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Transformers: Racism

2009-06-28T00:19:00.007-04:00

Just watched Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen. The effects and story in this sequel was actually quite good. But however there is a big problem I've seen that has carried on from the previous film. Yet again Micheal Bay has introduced his vision of "Black" good guys. Characters using part Patwa accents mixed with urban youth slang.

Twilight: New Moon

2009-06-03T02:10:00.004-04:00

Twilight: New Moon trailer aired during the MTV Movie awards.

Complete and utter garbage. You'd think after the amount of money its made from the first one they would improve in their effects department. Looking at that wolf reminds me of movies such as 10, 000 BC. A REAL movie would be like "Company of Wolves". No CG and the effects are incredibly realistic. I think film makers should go back in time and review the forgotten greats of cinema. Twilight is a shameful award stealer which will continue to haunt Hollywood for the next couple of years.

Twilight

2008-12-09T13:50:00.006-05:00

Film sucked. Its for female teenagers to drool over a fictional character.

Make up work was atrocious. The mother character of Edward in the film had paint that barely extended to the scalp. At first I was like.. oh maybe its sunblock. NOPE! Just shitting ass work by 11 make up artists in the "professional" field of cinema. Apparently the vampires can go in the sun... but OH NO lets not do that.. instead of burning up into flames we might get all shiny and "beautiful" and we defiantly don't want that.

-400 / 10 (minus 400 just because they decided it might be a good idea to do 4 more sequels)

Twilight Hype

2008-08-20T18:15:00.002-04:00

There is this book series that is stirring up such hype and craze and now its got a moving coming out. Its about some girl who falls in love with a vampire. "WOW"...

Chupacabra Mystery Finally Solved

2008-08-13T10:52:00.007-04:00

I was watching the news today and it turns out police caught footage of the Chupacabra which looked exactly the same as what I had thought it would; according to descriptions from witnesses. It also proves the photos of the Chupacabra, as a mammal, real that I've seen floating over the past several years. Its a four legged mammal that sucks blood much like a vampire-bat. Often confused as a coyote the Chupacabra prays mostly on sheep and smaller mammals. The Chupacabra is generally a nocturnal mammal since its mostly seen at night, stalking on farm animals.

The Dark Knight

2008-07-21T15:04:00.004-04:00

Just watched The Dark Knight, staring Christian Bail as Batman, Heath Ledger as The Joker and Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent. I was completely blown away by the gravity of this film. the outstanding performance by Heath Ledger combined with intense action, drama and plenty of twists and surprises to keep you glued to the screen hoping to nature doesn't call.

This is by far one of the best comic book to movie film I have ever seen. The Joker's character was terrifying thanks to Heath Ledger. He created a genuinely creepy and realistic Joker we have yet to see on screen. Jack Nicholson's rendition of the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman filmed in the 1990's was in no doubt good... but however there is no comparison with the level of performance by Heath Ledger.

I can't say too much about the film since its filled with twists and surprises. You defiantly have to check it out for yourself!

10/10

Dark Knight Vehicles

2008-07-18T11:46:00.011-04:00

The Dark Knight is finally out in theaters all over North America. The streets are packed and everyone is crowded the entrances in theaters all over in hopes of good seats. I hope to see the film sometime on opening . Its widely anticipated; but as for myself I really want to see the new rendition of the joker played by Heath Ledger. Just by looking at the trailer, I can tell this is going to be a good film.

I bet a million people are trying to find a torrent for this video. I say... shame on you! I think this is defiantly a theater worthy movie. I've been a fan of the Batman stories since I was quite young. I really enjoyed the Art Deco themed animated series of Batman back in the 1990s. It help keep me involved in story. Tim Burton's renditions of the Batman story to film was really well done. I enjoyed the first two films. The others following were okay but not as good as the first two.

I took some photos on my cell phone of the Dark Knight vehicles when they were in Toronto last week, before they were taken back to California the following day.

Trumbler Exhaust

Trumbler

Bat Pod

If you would like to use these photos for anything, just remember to credit me where you use them. "Photography by Tyrone MacLean-Wilson"

I took a bit of footage with my cell of the bat vehicles in motion.

Indian Jones - The Crystal Skull

2008-07-08T11:32:00.003-04:00

What the fuck....

Watch this film and you'll say what the fuck too.

7/10

This is two movies in one... Indian Jones and some CG-Sci-fi film.

The Happening

2008-07-08T11:29:00.004-04:00

This is one of the strangest films I've seen in a while. It was really creepy and odd. Some parts are hard to watch others will make you just laugh. The horrible acting is actually comical and the decent violence in it is pretty out-standing and realistic. This film paid pretty good homage to Hitchhock. The use of music and the feeling of the in escapable danger that you fear you cannot run away from.

This film was quite strange but alright. I think everyone should give it a chance once it hits DVD's for rentals.

6/10

Luminato Toronto 2008 - Streetscape: Livingspace

2008-06-16T04:17:00.001-04:00

I was quite surprised to see walking through regent, a 21+ Foot sized photo of my own face plastered on the walls of a townhouse complex i once i used to live in so many years ago.

Prom Night (2008)

2008-04-22T17:27:00.010-04:00

This movie was predictable and bad.

Basically the movie is about a teacher that gets obsessed with one of his students so he decides to kill everyone she knows in order to get to her.

One thing about this film that absolutely everyone can agree on is... how incredibly hilarious it is that bodies just fly across rooms out of closets, cupboards and vents without anyone tossing them... as if they were pulled by some rope tied to a truck. For that bit of cheese, I'm giving this movie a 2/10.

Ironically this film did well in box offices. Perhaps screening the film during the time high-school has completely was a good idea!

Golden Compass Over Transformers or Pirates of the Carribean?

2008-02-26T14:43:00.016-05:00

COCA-COLA BEAR COMPASS BEATS THE BEST OF 2007

So I was watching the Oscars last night.... and I was really interested in seeing who would win best visual effects. It was of no surprise that Transformers and Pirates were nominated. Along with those two was the Golden ass. I literally yelled "WHAT!?" when they revealed the winner of best visual effects as being Golden Compass over Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean.

This is completely outrageous! Did they even take a look at the amount of work put into Transformers and Pirates? Not only that... look at the out come. Those two films look incredible; especially Transformers. I was completely blown away by the visual effects in that film. I've already seen the damn coca-cola bear on screen in commercials... not impressed.

Facebook Privacy

2008-02-21T17:46:00.012-05:00

I'm going to be posting a very detailed tutorial on how to protect the privacy of yourself or your children while using the social networking site, Facebook.com.

on Catch da Flava Radio CKLN88.1FM, we discussed an issue about facebook that recently came to our attention up. It came of great surprise when I heard that a young woman in Toronto had applied for a job interview and her employer had looked up information about her, on facebook prior to her the interview.

Few facebook users are aware that facebook offers privacy tools to protect your identity and activities from being shared with billions around the world. At the moment, as a default your profile on facebook is searchable by anyone from anywhere around the world. I suggest that everyone using facebook set their privacy settings to display the ability to view ones profile unless added as a friend or at least in a network related to a friend.

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The Privacy controls is located at the absolute top right of your facebook profile. From there you can control various settings.

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Now that facebook has offered a new tool to monitor your "friends" activities, the privacy is less.

For more information about facebook safety

2007 Mayor’s Community Safety Award!

2007-12-07T01:26:00.000-05:00

After a long tiring year of filming, editing and encoding for the growing popular RPTV (Regent Park TV), produced by youths for youth, we finally did it!. Not to say we didn't get noticed in the past when RPTV first launched. It sure got its share of attention back then with being blogged about by 100's and featured on the cover of the Toronto Star and FUSE Magazine. But today was the day for RPTV, we received the 2007 Mayor’s Community Safety Award!

The award was presented by David Miller the Mayor of Toronto, Deputy Chief Keith Forde, City Councilor Pam McConnell, City TV's Dwight Drummond and Bell Canada, at the Toronto Police Headquarters.

We've been honored for our work on RPTV and the Mayor believes we are helping make Toronto a safer city to live in.
Thank You Mayor!

OH yah! I almost forgot to mention... the Mayor also sat down for a screening of some the latest episodes of RPTV we've been working on!

MANIFESTO: Toronto

2007-09-26T13:07:00.001-04:00

MANIFESTO! Hip Hop History has been made!

MANIFESTO:
A Toronto based event spanning 4 days, containing 8 events featuring over 85 Toronto Hip Hop Artists! This event was jam-packed with workshops, break-dancing, beat boxing and live hip-hop performances from all my favorite Toronto hip-hop artists!

History was made and i was proudly there to witness it. The Sunday night event had all my favorite Toronto Hip-Hop Artists preforming along side with each other for the first time ever in history; preforming a "Live Mixtape".

ARTISTS:
Maestro, Michie Mee, Saukrates, Dream Warriors, Choclair, Dan-e-o, Tara Chase, Brassmunk, Eternia, Daetona, Rochester and Kamau.

The concert was without a doubt the best hip-hop performance I've ever seen or attended and I hope they will bring it back again next year! Craziest part about this jam-packed event was that it was totally free! (Though I'd defiantly pay to see that again.)

I got the the opportunity to have a little talk with Saukrates. I asked him how long it took everyone to put this live mixtape together and he said they pretty much just winged it.

BET - Read A Book

2007-09-05T19:46:00.000-04:00

BET has recently aired a rap song that is supposedly suppose to encourage young people into reading a book, drinking water, watch your kids... etc. But the way the message is delivered, some may consider it to being racist. This video has recently stirred up some controversy, enough so that it even got play on CNN.

Here's a very good quote from a youtuber:

"You know if instead of "Read a book nigga.." he would have said "Smoke a blunt nigga..." no one would have a problem with it.

That is the point of this RAP song.

It is not meant to encourage you to read a book, it is meant for you to OPEN your eyes and see the root of the problem in todays society."

"THIS SONG IS A SOCIAL SATIRE"

I love the fact that CNN made sure that a black male reporter conducted the interview with the creator of this song. I guess it would seem too strange to have a white reporter conduct the interview debating such an issue. CNN pretty much bashed the creator without allowing him to really establish his reason for creating the song. Good old American Media... bahhh.

IGNITE

2007-06-13T03:58:00.000-04:00

IGNITE

the Ignite event took place at the Gladstone Hotel. I arrived at 4:30pm and got home around 3:30am...

Catch Da Flava Radio was uniquely broadcast live straight out of the Gladstone Hotel! This has been the first time ever that we've broadcasted from a location other than Regent Park Focus or Ryerson's CKLN88.1FM station. Was quite the unique and innovative radio show.

There were many performances at the event. There were a couple spoken word artists, like Boonna, who was hilarious! There was also Scotty Hammel who showed us a couple awesome card tricks and how to get out of a straight-jacket. There were dances and singers and just everything amazing all in one night.

Bike Man Goes to Mexico!

2007-05-08T03:37:00.000-04:00

Bike Man Goes to Mexico!
It came of great shock for me to hear that a couple RPTV (Regent Park TV) episodes including the Bike Man series, have been requested to be screened in a location in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. I have very little information about this screening in Mexico. The only other information I've been given is that the people screening the films are in hopes that we'll be visiting them to talk about the films at the screening. However, none of the staff that worked on the RPTV episodes, including myself, will be able to travel overseas to this screening. I still think its pretty amazing that they are interested in the videos I have worked on. Never thought I'd have films I've worked, on go international!

UPDATE!:

Screening Location

Museum of Contemporary Art (MACAY), Merida, Yucatan,
Mexico

Shooting For Change

2007-04-14T20:24:00.000-04:00

Shooting For Change

Its been a while since I've blogged about anything on here but I think today's event is defiantly worth noting. Today was the premiere of a documentary called "Shooting for Change" produced by INSYNC Videos. I went to see this documentary about me and my work, with my co-workers and my girlfriend, Rachelle. The film was absolutely fantastic! The way it was laid out and edited was great. I was worried originally that the film was going to portray me as just a former resident of Regent Park still considered "at risk"; but after watching the film I'm totally happy to be one of the main focuses in it!

The film was called "Shooting for Change" and is expected to be aired on OMNI TV during the Summer of 2007. Following its appearance on OMNI, a DVD of the film will be available for purchase. So if you miss out on seeing it on TV, you still have a chance to see it on DVD!

RPTV on CBC

2007-01-13T02:40:00.000-05:00

RPTV to be aired on CBC

CBC has requested RPTV episodes to be aired on their new Saturday Morning TV program called the Outlet. The Outlet is a short segment on CBC that airs kids related films. I was very excited to hear that CBC was once again interested in films I've helped produce!

CBC has also played one one of our RPTV episodes, in an audio form, on CBC Radio.
the same film can now be found on OCAP's website

Also, check out Bike Man on the Outlet!
Bike Man on the Outlet

Grand Theft Auto: Regent Park

2006-12-11T13:31:00.000-05:00

GRAND THEFT AUTO: REGENT PARK - STIRS INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION

Grand Theft Auto: Regent Park is an RPTV documentary-short produced by youths from Regent Park, Toronto during the summer of 2006.

As one of the editors for this episode of RPTV, I didn't really expect this video to stir up as much controversy as it has online. Ever since its upload to YouTube, it has received 60,000 unique views and that number continues to grow to this day. The video has also been sited on many game related forums. It has received endless criticism due to its controversial topic on violent video games.

This episode of RPTV, can now be seen on the front page of Grand Theft Auto fan websites, many other subsidiary GTA fan sites and also quite a bunch of other popular game sites. I've encountered at least 15 sites that have talked about our documentary:

GTA4.TV , GTA - Sans Andreas.com , GTA - Guide.com , Kotaku.com , Grand Theft Auto News.newslib.com , Digital Youth Research , Wii Gamer.com , Board.ie , Game Politics.com , Gaygamer.net , Gizmodo.com , 1up Start.com , Games Trend Diary.com , Social Study Games.com , Clickable Culture.com , PSP Updates.qj.net