Two years in the making, street trials rider Danny MacAskill releases his brand new riding film. Whilst previous projects have focused on locations and journeys, MacAskill’s Imaginate sees Danny take a completely different approach to riding. Enter Danny’s mind and enjoy.

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Houston – “Runaway”

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain.

Russell led the British “revolt against idealism” in the early 20th century. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is widely held to be one of the 20th century’s premier logicians. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay “On Denoting” has been considered a “paradigm of philosophy”. His work has had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science (see type theory and type system), and philosophy, especially philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. – read more

The supposed names of the crash victims broadcast on KTVU included “Sum Ting Wong,” “Ho Lee Fuk,” and “Bang Ding Ow.”

A KTVU anchor later apologized for the error. She said that the names were inaccurate in spite of the fact that a National Transpiration Safety Board spokesperson confirming them.

It is the first time O’Driscoll has been dropped in 15 years as a professional rugby player with Leinster, Ireland or the Lions. – Irish Times Article

Here is Hitler reacts to the news that Brian O’Driscoll has been dropped from the Lions Team.

Pulp Fiction Kerry Shtyle

Quentin Tarantino Approves of Pulp Fiction Kerry Shtyle on Graham Norton

THE PAST FEW months have moved quickly for Jason Sullivan. The Corkman is the creator of Sminky Shorts, a series of animations that have close to four million views on YouTube. Sullivan, a second-year multimedia student at Cork Institute of Technology, began to upload the cartoons, which feature animals with distinctive Irish accents, after his exams last May, using the pseudonym Andrew James.

In the 14 weeks since then they have gained a cult and then a mass following. Sullivan’s hairdresser recently began telling him about the hilarious videos she was watching online, not realising he was their creator. “It was a very uncomfortable situation,” Sullivan says when we meet in his apartment in Cork.

Last week, Sullivan signed a contract with United Agents in London, which also represents Ricky Gervais, Sophie Dahl and Clive James. The agency is understood to be talking to broadcasters, merchandisers and corporate marketing departments interested in working with the 27-year-old self-taught animator.

Although Sullivan has been creating comic material privately for some years – before he returned to college he worked as a graphic designer – he says the short animations were meant only as teasers, and his goal is a cartoon series, much of which he has already written.

Within a few weeks of uploading the animations friends told him they were hearing the catchphrases of his creations, such as “I can’t do it”, repeated in bars in Cork. The accents and phrases are very Irish, but his animations are connecting with international audiences.

“I only made them for a laugh and was surprised when they began to be viewed, especially outside Ireland. My brother said that more people in Vienna have seen them than in my hometown of Kanturk.”

Sullivan has uploaded 11 animations, including Tommy, a 57-second animation that features two tortoises with heavy rural accents commenting on another tortoise that can’t slow down. This clip has been viewed more than 700,000 times.

Enrolling at Cork Institute of Technology gave Sullivan the impetus he needed to format his comic thoughts and part-time creations. He benefited from the animation module on the course. His animations usually start with a phrase or scenario, and rely heavily on the vernacular.

His partner, Annette, says they’ll be on a bus or sitting in their apartment when he’ll start laughing out loud and another scenario will be born.

“A lot of the characters are exaggerated versions of people I know. I do all the voices and make them here in my apartment, recording the voices in my room.”

Does he feel under pressure to create more material now or to adapt what he has for other audiences or television executives?

“Not at all. The stuff I have released is only the tip of what I have already created. I’ve been working on this for years on my own, and the plan was to make a pilot for a cartoon. That has been put on the long finger now, as everyone wants more of these shorts. I know this is a phase right now, and it mightn’t last forever, so I need to capitalise on it.”

He now has to get to grips with copyright issues to prevent people taking his content and passing it off as their own. He also needs to be wary of signing away any rights in a broadcast or merchandise deal. With the London agency now on board, he expects to make more informed commercial decisions.

“I’d like to finish the college course,” Sullivan says of his four-year degree, “but I have had so many job offers. I’ve basically been offered the job I would have hoped to get when I finish the course, so we’ll have to see what happens next.”

How has his mother reacted to his sudden fame? “My mother loves it. When she goes into the local supermarket in Kanturk, lots of people have been coming up to her and calling her Mrs Sminky.” – read original article

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Mitt Romney

 Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. He was the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by his parents Lenore and George W. Romney, Mitt Romney spent two and a half years in France as a Mormon missionary starting in 1966. He married Ann Davies in 1969, with whom he has had five children. By 1971, Romney had participated in the political campaigns of both his parents. In that year, he earned a Bachelor of Arts at Brigham Young and in 1975, a joint Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration at Harvard. Romney then entered the management consulting industry and in 1977 he secured a position at Bain & Company.

 Later serving as its chief executive officer, he helped lead the company out of financial crisis. In 1984, he cofounded and led the spin-off company Bain Capital, a highly profitable private equity investment firm that became one of the largest of its kind in the nation. His considerable net worth, estimated in 2012 at $190–250 million, helped finance his prior political campaigns.

Confucius (551–479 BCE) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius’s thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism.

Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself. Aphorisms concerning his teachings were compiled in the Analects, but only many years after his death.   Confucius’s principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children (and in traditional interpretations) of husbands by their wives. He also recommended family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle “Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself”, an early version of the Golden Rule – read more

My little Empire Review

Ill Manors is a great directorial debut form plan b, Ben Drew. This is one of the best British movies that i have seen in years. It is in the same vain as kidulthood and 4321. There is some great acting and great music all the way through from plan b himself. I think it is a though movie to watch but well worth a look at. Should win baftas and lots of other awards.

Amazon Review

He may be better known in some quarters as hip-hop musician Plan B, but Ben Drew opened up a fresh career for himself as a movie director with his confident debut, Ill Manors. Drew also wrote the script for this crime drama, which follows the lives of eight characters across seven days in a violence-infested London. That’s a lot to balance for an established director, which makes Drew’s achievement with Ill Manors all the more impressive. He juggles intertwining stories with real confidence, and finds interesting angles on themes that have been explored many times before in cinema. It’s not an easy film to watch at times, mainly because of its refusal to flinch, but it is a very impressive one.

The disc is bolstered by the inclusion of two further short films, as well as a piece looking at the making of the movie. A series of deleted scenes are included as well. It’s a good mix of material here, and there’s a lot to explore.

But it’s the film that lingers in the mind long after the credits have rolled. Without giving anything away, Ill Manors has its ups and downs, but its confident, impressive and engrossing at its very best. A strong debut from a real talent. –Jon Foster

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