Oh please, let this be true…
Game 5 tonight and it’s going to be a pivotal one regardless of who wins. I’m pulling for our boys in blue and green.
GO CANUCKS GO!
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I received the following video in an email from a pal of mine. I thought it might be worth sharing.
Here’s the text that came with the email:
During the late 60′s, most television programs and commercials were live. There were no “pre-recorded” programs. There were some obvious problems with this method. No “retakes” and “bloopers” were a regular occurrence.
This is no blooper! This guy was just very upset with his boss and told it like he thought it was. What a great job of ad-libbing. He never misses a beat while the camera man is just about to lose it. The commercial got on the air … but only once.
We have to assume he quit right after the commercial — one way or another.
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Who knows what the real story is behind this. Thanks to Mad Men we’ve seen that a sense of humour, albeit somewjhat cornball, sometimes blue and often racist, was not entirely uncommon in the early 60′s. Perhaps this salesman and his boss actually got along well and this was merely a taped joke. That would be my bet.
The other explanation reads like someone trying to make something out of nothing. If it is true, however, what an epic way to quit your job.
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While perusing the feeds of local websites that I have in my google reader (an easy way to get all of you content in one place) in the vancouverisawesome.com feed I came across a little blurb and video about an event on Monday December 7th at 7:30 pm at VIFC called The Found Film Festival:
The Found Footage Festival is a live comedy show featuring clips from videos found at thrift stores and garage sales across the country. This is a small sampling of some of the footage on display in Volume 4, coming to your city in 2009-2010.
If for some weird reason you can’t see the video go here to view it.
You guessed it. Carol and I have tickets already and will be there with bells on to see all the cheesy video goodness. You can buy tickets directly via this link at the VIFF.org site.
Looks like it will be a good time. If you’re unable to get to Vancouver, worry not, we are but one stop on the tour.
Still not convinced? We’ll send Pretty Boy Floyd along to talk you into it:
In this instructional video, entitled “Secrets of Pool Hustling,” professional pool shark Pretty Boy Floyd espouses his opinions on just about everything except pool hustling. More Pretty Boy Floyd is featured on the Found Footage Festival Vol. 3 DVD.
As well as bookmarking their website you can follow Found Film Festival on twitter, become a fan on Facebook or watch more videos on their YouTube channel.
See you there!
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I am definitely a soda pop lover. I know the dentist says it’s like giving your teeth a sugar bath but I adore it. I like real cane sugar pop, like those from Jones Soda. I am really sick of the Pepsi and Coke high fructose offerings and am grossed out by the taste of sweetener.
So where does one find good pop? Here’s where:
Obsessives: Soda Pop from CHOW.com on Vimeo.
John Nese is the proprietor of Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came for John to take charge, he decided to convert it into the ultimate soda-lover’s destination. About 500 pops line the shelves, sourced lovingly by John from around the world. John has made it his mission to keep small soda-makers afloat and help them find their consumers. Galco’s also acts as a distributor for restaurants and bars along the West Coast, spreading the gospel of soda made with cane sugar (no high-fructose corn syrup if John can avoid it).
What a cool place, interesting man and a great story. The next time I am in LA I will be checking out Galco’s Soda Pop Stop.
If anyone knows where to get a decent bottle of pop in Vancouver I would love to know. Please leave a comment.
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The Lighthouse Keeper Team :
Baptiste rogron / rogronbaptiste.blogspot.com ;
Rony Hotin / ronyhotin.blogspot.com ;
Maïlys Vallade / mailysvallade.blogspot.com ;
Jérémie Moreau / mor-row.blogspot.com ;
Gaëlle Thierry / gaellethierry.blogspot.com ;
David François.
Music : Romain Gauthier / ninomojo.com
Animation sure has come a long way since Hercules and Rocket Robin Hood. That was amazing.
Posted via web from mikebrowne’s posterous
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Symphony of Science – ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)
MP3 available at http://www.symphonyofscience.com.
“We Are All Connected” was made from sampling Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.
Check out “A Glorious Dawn” by Carl Sagan, another Symphony of Science project!
And my website for more original music:
http://www.colorpulsemusic.comClick HQ to watch in better quality.
Enjoy!
John
john@symphonyofscience.comLyrics:
[deGrasse Tyson]
We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically[Feynman]
I think nature’s imagination
Is so much greater than man’s
She’s never going to let us relax[Sagan]
We live in an in-between universe
Where things change all right
But according to patterns, rules,
Or as we call them, laws of nature[Nye]
I’m this guy standing on a planet
Really I’m just a speck
Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
To think about all of this
To think about the vast emptiness of space
There’s billions and billions of stars
Billions and billions of specks[Sagan]
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We’re made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itselfAcross the sea of space
The stars are other suns
We have traveled this way before
And there is much to be learnedI find it elevating and exhilarating
To discover that we live in a universe
Which permits the evolution of molecular machines
As intricate and subtle as we[deGrasse Tyson]
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable
To phenomena in the cosmos
That makes me want to grab people in the street
And say, have you heard this??(Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting)
[Feynman]
There’s this tremendous mess
Of waves all over in space
Which is the light bouncing around the room
And going from one thing to the otherAnd it’s all really there
But you gotta stop and think about it
About the complexity to really get the pleasure
And it’s all really there
The inconceivable nature of nature
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It’s here. Movember. I am growing a mo’ (short for Moustache) as a part of a Movember Canada team called Twi’stache Vancouver. We are participating to help bring attention and maybe some money to aid in finding a cure for prostate cancer. If you like you can learn more, give some tax deductible cash to me via my donation page, to our team or even join the team and grow your own Mo.
It’s only day one. It isn’t too late. Yet…
I have shaved off the rest of my facial hair and this is what I am left with this evening (better than seeing my nude face this morning). Some stubble…
Photo by Mo’ Sistah Carol Browne
We’re going to post a picture every day.
As you can see the shape of my mo’ is most likely going to go 70′s cop as sported by The Beastie Boys in their video for Sabotage:
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The fun has begun. I’m even sporting some bad smelling aftershave to heighten the effect for Carol. I think I’ll get some Hai Karate to take it to the limit:
Please give. It’s for a good cause.
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I love stumbling on things that are pretty to look at:
Rhyolite Ghost Town from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
Shot on the Sony EX3 and Letus Ultimate in Rhyolite, Nevada.
Music is by Ennio Morricone from “Once Upon A Time in the West”
Vignettes and grade done of course with Magic Bullet Looks.
Making of coming soon… philipbloom.co.uk
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Creativity is good…
Sorry I’m Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.
A stop motion short film shot with a stills camera in the ceiling pointing straight at the floor. There’s tons of ‘making of’ stuff at the website sorry-im-late.com
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