Setting up the Nikon D3400 is pretty straightforward. The first thing you need to do is to charge your battery. When you buy the camera you will receive a battery and a battery charger and although the battery may look like it is fully charged, it is worth just giving […]
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Chaplin Bluray Review
Director Richard Attenborough is the first to admit that his epic biopic Chaplin was a difficult film to finance and consequently the producers made demands upon him which lead it to be not as “profound a picture” as he would have liked. Nethertheless its one massive saving grace is Robert […]
Watch Out for Redundancies
I edit large manuscripts, which means that on a given week, I probably read about one thousand pages. Eight hundred of those pages may be devoted to work, and two hundred are for pleasure. I can’t tell you how often I run across phrases that are redundant. Here are some […]
Hip Hop Beats For Sale – Why It Is Important To Buy Hip Hop Beats
Everybody knows all the big names in music, from Drake to Snoop Dogg, and everyone else in between. We also know that they are making millions of dollars (or at least assume that they are making millions of dollars) off of their music. But does anyone really stop to learn […]
Manmohan Desai (Making The Impossible Possible)
It was on this day 26 February 1937 a child was born in the family to Kalavati and Kikubhai Desai. I pay tribute to this prolific producer and director none other than the genius Manmohan Desai. Let me take this opportunity to share some interesting anecdotes of this legend who […]
The Music Gallery: Can Music Ever Be Valued As Fine Art?
Introduction: The Highest Art Auction in History Recently a Christie’s art sale became the highest auction in history. The sale included works by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others and in total generated $495 million. The sale established 16 new world auction records, with nine works selling […]
Nine Music Artists Named After Attire
Always a painful undertaking, my bi-yearly trip to pay my insurance bill did have a pleasant consequence today. A conversation with my agent about music, prompted by the tee shirt I was wearing, eased the fact that almost three thousand dollars would be deducted from my already meager savings. Since […]
David Lynch
I discovered the art of David Lynch entirely by accident, although I had shown a keen interest in films from a relatively young age, I usually arrived at them by way of the star appearing in them. As a budding actor I wanted to study the best and through watching […]
Why Animated Videos Should Be Professionally Designed
An interesting way to spread education, to explain some key concept or to make abstract theories easy is to explain through a video. One of the most popular ways to do it is to make animated videos. These videos are not only fun to watch but are more engrossing than […]
An Obituary – The Death of Modern Western Pop Music
It is with deep regret that I wish to inform you all of the untimely (but blatantly obvious) death of modern Western pop music. Sadly, ‘Pop’ as it was fondly called was ailing for sometime, and no one seemed to notice when it finally bellied up. ‘Pop music’ was renowned […]