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Stamp Art Inspirations with MaryJo McGraw
Released in DVD by PageSage (01 May, 2003)
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Director: Suzanne Lamar
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Hoping for more stamping DVDs like this...
This was great, especially if you need to have your stamping classes at home. Mary Jo's presentations have a lot of clarity and a very relaxed approach to creativity. Since I rarely get to see people actually doing techniques, I really enjoyed watching the processes happening in such detail since it was longer than the videos I've seen. The DVD format gives a lot of flexibility in viewing and Mary Jo has a friendly presence as she provides numerous tips along with the project at hand. I hope Page Sage will produce more in this line of product.

Best stamping instruction product ever!
I've purchased dozens of stamping videos, and even a DVD (which was only a video recorded onto a DVD), but this is the best I've ever gotten. No talking heads and no distance shots of the project. You get to see MaryJo's face a couple of times, but the rest of the time you are looking right over her shoulder and seeing EXACTLY what she's doing. It's a true DVD, too--you can stop and skip around and link between gallery pieces and the instructions at any time. AND there's a really funny segment of outtakes, so you can see that MaryJo has moments where her stamping gets away from her, just like the rest of us!
The projects are great--a lot of variety from complex items to simple fast cards, and I learned a lot about some products I've had around but never used before.
You have to get this one!

Just like having a class with MaryJo
This DVD is the best......if you've never been able to have a class with MaryJo, then let this be your classroom! It's great! Gallery is great to browse through and pick a project to do. If you missed a part of what she was demonstrating or saying the best part is you can just back up (rewind) on the DVD and replay it!!! Wonderful addition to anyone's collection.

The Art of Exotic Dancing for Everyday Women
Released in DVD by Philadelphia Films (30 October, 2001)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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Very Disappointed!
I came online looking for a cardio striptease that I could have fun with by myself for excercise and later with my husband once I got good. This program had a very few basic moves and went VEEEEEERY slowly. It never came together in the end with anything that you could remotely call a full dance, and there wasn't enough demonstration from the instructor to really allow me to make up my own. I can't even see myself practicing this one over and over again because I got bored with it fast. I'm looking for something new!

Sexy Workout
After trying belly dancing, I thought I'd take it to the next level and see if I could learn to let out the inner goddess in other interesting ways. I use a variety of exercise tapes and this one is perhaps the most exotic. What I was really looking for was a good workout with creative dancing.

This is not a video you will watch each time you want to "dance exotically." This is a video to teach you the basic moves.

I learned about 5 new moves that I was willing to add to my workout routine. Sometimes I just play music and make up my own moves. Sort of a dance routine that is flexible. It is more for my own relaxation and exercise. So, for that reason, I felt this was worth purchasing. I can tell you, I worked out muscles that none of my other workouts have touched.

I didn't really realize how much I was exercising because this video covers a lot of ground. You learn to walk, do hip rolls and then move to the floor to do various moves on your back. I loved the idea of pretending you were in a field of flowers. In many ways, this workout is also about letting out the inner joyful child who dances in fields of flowers.

The only problem with watching this video is that is it so fun to learn these exotic moves, you want to keep doing them all day long. LOL Look, I was never allowed to dance as a child. This is all new to me. For people who have been dancing all their lives, this might seem rather basic.

I would not suggest that you try this workout one day and expect to dance for your intimate partner the next day. You will be way too sore. Even if you have been using workout videos for years. Take your time. Watch this video a few times and then suddenly, weeks later, surprise your partner with a totally sexy new you.

The main benefits of this video:

You will release your inner goddess and let her out to play
You will achieve a new level of self confidence
You will spice up your relationship and amaze your partner

This workout also shows you how to maintain eye contact, let your guard down, try out new and exciting moves and use body language to increase your sensuality.

There is no nudity in this video. The women are all wearing workout clothes. They do use shirts to show a strip routine, but it is pretty calm. This is not really what you would see in a strip club (not that I've ever been to one, I just have seen women dancing in movies, and this is not quite at that level). This is more a series of sexy moves that you can incorporate into your own dance routines.

This really is a workout for everyday women. Many of the women in this video are just like you and I and they are not the type of women you would see dancing. So, that made me feel comfortable and even more confident.

So, give this a try. The worst that can happen is that you can hardly walk the next day because you have worked out your entire body. I had no idea this was such a great form of exercise. Look, I can't handle "fancy footwork" and I could actually do this video!

I agree with some of the other reviewers who said they would like to find a "solo" instructional video. This teaches you the moves, but it would be fun to find a video that was more of a workout routine. One you could use to workout to for an hour.

"The Art of Exotic Dancing For Everyday Women" is sexy, not slutty. That is an achievement in itself.

Sensuously Inspirational
This video really got me and my husband into a sensual mindset like we have never previously experienced. Then we followed up with what we learned from Clint Arthur's "New Sex Now" video and "New Free Sex" dvd for some real fireworks.

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
Released in DVD by Anchor Bay Entertain (07 May, 2002)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Starring: Stan Lee
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Simply a look at the science of their art.
Sure, John Buscema and Stan Lee would be the obvious choices for a comic book team, but this DVD does not do them justice. When you pop it in, you feel ready to create a masterpiece, with pencil, paper, and of course, an eraser. A big one. This movie is simply OK. It is great to see them in action, but it simply states the measures, how many heads tall characters should be, etc. In the end, it feels like this was designed to teach people with degrees in both computer sciences, and art. There is no way a blossoming artist could even compare to these guys.

On a final note, this book/movie is for the pros, but is fun to watch also.

Better then Mutants, Monsters, and Marvels DVD.....
I actually like this film. It showed Stan and John doing what they did best, the writing and drawing of comics. It's also something of a lost art form because then, the writers and artists at Marvel worked hard to get the books out on time. The rat pack kids who work there now do not bother. They do not know the meaning of "hard work."

Smilin' Stan and Big John Comin' at ya!
This was a fun tape for me, because I grew up reading these guy's comic books, and I bought the book version of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way years ago. I mainly got the video so I could hear artist Buscema's voice (which is great; he sounds like a character from the Sopranos scolding you for not drawing right). But all they do is read the book word for word from a teleprompter while John pretends to draw over some photocopied enlargements from it's pages! He's literally making these theatrical "drawing" motions without touching the pencil to the paper, while writer Stan Lee pontificates in his endearingly overblown and gratingly nasal Brooklynese. It's great. The original book was just Buscema's comic book drawing course, to which Stan wrote some psuedo-hip "Marvel" patter as a way of marketing it to a wider audience, and this is undoudtedly another scheme to cash in a little more, which must have taken the old partners part of a whole day to do. In fairness, they do some things in video that are pretty good, like superimpose the rough drawing over the finished one to illustrate how it develops. These two are real American characters, and if you liked the book, and you read comics in the '60s, you'll probably get a kick out of this.

Glen or Glenda?
Released in DVD by Image Entertainment (15 February, 2000)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Is Ed Wood the worst director who ever lived? His films are campy, clumsy, and hysterically inept, but their enthusiasm and good humor overcome incoherent scripts and wooden performances with heart, soul, and an infectious sense of fun. The jaw-dropping "documentary" Glen or Glenda? is a bizarre confessional starring Wood himself as a misunderstood transvestite and Bela Lugosi as a smirking godlike narrator. "Pull ze string!" shouts Lugosi as Wood reveals his angora fetish and love of women's underwear to the world. Lugosi returns as a mad scientist revenging himself on the world ("Home? I have no home!") in Bride of the Monster, a howler of a horror picture. Tor Johnson, the hulking Swedish wrestler turned B-movie icon, made his first Wood appearance as the lumbering beast Lobo (he almost knocks over the set in one scene!) tamed by the touch of angora. Finally there's Wood's "masterpiece," the clumsy, nearly incoherent, and ridiculously cheap Plan 9 from Outer Space. A tall, skinny, blond chiropractor subs for short, raven-haired Bela Lugosi (who died after a few days of shooting), cardboard gravestones wobble as the actors walk by, and night and day randomly come and go within the same scene. --Sean Axmaker
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Pure Agony
I am a huge fan of the Tim Burton flick Ed Wood. I couldn't wait to see the original Glen or Glenda. Suffice to say this is the worst movie I've ever seen. It was pure agony sitting through it. I really wonder how critics can call Plan 9 from Outer Space the worst. Apparently they haven't seen this one. The only redeeming quality it has is Bela Lugosi screaming "Pull the skrings!" Bizarre to say the least. Don't say you weren't warned!

bad DVD transfer of demented masterpiece
The Rhino video of Glen or Glenda is quite a bit superior to this somewhat seedy DVD transfer. The periodic jumps are remarkably annoying, and the sound quality is no picnic either. Someone needs to do Ed Wood's pics the right way, and this isn't the right way.

What the ----? Three stars for weirdness


This movie's plot is pretty hard to follow, but the concept is so out there, and the images / film segments used to support it can only be described as bizarre, bordering on insane.


This movie was pretty damn boring. I couldn't even sit through it, and that's before the on-screen sex change operation (unedited). I wouldn't recommend buying this, unless you're REALLY into bad movies.

I saw this movie because I saw "Ed Wood" by Tim Burton. Now THERE is a good movie.

-- JJ Timmins

Feng Shui
Released in DVD by Fox Lorber (03 October, 2000)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Chi is the life force that runs through everything; feng shui, which means literally "wind and water," is the art of placing things in harmony with the environment, so that chi can flow freely. Feng Shui: Creating Environments for Success and Well-Being is an introduction to this Chinese art form that seeks to give you peace and happiness in your life. It doesn't matter whether you believe in feng shui or not, the video tells us; you don't have any choice in the matter--"your destiny intertwines with the workings of nature and the universe." Beginning with testimonies from those whose lives have been improved by feng shui and a brief explanation of its workings, master Lin Yun and expert Deborah Gee set about to improve a house using the basic elements of this form. By moving furniture, adding chimes and mirrors, and changing colors, the chi in the house is able to move without obstruction, enhancing career, relationships, and health and reducing tension and stress. This video comes with a card listing the nine feng shui remedies, which are explained in the video, and with a diagram of a bagua, the octagonal compass used to determine how the chi in your space affects your life. This is an informative introduction that will help you to revitalize your home or office, using the "interior design [of] your third eye." --Jenny Brown
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Never Mine
It may motivate you to learn more about Feng Shui but it will not teach you anything. It's like a long TV info-mercial. Try borrowing it from your local library.

Complete waste of money and time
This tape is not as great as it may seem. I saw this tape on PBS last year and thought it would be a good tape with a lot of helpful information...WAS I WRONG!!!!!! this tape runs about 60 mins and for the first half of the tape it is filled with testimoies of how feng shui has helped them. If I am not a beleiver, I would not have purchase the tape in the first place!this tape spends to much time trying to convince you that feng shui is real. I was hoping the tape would provide me with more useful information. for those who saw this on PBS, you already saw the entire tape! There is nothing new on it. This tape is a huge disappointment.

Enjoyed this on TV and wanted a copy of the video ...
I saw this video as a program on PBS-TV (Public Broadcasting Service) and liked the practical, easy-to-understand suggestions. Especially convincing were testimonials by ordinary people who describe how Feng Shui principles of organizing their homes and offices made a difference in their well-being, health, and business success.

Included with the video is a bagua, an 8-sided drawing that is demonstrated in the film and used for locating areas in a house or room where aspects of one's life (career, marriage, children, self-knowledge, etc.) are being impacted by "chi" (subtle energy). Also included is a list of Feng Shui remedies that were explained in the video (mirrors, wind chimes, plants, etc.)

Useful, practical advice from two recognized experts of the Black Tantric Sect of Feng Shui, Deborah Gee and Lin Yun -- very well done!

Handling Your Single Engine I/O
Released in DVD by Bennett Media Corpor (29 January, 2003)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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I was expecting something of value
I was extremely disappointed being a 1 month old mariner. I expected to visually learn much from this dvd, but it was so basic I cannot believe anyone would consider this value for money. Most of the video was hold to dock with wind coming from different directions.. my advice is buy a book and read all about this in about 10 mins and save money and 50 mins of your life.

Better Homes and Gardens: Cool Crafts
Released in DVD by Image Entertainment (02 July, 1998)
MPAA Rating: Unrated
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Boating Basics
Released in DVD by Bennett Media Corpor (09 September, 2002)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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Boatings Top 60 Tips:Boat Handling
Released in DVD by Bennett Media Corpor (09 September, 2002)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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Handling Your Twin I/O
Released in DVD by Bennett Media Corpor (16 October, 2002)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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