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I know tornadoes are an insurmountable force that causes a lot of death and destruction to many, but at the same time you can’t deny that some of these images of this tornado at its onset and maturity is in a certain perspective mother nature at its most resplendent beauty. Like if mother nature were to rock a dress, this would be it. Albeit, the devil in a red dress. A red, tight dress. That I would then want to rip off upon sight…yes, I just sexualized mother nature.

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J.J Abrams: It’s More Important You Learn What to Make Movies About Than How to Make Movies


“Your voice is as important as anyone else’s. You may not always be right — you shouldn’t be cocky about it…I felt like I needed to learn that the ideas that I had were as good as anyone else’s ideas.”

Good advice. But this video needs moar lens flare.

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Breaking News: Angelina Jolie reveals double mastectomy in op-ed

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Actress Angelina Jolie has written about her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy in a New York Times piece.

In the piece, Jolie writes:

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold…

Wow, this is both shocking and sad to hear. I can only imagine how tough that must be but it is of course the best decision and she seems to be handling it amazingly.

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The Great Gatsby. Gatsby the Great. The Greatest of Gatsby’s. One of the Greatest Gatsby’s there ever once was…Ok, I’m done. I honestly enjoyed it for what it was. I don’t really get all the hate and all the negative buzz its been getting. I do agree with lots of people, myself included, who read the book and were anticipating a higher caliber of storytelling and emotional weight that the film did not necessarily succeed in meeting or at least fully translate to film its true range of scope or potential. However, visually I felt the movie was shot very well and captured much of the vivid imagery created in the book. I’m not the biggest fan of 3D, especially when it is used in an exploitative and gimmicky manner in which it is tends to be in majority of the films since its onset in the industry, usually due to much of it being added as an afterthought in post-production. However, here director Baz Luhrmann, much like Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, uses the 3D not in an intrusive way but a complimentary one that actually helps to gracefully elevate the film’s visual palette. I also thought Jay-Z did a fine job serving as the executive producer on the film’s score, and although I am a big fan of his music I did find that in the first half of the film there were a few too many of his tracks pretty much back to back intertwined in the scenes that do act as very blunt anachronisms that just detract from a submerging experience into the 1920’s era. That being said, whether you’ve read the book or not, it’s still worth seeing if not solely just for the visual experience.

The Great Gatsby. Gatsby the Great. The Greatest of Gatsby’s. One of the Greatest Gatsby’s there ever once was…Ok, I’m done.

I honestly enjoyed it for what it was. I don’t really get all the hate and all the negative buzz its been getting. I do agree with lots of people, myself included, who read the book and were anticipating a higher caliber of storytelling and emotional weight that the film did not necessarily succeed in meeting or at least fully translate to film its true range of scope or potential. However, visually I felt the movie was shot very well and captured much of the vivid imagery created in the book.

I’m not the biggest fan of 3D, especially when it is used in an exploitative and gimmicky manner in which it is tends to be in majority of the films since its onset in the industry, usually due to much of it being added as an afterthought in post-production. However, here director Baz Luhrmann, much like Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, uses the 3D not in an intrusive way but a complimentary one that actually helps to gracefully elevate the film’s visual palette.

I also thought Jay-Z did a fine job serving as the executive producer on the film’s score, and although I am a big fan of his music I did find that in the first half of the film there were a few too many of his tracks pretty much back to back intertwined in the scenes that do act as very blunt anachronisms that just detract from a submerging experience into the 1920’s era.

That being said, whether you’ve read the book or not, it’s still worth seeing if not solely just for the visual experience.

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Effort afoot in court to sue Canadians for illegal downloads

MONTREAL - Massive lawsuits targeting people who illegally download copyrighted content are common in the U.S., where people have been stuck with hefty fines and out-of-court settlements.

I of course understand their motive but at the same time since the dawn of any economical system that has ever existed in any industry there has always been an underground market, a black market. Putting pressure to try to crack down on illegal downloading in its present state is only going to fan the fire to push for more creative back-doors around anti-piracy regimes. And so the circle will always continue. This is just a temporary fear tactic that will at best slightly bottleneck the flow of some of the “pirates” out there.

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