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Free T-shirt Deal – Subscription to Entertainment Weekly required

Free T-shirt deal to sell Entertainment Weekly subscriptions

Free T-shirt Deal online to sell Entertainment Weekly subscriptions

A subscription to a magazine will get you a free t-shirt, hmmmmm. So what is better the magazine or the t-shirt?

Free T-shirt Deal – Subscription to Entertainment Weekly required

https://subscription.ew.com/storefront/subscribe-to-entertainment-weekly/site/ew-3425test0112.html?tcmid=music336x100&link=1009755

I can’t quite see the t-shirt to determine what quality it is, but it goes under the term, “Graffiti t-shirt”, with the following terms:

Allow 4-8 weeks for delivery of Free Gift. If Free Gift is unavailable, it may be replaced with an item of greater or equal value.

I like the idea of free t-shirt deals because it is good for business, the t-shirt business that is. But I am interested in the true value of the item and I’ll try to analyze it further to see what it’s really worth. Keep in mind, I do print t-shirts for a living, so I’m mostly interested because if this is a good promotion to sell magazines, that you otherwise may not want, then think of all the other great things that people don’t need that can be sold with free t-shirts.

So next I’m going to try my own Free T-shirt Deal and see if I can sell an unrelated item by offering a free t-shirt to subscribers to TING. I was thinking that I can make a template design that reads, “I HATE (insert your phone company name here)”, like ATT, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and the list goes on. The assumption here is that people may hate their own phone company as much as I have hated some of my in the past and would like to vent in the form of a t-shirt. The Ting offering seems interesting at first, so I am willing to take a chance with it to get back at the companies that have been ripping me off for years. Check it out and leave some comments about the service if you have tried them before.

 

MCA – Photo Gallery Beastie Boys Rapper dies after battle with cancer at age 47

Beastie Boys Adam MCA Yauch dies at 47

Beastie Boys Adam MCA Yauch dies at 47

Here are a few pictures in a gallery about the death of Adam MCA Yauch.

Scenes from MCA’s career with the Beastie Boys – The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/scenes-from-mcas-career-with-the-beastie-boys/article2423471/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=World&utm_content=2423471

Beastie Boy Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch died on Friday, May 4 after a three-year battle with cancer. Here’s a look back at his career as a hip-hop pioneer

New work at Y-Que in Los Angeles – Photo Fresco artwork by Bill Wyatt

Hollywood Wall of Shame - Photo Fresco prints by Bill Wyatt

Hollywood Wall of Shame at Y-Que in Los Angeles

New work up at Y-Que in Los Angeles. A batch of transparent photo fresco works are inside with some new pieces displayed randomly around the store.

Big Box Office Overseas, and growing, with Men in Tights – The Avengers

The Avengers Opening Black Widow Action Hero

The Avengers Opening Black Widow Action Hero

Money Update: Box office update: ‘The Avengers’ opens even bigger than previously thought, with $207.4 mil

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/05/07/box-office-avengers-opening/?google_editors_picks=true

And this movie also has Women in tights too, no wonder. Comic book adaptation and digital movie production are a perfect match, but what happens when all the old cartoons are used up?

http://colantotte.com/heroes/

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If films with men in tights can open with this much income overseas, with all the piracy going on in the world, then why aren’t the film studios making money? Or is the only reason the box office take is so high overseas is that the Movie Studios are letting the pirates see the movie first?

Men in Tights Show Off Their Stuff at the Box Office - Overseas

Men in Tights Show Off Their Stuff at the Box Office - Overseas

‘The Avengers’ opens to $178 million overseas

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/showbiz/movies/avengers-overseas-box-office-ew/index.html

Book Review from 1978 – The Fifty Worst Films of All Time by Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss

Why would we at “Live Action News” review a book from 1978?  Because the internet is timeless. It doesn’t matter when things came out or when things are reviewed, all things are equal if you have never been exposed to this book before or any other information for that matter.  News on the internet is not like news on the rack at the newspaper stand, as if those will be around for much longer, no it’s different in that new from 100 years ago can look like today’s news if you have no point of reference than the web page it is shown on. This book is sort of like that in that since it covers all time, it must’ve included “all time” including the future and time before movies. Realistically there is no such thing as All Time, so we will review this book from our time.  A friend of mine named, Todd, will do further justice to this book, but since I have promised to deliver it to him this week I will provide a quick synopsis of what I got from this book by only skimming through the pages and looking at the pictures.

First off, I love the title and the inside photo of the authors. Secondly, nothing could be as bad as having had to watch all of the movies that are listed in the book. Thirdly, I liked the small photos from the movies and considered them inspiration for what you can get away with as I am trying to provide very low resolution and distorted pictures of the new on our own pages here at Live Action News .com. The book mostly refers to movies that I have never seen and probably won’t see, because none of them are downloaded illegally and therefore unavailable for distribution to “the people”, but I trust these guys that have provided sarcastic and witty comments that make me feel as though I have seen these films. Not enough to reference them in a conversation, but just enough to feel film-literate about their lace of redeeming qualities.   Todd will provide a more detailed and accurate critique of this timeless classic, The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

Vintage Poster – Johnny Cash 5 Minutes to Live

I found a reproduction of a poster with a great image of Johnny Cash on it. It looks like he was playing a character in a theatre production or movie called, “Five Minutes to Live”. The poster was only ten bucks at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, but I want to find out more details on this piece. I’ll put up a full picture of the poster soon, but for now I have pulled this black and white image of Johnny Cash with a claw-like grip and menacing stare from the poster.

Johnny Cash 5 Minutes to Live

Vintage Poster with Johnny Cash Image

Massive Bootlegger in the US – Out of touch from the Law

The beauty of the news is that it writes itself. I was thinking about examples of people who download movies and videos without paying and while standing in Starbucks, getting my free refill, I was reading the headlines of the newspapers on the rack. I can no longer afford to buy the New York Times, but if I had the money I would of purchased this one because of the photo of the old man with his arms crossed. I committed to returning home and finding this article online for free so that I could link to the story here. This man has downloading huge amounts of movies and videos and copied them to disc and has been mailing them to the armed forces. He’s over 90 years old, so I don’t think he really cares about what the big media corporations can do to him if they decided to pick him out of the masses. I am hopeful that he has an unapologetic position in his defense, but most interestingly I can’t help but wonder what will be done now that he is on the cover of the New York Times.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/nyregion/at-92-movie-bootlegger-is-soldiers-hero.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

 

Confessed DVD bootlegger is a hero to troops at war

 

http://hamptonroads.com/2012/04/confessed-dvd-bootlegger-hero-troops-war

 

“Big Hy” – his handle among many loyal customers – would almost certainly be cast as Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details. He is actually Hyman Strachman, a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran trying to stay busy after the death of his wife. And he has sent every one of his copied DVDs, almost 4,000 boxes of them to date, free to U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Downloading is not a Crime

It’s hard to argue that Downloading is not a crime, but when everybody does it there is a problem that blurs the legal view. Personal use of downloadable / bootleg media is so common place that babies can do it. There are no longer significant technical barriers to downloading movies, music or books almost as soon as they come out. The issue seems to be that the companies who distribute the media are unable to profit in the same old ways that they used to and adaptation isn’t their specialty, but does that make the users criminals? The new line drawn in the sand on this issue is whether or not someone who downloads something that is bootleg, then redistributes it for any sort of profit. Fair enough. More to come on this issue of downloading music, movies and books online.

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