They touch our lives in so many ways, and Reason.tv kicks off awards season by acknowledging those who have devoted their lives to minding other people’s business. Live (to tape) from the fourth floor of the Sepulveda Center in Los Angeles, it’s the third annual 2011 Nanny of the Year Awards! These United Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Big Government Discovery Date : 27/12/2011 13:39 Number of articles : 2
It’s so haaarrrrrrrd, to say goooodbyyyyyyeeee… 2011 was a year that we experienced some of the most unexpected celebrity deaths in several years. Although some may have been battling an illness, many of these folks seem to die rather suddenly due to drugs, alcohol, a car accident, or a combination of them all. Flip through the pages and take a look see at all the lives that were lost in 2011, THIS IS PART 2!!
If you had 24 hours to live what would you do with it? This is the running theme of Andrew Niccol’s new sci-fi thriller In Time starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried . Given the fact that Justin has been in show business since he was a tiny tot and has seemingly done it all from television and world famous pop star to now making the bridge into becoming a movie star, I had the chance to ask Justin the same question at the premiere. California Love: What Would You Do With 24 Hours In L.A.? “It sounds cliche but I would spend it with people that I love and with my family…I could probably squeeze in a three hour round of golf, and then spend it with the people I love.” After following that up with asking if there was anything left he felt he hadn’t done that he’d like to do, being the charming and lovable character that he is, he jokingly said “I’d like to occupy Pasadena.” As for the film, I loved it. One of the biggest reasons being the concept is great. The thought of living in a world where time literally becomes money and seeing how that plays out in the confines of the world we live in today is quite interesting. The world Niccol created is very fascinating and will be one of the main things that will keep you engaged with the film from start to finish. In the film Timberlake plays Will Salas, a guy who lives in “the ghetto” as it’s called. Here is where people can only afford to live day to day, working to earn enough time to live to see the next day only to do it all over again. WATCH: ‘The Tanning Effect’: Steve Stoute Interview With Jay-Z (Part One) Because you can only live a year past the age of 25, many of the poor people in the ghetto, like Justin and his mother(played by the beautiful and talented Olivia Wilde), used most of their year’s time currency to pay bills just to get by. But when Justin saves the life of a wealthy man(played by one of my favorite actors Matt Bomer ) with over 100 year’s time on his life clock, the man gives a healthy portion of his time to Justin and the drama ensues. So why the age of 25? Niccol chose this age because it is the age at which the brain is fully developed and human beings are better at controlling impulse and wreckless behavior(see why you can’t rent a car until 25 now?). The theme echoed throughout the film is that “you can do a lot in a day.” And the beauty of what writer and director Andrew Niccol has done is not only create a unique world in which we get to view the same way we live our lives today through a different spectrum, but he found a brilliant way to remind us all that the length of our time here is both unknown and relatively short. The contrast between the richest 1% in the film having thousands and even millions of years to live on their life clocks while the 99% work tirelessly just to make it to have enough time to see tomorrow reflects brilliantly on the status of today’s America and the Occupy the World movement that has taken place in recent months. We often say time is money but in this world time is EVERYTHING. Time is literally money, power, and anything else you need it to be in a world where it is the only currency. Much like our rat race is to make as much money as possible, in In Time , the goal is to live as long as possible once that clock on your arm begins to tick and tock on your 25th birthday. Some people have slighted at the notion of taking Timberlake serious as a thriller/action type leading man but what seems to be a smart move by Team Justin is that the theme and story of the film is much bigger than the people playing the characters. Furthermore, Justin actually does a good job of playing the character and not feeling like you’re watching the guy from N*Sync shoot and run from people. The film tackles our obsession with youth(which is why Niccol shot the film in Los Angeles) and holds a mirror up to our lives that begs the question, What are you doing with your time? Because, unlike the people in the world Niccol created, we don’t have the luxury of rolling up our sleeve and peeking at a clock to see when it all ends. For us it could be today, tomorrow, or 50 years from now but the message of the film seems to say take the time you have now, realize just how precious it is, and spend it wisely. What you’re obsessing over may not truly matter at all and what you’re putting off just may be the things that adds a little more time to your life clock. In Time hits theaters Friday October 28th. Go see it while you still have time. For fun we had to pay homage to Mase’s “24 Hours To Live”… 24 Hours to Live: Mase Blak Rob Jadakiss by RBGStreetScholar FROM OUR PARTNERS: The 20 Hottest Photos Of Madelina Ghenea(Heavy.com) Justin Timberlake And Amanda Seyfried Stun On Red Carpet (HollywoodHeavy)
In life we’re expected to live and learn. You can’t grow if you don’t make mistakes. While mistakes are needed for us to learn about life and even about ourselves, there are things we should and should not do to ensure we don’t have a life full of regrets. Yeah, yeah, yeah the saying goes ‘No regrets. Just lessons learned’ but that saying can’t be applied to everything in our lives. And the truth is how many people do you know who consider everything in their lives phenomenal lessons and have never uttered the words “I wish I wouldn’t have…”? Don’t worry I’ll wait. Some hasty decisions made in the spur of the moment can make for some story-telling, regretful decisions later down the line. Yet at the time ‘down the line’ is the last thing on our minds. If only we would have known then, what we know now, the story may have played out differently. Check out 6 things that you will probably regret later at MadameNoire.com
Also see www.namastepublishing.com. Author of a world best seller book “The Power of Now” 1999, Eckhart Tolle points toward the “spaciousness” that surounds every object and every event in our lives. It must be obvious, but for many of us un-noticed. Get this DVD from Namaste Publishing, it’s: The Flowering of Consciousness, March 5th 2001, filmed at La Jolla CA http://www.youtube.com/v/Bg9lY7_hCGA?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Read the original: Eckhart Tolle, the enormous power of YES, www.soundstrue.com
‘World of Jenks’ star releases ‘Millennials Will Never Forget’ short film. By Akshay Bhansali Andrew Jenks Photo: MTV News After its debut season, America has come to know the fearlessly inquisitive Andrew Jenks — the NYU film school grad at the center of MTV’s “World of Jenks.” Over the course of his show’s 12 episodes, on a quest to better understand what it’s like to live the life of everyday human beings, Jenks shadowed rapper Maino , a homeless street dweller, an NFL cheerleader, mixed martial arts fighter Anthony “Showtime” Pettis and a young man living with autism. As Sunday brings the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Jenks has taken it upon himself to better understand just how Millennials remember that historic day in American history by creating a roughly 5-minute online film titled “Millennials Will Never Forget” that, among other things, touches on how young Americans can harness the lessons learned from the ordeal. “9/11 is a day that is stamped into all of our lives, and something that none of us will forget,” Jenks told MTV News on Friday (September 9). “I was trying to think of a concept that would really bring us back to that day and give us time to reflect, and then from there, see what we can do to change. “Something that we really learned from that day was that Americans have an uncanny ability to do anything that it takes to help a neighbor out, and I feel like that’s something that we have started to lose a little bit in the last 10 years,” he added. “I was really curious to hear what young people my age would say.” The film, inspired by the motifs and structures of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris, is a thought-provoking short film of human discovery and is comprised of back-to-back testimonials of 12 Generation Yers, young Americans who witnessed the events of 9/11 and the uniting spirit that brought, and still can bring, the country together. “When I talked to people about 9/11, there’s a sense that, ‘We’re all neighbors. We’re all friends. We’re all civil.’ And it doesn’t take a lot of looking around to see that now, 10 years later, that doesn’t exist,” Jenks said. “Just look at what’s going on in Washington: the bickering and the disrespect. It’s really discouraging. And that’s what I hope this video does: I hope that it gets around to a lot of young people so that they can see and remember that day when we were so passionate about helping each other, and using that day almost as an advantage to what we can do every day to change the world, as cheesy as that may sound,” he added. Over the course of the effort, Jenks concluded that, as Millennials, this young generation of Americans has an added advantage over their parents: Social media has documented virtually all of their lives. To learn from the past has never been easier than it is today. “We have archived our lives through Facebook and Twitter, blogs, email, text,” he said. “We can literally go back five years and look at what we were doing on a daily basis, and I think there’s a lot that can come from that. We have the chance to really look back and reflect in an accurate way. In turn, we can really make sense of it and see what we can do to make the world a better place.” “Millennials Will Never Forget” can be seen on YouTube . For a personal note from Andrew Jenks on the project and to find out how you can pay tribute to 9/11 by taking action, head over to MTV Act . Related Videos Commemorating The Tenth Anniversary Of The September 11 Attacks Related Artists Maino
A lot can happen in a decade and from 2000-2010, events like 9/11, Katrina and the economic recession certainly determined how people lived their lives and where they moved.
(Video Link) It takes some seriously impressive skills to make a working replica like this amazing Pip Boy as seen in Fall Out. Via Geeks Are Sexy Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 03/09/2011 08:52 Number of articles : 2
Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Former lab chimps see sunlight for the very first time in their lives . [ reddit .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 04/09/2011 20:09 Number of articles : 2
Death continues to wreak fateful havoc in the lives of doomed young persons in next week’s Final Destination 5 (Death doesn’t like to be cheated… out of an opportunity to rake in more money!), but who knows what inventive, grotesque kills await? Play Movieline’s “Guess the Death” and take a stab (ding!) at predicting how each of the film’s cast members (including Emma Bell, Tony Todd, and David Koechner) will meet their maker, based on clues found in these five new stills.
