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I feel it in my fingers
I feel it my toes
Summer’s almost over
And so the feeling grows.
Yes, summer vacation, short and sweet if you’re a kid, long and expensive if you’re a parent, is just about over.
While the first day of school has never been a favorite of mine, I fondly remember the preparations that [...]

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Being the last child has advantages and disadvantages. The main advantage? Your parents are too tired to apply the boarding school discipline that they tried with your older siblings. The disadvantages? They’re too tired to do any of the fun stuff as well. That includes all the photo shoots that in the case of my [...]

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With everything going on in the world today, one wouldn’t necessarily think that a little bit of hair, or lack of, can cause such a fuss. But while nuclear threats, world hunger and the slow extinction of bees leave most people somewhat indifferent, nothing gets a conversation going like a woman choosing to shave off [...]

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My filmmaking career was short, but I enjoyed every moment of it.
It all started with a short assignment given in school, where my team and me  decided that we would stay away from the conceptual and abstract creations, and would go to something more real.  Voodoo AND hoodoo involved. A Teddy Bear playing Beethoven. Everything [...]

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Lately, girls have started using Halloween as an excuse to dress up sexy. That’s how all we see in Halloween parties is a bunch of nurses, catwomen, mermaids,  and Malibu Barbies. That’s an insult for a tradition that has pagan origins and is devoted to the night where the dead have the power to mess [...]

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Erik Beck…

This guy is the host of the greatest webcast dedicated to filmmaking, now on 5min.com. Erik shows you how to create special effects the fun and cheap way, and then subjects his siblings, roommates, and puppets to his creations. In his legendary BFX segments, Erik shows how to create inexpensive special effects, costumes and [...]

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Long ago, in the nearly pre-historic past and as a part of my studies at a design and engineering college, I was planted down in a tiny, stuffy computer lab and forced to master Macromedia FreeHand, a geometric modeling application allowing the creation and editing of vector graphic files for print and the Web, while [...]

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