mentioned to a weary Graham, who had been trolling the photo agencies looking for a particular image and coming up nil that they should create their own images. Graham was game. As the conversation ensued, the decided they’d have more fun recreating existing stock photo images.

 

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You may have noticed that postings in our Proceedings have slowed down a bit over the last month. The Society has not dissolved. We are, however, in the midst of a few exciting changes. Please bear with us. One new feature that we will over time be adding to this site is a library of [...]

Posted this Babe on his Babeslog today, I just couldn\'t not post it ...

If you are reading this by a feed aggregator / reader you probably noticed that my last feeds were a bit strange. First they had no body entry, just the title. Now you probably had the impression that something was missing. Well, actually something was missing: all the rest of the entry.

In the first case, the lack of body entry, was the result of a stupid change I made in the feeds. While I was trying to remove the ads from feeds, I accidentally removed the code line with the body entry. The problem was fixed last night.

Now I need to discover why, when I publish a post that is divided in two parts it doesn\'t publish the whole post in the feed, because it works for Cinematógrafo. I\'m dividing some entries with videos, or many images in two parts to make my main page smaller and faster. I must say I have no patience for huge main pages in blogs. I think it\'s much easier make it smaller and faster, so the visitor / reader can choose to keep reading it afterwards.

I didn\'t change my mind about publishing the whole entry in feeds. I just need to figure out what is going on. Now, more than ever, I\'m hating this installation of Movable Type, hating the small template of this blog, hating the fact that there are no tags activated, that is always hard add things to the template, that there are no category tags in all the pages and that I\'m not a webmaster or webdesigner. Ok, I\'m unhappy about all this.

I\'m really sorry if you are reading this blog by feed and the things suck. And I wanted to ask to you please go to Bibi\'s box, or the strange entries, and check them in their own pages. They will make much more sense with the rest of the post, the videos and the images you missed.

Let\'s see if I can get some help tomorrow. Until this problem be solved I won\'t make posts in two parts. And before someone suggest me to move to WordPress: I have it running for two other blogs, but I\'m planning move it now, it\'s too much work and I will need a new template.

PS.: neat Feedbot illustration created by Matthew Forsythe.

Joly sez, \"Rebecca Mackinnon discusses her new book \'Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom\' (Basic Books) with Mark Whitaker, managing editor for CNN Worldwide, at The New America Foundation NYC on Feb 1 2012.\" I\'ve got a copy of this book at the top of my read-for-review pile. I can\'t wait. [...]

Today Photoshop, the application many of us have used longer than any other, turns 20 years old. Happy birthday!...

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MR HUDSON [FEAT KANYE WEST] - SUPERNOVA from MrHudson on Vimeo.

There\'s all this buzz about Kanye\'s buddy Mr. Hudson and the new single proves why. Supernova is HOT and I\'m sure scientists would agree. Mr. Hudson is fiyah and my crotch agrees. He kinda sounds like Shiny Toy Guns except he\'s WAY WAY hotter, and that accent? Mmm, makes me wanna drop to my knees and catch a supernova myself. Oh and is he wearing McQueen or is that Prada? Either way the boy rocks it well. My only issue with this song is TOO MUCH KANYE (ducks from using Kanye\'s patented caps lock key) and not enough Hudson. Hell, Kanye \"sings\" the entire second verse and chorus. Mr. Hudson\'s forthcoming album \"Straight No Chaser\" hits my hard drive Oct. 5th. BTW Mr. Hudson, I\'m a menswear designer and I would love to outfit you. It would be a tastic collab. Whaddya say?

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Evan Rachel Wood\'s much anticipated \"Mildred Pierce\" nude scene won\'t hit the air waves until this coming weekend—but rather than let the show go nudity free for an entire installment, Kate Winslet boldly undressed for the camera. More »

DEEP FISH! Japan cult guru guilty of sarin attack A former Japanese cult guru has been sentenced to death for masterminding a 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subway trains that killed 12, sickened thousands and shattered Japan\'s myth of public safety.Prosecutors had demanded that Shoko Asahara, 48, the former leader of the Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth Sect), be hanged for ordering the

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This is my last post on grow-a-brain. Thanks for the nearly 20,000,000 visitors who checked in during the 7 years I blogged here. I can be found at my new, personal site, Grow-a-baby, dedicated to Adora, the person above. You...

Apparently, there’s some sort of sporting event being televised this weekend that has been historically used as an excuse to buy a big-screen TV. [Joel] wanted a huge-screen TV on the cheap, so he converted an overhead projector to something he can use with his XBox. Using a bare LCD panel with an overhead projector is [...]

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There are lots of reasons why women have sex – some are very misleading, some are very serious, and some can be very, very, VERY SURPRISING. The hardest fact is that women’s reason and desire for sex is not necessarily a desire to really have sex and experience a pure physical pleasure. The Texas University psychologists, Cindy Meston and David Buss, conducted a fascinating study (2006-2009) and interviewed 1,000 different women to find out why they really have sex. In their book “Why Women Have Sex” (2009), Meston and Buss identified more than 200 unexpected reasons and diverse sexual motives!     Some women have sex to keep their loved one, whereas other women have sex to trap a new partner or get rid of an unwanted one. Some ladies do not know how to say ‘‘no’’ and feel like it’s easier to ‘‘go all the way’’ than to say no. Some feel sorry for a person, others feel guilty or make a special favor to someone. Among female reasons for sex there are – revenge, boredom, profit, losing weight, boosting self-esteem, curing a headache, relieving menstrual cramps, making her partner to forget about his problems and keeping the peace at home. The list is long, and love and pleasure are not at the top of it…     Survey: 3 Percent Have Sex Once a Day

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This handmade video mixer for the iPhone 4/4S, created by Honest & Smile, allows you to record two sided videos. You simply slide the device in, adjust the mirrors and angles slightly and start shooting your video. What a great idea!

We\'re not really sure why it\'s called \'The Love Box\', but presume it\'s so you can capture both sides of a loving couple\'s conversation?! However it\'s designed to be used we think it\'s pretty cool, and would be great for getting a quick video of an informal interview or remembering a fun meal with a friend.

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Every year, the MPAA tries desperately to stop Oscar screeners -- the review copies sent to Academy voters -- from leaking online. And every year, teenage boys battling for street cred always seem to defeat whatever obstacles Hollywood throws at them.

For the last 10 years, I\'ve tracked the online distribution of Oscar-nominated films, going back to 2003. Using a number of sources (see below for methodology), I\'ve compiled a massive spreadsheet, now updated to include 310 films.

This year, for the first time, I\'m calling it: after three years of declines, the MPAA seems to be winning the battle to stop screener leaks. But why?

A record 37 films were nominated this year, and the studios sent out screeners for all but four of them. But, so far, only eight of those 33 screeners have leaked online, a record low that continues the downward trend from last year.

(Disclaimer: Any of this could change before the Oscar ceremony, and I\'ll keep the data updated until then.)

They may be winning the battle, but they\'ve lost the war.

While screeners declined in popularity, 34 of the nominated films (92 percent) were leaked online by nomination day, with 25 of them available as high-quality DVD or Blu-ray rips. Only three films -- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, My Week with Marilyn and W.E. -- haven\'t leaked online in any form (yet!).

If the goal of blocking leaks is to keep the films off the internet, then the MPAA still has a long way to go.

There are a number of theories about what\'s causing the decline.

It could be attributed to tighter controls -- personalized watermarks, the aggressive prosecution of leakers, and greater awareness of the risks for Academy voters.

But the MPAA may have little to do with the decline. Oscar-nominated films could be coming out earlier in the year, making screeners less important.

Or maybe the interests between the mainstream downloader and industry favorites is diverging? If the Oscars are mostly arthouse fare and critical darlings, but with low gross receipts, they\'ll be less desirable to leak online. It would be very interesting to track the historical box office performance of nominees to see how it affects downloading. (Maybe next year!)

The continuously shrinking window between theatrical and retail releases may be to blame. After all, once the retail Blu-ray or DVD is released, there\'s no reason for pirate groups to release a lower-quality watermarked screener.

The chart below tracks the window between U.S. release and its first DVD/Blu-Ray leak online, which shows how the window between theatrical and retail release dates is slowly closing since 2003.

Whatever the reason, online movie releasing groups are taking longer to pirate movies than ever. When I first started tracking releases in the early- to mid-2000s, the median time between theatrical release to its first leak online was 1 to 2 days. Now, that number\'s crept up to over three weeks.

The rise in leak time correlates with a dip in popularity for lower-quality sources, like camcorder-sourced footage. This year, only eight of the 37 nominees (21 percent) were sourced from camcorder footage. (This is likely because there are fewer blockbuster nominees than in the mid-2000s.)

As the industry slowly transitions from physical media to streaming video, it\'ll be interesting to see if the downward trend continues, or if the ease of capturing streaming video spawns a new renaissance for screeners. Last year, Fox Searchlight distributed screeners with iTunes, and all were quickly and easily pirated.

The Data Dump

Skeptical of my results? Want to dig into it yourself? Good! Here\'s the complete dataset, available on Google Spreadsheets or downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or comma-separated text file.

Methodology

I include the full-length feature films in every category except documentary and foreign films (even music, makeup, and costume design).

I use Yahoo! Movies for the release dates, always using the first available U.S. date, even if it was a limited release, falling back to the first available U.S. date in IMDB.

All the cam, telesync, and screener leak dates are taken from VCD Quality, supplemented by dates in ORLYDB. I always use the first leak date, excluding unviewable or incomplete nuked releases.

The official screener release dates are from Academy member Ken Rudolph, who kindly lists the dates he receives each screener on his personal homepage. Thanks again, Ken!

For previous years, see 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 (part 1 and part 2), 2009, 2010, and 2011.