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'the time machine'
'the time machine'
(720p version)
directed by Paul Stevenson
visual-hybrid.co.uk
music 'time to be taken' by Rory Nunn
myspace.com/rorynunn
www.straight8.net/straight8b.htm 2008 competition entry. Filmed using ONE reel of super8 film (approx 3 min 30), no editing. This video was filmed in ONE continuous 12 hour 'take', filmed timelapse/ stop motion from sunrise to sunset, 6am to 6pm, March 2008.
triggered by intervelometer and 360 pan controlled by computer magic of 'time machine' . .
idea by Paul Stevenson. realised by Paul & Rory.
cast:
Rory Nunn, Paul Stevenson, Harry Livingstone as the Gorilla, Mr & Mrs Bananarama Barnaby, Joel Burton, John Cowan-Hughes, Jo Isaac, Sarah Ovens, Alex Livingstone.
BIG thanks to Robbie @ lobsterpictutres.tv for tech support.
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Yes, We Will Have No Bananas
By DAN KOEPPEL
"ONCE you become accustomed to gas at $4 a gallon, brace yourself for the next shocking retail threshold: bananas reaching $1 a pound. At that price, Americans may stop thinking of bananas as a cheap staple, and then a strategy that has served the big banana companies for more than a century — enabling them to turn an exotic, tropical fruit into an everyday favorite — will begin to unravel.
The immediate reasons for the price increase are the rising cost of oil and reduced supply caused by floods in Ecuador, the world’s biggest banana exporter. But something larger is going on that will affect prices for years to come.
That bananas have long been the cheapest fruit at the grocery store is astonishing. They’re grown thousands of miles away, they must be transported in cooled containers and even then they survive no more than two weeks after they’re cut off the tree. Apples, in contrast, are typically grown within a few hundred miles of the store and keep for months in a basket out in the garage. Yet apples traditionally have cost at least twice as much per pound as bananas.
Americans eat as many bananas as apples and oranges combined, which is especially amazing when you consider that not so long ago, bananas were virtually unknown here. They became a staple only after the men who in the late 19th century founded the United Fruit Company (today’s Chiquita) figured out how to get bananas to American tables quickly — by clearing rainforest in Latin America, building railroads and communication networks and inventing refrigeration techniques to control ripening. The banana barons also marketed their product in ways that had never occurred to farmers or grocers before, by offering discount coupons, writing jingles and placing bananas in schoolbooks and on picture postcards. They even hired doctors to convince mothers that bananas were good for children.
Once bananas had become widely popular, the companies kept costs low by exercising iron-fisted control over the Latin American countries where the fruit was grown. Workers could not be allowed such basic rights as health care, decent wages or the right to congregate. (In 1929, Colombian troops shot down banana workers and their families who were gathered in a town square after church.) Governments could not be anything but utterly pliable. Over and over, banana companies, aided by the American military, intervened whenever there was a chance that any “banana republic” might end its cooperation. (In 1954, United Fruit helped arrange the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Guatemala.) Labor is still cheap in these countries, and growers still resort to heavy-handed tactics."... By DAN KOEPPEL ... more -
Atheist’s Nightmare
Videos about bananas and peanut butter are the “atheist’s nightmare” because they prove that god exists and evolution is a myth. These videos are hot on YouTube right now but the argument originally comes from Medieval Philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas’ “5th way of proving god” was to point to all the amazing things in nature and say that only god could have made them happen. Personally, I am outraged that some schools in America refuse to teach Medieval science.
Watch this other video to see why the entire food industry of the world depends on the fact that evolution doesn't happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504&feature=... Videos about bananas and peanut butter are the “atheist’s nightmare” because they prove that god exists and evolution is a myth. These... more -
Father son Dorito advert atempt
Daddy may be a little greedy with the doritos but he sure is inventive is daddy with his toppings
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Never mind Paul Daniels, David Copperfield or Paul Mckenna, try an old hat & some sexy girls!
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Clean your scratched CDs & DVDs with a Banana!!!
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