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Nostalgia, Killer Sharks, Amusement Parks, and the Sterile World We Live In

“If you blog it, it is no dream.”
Last year at this time, while I was embedded deep in yet another bout of nostalgia, I posted about an old school video game called Killer Shark (1972). I had been lamenting the fact that this game was inaccessible to me now, and how much I loved [...]

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An Impressionistic History of Skateboarding, Part 2

Sparked on by encouragement from the great Brad Efford, I decided to finally finish up part 2 of my impressionistic history of Skateboarding series which has been neglected for more than eight months now. If nothing else, I figure part 1 won’t be so lonely anymore and yet another abandoned blog draft will be set [...]

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EDUPUNK poster boy

Given that Mike Caulfield has already provided an awesome way to start thinking about the DIY spirit of EDUPUNK, I’ll figured I’d do my part by shaving my head, busting out the sharpee, and sporting my WordPress hoodie (thank you, thank you Lloyd).

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Preaching teetotaler from opening scene of The Wild Bunch

Here is a great scene featuring a preaching teetotaler (Reverend Wainscott) from [[Sam Peckinpah]]’s brilliant [[The Wild Bunch]] —definitely in my top five, maybe top three films of all time.

[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcRUgwCiy9A[/youtube]

Man I love the way this reverend talks. It is such a melodic, syncopated idiom, almost song-like. I will do a [...]

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Shark Surfing

This is awesome, found it via Dan Coleman’s Open Culture blog, and it is just amazing how insane people can be (if it isn’t a fake, but I tend to agree with Dan that this is the real deal). Sometimes I love humanity, and the minute and half video below is why. Despite the [...]

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Classic Video Game Emulation

I recently came to the realization that my best friend in Fredericksburg is my 12 year-old neighbor. I just can’t avoid the fact that I have never really progressed beyond the sixth grade; I am still so dearly enthralled by the product-inspired wonder of my youth. Whether it be [[Star Wars]] (and this encompasses everything [...]

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Dawn of the Dead, take 3

Finally, the last and mashed installation of my [[Dawn of the Dead]] (1978) series which took far more technical and creative energy than I originally imagined. The idea behind this experiment was simple: create three commentaries upon the social/political sub-themes dealing with consumer culture embedded within Dawn of the Dead using  [...]

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A Move with a Mullet

In truth, if the bava could dance I think it would do the [[Tecktonik]], a new dance craze from France sweeping the world via YouTube. A few of the highlights of this cultural phenomenon, as I so vaguely understand it, are as follows:

First and foremost —and my personal favorite— is the requisite mohawk/[[mullet]] hairdo. [...]

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In Jim’s Chair

I just found this series of photos on UMW DTLT’s flickr account, took me a bit longer than I would have liked, but well worth it nonetheless. Looks to me like the folks at DTLT had a good time making fun of my unconventional working habits soon after my departure. Philistines! Well, as punishment [...]

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Indian Thriller

Via the great Luke Waltzer…

 

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