The Man Rules

It’s about time all men are told this! – Alli

Monster Jam 2010 – Tallahassee, FL. Monster TRUCKS FTW!

MONSTER TRUCKS FTW!! Hahah, are monster trucks still cool these days? Who cares…. TRUCKASAURES!!! Enjoy the photos below!

Party At Mardi Gras 2010 aka BEWBS!!!!

We actually got to go to Mardi Gras! Well, sorta… We went the weekend before (Feb 12-14, 2010) but I think it was pretty intense still!!! Check out the photos below and make sure to watch the video on youtube.com/charles

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SNOWING IN FLORIDA!

On our way to New Orleans for Mardi Gra and we noticed it started snowing in FLORIDA! WTF?!?! Apparently it snowed in EVERY STATE yesterday (February 12, 2010) except Hawaii! It’s insane!

Hanging At The Inn Between (Feb 11, 2k10)

My little sister @MelissaTrippy came up to visit so we went to hang out! Here are a couple photos! Took way more video, so don’t worry

CTFxC Is For Haters (Hoodie Edition)

So the awesome people at fishead.net made and sent Alli and I custom CTFxC is for Haters hoodies!!! We are toying with the idea of making them available for sale but it’s a lot more work to get made and shipped, so – we are leaving it up to you!

Lost In The Woods (Photos)

We got lost in the woods… so what else would we do – FILM IT! After all, pix or it didn’t happen!

Get A Free iPad NOW (sorta)

It looks like an artist, Jess Silverstone, the lead artist for Revolutionary Concepts put together a cut-out of the Apple iPad that you can print yourself.

The cutout is provided in two separate PNG files (iPad Front 664KB and iPad Rear 377KB). Each cutout can fit on standard A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) paper, but your printer has to be capable of borderless printing to achieve close to actual iPad dimensions. The real iPad dimensions are 9.56 inches x 7.47 inches x 0.5 inches. They’ve even included a cutout of the A4 processor you can include for “improved performance”.


Here’s what it looks like put together:

(via macrumors.com)

My Dad In the 80’s

If you didn’t know, my dad used to be in The Gregg Allman Band back in the 80’s.

Recently, a CTFxC’er found a really old video of them playing in 1982… So… I thought i’d be fun to upload it here. Can you find my dad?

(In case you couldn’t find him. This is my dad.)

Inflatable Blow Up Doll! (SKIT)

Fail At Frisbee Golf (January 30, 2010)

With the suggestions from you guys, Alli and I decided that we should try our hands at Frisbee Golf. Yah, we suck. Give me minute golf any day, but give me the same rules and a frisbee and we suck! Haha! Anyway, here are a few photos from our adventure! You can see the full video on youtube.com/Charles

Weezer @ FSU – January 20, 2010

So AT&T or Verizon or some cell phone company had a contest on Facebook to see which college would get the most votes… Naturally (I say, “naturally” because it makes FSU looks cooler) Florida State University won – which is great for Alli & I! We snagged free floor tickets to the show so here is the video and some photos from that night.

I’ll just say this, the last time I got to see Weezer was in 99/00 just before the green album was released and back then I considered it the best show i’ve been to… until now. Even with broken ribs and internal injuries from the bus accident a month ago – Cuomo and the best still managed to rock it. I guess it helps when you have a crowd of 5-8,000 people singing the lyrics for you

Best of all… Josh Freese was on drums.

Oh, and hayley williams helped with “say it aint so”.

Crap I almost forgot, Jermaine Dupri came out to sing (talk) “can’t stop partying”.

Jumping Out Of Airplanes!

So last January I think it was… Alli & I went skydiving! Why? You may ask… Well, my little sister, Melissa (twitter.com/MelissaTrippy) and her boyfriend, Daniel (twitter.com/danielwade21) thought it would be hilarious to drag me in a plane and throw me out (Charles has a fear of heights). To make things more embarrassing if I DIDN’T go…. my mom said she’d jump! So I HAD to jump now At the time, Alli didn’t have a youtube account… since she does now we figured it would be perfect to upload! Here is Alli’s video, My video and lots of awesome photos! Enjoy!

ALLI SKYDIVING:

CHARLES SKYDIVING:

AEE, CES and VEGAS 2010!!

This year Alli and I got an invite to CES (Consumer Electronic Show). In short, this company (Ion) is making a new “duel video” type of camera dealy! Looks promising! They asked us to go down to Ft. Lauderdale and help shoot a promo for it, you can watch it below!

Anyway, Vegas! This was our first time visiting Vegas and it was even more fun since we had a bunch of our friends there! Oh yeah, we also got an invite to the Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE)…. haha, so we HAD to go … you know for… research… for the vlogs…

So click the images below and it’ll take you to our super duper, amazing, awesome, gnarly flickr page!

District 9 – Fun Facts You Probably Didn’t Know!

As per my video, here are the “fun facts”. I found these from random website but a majority come from the great and mighty imdb.com! All hail!

As part of the marketing campaign in North America and the United Kingdom, posters were put up in major cities on bus stops, the sides of buildings, etc. designating areas that were restricted for humans only, with a number to call (866.666.6001 in the US, 0207 148 7468 in the UK) in order to report non-humans. The title of the film was generally not included, although the URL address for the film’s official website was.

The initial premise of the whole film is based on the Short Film Alive in Joburg (2005), written and directed by Neill Blomkamp, which depicted in a documentary-style the struggles of social interaction between aliens and inhabitants of Johannesburg (“Joburg”), South Africa.

The film was based on director Neill Blomkamp’s childhood in South Africa during apartheid.

Star Sharlto Copley had not acted before and had no intention of pursuing an acting career. He stumbled into the leading role as Neill Blomkamp placed him on-camera during the short film.

All of the “prawns” in the film are CGI with the sole exception of the ones on the operating table in the medical lab. All of the speaking aliens were performed by one actor, Jason Cope, who also played the role of the lead alien Christopher Johnson and narrator Grey Bradnam. The dialogue for the speaking aliens was ad-libbed by Cope, and dubbed over in post production.

The mutilated animal carcasses in the background of many scenes were real and with only a few exceptions, were already in the real slums and shacks used for the filming.

All the shacks in District 9 were actual shacks that exists in a section of Johannesburg which were to be evacuated and the residents moved to better government housing, paralleling the events in the film. Also paralleling, the residents had not actually been moved out before filming began. The only shack that was created solely for filming was Christopher Johnson’s shack.

The creatures used in the small fighting arena were meant to be rodents/pests which were aboard the ship.

The idea of the prawns being obsessed with cat food came from two inspirations. In impoverished areas of Johannesburg, Neill Blomkamp would see people selling cheese poofs and other snack foods out of large 3-foot tall bags and wanted the aliens to have a similar cheap food. The decision to make them cat food came from one of the producers who used canned cat food to bait hooks when fishing for prawns in Vancouver.

After the feature film based on the Halo (2001) (VG) video game series which was to be directed by Neill Blomkamp fell through, producer Peter Jackson went to Blomkamp and offered him $30 million to make whatever he wanted. The result was this film.

Several Afrikaans curse words can be heard throughout the film, including ‘doos’ or ‘poes’ (both of which are slang terms for a vagina), fok/fokken (which means “f**k/f**king”), and ‘bliksem’ which has a variation of meanings. ‘Bliksem’ can mean to hit or strike, but is often used as an exclamation of wonder, amazement or surprise. It can also be used as a derogatory term when referring to a person or as a derogatory adjective when used to describe a person or object. “Daai bliksemse prawn” would roughly translate to “That damn prawn” Also at some point, a sniper says “Kom na pappa toe”, which translates to “Come to daddy”.

The extremely large sniper rifle used to disable Wikus’s armored suit is an actual weapon, the Denel NTW-20 20mm anti-material rifle. Appropriately, it is manufactured in South Africa.

Around six different endings were created during filming.

Sharlto Copley ad-libbed all his lines during the “documentary” sequences.

At one point during the raid on the MNU lab, the phrase “TETRA VAAL” can be seen printed in black on a white wall. This is the name of the fictional robotics company in Neill Blomkamp’s eponymous short film, also set in Johannesburg.

When Wikus is using the alien walker robot, he is seen picking up a pig carcass and launch it with something resembling an anti-gravity gun, a weapon type made widely known through the computer game Half-Life 2 (2004) (VG). In Alive in Joburg (2005), Blomkamp’s short film of which this is based, the aliens appeared to have a very similar type of Anti-gravity Gun (though of much more power – they were able to lift vehicles and launch them a considerable distance).

The MNU headquarter buildings shown in numerous scenes throughout the film are in reality the Carlton Centre complex belonging to South African state transport company Transnet. The shorter of the two buildings (shaped as an upside down Y) is actually the former Carlton Hotel which was mothballed in 1997 due to low occupancy. The taller structure with the CGI helicopter landing pads and MNU logo on the roof is the primary 50-storey building of the Carlton Centre complex and is known as Carlton Centre which is the tallest building in Africa.

A large number of actual South African weapons were used in the film. Quite a few of them were designed by Tony Neophytou and are marketed by Denel. This includes the NTW-20 20mm anti-materiel rifle, white painted CR-21 bullpup assault rifles and a Neopup PAW-20 hand-held grenade launcher. Kobus uses this when he shoots the battle suit in the back.

This is one of two movies to be released in 2009 to have been based on a short film released in 2005. The other film was Shane Acker’s 9 (2009/I). Both films were adapted for a full-length feature film by their original directors.

When the mother ship starts moving, a number of buildings can be seen with their windows blowing out. One diamond shaped building with blue glass does not have it’s windows blown out. That building is the famous 11 Diagonal Street building which was built next to the old Johannesburg Stock Exchange at 17 Diagonal street. The area was the home of Johannesburg’s “new” CBD and was aptly called Newtown. The JSE was relocated further north to Sandton in 2000 but Newtown still remains a landmark in Johannesburg with it’s market and other attractions. The 11 Diagonal Street “Diamond” building is used today as a commercial office building. It was designed by Helmut Jahn and took nearly 6 years to build, from 1978 to 1983.