Sentences with phrase «own stunts»

Then there are the marketing stunts, from turning a suburban Calgary home into a pop - up Tim Hortons and changing the name of Windsor, N.S. to «Winner» for a day.

In 2011, Sony Pictures executives asked the Andalusian enclave if they could paint the town blue as a publicity stunt for those famous blue cartoons, the Smurfs.

Industry insiders privately speculate that the strain on the talent pool of line producers and technical, craft and stunt crew members has been a factor in what seems to be a jump in the number of on - set accidents in recent months.

While Cruise has gotten most the attention for doing his own stunts, Ferguson also took most of the action into her own hands as well.

Try this zipper stunt in stop - and - go Los Angeles traffic and you'll get locked out of the merge, because the drivers of the queued cars will drive bumper - to - bumper to lock you out.

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

A summer drought stunted the growth of their soybeans and corn, so their yield will probably be half of last year's harvest.

It could also open the door to charging users for certain broadcasts involving famous athletes, for example, or for daredevil stunts.

Faust is a skilled fighter, and the fact that she did most of her own stunts makes scenes like this even more impressive:

With nearly 35,000 people expected at SXSW Interactive (and around 30,000 headed to the music festival), when it comes to marketing stunts at this show, it's go big or go home.

Nor, for that matter, is he adept at the political stunt: When McConnell stood onstage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in March waving a flintlock musket over his head as a show of his support for gun rights, the senator was roundly mocked.

But for all the vocations that require a brain and a keyboard and not much else — a growing share of the economy — the traditional office is a vestigial attachment, a wing that's become too stunted to fly.

Maryam Henein, the director of Vanishing of the Bees, a 2010 documentary that explores the environmental ramifications Colony Collapse Disorder, dismisses the personified bee being backburnered as little more than a clever «healthwashing» - reminiscent corporate publicity stunt.

A Radio - Canada news crew was on hand to capture the stunt.

According to People, Ferguson took notes from watching Cruise perform his own stunts, then underwent a month of intense training.

The argument has been made that the copy protection that is rampant in ebooks is stunting the market — MP3 sales only really took off after Apple removed digital rights management restrictions, after all.

That morning, Obama gave an emotional speech at an interfaith memorial service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, decrying the «small, stunted individuals» behind the attacks.

To Spade and Sperduti, having a clear brand concept is one of the most important preconditions for a company to be able to pull off an experiential campaign; otherwise, the brand behavior is just a stunt.

«This is a stunt, and I don't think of it as a cryptocurrency,» Chris Burniske of venture capital firm Placeholder told Bloomberg.

Shamsi specializes in creating social media influencers, PR stunts and viral campaigns — driving over 900 million views across all his work.

He's found a diet and exercise regimen that helps him perform the stunts he's known for, that helps him maintain the stamina required to perform on set, that gives him the energy to devote to family and friends... in short, he's figured out how to be the best he can be at home and at work.

We expect that free cash - flow to stunt the ability of these monopolists to respond, but more importantly, prevent them from making the structural changes to their businesses that would disrupt their entire business models,» he wrote.

There's a hint of cinematic fiction to the scenes or, at best, of a stunt that'll never work in the real world.

Evian has continued to nurture the concept of CGI - aided babies performing outlandish stunts: «Baby Inside» followed in 2011, and in April 2013 the company went back to the well for «Baby & Me,» which features adult actors who bear an uncanny resemblance to the tiny stars.

If you must swing a stunt, he suggests delivering your resumé with a box of chocolates.

It's easy to dismiss announcements about «cage - free» eggs as mere marketing stunts, but it will change supply chains for the better

The most remarkable thing about neural nets is that no human being has programmed a computer to perform any of the stunts described above.

Contrary to the claims of the President and his supporters, the U.S. can't grow fast enough to shed this burden; indeed, Trump's agenda on immigration and trade looks likely to stunt that growth.

Danone's luxury water brand earned its first taste of viral immortality with 2009's «Roller Babies,» which featured CGI infants tackling extreme roller - skating stunts.

It may seem whimsical to field a platoon of government - issued (G.I.) Josephs, but it tells co-workers that you are a stunted juvenile.

What critics said: «A sniggering, exhausting, overproduced extravaganza that has virtually all of the humanity pounded out of it in the name of an endless parade of stunt sequences.»

Sertoglu worries that startups chasing low - hanging fruit domestically will ultimately stunt the local scene.

As teenage sign holders, these two friends devised stunts simply to stave off boredom; by 2002 they'd turned those skills into AArrow Advertising.

Now his employees have pulled an impressive stunt to thank him.

I once carried an especially large crappie all the way from the dock to his campsite to show off — it's not a Jones fishing trip unless you're trying to stunt on everyone.

Silly marketing stunts aside, Bolt Threads» ambitions are more serious.

A South African company, Unlimited IT, recently tried such a stunt to protest slow broadband speeds in the country.

But as they watch him, the attendees of Interbike — the annual trade show for the bicycle industry — may be overlooking a greater, if subtler, stunt that's also on display.

For Michelle Westby, working as a promotional model in motorsports led to a successful career as a stunt driver and a drift racing driver.

«If it wasn't for grid work / promotional modelling, I wouldn't be where I am now in a «male dominated» sport and job as a stunt driver and drift competition driver, inspiring and influencing females into this «intimidating male environment.»

Yet critics point to flaws in this argument that threaten to stunt rather than fuel China's growth.

Matt Damon (co-founder of Water.org) dumped icy toilet water on his head, to draw attention not just to the stunt but to his own favourite cause, namely the provision of clean water.

A co-worker popped up in the comments of this Kotaku piece to explain that the stunt worked and the headscarf ban has been removed.

Treasury officials looked at the idea of just paying debt interest the last time Congress pulled this stunt in July 2011.

A 12 - year - old Chinese boy named Que Jianyu is one of an elite few individuals who occupy the center of that Venn diagram, after he successfully performed the stunt on a reality show called Dream of China late last year.

Instead of staying late at the office every night, employees can get a much - needed break without stunting their career growth.

In the meantime, I'm also continuing my stunt work and working on the Nitro Circus stuff.

He's a seventh generation member of The Flying Wallendas who makes a living by doing death - defying stunts.

Jokes aside, the Falcon Heavy launch with the Roadster payload has been called the most stunning PR stunt in human history, and while it certainly might be, it also shows that Tesla and SpaceX aren't such separate entities anymore.

«Increased employment litigation, damaging workplace equality, and stunted competition and growth loom as likely repercussions.»