The World's Most Bizarre Collections

I've collected coins, stamps, and badges.What do you collect??? Anything bizarre and odd?? Check out this wacky collections and collectors!

movie cameras 

Dimitris Pistiolas of Athens owns the world's largest private collection of movie cameras — 937 vintage models and projectors.

biggest Scalextric collection 

The collection of more than 1,000 cars, two-and-a-half miles of racetrack and countless accessories has sparked such interest that experts believe it could fetch a six-figure sum

Smoke Sessions

Since 2003, Chinese collector Wang Guohua has been amassing cigarette boxes, some of which he now keeps in a room in Hangzhou, in China's Zhejiang province. The collection includes 30,000 cigarette boxes from more than 100 production areas spanning more than 10 countries.

Worlds Biggest Dalmatians Collector

Karen started to collect all things spotty after buying her dalmatian Ditto as a puppy. Her 'fetish' went so far she even got her husband Chess to paint black spots on her white Fiesta and her white Smart car.She moved out of her family home leaving a room full of the mugs, magnets, suitcases, Easter eggs and toilet paper she collected over 17 years.

Pocket Monsters 

Featured in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition, Lisa Courtney's Pokemon memorabilia collection includes 12,113 items.

Candy Land

The basement of Ron Hood's home in Lewiston, Maine, has been fitted to display his collection of Pez dispensers and merchandise. He currently has more than 3,000 Pez items but noted in a 2008 interview that "my collection is considered very small in Pez-collector circles."

beer mugs

Heinrich Kath, a farmer, shows off some of his approximately 20,000 beer mugs in Cuxhaven, in northern Germany. Although he does not drink beer, he has been collecting steins since 1997.

rubber ducks

Valli Hammer's collection of rubber ducks — no two of them alike — was not the world's largest when this photo was taken. The 2,469 ducks she possessed were several hundred fewer than those held by a woman in California who claims the world record.

Hooters 

Guinness has acknowledged Pam Barker of Leeds, Maine, as the owner of the world's largest collection of owls. She possesses more than 18,000 owl items.

Slide Master 

Mary Ann Sell of Cincinnati, Ohio, holds 40,000 View-Master reels in her private collection, considered one of the world's largest, in Green Bay, Wisc.

Fun Key 

A USO key chain purchased in Vietnam (where he served as a helicopter gunner) 41 years ago got Ron Tyler started on a lifetime of collecting.

Happy Holidays 

Sharon Badgley's collection of 6,000 Santa Claus dolls is so large that it takes her almost three weeks to display them all.

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Deathday: Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 English Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe (c. 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.

A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May 1593. No reason for it was given, though it was thought to be connected to allegations of blasphemy—a manuscript believed to have been written by Marlowe was said to contain "vile heretical conceipts." He was brought before the Privy Council for questioning on 20 May, after which he had to report to them daily. Ten days later, he was stabbed to death by Ingram Frizer. Whether the stabbing was connected to his arrest has never been resolved.

As with other writers of the period, little is known about Marlowe. What little evidence there is can be found in legal records and other official documents. This has not stopped writers of both fiction and non-fiction from speculating about his activities and character. Marlowe has often been described as a spy, a brawler, a heretic and a homosexual, as well as a "magician," "duellist," "tobacco-user," "counterfeiter" and "rakehell." The evidence for most of these claims is slight. The bare facts of Marlowe's life have been embellished by many writers into colourful, and often fanciful, narratives of the Elizabethan underworld. However, J.B. Steane remarked, "it seems absurd to dismiss all of these Elizabethan rumours and accusations as 'the Marlowe myth.'"

Works

Plays

Dido, Queen of Carthage (c.1586) (possibly co-written with Thomas Nashe)
Tamburlaine, part 1 (c.1587)
Tamburlaine, part 2 (c.1587-1588)
The Jew of Malta (c.1589)
Doctor Faustus (c.1589, or, c.1593)
Edward II (c.1592)
The Massacre at Paris (c.1593)
The play Lust's Dominion was attributed to Marlowe upon its initial publication in 1657, though scholars and critics have almost unanimously rejected the attribution.

Poetry

Translation of Book One of Lucan's Pharsalia (date unknown)
Translation of Ovid's Elegies (c. 1580s?)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (pre-1593; because it is constantly referred to in his own plays we can presume an early date of mid-1580s)
Hero and Leander (c. 1593, unfinished; completed by George Chapman, 1598)

Post Mortem, America 2021 (2010)

Post Mortem, America 2021 (2010) is set to be released on Halloween 2010.

Directed by

Cameron Scott

Written by

Cameron Scott

Cast

Linnea Quigley ... Lucille
Jim O'Rear ... Severin
Sarah Swofford ... Jesse
Monique Dupree ... Rose
Melanie Robel ... Rattlesnake Sally
Nicola Fiore ... Beth
BeBe Bellamont ... Cynthia
April Monique Burril ... Bee
Jessica Cameron ... Maggie
Larry Laverty ... Ray
Michelle Shields ... Suze
Dennis Lamka ... Django
Isabelle Stephen ... April
Kimberly L. Cole ... Gail
Joel D. Wynkoop ... Bartender
Lloyd Kaufman ... Drunk Bum
Ernest Gentz ... Monk
Robert Jefferson Jr. ... Creep #3
Josh Harms ... Zombie
Kimberly Snapp ... Zombie
Christopher Brandon ... Zombie
Elise Davis ... Zombie
Howard Cooper ... Zombie
Ronee Luttringer ... Zombie
Daniel Krueger ... Zombie
Michel Keck ... Zombie
Michael Krueger ... Zombie
Dakota Meyer ... Zombie
Shannon Feaster ... Zombie
Pandora Potter ... Little Girl Zombie
Carole Stueben ... Zombie
Andrew Saxsma ... Zombie
Eric Phillips ... Zombie
Mary L. Krueger ... Zombie
Alec Chase ... Zombie
Christina Davis ... Zombie
Susan Denny ... Zombie
Kreed Gentz ... Zombie
Megan Halcom ... Zombie
Tanna Kyburz ... Zombie
Chris Morgin ... Zombie
David Ponton ... Zombie
Dawn Stahura ... Zombie

Deathday: James Whale 1889-1957 Father of Frankenstein

 

James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was a British film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), all recognized as classics of the genre. Whale directed over a dozen films in other genres, including what is considered the definitive film version of the musical Show Boat (1936). He became increasingly disenchanted with his association with horror, but many of his non-horror films have fallen into obscurity.

 

Born into a large family in Dudley, England, Whale early discovered his artistic talent and studied art. With the outbreak of World War I, Whale enlisted in the British Army and became an officer. He was captured by the Germans and during his time as a prisoner of war he realized he was interested in drama. Following his release at the end of the war he became an actor, set designer and director. His success directing the 1928 play Journey's End led to his move to the United States, first to direct the play on Broadway and then to Hollywood to direct motion pictures. Whale lived in Hollywood for the rest of his life, most of that time with his longtime companion, producer David Lewis. Including Journey's End (1930), Whale directed a dozen films for Universal Studios between 1930 and 1936 (his uncredited work on the war epic Hell's Angels having been done for United Artists), developing a style characterized by the influence of German Expressionism and a highly mobile camera.

 

At the height of his popularity as a director, Whale directed The Road Back, a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1937. Studio interference, possibly spurred by political pressure from Nazi Germany, led to the film's being altered from Whale's vision and The Road Back was a critical and commercial failure. A string of commercial failures followed and, while Whale would make one final short film in 1950, by 1941 his film directing career was over. Whale continued to direct for the stage and also rediscovered his love for painting and travel. His investments made him wealthy and he lived a comfortable retirement until suffering strokes in 1956 that robbed him of his vigor and left him in pain. Whale committed suicide on 29 May 1957 by drowning himself in his backyard swimming pool.

Whale was openly gay throughout his career, something that was very unusual in the 1920s and 1930s. As knowledge of his sexual orientation has become more common, some of his films, Bride of Frankenstein in particular, have been interpreted as having a gay subtext and it has been claimed that Whale's refusal to remain in the closet led to the end of his career. However, Whale's associates dismiss the notions that Whale's sexuality informed his work or that it cost him his career.

James Whale's Brentwood Home

Whale suffered from mood swings and grew increasingly and frustratingly more dependent on others and his mental faculties were diminishing.[85] Whale committed suicide by drowning himself in his swimming pool on 29 May 1957 at the age of 67.[86] He left a suicide note, which Lewis withheld until shortly before his own death decades later. Because the note was suppressed, the death was initially ruled accidental.[87] The note read in part:

"To ALL I LOVE,

"Do not grieve for me. My nerves are all shot and for the last year I have been in agony day and night—except when I sleep with sleeping pills—and any peace I have by day is when I am drugged by pills.

"I have had a wonderful life but it is over and my nerves get worse and I am afraid they will have to take me away. So please forgive me, all those I love and may God forgive me too, but I cannot bear the agony and it [is] best for everyone this way.

"The future is just old age and illness and pain. Goodbye and thank you for all your love. I must have peace and this is the only way.

"Jimmy"[82]

Whale was cremated per his request and his ashes were interred in the Columbarium of Memory at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Because of Whale's habit of periodically revising his date of birth, his niche lists the incorrect date of 1893.[88] When his longtime companion David Lewis died in 1987, his executor and Whale biographer James Curtis had his ashes interred in a niche across from Whale's.[89]

 

Interesting Facebook Statistics - (Infographics)

Facebook's latest Privacy revamps have garnered a lot of media attention, much of it negative. A new infographic from Mashable helps provide some context with a broad range of facts about Facebook.

For instance, did you know that Australia serves legally binding court notices via Facebook? Or that Michael Jackson has the #1 most popular page on Facebook (followed by Homer Simpson at #2 and Facebook itself at #3)? Would you have guessed that women over 55 make up the site's fastest growing American demographic?

The graphic also provides some background on the Site. In 2006, the infographic shows, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned down a bid from Yahoo for $1 billion. Today, the social networking giant could be worth between $4 billion and $11 billion. It is estimated that Facebook currently makes about $1 billion per year selling virtual products and ads; by contrast, in 2007, estimates for the site's revenue were pegged at approximately $150 million.

The site's soaring popularity is due in part to its 400,000 active users, who log on to their personal pages at least once a month. Half of those users log on every day. And it's no longer a United States phenomenon: 70% of users come from outside the US.

Check out the infographic (below) for more facts about Facebook:

Vampitheatre (2009)

Vampitheatre (2009)

Plot

As they tour the country with their band Theatre Peace, a group of evil but musically talented vampires desperately trying to maintain their true nocturnal nature unfortunately are bound to leave behind a gruesome trail of slaughtered fans to feed their insatiable hunger for human blood. To solve these grisly and increasing murders, a female FBI agent with a chip on her shoulder doggedly trails the band, unaware of their dark secret, perhaps starting to become drawn to the group itself and compromising her resolve to close the case. A thrilling and titillating mix of music and horror, this pulse-pounding film stars Linnea Quigley, Dana Cheshire, Christopher Forbes, Dave Mercer, Joel Hodges, Janice Olive and Stephen Gilliam. -- Written by familypet at imdb.com.

Directed by

Christopher Forbes

Cast

Linnea Quigley ... The Queen
Dana Cheshire ... Ariahna
Joel Hodges ... Lazarus
Janice Olive ... Jezebel
Stephen Gilliam ... Robert Stevenson
Kimberly Campbell ... Brandi
Tripp Courtney ... Rafael