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« on: March 16, 2011, 05:56:24 AM »
oh wow!! It looks great!! I'm impressed :)
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« on: March 16, 2011, 02:15:03 AM »
The islands of Japan are located in an area known as The Ring of Fire in the Pacific. This is an area with many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Japan is very seismically active with over 1,500 earthquakes per year. In 1923 the Great Kanto Earthquake killed more than 143,000 people in the Tokyo area. Tsunamis and volcanic eruptions are other natural destructive forces in Japan. In 1896 in Sanriku, Japan, 27,000 people were killed by a Tsunami caused by an earthquake. but maybe it was HAARP in 1896 as well... :roll:
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« on: March 14, 2011, 01:32:26 PM »
This is Bollywood, this is Bollywood tonight..... :lol: LMAO :lol:
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« on: March 11, 2011, 06:56:39 AM »
sorry if this was posted before.. and sorry if this is the wrong subforum for it... :oops: Michael Jackson, the Snake, the Mouse -- and a Lesson in Drama
Published: March 05, 2011 @ 1:56 pm
By Peter Guber
The following is an excerpt from the just-released book, 'Tell to Win':
Once you’ve got your hero, what gets the emotion moving? What holds us spellbound, begging for more? Michael Jackson taught me in no uncertain terms, the answer is drama.
Back in 1991, Jackson already was a force to be reckoned with. After renewing his contract with Sony for a record-setting $65 million, he released his eighth album, "Dangerous¸" with the singles “Black or White” and “Remember the Time,” both of which dominated the pop charts. As CEO of Sony Pictures, I’d sat in on the studio production of that album and was overwhelmed by Michael’s creative intensity and perfectionism.
His ambition knew no bounds. But when Sony’s most important musical asset invited me to his home in Encino to discuss his plans to get into movies and television, I was taken aback. Michael had proven he knew everything there was to know about pop music, but movies were a different animal. He wanted to produce as well as act. That meant telling stories. Could he do it?
I didn’t even have to ask the question. “In both films and music,” Michael said, “you have to know where the drama is and how to present it.” He gave me a long, intense stare and abruptly stood up. “Let me show you.”
He led me upstairs to the hallway outside his bedroom, where we stopped in front of a huge glass terrarium. “This,” he said, “is Muscles.”
Inside, a massive snake was coiled around a tree branch. His head was tracking something in the opposite corner of the terrarium.
Michael pointed with his finger at the object of Muscles’ obsession. A little white mouse was trying to hide behind a pile of wood shavings.
I said hopefully, “Are they friends?”
“Do they look it?”
“No. The mouse is trembling.”
Michael said, “We have to feed Muscles live mice, otherwise he won’t eat. Dead ones don’t get his attention.”
“So why doesn’t he just go ahead and eat it?”
He said, “Because he enjoys the game. First he uses fear to get the mouse’s attention, then he waits, building tension. Finally, when the mouse is so terrified it can’t move, Muscles will close in.”
That snake had the attention of that mouse, and that mouse had the attention of that snake -- and Michael Jackson had my attention.
“That’s drama,” he said.
“It sure is!” I said. “This story has everything -- stakes, suspense, power, death, good and evil, innocence and danger. I can’t stand it. And I can’t stop watching.”
“Exactly,” he said. “What’s going to happen next? Even if you know what it is, you don’t know how or when.”
“Maybe the mouse will escape.”
Michael let out one of his high, strange laughs. “Maybe.”
If I’d had the slightest doubt about Jackson’s command as a teller of stories, it evaporated that day. His telling to win profoundly and clearly taught me that nothing grabs our attention faster than the need to know what happens next?
Back at UCLA, I asked Dan Siegel to help me understand from his perspective as a neuroscientist why people are so enthralled by drama. Siegel pointed out that emotions don’t occur spontaneously. Nor, as any actor knows, can they be summoned at will. Emotions have to be aroused. “And arousal gets heightened,” Siegel said, “when you realize, I don’t know if the mountain lion’s still there; I don’t know if the spaceship is going to get back; I’m not sure he’s going to win the race. You have to have tension between expectation and uncertainty. Emotional tension drives you to think it might go this way, but it might go that way, and that makes you wonder, what will happen next?”
The more you wonder what will happen next, the more you pay attention. And the more attention you pay, the more you hear, notice, and retain.
One reason I was so helplessly enthralled as I watched Michael Jackson’s mouse and snake was that they were enacting a story of primal desire and dread. Somewhere deep in our DNA, we all have this story lurking because, at some stage of our evolution, if not in our more immediate existence, we lived this story. We were the weaker prey that hid trembling inside the cave from the saber-tooth lurking outside.
Of course, most business storytellers don’t need to set dramatic stakes as high as death or survival. But even business stories are told best if they trigger the conflict between dread and desire. Desire is a core human need which in business may translate as landing a job, motivating employees, keeping an account, impressing a boss, successfully launching a product, or securing a brand. The more we desire something, the greater our fear of not achieving it. And that emotional tension engages your audience because it makes them feel “what’s in it for them.”
Excerpted from "Tell To Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story," by Peter Guber (Crown Business).
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« on: February 12, 2011, 06:31:07 AM »
I don'T know if it's MJ or not, but I like it  Thanks for sharing
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« on: February 12, 2011, 04:59:18 AM »
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« on: January 24, 2011, 04:26:46 AM »
Klein says there were numerous times when Jackson would pee in the doctor's home -- in a cup!!! -- around groups of people, including children.
Klein says Jackson would also pee in front of other people in his office. that would fit more to a chimp than to MJ.. :lol:
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« on: January 17, 2011, 01:39:06 PM »
has anyone ever watched it with subtitels?? there it's not "breathe" but "bathe" :?:
No way. For real? Why would Michael come back after bathe. Is he taking bath once for a while? :lol:
:lol: :lol: "Let me bathe in my own time, when I come back in.
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« on: January 17, 2011, 01:34:36 PM »
has anyone ever watched it with subtitels?? there it's not "breathe" but "bathe" :?:
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« on: January 13, 2011, 09:21:04 AM »
fortunately or unfortunatley, i've found a link to all the pictures from that day, sorry to debunk this one:
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Register or Login oops, I'm sorry I didn'T see that you posted the same link.. :oops:
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« on: January 13, 2011, 09:17:33 AM »
we had eactly the same thread at the other forum... we also thought it's a hospital but it's the airport.. here are more pics You are not allowed to view links.
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« on: December 18, 2010, 11:04:35 AM »
there are 3 sevens (at least I see them..LOL) next to "Breaking".. on the right.. ![]()
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« on: December 14, 2010, 06:18:55 AM »
Since Jackson’s death, the Cascios have been frequent visitors at Katherine Jackson’s home in Encino, California.
Over the years, Jackson reciprocated the Cascios’ hospitality with enormous generosity. Although the Cascios were not named in Jackson’s will, the song tracks should prove to be multi-million dollar bonanza—and a lasting gift to people whom he really considered family.
The Cascio’s were so close to Jackson that a message from them, written by Eddie, was included in the booklet distributed at Jackson’s Staples Center memorial service in July 2009. Here’s what it said:
“Doo Doo, It is only once in a lifetime where you meet a true Angel sent
from the Heavens above. I count my blessings each day for I have experienced Heaven on
Earth. The wisdom, guidance, and knowledge will always be remembered and put into
action. I thank you for the memories, for they will remain in my heart forever and ever.
Our friendship will always be treasured. I write on behalf of my family.
We promise to always remain ‘The First Family of Love’.
From the Bottom of our Hearts
WE THANK YOU and will love you FOREVER and ALWAYS.
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« on: December 13, 2010, 01:08:54 PM »
Here are screen shots of the video.[attachment=1:fhvfvtiz]women.jpg[/attachment:fhvfvtiz][attachment=0:fhvfvtiz]women#2.jpg[/attachment:fhvfvtiz] inside the album booklet is the full picture and there is no Liz Taylor.. :?:
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« on: November 26, 2010, 11:20:31 AM »
Guys, I'm subscribed to some Believer on twitter (i have no idea who that person is) that was me.. 
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