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An interesting site for research on SSRI drugs
Mass Shootings are surging again, and I'm doing some more research for a possible script idea. It's about a team of councilors who helps victims of mass shooting cope with the loss of a loved one due to these horrific incidents. Right now I've attached a link to SSRI stories. It's about how anti depreassent/aneixty drugs playing a huge role in violent attacks.
https://ssristories.org/
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The Damned official Trailer
It feels good talking about this successfully indiegogo funded project THE DAMNED! That means Storyhive had no hands in this, no bullshit voting period, no pitch asking for $100,000! THE DAMNED is ready for the audience and I'm ready to deliver. The idea came to my head when I purchased the comic in 2009. It was a simple stroll to the local comic shop Happy Harbor Comic's, and the graphic novel The Damned: Three Days Dead blessed me with an amazing story that need the silver screen treatment. Sure the haters doubted me, but I consider that fuel for the fire.
2013 was my first attempt to make it a short film, so I can shoot the pitch for the indiegogo campaign. During that time I decided I would make a fan film about Nightmare on Elm Street. 2013 ended up being a busy year, but I not only completed a fully half hour horror film, I shot a 2min trailer for THE DAMNED. Thank goodness it paid off both ways and it was an instrumental part in completing the film.
Teaming up with Alpacalypse productions, local make up artists and lotions scouts added to the real world experience of THE DAMNED. My next step is to get all six episodes completed and screened at the Edmonton Expo for the masses. So stay tuned and check out the trailer.
2013 was my first attempt to make it a short film, so I can shoot the pitch for the indiegogo campaign. During that time I decided I would make a fan film about Nightmare on Elm Street. 2013 ended up being a busy year, but I not only completed a fully half hour horror film, I shot a 2min trailer for THE DAMNED. Thank goodness it paid off both ways and it was an instrumental part in completing the film.
Teaming up with Alpacalypse productions, local make up artists and lotions scouts added to the real world experience of THE DAMNED. My next step is to get all six episodes completed and screened at the Edmonton Expo for the masses. So stay tuned and check out the trailer.
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Meet the 16-year-old Canadian girl who took down Milo Yiannopoulos
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This is the real story of how the video that took down Milo surfaced.
The story of Milo Yiannopoulos’s fall from conservative grace
ended when a conservative blog posted video footage of him making
comments that seemed to rationalize pedophilia. But it started when a
16-year-old high school student in Canada decided Yiannopoulos was
embraced much too closely by mainstream conservatives.
The teen was moved to dig up footage on Yiannopoulos when
she heard that he’d been invited to speak at the highest profile
gathering of conservatives each year in America, the 2017 Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC). She defines herself as “very
socially liberal,” but leans right on economics and foreign policy.
Yiannopoulos, who has built his personal brand on anti-Muslim,
anti-feminism, and general bigotry, exemplifies the place where she
doesn’t believe the conservative movement should go.
“I see Milo as this embodiment of the awfulness you see
over the past few years with the general tilt of millennial
conservatism,” said the teen. “It’s diverged from this traditional
conservatism so much. You’ve seen it essentially become full of
awfulness and all about attacking the left and not about actual
principles. It has nothing to do with conservative ideology so much as
it has with opposing the leftists, SJWs, and so on and so forth.”
Within days of his old statements coming to light,
Yiannopoulos lost his spot at CPAC, his book deal, and his job at the
ultra-conservative website Breitbart.
I am keeping the teen’s name and social media accounts
out of the story because of her and her parents’ request to protect her
safety, and will only refer to her as “Julia.” But we have confirmed her
identity and her communications with the conservative blog that
resurfaced the Yiannopoulos tape for a wide audience.
Many critics have tried and failed to take Yiannopoulos
down, from feminists to other liberals who despise his bigoted messages.
But those efforts only buoyed his appeal among his fan base on the far
right, rocketing his profile among movements like the alt-right,
a far-right fringe movement that spouts white nationalist ideals and
opposes social liberalism. But this 16-year-old helped take Yiannopoulos
down by managing to get not just the left angry at him, but the right
as well.
How a 16-year-old took down Milo
Julia closely follows political news from her home in
Canada, with a deep interest in American politics. She has been
particularly alarmed by the recent rise of Yiannopoulos and others like
him. So as soon as she heard Yiannopoulos would speak at CPAC, she was
appalled.
Then an old moment popped in her head. She remembered hearing an obscure podcast, the Drunken Peasants, in which Yiannopoulos, responding to a video by YouTube pundit Kevin Logan,
defended the idea of “13-year-olds” having sex with “older men,”
arguing that child molestation provided a “sort of ‘coming of age’
relationship” for teenagers.
Her memory was right. She found the July 2016 clip.
She didn’t think she’d have much luck spreading the news
herself with her small Twitter following, so she contacted a
conservative outlet to get the story out. She figured a liberal outlet
would have less credibility among CPAC followers.
She landed on the previously not-very-well-known
conservative blog Reagan Battalion, which, after a bit of back and
forth, tweeted out the video — leading not just to CPAC canceling
Yiannopoulos’s speech, but to Simon & Schuster pulling his already
controversial book deal and his resignation from Breitbart.
“I thought it would only get, like, 200 retweets,” Julia said. “I had no idea that it would blow up to the extent that it did.”
It ended up at thousands of retweets.
Reagan Battalion confirmed that screenshots of Julia’s
conversation with the blog were legit. As the screenshots show and as
she relayed to Vox, she first saw the Reagan Battalion tweet out other
videos showing Yiannopoulos making offensive comments. She told Reagan
Battalion that there’s more damaging stuff out there. In private
messages, she linked the video to them, with specific timestamps for
Yiannopoulos’s pro–child molestation comments.
The teen’s mom couldn’t have been more proud of her kid,
initially contacting Vox because she said her daughter’s story deserves
more attention. She told me that the Canadian family is “more
libertarian than anything,” but they’re nonetheless “devastated to see
that Orange Julius win.” And in particular, they’re dismayed by
reactionaries taking over the conservative movement and especially the
alt-right, a movement that Yiannopoulos had become a leader for through
his provocative, extreme work at Breitbart.
Julia and her mom have taken part in some activism before, including at a Women’s March
last month. But when Yiannopoulos was invited to talk at CPAC, this
Canadian teenager saw an opening. She worked to get his speech canceled —
and she won.
This anti-Trump teenager is terrified by reactionary conservatism
The Canadian 16-year-old had a concise way of describing
Yiannopoulos: “He’d be more accurately described as anti-liberal than he
would be conservative.”
This is an accurate description of the reactionary
movement Yiannopoulos is a part of. It’s not necessarily that they
support any specific conservative policies or political ideals; they by
and large just oppose social liberalism — multiculturalism,
cosmopolitanism, equality for people of all races, religions, and
genders, and so on.
One of the reasons Yiannopoulos blended in so well with
reactionary conservatives — despite being an openly gay man — is because
he spouted the anti-feminist, anti-Muslim, and otherwise bigoted
messages that the fringe movement trumpets. To them, his bigoted
comments have become an example of Yiannopoulos standing up for “free
speech” and against “political correctness” by plainly saying what many
of them believe despite opposition from the left.
Yiannopoulos, for example, said that he “went gay” so he “didn’t have to deal with nutty broads.” He suggested that gay and transgender people are “disordered.” He set up the “Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant,”
a college scholarship available only to white men to put them “on equal
footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates.” And
he flashed his sexuality as a gay man in ways that he knew would offend
liberals, like when he wrote an article headlined “My Grindr Profile Says 'No Whites' — Am I Racist?” in which he exoticized and stereotyped black men.
As my colleague Zack Beauchamp explained,
Yiannopoulos’s entire shtick is to say something inflammatory, anger a
whole lot of people (particularly on the left), get widespread media
attention, refuse to back down, and say he did it all to stand up for
free speech — because no one can control what he says.
Yiannopoulos pushes the boundaries just enough to force this chain of
events, which conveniently prop him up as a hero.
Reactionary movements like the alt-right and Gamergate
love this. As they see it, political correctness has stifled discourse,
particularly on college campuses. So when someone like Yiannopoulos
purposely says offensive things, they celebrate it as a brave defense of
free speech.
Indeed, this is why CPAC said it invited him to speak. As
American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp said, “We initially
extended the invitation knowing that the free speech issue on college
campuses is a battlefield where we need brave, conservative
standard-bearers.”
But as many people are quick to point out, much of this
just seems like an excuse to say horrible things. Yiannopoulos isn’t
pushing the boundaries of free speech to make salient political
arguments; he’s just said provocative things that denigrate minorities,
women, and especially feminists — and even defended child molestation.
All of this is meant to anger liberals, but there’s really not much
substance there.
Still, reactionaries such as Yiannopoulos and the
alt-right, despite initially remaining on the fringes of conservatism,
have made an impact — most recently helping Trump get elected. They
loved that Trump was essentially willing to do and say whatever he
wanted, from decrying political correctness repeatedly on the campaign
trail to proposing outright bigoted policies like banning Muslims from entering the US. This was the kind of candidate people like Yiannopoulos, who took to calling Trump “daddy,” had long hoped for.
This terrified a lot of liberals and conservatives,
including the Canadian teenager who helped bring down Yiannopoulos. With
Trump and his support from reactionaries, they were worried that we
were seeing the mainstreaming of a fringe of the far, far right — and
that could have horrible consequences for the Republican Party, America,
and the world.
“America is a global power, and it affects the entire
world,” Julia said. “Whatever Trump says now in terms of foreign policy
does change the course of world history and does alter not just
America’s position in the world but it will also affect Western
civilization’s position in the world stage.” To this end, she added,
“There’s not a politician in American politics today that would be worse
than Donald Trump.”
There’s a lesson for the broader conservative movement in this story
Still, that an anonymous Canadian 16-year-old had the
ability to take down Yiannopoulos — by teaming up with a conservative
blog like the Reagan Battalion — shows the resistance against Trump and
reactionaries more broadly really can work.
Consider CPAC’s position: They thought they would get
away with inviting someone as inflammatory as Yiannopoulos, despite his
past bigoted remarks. In doing this, they were pushing the boundaries of
the acceptable — potentially letting a hateful man speak in detail
about his ideas on a mainstream conservative stage, supposedly in the
defense of free speech.
Then it all backfired. And CPAC, along with Yiannopoulos’s publishers and Breitbart, disowned him.
If you’re an organization like CPAC looking at all of
this, it will probably make you think twice about giving someone like
Yiannopoulos a platform. Maybe these reactionaries really are a
dangerous kind of breed of conservatism, and they should be treated as
such.
The Canadian teenager said she hopes this is the lesson
conservatives draw from the Yiannopoulos debacle. And more broadly, she
hopes that her actions will push groups like CPAC to stand up for
traditionally conservative values instead of embracing provocative
figures just because they attack the left.
“You shouldn’t have to feel intimidated to stand up for
what you believe in,” she said. “Hopefully they’ll realize that you
can’t keep being this reactionary movement — if you can even call it
that. You can’t just keep looking for enemies to attack and pointing the
finger. Eventually, you have to stand up for something.”
Link to Article: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/24/14715774/milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-pedophile-video-canada
Link to Article: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/24/14715774/milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-pedophile-video-canada
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You're Next & The Slasher Film Revival
The SLASHER genre in the early 2000's came to a crashing halt, while torture porn inspired horror films took dominance following the surface of terrorist/Mexican Cartel beheading videos. Coming out of the self aware horror teen slasher films in the late 1990's, films such as Scream and I know What You Did Last Summer choked the well dry on the Slasher genre. With the emergence of indie film production companies like Lionsgate and Blumhouse who's focus was on releasing good practical effects with small production budgets catered to a niche market that kept the genre alive. leading the helm was Hatchet, The Collector, Laid to Rest, The Maniac remake, and The Purge Series, but in my opinion its pinnacle achievement in the 2010's was "You're Next."You're next is the example of stand out genre piece that impacts filmmakers who inspire other filmmakers to make indie horror films.
What works for the film Your Next, is the clever writing that keeps you guessing. What I found simplistic yet innovative was the use of location and costume design. Costume design in Slasher films can make or break a movie. If you look at classic slasher films such as Mike Myers in Halloween, Jason Vorhees in Friday the 13th and Leather face in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The mask hides the evil beneath the sadistic tortured layers of a human being. In the film You're Next the viewer is captivated by the assailants with plastic animal faces, black tactical gear, and hunting tools used to kill the family. The animal masks of the wolf, tiger and lamb gives the irony of animals hunting man, or the predator stalking prey scenario. The locations where spot on using the creepy mansion as a isolated cage for the family. The rat in a cage scenario plays well with the story giving us a familiarity with the tropes in Slasher genre. With interesting twists and turns, the film executes it's job well delivering a blood thirsty film that revitalized the slasher genre for the 2010's.
Tradition is a strong trait for the Slasher film series and You're Next carries that tradition well. With films like "The Purge" I feel it's the bastard child of You're Next and The Strangers enhancing the home invasion scenario with social commentary. The Collector is another brilliant Slasher revival, that packed excessive gore and tension. Halloween 2016 I added my own twist to the lamb slasher, I got a replica axe, black tactical boots, utility vest and black sweat shirt and crossbow prop. Costume came up to $100(pants was the most expensive). This was a fun costume to make and check out You're Next. It's soon to be an underground classic.
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