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I want to see what she looks like close up!

Perhaps this will shed some light on the subject:

"We posted the cut-from-real-life short drama Cicada a fortnight ago, and now we have the teaser trailer for Amiel Courtin-Wilson's feature follow up, simply titled Hail.

Hail is the evolved beast-cousin of Cicada, and is another docu-drama based on the real life stories of actor and ex-con Daniel P. Jones. The Hollywood Reporter describes it much better than I could:

Daniel P. Jones is an artistically inclined ex-convict playing a lightly fictionalized version of himself in Aussie auteur Amiel Courtin-Wilson's out-there docu-drama. Dissonant and brutal, but also unexpectedly tender, Hail melds coarse reality, extreme close-ups, nightmarish montages - including one featuring a dead horse falling from the sky - and a soundtrack that's alternately jarring and lovely.

Hail was the first Australian dramatic feature in nearly a decade to screen at the Venice International Film Festival and today we have word that the film has also been selected for Rotterdam, which starts later this month.

Now to that dead horse. As you can see in the teaser trailer below, the film features a sequence with a horse being dropped from a plane and falling slowly towards earth. It's pure madness, and 100% real. And I'm hoping makes sense in the final film. Tarsem eat your heart out!"
http://twitchfilm.com/news/2012/01/horses-rain-from-the-heavens-in-hail.php

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In reply to this comment by Zonbie:
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>> ^nomino:

I didn't hear any swearing. Why is there a NSFW tag?


Effing heck.. I swear this wasn't bleeped when I first saw it..

Nice. I've noticed a belly motif in your avatar selection, following vaginas, balls, boobs, dicks and butts. What's with the body close ups?

>> ^Fantomas:

How much of a weirdo am I for knowing it was a lawn aerator as soon as they showed it in close-up?


Not much. My parents have always done a bit of gardening so I recognized it, and knew what it was for, once I got a decent look at it. Had no idea what it was called, though.

How much of a weirdo am I for knowing it was a lawn aerator as soon as they showed it in close-up?

Over the last 4 years I have seen store front after store front close up. Every month another store closes. The car lots carry less and less stock. This Country is winding down, not up.
There may have been pockets of growth such as solar and car industry. But for the rest of us things are worse. There are less jobs and the dollar buys less. Even after trying to buy his way out of this mess by borrowing Trillions and spending Trillions more. We are worse off.


This is Failed leadership.

Strange, I wonder why I literally never heard or saw any of this when I was a kid. I had no idea back then that there were penmanship awards!

Anyway, when I looked it up it looked like it happened from grenade 1-8, at least in the United States. As to the girl in the video she is amazing; there are some Google images of her with what she wrote, but all the ones I found were so blurry you couldn't make anything out (or I would've posted/linked it). It also looked like at least one other kid (a boy) without hands had won before too!

I was, and I still am extremely good at penmanship. It makes me wonder why I never was involved in it. I'm actually a fairly good artist and I won awards as a kid, it's literally my artistry that gives me my great penmanship, as they walk hand-in-hand!

Although, I'll be the first to admit that I can't do Caligraphy or Spencerian types of writing at all--perhaps Caligraphy if I spent time on it, but that won't happen. My manuscript has literally been compared to, "...a printed copy!", so I was proud of my artistry when I used it the most. I could easily draw a realistic human hand, for an example. Enough of my glory hogging!

That girl is amazing, I REALLY wanted to see the range of expression she was able to commit to paper without two hands. She won so it must look amazing for a girl of her age, which makes me want to see it EVEN more! Damn them! How can you not show THAT are you an idiot journalist!?

If someone finds a gallery link or another video make sure to throw it up in here. I'm going to see if I can find a gallery, if I do I'll edit and tag it on to the end...

Edit-As you can see it was far more than one page for the first grader it was a packet, this is as close up basically as you can get to that image, so here it is (oh well, you can't see the thumb, but it goes to the picture correctly--I did flip the picture so you could read it far easier, plus a few other picture tricks, like making it bigger, sharper,etc...):


<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/kceaton2/th_annieclark-nohand-penmanship.jpg" border="0" alt="Annie Clark - Penmenship Award (First Grader; with/no hands), Annie Clark, with no hands, has won the hearts and minds of people as she won her Penmanship Award!" >

Melbourne, Australia.
Grew up here, lived for a year and a half in England (Horsham and Aldershot) while I was 6/7
Came back here, was teased for my then British accent
Have been here ever since, with a brief period where everything was packed up and moved to California to work, but then work closed up shop, so came back to Australia without ever unpacking the shipping containers of stuff sent over... they just got put on another boat and sent back.

Fun times.

What's with that weird mouth close-up?

Great post, though. Dammit I wish we could get this show in the U.S. We get crap like "Mysteries of the Bible" on the goddamn Science Channel.

Need a nice close up of his face to immortalize this.

It's not impossible to miss but really, he shouldn't have.

What made him miss was pressure or lack of awareness of where exactly he was standing. He tapped the ball with his foot curved to face the post he hits when he should of tapped it with his foot parallel to the goal line. With a clearer focus, he could of stopped it flat with his left foot and then nudged it in, plenty of (relative) time or even just used his left foot, the angle would have been far more open for error.

This was more an error in skill than any spin on the ball.

>> ^VoodooV:

from the wide shot, yeah, it seems impossible to miss. But when they go in for the close up, you can see how the ball had a backspin to it or something when it was being passed (someone more experienced in football can explain it better than I can).
rotational physics is a bitch, yo!