My friend Sschwartz has directed a new film: Ghosts of the Heartland.
Explore the trials and tribulations of two roommates who endure supernatural anomalies in the heartland.
Written/shot in 1 hour on zero budget with a 50 dollar DIY 35mm adapter like the redrock M2 micro35. Used a Nikon 50 f1.4 and Nikon 35 f2.
Directed/DPed by Sheldon Schwartz; starring Drew Greene and Pablo Parravicini – written / adlibed on the spot.
It’s rather amusing and hilarious. Pablo does an awesome job. Sschwartz’s usage of his 35mm adapter and having the out of focus background worked greatly for this film.
Random Crap:
Study shows why young shun condoms – Some sexually active under 25s associate condoms with a lack of trust, while others believe carrying them could imply sexual experience, which might be a plus for men but not necessarily for women.
gotAPI/search (from RayAlome) – an awesome tool for web developers! Searches through many documented APIs such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, etc.
Blockbuster to take mail order returns at stores – Effective today, customers of Blockbuster’s online DVD rental service—Blockbuster Online—will be able return movies to the company’s stores through a program called Blockbuster Total Access. Blockbuster Online customers who opt to drive their rented DVDs to a local Blockbuster for return will be rewarded with a coupon for a free in-store rental. Those rentals would then be subject to regular store rental terms and would have to be returned at the same store from which they were rented. I called it! I said this would be one of the best moves that Blockbuster could do to attract customers away from Netflix. By making returns faster, this gives people more movies per month. However, this also means that they can not group a bunch of movies to ship back to the warehouse and save on postage/shipping.
www.dontclick.it (from /.) – an interface design where the user never has to click anything, but instead just mouse over or do mouse gestures. See how long you can navigate through that UI before you click and you’ll see how entrenched clicking has become for us.
propan-2-ol (CH3CHOHCH3) (from Angelus) – The instructions of the hanging strips said to use “isopropyl rubbing alcohol” to clean the wall surface before use. Isopropyl alcohol sounds like some cheem chemical but if you go to any hardware store, I almost gurantee you that you won’t be able to find it there. … Hahaha… most of us would probably have one of these lying around at home, or used it before. It used to be quite popular as your simple floppy disk drive cleaner. I thought this blog post was hilarious where they were trying to find rubbing alcohol and had to go through all this work. I for one always have a bottle nearby. *sniff* mmmmm, smells so good.
This is how we built the Mac-O-Lantern (from /.) – the beauty of the functional and organic pumpkin case mod is its fleeting existence. the coolest thing about this project is the fact that such an extraordinary amount of precious time was squandered on a fruitless(!) pursuit. there are better case mods out there, and there are sweeter jack-o-lanterns. we split the difference.
Man builds 3,300-pound rubber band ball – With all due respect to The Spinners and T.I., prepare yourself for the new rubber-band man. Steve Milton, through concentration and perseverance, has created a 3,300-pound ball comprised of rubber bands. His creation measures almost 5 feet tall and takes up half his two-car garage. Though it’s not official, the 26-year-old Eugene man believes he has broken the record for the heaviest such ball, eclipsing John Bain’s mark of 3,120 pounds. The Wilmington, Del., man’s record has stood for eight years. You can also visit his MySpace page and watch videos of him using the rubber band ball to crush things like TVs and computers.
Man tries to use fake $100 ‘Bill’ bill – Police knew this Bill wasn’t authentic. A man has been arrested for trying to use a $100 bill with no president’s face and the name of former President Clinton. I would love to see this bill.
Batman helps Ga. town infested by bats – That’s what the local bat remover goes by. George Perkins often makes public appearances in the caped crusader’s costume and drives his own Batmobile — a retro-styled Chrysler Prowler with bat emblems. Callers to his office in Eufaula, Ala., known as Bat Cave 1, or Union Springs, Ala., known as Bat Cave 2, hear the “Batman” TV show theme while on hold.
First question wrong on Who Wants to be a Millionaire (from Angelus) – the 100 dollar question, the easiest question on the show.. wrong! Hahahahahaha!!! Guess sometimes caffeine just can’t replace good old natural sleep.