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ILuv Neon Sound Earphones
Description: Put some color and music back in your life with the high-performance Neon Sound earphones. Designed to be your everyday earphones, Neon Sound boasts a durable design that resists wear and tear, and an in-line remote that allows you to control your music, change the volume, and answer phone calls. It features a flat, tangle-resistant cable in eight color combinations, including several bright neon shades to stand out from the crowd. Neon Sound also comes with noise-isolating ear tips in three different sizes for a customized fit.
Price: $34.99 Visit the Website
Crave Stop™
Description: Does your morning bowl of frosted flakes leave you hungry at 10am? Do you reach for something sweet to satisfy that craving, only to find yourself in the same situation soon after lunch? Do you eat a piece of candy or cookie when you're feeling a little low? Munching on sugar-laden snacks or reaching for a brownie when you're down only makes you crave more sugar. Eating a diet high in refined carbohydrates and sugar may quickly satisfy your hunger, or give you a rush of "feel-good" brain chemicals, but these results are short-lived and leave you wanting more. Crave-Stop™ is a blend of minerals and herbs that help you manage sugar cravings and support a healthy appetite. Key ingredients include Chromium and Vanadium, which promote the body's healthy use of insulin.* Crave Stop addresses sugar cravings by: Supporting healthy sugar metabolism, promoting a healthy appetite, supporting healthy adrenal function, supporting a healthy stress response, consider taking IN•JOY™ by Redd Remedies with Crave- Stop to help with the emotions and moods related to sugar cravings!* *This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Price: $34.99 Visit the Website
ProDermix Probiotic
Description: In the early 2000s the founder Usher Brecher began taking oral probiotics (the healthy bacteria that aid the digestive system) to improve his overall health. Usher looking for a boost in vital minerals and vitamins to organs in the body, as well as improvement in his digestive system started playing with dosages and ingredients as he crafted his own personalized probiotic blend to maximize benefits. These benefits include serving as a detox and getting rid of bloat, eliminating athletes foot and getting rid of dandruff.
Price: $34.95 Visit the Website
ProDermix Supreme High Potency Formula
Description: ProDermix is an all-natural, safe, effective and powerful probiotic supplement that addresses a wide spectrum of common ailments that frequently develop on the body, from the head to the foot. Symptoms are often relieved even before they appear. Among health benefits provided by ProDermix, this superior probiotic supplement: eradicates Athlete's Foot, diminishes dandruff, relieves yeast infections (Candida), eases UTIs. Instead of merely covering up the symptoms associated with these ailments with sprays, creams, and lotions, such as the itching, burning, and skin peeling of Athlete's Foot, ProDermix attacks the source of the underlying fungus, providing comfort and relief.
Price: $32.95 Visit the Website
USANA Health Sciences Protein Snacks
Description: USANA Health Sciences introduces their new line of gluten-free, low glycemic, protein snacks that will satisfy both your sweet tooth and your diet. This deliciously tempting line includes two extra grams of protein and no increase in calories, compared to USANA's popular protein bar products. The new protein snacks are non-GMO, contain no trans fats, and come in three delicious flavors including Choco Chip, Peanutty Bliss, and Fudge Delite.
Price: $32.95 Visit the Website
USANA Health Sciences Rev3 Energy
Description: Why not energize with something that is good for you? Cleaner. Smarter. Stronger. Rev3 Energy® is all the power of an energy drink—refined. Rev3 is a great alternative to crash-and-burn energy drinks. What makes Rev3 Energy unique is that it contains a significant amount of L-carnitine. This ingredient offers two important functions in energy production: first it shuttles fatty acids into the mitochondria where they can be turned into energy, and secondly L-carnitine helps transport the toxic byproduct of energy combustion out of the mitochondria to prevent accumulation. Rev3 is also distinguished by its low-glycemic formula. The total glycemic load from Rev3 is three to four times lower than traditional energy drinks. Typical energy drinks spike your blood sugar levels for a quick burst of energy, but lead to a crash soon after, leaving you feeling drained. Rev3's proprietary formula creates more of a sustained feeling of energy. Rev3 Energy—join the healthy energy revolution.
Price: $32.95 Visit the Website
Anti-Aging Concealer With BioFirm 7 Complex
Description: Preserve and improve your skin with TimeSeal! Our all-in-one makeup-skincare formula combats the visible effects of aging through a powerful blend of 7 anti-aging ingredients. This hydration and nourishment process results in a healthy, glowing complexion. The smooth cream texture flawlessly conceals imperfections while giving your eye area a lifting effect. Looks natural and does not crease or cake either! • Natural Looking • Suitable for all skin types • Oil-Free, Non-Comodegenic • Long Wearing • 4 color shades
Price: $32.00 Visit the Website
Calling All Athletes...or Not!
Description: Got Skin In The Game? Skin Care for Athletes, the only organic and natural skin care line designed specifically for athletes and fitness enthusiasts or anyone who's 'got skin'. Our P.A.R. (Prepare Achieve Recover) and Tri-Body Collections are designed to assist athletes in the preparation and recovery of their events and workouts. Both lines include our 3-in-1 Tri-Body Washes, Tri-Body Moisturizers, Tri-Body Therapeutic Soaking Salts and Tri-Body Massage Oil and offers total body care that will condition, recondition, tone and hydrate your skin, muscles and joints. Give the Gift of Healthy Skin! All have anti-fungal/anti-bacterial properties; offers light UVA/UVB protections, all are sulfate, petrochemical, paraben and phthalate-free and never tested on animals. Our Tri-Body Gift Collections will enhance circulation; relieve muscular aches and inflammation from your most determined athletes to your favorite couch potatoes! They will enjoy the added accessories, such as exfoliating gloves, foot brush, pumice stone and skin softening socks. The perfect way to please those fitness enthusiasts that have everything but...! These gifts are also great for the weekend warrior, the age-grouper or the young athlete suffering from teen acne. Our products are endorsed and loved by fitness enthusiasts, amateur and Olympic level athletes.
Price: $30.00 to $115.00 Visit the Website
Oil Of Oregano
Description: The miracle is Oreganol P73. North American Herb & Spice created the oregano revolution. P73 is a special blend of wild, edible oregano oils from the true, natural spice, unmatched in the world. this blend has immense cleansing power. It works. There's nothing like it in the world. North American Herb & Spice never uses genetically modified organisms, or inferior ingredients in our formulations.
Price: $29.99 to $69.99 Visit the Website
ScoreBand Is The Revolutionary, Award-winning, 4-in-1 Scorekeeping Watch.
Description: ScoreBand is the one-touch, multi-sport scorekeeping wristband watch. Lightweight and purpose-built for active wear. ScoreBand provides four modes-in-one: everyday timekeeping with Time mode and scorekeeping modes for Golf, Tennis, and AllScore mode that covers most other sports. Not only is the wristband lightweight and easy to use, it is infused with negative ion emitting material and an LCD display component capable of quickly and easily managing scores and statistics. We recently won the "Best product Concept" at the 2012 PGA Merchandise Show.
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
MEElectronics Sport-Fi S6
Description: Headphones are a must-have accessory for any active lifestyle, especially when working out whether indoors or outsides. Enhance your next fitness routine or hike with the Sport-Fi S6 from MEElectronics (www.meelec.com). Featuring superior sound quality and memory wire for locked-in fit, Sport-Fi S6 is also sweat resistant and comes with a sports armband and carrying case for easy use at the gym or on the trails. Whatever helps you workout: music, audio books, TV or movies, you won't have to worry about your earphones coming loose or slipping out. No other sports earphone has the form factor of the S6, giving you an unmatched combination of a secure fit, ultra comfort, amazing sound – and all at an affordable price. MEElectronics' S6 earphones come with a sliding cable cinch, shirt clip, 28-inch cable with 23 inches of extension, 3.5 mm plug and comfort-fit earpiece design.
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
Yurbuds Earphones- For The Fitness Fanatic
Description: Thinking about what you can gift that fitness fanatic? Well, with the New Year and Valentine's Day right around the corner, many will begin their new fitness regimen, which means gearing up with all the appropriate fitness products. While yoga mats, dumbbells, and gym clothes are a must, earphones supersede the list making them the perfect gift for the exercise buff. Those early morning jogs are nearly impossible without them. In fact, it has been clinically proven that consistently listening to music while exercising will inspire longer, harder workouts. So why not make those workouts a little more comfortable by gifting that fitness fiend YURBUDS SPORT EARPHONES - the cool new product uniquely designed for the modern athlete with unique designs especially for women and for men. They feature a twist-lock technology that keeps the earphones in place, even when you're on the move. Their ultra soft silicone ergonomic design makes them comfortable for hours on end. And, most importantly, they are sweat and water resistant -so they're appropriate for all work-out conditions. Without a doubt, all these perks make YURBUDS SPORT EARPHONES the perfect gift for the avid workout enthusiast in your life. Yurbuds Earphones can be found at major retailers at the convenient price of $29.99. See product specs at: https://www.yurbuds.com
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
MOVband: The Wrist-Worn Activity Monitor That Tracks Movement For The Entire Family
Description: MOVband by MOVABLE is a simple, affordable and stylish wrist-worn product that tracks your movement and tells time. Whether you are walking, jumping, running or dancing, MOVband converts all of your movements into mileage. It's the only product on the market that focuses on inspiring and measuring group movement. One in three children and teens in the United States is overweight or obese. MOVABLE is combating this problem by giving them the tools they need to make healthy decisions to move more. Great for adults as well as kids, MOVABLE encourages the entire family to get involved, become more active and challenge each other through daily movement goals. MOVband easily connects to a computer to upload activity data online. Users can login to access their activity statistics and track their progress. The wristbands are available in 20 different colors, including five neon and three glow-in-the-dark models and the rechargeable battery lasts approximately 30 days between charges.
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
Fitbug Air Bluetooth Smart Activity Tracker
Description: Fitbug Air is the ideal gift for moms, dads, grads and anyone who want to get fit and live a healthier lifestyle. This tiny activity tracking device monitors your daily activities and calories, and uses Bluetooth 4 to sync wirelessly to the latest generation of smartphones and tablets. Fitbug Air gives real-time access to your fitness data from anywhere, and runs on a simple watch battery that lasts about 6 months. Simply set your activity and nutrition goals, slip the Bug device in your pocket or clip it to your clothes, and Fitbug will track every step you take, calorie you burn, and more. Fitbug Air is the only device that lets you choose how and when you want to get your data: streaming mode to see your activity as it happens, beacon mode to see activity at preset intervals throughout the day, or on-demand with the push of a button. It's also the only device that tracks your pace so you can monitor your aerobic activity level, and will let you know if you need to quicken your pace to meet your goals! Almost any activity can be recorded to allow you to see the total impact of your efforts. Plus, Air users get online coaching service and support. Fitbug.com stores and analyzes all your activity and nutritional data, providing texts and emails to keep you motivated and on track, with instant access to your data from your smart device and on the Bug's LCD display.
Price: $29.99 to $59.99 Visit the Website
Bamboo Pro Self-Warming Back Support - For All Day Relief
Description: Bamboo Pro supports are made with Activated Bamboo Charcoal that offers natural self-warming technology. It activates with your body temperature to heat up and provide restorative warmth for your muscles, cartilage, and joints. Natural heat increases blood circulation, which in turn helps relieve sore muscles, soothe achy joints, improve mobility, enhance performance, aid in recovery, and other related issues. Bamboo Pro supports are breathable, durable, and absorb odor & moisture. Can be worn all day or night. Try Bamboo Pro today you'll find out why it's the most comfortable self-warming support. Available sizes: S/M & L/XL.
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
Koss Fit Series, Headphones Designed For Women, By Women
Description: Koss Fit Series, a new product line Designed for Women, By Women. Co-designed by five-time Olympian Dara Torres and Koss Corporation. Koss FitBuds and FitClips bring the Sound of Koss to listeners in the smallest earbuds Koss has ever created. The buds are only six millimeters in diameter, making them 33 percent smaller than the average Koss earbud. The elements are surrounded by a dual-injected, soft-rubberized housing intended to fit perfectly in the female ear. Like the FitClips, the FitBuds feature the same sweat-resistant coating, five vibrant color options and extra cushions.
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
8833 5K Runner Low-Cut Compression Socks From McDavid
Description: Used for: McDavid 5K Runner Low-Cut Compression Socks enhances performance making major muscles warm and happy, reducing fatigue and cramping and is safe to be used on all ages from adolescent, to collegiate, pro and the weekend warrior Product Details: - Compression decreases loss of energy from excessive motion and vibration and works as a light base layer to give muscle support during workouts - A compression fit also reduces chafing, abrasion and skin irritation - McDavid compression socks are constructed of breathable, high-tenacity technical yarn. This product is designed to comfortably apply 100% compression around/above the ankle where compression is most effective and taper off to 70% as the sock progresses up the calf. Sock compression increases blood flow, which helps remove lactic acid, the killer of performance and recovery. In addition, compression stabilizes muscle vibration, saving energy and speeding recovery. - Colors: White & Black - Sizes: 1-6 Where to Purchase: McDavid products can be found at major sporting goods retailers such as Sports Authority, Modells, Academy, Sport Chalet, Hibbett Sports and McDavidUSA.com
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
Shock Doctor Active Impact Insole
Description: Long runs and hikes can be a pain on feet and lower body joints. Constant standing can also create increased fatigue on these joints. In order for you to perform your best, your feet, ankles and knees need to be free from pain and joint fatigue. A properly supportive insole stabilizes the foot, absorbs impacts and can help prevent pain and joint fatigue. The Shock Doctor Active Impact Insole is specifically engineered for longer runs & hikes and harder surfaces so you can train and play with less stress on your joints. Designed to absorb harder impacts from long runs & hikes and constant standing. Increased comfort, Max shock absorption, stability and support. Can reduce wear and tear on joints. Weighs less than 2oz. 5mm thin.
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
Natura Culina - Anti-Bacterial Tea Tree And Lavender Hand Soap
Description: Natura Culina's luxurious hand soap contains a true liquid soap derived from Certified Organic Sunflower and Coconut oils. Clean, soothing scent of lavender and tea tree essential oils. Creamy lather that will leave your hands soft and clean. Active Ingredients: Water, Potassium Cocoate (Derived from Organic Coconut Oil), Potassium Oleate (Derived from Organic Sunflower Oil), Lauryl Betaine (Derived from a common constituent of vegetable fats especially coconut oil), Glycerin (Organic origin - by-product of soap manufacturing), Benzyl Alcohol (Preservative), Potassium Palm Kernelate (Potassium salt of Palm Kernel), Palm Kernel Acid (Fatty acid of palm kernel oil used as an opacifier, surfactant and emulsifier), Decyl Glucoside (skin softening agent), Potassium Citrate (regulates acidity pH) one 8.8 oz bottle …………… 29.00 buy two ……………………… $50.00 buy three …………………… $75.00
Price: $29.00 Visit the Website
Heartbkr Bottles
Description: Presenting the 2014 Heartbkr collection from bkr. The glass bottles loved by supermodels and starlets alike have new silicone sleeves with giant heart graphics to spread the love! Let your heartbkr banish dry skin and keep you gorgeous and glowing year round! This chic little bottle is the perfect reminder to stay hydrated at the office, in your car, at the gym, at home, and everywhere in between. heartbkr combines fashion and function for the ultimate gift, and at only $34! Plus, bkr invests a portion of all proceeds in initiatives that combat the global water crisis and help in the fight against cancer. Treat yourself, give back, and spread the love this season with Heartbkr. Celebrity fans include: Gisele Bundchen, Alessandra Ambrosio, Ana Beatriz Barros, Kristen Bell, Jamie Chung, Amy Smart, Malin Akerman, Jennifer Garner, Ashley Greene, Amanda Seyfried, Alicia Silverstone, Reese Witherspoon, Hilary Duff, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Natalie Portman, Jessica Alba, and Olivia Wilde. www.mybkr.com
Price: $28.00 to $34.00 Visit the Website
Rock 360 A Revolutionary New AB Workout Device That Your Smartphone Attaches Too So You Can Customize Your Workout!
Description: Revolutionary new AB workout that uses your own body weight to easily work every muscle. You can attach your smartphone to the Rock 360 to customize your workout and keep you on track. Rock 360 is the ideal workout for every person no matter your athletic abilities. Combine fitness with the latest technology. Multiple apps available. Multi-dimensional workout! DVD's available. The Rock 360 rolling core kinetics creates a comprehensive core workout like no other.
Price: $25.00 to $150.00 Visit the Website
CaliforniaSleeves - Fashionable Unisex Sport Sleeves That Offer UV Sun Protection
Description: Protect your Birthday Suit! Fun, functional and fashionable, California Sleeves are your first line of protection from harmful UV rays. Pull on a pair anytime you're enjoying the outdoors...hiking, biking, golfing, driving with the top down to minimize sun damage without messy sunscreens. They're wick-able, durable, comfortable and come in sizes and designs to fit your lifestyle. Made of quality Designed patterns and long-lasting, stay-up elastic. You can tuck in your cell phone or mp3 player to keep your hands free. ... you'll want to order several pairs.
Price: $25.00 to $48.00 Visit the Website
Gym Girl Fitness Gloves
Description: Perfectly designed for a variety of uses including lifting, cycling/spinning, cross-training, yoga and Pilates, Gym Girl's fitness gloves protect your hands from germs, calluses and hand fatigue. The construction and fit makes for easy on/off, and they're also machine washable! •Spandex upper stretches with your hand, providing maximum flexibility and comfort •Padded non-slip palms in a "G" shape minimizes "bunching" •Velcro wrist closure with rubber Gym Girl tab •Helps protect hands from developing calluses, and prevents slippage due to perspiration •Padding helps to minimize pressure on delicate tendons •Machine washable
Price: $25.00 Visit the Website
CaliforniaSleeves UVA UVB Sun Protective Unisex Golf/Sport Sleeves Fashionable, Sexy
Description: Protect your Birthday Suit! Fun, functional and fashionable! California Sleeves are your first line of protection from harmful UV rays. Pull on a pair anytime you're enjoying the outdoors...hiking, biking, golfing, driving with the top down to minimize sun damage without messy sunscreens. They're washable, durable, comfortable and come in sizes and designs to fit your lifestyle. Made of quality Designed patterns and long-lasting, stay-up elastic. You can tuck in your cell phone or mp3 player to keep your hands free. You'll want to order several pairs.
Price: $25.00 to $48.00 Visit the Website
Natural Aftershave - Tao Of Man Daily Skin Defense
Description: The One product Every Man Needs for a Noticeably Remarkable Mug. This ALL-NATURAL 3-in-1 Aftershave-Moisturizer-Cleanser is a highly active herbal formula respects a man's need to care for his skin and the limited time he has to do it. In less than 30 seconds, Tao of Man Daily Skin Defense will CLEANSE impurities, COMBAT irritation, and DEFY the signs of aging for a clear, cleansed, nourished, and noticeably remarkable mug. Good for: razor burn, ingrown hairs, collar rub. Perfect as a gift for the man you love or any man wanting to just look and smell their best.
Price: $24.99 to $25.00 Visit the Website
1500eDBX DialSpeed Electronic Combination Lock
Description: Never worry about the forgotten combination again! This sleek first-ever electronic combination lock comes pre-programmed with a unique Cloud-based back-up master code, stored in the Master Lock Vault (www.MasterLockVault.com), a secure online password and data storage site and mobile app. The lock's electronic push-button keypad allows for faster, more accurate combination entry of your personalized code. With up to five years of battery life, and over 22 million possible combinations, the dialSpeed makes the perfect gift for any age.
Price: $24.99 Visit the Website
The Multi-use Camiband
Description: This is what you can do with one Camiband: EXTEND A SHIRT: Camiband replaces a full cami or tank to create a great multi-layered look! Remember those "too short" tops or low rise jeans you haven't worn in a while? Well, pull them back out! Camiband hides hip, stomach, and back bulges without the bulk. CREATE A QUICK CAMI: Use your Camiband under plunging V-Necks, when you feel a bit too much is being revealed. No need to tape or attach anything! Just slip it on for the office, school, business meeting or conservative event. Then, slip off for that night out! This offers a great option to use more of your tops, blouses, and dresses for any occasion! CHIC COVERAGE: How many times did you not wear a swimsuit because the bottoms just showed too much? Use those bathing suits hiding in the bottom of your drawer, and hit the beach! Slip on over any of your swimsuit bottoms for that extra skirted coverage you wish it came with. A vacation "must- have!" Available in 8 Stretch lace colors, Spandex and fabulous neutral patterns. Made in USA.
Price: $24.99 Visit the Website
Description: This is what you can do with one Camiband: EXTEND A SHIRT: Camiband replaces a full cami or tank to create a great multi-layered look! Remember those "too short" tops or low rise jeans you haven't worn in a while? Well, pull them back out! Camiband hides hip, stomach, and back bulges without the bulk. CREATE A QUICK CAMI: Use your Camiband under plunging V-Necks, when you feel a bit too much is being revealed. No need to tape or attach anything! Just slip it on for the gym, office, school, business meeting or conservative event. Then, slip off for that night out! This offers a great option to use more of your tops, blouses, and dresses for any occasion! CHIC COVERAGE: How many times did you not wear a swimsuit because the bottoms just showed too much? Use those bathing suits hiding in the bottom of your drawer, and hit the beach! Slip on over any of your swimsuit bottoms for that extra skirted coverage you wish it came with. A vacation "must- have!"
Price: $24.99 Visit the Website
Purific Personal Purifying Sports Bottle
Description: This personal filter water purification with practical, innovative design features, can be used in any sport/activity. The filter element/cartridge is in the spout, providing pure water – anytime, anywhere. Developed for people who value practicality, style and quality of life in their day-to-day living Product Details: Single nozzle and refill, injected with Nano silver technology, avoiding contamination of any parts that touch the mouth and hands Capacity of the reservoir, 16.9oz Refill: filter life equal to 300 bottle fills Refill/filter cartridge is responsible for water filtration, reducing particulate matter, heavy metals, Trihalomethanes, Organochlorides, Ammonia, Chlorine residual, pathogenic microorganisms, eliminating unpleasant taste and odor, normalizing the PH leaving it slightly alkaline Colors: pink, blue and white spout/filter with crystal bottle Can be placed in the fridge Produced with non-toxic material, BPA free Product is refillable, with an indefinite useful lifetime, and should only change the element/refill every 300 bottle fills Best Cost Benefit Relationship in the market A Purific Personal filter bottle has the ability to filter through 300 bottle fills, equivalent to 300 bottles of mineral water (500ml) which cost around $2.00 each Environmentally Friendly A person who consumes 8 ½ cups of water per day, the equivalent of 4 bottles of mineral water 500ml, will dispose of more than 1000 bottles a year!
Price: $24.99 Visit the Website
Doonya 3 DVD Set
Description: Co-founded by Priya Pandya and Kajal Desai, Doonya is a cardio, strength-building, dance-based workout program perfectly choreographed to the lasted high-energy songs from Bollywood. Doonya's signature moves are connected in routines which target each major muscle group—allowing for an exciting and unique way to exercise and tone. The program is designed for every skill level, from accomplished fitness enthusiasts to workout novices, with the curriculum broken down into four styles of Bollywood dance. You can learn more about Doonya by visiting www.doonya.com 3 DVD Set ($24.99): 2 hours of step-by-step dances, targeted routines, cardio, hips, glutes and thighs. Choose from over 2 hours of variety. Facebook: www.facebook.com/doonyaworld Twitter: www.twitter.com/doonya Instagram: www.instagram.com/doonyaworld
Price: $24.99 Visit the Website
Stuffitts For Shoes
Description: Stuffitts For Shoes are form-fitted, reusable cedar inserts that combat moisture and kill odor in footwear caused by perspiration and outdoor elements. By placing Stuffitts inserts into your shoes, you can proactively dry them from the inside by preventing the growth of odor-causing bacteria and keeping them smelling fresh. Stuffitts' inserts leverage Microban® antimicrobial protection & the natural properties of cedar to rapidly remove moisture caused by perspiration, while simultaneously killing odor.
Price: $24.95 Visit the Website
Everyone Needs Muddy Balls...
Description: Seamhead's most popular t-shirt that brings a little tongue in cheek humor to the baseball world. Every baseball in the minor and major leagues is rubbed with a special mud before each baseball game. Honor that tradition with this 60/40 cotton blend t-shirt that is known for softness and a modern fit. The shirt is a unisex brown tee with tan printing that is available in men's sizes S-XXL. Once washed, the screen print becomes soft, pliable and part of the shirt's fabric that won't crack over time. This shirt was created as part of the initial product launch of Seamhead's products that were also part of their successful Kickstarter. See the other shirts from the Kcikstarter at imaseamhead.com.
Price: $24.00 to $26.00 Visit the Website
World's First Airtight Container For Plates Eliminates The Waste And Inconvenience Of Plastic Wrap And Aluminum Foil
Description: PlateTopper is the world's first airtight container for plates. The product eliminates the need for a dirty dish and keeps food fresh with an ingenious airtight silicone seal placed over the plate on which it is served. It is a universal food lid and storage device all in one. Instant food storage and preservation are as simple as pressing PlateTopper over a plate to lock the device in place. Check out this effective, super affordable solution for preserving leftovers and ensuring the freshness of snacks, meals, leftovers or baked goods. PlateTopper eliminates the irritating search for lids and is much faster to use than cumbersome plastic wrap or aluminum foil, is dishwasher, microwave and freezer safe, BPA free, and a splatter, spill and bug safeguard. What's more, it can be unsealed and resealed over and over again making it an essential kitchen product for any household! PlateTopper is available in a variety of colors. An exclusive "As Seen on TV" offer includes 2 PlateToppers and 1 PlateTopper Mini.
Price: $23.97 Visit the Website
Tyent Goodlife Water Bottle
Description: Available from Tyent (www.TyentUSA.com) the Goodlife stainless steel water bottle line is made of 18/304 stainless steel and 100% BPA free plastic to ensure they contain no leaching toxins. The bottles feature a dual wall design and vacuum seal cap that allow liquids stored in the bottle to remain hot or cold for up to 24 hours, making sure you are never left thirsty after a workout, while traveling or during your daily routine. Durable, lightweight, reusable and recyclable, the Goodlife bottles are perfect for everyone from the exercise enthusiast to the environmentally conscious pal. Available in 500 ml., 700 ml. and 1 litre bottles from $23.95.
Price: $23.95 to $29.95 Visit the Website
Muscle Mist A Herbal Spray For Pain
Description: Muscle Mist is a herbal spray for Pain. Used by many for relief of Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Headaches, Whip Lash,Sports Injuries and Much Much More. No need to massage in, Just spray on and go on with your day. It works to reduce inflammation and will give cool or heat depending on what your body needs. For sinus problems spray one spray on your wrist and smell from about 4 inches away to help clear nasal passages. The smell will last on your wrist for a few hours, so just smell when needed. Also if you have problems at night or wake up stuffed in the morning put one spray on your pillow at night.
Price: $20.00 to $103.00 Visit the Website
Description: indieSWIM is the result of a natural and brilliant collaboration between friends Zoe and Rosanna. These Caribbean babes share mutual loves for sea, sand and style. They found a way to artistically express themselves and their passions through a beautiful line of swimwear. The collections they have created embody effortless beauty and comfort. They are designed to reflect every girl's need for versatility and are inspired by culture, nature, and art. The indieGIRL is adventurous,free-spirited, and young at heart. The styles, patterns, and colors all come together beautifully to leave you with a work of art, rather than swimsuit. The pieces are made to go further than the beach. They are pieces made to go out and live in, with confidence and a zest for life. indieSWIM gives you subtle sex appeal, while keeping things bright, relaxed, and simply fun. Zoe and Rosanna have a strong sense of community and it shows through their work and in their brand. They don't want you to just wear your bikini, they want you to feel alive in it. It's promised that any girl wearing indieSWIM will feel just that.
Price: $20.00 to $95.00 Visit the Website
Wood Underwear
Description: Wood underwear fits just right, looks good and are so soft you wont even notice they're holding your goods. Offering clean simple design and collegiate inspired colors, Wood premium products are the underwear men never knew they needed. Wood's premium underwear are made from the most comfortable fabric blend available and actually contain wood aka modal from beech trees. Wood strives to be approachable and accessible because we believe that your body is not a billboard and not all men buy underwear because of a label. Wood Underwear enhances your power and offers you the comfort to do all you want to while you look good doing it. When it comes to men's underwear, Wood has you covered. Wood is good.
Price: $20.00 to $55.00 Visit the Website
Overthrow Clothing MMXII Tee In Blue
Description: The "MMXII" tee is designed for comfort and for everyday wear. Taller recipients are covered; this tee fits slightly longer than the average shirt. The "MMXII" tee is created with a blend of combed cotton and polyester jersey, which eliminates shrinkage. A tag-less design makes for an extra comfortable wear. Screened by hand in Phoenix, Arizona. Blue shown, Red and Charcoal available online at www.overthrowclothing.com
Price: $20.00 Visit the Website
B-Skinz: For A Brighter Active Life!
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NEW YORK — Japan's Nintendo Co. drove the U.S. video game market in January, with industry sales of gaming systems, software and accessories growing 13 percent to $1.33 billion.
According to market researcher NPD Group, Americans bought $445.4 million worth of video game hardware during the month, a 17 percent increase from the same period a year earlier.
The Nintendo Wii was by far the month's best-selling system, with 679,200 units sold, followed by the handheld DS, also by Nintendo, with 510,800.
Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, said this is the 16th consecutive month the Wii has been the best-selling console in the U.S.
Fils-Aime said he expects the game industry to grow this year, but added this won't be "even across the board."
"Nintendo platforms will have accounted for a large majority of the year-over-year growth," he said in an interview.
The $250 console, launched in 2006, transformed the video game landscape by getting millions people who were not experienced gamers to pick up a controller.
The Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp. sold 309,000 units during the month. The priciest of the three consoles, the PlayStation 3 from Sony Corp., sold 203,200 units.
January software sales climbed 10 percent to $676.6 million. This was above the 5 percent increase that Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian had forecast. He noted that retailer GameStop Corp. recently reported "healthy" sales of gift cards over the holidays, and many of these were likely redeemed in January.
Games from Nintendo grabbed the top three spots for the month. "Wii Fit," perhaps boosted by New Year's resolutions to exercise, was the month's top-selling game with 777,000 units sold. "Left 4 Dead" from Electronic Arts Inc. and "Call of Duty: World at War" from Activision Blizzard Inc., both for the Xbox 360, were also among the top five.
NPD analyst Anita Frazier said the broadening of the game audience "will help buoy the industry through these tough economic times, provided they have enough compelling content to keep them interested."
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This was a new feeling for George Lucas. He made a movie about a plucky band of freedom fighters who battle an evil empire — a movie loaded with special effects like no one had seen before. Then he showed it to executives from all the Hollywood studios. And every one of them said, "Nope."
One studio's executives didn't even show up for the screening. "Isn't this their job?" Lucas says, astonished. "Isn't their job at least to see movies? It's not like some Sundance kid coming in there and saying, 'I've got this little movie — would you see it?' If Steven (Spielberg) or I or Jim Cameron or Bob Zemeckis comes in there, and they say, 'We don't even want to bother to see it. . . .' "
Lucas sighs. It's true that the movie, "Red Tails," is a biopic about the Tuskegee Airmen rather than a space opera starring the Skywalker clan. But the snub implied that Lucas's pop-culture collateral — six "Star Wars" movies, four "Indiana Jones" movies, the effects shop Industrial Light and Magic and toy licenses that were selling (at least) four different light sabers this Christmas — was basically worthless. When "Red Tails" opens in theaters on Jan. 20, it will be because Lucas paid for everything, including the prints.
Lucas, who is 67 and still in possession of the full pompadour, told me his story of rejection on a cold December morning at Skywalker Ranch, in Marin County, Calif. He was sitting on a maroon sofa in the animation studios, wearing his standard billionaire-casual outfit — a flannel shirt with rolled-up sleeves, jeans and Nikes — while Padmé Amidala, the heroine of the "Star Wars" prequels, peeked down from two paintings arranged on either side of his head.
"I'm retiring," Lucas said. "I'm moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff."
He was careful to leave himself an out clause for a fifth "Indiana Jones" film. But otherwise, "Red Tails" will be the last blockbuster Lucas makes. "Once this is finished, he's done everything he's ever wanted to do," says Rick McCallum, who has been producing Lucas's films for more than 20 years. "He will have completed his task as a man and a filmmaker."
Lucas has decided to devote the rest of his life to what cineastes in the 1970s used to call personal films. They'll be small in scope, esoteric in subject and screened mostly in art houses. They'll be like the experimental movies Lucas made in the 1960s, around the time he was at U.S.C. film school, when he recorded clouds moving over the desert and made a movie based on an E. E. Cummings poem. During that period, Lucas assumed he would spend his career on the fringes. Then "Star Wars" happened — and though Lucas often mused about it, he never committed himself to the uncommercial world until now.
Sitting in a sun-drenched office, his voice boyish, Lucas talked about himself as if he were a character in one of his movies. He's at the end of an epic saga; he's embracing a new destiny ("Make the art films, George"); he's battling former acolytes who have become his sworn enemies; and George Lucas is — no kidding — in love. Before he takes his digital camera with him into obscurity, though, Lucas has one last mission. He wants to prove that with "Red Tails," he can still make the kind of movie everyone in the world will want to see.
A little more than a week before our meeting at the ranch, Lucas stood in front of the screen in a packed theater in Times Square. An army of African-American power brokers looked down upon him from stadium seating. Richard Parsons was there. Spike Lee. David Dinkins. Al Sharpton. Desirée Rogers, the former White House social secretary. Lee Daniels, the director of "Precious."
Lucas was sporting his traditional uniform of jeans and a button-down — but this time with a black cashmere sport coat, a flourish one Lucasite credited to Mellody Hobson, Lucas's girlfriend of about five years, who is president of one of the largest African-American-owned assets-management firms in the country. She stood at his side as Lucas told the crowd about his plan to avenge the studios' snub. (20th Century Fox finally agreed to distribute the movie domestically but will not be paying any of the costs.) Lucas, in a playful mood, said a huge opening weekend would persuade the studios to finance a second "Red Tails" movie — a prequel — "that Spike Lee's gonna make!" From the crowd, Lee yelled, "When do we start?" Lucas continued, "And we can get somebody else — Lee Daniels — to do the sequel!"
All preview screenings are wildly optimistic celebrations of the possible. But this was different. This was a rally. "On Jan. 20," an 89-year-old Tuskegee pilot named Roscoe C. Brown Jr., told the crowd, "every African-American in this country ought to go see 'Red Tails.' " Desirée Rogers, who is now C.E.O. of Johnson Publishing Company, said she was splashing "Red Tails" on the cover of Ebony. And Al Sharpton, sounding like a "Star Wars" fanboy in 1977, later insisted that "it's probably one of the best movies I've ever seen!"
Lucas first heard the story of the Tuskegee Airmen from a friend, the photographer George Hall, in 1988. It appealed on a visceral level — "I'm a fan of fast things" — and also because, despite criticism that "Star Wars" was too white, Lucas has always had an interest in civil rights. Back in the 1970s, Lucas almost cast an African-American as Han Solo (Glynn Turman, who played the first Baltimore mayor in "The Wire").
Most important, though, the airmen, World War II pilots who won nearly 100 Distinguished Flying Crosses, fit perfectly in Lucas's mythic-heroic view finder. If there's a through line in the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" movies, it's a childlike view of heroism. "Star Wars," with its CliffsNotes Joseph Campbell formula, was a rejection of 1970s gloom; two decades later, the prequel movies were more innocent than "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings." Lucas's films are relentlessly — and to some, maddeningly — old-fashioned and naïve. "If it's a popcorn movie," Lucas told me, "it needs a lot of corn."
The first "Red Tails" scripts, which Lucas began commissioning in the early 1990s, suggested a three-part epic. Imagine the opening scenes in segregated Alabama, where one of the original Tuskegee instructors takes Eleanor Roosevelt for a spin; then picture the airborne dogfights over Europe, with slick visual effects from Industrial Light and Magic; and finally, in an irony worthy of Ralph Ellison, envision the war heroes returning home to find that the country they fought for is still in the clammy hands of Jim Crow. "You think 'Lawrence of Arabia,' you think 'The Bridge on the River Kwai,' " Rick McCallum says. "Then you think, Oh, my God, 'Red Tails.' "
"I can't make that movie," Lucas recalled thinking when he read the scripts. "I'm going to have make this kind of . . . entertainment movie." So Lucas focused on the middle chapter: the dogfights and the Nazi-hunting black pilots who shout, "How you like that, Mr. Hitler!" (When I mention Lucas's naïve style to Michael Bay, the director of the "Transformers" movies, he says sympathetically, "That's what I get crap for from my critics.")
For a model, Lucas studied flag-waving World War II films like Nicholas Ray's "Flying Leathernecks," which starred John Wayne. "We made movies like this during the war, and everybody just loved them," he said. "I said, 'There's no reason why that idealism, that kind of naïveté, can't still exist.' " But Lucas wanted naïveté on his own terms. He slipped into a kind of Socratic conversation with an imaginary studio head.
"They say, Now, who are you making this for?"
"I'm making it for black teenagers."
"And you're doing it as a throwback movie? You're not going to do it as a hip, happening-now, music-video kind of movie?"
"No, that's not a smart thing to do. There's not really going to be a lot of swearing in it. There's probably not going to be a huge amount of blood in it. Nobody's head's going to get blown off."
"And you're going to be very patriotic — you're making a black movie that's patriotic?"
"They have a right to have their history just like anybody else does," Lucas said. "And they have a right to have it kind of Hollywood-ized and aggrandized and made corny and wonderful just like anybody else does. Even if that's not the fashion right now."
The key then to understanding Lucas's last blockbuster, like his first, is not how futuristic he's making it but how retrograde.
Since 1997, the year Lucas released his special editions of the original "Star Wars" movies in theaters, he has been attacked by the very fans who once embraced his heroic style. They didn't like how Lucas changed the old movies; they didn't like the prequels, which seemed wooden and juvenile; and the Star Wars merchandising blitz they once gorged on had begun to drive them nuts. (All six "Star Wars" films will return to theaters in 3-D, beginning in February.)
"I think there are a lot more important things in the world" than feuds with fanboys, Lucas says with a kind of weary diffidence. But then he gets serious, even a little wounded. Lucas explains that his first major features — "THX 1138" and "American Graffiti" — were forcibly re-edited by the studios. Those were wrenching experiences he has compared to someone keying your car (he loves cars) or chopping a finger off one of your children (he has three and loves them too). Afterward, Lucas set out to gain financial independence so the final cut would forever be his. "If the movie doesn't work," he vowed, "it's going to be my fault."
In the last decade and a half, Lucas has given "Star Wars" several "final" cuts. For the 1997 special edition, he made Greedo, a green-skinned alien, fire his blaster at Han Solo because Han's murdering Greedo in cold blood — as the 1977 version had it — struck him as a violation of his own naïve style. For the new Blu-ray version of "Return of the Jedi," Lucas added Darth Vader shouting, "Nooo!" as he seizes the evil emperor in the movie's climactic scene. Lucas made the Ewoks blink. And so forth.
When fanboys wailed, Lucas did not just hear the scream of young Jedis; he heard something like the voice of the studio. The dumb, uncomprehending voice in his Socratic dialogues — a voice telling him how to make a blockbuster. "On the Internet, all those same guys that are complaining I made a change are completely changing the movie," Lucas says, referring to fans who, like the dreaded studios, have done their own forcible re-edits. "I'm saying: 'Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it.' "
Lucas seized control of his movies from the studios only to discover that the fanboys could still give him script notes. "Why would I make any more," Lucas says of the "Star Wars" movies, "when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?"
After downing a few Grey Goose tonics at New York's Royalton hotel, Cuba Gooding Jr., one of the stars of "Red Tails," came up with a rejoinder to all the people who turned down the project. "I like to say James Cameron made a movie just like this," he said excitedly. "Instead of black people, there were blue people being held down by white people. It was called 'Avatar!' And the studios said the same thing to him: 'We can't do a movie with blue people!' "
To execute his popcorn vision of "Red Tails," Lucas turned to Anthony Hemingway, a 36-year-old director who made his name on TV shows like "The Wire." Hemingway, who had never directed a feature film, comes from the church of David Simon, which values moral murkiness over naïveté, documentary detail about East Baltimore over an ethnography of the Ewok village. It was like hiring a "Hill Street Blues" veteran to direct "Return of the Jedi."
But from the beginning, Lucas wanted "Red Tails" to have a black director. "I thought, This is the proper way to do this," he said. Indeed, to scan the credits in "Red Tails" is to see Lucas's fidelity to African-American filmmakers. There are two black writers and a black executive producer. Terence Blanchard, a Spike Lee collaborator ("Jungle Fever," "Malcolm X"), wrote the score, and Art Sims, another Lee veteran, designed the one-sheet.
Hemingway couldn't believe he was working with Lucas. At the end of their first interview, the director turned to Lucas and said, "May the force be with you." (Hemingway told me that afterward he was so embarrassed, he felt like jumping out of a window.) When Hemingway got the call telling him he'd been hired to direct the next George Lucas movie, he pulled over to the side of the road and began to cry.
Still, he wasn't sure Lucas was taking this film in the right direction. "I always felt it was much more of a mature film," Hemingway said. "I felt if you're going after kids, you have to go through the back door." But Lucas persuaded him that if they made "Red Tails" as a kids' picture, at some primal, emotional level, they would connect with the adult fanboys.
"Red Tails" is dominated by plane-to-plane combat ("an hour's worth of fighting," Lucas says) that is as impressive as any put on screen. But the movie's heart is in the relationship between two pilots, Marty "Easy" Julian (Nate Parker) and Joe "Lightning" Little (David Oyelowo). As their nicknames suggest, Easy respects army brass and plays by the rules; Lightning bristles at authority and blows up German warships when he chooses. Hemingway told Parker and Oyelowo to imagine they were portraying the famous cleavage in the civil rights movement. "The theme that consistently came up," Oyelowo says, "was that I was Malcolm to his Martin."
After Hemingway finished his shoot, "Red Tails" entered a two-year postproduction phase. Hemingway returned to TV; Lucas worked on additional scenes and effects. The movie still felt a tad reverent, so in early 2010, Lucas hired Aaron McGruder, the feisty creator of the Boondocks comic strip, as well as a famous "Star Wars" fan. It was an interesting decision, because McGruder was once a vocal opponent of Jar Jar Binks, the floppy-eared alien introduced in the first "Star Wars" prequel whose vocal squeaks ("Meesa your humble servant!") reminded critics of Stepin Fetchit. One Boondocks strip showed Jar Jar with his fist in the air doing the black-power salute; another described Lucas being physically assaulted. "What do I call it when someone who ruins his own pop-culture icons is attacked by a psycho fan?" a McGruder character said. "I call it justice."
So the man who accused Lucas of racial klutziness found himself supplying dialogue for Lucas's Malcolm-and-Martin passion project. Lucas and McGruder spent mornings talking over scenes and dialogue. Then McGruder escaped to his Skywalker Ranch apartment, which was named for John Huston, to write new pages.
Did the subject of Jar Jar ever come up? "I can safely say it did not," McGruder reported. "Not at all. Not even close." In fact, the comic-book writer, like the "Wire" director, found himself smitten with Lucas's popcorn vision of "Red Tails." As McGruder put it, "One of the last things I said to George was: 'This movie kind of represents the last barrier of equality for the black fighting man. We've never had the John Wayne treatment.' " Lucas had hit his retro-naïve bull's-eye.
There's an episode late in Lucas's popcorn period that nicely encapsulates the break between him and his fanboys. I speak, of course, of nuking the fridge.
In 2008's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," the fourth and least-liked of the Lucas/Spielberg collaborations, Indy steps into a lead-lined refrigerator to survive a nuclear bomb. Like "jumping the shark," "nuke the fridge" became shorthand for a creative nosedive and inspired a "South Park" episode in which Lucas and Spielberg rape their archaeologist hero. "Blame me," Spielberg told Empire magazine last fall. "Don't blame George. That was my silly idea."
What the blistering fan reaction illustrates is one downside of Lucas's naïve style. By persuading us to drop our snarky defenses and embrace his fables, Lucas had forged a bond with fanboys like no filmmaker, outside of Spielberg, before or since. (Adjusted for inflation, the three original "Star Wars" movies and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" still rank among the top 20 highest-grossing movies of all time.) But naïveté is a fragile emotion. When Lucas goes back and futzes with his mythology — has Greedo shoot first or creates a goofball like Jar Jar Binks or makes Indy uncool by sticking him in a refrigerator — he isn't just messing with beloved movies. He's telling fanboys the naïve belief they gave to him was misplaced.
"What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?" Lucas once asked his biographer, Dale Pollock. Now imagine it being yanked away. If the fanboys had become like the studio to Lucas, then Lucas, to the fanboys, had become the man who breaks the bad news about adulthood. He'd become their dad.
When I told Lucas that Spielberg had accepted the blame for nuking the fridge, he looked stunned. "It's not true," he said. "He's trying to protect me."
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In fact, it was Spielberg who "didn't believe" the scene. In response to Spielberg's fears, Lucas put together a whole nuking-the-fridge dossier. It was about six inches thick, he indicated with his hands. Lucas said that if the refrigerator were lead-lined, and if Indy didn't break his neck when the fridge crashed to earth, and if he were able to get the door open, he could, in fact, survive. "The odds of surviving that refrigerator — from a lot of scientists — are about 50-50," Lucas said.
But now we're talking about science rather than emotions, and the Lucas magic is lost.
I mentioned to Lucas that his pal Spielberg, who released "The Adventures of Tintin" and "War Horse" in December, was directing movies as if he were raging against the dying of the light. "Steven is a born director, which is why he's such a genius," Lucas said of the 65-year-old Spielberg. "He's truly a cinematic genius. But he's like a kid with a video game. It's like: 'C'mon, we're going. We're leaving now.' Death comes. . . . And then Steven goes: 'I got one more game! I got one more game!' "
"One day," Lucas says, "they're just going to unplug it and say, 'You've got to go home now.' "
Love isn't an emotion that gets much of a workout in the Lucas universe. But mention Lucas's girlfriend, Mellody Hobson, and you get expressions of tender devotion that would make Han Solo blush. "They're very much in love," says the director and screenwriter Matthew Robbins, a pal of Lucas's since U.S.C. "It's the most semi-saccharine thing to be saying about your friend, but it happens to be true."
"I'm just elated," the Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler says, "that in his old, rich days he's getting some enjoyment."
Hobson, aside from being the president of the asset-management firm Ariel Investments, is a financial analyst on "Good Morning America" and a friend of the Obamas' and Oprah Winfrey's. She lives in Chicago and Lucas in Northern California, but they see each other nearly every weekend. Though Lucas is a lifelong liberal — "left of the middle," he once said — before dating Hobson, he rarely left the editing room long enough to participate in politics. Now he does. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Lucas suggested to a reporter that Obama was a Jedi knight, the highest status in the Lucas worldview. In 2009, Hobson took Lucas — wearing a tuxedo — to the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
"When they started going together," Al Sharpton told me, "it was like he had started going with black America's business princess." Sharpton was baffled by the match until he had lunch with Lucas last year and found him "outraged" and "totally beside himself" about the rejection of "Red Tails." Hobson, Sharpton realized, had found someone whose passion and drive were equal to hers: "It was like the coming together of two volcanoes!"
When I asked about Hobson, Lucas said, "I'm a '60s, West Coast, liberal, radical, artsy, dyed-in-the-wool 99 percenter before there was such a thing." (He was referring to his upbringing rather than his reported $3.2 billion net worth.) "And she's an East Coast, Princeton grad, Wall Street fund manager, knows all the big players, works in the big world. You would never think that we would get together, have anything in common. But when we did, we realized we had everything in common. It was the most unlikely coupling."
The operative metaphor isn't Han Solo's sly courtship of Princess Leia. It's Richard Dreyfuss staring slack-jawed at Suzanne Somers in "American Graffiti." "I was attracted to her," Lucas continues, "because she's really, really smart. . . . If you're more beautiful than I am and smarter than I am and you'll put up with me, that's all it takes. I'm there."
Last October, Lucas slipped incognito into the first "Red Tails" test screening in Atlanta. He and McCallum huddled together nervously among throngs of teenage boys. When the lights went down, Lucas muttered, "Let the games begin. . . ."
Lucas got one report from the early "Red Tails" test screenings that struck him. Three or four white kids had been spotted yelling, "I'm Easy!" "No, I'm Easy. You're Lightning!" They'd become "Red Tails" heroes: Easy and Lightning, Malcolm and Martin. "The ultimate line was to have a bunch of 10-year-old white boys say, 'I want to be like those guys,' " Lucas says. "Which is what you get with sports. Which is what you get with music. I wanted to do it just with being an American citizen. Again, that's corny."
Lucas was ecstatic. He had minted a new collection of heroes. "It plays," he excitedly told his friends. "It plays."
Making "Red Tails" was such a natural experience for Lucas — like Peter Jackson commanding hobbits or Mike Leigh directing an emotionally fraught dinner scene — that you wonder why he would leave for the obscurity of the experimental world.
Part of Lucas's urge, it seems, is to reassert himself as a figure of the '70s. Peter Biskind's book "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" split the '70s Movie Brat generation into warring camps: Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby and Robert Altman, the protectors of Art, versus Lucas and Spielberg, the guys who turned movies into video games. (It seemed like a worse insult 10 years ago.) Among the many problems with this theory is that Lucas's work on technical advances, like digital filmmaking and computer-generated imagery, has begun to help the very directors whose careers he supposedly vaporized. The year in which Martin Scorsese releases "Hugo" — a movie with 15 times the number of C.G.I. shots as "Jurassic Park" — is the year in which it's no longer O.K. to call Lucas a villain.
Lucas has also looked longingly at the career of Francis Ford Coppola, his onetime mentor. After years of tussling with the studios (and making his own flops without their interference), Coppola began self-financing movies like "Twixt" that find tiny audiences and often get brutal reviews from critics. Coppola loves the idea of Lucas's joining him in creating these kinds of films. "Now that he's demonstrated his commercial moviemaking abilities," Coppola wrote in an e-mail, "it's time to show his other side." He said Lucas's personal films — a combination of light and music and crack editing — are his "real gift."
But you wonder if this view — the commercial versus the personal, the blockbuster versus the experimental art film — is as reductive as the 1970s model. In fact, Lucas has always made personal films, just not in the traditional sense. The very first time Lucas showed "Star Wars" to friends, with World War II movie dogfights standing in for the unfinished effects, Spielberg is reported to have said, "That movie is going to make $100 million, and I'll tell you why — it has a marvelous innocence and naїveté in it, which is George, and people will love it."
That was without the Star Destroyers — it was just Lucas's corny self up on the screen. Luke Skywalker's battle with Darth Vader was given emotional heft by Lucas's own relationship with his father, who owned a stationery shop and wanted George to join the family business. When Luke left his backwater planet for greater glory, he did so with the same resolve with which Lucas left his hometown of Modesto, Calif., a note Lucas struck perfectly in "American Graffiti." ("Steve Bolander is an insurance agent in Modesto," reads the "Graffiti" postscript — it sounds like Lucas's nightmare.) Even 1984's "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" is a kind of personal film. "I was going through a divorce, and I was in a really bad mood," Lucas told me. So he dreamed up a villain who reaches into men's chests and pulls out their hearts. Did he really intend to create a metaphor that direct? "Yeah," Lucas said glumly. The period is hard for him to think about.
Critics have said that Lucas's personal flourishes are elemental and unsophisticated. But, as Spielberg put it, that is George. He ushered in what you might call the personal blockbuster. Amid the dead-eyed sequel-makers who haunt the multiplex, there are directors who have figured out how to insert themselves — their kinks, the fears, their passions — into $100 million crowd-pleasers. In the Batman movies and "Inception," Christopher Nolan works out his obsession with privacy and the sanctity of our minds; David Fincher burrows into the heads of loners (Lisbeth Salander, the Zodiac Killer, Mark Zuckerberg) on society's fringes. When Tim Burton makes a bad movie (like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"), the problem is often that it's too personal; we're locked in Burton's head when we could use some popcorn.
Lucas talks reverently of a certain category of megadirector — James Cameron ("Avatar") and Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings") — who, like him, shepherd personal, seemingly ridiculous visions to the screen, only to watch them connect with a mass audience. "Those to me are some of the more interesting movies," Lucas said. It's because, under even the strictest 1970s definition, they're personal films.
When Lucas talks about how excited he is to leave behind the rigors of blockbuster filmmaking — how he is "retiring, in a way, from my past" — he is, in the manner of a Lucas character, searching for his true self. A pesky "Star Wars" fanboy might suggest he already found him.
Lucas doesn't think the studios were being racist in rejecting his all-black action adventure. They were merely confused. Just as with "Star Wars," they were being shown a movie that didn't fit their marketing schema. "What's it like?" Lucas asked, slipping again into a Socratic dialogue.
"Well," he replied, "it's kind of like 'The Color Purple,' only they're in airplanes. It's sort of like a Tyler Perry movie, only without jokes."
And so, after shelling out nearly $100 million on the project, Lucas was sitting in his office in his flannel shirt dreaming of what his final blockbuster might rake in at the box office. "If we can get over $20 million in our first weekend," Lucas said, "we're kind of in the game. We're in 'The Help' category."
It was strange to hear the creator of "Star Wars" cap his aspirations at "The Help." And sure enough, Lucas's hypothetical grosses began to grow.
"If it gets $30 (million) in the first weekend," he continued, "then those guys get to make their movies without even thinking about it." Here Lucas meant Spike Lee or Lee Daniels or whoever else might direct the "Red Tails" prequel and sequel.
"If it does 'Twilight' business," Lucas said. And here, to be clear, he was joking. But it's a joke you get to make only when you've rewired a few generations' worth of moviegoers' brains. "If it does 'Twilight' business," Lucas said, "then, gosh, all movies will be black."
The sentiment is perfectly corny and naїve, and at the end of an amazing saga, it sounds like George Lucas's preferred way of saying goodbye.


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Sunday, May 15, 2011
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Ian: my sweet nephew
We found out that my little sister was having a baby really early on...like only 4 weeks along. So, to everyone (including her)...it felt like she was pregnant FOR.EV.ER. When Ian finally arrived (a week late) it was cause for great celebration...and a photo shoot.
Seriously, he is such a good baby...but at 8 days old he would not sleep for me. He kept a constant watch on the camera, inspecting it, analyzing it, storing away that information in his little baby brain. Regardless, we got some cute photos of the newest family member!
Meet Ian...he gets his flair for the dramatic from me (see 2nd picture)
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Monday, May 2, 2011
Frymyer Family: In the Studio
I really enjoyed my Sunday morning session with the Frymyer family in the studio. Maddie with her tiara and Jack with his big blue eyes made for some pretty awesome photos. I love the colors in these photos...the bright purple, yellow, and green...it feels like spring to me!
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Ellison + Griffin: 1 Year Old
My dear friends Brett + Julie had twins last year and now they are 1! It is so hard to believe that the past year has flown by and those teeny tiny babies are moving around, full of big smiles for the camera, and eating cake!!
Brett + Julie...you must be so proud of these big 1 year old that you have!
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
In the kitchen window
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Katy, Alex + baby boy: Maternity
Katy & Alex were set-up by my sister-in-law, unbeknowst to either of them. When everyone else left the party and insisted that the two of them stay and get to know one another...they had a light-bulb moment.
But hey...it worked and here they are expecting a baby boy in just a few days.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
I Heart Faces Challenge: Favorite Face for March
My favorite face from March...no doubt.
Meet my new nephew...feeling a bit sleepy at only 8 days old.
Go check out the other amazing entries this week at I Heart Faces.
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Liam Maxwell has been appointed as an advisor to the Efficiency and Reform Group and the government chief information officer on new ideas for the government's use of technology.
His work will cover developing new methods of service delivery, increasing the use of open standards and open source software, helping SMEs in the government marketplace and scanning the development of future technologies.
Maxwell is head of computing at Eton College, a councillor at Windsor and Maidenhead, and one of the Conservative party's advisers on government ICT. He co-authored the 2009 report for then shadow chancellor George Osborne on promoting the use of open source in government, and another that year for the Centre for Policy Studies on government's use of individuals' data.
A departmental spokesman said that Maxwell will begin the job in September and is taking a sabbatical from his position at Eton.
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Double Chocolate-Mint Cheesecake Bars
chocolate graham crackers
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
5 tablespoons Dutch process cocoa, sifted
1 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 large egg white
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ounces Andes Crème de Menthe baking chips
Preheat oven to 325
Lightly coat the bottom of an 8" baking pan with nonstick spray and then line with parchment paper. Lightly coat the rest of the pan with nonstick spray.
Use enough graham crackers to completely cover the bottom of the pan - you may have to break some pieces for them to fit.
In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add cocoa and sour cream - beat until combined. Add in cornstarch, sugar, egg, egg white and vanilla - mix until combined. Pour into the prepared pan.
Bake until the center is just set - about 30 - 40 minutes. Remove and sprinkle the top with the Andes baking chips - let sit for 5 minutes. Use an offset spatula and evenly spread the melted chips to cover the top. Let cool completely and then place in the refrigerator to chill for at least 4 hours.
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Double Chocolate-Mint Cheesecake Bars
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I didn't know Andes had baking chips! I think these look like a must for my Super Bowl table.ReplyDelete
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These look great...what is the source of the recipe?ReplyDelete
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Anon - If I don't list a source next to the recipe name, it is either a recipe I threw together or a compilation of several different recipes.
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Honestly, It's a Good Story
We're pleased this month to be able to include an excerpt from Mission in a Bottle, a new book by the co-founders of Honest Tea. We've got a ton of other stories, of course, but it's rare that we're presented with an opportunity to showcase a piece that dovetails so nicely with our own place in the industry, which is as a resource for the galaxy of the entrepreneurial beverage company.
Having had the chance to read an advance copy of the book, I can tell you that it offers a spin on the beverage business that is invaluable to the entrepreneur – largely because it's told from the point of view of a pair who were, initially, outsiders. It's an established pattern that many of the most effective entrepreneurs do not come from inside their industry, and that is certainly true in the case of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff.
Much of the value of the stories that Seth and Barry tell come from their ability to recall, as adventurers in this new world of beverage, their encounters with many of that world's established practices. Some made sense at the time, and, as many examples indicate, some seemed to be just plain ridiculous. Here's one: Honest's sales guru, Dan Cavanaugh, takes the pair out to lunch with route drivers from a distributor, where they learn that incentivizing the sales reps – a common practice – doesn't make sense because some routes are more profitable, and the reps are just sharing the bonuses around. Here's another: a retailer isn't putting Honest Tea out on the shelf because it sells too fast – he doesn't want it to look out of stock. By not being entrenched in those patterns, the pair are able to disrupt the business, often to their advantage.
The creativity that Seth and Barry have shown over the long term in working around less-than-ideal practices is what has made Honest Tea such an important company, not just for beverages but for the broader entrepreneurial world as well. So are the mistakes that are retold here: the purchase of a bottling plant, their pursuit of a bagged tea business, bad hires and ill-fated negotiations.
There are those who have heard Seth speak – or who have met him – who will recognize many of the stories that are told in the book. But the addition of Barry's insights helps to keep them from becoming hackneyed – and the stories, even for those who know them, bear repeating.
That other beverage companies would later successfully execute the plays that Honest Tea drew in the dirt is signal enough that there's teachable material in this company's evolution. True, Honest Tea isn't the only company that has had to improvise on distribution – maybe not using a charcoal distributor, for example, but one that supplied cold cuts – but it's awfully nice to see a full record of the many small decisions that have to be made when growing a brand all collected in one place.
Having them together lets us understand the record of innovation and mission that has come from the founders of Honest Tea. (Of course, having them told in tiny chapters in an easy-to-read graphic novel is even better, because it's an innovative format that caters to those who, like me, have absolutely zero understanding of the courses that Seth took from Barry at Yale, where the pair first met.)
Fawning over such a useful tool is easy, and it's understandable that Seth and Barry have chosen to subtitle it a "Guide to Doing Business Differently – and Succeeding." That's a fair assessment, as the pair offer up a lot of advice and break with the comic narrative format repeatedly to give takeaways that are much more in the "how-to" vein. But that subtitle sells short the context – that there's a fair amount of specialized circumstance in the growth of every business, and there are parts of the Honest Tea story that belong to Honest Tea alone. While those circumstances mean that every solution tried by Seth and Barry won't apply to every other business that seeks to apply them, they are also the stuff of a story worth telling. We're glad to be able to help them do so here, for the benefit of our readers, and, we're also glad to have had such a nice seat for much of the ride.


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Thompson Square Promote 2012 ACMs With 'Sh-t Thompson Square Says' Video
Country music fans can steal a peek inside the life, tour bus and bedroom of ACM award-nominated duo Thompson Square in this fast-paced video just released on the married couple's YouTube page. 'Sh-t Thompson Square Says' (despite the title, it's safe for work) is a play on the title of a book, William Shatner television show and internet trend.
A few gems from the two-and-a-half minute video include Keifer Thompson getting 'denied' on several occasions and Shawna Thompson's habits of making the couple late and losing things. They are also seen in their car, on the tour bus, in their living room and trying to kill each other while playing a video game.
"I'm gonna cut ya, I just cut ya," Shawna says with an undeniable cuteness at one point. "Do you play with yourself when I'm not around?" her husband asks. Out of context that question could have other implications, but… well, everything in this video is out of context, so who knows what he was asking about.
"Is that your foot?" Shawna asks lying in bed with her back turned to Keifer. "Nope," he replies with a sly grin. The duo put the video together as an introduction to last month's New Faces Show performance during Country Radio Seminar, and as an entertaining way to remind ACM voters to choose them for the Vocal Duo of the Year category at the ACM Awards on April 1. Love and Theft, Montgomery Gentry, Steel Magnolia and Sugarland are also nominated in the category.
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Thursday, November 08, 2007
Dangerous freedom
6 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I say do the paper clips! Although I expect the window of opportunity closed and someone walked in just as you began to fashion the foundations. Such is life.
It is very good you have something to do. Making work has always drained me to the core and yet in the past I have seen so many around me make 'making work' their career. sigh!
- November 08, 2007 4:30 AM
- Froog said...
You're quite right, FG. The admin girl walked in just as I was about to get started. Turns out her cold is a little better; she was just running late.
Lucky escape for all concerned!
- November 08, 2007 4:47 AM
- Froog said...
Tulsa just asked how the "tower of clips" was coming on.
I replied, "I think it needs some Viagra."
- November 08, 2007 4:48 AM
- moonrat said...
thanks for the "plug." btw allow me to point out that if *i* didn't procrastinate by writing there would be nothing for YOU to read when YOU'RE procrastinating.
- November 08, 2007 1:25 PM
- moonrat said...
thanks especially for THREE DIFFERENT LINKS. you show me my own true nature. nyuk nyuk.
- November 08, 2007 1:26 PM
- Froog said...
And that was just the last couple of days.
You need therapy, Moonie.
- November 08, 2007 6:23 PM


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Anna is all about Valentine's day this year. She asks me almost every day if it's Valentine's yet....or if tomorrow will be Valentine's. I'm not really sure why...we don't really do anything special. Right now, she is obsessed with this heart punch I have. She punches hearts all day, draws pictures on them, writes "I love u" on them, colors them, gives them to us.....
So today, I thought we would do a little "heart learning". I punched out enough hearts for both uppercase/lowercase letters, as well as numbers 1-5.
We played a matching/memory game with our letters..
We sorted them out by upper/lower case and then matched up the "baby" (lowercase) with the "momma" (uppercase) letters.
And then we matched up the correct number of hearts with each number.
It was fun...she was learning...and I'm sure we will do this again soon!