Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 25, 2009, 2:33 pm
The Kids Of Widney High now have their own comic book. The infamous Kids of Widney High, a group of fantastically-gifted special-ed rock-n-roller teenagers from Los Angeles, have created their own co...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 24, 2009, 3:55 pm
When I was teaching Photoshop to my students at ITT Technical Institute, one of the features they grappled most with was understanding histograms. A histogram is basically a graph showing the tonal r...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 24, 2009, 12:17 pm
I know I’m in for a real treat when I hear the sentence, “I feel like a smurf just jizzed in my eyes!”, in the first two minutes of a film. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is a 2009...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 24, 2009, 10:50 am
Four friends formed the band Pony Up! on New Year’s Eve, 2002, with a secret band handshake: Lisa J. Smith (bass), Sarah Moundroukas (guitar, vocals), Lindsay Wills (drums), and Lindsay’s ...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 21, 2009, 10:36 am
I shot this one hot summer afternoon at The Philadelphia Zoo.  I’d like to challenge you all to caption this photo.  Check it out, and leave your best caption in the comments below the photo.Â...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 20, 2009, 2:46 pm
“The Count of Molly’s Crisco” is a one-page sequential art piece I initially created in 1992 for the first issue of Pocket Lint, a collaborative comic book/zine that never saw a seco...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 20, 2009, 2:13 pm
Here is a series of four illustrations I did way back in 1994.  I was studying art at The College of Santa Fe (New Mexico), and this was one of my assignments.  Now, this was fifteen years ago, so I...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 19, 2009, 1:39 pm
At 2:08AM on Saturday, November 14, my wife gave birth to our second child and first son, Giovanni Danger Mercadante.  He was born weighing 5 lbs. 10 oz. at 18.75 inches in length. Giovanni in the b...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 18, 2009, 7:00 pm
A message from Michael Jai White (star of Black Dynamite): Dear Black Dynamite fans: I can tell by watching the activity on the Internet that people around the world are eager to see Blac...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Nov 10, 2009, 6:39 pm
A few days ago, my site was taken offline, without warning, for the better part of a day, because my hosting service (Gate.com) was “improving its services”.  It followed months of spotty...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Nov 2, 2009, 3:52 pm
Keith David caught the acting bug playing The Cowardly Lion in a school rendition of The Wizard of Oz.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Nov 2, 2009, 12:34 pm
Check out this advance featurette for the new film The Fourth Kind, which opens November 6!
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Nov 2, 2009, 12:18 pm
The film is purportedly going to include the "largest mass electrocution in film history".
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Oct 29, 2009, 2:44 pm
Check out this advance featurette for the new film The Fourth Kind, which opens November 6! Milla Jovovich in the 2009 film The Fourth Kind. Structured unlike any film before it, The Fourth Kind is ...
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Oct 19, 2009, 4:11 pm
Recently I've launched two new partnerships.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Oct 17, 2009, 7:13 pm
Greg Giraldo’s stand-up DVD “Midlife Vices” hits stores on Tuesday, October 20.  Read my review at BlogCritics here.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Oct 16, 2009, 11:00 am
Black Dynamite is a blaxploitation satire film, and as such it's the third in an interesting evolution.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Oct 14, 2009, 9:19 am
Blog Critics just published my review of the Factory25 DVD release of You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk, 1977-1984.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Oct 10, 2009, 12:00 am
Within the first few moments, the wisest of men have already been led astray in their search for religious truth.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Oct 5, 2009, 9:00 am
The historical legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt rests greatly with his New Deal legislation packages.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Oct 2, 2009, 4:46 pm
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Oct 2, 2009, 4:01 pm
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Sep 26, 2009, 1:25 pm
Standing near the Mason-Dixon line, one can look south and almost see Neanderthal men cowering in caves, terrified of the sun.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 10:03 pm
Joanna Lumley landed a starring role in the Hammer Studios production The Satanic Rites of Dracula.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 9:56 pm
Danish beauty Kirsten Lindholm Andreasson appeared in five films, four of them for Hammer Studios.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 9:50 pm
Suzanna Leigh is the only Hammer Hottie who got to make out onscreen with Elvis Presley.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 5:44 pm
Diana Dors appeared in the 1958 Hammer Studios film The Saint's Return.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 4:48 pm
Adrienne Corri appeared in three films for Hammer Studios.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 3:11 pm
Stephanie Beacham starred with both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in the 1972 Hammer Studios horror film Dracula A.D. 1972.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 2:44 pm
Yvonne Romain starred opposite Oliver Reed in two Hammer Studios productions.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 2:26 pm
Danish beauty Yutte Stensgaard appeared in only one film for Hammer Studios.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on HorrorStars.Net - Sep 25, 2009, 2:17 pm
Madeline Smith has our vote for Best Eyes of the Hammer Women.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Sep 18, 2009, 10:08 pm
If longevity leads to wisdom, Douglas is brimming with it.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Sep 15, 2009, 1:52 pm
Hollywood has a long history of trapping characters into stereotypes, and no group has encountered this more than black actors.
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Michael Mercadante posted an article on CrackerHammer: Multimedia Content and Design by Michael Mercadante - Sep 14, 2009, 4:42 pm
Thanks to his paranoid insistence on taping all of his conversations, Nixon left a vivid legacy of personal quotes.
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