A late night parking lot comes to life in the action comedy student short film “Exit”. Once upon a midnight dreary, while Mike, the ever grumpy debt collector, left work weak and weary. He then finds himself in a dark basement car park where silence sleeps. All that could be heard is the echo of his footsteps hitting against the cold, hard concrete floor, and the autopay machine, rumbling. No he is not alone. Not at all. Find out what happens!
Internet Icon Season 2 continues with episode 4 “How-To Video Challenge”. With Stellar Lense Productions eliminated, the Top 8 contestants compete in the “How-To Video Challenge” where they have 5 hours to shoot and edit a how-to video using any prop(s) and/or actor(s) from the ICONography Area. These filmmakers will need to put together a video to teach something. YouTuber Kassem G joins Ryan Higa, Christine Lakin, and Timothy DeLaGhetto as a guest judge. They critique each of the How-To videos, deliberate, and then eliminate one contestant.
Top 8 contestants include
Will Pacarro
The Shields Brothers
Bad Weather Films
The Kloons
Megan Batoon
Matthias
Shama Llama
Joule Thief
Modern China is working hard to give itself a new image. And now a frightening new craze for Western-style beauty is driving a nationwide boom in dangerous and drastic cosmetic surgery procedures.
“Until recently, communist ideals valued natural beauty. Today, other things are considered beautiful”, explains fashion photographer Zheng Chen. At just 19, young model Ai Xiao Qi has found success in China’s fashion world. But she isn’t under any illusions about the painful cause of her popularity: “when you’re in front of cameras, your face must have a strong profile”. A strong profile: the new Chinese euphemism for surgically-enhanced Western features. In a bid to be as tall as Westerners, Chinese girls are even undergoing gruesome procedures to break and extend their legs. After a botched surgery, tour guide Qi Lixia ended up horribly disfigured. “The doctors tried to re-assure me. But my nose was completely deformed.” But such is the pressure on young girls that she’s prepared to go under the knife again: “Looking good helps me in my job”. As this mantra becomes more widely accepted, the message to young girls is clear: it’s what’s on the outside that counts.
If you missed the short film documentary “Top Spin” on the film festival circuit, you have a chance to see it online. Imagine the smell of fresh rubber paddles, hollow plastic balls whirling by at 80 mph, and exclamations of victory interrupted by bitter cries of defeat. Welcome to the world of competitive table tennis. With hard work and family sacrifice, a young table tennis champion works towards becoming one of the top players in the world — Ariel Hsing exudes a quiet confidence and intensity that rivals any young professional athlete working hard to become a promising Olympic champion. However, Ariel’s story goes beyond her personal dedication and also reveals the family sacrifices that foster her talent. With the pressures of rigorous training, international tournaments, schoolwork and SAT’s — is it all worth it in the end?
Singer Jessica Sanchez released her debut album “Me, You & The Music”. Born and raised in Chula Vista, California, Sanchez has worked on honing her vocal versatility for almost her entire life. She started singing when she was two and lists Mariah Carey, Etta James, and Ray Charles among her musical influences. At age ten she performed Aretha Franklin’s Respect on an episode of Showtime at the Apollo. A year later, she competed on the premiere season of America’s Got Talent, reaching the wild-card round before getting cut. Over the next few years, Sanchez performed at venues both large and small (including a 2008 San Diego Chargers game) and released a number of covers (such as Etta James’s I’d Rather Go Blind ) through an independent record label. After nailing her American Idol audition in 2011, Sanchez climbed to the final two and landed her deal with Interscope soon after the season finale. Diving into the recording of her debut in Summer 2012, Sanchez took a break from the studio to tear through a rousing, choir-backed rendition of Marvin Gaye’s All I Need To Get By at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. All her hard work has paid off with “Me, You & The Music”.
Here’s the tracklisting:
1. Right To Fall
2. Tonight (feat. Ne-Yo)
3. Don’t Come Around
4. Crazy Glue
5. No One Compares (ft Prince Royce)
6. In Your Hands
7. Plastic Roses
8. Drive By
9. You’ve Got the Love
10. Gentlemen
11. No One Compares (feat. Prince Royce) [Spanish/English version]
The web series 88 Jade Way continues with episode 4. It’s chaos at 88 Jade Way! Everyone’s acting insane, except for Mr. Fu who’s sick with a cold. A building inspector finds that a bag of meth was planted in the ventilation system- this negligence causes him to close the building, but Mr. Moolah’s there to step in and “save the day.” How will Mr. Fu deal with this situation?
