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Three (3) best friend filmmakers each have won Best Director Oscar, and more

These 3 best friends filmmakers have each won Best Directing Oscar Academy Awards. I thought what an amazing and statistically unlikely feat.

Alfonso Cuarón wins Best Director for Roma

Alfonso Cuarón Best Foreign Language Film for Roma

Alejandro G. Iñárritu Best Directing for Birdman

Alejandro G. Iñárritu Best Directing for The Revenant
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Alfonso Cuaron Best Directing for Gravity

Guillermo del Toro Best Directing for The Shape of Water

Here is one of my favorite interviews of them together on the Charlie Rose show Dec 20, 2006. I remember re-watching this video from my apartment in Memphis over and over again back in 2006.
Films: Babel, Children of Men, Pans Labyrinth

In addition, two of them won Best Picture too:

Birdman, Alejandro G. Iñárritu

The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro

My Top 10 Films of 2018

My Top 10 films of 2018 

1. Black Panther 

2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse 

3. Avengers: Infinity War 

4. Incredibles 2 

5. A Quiet Place
6. Mission Impossible: Fallout
7. Ralph Breaks The Internet 

8. Green Book 

9. Deadpool II
10. Widows
11. A Star is Born

Others
12. Smallfoot, was good fun and had a good message but not preachy.
13. Blockers, was the funniest movie of the year
14. Game Night, was also very funny and well done.

TV Shows
Because I did not want to commit to entire seasons of shows, I only watched a few
1. Barry was a revelation for Bill Hader 

2. Atlanta was so multi-dimensional

One of the best explanations of Artificial Intelligence AI capabilities I've seen @ TED

Best Roundtable Ever: Big Hero 6, The Lego Movie & More: The Full Animation Roundtable

MARS: Inside SpaceX. A 2018 National Geographic Documentary

Michelle Obama's story of trying to get outside of White House similar from President from Scandal doing same

How Michelle Obama talks about leaving the white house, reminded me of this clip from Scandal where the President negotiates with his secret service on leaving the white house

Whatsapp founder Jan Koum talks about their Journey at Stanford

Reading vs. Watching

I have always wondered by people read books instead of watching an equivalent lesson online/youtube. I have realized that this is because in books, we can erase and re-write/ re-type. But with videos, people are forced to think on the spot and may say things that they do not mean or would not want to take back.

So I am practicing reading more. I still like watching video versions.

Watch YouTube Videos without the Ads

Do you watch a lot of YouTube on mobile but tired of all the annoying ads?

Download NewPipe and get the videos. It even has features to download both video and audio versions. Exactly what I need to get the videos on the go. You're welcome world.

Apple’s Secret iPhone Launch Team: The Event That Began It All

How To Play a Video Along With an External Audio Track Using VLC Player

How To Play a Video Along With an External Audio Track Using VLC Player


Let's say you have some video files and also have an audio track or music track, and you want to play both together using the same player, how can you do that?

1. Open VLC Player

2. "File" > "Advanced Open File..."
 
3. Under the "File" tab, put your main movie into the first spot

4. Put the audio file into the second spot called "Play another media synchronously"

5. Click "Open"


There, in 5 easy steps, now you can play a movie with an audio track simultaneously and synchronously.

By: @folarin, @folarino

This Prolific Artisan Makes Movie Props out of Paper That You Think Are just Real

Not to make light of the Kavanaugh hearing as I was very emotionally affected for the women shouting in the background, and the impassioned senators..."Mr. Chairman"


But it did remind me of this early IMF hearing in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation

Caught in Providence: The Breakfast Verdict

Watched this on a Sunday Morning and it was beautiful to watch

“Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” — “Lagos” won 2 Emmys

So at the Creative Arts Emmys: “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” — “Lagos” won 2 Emmys. 1. Outstanding Picture Editing (non-fiction) 2. Outstanding Sound Mixing (non-fiction) The show also won: Outstanding Informational Series or Special Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming


It's sad Anthony Bourdain is no longer with us...shout out to Lagos. Read what he wrote (with videos) in this quick read:
https://explorepartsunknown.com/destination/lagos/

The people that make movie trailers

I love the line that movie trailers are the only kinds of advertisement that people love to watch and actually actively seek out

My simple equation on exercise using simple economics

I want to give a simple equation on exercise using simple economics.

In economics, if you want to sell a product. You can either price it high or low.
In a perfect world, if you price high, you'll get a small number of buyers. If you price lower, you get a higher number of buyers.

Revenue = price * quantity

So if you want an exclusive spa, price higher, a smaller number of customers. If you want an affordable spa, price lower, more customers. In a perfect world, you end up with the same revenue - this is my point of this equation.

In exercise, the similar equation that I invented is

Body exercise = quality * time

If you run, the quality is high, but you would run a shorter distance in less time.
If you speed walk, quality is lower, but you can walk for miles for a longer time.

In a perfect world, you would do the same level of exercise.

Apple is now the world's first trillion-dollar company

Read this article for Apple's road to $1 trillion: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/apple-trillion-stock-market-valuation-1.4771428

Apple’s Secret iPhone Launch Team: How They Made the iPhone that changed it all

Apple’s Secret iPhone Launch Team: The Event That Began It All