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“No Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or TwitPic!” That’s the dictate being sent to sports fans and students of Southeastern Conference member schools if they want to attend athletic events. Under its newly adopted media policy, the SEC has informed its schools that “Ticketed fans can’t produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event.”

It’s effectively a ban on all so-called “social media”. Per the new regs, a fan could get ejected from the premises simply for using his iPhone to take a picture of himself at a Gators football game and sending it to his friends on Facebook.

So what’s behind this boneheaded move? The $3 billion contact with CBS for the next 15 years, giving that network exclusive media rights to cover SEC ...

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Flicking through channels this evening and happened upon There Will Be Blood. I watched this movie for the first time last month and personally I think it’s one of the finest movies in many years. And right now I’m DVRing it in high-def. Boo-yah!

Anyway, when I first wrote about it my good friend Lee Shelton let me know that there was a rough version of There Will Be Blood‘s brutal ending floating around on YouTube. Here it is…

And by the way, CONGRATULATIONS to Lee and his wife on the new addition to their family: baby Olivia, who they adopted in China! Here’s wishing them all the best šŸ™‚...

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Every year since Lost began airing, its producers have let loose a teaser video for the upcoming seasons during Comic-Con. The one for Season 4 gave us our first glimpse of the Orchid station, and last year’s hinted at the messed-up time/space stuff that this past season became notorious for.

So what did Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse unload for the sixth and final season of Lost?

Hurley as the CEO of Mr. Cluck’s (what the…?!?!?):

Even for Lost, that is way out of left field....

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Two weeks ago I let y’all know about a promotional video that I worked on for HyperMind, that groovy game store in Burlington. The video was for HyperMind’s big Monsterpocalypse day this coming Saturday, and was also an entry in that game’s Monsterpocapalooza mega-event going on this summer.

Well, the votes have been tallied and our lil’ video has made it into the Top Ten! There wound up being about 22 entries altogether. We are very thankful to be in one of the top spots, and we wish to thank everyone who voted for us!

Here it is again if you haven’t seen it yet…

Again, thank you to all who watched and rated our video. The final winner will be announced on July 31st… and we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed ’til then! šŸ™‚...

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There is simply no stopping “Weird Al” Yankovic! Last month he released his new single “Craigslist” done in the style of Jim Morrison and The Doors. And now Al’s “Internet Leaks” collection has grown even more with “Skipper Dan”! It’s about the never-ending lament of a poor guy who could have been a great actor… but instead wound up a guide on the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland. Not so much a parody as it is just Al waxing philosophic in his own signature style. All in all, a pretty good song!

Hit here for the “Skipper Dan” music video (directed by Divya Srinivasan) on YouTube, where you can also find links to purchase the song via iTunes and other online outlets....

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So for the past several days I’ve been engulfed in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects and whatnot. Hard at work for some good friends: HyperMind in Burlington (click here for the first write-up I did about ’em). Well, among the very popular games that HyperMind carries is Monsterpocalypse, and this summer its publisher Privateer Press is having a mondo ginormous event called Monsterpocapalooza. As part of the festivities leading up to the release of a new add-on for the game is a contest where game stores are invited to make a promo video for their Monsterpocalypse events.

So anyhoo, here is HyperMind’s entry. I thought it would be neat if we spoofed Cloverfield. And it came out pretty good!

Thanks to everyone in the HyperMind extended family for making this video possible! And if you enjoyed their efforts, please feel free to give a high ...

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This was filmed, people! This was soooooo filmed!

What. The. Hell. Were. They. Thinking. ?!?

GeekTyrant posted this yesterday. It’s a scene from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines that was edited out of the final film. And had this been included in the movie, I could almost see how Terminator Salvation would have been better for it, because it proves that the Terminator saga’s timeline incongruities were being actively addressed. I like how it’s explicitly stated that the Skynet technology originated with Cyberdyne, and the reason why all the T-800 Terminators look like Arnold Schwarzenegger and even have identical voices (as weird as that was).

But I swear: I literally fell out of my chair when the clip gets to U.S. Army Chief Master Sergeant William Candy.

Nothing I can say could possibly prepare you for this, friends and neighbors…

“OOH… it’s ME!!”...

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(I just wish that it didn’t have to be followed up immediately by MTV running all of Michael Jackson’s classic music videos…)

As several folks have written in about: Tonight’s episode of MTV’s new show DJ & The Fro, titled “Birds”, featured a good-natured mocking of my “Star Wars”-inspired campaign commercial for Rockingham County Board of Education in 2006.

In the episode someone calling himself “Inbred Velcro Warrior” sends the Fro a link to the commercial. “In space, nobody can hear you scream” notes Fro as he and DJ cheer on the Death Star destroying the little red schoolhouse. Fro continues: “That’s also true for his mother’s basement, where this guy clearly lives!” DJ says “That’s the biggest loser in the desert since Moses!” I had some friends over to watch this (‘cuz the good folks at Titmouse Productions told me last week it would air this ...

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It came out last week and I haven’t been able to post about it ‘cuz I’ve been out of town since then (maybe it’s time to finally get a laptop?) but “Weird Al” Yankovic has done it again. His latest release “Craigslist” is about the (in)famous classified ads website, done in the style of Jim Morrison and The Doors. It is hilarious and Al even got Ray Manzarek to do the keyboards for the song!

Click here for the “Craigslist” music video on Al’s YouTube channel, which also includes links where you can buy the song from iTunes and other online outlets....

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