03/01/05 08:54 - ID#28025
Patronage
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02/28/05 09:52 - ID#28024
Oscar and more
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02/27/05 03:50 - ID#28023
What's Art?
was a great movie and should win something. I think movies are a type of art. I admit I havn't seen very many movies that you might consider artsy. But I do like good animated movies like Spirted Away and Ghost In the Shell 2. We are surrounded by art everywhere but we don't really think of allot of it as art. Some one had to design that package of Softlips you bought to keep your lips soft Or that cool pepsi symbol or that cigeratte symbol they both are versions of the Ying Yang. I think we take art for granted and don't relise how much of it is around us. I admit I hardly ever go to Art Galleries. One reason is that I don't know what type of art they are going to be showing. I'm odd about what kinds of pictures I like. I think Ice Sucputures are amazing. They look so differant when lighted at nite. I mean the big ones that they have festivals for. I had a final point I wanted to end with but I forgot it, so I hope those of you who read this enjoyed it a little bit. If my art skills in writting where better this would have been more interesting and about 10 more paragraphs.Metallica Some Kind of Monster
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02/26/05 07:51 - ID#28022
Internet Fame
What's internet fame like, and really what is it. Is everyone on this site internet famous to each other if we only interact here. What about to those who view what we say. Or does it take us to be none and talked to offline by someone we don't know from being on line?
Well here is an article that poped up as i went on line using AOL today. I have not seen the video. Even though American Pie was meant to be funny what happens to Jim is a good point. Internet Fame is not always a good thing. That is the end of the philosphy discussion and here is the article that I read
Internet Fame Is a Cruel Mistress for a Dancer
By ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE, The New York Times
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(Feb. 26) - There was a time when embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing "The Star Spangled Banner" in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to know.
But with the Internet, humiliation - like everything else - has now gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear, and people from Toledo to Turkmenistan can watch.
Here, then, is the cautionary tale of Gary Brolsma, 19, amateur videographer and guy from New Jersey, who made the grave mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song. Even in the bathroom mirror, Mr. Brolsma's performance could only be described as earnest but painful.
His story suggests that the quaint days when cultural trinkets, like celebrity sex tapes, were passed around like novels in Soviet Russia are over. It says a little something of the lightning speed at which fame is made these days.
To begin at the beginning:
Mr. Brolsma, a pudgy guy from Saddle Brook, made a video of himself this fall performing a lip-synced version of "Dragostea Din Tei," a Romanian pop tune, which roughly translates to "Love From the Linden Trees." He not only mouthed the words, he bounced along in what he called the "Numa Numa Dance" - an arm-flailing, eyebrow-cocked performance executed without ever once leaving the chair.
In December, the Web site newgrounds.com, a clearinghouse for online videos and animation, placed a link to Mr. Brolsma on its home page and, soon, there was a river of attention. "Good Morning America" came calling and he appeared. CNN and VH1 broadcast the clip. Parodists tried their own Numa Numa dances online. By yesterday, the Brolsma rendition of "Love From the Linden Trees" had attracted nearly two million hits on the original Web site alone.
It was just as Diane Sawyer said on her television program: "Who knows where this will lead?"
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Nowhere, apparently. For, in Mr. Brolsma's case, the river became a flood.
He has now sought refuge from his fame in his family's small house on a gritty street in Saddle Brook. He has stopped taking phone calls from the news media, including The New York Times. He canceled an appearance on NBC's "Today." According to his relatives, he mopes around the house.
What's worse is that no one seems to understand.
"I said, 'Gary this is your one chance to be famous - embrace it,' " said Corey Dzielinski, who has known Mr. Brolsma since the fifth grade. Gary Brolsma is not the first guy to rocket out of anonymity on a starship of embarrassment. There was William Hung, the Hong Kong-born "American Idol" reject, who sang and danced so poorly he became a household name. There was Ghyslain Raza, the teenage Québécois, who taped himself in a mock light-saber duel and is now known as the Star Wars Kid.
In July 2003, Mr. Raza's parents went so far as to sue four of his classmates, claiming they had placed the clip of him online without permission. "Ghyslain had to endure and still endures today, harassment and derision," according to the lawsuit, first reported in The Globe and Mail of Toronto.
Mr. Brolsma has no plans to sue, his family said - mainly because he would have to sue himself. In fact, they wish he would bask a little in his celebrity.
"I don't know what's wrong with him," his grandfather, Kalman Telkes, a Hungarian immigrant, said the other day while taking out the trash.
The question remains why two million people would want to watch a doughy guy in glasses wave his arms around online to a Romanian pop song.
"It definitely has to be something different," said Tom Fulp, president and Webmaster of newgrounds.com.
"It's really time and place."
"The Numa Numa dance," he said, sounding impressed. "You see it and you kind of impulsively have to send it to your friends."
There is no way to pinpoint the fancy of the Internet, but in an effort to gauge Mr. Brolsma's allure, the Numa Numa dance was shown to a classroom of eighth graders at Saddle Brook Middle School - the same middle school that he attended, in fact.
The students' reactions ranged from envious to unimpressed. "That's stupid," one of them said. "What else does he do?" a second asked. A third was a bit more generous: "I should make a video and become famous."
The teacher, Susan Sommer, remembered Mr. Brolsma. He was a quiet kid, she said, with a good sense of humor and a flair for technology.
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"Whenever there were computer problems, Gary and Corey would fix them for the school," she said.
His friends say Mr. Brolsma has always had a creative side. He used to make satirical Prozac commercials on cassette tapes, for instance. He used to publish a newspaper with print so small you couldn't read it with the naked eye.
"He was always very out there - he's always been ambitious," said Frank Gallo, a former classmate. "And he's a big guy, but he's never been ashamed."
Another friend, Randal Reiman, said: "I've heard a lot of people say it's not that impressive - it doesn't have talent. But I say, Who cares?"
These days, Mr. Brolsma shuttles between the house and his job at Staples, his family said. He is distraught, embarrassed. His grandmother, Margaret Telkes, quoted him as saying, just the other day, "I want this to end."
And yet the work lives on. Mr. Fulp, the Webmaster, continues to receive online homages to the Numa Numa dance. The most recent showed what seemed to be a class of computer students singing in Romanian and, in unison, waving their hands.
Mr. Reiman figures the larger world has finally caught on to Gary Brolsma.
"He's been entertaining us for years," he said, "so it's kind of like the rest of the world is realizing that Gary can make you smile."
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02/26/05 07:21 - ID#28021
Durst
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02/26/05 07:10 - ID#28020
Fantasic Four
I know there are a lot of remakes out there now. But that has kinda allways been the case. For example look at all the steven king movies, LOTR, and Harry Potter. It is really hard for movies to be original. Even Original movies have themes and ideas from other movies or other places. The thing to remember is that it is not the original and to take that into consideration when watching it. What I would like to see more often is a double deal on DVD's. What I mean is the New Version and the original Packaged togather. There are some movies where that would be really interesting and where you might get three movies. A great example would be "A christmas Carol" There are a bunch of differant Versions of it. I think That could also work at movie houses and drive ins. They allready have some premeires that when you see them you can stay for a second movie. Wouldn't it be cool to go see for example (this may not be a good example it is just the first one to come to mind) The New Batman Movie and after words they show one of the old ones back when he had the blue cap and robin was all colorfull. I think that would be cool.
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02/24/05 07:00 - ID#28019
Comedy
I know somepeople might say Micheal more is funny but that dosn't count just like when bush is funny it dosn't count. Does anyone rember the show "That's My Bush" I thought it was awesome it was on Comedy Central.
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02/23/05 07:56 - ID#28018
Gay Civil Unions
I don't know if it should be called Civil Union or Marriage or someother term. But I belive that people who are gay should have the same rights as people who are stright. Even if you belive it is wrong and a sin and they are going to hell. They sitll should have the same rights as everyone else. There is a law that if two people live toagher long enough they can be legaly considered married. I admit I don't know how it works. I don't know if they get all the same rights as people who are legally married. But I think that if two people are a couple and want to be legally bound they should be able to. So what if One is a guy and a girl or if it is two guys. If two transexuals want to get married they should be ablke to also. I think that most people are aganst it are really thinking that being gay is wrong and since that is wrong then being married is wrong. Even if I thought Homosexuality was wrong I would still think that they have equal rights. There are a lot of rights that come with marriage not that I know them all. Somepeople might argue that how do you know if the couple would be married if it was legal they arn't losing anything. But that dosn't make sense because if it where legal then if they thought they where ready then they would tie the knot. So meny couples break up after the fact that gays won't make it any worse it will most likely make it better.
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02/23/05 07:38 - ID#28017
The Parks
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02/22/05 07:51 - ID#28016
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