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Smoke Break #942: Sweet New PBS “Off Book” Short Film On The Art Of The Tattoo

Smoke Break #941: Ernest Hemingway’s “Old Man And The Sea” In Stop Motion Animation

Smoke Break #940: A Cool Short Film On The Making Of A Book Using Traditional Methods

Smoke Break #939: Epic Ontario Beard Drunk Belts Queen In The Back Of An OPP Cruiser

Smoke Break #938: What Happens When You Steal A Locked Bike In Broad Daylight In NYC

Smoke Break #937: Visualizing Every One Of The Earthquakes Around The World In 2011

Smoke Break #936: If Hunter S. Thompson Ever Tried To Buy Kafka’s “Metamorphesis”

Smoke Break #935: On The End Of Manned Missions And Humanity No Longer Dreaming

Smoke Break #934: New Zealand Pizzeria Comes Up With The Scariest Food Game Ever

Smoke Break #933: A Short Film On Megan Paska, The Rooftop Beekeeper Of Brooklyn

Smoke Break #932: Guinness Ad Rounds Up The Lads For Dark Pints On St. Patrick’s Day

Smoke Break #931: On The Origins Of The Iconic “Keep Calm And Carry On” Poster

Smoke Break #930: Pulp Iambic Pentameter – Quentin Tarantino Vs. William Shakespeare

Smoke Break #929: Fantastic Animated Short Schools Consumers On “The Story Of Sushi”

Smoke Break #928: And Now You Want To Go To Vietnam & Eat Like There’s No Ngày Mai

Smoke Break #927: “Go Inside To Satisfy Your Curiosity And Then Tell Me What It Is”

Smoke Break #926: David Lee Roth Explains The Myth Of Van Halen’s Brown M&M Clause

Smoke Break #925: West End Icon “Spandy Andy” Gets His Super Freak On In Australia

Smoke Break #924: Tory Jackass Moves To Quash Right To Privacy With Orwellian Move

Smoke Break #923: Cool Doc Short Explores The Rise & Fall Of Kodachrome Colour Film

Smoke Break #922: A Beautiful Love Story About Working In The Restaurant Business

Smoke Break #921: A Short (Awesome) Film On Mid-Century Coffee House Life In London

Smoke Break #920: A Heady Glimpse Inside The Quickly Fading World Of Moveable Type

Smoke Break #919: The Water/Whisky Trick (Or How To Entertain Yourself While Alone)

Smoke Break #918: How To Virally Market Your Sushi? Send It Into Space, Of Course!

Smoke Break #917: “Lifecycle” (365 Days In The Life Of A Locked Up Bike In Manhattan)

Smoke Break #916: If David Lynch Wrote An Ad For One Terrible Beer Against Another…

Smoke Break #915: What All The Books Do After The Lights Dim And The Staff Go Home