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Hellraiser (2022)

#2020s #actor odessa a zion #dir david bruckner #dp eli born #cat horror #cat mystery #cat thriller #american #serbian #black #shadow #blue eyes #soft focus #mole #sweat #hellraiser 2022 #hellraiser

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“The world-building was phenomenal. It reminded me of the first time I read other classic fantasy series like Harry Potter..." Long and Short Reviews 4.5/5 stars "HIGH SUMMONS reads like a young Harry Dresden with the same wit and charm...A must-read for lovers of urban fantasy!" - Reader's Favorite 5/5 stars What price would you pay for magic? Born with magic, Jon never asked the cost. His dad vanished. Monsters lurked in the dark, waiting for him to notice, but as long as he kept his eyes forward, as long ad he pretended to be a normal human, they forgot he was even there. Until they didn't. Ruthless rogue wizards and hordes of demons flood the city. Put in the cross-hairs of a demon hunter, Jon jumps at the chance to apprentice, but the demon hunter, Jordan, didn't show up by chance. He's got his own agenda in Rochester, and dealing with a group of rogues desperate enough to set the city ablaze is just the beginning. Wild nights drag Jon deeper into the world where his father vanished. Maybe he's becoming an addict. Maybe magic just comes with a price. Either way, he’s hooked.

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1976 from Alex Mikhaylov on Vimeo.

1976 meditates on presentiment and sound. The surreal short crafts an unsettling atmosphere of foreshadowing and immanent change. A clever combination of live footage and CGI, the film allows its soundtrack to drive the visuals. Everyday objects reverberate, twist and react to an oncoming pulse of events as they converge on a farmhouse lost in rural America. A film by Aggressive, The Loop & Echoic. Credits: Production Co: Aggressive Postproduction: Loop Directors: Alex Topaller, Dan Shapiro, Alex Mikhaylov Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Editor: Adam Thomson Music & Sound Design: David Johnston, Tom Gilbert | Echoic DP: Eli Born Producer: Kelvin Craver Production Designer: Geoff Flint CG Artists: Max Chelyadnikov, Dmitry Paukov, Alex Frukta, Vladimir Tomin, Daniel Rybkin, Valdemaras Dzengo, Danil Krivoruchko, Roman Senko, Vladislav Solovjov Production Manager: Dustin Pownall Color Grade: Marshall Plante

[placerdiario]

1976 from Alex Mikhaylov on Vimeo.

1976 meditates on presentiment and sound. The surreal short crafts an unsettling atmosphere of foreshadowing and immanent change. A clever combination of live footage and CGI, the film allows its soundtrack to drive the visuals. Everyday objects reverberate, twist and react to an oncoming pulse of events as they converge on a farmhouse lost in rural America. A film by Aggressive, The Loop & Echoic. Credits: Production Co: Aggressive Postproduction: Loop Directors: Alex Topaller, Dan Shapiro, Alex Mikhaylov Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Editor: Adam Thomson Music & Sound Design: David Johnston, Tom Gilbert | Echoic DP: Eli Born Producer: Kelvin Craver Production Designer: Geoff Flint CG Artists: Max Chelyadnikov, Dmitry Paukov, Alex Frukta, Vladimir Tomin, Daniel Rybkin, Valdemaras Dzengo, Danil Krivoruchko, Roman Senko, Vladislav Solovjov Production Manager: Dustin Pownall Color Grade: Marshall Plante

[liuxiang]

Intel AI "Taboola" from Loop on Vimeo.

For “AI on Intel” we told five real stories of Intel’s technology in action - from stopping poaching in Africa, to powering world’s first face-controlled wheelchair, in each film we utilized our key strengths by combining tech-inspired CG with cinematic live-action.

Production Company & VFX: Aggressive/Loop Directors: Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro Creative Directors: Max Chelyadnikov, Alex Mikhaylov Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov Producer: Alex Aab Editor: Erik Auli DP: Eli Born Production Designer: Geoff Flint Stylist: Trudy Nelsen Casting: Mary Ruth Casting Location Scout: Alan Vasquez Production Manager: Joshua Jaedicke CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Post Producers: Won Cha, Robert Berman 3D Artists: Dmitriy Paukov, Dmitry Kulikov, Igor Kozitsin, Danil Krivoruchko, Artemy Perevertin, Filipp Gorbachev, Vitaliy Babich, Roman Senko, Daniil Rybkin, Evgenia Zhukova, Nikolay Lvov, E.D.Satan, Max Chelyadnikov 2D Artists: Denis Khramov, Vladimir Tomin Additional Editing: Javi Devitt, Won Cha Compositing: Max Chelyadnikov, Dmitry Kulikov, Javi Devitt Storyboard Artist: Mercer Boffey Colorist: Dominik Deras Music: Smider Music

[vm4vm0]

Harrison "Right Hook" from Eva Michon on Vimeo.

Watch the accompanying short film about the history of ponytails: vimeo.com/219162721

"Right Hook" by Harrison Directed by Eva Michon Starring: Anna Cordell Production Company: Ways & Means Exec. Producers: Lana Kim & Jett Steiger Producer: Lizzy Sanford DP: Kevin Phillips 1st AD: Eli Born Editor: Sean Leonard Colorist: Derek Hansen (the Mill) Post Supervisor: Dina Ciccotello 1st AC: Michael Norquest DIT: Roman Koval Gaffer: Jeff Webster Best Boy Electric: Derek Hoffman Key Grip: Lev Abrahamian Grip Driver: Alex Picasso Wardrobe Stylist: Devin Winter HMU: Maxine Christians Art Director: Lukas Geronimas Art Department Assistant: Jeremy Jansen PA: Tyler Monsein Extra Special Thanks: Hayley Magnus, David Kramer, Alexander Ramirez, Madaline Riley, Kathryn Borel, Desiree Leon, Lael Neale, Alexa Karolinski, Paul Buckley, Emily Presley, Gia Bahm, Charlotte Patterson, Samaj Noah, Colby Cecca, Lyndon Probst

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Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War: Part one

We look back at the tumultuous events that led to the English Civil War, setting the scene for Oliver Cromwell’s rise to power

On January 4, 1642 King Charles I took his armed guards and burst into the chamber of the House of Commons. Amid the sudden alarm at such a breach of etiquette, he strode to the Speaker’s chair and demanded the surrender of five members of parliament. But Charles was too late. The men, noted thorns in the royal side, had already fled and the humiliated King could do no more than ruefully mutter: “All my birds have flown.”

Within eight months of this extraordinary scene that revealed Charles for the tyrant he had become, he raised his Royal Standard at Nottingham: King and Parliament were at war. The ensuing strife would tear the country and whole families apart, dispense with the Crown and set in motion a revolutionary experiment of republican rule without royalty unique in British history. Controversy over who were the heroes and the villains in the drama, and what it all really meant, continues to this day.

You don’t need to dig deep to find the seeds for the civil wars that erupted in Charles I’s reign, first with the Scots (from 1637), in Ireland (from 1641) and in England (1642–46 and 1648). Money, religion and above all government power struggles between King and Parliament provided the flashpoints.

Charles had followed his father King James VI of Scotland/I of England onto the throne in 1625, inheriting also the Stuarts’ absolutist belief that sovereigns took their authority from God alone. Court painter Anthony Van Dyck’s iconic equestrian portraits of Charles typify the regal image the King sought to project (in real life he was a less imposing five feet four inches tall).

Equestrian portrait of Charles I by Van Dyck (1633) Credit: Paul Williams/Alamy

But the monarch’s haughty intransigence sat ill with an increasingly muscular Parliament, just as Charles’ espousal of High Anglican forms of worship full of ritual ran counter to Puritan demands for plainer devotions. The fact that the King was married to a Roman Catholic, Henrietta Maria of France, only fuelled suspicions over his intentions, while his attempts to impose the Anglican liturgy in Scotland sparked the Bishops’ Wars of 1639 and 1640.

When Charles embroiled the country in costly, ill-fated wars with Spain and France, Parliament refused to grant funds, while his luxury lifestyle didn’t endear him to creditors. As bickering continued, Charles dissolved Parliament three times between 1625 and 1629, and then dismissed it altogether to rule alone from 1629 to 1640, raising money through his own somewhat irregular taxation methods. Further parliaments were recalled and dissolved when they called for reforms. Then, convinced that his most outspoken adversaries included traitors who had supported the Scots in the Bishops’ Wars, Charles made his fateful attempts at arrest in 1642.

With the raising of the Royal Standard at Nottingham, battle lines were drawn: Charles and his Royalists, or Cavaliers, expensively mounted on horseback and wearing their hair long and owing; infantrymen – traditionally drawn from the lower classes – were slower to heed the King’s call. Opposing them were the Parliamentarians, or Roundheads, with their closely cropped hair.

Of course the Civil War was far more than a clash between the aristocratic, snappy dressing Cavaliers and plain-garbed Roundheads of popular history. Political and religious stakes were high, whole families were bitterly split, and terror, death and suffering reached every corner of the land. One in five adult males would fight; one in 20 would die. “We are so many frighted people,” one householder wrote. “For my part, if I hear but a door creak I take it for a drum.”

Cromwell wanted his portrait to be a true likeness. Credit: © ACTIVE MUSEUM/Alamy

The Battle of Edgehill in October 1642 and other early encounters proved inconclusive, but broadly speaking the Royalists had the upper hand in the north, west and southwest of the country, with Charles setting up his capital at Oxford; Parliament controlled London, East Anglia and the southeast.

The wreckage and tales of sieges and slightings (punitive demolitions) are told at castles everywhere: three-times besieged Pontefract in West Yorkshire, in ltrated by disguised Royalists pretending to bring in beds for the Parliamentarian garrison; Royalist Donnington in Berkshire that held out for nearly two years; the romantic ruins of Corfe Castle in Dorset where the formidable Lady Mary Bankes took to the battlements with her daughters and maids to fend off local Roundheads.

In the end the tide turned with Scots’ support for the Parliamentarians and the emergence of outstanding Parliamentarian generals like Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell who delivered victories at Marston Moor (1644) and Naseby (1645). It was at Naseby, too, that the Parliamentarians’ highly disciplined New Model Army – known as Ironsides for their iron breastplates – scored its first major success.

Oliver Cromwell: Ruling without royalty

Oliver Cromwell, to this day one of the most controversial and divisive gures in British history, had come into his own during the Civil War. In Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, where he was born in 1599, you can explore his story at The Cromwell Museum (his former grammar school), and also at Oliver Cromwell’s House in Ely where he later lived with his large family.

A minor gentleman landowner and blunt-speaking MP, he could hardly contrast more with Charles I, famously commanding the portrait painter Sir Peter Lely to: “paint my picture truly like me and not atter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything, otherwise I never will pay a farthing for it.”

Cromwell was also a zealous Puritan convinced that the struggle against Charles was not merely political but also necessary in order to establish “godly” government and greater religious freedoms; every battle won seemed to him a sign that God was on the Puritans’ side. Yet as the first chapter of the Civil War now came to an end Cromwell was among those still keen to reach a peaceful compromise with the King.

Charles I was held at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight. Credit: DP Landscapes/Alamy

While Parliament and the army debated what to do next, an unrepentant Charles escaped house arrest at Hampton Court Palace. Recaptured, he was held at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, where he enjoyed considerable comfort and freedom – visitors today can play bowls on the castle bowling green made for his leisure.

But with typical recklessness, Charles ignored a lenient settlement with Parliament and instead secretly promised the Scots he would impose Presbyterianism in England if they would invade on his behalf. Scottish supporters duly did but were defeated by Cromwell at Preston in 1648.

Parliament’s mood now hardened against Charles amid fears that he would never compromise and always be the focus for unrest. Pride’s Purge in December 1648 – essentially a military coup led by Colonel Thomas Pride – prevented moderate MPs from entering the Commons to vote on the way ahead.

Dissenting voices over the legality of bringing a monarch to trial were later shouted down by Cromwell: “I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it!” The scene was set for the unthinkable; the path opening towards the unknown.

READ MORE: Our Chief of Men: Oliver Cromwell

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source https://coragemonik.wordpress.com/2019/09/16/oliver-cromwell-and-the-english-civil-war-part-one/

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Intel AI "Ziva" from Loop on Vimeo.

For “AI on Intel” we told five real stories of Intel’s technology in action - from stopping poaching in Africa, to powering world’s first face-controlled wheelchair, in each film we utilized our key strengths by combining tech-inspired CG with cinematic live-action.

Production Company & VFX: Aggressive/Loop Directors: Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro Creative Directors: Max Chelyadnikov, Alex Mikhaylov Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov Producer: Alex Aab Editor: Erik Auli DP: Eli Born Production Designer: Geoff Flint Stylist: Trudy Nelsen Casting: Mary Ruth Casting Location Scout: Alan Vasquez Production Manager: Joshua Jaedicke CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Post Producers: Won Cha, Robert Berman 3D Artists: Dmitriy Paukov, Dmitry Kulikov, Igor Kozitsin, Danil Krivoruchko, Artemy Perevertin, Filipp Gorbachev, Vitaliy Babich, Roman Senko, Daniil Rybkin, Evgenia Zhukova, Nikolay Lvov, E.D.Satan, Max Chelyadnikov 2D Artists: Denis Khramov, Vladimir Tomin Additional Editing: Javi Devitt, Won Cha Compositing: Max Chelyadnikov, Dmitry Kulikov, Javi Devitt Storyboard Artist: Mercer Boffey Colorist: Dominik Deras Music: Smider Music

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Intel AI from Loop on Vimeo.

For “AI on Intel” we told five real stories of Intel’s technology in action - from stopping poaching in Africa, to powering world’s first face-controlled wheelchair, in each film we utilized our key strengths by combining tech-inspired CG with cinematic live-action.

Production Company & VFX: Aggressive/Loop Directors: Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro Creative Directors: Max Chelyadnikov, Alex Mikhaylov Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov Producer: Alex Aab Editor: Erik Auli DP: Eli Born Production Designer: Geoff Flint Stylist: Trudy Nelsen Casting: Mary Ruth Casting Location Scout: Alan Vasquez Production Manager: Joshua Jaedicke CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Post Producers: Won Cha, Robert Berman 3D Artists: Dmitriy Paukov, Dmitry Kulikov, Igor Kozitsin, Danil Krivoruchko, Artemy Perevertin, Filipp Gorbachev, Vitaliy Babich, Roman Senko, Daniil Rybkin, Evgenia Zhukova, Nikolay Lvov, E.D.Satan, Max Chelyadnikov 2D Artists: Denis Khramov, Vladimir Tomin Additional Editing: Javi Devitt, Won Cha Compositing: Max Chelyadnikov, Dmitry Kulikov, Javi Devitt Storyboard Artist: Mercer Boffey Colorist: Dominik Deras Music: Smider Music

[karoltabis]

For “AI on Intel” we told five real stories of Intel’s technology in action - from stopping poaching in Africa, to powering world’s first face-controlled wheelchair, in each film we utilized our key strengths by combining tech-inspired CG with cinematic live-action. Production Company & VFX: Aggressive/Loop Directors: Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro Creative Directors: Max Chelyadnikov, Alex Mikhaylov Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov Producer: Alex Aab Editor: Erik Auli DP: Eli Born Production Designer: Geoff Flint Stylist: Trudy Nelsen Casting: Mary Ruth Casting Location Scout: Alan Vasquez Production Manager: Joshua Jaedicke CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Post Producers: Won Cha, Robert Berman 3D Artists: Dmitriy Paukov, Dmitry Kulikov, Igor Kozitsin, Danil Krivoruchko, Artemy Perevertin, Filipp Gorbachev, Vitaliy Babich, Roman Senko, Daniil Rybkin, Evgenia Zhukova, Nikolay Lvov, E.D.Satan, Max Chelyadnikov 2D Artists: Denis Khramov, Vladimir Tomin Additional Editing: Javi Devitt, Won Cha Compositing: Max Chelyadnikov, Dmitry Kulikov, Javi Devitt Storyboard Artist: Mercer Boffey Colorist: Dominik Deras Music: Smider Music

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Tom Ultican: How Betsy DeVos’s Ideology Damaged the Schools of Michigan and Destroyed the Schools of Detroit

Tom Ultican posted this research about the damage wrought by the Destroy Public Education movement on Michigan and Detroit last March. I missed it. It is still painfully current.

What is the DeVos agenda? It is an aggressive version of Christian evangelism that opposes public schools.

He writes:

The destroy public education (DPE) movement’s most egregious outcome may be in Detroit and it is being driven by a virulent Christian ideology.

In 2001, Dick and Betsy DeVos answered questions for the Gathering. Dick DeVos opined that church has retreated from its central role in communities and has been replaced by the public school. He said it is our hope “churches will get more and more active and engaged in education.” Betsy noted “half of our giving is towards education.”

Jay Michaelson writing for the Daily Beast described the Gathering:

“The Gathering is a hub of Christian Right organizing, and the people in attendance have led the campaigns to privatize public schools, redefine “religious liberty” (as in the Hobby Lobby case), fight same-sex marriage, fight evolution, and, well, you know the rest.”

“The Gathering is an annual event at which many of the wealthiest conservative to hard-right evangelical philanthropists in America—representatives of the families DeVos, Coors, Prince, Green, Maclellan, Ahmanson, Friess, plus top leaders of the National Christian Foundation—meet with evangelical innovators with fresh ideas on how to evangelize the globe. The Gathering promotes “family values” agenda: opposition to gay rights and reproductive rights, for example, and also a global vision that involves the eventual eradication of all competing belief systems that might compete with The Gathering’s hard-right version of Christianity.”

In the Gathering interview, Betsy talks about how she and Dick both come from business oriented families. From their experience, they understand how competition and choice are key drivers to improve any enterprise. She says public education needs choice and competition instead of forcing people into government run schools.

She was also asked how she felt about home schooling? She replied, “we like home schools a lot,” and humorously shared, “not sure our daughters do, they were homeschooled for three years.” Then Dick added how impressed he was with Bill Bennet’s new project, K-12. He said it wasn’t a Christian oriented on-line curriculum but it was a complete education program that could help homeschoolers.

By the 1990’s Dick and Betsy DeVos were successfully influencing Michigan education policies and using private giving to drive their agenda. Christina Rizga wrote about the DeVos’s philanthropy for Mother Jones.

“… [T]here’s the DeVoses’ long support of vouchers for private, religious schools; conservative Christian groups like the Foundation for Traditional Values, which has pushed to soften the separation of church and state; and organizations like Michigan’s Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which has championed the privatization of the education system.”

As the new century opened, the DeVos agenda was being ever more adopted in Lancing. If improving the education of children in Michigan was the goal, then the DeVos education agenda has proved to be a clear failure. On the other hand, if destroying public education to accommodate privatized Christian schools was the goal, they are still on track.

Betsy and Dick DeVos got a referendum on the ballot in Michigan in 2000, aiming to revise the state constitution to allow for vouchers, so students could use public funds to attend religious schools. Their constitutional amendment was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. So, the DeVoses turned to charter schools as their means to promote choice.

From 2000 to 2015, Michigan’s scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress fell from 14th in the nation to 43rd.

Ultican describes what happened to Detroit. First, the state wiped out the elected board and established mayoral control. Then the state restored an elected board. Meanwhile the district’s debt kept rising as its enrollment was plummeting. Detroit was flooded with charter schools, most of which operated for profit. The district was left with “stranded costs” as students transferred from public to charter schools.

He writes: The extra-costs associated with privatizing DPS were all born by the public schools.

As charters continued to open and enrollment continued to fall, the state stepped in again:

Not acknowledging their own role in creating the financial crisis in Detroit, the state government again pushed the elected school board aside in 2009. Education policy was theoretically left under the purview of the school board but financial management would be the responsibility of a governor appointed emergency manager. This time it was a Democratic Governor, Jenifer Granholm who selected a graduate of the unaccredited Broad superintendents’ academy class of 2005, Robert Bobb, to be the manager.

Not only did Granholm select a Broad academy graduate, but Eli Broad paid part of his $280,000 salary. Sharon Higgins, who studies the Broad academy, reports that a civil rights group and a coalition of teachers who oppose charter schools questioned “whether Bobb was in conflict of interest for accepting $89,000 of his salary from a foundation that supports private and charter schools.”

Bobb made significant cuts to DPS. He closed many schools and eliminated 25% of the districts employees. He also sold several school buildings. The Detroit News reported in March 2010, “Instead of a $17 million surplus Bobb projected for this fiscal year, spending has increased so much Bobb is projecting a $98 million deficit for the budget year that ends June 30.”

Bobb blamed unforeseeable costs related to declining enrollment. Curt Guyette at the Metro-Times relates that many people blamed spending on high priced consultants and contracts. Guyette provided this example:

“Of particular note was Barbara Byrd-Bennett, hired by Bobb on a nine-month contract to be the district’s chief academic and accountability auditor. She received a salary of nearly $18,000 a month plus an armed personal driver. In addition, Byrd, a former chief executive officer of Cleveland’s public schools system, ‘brought with her at least six consultants who are collectively being paid more than $700,000 for about nine months of work,’ according to a 2009 Detroit Free Press article.”

In 2011, Republican Governor Rich Snyder ushered through two laws that had a negative effect on DPS. The first law, Public Act 4, gave the emergency manager total control and removed all powers from the elected school board. The second law, Public Act 436, created a state school district called the Education Achievement Authority (EAA) which took effect in 2013.

The EAA’s first task was to take over 15 of Detroit’s lowest performing schools. This immediately removed another 11,000 students from DPS and further stressed its finances.

Counting Robert Bobb there were five emergency managers at DPS between 2009 and 2016. Mercedes Schneider reports that “The most recent Detroit Public Schools emergency manager, Darnell Earley, is chiefly responsible for water contamination in Flint, Michigan.”

By 2016, the schools of DPS were in such a disgraceful condition that the New York Times called them “crumbling” and “destitute.” The Times’ article included this quote: ‘“We have rodents out in the middle of the day,’ said Ms. Aaron, a teacher of 18 years. ‘Like they’re coming to class.”’

July 1, 2017 the EAA returned the fifteen schools to DPS and the Michigan legislature finally acted to mitigate the debt crisis created in Holland and Lancing not Detroit. Also on July 1, 2017 Nikolai Vitti the new superintendent of DPS took on the challenge or rehabilitating the public schools of Detroit.

Robert Bobb was handsomely paid. So was John Covington. So was Barbara Byrd-Bennett (who is now in prison, after being found guilty of taking kickbacks while CEO of the Chicago public schools). The leaders made lots of money.

The charters were a disaster. The Educational Achievement Authority was an even bigger disaster, consuming high administrative costs and producing nothing for the children of Detroit.

Ultican identifies one of the villains in this chain of events that harmed the children and the public schools of Detroit: the Skillman Foundation of Detroit. With “the best of intentions,” this local foundation has supported every raid on the city, its children, and its public schools. It continues to support the Destroy Public Education Movement despite its repeated disasters and its failed experiments on children.

Source: https://dianeravitch.net/2018/11/18/tom-ultican-how-betsy-devoss-ideology-damaged-the-schools-of-michigan-and-destroyed-the-schools-of-detroit/

[krystalstuff]

BGE HOME "By The Numbers" Dir. Cut from Aggressive on Vimeo.

For BGE HOME, we shot a 12 spot campaign mixing type design with cinematic visuals to establish a firm connection between the “on the ground” BGE HOME technicians and BGE HOME’s superior numbers.

Credits: Client : BGE HOME Directed by: Aggressive Creative Directors: Alex Topaller, Dan Shapiro Producer: Robert Berman DP: Eli Born Editor: Adam Thomson Production Designer: Kin Ellentuck VFX Director: Federico Gonzalez Designers: Mariano Pagella, Federico Gonzalez Montoya, Michal Sawtyruk, Alex Mikhaylov, Josh Hayward Compositing & 3D: Xevi Polo, Jordi Rubinat, Carlos Navarro Tracking: Xevi Polo Rotoscoping: Hector Diez Production Manager: Dustin Pownall Color Grade: Mike Howell Sound Design: Wesley Slover

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Wiebe: My alternate 2018 MLS Best XI selections

USA Today Sports Images

November 14, 20184:19PM EST

Back in April, I gave you the All-Underrated Best XI, aka the “Dom Badji All-Stars”. In the wake of the release of the official MLS Best XI – yes, we all have takes – here’s another crop of Best XIs from 2018.

Before you get all bent out of shape, I reserve the right to run out whatever formation fits my own machinations, so long as there is at least one goalkeeper and three defenders. Rules are rules, right?

The following XIs hit the cutting room floor: All-Coaches, All-DP, All-TAM and All-Old Man (33 or older). Feel free to give yours in the comment section or invent your own XI. You make the rules!

Also, shout out to the group chat, aptly named “More 🌎 Less Kansas,” for their sometime valuable and sometimes worthless assistance putting these together.

Good seasons on bad teams XI

This one is pretty self-explanatory. I’m defining “bad teams” as any that failed to make the playoffs. I’m also excluding anyone who made the 2018 Best XI (e.g. Ignacio Piatti and Zlatan Ibrahimovic) or who won an MLS MVP award in the past (e.g. Giovinco). Let’s spread that spotlight around a bit.

GK: Evan Bush (Montreal Impact)

RB: Nick Lima (San Jose Earthquakes) CB: Rod Fanni (Montreal) LB: Edgar Castillo (Colorado Rapids)/DaMarcus Beasley (Houston Dynamo)*

*I make the rules, and El Homie and Run DMB are sharing the honors.

DM: Samuel Piette (Montreal) CM: Saphir Taider (Montreal) CM: Yoshi Yotun (Orlando City) CAM: Jonathan Osorio (Toronto FC) ATT: Romain Alessandrini (LA Galaxy) ATT: Darwin Quintero (Minnesota United) FWD: Mauro Manotas (Houston)

All-American XI

Seattle’s Chad Marshall in action. | USA Today Images

Where are all my American attackers? This feels like a problem.

GK: Luis Robles (New York Red Bulls)

RB: Graham Zusi (Sporting KC)* CB: Aaron Long (RBNY) CB: Chad Marshall (Seattle Sounders) LB: Edgar Castillo (Colorado)**

*This team needs attacking help, so Zusi gets the nod over Reggie Cannon.

**Forced to pick between Beasley and Castillo this year, I’ll take Castillo.

DM: Tyler Adams (RBNY) CM: Alejandro Bedoya (Philadelphia Union) CM: Russell Canouse (D.C. United) RW: Cristian Roldan (Seattle) LW: Fafa Picault (Philadelphia) FWD: Gyasi Zardes (Columbus Crew SC)

All-Concacaf (including Canada) XI

GK: Andre Blake (Philadelphia) LB: Kemar Lawrence (RBNY) CB: Kendall Waston (Vancouver Whitecaps FC) CB: Francisco Calvo (Minnesota) RB: Michael Murillo (RBNY) DM: Osvaldo Alonso (Seattle Sounders) CM: Roger Espinoza (SKC) CM: Carlos Vela (LAFC) ATT: Alphonso Davies (Vancouver) ATT: Alberth Elis (Houston) FWD: Cory Burke (Philadelphia)

All-CONMEBOL XI

Atlanta duo Martinez and Almiron lead the CONMEBOL XI | USA Today Images

You try to pick from the attacking talent. It’s close to impossible. We are #blessed to have such an incredible South American contingent in our league.

GK: N/A*

*OK, so I broke one of my rules. There isn’t a CONMEBOL ‘keeper in MLS right now, and we’ve got a glut of attacking talent … which means I’m shamelessly adding another attacker. Who needs a goalkeeper with this squad?

RB: Franco Escobar (Atlanta United) CB: Leandro Gonzalez Pirez (Atlanta) LB: Milton Valenzuela (Columbus)

DM: Diego Chara (Portland Timbers) CM: Artur (Columbus) CM: Nicolas Lodeiro (Seattle) CAM: Luciano Acosta (D.C.)

ATT: Sebastian Blanco (Portland) ATT: Ignacio Piatti (Montreal) ATT: Miguel Almiron (Atlanta) FWD: Josef Martinez (Atlanta)

All-UEFA XI

GK: Stefan Frei (Seattle)*

*Frei is a US citizen and eligible for the USMNT, but he was born in Switzerland. We need the best ‘keeper we can get for this squad, so in he goes.

LB: Ashley Cole (LA) CB: Reto Ziegler (FC Dallas) RB: Kelvin Leerdam (Seattle)

DM: Bastian Schweinsteiger (Chicago Fire) CM: Julian Gressel (Atlanta) CM: Alexander Ring (NYCFC) CAM: Borek Dockal (Philadelphia) FWD: Wayne Rooney (D.C.) FWD: Bradley Wright-Phillips (RBNY) FWD: Zlatan (LA)

All-Homegrown XI

Hamid returned to D.C. midseason and helped the team’s second-half revival. | USA Today Images

GK: Bill Hamid (D.C.)

RB: Reggie Cannon (Dallas) CB: Auston Trusty (Philadelphia) CB: Mark McKenzie (Philadelphia) LB: Aaron Herrera (Real Salt Lake)

DM: Wil Trapp (Columbus) CM: Tyler Adams (RBNY) ATT: Alphonso Davies (VAN) ATT: Corey Baird (RSL) ATT: Daniel Salloi (SKC) FWD: Gyasi Zardes (Columbus)

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Wiebe: My alternate 2018 MLS Best XI selections was originally published on 365 Football

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Kiehl's "Youth Dose" from Loop on Vimeo.

Directed by: Aggressive Production / VFX: Aggressive / Loop Creative Directors: Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro Executive Producer: Robert Berman DP: Eli Born Editor: Adam Thomson Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov Design: Alex MIkhaylov, Alex Gorin 2D Artist: Alex Gorin, Alexey Shchipachev, Yuriy Adam 3D Artists: Max Chelyadnikov, Roman Senko, E.D.Satan Compositing: Alex Gorin, Max Chelyadnikov, Roman Senko Colorist: Jaime O’Bradovich Storyboard Artist: Mercer Boffey Music & Sound Design: Wesley Slover

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SOPHIE — It's Okay To Cry (Official Video) SOPHIE - It’s Okay To Cry Spotify: https://ift.tt/2gPpnXP Apple Music: https://ift.tt/2yRlUih iTunes: https://ift.tt/2gPppyV Amazon: https://ift.tt/2yRlVTn Directed by SOPHIE Co Directed by Nicholas Harwood Production Co: Ways & Means Executive Producers: Lana Kim & Jett Steiger Producer: Noah Thomason Production Supervisor: Jon Lee, Irvin K. Liu 1st AD: Kenny Taylor DPs: Eli Born, Stefan Weiberger 1st AC: Matt Sanderson 2nd AC: Jonathan Dec DIT: Shawn Aguilar Gaffer: Will Elder Best Boy Electric: Harrison Hudson Electric: Theo Thompson Electric Driver: Michael Sullivan Dimmerboard Op: Arjun Prakash Key Grip: Marlow Nunez Best Boy Grip: Jake Goose HMU: Cristina Waltz HMU Asst: Gabriela Quiñonez FX Specialist: David Therrien Choreographer: Todd McQuade VTR: Rob Nowik Playback: Ethan Molomut Editor: Niles Howard Colorist: Arianna Shining Star Beauty: Flawless FX Visual Effects: Coyote Post Additional VFX: Stephen Pagano PAs: James Joyner, Carley Solether, Alice Wang, Alexander Powell, Davis Villa I don't mean to reproach you by saying this I know that scares you All of the big occasions you might have missed No, I accept you And I don't even need to know your reasons It's okay I think you sometimes you forget I would know you best I hope you don't take this the wrong way But I think your inside is your best side I, was that a teardrop in your eye? I never thought I'd see you cry Just know whatever hurts, it's all mine It's okay to cry, it's okay to cry I can see the truth through all the lies, And even after all this time, Just know you've got nothing to hide, It's okay to cry, it's okay okay to cry I remember one time you were lost, I came to find you, And I knocked on your front door, That was you I'd never seen before, And I saw the magazine you were reading, And I read the page, And if I had just one single wish, Wish I could have said this, It's okay to cry. I, was that a teardrop in your eye? I never thought I'd see you cry Just know whatever hurts, it's all mine It's okay to cry, it's okay to cry There's a world inside you, I wanna know what it feels like, I wanna go there with you, Cos we've all got a dark place, Maybe if we shine some light there It won't be so hard I want to know those parts of you. I, was that a teardrop in your eye? I never thought I'd see you cry Just know whatever hurts, it's all mine It's okay to cry, it's okay to cry I can see the truth through all the lies, And even after all this time, Whatever it is just know it's alright, It's okay to cry, it's okay okay to cry It's okay to cry, it's okay to cry Follow SOPHIE: Website: http://msmsmsm.com/ Facebook: https://ift.tt/2gPpq5X Instagram: https://ift.tt/2yRl05K Spotify: https://ift.tt/2gPpVgl Twitter: https://ift.tt/2yRlXdX Soundcloud: https://ift.tt/2gPpWRr https://youtu.be/m_S0qCeA-pc

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Intel AI from Loop on Vimeo.

For “AI on Intel” we told five real stories of Intel’s technology in action - from stopping poaching in Africa, to powering world’s first face-controlled wheelchair, in each film we utilized our key strengths by combining tech-inspired CG with cinematic live-action.

Production Company & VFX: Aggressive/Loop Directors: Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro Creative Directors: Max Chelyadnikov, Alex Mikhaylov Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov Producer: Alex Aab Editor: Erik Auli DP: Eli Born Production Designer: Geoff Flint Stylist: Trudy Nelsen Casting: Mary Ruth Casting Location Scout: Alan Vasquez Production Manager: Joshua Jaedicke CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Post Producers: Won Cha, Robert Berman 3D Artists: Dmitriy Paukov, Dmitry Kulikov, Igor Kozitsin, Danil Krivoruchko, Artemy Perevertin, Filipp Gorbachev, Vitaliy Babich, Roman Senko, Daniil Rybkin, Evgenia Zhukova, Nikolay Lvov, E.D.Satan, Max Chelyadnikov 2D Artists: Denis Khramov, Vladimir Tomin Additional Editing: Javi Devitt, Won Cha Compositing: Max Chelyadnikov, Dmitry Kulikov, Javi Devitt Storyboard Artist: Mercer Boffey Colorist: Dominik Deras Music: Smider Music