Before I start this post, I want to let you all know about a fellow blogger going through a very difficult time.... Michelle from Momma's Pixie Dreams has received the horrifying news that her 16 month old daughter has cancer.... Ian from The Daily Dose Of Reality has really gone out of his way to help by setting up a site for donations to help cover medical and physical therapy costs, and over $3,000 has been raised already! If you click on Monkey's picture below, you'll be directed to the donation site.... Any and all donations are greatly appreciated, and any money remaining will go to help another family battling cancer....
Click on monkey to donate...please help!
Lately it seems that the music video is a lost art.... The amazingly talented Diane Birch has created an amazing music video for her new song 'Valentino'!
The video was shot in one take, and as you can see by the director's board, it took at least 57 takes to get the video right....
Here's the music video and a 'behind the screen' view of how the video was made!
I'm sure you've all seen this first video.... It was everywhere!
In part of an elaborate prank planned by students at Olathe Northwest High School in Olathe, Kansas, basketball Coach Joel Branstrom was told that he would receive two tickets to the NCAA basketball tournament if he made a blindfolded shot from half court. What he didn't know is that whether or not he made the shot, the students would erupt in applause, making him think he had made the basket.... The students, of course, did not expect what happened next....
Because this was all a hoax, nobody had expected the coach to make the shot, and nobody was actually planning on giving the coach tickets to the tournament.... However, the students did chip in and get him a gift certificate to Chipotle....
After the coach's shot had become a viral sensation, it was reported that an unidentified donor has donated six tickets, transportation and lodging for the NCAA's Final Four Basketball tournament!
After the coach had made the impossible shot, reporter Rob Low made a special trip to the school to do a story on the prank-gone-wrong. While shooting the tease for the story at half court (exactly where the shot by Coach Branstrom was made), Rob Low blindly threw the ball over his head.... Can you guess the outcome?
If I was on the Olathe Northwest High School basketball team, all I would do is take half court shots.... Apparently nobody misses from half court....
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