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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: movies
“The Tuition Isn’t The Only Thing That Will Kill You!”
Why hasn’t someone in ed tech thought of this awesome tagline already? It’s for the forthcoming film Murder University by Scorpio Film Releasing, and Hartter did the art for the teaser poster. Very cool.
Stills from Alien
Given my last post, I couldn’t resist sharing Gavin J. Rothery post featuring a series of photos of the Nostromo crew from Alien (1979). I found this post via the brundlefly blog, an as a sidenote that blog also has … Continue reading
Ray Harryhausen’s Animated Creatures in Chronological Order
Being a fan of Ray Harryhausen’s creature animations, the following tweet from WFMU was an immediate score. What is coolest about this is there are at least two or three films referenced here I haven’t yet seen. I started doing … Continue reading
100 Zombie Movie Posters
Thanks to this tweet from @filmstudiesff I was tutned on to Dr. North’s blog that is featuring 100 zombie movie posters just in time for Halloween. Very, very cool, enjoy! Great fodder for a presentation, no?
My new mantra
I’m done with open, this is my new relationship to the world 🙂 Thanks to Misha for spreading the YouTube love, I just can’t get enough of this scene from Goodfellas. That said, you may want to “just say no” … Continue reading
The insanity of space in Kubrick’s The Shining
A few weeks ago Andy Rush shared a link to the following video essay on YouTube which features Rob Ager of Collative Learning discussing spatial awareness in Stanley Kubrick’s horor masterpiece The Shining. The video was so brilliantly done, and … Continue reading
Why hasn’t this sequel been made yet?
I watched The Blob (1958) again last night and the last 40 seconds of this film are a perfect setup for a global-warming sequel. I can’t believe no one has cashed in on this yet. I think it is time … Continue reading
“It was pure in my heart”
This post celebrating Jack Kerouac’s hotness on UMW Blogs thrust me into a rabbit hole that it has taken me several hours to crawl out from. Back when I was an undergraduate at UCLA and worked at the great Audio … Continue reading
1983 was a great year for film on 42nd Street
Image credit: 1970s Times Square New York City…by Christian Montone The Temple of Schlock blog has a great archive feature they do regularly, they simply find out what was playing at various theaters on NYC’s 42nd Street back-in-the-day. And here … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #9 A new ds106radio show?
While looking for ripped vinyl to upload to ds106radio this weekend as Jason Toal and Grant Potter broadcasted there awesome adventures around Vancouver on Record Store Day 2011 I was trying to refresh ds106radio’s AutoDJ with some vinyl rips. I’m … Continue reading