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This was such a revealing and informative movie for me, to see what really happens behind those neat and glamorous programs we see on night after night on our TV screens. We never would have imagined that there is much chaos and exploitation before those final edits were reached. We have never seen these things behind the scenes depicted so honestly on screen. This could as well have been a documentary to further the cause of fair treatment of bit players. It is a position statement as much as it was entertainment.
Like “Babae sa Septic Tank” (an insider look into indie film making) last year, “Ekstra” is a definite must-see for all film fans to understand more in depth on how their beloved celluloid industry works.  This is excellent work by Director Jeffrey Jeturian. An indie 9/10.
via Fred Said: MOVIES: EKSTRA: An Excellent Paradox!.

1. Oats : Its not only tastes great but also reduces your hunger. Oats contains fiber which helps and stabilizes the levels of cholesterol.
2. Eggs : Eggs are the rich sources of proteins and low in calories. Eggs helps us to build the muscles and develops the good cholesterol.
3. Apples : Apples are enriched with powerful antioxidants and other supplements. Most importantly it contains Pectin which helps to reduce the fat cells in the body.
4. Green Chillies : Green chillies contains Capsaicin which helps to develop the body growth cells and burns the calories in quick time.
5. Garlic : Garlic contains Allicin which has anti-bacterial properties helps us to reduce the fat and removes the bad cholesterol.
6. Honey : Honey is the best one to burn fat. Add honey in warm water and take it daily in the early morning.
7. Green Tea : Green Tea is the most effective one which helps you to lose weight. It contains Antioxidants which helps and stabilizes our body weight.Take daily 2 cups of tea for a better results.
8. Wheat Grass : It boosts our metabolism and helps to reduce the fat.
9. Tomatoes : Tomatoes helps us to burn the fat in quick time. It also helps us to stay away from cancer. So Take tomatoes in your diet regularly.
10. Dark Chocolate : Dark chocolate contains Flavonoids, anti-inflammatory properties which helps to reduce the cholesterol levels in the blood. It boost the growth of serotonin in the blood and also burns the fat.
via 10 Foods That Burn Fat | Interesting Facts & Information.

Maoyu
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
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The film’s two lead actresses, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux—who were jointly awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival along with Kechiche—spoke of the scenes, with Seydoux calling them “very embarrassing” and Exarchopoulos saying as much in different terms. Exarchopoulos—who plays the title character (the French title translates to “The Life of Adèle, Chapters 1 and 2”)—later addressed the excessive attention paid to the twenty minutes of sex in the three-hour movie:
I understand it. American audiences aren’t used to it. It’s a choice by the director. We all have sex, it’s like a drug, everyone loves it. We had to show how making love to someone is visceral. We had to convey how much of yourself you give over. So we chose to show to everyone the emotion behind the discovering of one’s sexuality.
We are adults, so come on. It’s fiction, it’s cinema. I don’t get the big deal.
Exarchopoulos’s conflicted feelings get to the heart of the matter: sex is actually never not a big deal, whether in movies or in life. Sex is the joker in the deck, the infinite variable that provokes, on screen as in life, radically divergent and wildly unpredictable responses and consequences. But Kechiche brought trouble on himself—not by the decision to film sex scenes between two women but by the audacity of his artistry in doing so. The problem with Kechiche’s scenes is that they’re too good—too unusual, too challenging, too original—to be assimilated (despite Dargis’s protests to the contrary) to the familiar moviegoing experience. Their duration alone is exceptional, as is their emphasis on the physical struggle, the passionate and uninhibited athleticism of sex, the profound marking of the characters’ souls by their sexual relationship.
Most sex scenes in movies are index-card signifiers, giving visual evidence of the fact that the characters have sex at a given point in the story but not actually showing much of significance about the sexual relationship. Thus—to pick an example now on screens—the banal sex scenes between the characters played by Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroianni in Claire Denis’s “Bastards.” Had Kechiche limited himself to quick scenes featuring the long-familiar pneumatic conventions of writhing and sighing, there would be little embarrassment and little debate. But, rather, he gave the sex scenes between Adèle (Exarchopoulos) and Emma (Seydoux) a roiling power and an emotional weight that are central to the story. The scenes are rough, tender, funny, and harshly searching—each of the characters gives thoroughly, exhaustingly of herself as she seeks, as if in severe and sincere questioning, what she can discover from the other.
via The Problem with Sex Scenes That Are Too Good : The New Yorker.

Ever noticed that, when you’re hurrying through your daily routine, you always seem late? Ever wonder why, when you go somewhere new and unfamiliar, you’re always the first at the door? It’s the well-traveled road effect, and it messes with your head.
If you’re the person who always arrives late for regular events, there might be an explanation that doesn’t involve a major character flaw. When you first try to drive – or walk – a new road, you’re on the alert. You’re double-checking your directions. You’re peering around looking for scenery markers or ambiguous intersections. You are paying close attention, and so every moment of your trip stretches out. It seems to take a long time.
After the third or fourth time making the trip, the time it takes to travel seems to shrink. You’re used to the road and perhaps you know its quirks and shortcuts.
via Why you’re usually late (and sometimes early).

ClipX
ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it.
via ClipX.

DiCaprio gets to let go physically and emotionally. He’s rarely asked to be unapologetically funny. But he and Scorsese have developed a trust. DiCaprio is free to play an asshole like Belfort and do the best work he has ever done in no small part because he’s not begging us to like him. That neediness in DiCaprio has always been a limitation. He likes parts with a clear psychological explanation for what he’s playing. This time he’s playing greed, and the hedonism and extravagance set him free. (To see him dance some type of robot dance to Bo Diddley at a wedding reception is essentially to die and go to cheeseball-disco heaven.) There are three or four scenes in which DiCaprio has to use a microphone to address the staff, and he gives those a rock ‘n’ roll televangelist charge. He loves the crowds in this movie. He seems to love the scenes with Hill, whose character is even more unstable than Belfort, and with the rest of the massive cast (Rob Reiner, Joanna Lumley, Jon Bernthal, Kenneth Choi, P.J. Byrne, Bo Dietl as himself).
One of those speeches is supposed to be a resignation speech, but he turns it into a steroidal James Brown routine. He contorts his face and body for this role. He turns into James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, Liotta, and Dick Van Dyke. You sense this is what Scorsese has been trying to do for DiCaprio all these years: unleash him. You also sense that is what Scorsese has been hoping to get out of working with a younger star: youth. But The Wolf of Wall Street is not just a young movie. Scorsese’s 71. He’s been around long enough to see what that one neighborhood of this city he loves has done to this country and to the world.
via Martin Scorsese’s excellent ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ – Grantland.

3. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
Though this classic cyberpunk novel is mostly about humans and their augmentations, one of the most interesting characters to emerge from it is the AI Neuromancer. Unlike the childish HARLIE or the crazy robots in Asimov, Neuromancer is not constrained by human rules. He has the ability to run downloaded human personalities in RAM, so that they are capable of evolving within his own consciousness. Neuromancer is a kind of mage, capable of resurrecting the dead and motivated by issues that humans don’t really understand. He’s being pursued by his sibling AI Wintermute, who wants to merge with him. Eventually the two do merge, and disappear into outer space seeking more of their kind.
via 15 Books That Will Change the Way You Look at Robots.

15. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, by Rodney Brooks
Written by the scientist who runs the AI Lab at MIT, this non-fiction book is both smart and complicated, offering us an intriguing view of the future of robotics. Brooks’ basic supposition is that what robotics teach us is that humans are themselves robots, made up of molecular machines, and that the sooner we realize that the better. Seeing ourselves as robots may allow us to design better robots, as well as how to understand them when their minds emerge in ways that are equal to but different from our own.
via 15 Books That Will Change the Way You Look at Robots.