The stages of motion picture development and the odd movie lingo that goes with it

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On Geek Slop, you often hear us mention movies being “in development” or “pre-production” stages, but what do these movie terms really mean? Filmmaking or film production consists of four steps that define the process of making a movie – development, pre-production, production, and post-production. Each of these stages is discussed in detail below.

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Andrew Moore photography shows eerie decay of Detroit city

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It looks like something out of The Walking Dead. Detroit, a U.S. city that is decaying before our eyes, looks like its habitants simply vanished into thin air leaving behind a magnificent city that now resembles a war zone. No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an…

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Funny Google Easter Eggs

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Google has a great sense of humor and allows their developers to occasionally put Easter eggs in the search results (in addition to just about every other product they own). Here are a few of the funniest Google Easter eggs. Note: some of these require you run Chrome browser and some expire or only working…

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Thirteen Abandoned Mental Asylums

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By the 20th Century, mental asylums had begun evolving from dark, isolated institutions where criminal and civil insane patients were housed together to the more organized, medical treatment facility that we know today. The old were left to decay. Here we present thirteen abandoned mental asylums.

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Twelve Abandoned Mental Asylums

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By the 20th Century, mental asylums had begun evolving from dark, isolated institutions where criminal and civil insane patients were housed together to the more organized, medical treatment facility that we know today. Here we present twelve abandoned mental asylums.

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Mechanical Steampunk hand contraption thingy

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18-year-old Manick Yoj, created this awesome mechanical hand for a steampunk-themed Halloween costume. The hand is articulated and follows the motion of the user’s fingers through front and back motion. Yoj says the project was well received by other Halloweeners.

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