Plot Device the Video

July 1, 2011, by A. U. Crawford

This video was created by effects company Red Giant to promote their Magic Bullet Suite 11 software.

A young filmmaker obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn.

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Writers Block!!!!!!

June 30, 2011, by A. U. Crawford

Awesome music video by Just Jack. I think a lot of us have had this off and on, and there’s an element of shame that comes with it sometimes. I bet it affects all kinds of things creative. Not just writing.

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Questionable Content

June 29, 2011, by A. U. Crawford

Questionable Content is a great web comic, created by Jeph Jacques, who publishes one page a day five days a week. That’s a lot of work. It’s been really fun to follow, and it’s the first thing I look at online in the morning. I have to find out what happens next.

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What is Googleism?

June 27, 2011, by A. U. Crawford

Search and ye shall find.

Search and ye shall find.

Googleism is the belief that Google is the closest thing to a “God” that humans have ever known. Kinda wacky I know, I for one would never give up a religion to anything this new. I’m not even really sure if it’s just for fun or not, but philosophically, scientifically, it is interesting.

There is no shortage of religious ideas out there. We as human’s have a vast and ever evolving sense of the divine. There is nothing wrong with new ideas so long as those ideas are not based on hurting others.

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The Klingon Language

June 17, 2011, by A. U. Crawford

I think everyone knows by now that there is a language called Klingon, that originated from Star Trek. Not many know how it came about though.

Marc Okrand

This is Marc Okrand and he is the creator of the Klingon Language. Okrand, is a former linguistics professor who works on closed captioning at the National Captioning Institute. He helped out with The Wrath of Khan doing the dubbing for the Vulcan language. They liked his work so much that he was asked to do a whole language for the Klingons in The Search for Spock.

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