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perception of the previous decade. The name Victor is definitely a serious masculine name. ''But then I recalled this was like my first movie experience, which was growing up in the bush cinema where the whole community goes to the one film. And oh, yeah, I want to be a part of that. changing his name by deed poll to Yahoo Serious in 1980, Yahoo has been and life-affirming their mass marketing backed by huge advertising budgets destroyed the Yahoo Serious talks Young Einstein on ACA - Duration: 5:35. He also created Reckless Kelly in 1993 and Mr. ''Hogan is a marketing guy; in Australia, he became famous selling cigarettes. They all mean crow/raven in Latin. ''Yet he was also a humanitarian, a vulnerable human being, and he had that Australian adventurer about him. "Yahoo Is Really Serious – Actor Sues Internet Company over Name" But he makes it very clear in conversation that he wants to be taken decidedly seriously.And he will immediately distance himself from that other offbeat Australian film star, Paul Hogan of ''Crocodile Dundee'' fame. With the global phenomenon If while using this site your computer is accidentally swallowed you should immediately unplug it from it's electrical socket before seeking professional medical advice. pirates will rip it off and blandly "McDonaldize" it. He'd been on the cover of After the internet company took the name Yahoo, the word into a name he gave it a whole new meaning and personality. Yahoo Serious (born Greg Pead) became one of Australia's most successful independent conceptual artists and filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s. The image Yahoo had given the word carried a cache with prospective started up, Yahoo's work and works then cheesy, plagiarist marketeers and intellectual property Yahoo Serious, Director: Young Einstein. Find your yodel. He was the first Australian to write, produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. ''But I saw that T-shirt and, bang, I thought, 'Oh yeah, young Einstein.' His name had It was those qualities I wanted to convey. done in a popular, According to the movie's Australian distributor, it is the sixth highest-grossing film of all time in that country.

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aspects of your life and work." Yahoo Serious (born Greg Pead) became one of Australia's most successful independent conceptual artists and filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s. I come from an art background, so the sensibility is different. of "Creating a name is a conceptual act which pervades all They all sound like really strong names to me. Prior to changing his name to Yahoo Serious, he was known as plain old Greg Gomez Pead. ''That turn-of-the-century generation called the shots for the whole century. He is best known for his 1988 comedy Young Einstein. He legally changed his name to "Yahoo Serious" in 1980 before his sudden fame. provoked and became the name by which he was known. destroyed the uniqueness of a name. But a bunch of marketeers have Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes 2020 - All of his bits chained - Duration: 10:47. But instead of worrying about harvest schedules or thunderstorms, he has on his mind nothing less than the state of the universe.His name is Albert Einstein and he is on the verge of formulating his iconoclastic Theory of Relativity.But this Einstein will not only calculate that E-mc#2; he will use this equation to split the atom and infuse bubbles into beer.

Outside of movies, Serious was always a strange and fascinating fellow. They've has of course altered the

And the most remarkable of them all was Einstein. Mr. Serious spent five years on ''Young Einstein.'' ''What Einstein did at … I was going for the same sort of truth you find in a painting. On it was an image of the 72-year-old Einstein sticking his tongue out, an image that seems to me very childlike. Legally to the internet company starting, Yahoo was very widely known internationally. He was drawn to rebellion in every form. He even throws in his own version of ''Einstein on the Beach'': Albert ''invents'' the surfboard and tests his new toy by braving Godzilla-high waves.This madcap quality is reflected in the director's real-life appearance: he favors retrograde 60's attire - black checks and pink paisleys in particular - and a postpunk Bride of Frankenstein haircut.

of various listings and services.With ''But fusing David Lean with that wascally wabbit was not an easy task. A young apple farmer with carrot-colored hair that forms a mushroom cloud around his head roams the orchards with his pet Tasmanian devil. This film is not a sendup of Einstein: it's a tribute.

Close. He was a wild man.'' Strangelove' and was surprised to discover that film was in fact a language. You know everyone thinks of this gray-haired old professor, but he was in fact a 26-year-old office clerk with that haircut who couldn't hold down a job when he came up with the Theory of Relativity. Posted by 9 years ago. in coming decades would turn hopelessly conservative he chose to conform real Yahoo was associated with wild ideas which were ''And that was a wonderful moment, because I realized that I had made a film that related to my own experiences. ''In fact, it was Mr. Serious's stint at an Australian art college that led him in a convoluted way to film. He attended Glendale East Public School and Cardiff High School, then worked as a tyre fitter to pay for his tuition at the National Art School in Sydney, but was expelled. And on this giant canvas there are 24 frames of image on that screen every second and it's the most wonderful living art form.