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I’m not sure why I don’t remember this show since I’m sure I was the prime marketing target for this type of thing. I suppose that could be the reason it was canceled after 1 season; though watching the trailer leads me to believe otherwise. For one, this was created by the same group that introduced us to Baywatch. I have a feeling the older audience was either still busy watching Baywatch or simply getting tired of the pathetic excuses to show women in Bikinis on TV. Not to mention Terry “Hulk” Hogan, whom we’re somehow lead to believe became the sole proprietor of the most bad ass boat known to man.

I guess its rather easy to see why Thunder in Paradise was canceled.

At first I was confused, then I realized it’s nothing more than a large number of unsupervised youth playing with explosives - just like my younger days. I don’t recall launching a hammer high into the air over a crowd of people. I wonder where that thing landed.

The plan is to drop them from aircraft and annoy everyone on the planet.

Irony at its finest.

Get an extinguisher.

It happens to the best of us.

12,000 people were evacuated when a fire broke out at a propane depot in Toronto. One firefighter was killed on the scene and videos of the event have been popping up all over the net. This one catches a pretty good sized explosion that sends a visible shockwave out.

Licorne Nuclear Test

The Licorne Thermonuclear test was one of 4 French nuclear tests carried out around 1970. This paticular test was an air detonation. The 914 kiloton payload was suspended from a helium balloon and set off at an altitude of around 500 meters. As you can see the resulting blast was, like most nuclear blasts, quite spectacular.

Licorne Nuclear Test

What strikes me about this test was the vibrant photos of the mushroom cloud. Most often photos of nuclear tests are black and white grainy film slides that keep you detached from the vividness and reality of the true blast. As you can see from the photos this test was carried out a bright and sunny day under a baby blue sky.

This video is the making of Pontiac’s Spy Hunter Commercial for the G8.

Sometimes you need to bring the heat back to the dark and itchy bowels of the ghetto.

This commercial is astounding. It seems like nothing special at first because nearly every car commercial aired is either completely or mostly computer generated.

What makes this ad special is that BMW sent out several engine blocks to the ad agency known as IdeaCity. After months of testing and rigging both light holes and camera mounts within the engine IdeaCity shot the footage you see above at 10,000 frames per second. This commercial has zero CGI.

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