. Though thin and energetic, Carla, a funeral director in New Jersey, manages to project calm and control. I happened to head for the bathroom after a particularly morbid account of a man who had died in the woods and had his face eaten off by bees. “You didn’t just vomit, did you?” “No, no,” I assured her, “but now that you mention it, maybe I should.” Step 1: Clean the Body and Break Down Rigor Mortis
Woody Allen’s greatest films | Slide Show Until I revisited it this week, I hadn’t watched “Manhattan” in about 15 years. I remember respecting it — despite misgivings that I’ll deal with in a second — but I don’t remember it being so devastating. The Gershwin soundtrack lends the whole tale an enchanted feeling, and cinematographer Gordon Willis’ anamorphic black-and-white photography may be his supreme achievement. The film’s panoramic exteriors are spectacular, of course — it’s Manhattan! Allen contrasts the film’s splendid images and music against the intellectual vanity of his characters, with their buzzy invocations of August Strindberg and Franz Kafka and “The Academy of the Overrated.” For all its richness, “Manhattan” will always have an autobiographical asterisk next to its title because of the affair between Allen’s 42-year-old TV producer character, Isaac, and his not-quite-18-year-old girlfriend, Tracy (Oscar nominee Mariel Hemingway). Woody Allen is wiser about “Woody Allen” than he is about Woody Allen.
Screenplay Basics - Scripped A Scripped Compendium by Johnathan Carr Traditional storytelling recounts past events, whereas screenwriting is locked in the present - thus you may not deviate from PRESENT TENSE. You may also be tempted to describe every inch of the world you're creating - don't! Take comfort in the idea that a screenplay is not meant to have any literary value. At the beginning of a feature film script, often but not always, the first line will be: FADE IN. While you can write a longer ACTION paragraph, think about keeping it under five lines at a time. In the ACTION line, be sure to capitalize SOUND EFFECTS, CAMERA DIRECTION and the first appearance of a speaking CHARACTER. Use a PARENTHETICAL to note an action the speaker is performing while speaking or if you want to indicate whom the speaker is addressing such as addressing a new character in mid-DIALOGUE. Off camera (O.C.) and off screen (O.S.) are identical, which one you use is really a personal preference. Think subtext.
15 Amazing Animated Short films We all love short animated films, but creating short film is very hard task. Putting whole story in 5 to 10 minutes is not easy. Can you imagine? I bet you will love these short animated movies, do let us know your favorite one, also feel free to share your favorite short film if it’s not present in the list. Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty Oscar-nominated film of ‘Granny O’Grimm’, directed by Nicky Phelan, produced by Brown Bag Films, and written/voiced by Kathleen O’Rourke. Oktapodi (2007) In Oktapodi, these two cuties help each other escape the clutches of a tyrannical restaurant cook. This Side Up – A Short Animation by Liron Topaz A naive music-lover’s patience is tested on his quest to download music online, as his perspective on technology completely changes. Oxygen Oxygen tries to make friends on the playground. “Heavenly Appeals” a short film by David Lisbe After many millennia of being tortured in Hell, Raymond K. Marcelino and Bartolomeo: Bye Bye! Bunny Animation The Passenger Alma
How to File a Patent for Your Invention - Creating, Patenting and Filing an Invention Media Platforms Design Team Lesson A: Fabrication Nation Inventors have traditionally turned their ideas into prototypes with plenty of sketches and endless iterations in wood, clay or metal. But the digital age has introduced a totally new toolkit. Computer-aided design (CAD) software allows rapid and highly precise blueprinting, computed numerical control (CNC) milling and routing equipment transfers that precision to the physical world, and 3D printers can create fully formed objects on demand. Plus, the cost of both hardware and software has fallen dramatically. Open-source invention organizations, such as NextFab Store and MakerBot, sell 3D desktop printers and kits through their websites, ranging from $750 to $4175. But if you don't want to own your own machine, look up local invention facilities such as TechShop, in Portland, Ore., and San Francisco; or NextFab Studio in Philadelphia. Lesson B: Patents Demystified • Filing a patent at the concept stage. • Filing a patent yourself.