lessons in brevity

Kubrick vs Scorsese & Tarantino vs Coen Brothers

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:04:00 +0000

Kubrick vs Scorsese from Leandro Copperfield on Vimeo.

Tarantino vs Coen Brothers

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D8: Jobs Interview

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:01:00 +0000

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Betty White: SNL

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:33:00 +0000

Two skits that did not make the show from dress rehearsal.

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Gaming Can Change the World

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:06:00 +0000

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Another World

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:05:00 +0000

Experience it again. One of my favorite classic games of all time.

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Gdc 2010: Convergence of Flash Portals and Social Gaming

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:02:00 +0000

The convergence of flash portals and social gaming

Gdc 2010: Convergence of Flash Portals and Social Gaming

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Henry Charles Bukowski

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:29:00 +0000

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start.

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind.

It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail. It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery, isolation.

Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance.
Of how much you really want to do it.

And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

If you’re going to try, go all the way.

There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire.

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

Henry Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994)

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David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:55:00 +0000

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Sundance Documentary Round-Up

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:59:00 +0000

The Red Chapel

Danish journalist Mads Brugger has decided to take a Danish comedy group to North Korea under the guise of a cultural exchange as they seek to uncover the truths of one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world.

Candyman: The David Klein Story

Candyman tells the amazing true story of David Klein, an eccentric candy inventor from LA, who in 1976 had a once in a lifetime epiphany and came up with the concept of Jelly Belly jellybeans.

In Search of Memory

In Search of Memory looks at the life and career of neuro-scientist Eric Kandel who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research on the physiology of the brain’s storage of memories. It looks to be part-autobiography, part-lecture as Kandel explains his journey into his personal journey into his exploration of memory.

Waiting For Armageddon

Waiting for Armageddon delves into the heart of America’s 50-million member Evangelical community, using intimate portraits and archival footage to explore how literal belief in Biblical prophecy -including the Rapture and Armageddon - exerts a dangerous influence on U.S. relations in the Middle East.

WAITING FOR SUPERMAN

CASINO JACK and the United States of Money

Thanks The Documentary Blog

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What if... William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:57:00 +0000

Simply the most amazing, creative thing I have ever come across on the internet.

What if... William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?

On our most holy Sabbath I am sworn
To keep tradition, form and ceremony.
The seventh and the last day rests the Jew;
I labour not, nor ride in chariot,
Nor handle gold, nor even play the cook,
And sure as Providence I do not roll.
Hath not a Jew rights? Hath not a Jew hands,
Organs, bowling-balls, Pomeranians?
If you schedule us, must you not do right?
If we step o’er the line, do we not mark it nought?
The Sabbath; I’ll roll not, God-a-mercy.

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Tops of the Decade - Film, Television, Video Games

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:22:00 +0000

Top 10 Films

1. Into The Wild
2. Kill Bill Vol 2
3. Avatar
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
5. A Beautiful Mind
6. Garden State
7. Star Wars Episode 3
8. 500 Days of Summer
9. Amelie
10. Wedding Crashers

Runners up:

Kill Bill Vol 1
Matchpoint
The Dark Knight
Memento
The King of Kong
Mermaid (aka Rusalka)
Dr Bronner's Magic Soapbox
V for Vendetta
Sin City
Little Miss Sunshine
Almost Famous
There Will Be Blood

Top 5 Television Series

1. The Sopranos
2. Survior
3. Lost
4. Battlestar Galactica
5. Friday Night Lights

Top 10 Video Games of the Decade

1. World of Warcraft
2. Half-Life 2
3. Grand Theft Auto 4
4. Halo
5. Rock Band
6. Call of Duty 4 MW1
7. Guitar Hero
8 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
9. Portal
10. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

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Head Like a Kite "Director's Cut" (for GIVESEATTLE.ORG)

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:17:00 +0000

25 + tracks from Seattle's leading bands + new music videos from Seattle's hottest ad firms,
and 100% of the proceeds go directly to Arts Corps
and your neighborhood Food Banks.

Learn more here...

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Neil Diamond does The Chanukah Song

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:57:00 +0000

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Vaynerchuk's Highlight Reel

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:44:00 +0000

"Smells like a catchers mitt!"

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Emily Haines for your Friday

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:38:00 +0000

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The making of Halo 3: ODST live-action short

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:05:00 +0000

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Quentin Tarantino on Taxi Driver

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:07:00 +0000

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Over Compensating for Something

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:33:00 +0000

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DJ AM and Travis Baker

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:53:00 +0000

Sick

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Three Documentaries Worth Seeing

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:16:00 +0000

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Second Skin - Documentary About Gamers Addicted to MMORPG's

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:35:00 +0000

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Nor Cal: Bay Area Slang

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:47:00 +0000

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WGN Anchor People

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:26:00 +0000

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The Baseball Card Short

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:06:00 +0000

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Blitzen Trapper : Furr

noreply@blogger.com (ryan dot cooper at gmail dot com) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:50:00 +0000

Yeah, when I was only 17,
I could hear the angels whispering
So I droned into the words and wandered aimlessly about
Until I heard my mother shouting through the fog
It turned out to be the howling of a dog
Or a wolf to be exact, the sound sent shivers down my back
But I was drawn into the pack and before long
They allowed me to join in and sing their song
So from the cliffs and highest hill, yeah
We would gladly get our fill
Howling endlessly and shrilly at the dawn
And I lost the taste for judging right from wrong
For my flesh had turned to fur, yeah
And my thoughts, they surely were
Turned to instinct and obedience to God.

You can wear your fur
like a river on fire
But you better be sure
if you're makin' God a liar
I'm a rattlesnake, Babe,
I'm like fuel on fire
So if you're gonna' get made,
Don't be afraid of what you've learned

On the day that I turned 23,
I was curled up underneath a dogwood tree
When suddenly a girl with skin the color of a pearl
She wandered aimlessly, but she didn't seem to see
She was listenin' for the angels just like me
So I stood and looked about
I brushed the leaves off of my snout
And then I heard my mother shouting through the trees
You should have seen that girl go shaky at the knees
So I took her by the arm
We settled down upon a farm
And raised our children up as gently as you please.

And now my fur has turned to skin
And I've been quickly ushered in
To a world that I confess I do not know
But I still dream of running careless through the snow
An' through the howlin' winds that blow,
Across the ancient distant flow,
It fill our bodies up like water till we know.

You can wear your fur
Like a river on fire
But you better be sure
If you're makin' God a liar
I'm a rattlesnake, Babe,
I'm like fuel on fire
So if you're gonna' get made,
Don't be afraid of what you've learned

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