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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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Tag Archives: Baldwin Century
Raiders of the Lost Ark—Opening sequence
When talking about the opening to Sergio Leone’s Once Upon the Time in the West, I was reminded of the opening sequence that in many ways sealed my nearly thirty year love affair with film: the opening of Raiders of … Continue reading
Posted in movies, scenic
Tagged Baldwin Century, film movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, scenic, Sergio Leone
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Formative 10: Clash of the Titans & the Cinema of Attractions
When talking about films I saw as a pre-pubescent adolescent, I think one of the most important would have to be Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans (1981). Now technically, keeping inline with the logic of discussing film, I should … Continue reading
Posted in film, films, Formative 10, movies, Uncategorized
Tagged animation, Baldwin Century, calibos, cerebus, Clash of the Titans, documentary, films, Formative 10, history, Jason and the Argonauts, medusa, movie, movies, Ray Harryhausen, star wars
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Saturday the 14th
“Just when you thought it was safe to look at the calendar again!” Saturday the 14th (1981) was perhaps one of the worst films I saw as a 10 year old (and I saw many, many bad movies back then) … Continue reading