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The Digitally Remastered My Big Toe Director’s Cut Limited Edition Collector’s Box Set

Well the response to My Big Toe has been simply staggering. Never before has a YouTube video taken so long to go viral. So in a cynical marketing ploy to keep the loyal fans coming back to spend even more on merchandising, we’ve now released the limited edition collector’s box set that you didn’t know you’d been waiting for:

The Digitally Remastered My Big Toe Director's Cut Limited Edition Collector's Box Set

The Digitally Remastered My Big Toe Director’s Cut Limited Edition Collector’s Box Set

Finally, you can get all the materials related to the My Big Toe phenomenon together in one place. No mucking around or interference from major studios here. Instead, you’ll get maximum dramatic impact completely faithful to the director’s original creative vision by experiencing My Big Toe exactly as the director intended.

So sit back and enjoy the contents of The Digitally Remastered My Big Toe Director’s Cut Limited Edition Collector’s Box Set: (more…)

By Graham Stoney, ago

How To Avoid Being Creative

Creativity is a hot topic these days. Everybody is talking about it, writing about it, studying it. It’s such a pervasive topic, that it’s getting hard to avoid. But still, there’s hope: The best way I’ve found to avoid being creative is to spend all your time reading books on creativity. Here’s a video in which I explain exactly how to do that:

Here are links to books I don’t recommend in the video, but are actually really great and well worth reading: (more…)

By Graham Stoney, ago
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Sony Puts Legal Boot Into My Big Toe Soundtrack

International media content giant Sony have put the legal boot into the soundtrack of Graham Stoney’s latest epic motion picture blockbuster, My Big Toe. Lawyers for Stoney Productions reported that they first became aware of the alleged copyright infringement in certain portions of the soundtrack after receiving a notification from YouTube’s Content ID system.

“Sony Music Entertainment alleged via YouTube that the original soundtrack to My Big

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Toe bore a striking resemblance to the music from the opening title sequence of another well-known movie franchise, to which they claim to own the rights”, said the lawyer for Stoney Productions. “It’s really just yet another case of some giant corporate conglomerate crushing the creativity of the little guy.”

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By Graham Stoney, ago

How To Be Patient

Research has shown that our ability to defer gratification correlates directly with our eventual success in life. This was discovered by having a bunch of men in white coats give sweets to small children; which I have to admit, sounds kinda creepy.

What the researchers discovered is that the children tended to fall into one of two groups: the first would eat the sweet immediately. The second were prepared to wait before eating the first sweet, in order to be rewarded with a second sweet.

They then followed the children through life; again, creepy; and discovered that the people from the second group who had been willing to defer gratification as a child tended to do better in life as an adult than those from the first group.

So in order to help out, I’ve made the following video to give you a direct personal experience of developing patience. It’s … Continue reading…

By Graham Stoney, ago

Anti-Vaccination Campaigner Dies Of Rubella

Doctors at Byron District Hospital this morning announced the sudden and unexpected death of leading anti-vaccination campaigner Meryl Dopey from rubella, a vaccine-preventable illness.

Ms Dopey is reported to have developed a fever of paranoid stupidity while penning a hyperbolic missive denigrating the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s campaign to eradicate polio, a preventable disease which continues to kill and cripple children in the third world. “Those starving kids are suffering anyway; if they don’t die of polio, they’re just going to die of hunger.”, she wrote shortly before her death, continuing “Their so-called ‘foundation’ has been linked with the notorious Rotary International in its genocidal efforts to murder this helpless virus. Bill Gates should stop shoving his nose into other people’s illness and stick to making crap software.”

By the time she reached the hospital, the rubella virus had infected her brain. “We were surprised it could … Continue reading…

By Graham Stoney, ago

How To Handle Rejection: By Getting Even

I know a lot of people are struggling these days with the whole concept of rejection. An invitation to grab a coffee with a cute member of the opposite sex is rudely declined, and you’re left feeling all alone in the world with nobody to console you. An offer to dance is declined because they’re “too tired”; and yet suddenly have a mysterious burst of energy when the next potential suitor comes along straight after. You send an SMS or leave a voicemail, and your so-called “friend” never gets back to you. Some days it’s just one rejection after another.

Rejection stings because it reminds you just how much you hate yourself. Someone else affirms the negative beliefs about yourself that you’ve got stashed away deep down in your unconscious, and suddenly you’re flooded with all the feelings of unworthiness and inadequacy that you’ve been avoiding ever since your earliest childhood experiences when you just weren’t good enough to make the grade.

But hang on a minute… who are they to put you in touch with such repressed inner pain by discarding your generous offer like that? You don’t deserve it. You’ve spent a lifetime avoiding that pain, and you’re certainly not about to go delving into it now. What’s all this “taking responsibility for your own feelings” bullshit anyway?

Fuck that.

So here’s how to really handle rejection; by getting even:

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By Graham Stoney, ago

My Big Toe Is Finally Here!

At long last, the epic saga you’ve been waiting for is finally here! My Big Toe has now been released on YouTube. Here it is, for your viewing pleasure:

If you haven’t already done so, you’ll also want to check out [intlink id=”587″ type=”post”]the trailer for My Big Toe[/intlink], and [intlink id=”601″ type=”post”]Margaret and David’s review of My Big Toe[/intlink].

Stay tuned for the obligatory making-of documentary Inside My Big Toe: The Making Of A Masterpiece.… Continue reading…

By Graham Stoney, ago