Critics’ Picks – Critics’ Picks: Night of the Living Dead — NYTimes.com/Video

Posted by admin on June 13th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 2 Comments »

A. O. Scott looks back at George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic.

Duration : 0:2:32

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Critics’ Picks – Critics’ Picks: ‘Patton’ – NYTimes.com/video

Posted by admin on June 9th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 21 Comments »

For Veteran’s Day, A. O. Scott looks back at “Patton,” the portrait of a maverick general starring George C. Scott.

Duration : 0:3:24

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Critics’ Picks – Critics’ Picks: ‘Do the Right Thing’ – NYTimes.com

Posted by admin on June 5th, 2010 and filed under story critics | No Comments »

A. O. Scott takes a look back at Spike Lee’s seminal film and the state of race relations today.

Duration : 0:3:54

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How to get the motivation to finish a story?

Posted by admin on May 29th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 3 Comments »

I always get to a point, usually within the first five chapters, I find that what I am writing is absolutely terrible and I give up on that story. I know writers are their own toughest critics but my inner editor is so strict I can never finish a rough draft, I rarely even get half way through.

Have you tried doing an outline before you begin to write? Draw up a chapter by chapter outline – just a couple of lines for each chapter stating, roughly, what is going to happen in that chapter. If you get stuck on one chapter, hop to another and work from there. Then go back later to where you were stuck and have another go at it.

Critics’ Picks – Critics’ Picks: ‘Babette’s Feast’ — NYTimes.com/Video

Posted by admin on May 28th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 10 Comments »

A. O. Scott looks at what this unusual Danish film has to say about our own Thanksgiving feast.

Duration : 0:3:18

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Stay With Me [Part 1 Series] Tagalog/English Love Story

Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2010 and filed under story critics | No Comments »

No one knew,
How much I felt blue
No one knew,
How much I weeped inside
No one knew,
How much sadness I had

Til a crazy lad I hated came..
And turned everything upside down
Including my frown :D

–Well, this is kinda my synopsis..
I hope you appreciate the story.
Critics are allowed
But jerks aren’t..

Thanks! :D

Duration : 0:9:31

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The New Boyz Discuss Jerkin, Motivation To Rap, Critics Of Skinny Jeans & Define Real Hip Hop

Posted by admin on May 18th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 25 Comments »

The New Boyz Discuss Jerkin, Motivation To Rap, Critics Of Skinny Jeans & Define Real Hip Hop

http://www.realtalkny.net
Produced By Nigel D.

Duration : 0:3:36

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Domino’s® Pizza Turnaround

Posted by admin on May 12th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 25 Comments »

“The Pizza Turnaround”

The true story of how Domino’s listened to its harshest critics and made their best pizza ever.

Starring actual Domino’s employees.

www.pizzaturnaround.com

Try the result of their hard work. Order at Dominos.com.

Duration : 0:4:21

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Critics’ Picks – Critics’ Picks: ‘Citizen Ruth’ – NYTimes.com/Video

Posted by admin on May 8th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 2 Comments »

A. O. Scott looks back at Alexander Payne’s 1996 film with Laura Dern as a pregnant glue-sniffer who becomes a pawn in the abortion.

Duration : 0:3:45

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Brett Keane’s History: Accusations of Plagiarism and DMCA Abuse: Pt. 1

Posted by admin on May 5th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 25 Comments »

Brett Keane has recently been accused of filing false DMCAs against straightd0pe. Brett denies that he was behind the DMCAs. These are the key videos involved in the recent accusation:

straightd0pes original video that was very critical of Brett Keane. It wasDMCAd—possibly by Brett Keane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_yVy8MANM

Brett Keane’s response to strated0pe (mirrored copy):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU4ka7KhQYA

straightd0pe posted the following rebuttal. It contained numerous reasons why he believes that Brett was behind the DMCA. However, it too was DMCAs—possibly by Brett Keane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5EGZ-ZZEvw

Straightd0pe posted this video in which he discusses why he thinks a pm from Brett Keane saying Strike 2 is evidence that Brett sent a DMCA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFawEaRIrdc

WTF is strike2—by Brett Keane—giving his version of what Strike 2 means and denying that it is evidence that he filed a DMCA. Notice that Brett accuses straightd0pe called him of being a fat-assed loser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ljd6t4OoWE

Brett Keane has denied that he was behind the recent DMCAs. In fact, he just made a video showing how easy it would be for a troll to send a DMCA complaint to YouTube under someone elses name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm61qe_F8gw

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I was one of the first YouTubers to question Bretts integrity. My suspicions about Brett arose after Fakesagan (then hardaseownsyou) made a video powning Brett Keane. Brett lied about hardcases video, claiming that hardcase was making vicious attacks against his appearance. Rather than deal directly with many of hardcases claims, he chose to mischaracterize hardcases video as something it was not. Both videos are gone from YouTube, but I discussed this incident in this video:
Brett Keane, His Critics, and His Haters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYnTmHc6n0c

For more on Brett Keanes past lies see:
See also Brett Keane, Lies, and Censorship:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJMj9eoEaCM

Judelicious accused Brett of Plagiarism, and Brett is now trying to discredit this accusation by making hay of the fact that Judelicious also once said he was a pedophile. Tommyfromthebronx recently made a video verifying that Judelicious did indeed call Brett a pedo, and Brett used the audioclip from Tommys video to try to discredit the story that he was a plagiarist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQLZV3_Qs_4

I will verify that Tommy is telling the truth. Judelicious did indeed call him a pedo—and she was roundly criticized for it. I know I either sent her a pm or left her a comment on her video telling her that this was not cool. However, that is only part of the story. Judelicious was wrong when she called him a pedo, BUT she did indeed catch him plagiarizing a poem. I saw the evidence of his plagiarism with my own eyes. I saw when that when he originally posted a video entitled Poem the video description in the sidebar said By Brett Keane. And that was all it said originally. There was no attribution to the original author. I took a screen cap of the original video immediately after Judelicious made her accusation in anticipation that Brett would make the evidence of his plagiarism disappear. My instinct was correct. Soon after Judilicious pointed out that the poem he was reciting was written by Judy Burnette, he added a note to the sidebar acknowledging that she was indeed the author. And then he lied his head off about the incident. He denied that he had plagiarized and he made a video implying that Judilicious had used Photoshop to forge a screen shot in order to frame him. I made the following video at the time and you can examine the screenshot that I took of the original video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrpyXyOvyi4

And someone mirrored a copy of Judiliciouss video in which she accused Brett of plagiarism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ5cPnMGiOE

So it is not just Bretts word versus Judiliciouss word on the question of whether he plagiarized. It is Bretts word against my word. And a number of others saw the plagiarism as well. Some of them posted comments on my video which you can see by going here. You will have to click Show to unhide the comments. Someone flagged all the comments as spam, though Im pretty sure we cant blame Brett for this.:

http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=QrpyXyOvyi4

Should Brett now characterize me as being a hater, I am on record for stating that I didnt want to see his suspension be permanent. I made a video stating that I thought he should be given a second chance and allowed back onto YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTYnJHeY5T0

Duration : 0:10:38

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