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Eye-PoppingOf course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. - David Gerrold
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Eye-popping Stunt Grabs Letterman's Attention
"As soon as I saw it, I thought: 'That's it, stop the presses,'" said Tricks co-ordinator Susan Hall Sheehan. "However many people there were in the room, that's how many involuntary screams there were." Letterman was so impressed he invited Goodman back for a return engagement, Monday night's Late Show with David Letterman Video Special III. Letterman saved Goodman for the final stunt and introduced her as an act "you will talk about until the day you die." To Letterman's cue: "Did you hear that Michael Jackson had a baby," she popped her eyes way out. Television viewers then were able to see two slow-motion replays, one of them from the side. Goodman, who is from Chicago's South Side, considers her quirky talent a gift. "At church, I always hear my pastor say everybody has a gift and I used to ask: 'Lord, what's mine?'" She found out about five years ago when one of her eyes came out of its socket when she hit it while taking off a Halloween mask. "I was with two girlfriends and they just stood there, frozen, with their mouths open," she recalled. "I pushed it back in, and they never said a word to me - just walked away, still with their mouths open." Now she's learned how to pop them out voluntarily - "I sort of squint, pull my eyelid back and out it comes," Goodman explained. She added that she has perfect vision but has never seen a doctor about the eye-popping. Source: www.canoe.ca Monday 24 February 1997
Apparently Kimberly is not alone in having this talent...
Source: far eight Russian Live Journal ffix1975.livejournal.com 11 August 2007
Eye-popping Record Bid
A Brazilian man is hoping for a place in the record books for his ability to pop his eyes out of their sockets. Claudio Pinto, 48 is making a living out of shows where he pops his eyes out, Terra Noticias Populares reports. He reckons he can pop both eyes 95% out of their sockets. Mr Pinto has undergone various tests and doctors say they have never seen or heard of a person who can pop the eyes as much as him. Mr Pinto, from Belo Horizonte, said: "It is a pretty easy way to make money. "I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from God, I feel blessed." Source: www.ananova.com 13 September 2006
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405: Blurring Reality...
Click to Begin Probably the single most amazing aspect of 405 is that this film was not created by an army of special effects artists. It was not a project that took years to complete. And it did not cost a million dollars to create. The Future of Filmmaking is HereIn fact, 405 was created by just two people, in only three months, with the only expense being their time and personal home computers.
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Chicago - When Kimberly Goodman auditioned for David Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks,
witnesses screamed. The young woman literally popped one of her eyeballs out of its socket. She can do both orbs simultaneously but understatement worked just as well.
Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt, shown here being congratulated by Mayor Richard Riordan for their
work on 405, are visual effects artists currently using their skills for various television shows, commercials and feature films. All of the visual effects seen in
405 were created solely by the two. It was a process that took over three months of nights, weekends and any spare moments that could be found. In addition, Bruce
and Jeremy also filled the roles of camera men, editors, compositors and sound effects editors. 405 is their first independent project together.
