If you love Bill Simmons “The Sports Guy,” you’re going to enjoy his new site Grantland. A collection of entertaining literary pieces about pop culture and sports.
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Rapportive
Rapportive allows you to be less creepy by automatically retrieving info about someone based on their email address. View LinkedIn and Twitter updates inline with your email conversation. After a quick install it becomes built into your Gmail! Plus the Rapportive sidebar replaces the annoying ad display. Retail $FREE
Conan premieres on TBS – November 8th
127 Hours Movie
Director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and actor James Franco team up to create a movie about Aron Ralston’s life changing event. You may remember him as the rock climber that cut off his arm after it was trapped under a boulder back in 2003. If you think Bear Grylls does some nasty stuff to survive get ready for another level of visual stimulation. In theaters November 4, 2010. The full HD trailer can be viewed here.
“Decision Points” by GWB
If you watched Oliver Stone’s “W” with Josh Brolin portraying George W. Bush, than you know GW’s background. A Yale Bonesman, Harvard MBA, Texas Rangers owner, and US President. Yet the internet and media made him look so stupid sometimes you actually felt bad for the most powerful man in the nation. The fact is he’s intriguing and charismatic in his own ways. Who wouldn’t want to pick his brain a little over a round of golf or beers? “Decision Points” is his memoirs recounting his days in office (video preview by GWB here). Retail $35 (purchase the hardcover and Kindle editions through Amazon for $18.90 and $9.99 respectively)
Chase Jarvis
Do any research about DSLR filming techniques on Vimeo, you’ll come across Philip Bloom‘s work. He’s the guru behind this clip shot with a prototype Canon 7D. Meet Chase Jarvis, a photographer Philip Bloom labels a “very talented photographer.” Check out Chase’s original film above, shot on the new Nikon D7000. Straight beast.
“Storytelling, creative innovation, and visual voodoo—no matter the medium—make my heart go thump thump; and sharing all this online with the world, plus as much of my professional experience as I can muster, makes my soul sing. I’m fond of crows, and love that they’ll fly toward anything shiny. I feel like a crow on most days.”
Melali: The Drifter Sessions w/ Rob Machado
Stylistic and ultra chill surf legend Rob Machado presents his new film “Melali.” All the filming takes place around three Indonesian islands. Check out Rob’s board, The Gravy, that we featured back in March 2010.
“Melali returns to the fundamentals of surf cinematography by focusing on the surfing experience, the artful relationship between man and surf, and the sharing of this experience with good friends.”
Mr. Nice Movie Trailer
If you’re a fan of Layer Cake, you might be interested in the upcoming biopic film “Mr. Nice” starring Rhys Ifans as the legendary Howard Marks.
“Marks began to deal during a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford and was soon moving large quantities of hashish into Europe and America in the equipment of touring rock bands. The academic life began to lose its allure.
At the height of his career, he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as the CIA, MI6, the IRA, and the Mafia.”
