Hello everybody. The best looking blogger in history is back with yup, another list! Why? Because of how important my opinion is that’s why. Because if everyone on earth can Tweet about “when they go to sleep, when they wake up & what they are having to breakfast and when they are driving to work…” Then I too, can claim that I am SO important that people MUST know what my thoughts are, concerning EVERYTHING. So let us get to it, shall we?

This time we are going to be looking at what I think are the Top 5 Worst Movies Ever Made. Yesterday, we looked at the best and today we will switch gears and talk about the ugliest. Feel free to challenge my list by the way, chances are you are wrong… And I will tell you why.

5.) Twilight - horrible example of mainstream trash stuffed down the throats of a very young, gullible female demographic. Movies this insulting and blatant are one level above propaganda in their efforts to rally an audience. Very bad editing with multiple mistakes.

4.) LEPRECHAUN 4: IN SPACE- did you read the title?

3.) Troll 2 - generally regarded as the worst modern film ever made. The plot you ask? Well it’s a sequel.

2.) Eegah! - about a giant caveman discovered by a teenage girl, who is then kidnapped by him, who then falls in love with him, who then runs from him, who then….. never mind.

1.) Laserblast - tops my list. Without question. The editing is so bad here I have used this as an example of what not to do for lectures before. Awful lighting, dialog, camera work and oh yeah, acting. Plot centers around a man who finds a laser. Yup. Then his woes with a teenage girl, since he is apparently in high school… even though he looks 35.

And has a laser.

That’s right! Everybody else has done one, why not me!? Unlike all the other blogs you go to, this blogger is by far the best looking, smartest and healthiest around. I even smell good, (ever since I started showering once a day). So listen up, here is MY listing of the top 5 movies ever made. Sure you’ve seen everyone’s top 10, top 5, etc. This is the era of myspacers and twitter, which keep people interconnected through minute to minute updates, not actual one on one human interaction… but it’s time to get to the list, the greatest of which has ever been assembled! And remember, this is one of the most important things that you are going to hear all day-So Focus!

5.) Citizen Kane

4.) The Shawshank Redemption

3.) The Wizard of Oz

2.) City of the Lost Children

1.) Memories of Murder

There is a reason that you haven’t heard of the top 2… you aren’t cool enough

Recently I came across a very interesting article concerning a new, and very interesting take on aerial-robotics. The company called Aeryon Labs has developed what looks to be a flying camera called an Aeryon Scout. The camera is just the centerpiece of what looks like four round pieces of foam used to float in a swimming pool. The four foam rings are interconnected and each is 30cm in diameter. There is a rotor inside and a camera is hidden inside. A remote control operates a “quad-rotor” and navigates the camera. This allows for the Aeryon Scout to reach high angles that shooters can not. The idea behind the project is to help police, military and engineers. May be one day, we will all be able to purchase an Aeryon Scout at a local retailer? Only time will tell…

For most of us, the documentary genre is a very real and raw form of story telling that is based on true-life emotion. We watch as our main character struggles with issues, narrates the frustration and we patiently wait for the resolution. As a matter of fact, for most documentary movie buffs out there you may notice that the honest non-subjective documentary you love took just as much planning as the latest big summer blockbuster.

This is because documentary films tell the same character-driven stories that contain a beginning, middle and end, with an issue at hand to keep viewers interested just like any other Hollywood film. The idea that a documentary is “real” and a mainstream release isn’t is wrong.
All documentary films are subjective, no matter how they are put together. There is a storyteller, who may be using real events to tell the story, but they are still telling the story that they want the viewer to see. It does not matter how neutral a stance on the subject they take, or how objective the documentary may seem. In the end there is always the filmmaker, who chooses what story should be told and how they are going to tell it. It is up to the filmmaker to edit out information that may show another side to the story. If three documentary purists were put in a room and asked to film the same story, each story would end up different. Because every filmmaker tells the story that they find the most interesting. If the art of making a documentary film was indeed “real” every documentary would be a lot less entertaining and probably only contain one static shot. Therefore, in my opinion documentary film is not objective, and is not as “real” as people tend to think it is.

I want to present this issue and see what some of our readers think. Are documentary films “real”? Are they subjective? Are they just as phony as the last Indiana Jones movie? Let us know what you think.

As video makers, the use of stock footage can be seen as a more cost effective way to get a scene, rather than actually going out and having to shoot the needed scene yourself. Not all of us can go film some gritty scenes in Time Square, but we can buy some to use online at various stock images and stock video sites. One of which I thought that you should all check for yourselves, is Shutterstock.com

Not only can you download clips in a variety of formats; (including everything from DVCam to BetacamSP to HDCam) you can also make money on the site by selling stock footage. Shutterstock offers 3 different ways to make money on the site, the first is to sell your stock footage, the second way is to refer stock buyers and the third is to refer other submitters. But don’t take my word for it go check it out for yourself.

Hey, is that guy wearing a TV? Believe it or not, Sony has been mastering the technology of razor thin, paper like bendable plastic that has the ability to display full-color video. Sony originally presented the 2.5-inch video screen that was only 0.01 inch thick, in 2007. The idea being to create thinner cell phones and MP3 players.

Using a small film transistor and a electroluminescent display to create the TV made for a much more flexible display. Sony went on record to say that, “it could be used to wrap around a lamppost, or a person’s wrist, or put up in someone’s house like wallpaper.” This could lead to video labels on cereal boxes, or tuna fish cans and even T-shirts with personal video displays scrolling up and down. The electroluminescent display technology is a new entry into the current playing field of TV technologies, LCD and Plasma.

Now Sony is releasing the new technology in the U.S. next year, in the form of a XEL-1 OLED TV. Which unlike a Plasma doesn’t use a backlight to illuminate the picture from behind. A OLED panel illuminates itself. Which gives the XEL-1 OLED TV the option of being much thinner. Who knows what the future will hold, but I feel like I’m ready to dress up in a suit & tie… and TV!  

For more information, Sony has provided a press release

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