Are you a high school student looking for a website to display your athletic skill? A new interactive website called Jookt.com has launched as a base for high school athletics.
Jookt.com allows users to post videos surrounding high school sports teams, whether they are on the field or training. Jookt is also developing “The Stream,” an original programming focused on high school sports news highlights and the behind-the-scenes antics.
In 2000, an initiative began to help students make a name for themselves as filmmakers. Eight years later, Campus Movie Fest (CMF) has grown into a major film-making competition, spreading throughout colleges in 24 different cities and four countries. In conjunction with AT&T, Campus Movie Fest has announced a 2008-2009 World Tour.
Students from participating universities will be given brand new Apple and AT&T equipment for one week in order to write, shoot, and edit a short film. Awards will be given out based on film genre, use of mobile equipment, and issues addressed in the film.
As Halloween creeps around the corner, millions of Americans are looking for the best place to get a good scare. Thankfully, Hauntworld Magazine has compiled a list of the Top 13 Haunted Attractions in the US. Judged on “attention to detail, high-quality special effects, and overall scare factor,” these Halloween hot spots are sure to have you shaking in your shoes.
"The haunts industry fits into a special niche of the entertainment world, where the main goal is to provide an intensely frightening experience, yet leave customers exhilarated enough to return next year, or even next week," said Larry Kirchner, Editor-in-Chief of Hauntworld Magazine. "In order to accomplish this, a tremendous amount of production is involved in each successful haunt. Owners have behind-the-scenes teams of master Hollywood special effects technicians, make-up artists, set designers, and trained actors.”
Barack Obama is the preferred U.S. presidential candidate in all 22 nations polled for the BBC World Service by the University of Maryland and Globescan.
On average, Obama was preferred by a four to one margin (49 percent to 12 percent) over his Republican rival John McCain in the poll of 22,000 people.
But the margin ranged widely across nations, with Obama favored by nine percent in India to 82 percent in Kenya. Nearly 40 percent of those surveyed did not take a position. This was particularly the case in Russia, Turkey and Egypt.
MTV, mtvU and HP have geared up to release a new online series, Engine Room, in which young, artistic minds from all over the world come to Brooklyn, NY to compete for digital art supremacy. Using HP technology, the contestants will compete in a series of creative challenges to be judged by iconic artists, filmmakers and musicians.
"Engine Room was born to foster creativity and enable some of the most inventive young minds to amplify how technology brings digital art to life," said David Roman, vice president of Marketing Communications at HP. "MTV is the ideal partner to share this 'battle for glory' with viewers around the world."
Low vs. Diamond announced a co-headlining tour with Nikolai Fraiture of The Strokes (Nickel Eye), beginning January 18th in Philadelphia, Pa.
Spending most of 2008 winning over fans and critics with their intoxicating mix of big notes and melodies, this Los Angeles-based quintet had an incredibly rewarding year that included Rolling Stone Magazine hailing the band as an "Artist To Watch" and the band's upcoming single "Don't Forget Sister" as "one of the top singles ...
Interviews - General Spill.com's Korey Coleman Jenna Bensoussan - Tuesday, 23 December 2008 Have you ever been to a movie that you just absolutely hated? Do tell - and then maybe you'll get your money back! Spill.com's Korey Coleman tells us about their new feature to help poor defenseless movie-goers defend themselves from the big bad production studios.
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ACED Bloggers - Pop Culture Blog What the Flip? Daniel Sargeant - Tuesday, 06 January 2009 MTV has their own little campaign going on for college students right now.
They gave 100 Flip camcorders to 100 college students around the country and told them to get inspired and surprise us with some video footage of their own design.
Different themes guided them, some were open-ended, others were scavenger hunts and others were questions only they could answer.
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Feature Articles - Seasonal 2008, a Brief Retrospect Jenna Bensoussan - Wednesday, 31 December 2008
A lot has happened in 2008. Of course, it will go down in history as the year America elected Obama into office, the first African-American President. And, thankfully, the last year Bush has to ruin what's left of the country he has polluted for so many years.
Many people have mixed feelings about what our future holds as a people in this ...
An impossibly cute, but impossible-to-live-with yellow Labrador retriever named Marley teaches his newlywed owners a thing or two about patience and parenthood.
Benjamin Button (Pitt) was born under unusual circumstances. As everyone around him grew older, he aged backwards, making the challenges of life such as creating friendships, finding a job and falling in love all the more difficult and heartbreaking.
Near the end of WWII, Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) leads to group of fellow German army colonels in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler; the event would later be called the July 20 Plot of 1944.
What happens when you agree with everyone and say "yes" to everything? Carl (Carrey) is about to find out when he chooses to become overly agreeable for an entire year.
It is the new craze in multi-media -- slotMusic. SanDisk introduced the first slotMusic player. They are small, light-weight and can play all those wonderful little 1 GB slot cards from your favorite artists. The great ...
Reviews - Music Mini Civalias, Worth the Time Daniel W. Butler - Tuesday, 06 January 2009 The multi-talented songwriter, Adam Stidham, brought the members of Civalias together in Southern California to form this interesting band from such influences as Coldplay and Radiohead.
Civalias has a very strong and forward strength to their music.
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While most average cooks are content to follow a recipe and create a limitless array of healthy, fresh meals; the process is not without its problems. Some recipes can be hard to follow, missing key ingredients or lack important detail altogether.
For those of you content to heat boxes of heavily processed foods in
the microwave or empty cans into pots, the process ...
Have you ever been to a movie that you just absolutely hated? Do tell - and then maybe you'll get your money back! Spill.com's Korey Coleman tells us about their new feature to help poor defenseless movie-goers defend themselves from the big bad production studios.
Read More
A lot has happened in 2008. Of course, it will go down in history as the year America elected Obama into office, the first African-American President. And, thankfully, the last year Bush has to ruin what's left of the country he has polluted for so many years.
It is the new craze in multi-media -- slotMusic. SanDisk introduced the first slotMusic player. They are small, light-weight and can play all those wonderful little 1 GB slot cards from your favorite artists. The great ...
While most average cooks are content to follow a recipe and create a limitless array of healthy, fresh meals; the process is not without its problems. Some recipes can be hard to follow, missing key ingredients or lack important detail altogether.
