September 2011
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FILM: Drive
So, I’ve just seen Drive in the Covent Garden Odeon with 5 other people and my wife (and my unborn baby, who was kicking and punching intermittently to show their appreciation of the awesome soundtrack).
I think this is my fave movie of the year. I haven’t seen that many movies, but this is pretty good.
I read the script nearly 2 years ago, written by Hossein Amini. That script was...
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HUGH HEFNER INVENTED BATMAN
Hugh Hefner was a big fan of cartoons and comics before he launched Playboy.
He still liked to throw comic-book themed parties. In 1965, at the Chicago Playboy club, the Hef decided to have a Batman themed party that celebrated the campiness of the comic.
He had actors dressed as Batman and Robin at the party, using the goofy “Golly gee whiz” lines from the comic, and the old Batman...
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Call of Duty Paintball - nice use of Phantom 1000fps camera and paintball action.
Grow lovely, growing old,
So many fine things do,
Laces and ivory and gold...
– A poem by Grandma Phyllis, November 1939. Thanks for the memories
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Another iPhone with a DSLR adaptor - but this one seems really well put together, and the end results are good enough for broadcast on American television.
The kit is an OWLE bubo (a solid steel ‘batarang’ case for the iPhone) married to a lens adaptor that will take any Canon lens (such as the 50mm 1.8) and Nikon too (with an additional adaptor).
Might be worth investigating…...
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Syd Mead is one of the greatest production designers ever. Check out this collection of his artwork.
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I rely on you
like a Skoda needs suspension
like the aged need a pension
like...
– © Hovis Presley 1994
Celebrating 1 year of marriage to my wife… here’s to many more! Love you very much. x
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Wooden box on eBay becomes Sam Raimi horror →
http://www.dibbukbox.com/index.htm
A few years back, an antiques dealer listed a ‘Dibbuk Haunted Wine Cabinet Jewish Box’ on eBay.
Instead of a simple description, readers were given a lengthy Stephen King horror story including trapped spirits, unexplained bad luck and so on. The box was purchased, then relisted on eBay by another unhappy buyer.
Fastforward a few years and the...
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