This week on the The Dead Files Steve Dischiavi and Amy Allan travel to Dumfries, Va., where a violent female spirit is out to hurt the living. Dumfries is a small town of just under 5000 people that dates right back to 1690 and was founded by Scotsman John Graham, who named it after the Scottish border town where he was born. Weems–Botts House Museum provides a background to the history of the town but the house itself also has some stories behind it, including reports of paranormal activity. The house once belonged to Mason Locke Weems, who was George Washington’s...read more...
- 5/27/2017
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
As the company continues to build its film slate and also expands into television, Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 has just made two new executive hires for its film creative team. John Graham, who most recently was VP of Production at Paramount Pictures, has been named senior VP. Jessica Switch, who oversaw Lionsgate’s thriller Nerve which garnered high praise from its core audience and has made about $27M to date, has been hired as a VP. They both come to the company at a time…...
- 8/8/2016
- Deadline
In high school, she was known as the "smart, sassy Hannah Graham." "Hannah was always able to steal the show," her father, John Graham, told the Associated Press at a Nov. 15 celebration of life memorial at her alma mater, West Potomac High School, in Alexandria, Virginia. Nearly 1,000 of Graham's family, teachers, professors and friends from high school and the University of Virginia packed into Wphs's auditorium to commemorate the 18-year-old's short but accomplished and well-lived life. Graham, a sophomore at the University of Virginia, vanished in the early hours of Sept. 13 in Charlottesville, Virginia, after she was seen on surveillance...
- 11/17/2014
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777C
- PEOPLE.com
After five agonizing weeks, Hannah Graham's parents got the news they feared: that the remains of their missing daughter have been identified. On Friday, authorities said that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia, had positively identified the skull and bones found scattered across a dried-up creek bed behind a vacant home in southern Albemarle County on Oct. 18 as those of Graham. On Friday morning, Graham's parents, Sue and John Graham, reportedly visited the site where her remains were found - 12 miles from where she was last seen in Charlottesville on Sept. 13. "When we first met Chief...
- 10/24/2014
- by K.C. Baker @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
From the the scrolling text in The Terminator to the hacking methods in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, one programmer is on a mission to crack movie codes
Ever wondered what those Matrix-style green holographic codes that flicker across computer screen in films actually mean? You know, those seemingly complex algorithms in The Fifth Estate and unbreakable cryptograms in Doctor Who? Well, programmer John Graham-Cumming has the answer.
"I was watching the film Elysium and some coding came up as the space station is rebooted, and I thought: 'This is really familiar', so I tracked it down," explains Graham-Cumming, who started coding at the age of 13 on his BBC Microcomputer and is now a well-known blogger and programmer. "It turns out that the code is actually taken directly from the Intel software developer's manual, which I found amusing. So I tweeted that and got hundreds of responses." Last Friday,...
Ever wondered what those Matrix-style green holographic codes that flicker across computer screen in films actually mean? You know, those seemingly complex algorithms in The Fifth Estate and unbreakable cryptograms in Doctor Who? Well, programmer John Graham-Cumming has the answer.
"I was watching the film Elysium and some coding came up as the space station is rebooted, and I thought: 'This is really familiar', so I tracked it down," explains Graham-Cumming, who started coding at the age of 13 on his BBC Microcomputer and is now a well-known blogger and programmer. "It turns out that the code is actually taken directly from the Intel software developer's manual, which I found amusing. So I tweeted that and got hundreds of responses." Last Friday,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Aisha Gani
- The Guardian - Film News
When a filmmaker shows the audience a bunch of jumbled computer code, it’s usually lazy shorthand for genius-computer-person or hax0r-doing-rad-sh*t. But what are we actually looking at when that schizophrenic collection of numbers flashes on the screen? Turns out, not much. John Graham-Cumming started a Tumblr Movie Code where he posts screen grabs showing code from different films and TV shows — and then the actual sources of that supposedly fancy-pants code. Doctor Who, for example, was merely staring sternly at an Svg file of a light wave taken from freaking Wikipedia (sad). The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (above) were looking at Borland’s C programming languages (boring). Even if this still sounds like an alien language to you, the bottom...
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- 1/7/2014
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Birthday shoutouts go to Stanley Tucci (above) who is 53, Demi Moore is 51, Calista Flockhart is 49, Carson Kressley is 44, and Leonardo DiCaprio is 39.
Don’T Tease Us, Agnetha!
Angela Lansbury is not a fan of the NBC remake of Murder, She Wrote. “I think it’s a mistake to call it Murder, She Wrote, because Murder, She Wrote will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person. … So I’m sorry that they have to use the title Murder, She Wrote, even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
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Maulik Pancholy...
Don’T Tease Us, Agnetha!
Angela Lansbury is not a fan of the NBC remake of Murder, She Wrote. “I think it’s a mistake to call it Murder, She Wrote, because Murder, She Wrote will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person. … So I’m sorry that they have to use the title Murder, She Wrote, even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
Univ. of Texas swimmer Matt Korman comes out to teammates in email
Leading opponent of same-sex marriage in Colombia outed as a gay man
Maulik Pancholy...
- 11/11/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Writing about sequencing software inevitably generates two emotion-laden responses. First, nearly every time it degenerates into a “mine’s the best” tit for tat about whose sequencer is superior. Second, the promise of features in an upcoming release muddles the discussion – how soon will the release roll out (including the question of how soon any bugs get ironed out) and how good will the new features be?
To the “my sequencer’s best” crowd I would gently remind all of us that we’ve heard very good music produced on just about every sequencing software set – and rubbish as well. Similarly, it’s worth noting that what some piece of software didn’t do three or four years ago may well have been addressed, so old saws about what “doesn’t work” in a competitor sequencer may now be inaccurate and out of date.
For Digital Performer, on the cusp...
To the “my sequencer’s best” crowd I would gently remind all of us that we’ve heard very good music produced on just about every sequencing software set – and rubbish as well. Similarly, it’s worth noting that what some piece of software didn’t do three or four years ago may well have been addressed, so old saws about what “doesn’t work” in a competitor sequencer may now be inaccurate and out of date.
For Digital Performer, on the cusp...
- 6/28/2012
- by John Graham
- SCOREcastOnline.com
Winners of the 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Awards were announced Monday night in a ceremony hosted by Lisa Kron at Cooper Union. The It Awards celebrate the stars of the Off-Off-Broadway community. The event was available for streaming and was live-blogged by theatre critics Doug Strassler and Aaron Riccio at www.nyitawards.com/live, where a rebroadcast is available. The list of nominees follows with the winners' names in bold.Outstanding Ensemble Marc Bovino, Joe Curnutte, Michael Dalto, Stephanie Wright Thompson, Samuel and Alasdair: "A Personal History of the Robot War"Christine Rebecca Herzog, Itsuko Higashi, Jubil Khan; "Fêtes de la Nuit" Kaela Crawford, Julia Giolzetti, Caitlin Mehner, Alison Scaramella, Stephanie Strohm; "Pink!" Jenny Bennett, Melissa D. Brown, John Graham, John J. Isgro, Courtney Kochuba, Kyle Minshew, Amanda Nichols, Katherine Nolan Brown, Jed Peterson, Sean Reidy, Miranda Shields, Douglas Taurel, Nate Washburn; "The Disorder Plays" Joie Bauer, David Bishins, Gina Nagy Burns,...
- 9/21/2010
- backstage.com
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