In the middle of the Mohombi Desert lies one of the most well known cities in the world, Las Vegas and every year 40 million people flock to the Vegas strip but most only ever get a peak at the spectacle which is Las Vegas.It is a place where fortunes are both won and lost, lives made and destroyed and where the house always wins. This being said, one high rolling gambler was the exception to
Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. His family introduced him to the computer and Microsoft Paint long after he retired. Now, Grandpa spends ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. His work is a blend of pointillism and 8-Bit art.Director: Josh Bogdan (joshbogdan.com) Director: Ryan Lasko Editor/Writer: J
This is a documentary about the largest and the most famous torrent website in the world – The Pirate Bay – and the story behind it.It’s the day before the trial starts. Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty old Volvo. Along with his Pirate Bay co-founders, he faces $13 million in damage claims to Hollywood in a copyright infringement case. Fredrik is on his way to install a new computer in t
In 2005 for the first time in 25 years the members of Pink Floyd got back together to play a live show for Live Aid, for a precious 20 minutes they were once again the legendary Pink Floyd, a band that has spanned 40 years pioneering everything from underground rock to the stadium extravaganza, a band that has survived tragedy and shunned celebrity and wrestled publicly with both it's success and
The Pilgrims or rather Pilgrim Fathers were some of the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They started out in the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters but ended up having to flee the political environment of England as they maintained the concept of separation from the English state church.With eyes origi
Sipho Agmatir Thwala was South Africa's Phoenix Strangler. Although he only operated for the relatively short period of a year from 1996 to 1997 he was to make it a terrifying year for KwaZulu-Natal province and rapidly became the most wanted man in the region.His MO was straightforward – he would lure women to sugar cane fields with the promise of work before raping and strangling them with the
The Phoenix Lights (sometimes referred to as the “lights over Phoenix”) were a series of widely sighted optical phenomena (generally unidentified flying objects) that occurred in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, and the Mexican state of Sonora on March 13, 1997. A repeat of the lights occurred February 6, 2007, and was filmed by the local Fox News TV station. A similar inciden
It’s an astounding coincidence: in the absolute majority of accounts of the supernatural, be they biblical miracles, UFOs or paranormal phenomena, the protagonist had been falling asleep or waking up at the crucial moment.As a result, there is something out there that has forever altered human history and culture – something we know very little about.What are they keeping from us? Who stun
Thousands of years ago, in the pre monarchic era, sacred plants and other entheogenic substances where politically correct and highly respected for their ability to bring forth the divine, Yahweh, God, The Great Spirit, etc., by the many cultures who used them. Often the entire tribe or community would partake in the entheogenic rites and rituals. These rites were often used in initiation into adu