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This web site, New York Video School, offers comprehensive film tutorials that are customized based on your skill level and interests. It's an amazing resource!
This web site, New York Video School, offers comprehensive film tutorials that are customized based on your skill level and interests. It's an amazing resource!
Audio Book Streams, Classic SciFi Television Streams and Nightly Streams of Classic Art Bell Broadcasts. The streams consist of books consisting of Science Fiction, Classic TV Shows and Future Books. Each night also includes streams of Art Bell broadcasts for Dreamland and Coast to Coast AM.
The relationship between developers and publishers in the video game industry has always been awkward. Many great game developers such as Bizzare Creations, Clover Studio, and Bullfrog Productions have been disbanded due to corporate shenanigans involving their publishers and owners. The indie game movement has risen largely as a response to this.
For a long time, video games manuals were serious business. Especially for strategy games and RPGs on the PC, the manuals would often run to a hundred or more full-color pages in length. They explained in vivid and well-written detail the history of the game world and every facet of the gameplay system. There were pages upon pages of appendices explaining the statistics of every unit, faction, and terrain type. They were majestic, and I would spend an hour or more poring over each one before ...
You've had a hard day at work and need to get out of the house, have a few drinks, but you don't want to go just anywhere—you want the right crowd and the right bar. For those nights, barhopping just isn't the answer, it's SceneTap.
This video demonstrates how to make a call using Face Flow. A browser based video call platform..
How to Build a Set in 24 Hours Analyse Space
"If all the sky were paper, and the seas of the world an inkwell, I could not describe my suffering to you." by a 14 year-old Polish boy during World War II. Also in the play "If All the Sky were Paper" based on Carroll’s bestselling books.
Mike 'The Greek' drops by the Film Lab to deliver his own TED talk. The subject: How to make an Best Picture Oscar-winning film (based on numbers and statistics, which he loves maybe even more than money)
I am a musician with the goal to create a Musical Universe called Music UniversuM. This idea will help improve music by using a space based theme so each star and it's solar system represents an intricate piece of music- a solar system symphony of sorts. If you're interested in learning more or being involved in the Music or any other part of the project, please contact me at Musicuniversum1@gmail.com
Feature documentary about female orgasms. Below is the trailer for the feature Film Orgasm Inc. Orgasm Inc. (2009) is the first feature documentary by award-winning director Liz Canner. It premiered at the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival. In the shocking and hilarious documentary, filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women that wins FDA approval to tr...
This video page has dozens of free clips and tips on how to sculpt with clay. The clay used in most of them is oil based clay, however polymer clay can be used in the same way as shown in the tips.
It's what every astronomy-loving geek has always wanted... a beautiful, twinkling home galaxy. As Instructables user MrTrick rightly warns, this project is no small feat. Be prepared to get schooled in:
Where were you in 1993? Thinking about starting a tech company? Starting elementary school? Awaiting a 1996 Daft Punk party after which you would be conceived? It's been eighteen years, but the game that solidified my dorkdom for good is still coming out with new sets, still fun as hell to play, and deserves some love dammit. To that end, I have started this World: A Magic: The Gathering Spot.
TSA agents are having a little too much fun, it's time for the rest of us to join in. More complicated (and more promising) than the see-thru video trick, Jeri Elsworth gives instructions for building your own hand-held TSA see-thru scanner with a $3 feed horn and some (admittedly hefty) technical know-how.
LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy for all. Combining dynamic research, innovative public policy and the organizing of broad alliances, LAANE promotes a new economic approach based on good jobs, thriving communities and a healthy environment.
Tangled is Disney's 50th feature-length animated motion picture. It's based on a fairy tale and stars a princess. Is it the last of it's kind? We asked Dr. Dave Zikovitz for his expert opinion...
Two easy solutions for avoiding pesky drill dust. You will need: a Post-it and/or a disposable paper cup.
This is a free information based site to every one who wants extra knowledge about every thing. This site is helpful especially for those students who wants to learn more about there subjects.
Proposition 23 is the act where they would suspend AB 32, the global warming act of 2006. If proposition 23 is enacted by voter this would pause the porvision of AB 32 until California's unemployment rate drops to a 5.5%. The unemployment rate at this current point is as high as a 12% and has been like that for the exception of 3 times since 1980. supporters call it California Job Anitiative and opponents call it the Dirty Energy Proposition.In this article it states the reason proposition 23...
Despite being amazing cameras, the Canon 7D and 5D Mark II can only shoot HD video at 60 fps. However, with an After Effects plug-in called Twixtor, you can slow it all the way down to 1000 fps, as demonstrated with these BMXers: Previously, HowTo: Build Your Own DIY SuperMacro Lens.
He talks about 127 Hours and goes into detail about the way he approached this film with 2 different cinematographers. He goes into great detail about his approach to the film and what he hoped to achieve by having 2 DPs.
lol. Personally, I used his calls as ring tones. If you like the video, there is another one at cracked. It's based on his movie Ransom and it's just hilarious towards the end:
Interactive Photographic A really cool timeline about which players were mentioned the most times on Facebook updates each day of the World Cup. You can trace almost every memorable event in every game based on what people were talking about.
Pick of the Night: Fol Chen / Baths / Random Patterns / Pizza! @ The Echo ($10) Fol Chen, a Highland Park based band is back in town to promote their latest record release.
Nothin's better than freshly homemade popsicles in these hot summer months. Design Sponge has posted three delicious-sounding recipes by Ashley of Small Measure.
Alex Griendling created a movie poster based on the popular zombie video game Left 4 Dead. Pretty awesome. Via LaughingSquid.
Check out this video footage of INSANELY huge waves, shot on the Canon 5D Mark II at the Jaws reef break, in Maui. Featuring surfers Laird Hamilton, Kai Lenny and Jason Polakow, performing feats that frankly don't seem humanly possible. Previously, BASE Jumping + Freediving + Canon 5D = One Spectacularly Scary Show.
Make sure to click through for some bad-ass Flash-based World Cup explorer. I'm not sure whether something like this was available for the last world cup, all I know is that I'll be using that site quite a bit.
This amazing bunker, post apocalyptic LEGO creation was made by MAINMAN.
This odd music video seems to be based on a true story. The story of massive film festival disappointment was created into a song called Parry's Gripp's Gripe. You can read al the bloody details here. http://www.parrygripp.com/
Want to learn how to play soccer like the pros? Watch this UEFA Training Ground video to learn the actual ball control drills used by the Spanish Football Federation.
A great month to month produce resource for what you should be looking out for at your LA based farmers markets.
The movie trailer for "Prince of Persia" based on the videogame with the same name.
Here is the trailer for the theatrical movie "Tekken" based on the video game with the same name.
Amazing compilation video of thrill-seeking junkies making insane jumps. The top ten covers everything from base jumping to skiing to motocross to finally, what might just be the most insane: back in 1960, Joe Kittinger jumped from the edge of space in a giant helium balloon. Previously, Supersonic Space Diver With Death Wish.
Hmm, what to do with all those old comic books lying around... How about a little Manga farming?
There is now a much a more artful approach to donning false eyelashes, reports Ecouterre. "As delicate as lace, each pair of faux peeper framers is based on the Chinese art of jian zhi or paper cutting. Featuring traditional motifs such as peonies (for happiness), peach blossoms (romance), and horses (success), these flirty extensions are certain to set any heart aflutter."
This year's Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts in Belgium presents work by photographer Thomas Lailaender. His whimsical series entitled 'The Acrobatic Squad' shows "a special motorcycle unit of the Préfecture de Police de Paris in full acrobatic mode as they were practicing their hobby at the Bourget military base".