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When Finnish filmmaker Timo Vuorensola came up with the idea for his movie Star Wreck, a parody of Star Trek, he knew that looking for conventional distribution would be futile. An amateur, science-fiction comedy with a miniscule budget - and in Finnish, to boot - would hardly be attractive to mainstream studios. So Vuorensola took matters into his own hands: he used a Finnish social networking site to build up an online fan base who contributed to the storyline, made props and even offered their acting skills. In return for the help, Vuorensola released Star Wreck in 2005 online for free...
...agency show that the number of far-right crimes jumped about 16% from 2007 to 2008. "The Zeca Schall case is horrific, and it exposes the dangerous far-right ideology of the NPD, but there are hundreds of other people who've been attacked by far-right groups," says Timo Reinfrank, program director of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, which helps victims of far-right violence. "This is the reality in eastern Germany where immigrants are targeted by right-wing extremists." (See pictures of Kristallnacht...
...recent months have proved that the piracy trade is perhaps their best route out of despair and hopelessness. It now appears that the earlier drop in attacks had more to do with the weather than with the international show of force. "There are new pirates all the time," Abdi Timo-Jile, a pirate himself, told TIME from his home in the central city of Garowe. "We people are not afraid. There is death every...
Boston plays host to some of the world’s best DJs fairly regularly: Paul van Dyk, Timo Maas, Carl Cox and Sasha & Digweed have all played venues on Lansdowne street in the past year or so. But while each of these world-class DJs has caused plenty of interest amongst Boston clubbers, most Harvard students couldn’t be more indifferent. Harvard seems to exemplify the stereotype of American attitudes towards clubbing, that clubs mainly serve as a vehicle for getting some action and to this end, hip hop is much more effective than techno...
...increasing presence of dance music on the commercial music scene is the sudden proliferation of dance albums. Not just mix albums, though these remain the most popular, but also individual DJ’s releases have blossomed in the past few years. Paul van Dyk, ATB and Timo Maas began the trend, cashing in on the explosion of trance music a few years ago, and now the dance music section in any large record store is unavoidable...