'The Vapour Boys' is an upcoming drama film written by Finn Stewart and Josh Simons and directed by Josh Simons. Simons finished production on the film in April, 2008 .
'The Vapour Boys' is an original-story, independently produced Australian film.
Plot outline
The film is based upon the life of four boys, who take over an abandoned house and begin to make it their own. When their lives interweave with a squatter who has moved into the premises, his previous actions and history begin to reflect on the kids psyche, ultimately leading to their demise.
Production
The film was shot over 28 days in and around Prahran, . Filming culminated in the closure of one of Melbourne's busiest shopping districts, Greville St, to film the finale of the film. The shoot was coordinated with Victorian Police.
'The Vapour Boys' is an original-story, independently produced Australian film.
Plot outline
The film is based upon the life of four boys, who take over an abandoned house and begin to make it their own. When their lives interweave with a squatter who has moved into the premises, his previous actions and history begin to reflect on the kids psyche, ultimately leading to their demise.
Production
The film was shot over 28 days in and around Prahran, . Filming culminated in the closure of one of Melbourne's busiest shopping districts, Greville St, to film the finale of the film. The shoot was coordinated with Victorian Police.
The Tequila stuntman (also known as a Manly Man, Tequila Suicide (or Suicide Tequila Shot), Iron Man, Tough Guy Shot, You're a Tool if You Do this Shot, Man Shot, Terrorist Tequila or simply a Stuntman) is a variation on the "standard" tequila shot. All that is required is salt, a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila.
A stuntman is performed by:
# Snorting the salt from the back of the hand or by using a straw.
# Slamming the shot of tequila.
# Squirting the juice from the lime into your eye.
The tequila stuntman is commonly believed to be invented by Jake U. However, it may have been invented by Steve-O of Jackass when he appeared on an episode of Blind Date where he performed the stunt. In Britain, particularly in South Wales, the drink is more commonly known as the "Tequila Suicide".
Another variation of the Stuntman, which was made popular in Tokyo, Japan by students of Temple University, Japan Campus, an American university's satellite campus, is done by snorting the salt from your hand, squeezing dry a lime wedge into your eye, as opposed to lemon, and finally slamming the shot of tequila.
An increasingly popular variation of the Stuntman is the "Tequila Stunt Double", which seems to have spread from a grassroots collection of drinkers in Tucson, Arizona. In this variant, a round of standard tequila shots, complete with salt and lime slices, are ordered for a group of drinkers. After the shots are taken, the distributor of said shot squirts lime into the eye of an unsuspecting compatriot.
A stuntman is performed by:
# Snorting the salt from the back of the hand or by using a straw.
# Slamming the shot of tequila.
# Squirting the juice from the lime into your eye.
The tequila stuntman is commonly believed to be invented by Jake U. However, it may have been invented by Steve-O of Jackass when he appeared on an episode of Blind Date where he performed the stunt. In Britain, particularly in South Wales, the drink is more commonly known as the "Tequila Suicide".
Another variation of the Stuntman, which was made popular in Tokyo, Japan by students of Temple University, Japan Campus, an American university's satellite campus, is done by snorting the salt from your hand, squeezing dry a lime wedge into your eye, as opposed to lemon, and finally slamming the shot of tequila.
An increasingly popular variation of the Stuntman is the "Tequila Stunt Double", which seems to have spread from a grassroots collection of drinkers in Tucson, Arizona. In this variant, a round of standard tequila shots, complete with salt and lime slices, are ordered for a group of drinkers. After the shots are taken, the distributor of said shot squirts lime into the eye of an unsuspecting compatriot.
FakeNES is a free, portable, and Open source NES emulator written in C and , using the Allegro game library. It runs on any operating system that Allegro supports, such as 32-bit DOS or compatible, any version of Windows released after 1995, and POSIX compliant systems such as Mac OS X and Linux.
It is one of the more common NES emulators, with a distinctive "old school" GUI. Distributed under the terms of the licence of zlib/libpng, FakeNES is free software.
History
FakeNES was created by a team of freelance software developers in mid- to late 2001, and the first milestone release was made on January 24 2002, after three months of work.
However, development efforts were temporarily stalled for most of 2003 due to personal issues. Development finally continued in September 2003 with a new release, finally dubbed "FakeNES Stable" after 2 years of development.
A year later, development was officially cancelled on October 23 2004 due to inherent design flaws. However one of the developers remained and later announced on May 6 2005 that the project was once again under limited development, followed by a work in progress release on October 26.
Between March and April 2006 the project had constant updates, but was abandoned by September 2006.
The last functionally-stable release was 0.5.9 beta 3, with CVS being left in an unstable state, causing slowness and other issues.
Features
FakeNES supports emulation of the Four Score (a 4-player adapter), and the Zapper, the NES' light gun. It also supports joysticks/joypads or the keyboard for playing, palette selection, sound-related tweaks, cheating-device emulation, video filters, and also, there are plans to implement NetPlay, including a framework based around HawkNL.
OpenAL is fully supported for audio output, and AllegroGL is supported for video output via OpenGL. Although the support for OpenGL is still in its infant stages as of 0.5.8, it is mostly functional. Because Allegro already provides numerous system drivers, neither OpenAL or OpenGL are strictly required, and are provided as more of a courtesy.
Family Computer (Famicom) emulation is partially implemented to varying degrees.
Future
FakeNES remains as one of the last high profile NES emulators to still use per-scanline emulation, which is an outdated emulation technique.
Most of the developments of NES emulation in recent years have been towards per-cycle emulation. This same method of emulation has been used by mainstream NES emulators such as Nintendulator and Nestopia for quite some time now. Because of this, the future of FakeNES remains in question, although randilyn has said that she is implementing per-cycle emulation (or an equally as accurate emulation technique) in an upcoming version.
However, the project is currently abandoned.
It is one of the more common NES emulators, with a distinctive "old school" GUI. Distributed under the terms of the licence of zlib/libpng, FakeNES is free software.
History
FakeNES was created by a team of freelance software developers in mid- to late 2001, and the first milestone release was made on January 24 2002, after three months of work.
However, development efforts were temporarily stalled for most of 2003 due to personal issues. Development finally continued in September 2003 with a new release, finally dubbed "FakeNES Stable" after 2 years of development.
A year later, development was officially cancelled on October 23 2004 due to inherent design flaws. However one of the developers remained and later announced on May 6 2005 that the project was once again under limited development, followed by a work in progress release on October 26.
Between March and April 2006 the project had constant updates, but was abandoned by September 2006.
The last functionally-stable release was 0.5.9 beta 3, with CVS being left in an unstable state, causing slowness and other issues.
Features
FakeNES supports emulation of the Four Score (a 4-player adapter), and the Zapper, the NES' light gun. It also supports joysticks/joypads or the keyboard for playing, palette selection, sound-related tweaks, cheating-device emulation, video filters, and also, there are plans to implement NetPlay, including a framework based around HawkNL.
OpenAL is fully supported for audio output, and AllegroGL is supported for video output via OpenGL. Although the support for OpenGL is still in its infant stages as of 0.5.8, it is mostly functional. Because Allegro already provides numerous system drivers, neither OpenAL or OpenGL are strictly required, and are provided as more of a courtesy.
Family Computer (Famicom) emulation is partially implemented to varying degrees.
Future
FakeNES remains as one of the last high profile NES emulators to still use per-scanline emulation, which is an outdated emulation technique.
Most of the developments of NES emulation in recent years have been towards per-cycle emulation. This same method of emulation has been used by mainstream NES emulators such as Nintendulator and Nestopia for quite some time now. Because of this, the future of FakeNES remains in question, although randilyn has said that she is implementing per-cycle emulation (or an equally as accurate emulation technique) in an upcoming version.
However, the project is currently abandoned.
Cllr. Niall Kelly is 24 years old and has lived in the Finaghy area of South Belfast his entire life. Educated at St. Anne's Primary School and he received a BA in Politics (2005) and an MA in Irish Politics (2006), from Queens University Belfast.
In January 2007 he began working as a political researcher for SDLP Justice spokesman, North Belfast MLA, . He was a key figure in the successful re-election campaigns of both MLA and MLA in March 2007.
Niall has been an active member of the SDLP for a number of years now and has served the party in a number of different capacities. He has served as the secretary of the Balmoral branch, the largest branch in the SDLP, for three years now. As well as that he has served as a delegate to the SDLP District Executive and the SDLP Constituency Council for, three and two years respectively.
In November 2007 Niall became the youngest person directly elected to the SDLPs central, Executive Committee, were he has played an active role in attempting to revitalize the party. As well as sitting on the main Executive Committee he is also a member of the Policy sub-committee, were he has been involved in the formulation of party policy.
In April 2008 Niall took part in an internal selection process to replace Cllr. MLA, after she indicated her intention to retire from . Niall won the selection contest and after being ratified by the party he was co-opted on to Belfast City Council on 1st July 2008. He is now a member of the Parks & Leisure Committee and the Health & Environment Committee and is working hard to build a better Belfast for everyone.
In January 2007 he began working as a political researcher for SDLP Justice spokesman, North Belfast MLA, . He was a key figure in the successful re-election campaigns of both MLA and MLA in March 2007.
Niall has been an active member of the SDLP for a number of years now and has served the party in a number of different capacities. He has served as the secretary of the Balmoral branch, the largest branch in the SDLP, for three years now. As well as that he has served as a delegate to the SDLP District Executive and the SDLP Constituency Council for, three and two years respectively.
In November 2007 Niall became the youngest person directly elected to the SDLPs central, Executive Committee, were he has played an active role in attempting to revitalize the party. As well as sitting on the main Executive Committee he is also a member of the Policy sub-committee, were he has been involved in the formulation of party policy.
In April 2008 Niall took part in an internal selection process to replace Cllr. MLA, after she indicated her intention to retire from . Niall won the selection contest and after being ratified by the party he was co-opted on to Belfast City Council on 1st July 2008. He is now a member of the Parks & Leisure Committee and the Health & Environment Committee and is working hard to build a better Belfast for everyone.