STEAMPUNKS 2011 from Andy Gallacher on Vimeo. Shot on a Canon 7D, Canon 17-55 f/2.8, Zeiss 50mm f/1.4, Z cage, Z finder, Zoom H4N, Sennhesier G2 wireless mics. Special thanks to Ay-Leen the Peacemaker and Dr Grymm. Commissioned for BBC World News America.

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Lizz (梁麗怡) performs Insanity Mind. Written by Lizz and directed by Bill Chia. This version of the music video includes English subtitles . . . yes, even though the lyrics are in English, the subtitles are for those who might otherwise miss some of the meaning . . . really let it sink in. That’s…

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This panel with questions is absolutely excellent both Holden and Bernthal come off as intelligent and personable. Stephen King! Actors don’t know how to fish! Great stuff. – Brian

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Strangely compelling, the music video “Rich Bitch” by Die Antwoord is a whole lot of wrong that you just can’t help but watch to its completion. Note to self, get pimpalicious ring and fit it with a hypnospiral. Click the image above or go directly to http://www.richardsonmag.com/post/1629187/die-antwoord-rich-bitch for music video oddness. – Brian

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See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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I know I shouldn’t want to see this . . . but I do. 🙂 A mashup of a whole bunch of movies to create a very elaborate fanedit trailer for the fictional sequel. – Brian

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So a recent study that compared education systems around the world reccommends that the United States do more to increase teacher status, pay, mentoring and more (see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/education/16teachers.html for details) while we’re seeing teachers losing status in a number of states. Understatement to say it’s a mess. – Brian

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THIS IS THE LAST DAY . . . ONLY ONE DAY LEFT! TOMORROW THE WEBPAGE GETS CHANGED AND THE SALE BECOMES A THING OF THE PAST! SO, ACT NOW OR MISS OUT! You still have a little time but if you don’t act NOW, you will MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! Right now you can get the…

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See http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html for an interactive feature that shows just how devastating the damage from the earthquake and tsunami is . . . move the sliders on the images left and right to see the before and after perspectives from the satellite photos of the areas affected . . . now, as you see all those…

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In light of recent events with Charlie Sheen, Movie Line has an illustrated piece that gives an overview of actors who have been fired from their own television shows. See http://www.movieline.com/2011/03/a-brief-history-of-actors-being-fired-from-their-television-shows.php for a trip through television history. Some of the firings were obviously justified – drug abuse and unreasonable demands – and some make you…

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You still have time but if you don’t act NOW, you will MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! Right now you can get the HYP-NO-SLEEP program at a very special pre-release deal but after March 15, the price goes WAYYYYYY UPPPPP! A LOT of folks have been asking for this and we’re ready to invite you to see…

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As you probably know a tsunami has hit Japan . . . the 8.9 earthquake has caused extensive damage in Northern Japan and aftershocks still coming. A number of countries in the region are preparing for the waves (http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=211720 and http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/tsunami.hawaii.japan.warning/) including Taiwan which is on the tsunami watch list now (http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201103110011). Taiwan is likely…

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“Me and Bobby McGee“ is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, originally performed by Roger Miller, and later by others including Kristofferson himself, and also Janis Joplin, who topped the U.S. singles chart with the song in 1971, after her death, making the song the second posthumous number-one single in U.S. chart…

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Seriously, she didn’t even cry when Wash died? That’s just wrong wrong wrong. – Brian

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Today is International Women’s Day . . . or . . . San Ba . . . the international event was first celebrated in 1909 in the United States and spread worldwide soon after. Coincidentally, the date March 8 is also a slang expression in Chinese for a gossip or sometimes “crazy” woman. It’s kind…

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So far, seventeen men and boys have been charged with the gang rape of an eleven year old girl. That number is very likely to go up to twenty-eight. The assailants range in age from a junior high school boy to a twenty-seven-year-old man. A number of the rapists are members of the championship high…

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The New York Times has an intriguing piece on the recent controversy brought about by Rob Bell with the promotional materials for his new book . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/us/05bell.html . . . Bell has really pissed off a whole slew of folks with intimation that perhaps good loving folks like Gandhi aren’t actually burning in…

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Okay, this is really nifty . . . odd, quirky, and interesting . . . what was Star Trek fandom like almost forty years ago? Here’s a featurette of folks at a Star Trek convention in New York City from 1973 with Leonard Nimoy, Isaac Asimov, D.C. Fontana, and a multitude of Star Trek fans…

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The membership system on the Brian David Phillips Waking Dreams site at https://briandavidphillips.net/blog should work now. Some folks may need to reset their passwords for the new membership system . . . just use the function in the login box in the right sidebox and all should work fine. – Brian

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Folks, we’re switching membership systems for this site and some folks are hitting walls on their logins . . . please give it a day or two if you’re hitting walls trying to access the exclusive members-only content. Seriously, we will get it all straightened out soon. Please stay tuned for more info. – Brian

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How’s this for fun? Not only are employers looking at your Facebook profile along with your Flickr, Yahoo, blog, and every other publicly accessible webpage about you along with all the more traditional things they look at such as the ol’ resume and cover letter and references . . . but there is an increasing…

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Been awhile. – Brian

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