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News: Reviewing the 2010 Oscar Picks Ep.04
Mike the Greek's penultimate Oscar picks will set you straight on all of sunday's acting awards
News: Reviewing the 2010 Oscar Picks Ep.01
Listen up: Mike the Greek is back with his Oscar picks
Use video camera lens basics: Angle, focal length, DOF
Mike from the SubStream's "Film Lab" has some tips regarding video camera lenses. In part one, Mike talks about the basics of lenses, starting with focal length and angle of view. It's a lesson on the analog collections of lenses cinematographers use with their cameras. For people who like to point lenses at things, here is the functional knowledge.
How To: Write a script for a documentary film
Mike from the SubStream's "Film Lab" has some tips regarding screenwriting, specifically... documentary scripts.
How To: Fix oil leaks and clean your car engine
Ballin' on a budget? Mad Mike demonstrates how to get a clean engine with no oil leaks with this car tutorial video. Watch as Mad Mike guides you along the process with step by step instructions. Also covered is how to use an oil gun, which makes it easier to put the oil in the car. Learn how to find the leak and how to fix that leak using a crow's wrench with this instructional car video. Fix oil leaks and clean your car engine.
News: Fiber Optic Milky Way in your Bedroom
Instructables member Mike Galloway has constructed his own private planetarium: a fiber optic starfield ceiling for his newborn baby.
How To: Reduce noise in images in Photoshop CS3
In this image editing software tutorial, Mike Rodriguez uses Photoshop’s reduce noise filter to clean up one of his photographs. Noise is often a fact of life in digital photography, but it doesn't need to be a fact of life in your Photoshop output of those images! See how to reduce noise in Photoshop CS3 Extended. Reduce noise in images in Photoshop CS3.
News: Old Man Skating
Take a good skater from the Cast (Bam Margera) or hire someone like Tony Hawk, Mike V
How To: Pour Guinness from a tap
Mike Gallagher illustrates pouring Guiness from a tap to ensure maximum nitrogen bubbles that help to release the flavor of the beer. The pour is a two step process and includes recommendations on glasses used and the degree to which the handle of the tap is turned. Pour Guinness from a tap.
Arduino Air Force: DIY Robotic Cardboard Quadcopters
You're hellbent on taking over the world, but one race of robotic minions isn't enough for you. With your hexapod robots acting as your ground forces, it's only natural to take to the skies. These cardboard quadcopters are the perfect air force for you. Combined, you are mere steps away from starting your evil takeover. Now you just need some water bots. The cardboard flying quadcopters are built around the MultiWii platform with the twin power of Processing and Arduino, so they are actually ...
News: Magnetic Powder Turns Silly Putty into Freakish Magnet-Hungry Blob
It's best known as a children's toy, but kids aren't the only ones who can appreciate the unique and marvelous properties of Silly Putty. It's an incredibly fun silicone polymer that almost seems like a scientific anomaly, thanks to its viscoelastic non-Newtonian flow. This amazing dilatant fluid can be stretched, torn and mashed back together, as well as bounce and shatter into pieces with a forceful blow.
How To: Draw "Spike" the bulldog and "Mike" the bully
Grab a pen and some paper and get ready to draw a fun animal toon! Join Bruce Blitz as he shows you how people can look like their pets and vice versa. You will need paper, pencil, markers, colored chalks or colored pencils and an eraser. Using your pencil, start by drawing 2 triangular shapes with curved edges, like guitar picks. One should be smaller than the other. The smaller one will be the dog and the larger, its owner. These will be guidelines for their faces. Using your marker, in the...
Pet Portrait Challenge: Love in the Eyes
She's not the dog from Mike & Molly, but she might as well be. This is Daisy, our 14lb mix. She's Shih Tzu, Chihuaha, Terrier, and Chin...or oops. She's what happened when our friends didn't know their dog was still in heat.
News: Null Community
I have signed up but I would like to be part of the Null Byte community. Can someone shove me in that direction?
News: George Lucas Strikes Back
What if George Lucas had never created the Star Wars prequels, what if a secret terrorist organization had done it while they kept lucas locked away for 20 years in a prison cell.
News: WATCH THIS INSTEAD - Pirates of the Caribbean 4
An exhausted Mike from thesubstream.com complains, at length, about more of the same, always the same exact same slurry of loud familiarity that is the fourth Pirates movie and suggests something to watch instead.
WATCH THIS INSTEAD: Fast Five
Mike likes what Water For Elephants gets right and recommends a Kevin Costner favourite, from back when he made really good movies. This one co-stars Darth Vader.
WATCH THIS INSTEAD: Water For Elephants
Mike likes what Water For Elephants gets right and recommends a Kevin Costner favourite, from back when he made really good movies. This one co-stars Darth Vader.
News: THE FILM LAB - Insidious Interview w/ James Wan & Leigh Whannell
Mike was lucky enough to have Leigh Whannell and James Wan drop by the Film Lab to discuss their new movie INSIDIOUS, which we loved back during Midnight Madness and opens Friday April 1st in theatres everywhere.
News: THE FILM LAB - Make a BEST PICTURE Oscar-winner
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)
THE FILM LAB: Prime Vs. Zoom
Mike breaks it down for you: zoom lenses have their advantages, and prime lenses have their advantges. It's just that prime lenses have more of them...
News: Cedar Rapids (2011)
Here is the movie trailer for the feature film "Cedar Rapids" Below are 5 movie clips from the feature film "Cedar Rapids" cast:
News: Reviewing the 2010 Oscar Picks Ep.05
Mike the Greek drops a few bombshells in his last batch of Oscar picks.
News: Reviewing the 2010 Oscar Picks Ep.03
Mike the Greek is back with Day 3 of his Oscar coverage.
News: Reviewing the 2010 Oscar Picks Ep.02
"Need some help with your Oscar pool? Mike the Greek is back with day 2 of Oscar Week on thesubstream.com. He's seen all the Oscar nominated films and so he even knows which ones are gonna win in the categories that nobody cares about."
REVIEW: The Way Back
Good to see Peter Weir back in the saddle! Mike braves the ice and snow to bring you this review of Weir's latest, an endurance/survival drama about Russians escaping a gulag.
THE FILM LAB: Gaffer Tape
MIke waxes poetic about his favourite kind of, uh, tape. Gaffer tape: better than duct/duck in almost everyway save for its price. Don't go to set without some.
WATCH THIS INSTEAD: No Strings Attached
Mike is shocked at how much he actually liked Ashton Kutcher's latest romantic comedy NO STINGS ATTACHED... but he credits it to a solid script, great direction by Ivan Reitman and the casting of a whole bunch of talented actresses. Check it out!
THE FILM LAB: Stop Motion Part 01
Mike explains stop motion animation, which is incidentally the coolest kind of animation out there.
News: REVIEW- Another Year
Mike Leigh's new film is extremely well made, but if you're looking for space lasers, you are decidedly S.O.O.L. my friend.
News: Humans In Muppet Skin
What if you skinned a muppet and wore it as a mask? In the virtual 2D world of the internet, it might work a little something like this: photos of muppets + photos of human eyes x Photoshop = weirdest Tumblog ever, muppetswithpeopleeyes.tumblr.com by Mike Lacher.
WATCH THIS INSTEAD: 2010 Movie Crapfest In Review
See ya later, 2010! Mike runs off his list of the 5 worst cinematic atrocities of the past year in this, our last WTI installment of MMX! Happy New Year!
News: Another Year (2010)
Above are the various movie posters from for the feature film "Another Year" Below is the movie trailer for the motion picture "Another Year" Here are 4 movie clips from the feature film "Another Year" Directed by Mike Leigh More Movie Clips from the Cast:
WATCH THIS INSTEAD: Tron Legacy
Mike and Rajo saw Tron Legacy in Imax 3d at Aintitcoolnews' Buttnumbathon after being awake for 24 hours and it melted our faces off.
News: Mogadishu's 'first tourist' puzzles immigration officials
This crazy ass Canadian, Mike Spencer Bown, has officially become Mogadishu's first tourist. "We have never seen people like this man," Omar Mohamed, an immigration official, said Friday. "He said he was a tourist, we couldn't believe him. But later on we found he was serious."
THE FILM LAB: Shadows on the Wall (and how to get 'em off)
Making a film? Is it your first time? Have you got your actors pushed right up against the wall? Can you see their shadows? BIG MISTAKE, rookie... Here's Mike with two quick tips to help you out.
News: WATCH THIS INSTEAD - Box Office is a Ghost Town
Mike is baffled by the lack of new releases this weekend so he kinda goes off the rails for a bit. In the end, he manages to suggest a few decent option, though...
News: Go See BLACK SWAN (Or Else)
Attention complainers about non-original theatrical remakes and sequels: Mike will threaten you with physical violence if you don't go out to see Black Swan this weekend.
WATCH THIS INSTEAD: Faster
Happy Turkey day, Yanks! Mike from thesubstream is finding it very hard to NOT recommend you go see Dwayne "The Rock Master" Johnson in the straight-up, no-laugh old-school action flick Faster.