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Happy Monday!
The Memorial Tournament ended yesterday afternoon in exciting fashion: a playoff.
Congratulations to Hideki Matsuyama on his victory!
This past week’s festivities in Dublin, Ohio brought to mind a story from yesteryear that involves the game of golf. It’s a classic tale of two professionals yearning for one of golf’s greatest prizes. In this pursuit, an incredible amount of friction built-up for some fascinating interactions off the green.
You should never underestimate the power of a good rhyme.
Only in golf.
Have a ‘Happy Gilmore’ Kind of Happy Monday!
We’re All Thinking It…
Posting an alternate opening credits video for The Office in the style of a classic ’90s sitcom yesterday has inspired me to post another clip from this show that seems appropriate for today: Friday. At any point this morning or afternoon when our boss begins to speak, we’re all hoping he or she will say that magical phrase.
Stanley, we’re with you.
Hey, it’s Friday, make it count!
Happy Throwback Thursday!
Throwback Thursday is a great weekly tradition because it puts people in a good mood right before Friday and the weekend with a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
And on that note, have you ever wondered what some shows that aired in the 2000s would have looked and sounded like if they had debuted during the 1990s?
“You are in luck! There’s a town about 3 miles that way, I’m sure you’ll find a couple of guys there” (bonus points if you can guess that ’90s reference!).
Actually, it’s more like visiting Dwight at his beet farm lucky.
‘That’s what the ’90s said!’
The Heights of Realism
The creative visions our imaginations can produce are powerful and limitless, which explains the larger-than-life scenes and characters that are constantly engineered for movies with the digital assistance of computer-generated imagery (CGI). This technology (which has been used now for decades) is as popular as ever with several directors in Hollywood choosing to utilize CGI’s dreamlike capabilities to establish mind-blowing worlds, characters and action sequences for their dedicated fans. Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and 300: Rise of an Empire are the most recent examples of cinematic adventures that interweave live action with clothing, settings or characters that are, simply put, invisible during the filming process.
However, despite the majesty of these digitally-enhanced realities, it’s nothing short of refreshing to see something and believe it for exactly what it is.
Seeing is believing, right?
The following video clip is from an action film released two and a half years ago, but its creative team should be applauded (again) for refraining the easier path of pressing a few keystrokes on a keyboard with the guidance of a mouse by instead pursuing a once-in-a-lifetime, white-knuckle thrill ride for the ages. Yes, there were safety wires used, but not much else.
Welcome to Dubai and the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.
And I thought my Tuesday was going to be stressful…
Just surreal!
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