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singularityhacker · 4 years

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7 Power Laws of the Technological Singularity

When people talk about the technological singularity they usually do so exclusively in the context of Moore’s Law. But there are several Moore’s Law-like laws at work in the world and each of them is equally baffling. I’m referring to this list of trends as “power laws” because of the nature of their incredible rate of growth and because they independently work as pistons driving the engine of the singularity. A few things to note about these power laws. Firstly they are just observations. There are no, known, deeper physical principles in the universe that would lead us to believe that they must hold true. Secondly, we’ve observed these trends long enough to warren their recognition as power laws and there is no evidence or signs of their stagnating. We’ll start with the most famous and well-known power law and work our way through the others.

1. Moore’s Law

Moore’s Law states that transistors on a chip double about every two years and that the cost of that doubling halves. This is a double-edged sword. It means that the next model computer will be way faster than the previous but it also means that the value of your existing computer is dropping rapidly. The end of Moore’s Law has been proclaimed for a long time but there seems to be no end to its progression.

As we reach the physical limits of transistor sizes, entirely new hardware architectures are developed that sustain the progression. Things like 3D chips, specialized chips, and non-silicon based chips like photonics, spintronics, and neuromorphic chips are being developed and will ensure that this law continues.

“Regular boosts to computing performance that used to come from Moore’s Law will continue, and will instead stem from changes to how chips are designed.” — Mike Muller, CTO at ARM

What this does not mean is that a user’s experience of computer speed will increase. We tend to be more sloppy with application development when it’s cheap to make up for it with hardware horsepower. There is a standing joke that the same amount of computing resources that were used to send astronauts to the moon in the ’60s is now accidentally used by a sluggish browser tab.

2. Kryder’s Law

The second law driving our propulsion into the technological singularity is Kryder’s Law. It states, loosely, that digital storage doubles every year. It specifically has to do with magnetic storage but the principle is applicable to all digital storage as you will see. While you may not see this law exactly played out in the price of external drives in your local Best Buy, you can see it if you consider the price of cloud storage services.

Let’s look at the current top cloud storage providers. Apple offers two terabytes of cloud storage for about $10 a month. Google offers the same space for the same price as well as 10 terabytes for about $100 a month. After that, users can get 20 terabytes for $200 a month, 30 terabytes for $300 a month, and so on. Dropbox offers yet a similar package but with extras like full-text search for $20 a month. Lastly and most competitive is Amazon offering an incredible $0.004 per gigabyte per month through its Glacier storage service. When you take these cloud providers into account and consider that they will only grow via economies of scale, you see that Kryder’s law is in full effect.

Note that this also doesn’t even take into consideration innovations like Filecoin that actually distribute Kryder’s Law by allowing anyone with storage capacity to rent that space out. You could look at it like Uber or Airbnb for digital storage. This highlights the idea that this digital power law, like the others, should not be strictly tied to a hardware implementation. Similar to how Moore’s Law continues but not strictly through cramming more transistors on a chip but through new engineering architectures. The same principle applies.

3. Nielsen’s Law

Thirdly, we have Nielsen’s Law. If the previous laws could be summarized as computation and storage, this one is summarized as throughput. It states that bandwidth grows by 50% a year. More precisely, it states that the bandwidth of high-end users grows by 50% a year. That’s just 10% less annual growth than Moore’s Law.

In practice, we don’t see this linear growth and there are three reasons for it. One, Telecom companies are conservative. It cost billions of dollars to update their sprawling hardware. Two. The immediate impact of the end-user is not a guaranteed faster experience if they do upgrade their infrastructure. You can have the fastest hardware in the world on your street but that doesn’t automatically make the rest of the countries hardware faster. That slow loading web page may only be imperceptible faster after your area’s hardware is upgraded. Lastly, as new people get online, it’s more likely they are using older slower devices so the average expected speed is kept pressed down by these newcomers.

Since 1G was introduced in the 1980s, new wireless technology has been released every ten years. The advent of 1G introduced mobile telephony. Than 2G in the ’90s brought about global roaming and SMS. The 200’s saw 3G and smartphones with data. 2010 introduced 4G and mobile broadband. The year 2020 will be the year of 5G and the realization of the fully ubiquitous cloud. To put this in perspective, let’s say you wanted to download the newest episode of your favorite television show. At 800MB it would have taken 8 hours hrs to download in 1998, 5 hrs in 2001, 45 minutes in 2009, and 1 second with the new wireless protocol.

The impact and roll out of 5G will be enormous. With current networks, it takes about 100 milliseconds for information to travel across a network. With 5G, that latency will be reduced to 1 millisecond. We are talking about downloading full-length 5k movies in less than a second, surgeons controlling surgical robots in real-time from across the country, smart cities, and smart car-to-car communications.

4. Koomey’s Law

Koomey’s law has to do with the efficient use of energy and states that the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated has been doubling approximately every 1.57 years. This trend has been stable since the 1950s and has been faster than Moore’s law. Jonathan Koomey reframed the trend as follows: “at a fixed computing load, the amount of battery you need will fall by a factor of two every year and a half”. You can see the effect of this law in today’s newest generation CPU’s (Apple’s M1 chip) that are pumping out incredible amounts of processing power at significantly reduced levels of energy consumption.

5. Metcalfe’s Law

This power law with its closely associated cousin, the network effect, asserts that the value of a network is proportional to how many users are a part of it and that the addition of a new member adds value to all the existing members. A good example of this power law at work are social media sites like Facebook and YouTube. These sites had no revenue model in the beginning and were very expensive to run but grew to have so many users that the value grew directly from the value of the size of the network itself. Not too many years ago, software products had to packaged on physical media and shipped through the mail to users. Now, the same products can be built and deployed to one of any number of app stores and have a global audience with little to no overhead.

6. Hendy’s Law

Next, consider Hendy’s Law. Hendy’s Law states that the number of pixels per dollar in a digital camera doubles every two years. We can generalize this trend to encompass the idea that our ability to capture images and video of the world is exponentially improving year over year. This improvement opens the door to such high-fidelity VR and lifelogging that our human senses begin to find synthetic media and real-life indistinguishable. This already exists in the form of gigapixel photography where images are used instead of real specimens in biological study where we can’t tell the difference even under a microscope. Imagine being able to photograph a group of people and then zoom in so close later that you can identify properties of their cellular biology.

7. Bell’s Law

Last on our list is Bell’s Law. It says a new class of smaller, cheaper computers comes along about every decade. With each new class, the volume shrinks by two orders of magnitude, and the number of systems per person increases. The law has held from 1960s’ mainframes through the ‘80s’ personal computers, the ‘90s’ notebooks, and the new millennium’s smart phones. This is likely manifesting in the realm of wearable right now with the wild success of smart watched and wireless intelligent earbuds.

To wrap this up and summarize, while there may be temporary or geographically isolated stalls in the progression of these laws, they are still holding steady. You might compare them to walking up a set of stairs. At various points in your travel up the stairs, you rise up very high and then drop low. You do not move at a constant linearly increasing height. You go up and down but the trend is a clear move upwards. Through that up and down, you are converging on a net increase. The same is true of these digital laws. The overarching result is that software is eating the world and eating itself, recursively accelerating the process even further. One doesn’t need to theorize about potential advances in machine intelligence to see that we are accelerating into an unimaginable future. A clear technological singularity.

If none of the above convinces I will leave you with this chart illustrating the grown of the global economy. Assuming the continuation of these power laws, where are we 50–100 years from now?

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The Weekend Warrior March 6, 2020 – ONWARD, THE WAY BACK, EMMA and MUCH More!

Thankfully, February ended pretty well as The Invisible Man fell just shy of my abridged $30 million opening prediction, but still, $29 million is pretty damn good, and the movie’s “B+” CinemaScore makes me think that it will do pretty well going into March even with another Blumhouse genre film opening next week. Oh, yeah, and A Quiet Place Part 2. Anyway, next week is next week. Let’s get to this week…

March kicks off with ONWARD, the latest animated movie from Disney’s Pixar Animation division, which his coming off its 10th Oscar in the Animated Feature category last month, as it launches its 23rd movie over the course of 25 years. It’s pretty amazing how far Pixar has come since it was launched with John Lasseter’s Toy Story way back in 1995, the company having amassed $6 billion in North America alone and $14.4 billion worldwide.

Onward is the new movie from Monsters University director Dan Scanlon, a fantasy involving two elf brothers, voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt, who go on a quest to find magic that will help them bring back their dead father. The movie also features the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Tracey Ullman, Lena Waithe, Octavia Spencer, Ali Wong and Mel Rodriguez.

This is Pixar’s first original movie since Coco in 2017, but it’s also the first movie released by the studio outside of the profitable summer and holiday box office seasons. It’s certainly a departure, but this will also be the third time where there are two Pixar movies in the same year. The last time this happened was in 2015 when the summer release Inside Out was another $350 million hit but it led to the November release of The Good Dinosaur, which to date is still Pixar’s lowest grosser even compared to 1998’s A Bug’s Life. Good Dinosaur opened with just $39 million over the normally-lucrative Thanksgiving weekend and only grossed $123 million domestic. The March release might make some wonder if Onward isn’t one of Pixar’s stronger offerings. (Pete Docter’s Soulis getting the studio’s higher profile summer release, but that’s what comes when you turn original movies like Up and Inside Out into blockbuster hits without the benefits of being a sequel.)

Having big stars like Pratt and Holland providing the main voices might normally help, especially in terms of getting publicity for the movie, although Holland just provided his voice for Fox’s animated Spies in Disguise with an equally big star like Will Smith and that only grossed $66 million after opening last Christmas.

A last-minute boost for Onward might come from the fact that it’s preceded by a brand new “The Simpsons” short, another benefit from the massive purchase of Fox and its properties by Disney last year. That and the Pixar brand should drive business opening weekend, which should be good for roughly $50 million even with stronger family films like Call of the Wild and Sonic the Hedgehog, which will step aside to give Onward the required berth. I’m not sure Onwardwill achieve the $200 million benchmark of other non-Pixar sequels but it should be good for around $160 to 170 million with a bump from schools having spring break in March. (I’m not going to start presuming that the current corona scare might impact moviegoing, at least not just yet, although it’s something that needs to be kept in mind.)

Having not seen Onward yet, I don’t have that much more to say, but I have good news, and it’s that I’ve been invited to see Disney’s Mulan, so a.) I’ll have a review for you, and b.) I’ll hopefully have more insightful thoughts on that movie’s box office since I’ll have seen it.

The other wide release this weekend is the second team-up between Ben Affleck and director Gavin O’Connor, following their 2016 hit The Accountant. Unlike that thriller, THE WAY BACK (Warner Bros.) is more of an inspirational drama about a man trying to overcome addiction to find redemption. Affleck plays Jack Cunningham, a former high school basketball star struck down by alcoholism, who is given another chance to coach his old high school basketball team. The drama comes from whether he can overcome his demons to find redemption. It wouldn’t be a particularly inspirational movie if he doesn’t.

Oddly,The Way Back is a far more common type of March release than Onward but it is also Affleck’s second attempt at a comeback, having recovered from the bombs of the mid-00s to find favor as a director with the Oscar Best Picture winner Argo, which followed a decent-sized hit with 2010’s The Town. Unfortunately, Affleck’s 2016 movie Live By Night bombed really badly, countering the success he had as Batman in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Supermanand in 2016’s The Accountant, which grossed $86.3 million. The fact that Justice League made $100 million less than Batman v Superman got Affleck replaced by Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, due out next year, so Affleck definitely has something to prove with this movie.

Besides reuniting Affleck and O’Connor, The Way Back also has a chance to draw in older males by being set in the world of basketball, as we’ve seen movies like Coach Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson, open big with $24.8 million over the MLK Jr. weekend in 2005. On the other hand, Disney opened the basketball drama Glory Road, starring Josh Lucas, on the same weekend and that opened with half that amount. O’Connor is no stranger to inspirational feel-good sports movies having directed Disney’s Miracle about the 1980 US hockey team, which ended up grossing $64 million after a $19 million opening in 2004. Obviously, these are all movies that are nearly 15 years old, and it’s harder to find more recent sports hits unless you look to the world of faith-based dramas, and maybe Warner Bros. hopes that crowd will be out for this story of redemption.

I wish I had more confidence in this film, although I generally have never been a very big Affleck fan, and I’m not sure if this is the kind of movie that will entice older males in the same way as The Accountant (which I didn’t like, mind you). I’d like to think that the movie can do somewhere in the range of Thunder Road’s $13 million opening, but I have a feeling that this will end up closer to $10 to 11 million this weekend and will have to rely on word-of-mouth if it wants to maintain business through a month with a lot of strong offerings to come.

Mini-Review: On paper, The Way Back would seem like a very obvious movie, both for Ben Affleck and also for director Gavin O’Connor, who has dealt with inspirational sports movies and those seeking redemption. (Warrior is still one of my favorite films he’s made to date.)

We meet Affleck’s Jack Cunningham as he’s still on a low after splitting from his wife (Janina Gavankar) with a beer can always in hand, although we won’t find out what happened until much later. Out of the blue, Jack is called by the pastor of Bishop Hayes Catholic high school where Jack was the big star destined for greatness decades earlier. Even though he hasn’t touched a ball since then, Jack takes on the challenge of trying to turn things around for the worst team in the league. At the same time, he tries to help a few individual players and not get on the bad side of the chaplin with his constant swearing.

This is a great vehicle for Affleck and O’Connor, working from a script by Brad Ingelsby, whose screenplay for last year’s American Woman was another nice surprise. Affleck really has never been better in a role that allows him to pull from his own addiction and marital issues to create a fully-rounded character. The way O’Connor shoots the basketball games and the progress of the team keeps things exciting.

The only significant problem with the movie is that the first 2/3rds of it seems like two separate movies, one involving Jack trying to bring Bishop Hayes back from being the worst team in the league and the other being Jack’s alcohol problems. The two sides of the movie rarely intersect for a good chunk of the movie.

The real surprises come in the film’s last act where we think everything is going great and can’t imagine things could get bad again for Jack… and of course, they do. I won’t say about how and what happens, but when you’ve spent the whole movie watching him do something so inspiring, it’s a little deflating to be brought back down to reality.

Sure, The Way Back may be predictable (to a point) but it’s a damn good version of the movie that you’re expecting, offering a big-time tug on the heart strings. Rating: 8/10

Hitting theaters nationwide this weekend – roughly 1,500 theaters -- is the new Jane Austen adaptation EMMA. (Focus Features), starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Bill Nighy. The movie has done pretty well platforming, but it will be a tougher sell as it expands into regions outside major cities, so the per-theater average will fall quite a lot since last weekend. I think it should be good for $2 to 3 million which will allow it to place in the top 10 but we’ll have to see how it fares before expecting much more of an expansion.

Also, Sony Pictures Classics is planning to expand Michael Winterbottom’s Greed, starring Steve Coogan, into a nationwide release, but who knows if that’s 400 theaters, 500 theaters or more? (UPDATE: Theater count is confirmed at 596 so I’m sticking with my earlier prediction of $1.2 million.) I’m not sure they should go very wide with a $7,124 per-theater average this past weekend (worse than Searchlight’s Wendy), so I don’t think it will make enough to crack the top 10 this weekend even with a fairly low entry point.

This week’s Top 10 should look something like this…

1. Onward (Disney-Pixar) - $51 million N/A

2. The Invisible Man (Universal) - $16.3 million -44%

3. The Way Back (Warner Bros.) - $10.5 million N/A

4. Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount) - $8.5 million

5. The Call of the Wild (20thCentury) - $6.8 million

6. Emma. (Focus Features) - $3 million +71% (up .8 million)*

7. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (FUNimation) - $2.7 million

8. Bad Boys for Life (Sony) - $2.4 million

9. Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (Warner Bros) - $2.3 million

10. The Impractical Jokers Movie (TruTV) - $1.6 million -55%

-- Greed (Sony Pictures Classics) - $1.2 million

*UPDATE: Keeping most of my predictions the same except that I’m giving a little bump to Focus’ Emma, since it should act as decent counter-programming to the other new movies.

LOCAL FESTIVALS

The big festival kicking off in New York this week is the annual “Rendezvous with French Cinema” up at Film at Lincoln Center, which runs from this Thursday through March 15. It kicks off on Thursday with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first French language film The Truth as the opener with stars Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke introducing the film at 6:30pm after doing a separate conversation earlier (only standby available for the conversation and early screening but tickets available for the 9:15pm screening sans introduction). I’ll probably write more about this next week when it gets its limited release, but the two actors play a couple who come to France to spend time with her actress mother Fabienne (played by the amazing Catherine Deneuve) who is publishing her contentious memoirs. The other movie I’ve seen which I liked a little more is Quentin Dupieux’s quirky Deerskin, starring Jean Dujardin (The Artist), which also opens theatrically this month. I wasn’t able to catch Alice Winocour’s Proxima, starring Eva Green and Matt Dillon, but hopefully that will be one of the films that finds distribution, as many of the “Rendezvous” offerings, this festival might be the only time to see them. Other returning filmmakers include Cédric Klapisch, Bruno Dumont, as well as Christophe Honoré’s On a Magical Night with Cannes winner Chiara Mastoianni in attendance, plus more. Click on the link above for the full rundown.

LIMITED RELEASES

This is a pretty decent for limited release, so if you’re in New York or L.A. and have already seen some of the expanding movies or aren’t interested in the new wide releases, you have a LOT of other options… and that’s even before we get to the repertory stuff below. There are just way too many limited releases coming out the next couple weekends.

I’m gonna do something a little different this week. Instead of picking just one “Featured Movie,” I’m gonna go with a “Featured Theater” since two decent movies are opening at New York’s Film Forum this coming week. (Plus it begins a new Hitchcock series, which you can read about in the repertory section below.)

We’ll begin with SORRY WE MISSED YOU (Zeitgeist/Kino Lorber) – opening at Film Forum Weds. and in L.A. at the Landmark Nuart on Friday. It’s the new film from director Ken Loach, who has an amazing filmography of British “kitchen sink” dramas but also great historical films like The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Loach’s last film I, Daniel Blake was in my top 5 a few years back and Sorry I Missed You is very much a follow-up, once again dealing with Brits struggling with the system to make a living. In this case, it’s Kris Hitchen’s Ricky Turner and his wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood) as he signs on for a “zero-hour” job delivering packages, a system that requires working longer hours. Meanwhile, Abbie is working just as hard as a home care worker. As they struggle to make a living, their teenage son is skipping school and getting into trouble.

Although as a freelance writer, I could definitely relate to the idea of having to work extra-hard in order to earn enough money to survive, especially in the jobs I was doing getting paid by piece which was never helpful in making ends meet. Seeing how the package delivery industry in northern England is used to take advantage of individuals is partially what keeps things interesting. Like The Way Back, you sort of expect things to get bad for Ricky, especially in regards to his son, but there’s a certain point where you think he’s gonna crash his van cause he’s so exhausted. It doesn’t happen but what happens next is almost worse than that. Either way, it’s another decent movie from Loach (and regular writer Paul Laverty), maybe not as good as I, Daniel Blake but still worthwhile.

From China comes THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Film Movement), the new film from Daio Yinan (Black Coal, Thin Ice), which is quite a different film for Mr. Yinan, starring Hu Ge as mob leader Zhou Zenong, who gets into a feud with another local gang leader, ends up killing a police officer in the ensuing mayhem and ends up hiding out in the area of Wuhan known as Wild Goose Lake, becoming entangled with Gwei Lun-Mei’s Liu. This is another interesting take on the crime noir genre from Zenong, one that maybe gets a little more artsy-fartsy than Black Coal but one that also veers further into genre territory, particularly with some of the violence and bloodshed involved. It offers further proof that Yinan is a true master of cinematic storytelling since it’s so unlike the many other Chinese crime films that have come from both Hong Kong and the mainland. This one is quite the film, although I still recommend seeking out Black Coal if you ever have the chance. This one will open at the Film Forum on Friday. (While you’re going to the Film Forum, check out Corneliu Porumbiou’s crime-thriller The Whistlers, which I watched over the weekend, and it’s quite different from many other Romanian films I’ve seen, not only because it’s under 2 hours.)

Next up is THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY (Sony Pictures Classics), Giuseppe Capotondi’s adaptation of Charles Willeford’s book, starring Claes Bang from The Square and The Girl in the Spider’s Web as art critic James Figueras, who is giving lectures in Italy when he meets Elizabeth Debicki’s Berenice. It’s a meeting that turns into a fast relationship that has them both in bed, and when James is called to the mansion of a rich Italian art lover named Cassidy (played by Mick Jagger), he brings Berenice along with him. Once there, James learns that Cassidy has become the benefactor for reclusive artist Jerome Debney, played by Donald Sutherland, whose entire body of work was destroyed in a fire. Cassidy has gotten James an exclusive interview with Debney with the condition that he gets one of Debney’s in-demand paintings out of the deal. I’m not really a fine art fanatic nor have I read Willeford’s book, but I found this to be an interesting dramatic thriller in the vein of The Talented Mr. Ripley as you watch this cat-and-mouse game being played between the characters. Sutherland is pretty awesome as Debney, who flirts with Berenice while playing mind games with James, and the way these dynamics play out is what makes this film better than other art-driven films. As you watch this movie, you’ll probably realize that Claes Bang really should be playing a James Bond villain and then Mick Jagger appears on screen with him and you REALLY think that Jagger should have played a Bond villain anytime in the last few decades as he’s great at playing devious. This is another great release from Sony Classics in a year where they seem to be turning things around from the last couple years. So far, besides this, I’ve also liked Greed, The Traitor and The Climb, which will be released later this month.

Having been delayed from its intended December release due to many controversies, George (The Adjustment Bureau) Nolfi’s THE BANKER (Apple+) will finally hit select theaters for a few weeks before launching on Apple+ on March 20. It stars Anthony Mackie as Bernard Garrett, a young genius growing up black pre-Civil Rights and dealing with the Jim Crow racism in his hometown of Texas, so he moves to Los Angeles and becomes heavily involved in the real estate business. Eventually, he finds a partner in Samuel L. Jackson’s Joe Morris, a club owner with money and a good amount of real estate experience himself. Slowly, they begin buying up buildings in downtown L.A. using the ambitious white Max Steiner (Nicholas Hoult) as their frontman, while letting affluent black people in to build a community and Bernard decides it’s time to buy the bank in his old Texas hometown. That’s where things start going wrong, but I won’t get too deep into the story. This is a decent film from Nolfi with particularly strong performances from Mackie and Jackson, as well as Nia Long as Garrett’s wife. It’s very reminiscent of Spike Lee’s BlackKklansman with a similar level of humor despite being about a serious subject. It does hit a bit of a lull when the story moves back to Texas and the trio’s dealings with the banks, and it gets a little bogged down in all the numbers, but it does end up delivering a decent true-life story that will be of interest.

Kelly Reichardt’s latest period piece is FIRST COW (A24), set in the Pacific Northwest during the time of the Gold Rush as a cook (John Magaro) encounters a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) in the Oregon Territory and the two of them hatch a money-making scheme to sell biscuits using stolen milk from a local landowner’s prized cow. Although I have not really been a fan of Reichardt’s work, even her historic film Meek’s Cutoff, I think with this movie she really finds her footing with two great actors/characters and a story that’s fairly intriguing in its own right. I wasn’t too crazy with how the film ended (foreshadowed by the film’s opening framing device) but it’s one of Reichardt’s few films where I didn’t get bored or lose interest, so that’s certainly sayin’ something. What’s even more impressive is that two local theaters (BAM, MOMI) held repertory series in conjunction with the release of First Cow and apparently, other cities are doing the same.

From Brazil comes BACURAU (Kino Lorber), Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s odd genre film that’s based around a small village in the Brazilian equivalent of the Outback, a remote place whose matriarch Carmelita has just passed away at the age of 94. There are forces at work trying to drive the villagers out of their homes, including putting a dam to cut off their water supply, but things get stranger when a nearby farmer and his family end up dead, which leads to a twist that takes the film directly into genre territory. I don’t want to say too much about what happens but it involves Udo Kier and a lot of weapons… Bacurau opens at the IFC Center downtown and Film at Lincoln Center uptown (with QnAs at the latter, which is also holding a “Mapping Bacurau” series starting March 13.)

Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ SWALLOW (IFC Films) stars Haley Bennett as a newly-pregnant housewife married to her perfect husband Richie (Austin Stowell, who recently appeared in Fantasy Island), but as she tries to please him and his parents, she starts developing a dangerous habit in the form of a disorder called pica that has her compulsively swallowing inedible objects. Okay, then. It will open at the IFC Center, the Laemmle Monica Film Center and as well as On Demand and digital. Bennett won an award for her acting at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, but I somehow missed it.

Next, we have a trio of films opening at New York’s Village East Cinema and a few other theaters both in New York and select cities:

I really wanted to like Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman’s Irish horror-comedy EXTRA ORDINARY (GDE) more, since the trailer really made it seem like something I might enjoy. In the movie, Maeve Higgins plays Rose, a smalltown driving instructor who has supernatural talents who is called upon by Barry Ward’s Martin Martin, whose daughter is being used by a former rock star (played by Will Forge) who needs a virgin to commit a Satanic pact to regain his fame. The movie just seemed rather silly and not nearly as funny as the trailer makes it seem, but maybe it would be better seing it with an audience.

Another movie that looks good (and I hope to watch soon) is Ricky Tollman’s directorial debut, the political thriller Run This Town (Oscilloscope), which stars Ben Platt (from Pitch Perfect), Mena Massoud, Nina Dobrev, Scott Speedman, Jennifer Ehle and Damian Lewis, quite an impressive cast. Platt plays Bram, a young journalist who becomes entangled in a political scandal with his political aide friend Kamal (Massoud) after catching the latter’s city hall boss doing something bad that can help the former’s career.

Also opening this weekend at the Village East and other cities, Anna Akana stars in Emily Ting’s semi-autobiographical Go Back to China (Gravitas Ventures) playing a spoiled rich girl named Sasha Li, who is forced by her father to return to China after blowing through her trust fund. Once there, Sasha finds herself by reconnecting with her estranged family and getting into toy designing. I haven’t watched this yet but the trailer looks cute, and I might have to make an effort to watch this.

Sadly, I had to refrain mentioning Daniel Radcliffe’s previous movie released last week, but he stars in another one this weekend, Francis Annan’s Escape from Pretoria (Momentum) based on Tim Jenkins’ autobiography “Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison,” a thriller about the attempt by two political captives to break out of prison during apartheid South Africa. It also stars Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter and Nathan Page.

A few other films I haven’t had a chance to watch include William Nicholson’s Hope Gap (Roadside Attractions), starring Annette Bening and Bill Nighy with Bening playing Grace, a woman who learns her husband (Nighy) is leaving her after 29 years and how that break-up affects their grown son (Josh O’Connor).

Freida Pinto and Leslie Odom Jr. star in Takashi Doscher’s Only(Vertical Entertainment) in which a comet releases a deadly virus that attacks all the women in the world forcing the two of them into hiding in their apartment from the savages hunting the surviving women. That’s a pretty strange premise that sounds like the opposite of the comic book series “Y the Last Man.” If only there was enough time to watch half the movies opening this weekend.

I accidentally included D.W. Young’s doc The Booksellers (Greenwich) in last week’s column, but it actually opens at the Quad in New York and other cities this Friday. It takes a look behind the scenes at the world of rare books with appearances by Parker Posey, Fran Lebowitz and Gay Talese.

From Bollywood comes BAAGHI 3 (FIP), Ahmed Khan’s martial arts action movie, starring series regular Tiger Shroff (who is filming a Bollywood remake of Rambo!) and Ritesih Deshmukh as brothers Ronnie and Vikram, the latter being kidnapped and beaten while abroad for work and Ronnie seeking revenge. Shraddha Kapoor returns after starring in the first movie of this action series.

Other movies, mostly hitting On Demand (with limited theatrical) include Transference (Epic Pictures), which opens in L.A. on Friday and hits On Demand next Tuesday, Final Kill (Cinedigm), Beneath Us (Vital Pictures) and Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss (MarVista Entertainment).

STREAMING AND CABLE

Some big stuff hitting the streaming…um… streams this weekend, including director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg’s latest collaboration, the action-thriller SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL on Netflix. I have really enjoyed this duo’s collaborations in the past, including Patriots Day, Deepwater Horizon and Lone Survivor. (Mile 22 was a bit of a disappointment, considering how great those other three were.) This one has Wahlberg playing the title character Spenser, an ex-cop who teams with his roommate Hawk (Winston Duke from Usand Black Panther) to take down criminals responsible for killing two Boston police officers.

Equally exciting is the launch of Alex Garland’s new sci-fi series Devs, which will launch on FX on Hulu on Thursday. This is a really terrific premise from the director of Ex Machina and Annihilation with a fantastic cast that includes an amazing cast that includes Nick Offerman, Alison Pill, Jin Ha, Cailea Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson and more.

Also launching this week on Hulu is Nanette Burstein’s documentary Hillary (Hulu), which followed former Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton over the course of her 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. The movie just premiered at Sundance in January to raves.

Steven Spielberg’s revival of his popular ‘80s anthology series Amazing Stories will debut on Apple TV+ this Friday with the first episode, “The Cellar.”

REPERTORY

Before we get to the regular repertory stuff, I want to mention that Satoshi Kon’s classic 2003 anime Tokyo Godfathers will get a nationwide theatrical release via Fathom Events with Monday night, March 9, being the original subtitled version while Weds. the 11th, there will be a dubbed version.

METROGRAPH (NYC):

The big debut this week is the Metrograph Pictures release of the restored version of Fruit Chan’s 1997 classic Made in Hong Kong, which has never been released in the United States! Apparently it was also the first movie released in Hong Kong after it received independence in 1997. It’s an interesting crime tale that deals with the relationship between three young people, hoodlum August Moon, who collects debts for a local loan shark, his dim-witted friend Sylvester and Ping, an attractive but troubled young girl who begins a relationship with August. It also deals with the death of a young girl who seemingly jumped off a roof and the three of them trying to solve the case and get a few letters she left behind to those they were meant for. If you can imagine a cross between River’s Edge, Me and Earl and the Dying Girland the recent Peanut Butter Falcon, all set in the gritty street crime culture of 1997 Hong Kong, then you can only begin to imagine what you’re in for, but it’s an amazing film and nothing you would ever see made or released in the U.S., so good on Metrograph for picking up the distribution rights and getting it out to the world.

On Sunday, Metrograph regular Alex Ross Perry will be showing Peter Hyams’ 1974 film Busting, but on Saturday, actor Chiara Mastroianni, who will be in town for “Rendezvous with French Cinema” (see above) will show her “Dream Double Feature” of Dino Risi’s 1962 film Il Sorpasso and Charles Laughton’s psychological horror classic The Night of the Hunter (1955).

This weekend’s Late Nites at Metrograph is Fassbinder’s 1972 film The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and apparently, the “Playtime: Family Matinees” has been replaced with “Metrograph Matinees” on Saturday and Sunday, which includes some less kid-friendly fare. For instance, this weekend, they’re showing Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend (1967), which I’m assuming isn’t for the kiddies.

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE BROOKLYN (NYC)

Tonight’s “Weird Wednesday” is Robocop 2, while next week’s “Terror Tuesday” is the 1989 giallo Paganinni Horror, starring Donald Pleasance, and “Weird Wednesday” is the 1985 action film Sword of Heaven.

Over on the West Coast, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown Los Angeles will screen 1968’s Wild in the Streetsas it’s “Weird Wednesday.” Saturday’s “Kids Camp” is The Shaun the Sheep Movie and then Sunday is a Brunch screening of The Brady Brunch. Marc Bernarndin’s Monday “The Minority Report” screening is Joss Whedon’s 2005 film Serenity. Next week’s “Terror Tuesday” is Kathryn Bigelo’s Near Dark and then the “Weird Wednesday” is Bobcat Goldthwait’s 2011 dark comedy God Bless America

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

Weds’ afternoon matinee is Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter (1973), while the Weds/Thursday night double feature is The Man Who Would Be King (1975) with Zulu Dawn (1979). The “Freaky Fridays” matinee is Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Trooper (1997) and then we’re into the weekend with Friday/Saturday double features of Blake Edwards’ The Return of the Pink Panthe r(1975) and The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1975), both starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau. The weekend’s “Kiddee Matinee” is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princeand the Saturday midnight screening is Hal Ashby’s fantastic Harold and Maude. Sunday and Monday will continue the Blake Edwards love with 1965’s The Great Race with one of the greatest all-star casts of the decade. On Monday afternoon you can see the classic House Partyfrom 1990 and then Tuesday’s Grindhouse is David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979) with Scalpel (1977).

FILM FORUM (NYC):

The big rep series beginning this week on Wednesday and running through March 19 is “The Women Behind Hitchcock,” mostly focusing on Hitchcock’s relationship with wife and editor Alma Reville and secretary Joan Harrison. The series includes Hitchcock classics like Rebecca (1940) and The Lady Vanishes (1938), as well as Robert Siodmak’s 1944 film Phantom Lady (produced by Harrison) as well lots more. This weekend’s “Film Forum Jr.” is Jim Henson’s Muppet Treasure Island (1996) and Friday is a screening of Claude Lelouch’s Oscar-winning 1966 film A Man and a Woman with Lelouch in person. (That’s already sold out online but will have a standby line.)

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

Thursday offers an encore screening of the Russian film Come and Seeand then Friday begins “Noir City Hollywood: the 22ndAnnual Los Angeles Festival of Film Noir” with a double feature of The Beast Must Die (1952) with Gilda (1946) and then Saturday offers a TRIPLE FEATURE of Fritz Lang’s 1931 M, Joseph Losey’s 1951 remake M and El Vampiro Negro, the 1953 Spanish Language. That’s a LOT of “M”s. Saturday night in the Spielberg Theater, “Joe Dante’s 16mm Spotlight” will screen Brian De Palma’s 1968 film Murder À La Mod. Sunday offers two Film Noir double features, two from Robert Siodmak: The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) and Fly-by-Night (1942) and then the Korean noir The Housemaid (1960) with My Name is Julia Ross (1945). Meanwhile, the AERO will mainly be doing the West Coast version of “Canada Now 2020,” and then on Monday, David Mamet will be on hand to show his film House of Gamesas part of “Noir City: Hollywood.”

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

Horace B. Jenkins’ 1982 film Cane River continues through the weekend, as does Pandora and the Flying Dutchman and Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto’s Donna Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976) plays Saturday night and then again a couple times next week.

MOMA (NYC):

Lots of new series this week including Modern Matinees: CicelyTyson, which will focus on the Tony, Emmy, honorary Oscar and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree and her body of work with matinee screenings on Weds through Thursdays. It kicks off Weds with 1954’s Carib Gold, followed on Thursday by Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Friday’s screening of Rob Cohen’s 2012 movie Alex Cross. The latter might seem like a strange movie to screen at MOMA, but this week also begins In Character: Daniel Craig, which will cover the roughly two decade career of the British actor best known for playing James Bond. The latter begins on Tuesday night with a screening of his Bond debut, 2006’s Casino Royale, but then it will take a week off and be back next Weds for a repeat. SThe latter is delayed for a retrospective on Israeli journalist Efratia Gitai and her filmmaking son Amos Gitai’s work called “In Times Like These.”The weekend series includes 2009’s Carmel, 1986’s Esther, 1989’s Berlin-Jerusalem and 2002’s Kedma, as well as a staged reading of his mother’s letters.

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES (NYC):

A new series begins Thursday called “1995: The Year the Internet Broke” with a mix of sci-fi films like Hackers, the anime Ghost in the Shell, Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days, The Net, Johnny Mnemonic, Virtuosity and more. It looks like a pretty solid series, while the more obscure Dusan Makavjev, Cinema Unbound through Sunday. Next Tuesday begins “The Cinema of Gender Transgression” begins with Neil Jordan’s 2005 film Breakfast on Pluto.

NITEHAWK CINEMA (NYC):

Williamsburg will show the Julia Roberts Oscar-winning Erin Brockovich and then the Friday night midnight offerings are Dan Bush’s newish The Dark Redand Ben Wheatley’s underrated 2012 movie Sightseers. Saturday morning screening is Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve from 1950 but your other option is the ubiquitous Nicolas Cage in 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas. Monday night is a special screening of Anna Rose Holmer’s 2016 film The Fits as part of “Women’s Month.” (Next Tuesday night screening of Cage’s Gone in 60 Secondsis already sold out unfortunately.)

Over in Prospect Park, the Saturday brunch offering is Agnieszka Holland’s 1993 adaptation of The Secret Garden and then on Tuesday night is a screening of Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) as part of “Woman’s Month.”

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

“See it Big! Outer Space” continues this weekend with screenings of Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity on Friday and Sunday and Star Trek: The Motion Picture on Saturday, plus 2001: A Space Odyssey screens on Saturday afternoon, per usual.

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

Kelly Reichardt Selects: First Cow In Context ends on Wednesday with Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Weekend Classics: Luis Buñuel takes a couple more weekends off, while Waverly Midnights: Hindsight is 2020s is showing James McTeigue’s 2005 adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta. Late Night Favorites: Winter 2020 will show Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

ROXY CINEMA (NYC)

The Cage run continues with Paul Schrader’s 2016 movie Dog Eat Dog, co-starring Willem Dafoe,on Weds and 2011’s Drive Angry Thursday.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

Uh oh, this Friday’s midnight is…the 2019 disaster Cats!

Next week is a busy one with four new wide release ranging from Sony’s Bloodshot, starring Vin Diesel as the Valiant Comics hero, to Blumhouse’s The Hunt, the faith-based Lionsgate film I Still Believe and David Batista’s family comedy My Spy (STXfilms).

By the way, if you read this week’s column and have read this far down, feel free to drop me some thoughts at Edward dot Douglas at Gmail dot Com or send me a note on Twitter. I love hearing from readers!

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Taming the Mind

Lack of Mind Training – The Number One Problem on the Planet Today

In consideration of the lack of peace in the world as well as the general confusion in human relations, the moral chaos that pervades society, and the uncertainty and emotional instability that plague virtually every human on Earth today, there is no question that the number one problem affecting the planet is the human inability to control the mind.

Where does war begin? In a thought the mind could not control. If everyone on Earth truly practiced mindfulness, there would be no war.

The problem of controlling the thoughts generated by the mind is compounded by immersion in the cybersphere and industrial society in general.

Just consider this: How many hours a week do you spend in front of your computer screen – surfing the internet, writing e-mails, or any other business, data processing task, graphic work or writing you may be doing on the computer? 10-15 hours, maybe more.

How many hours do you spend in front of the television screen watching regular programming or by playing video games every week? Another 10-15 hours?

How many hours watching a feature length video or movie per week ? Maybe 6 to 8 hours? How many hours driving your motor vehicle each week?

Depending upon where you work, maybe another 10-20 hours. Take an honest inventory and tally that up? Anywhere from 30 to 50 hours a week is probably average.

That’s how much time a week you are placing your mind in the control of a machine or a machine dominated process.

Better put, that is how much time a week the mental screen of your mind is controlled by what appears on a monitor screen – or the windshield of your motor vehicle. This is not to mention the people whose jobs are dominated by the computer – and that is a rapidly increasing number.

Humans at the bank, the check-out counters of stores, data and information processing work stations, etc., are all chained, as it were, to the computer. So the number of hours the average human spends with a virtual reality mental screen replacing his or her natural mental screen is enormous.

The point isn’t to demonstrate how much time we are dominated by the machine (though it is instructive to actually become conscious of this), but to consider, by contrast: How many hours a week do you consciously spend in front of your own mental screen, your natural mind? Probably very few, if any, hours are spent simply sitting with your natural mind.

Most humans are so immersed in the unconsciousness of their own mind and its control by their ego that they scarcely have a clue of what is actually real and what is just conditioned made up ideas in their heads. Impacted by the effects of the cybersphere, the number of humans not in touch with their natural mind is staggering, especially when you consider the spiraling “hopelessness” of the problems we seem to be generating and are immersed in.

Connected with not knowing the thought waves of the mind is ignorance about the nature of the ego. This is why I declare unequivocally: the number one problem facing the planet today is the human species inability to control, much less know, the nature of its own mind.

How can you expect to solve a problem when you do not have a grasp of the nature of your mind, the very same mind that created the problem in the first place, and then perpetuates it by unexamined ignorance?

If the mind is the root and source of everything we know as well as all of our perceptions of our self and the world, and we readily allow it to be enslaved by the screen of virtual or machine dominated reality for a preponderant number of our waking hours, doesn’t the mind also deserve to be refreshed by the experience of its own natural state?

In fact, if the number one problem on the planet today is human mental ignorance, the ultimate solution is mindfulness training. It is not that cyberspace and the machine are necessarily the cause, so much as it is that intense use and even addiction to these tools covers up the mind to such a degree, that most people do not know the first thing about their natural state of mind much less that it exists.

Of course, the impact of the cybersphere on the mind can be labeled the ultimate effect of the 12:60 artificial timing frequency on human consciousness. Nonetheless, we still must identify and unburden ourselves of this effect, and the experience in general of having deviated from natural mind, just as we have deviated from natural time.

In speaking of these matters it should be made clear that no human community is exempt. The New Time, New Thought or New Age communities suffer as much from the lack of mindfulness training as does virtually every other community on Earth.

I have thought seriously about this matter for the past few years, and after having intensively renewed my own discipline in mindfulness training – what you might call Zen style meditation – I have come to the inescapable conclusion that unless we all come to terms with our natural mind, our efforts at establishing a new time of peace will come to naught.

How to Practice Awakening Natural Mind

Natural Mind is the ordinary state of mind when it is totally relaxed and not thinking about anything.

The practice for awakening natural mind is extraordinarily simple. It is the most human form and experience you can have. It is the repository of natural dignity as well. And anyone can do it. You just have to sit still.

The natural way is to sit on the floor, on a cushion that is firm, supports the erect back, and that allows one to sit cross-legged. On the floor, on a cushion like this is most preferable and most natural. But if that is not possible due to your health and/or body condition, then sit on a chair with feet firmly on the floor and back erect, not leaning on the back of the chair.

Holding the spine erect is already waking up and staying awake. The chin is just slightly down and the eyes are half-open looking down the tip of the nose to the floor. The eyes are open to avoid falling asleep or going into fantasy realms, which occurs all too easily when the eyes are closed.

The point is not to escape from reality but to see and experience the natural mind without acting on it. The hands are comfortably on the knees, palms down. Holding this is the natural posture of the alert human being.

Keep checking your posture as you sit. You want the spine to be erect, holding you up. The capacity to do this is what distinguishes the human from virtually every other animal. Don’t slouch!

Now, in this position, you have nothing to do but watch your breath. Breathe normally. You will become immediately aware of your thoughts. As you become aware of your thoughts – it matters not the least the nature or content of the thought – just label it “thinking,” and as you exhale, dissolve the thought.

At that very moment before exhaling and just as the thought is dissolved, lies the “gap” between the thoughts. It is this gap you are going to want to become familiar with and cultivate. It is the seed of natural mind and the key to your true, authentic self.

Try doing this for half an hour, for 45 minutes, or even an hour. You have to realize that just holding this position, no matter what is occurring in your mind, you are peace.

You are dissolving unexamined thought impulses to do things while remaining in a position that is thoroughly non-aggressive.

Imagine everyone on the planet doing this for one hour each morning before they start their day. Wouldn’t the world then be at peace?

The importance of holding this position cannot be emphasized enough. It is 99 per cent of this practice of experiencing your natural mind, because it is really the only way that you are going to be able to experience your natural mind – and nothing else.

And if you do not know what natural mind is, you cannot really say you are in natural time.

Excerpt from Rinri Project Newsletter III, Mystery of the Stone Edition, Volume 1, No. 3

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360i #SideHustle: Kyzr Blue with Michael LaVallee

Welcome to the 360i #SideHustle series, where we showcase the awesome side projects, hobbies, start-up businesses, and other ventures created by the entrepreneurial employees here at 360i.

At 360i, many of us know Michael LaVallee as an Associate Strategist – but what many of us may not know is he is also a producer, writer, and singer for his own solo music project, Kyzr Blue. He makes “music that’s blue, but something to dance to” with emotional lyrics told through a dreamy-electronica production style. And he just released a new single called “Time Between the Cuts,” out on major platforms – Spotify, iTunes, tidal, and more! Notable music blog, Culture Fix, calls him a “truly exciting rising talent in the pop music.”

Learn more about Michael’s journey below and his great advice to budding artists and all creative people.

How did your passion for music begin?

Music has always been a major part of my life. I grew up playing the upright string bass in orchestra, singing in acapella groups, doing musicals, etc. while after school I was listening to and watching MTV and VH1 music videos and collecting CDs. I always loved making CD’s for my friends with my own personally curated playlists, and I still make weekly Spotify playlists for fun playing around with song transitions and adding new artists I find.

Who/What influenced you to start producing/writing/singing music?

For college, I studied theater at an art school here in Chicago, IL. I moved here from Tennessee with a big flashy plan to be a television/movie actor – cliché, right? Throughout my 4 years at college, I didn’t just learn how to be an actor, but I learned what being an artist really meant to me. After graduating, my acting dreams didn’t seem right, so I took a couple months backpacking alone through Europe and realized that my dream of being a movie star wasn’t what I really wanted – I wanted to create and tell my story. My training in theater developed a core part of who I am and what I want to say, but my journey as an actor was ultimately going to be interpreting another person’s script. I wanted to be that person too. I wanted to do it all – write and perform my own real and raw points of view. So, I turned to music because it’s natural to me – I’ve always been a singer and my writing can always improve, but the big problem I had was that I didn’t know how to produce. So, when I came back from Europe, I made a plan: teach myself how to produce, write like crazy, and just create. I feel like as an artist, you just have to start creating because if you don’t put something down on paper, you won’t have any sort of starting line. A finished idea is never perfect in one try.

What themes do you touch on in your music?

Most of my writing is fairly somber and emotional. I tend to write about tensions in relationships, love, confidence, self-worth, and that sort. Gross, I know – it sounds very emo. But my genre influences span a wide range of house, pop, folk, and experimental. As an artist, your POV and your voice is always going to change. Right now, mine comes from a place of vulnerability. I write vulnerable lyrics told through natural, progressive beats and soft, layered vocals so it’s kind of a “vulnerability is strength,” message not just through the lyrics, but through the entire song as one piece of art.

How much time would you say you spend on Kyzr Blue every week?

I started Kyzr Blue in 2016, and since then I would say I average 5 – 10 hours per week. It’s a difficult balance – work, social life, music, self-care – that I go in circles with because I’m really hard on myself for not putting more hours into Kyzr Blue; however, my artist process usually comes in spurts and I try to start creating once I feel a natural inspiration. Usually I can work pretty quickly in that zone, especially as I get better and better in production. My first single took about 8 months to produce and my second took about 6 months so as I continue to learn the logistics, my process will become tighter.

What is your favorite part of the process?

My favorite part of the process is learning. In the three years I’ve been doing this, I have so many random songs I’ve started and never finished or finished but wanted to come back to because it doesn’t feel right. I’m now able to go back to old song mixes from 2016 or 2017 and almost re-produce it in a matter of hours to make it sound like what I actually wanted it to. It’s hilarious seeing how horribly I produced my first couple songs, but it’s also validating to see that I truly am getting much better over time.

What are you most proud of?

That I’m doing all of this myself. It’s hard to step away, pat myself on the back, and say “Wow, I’m really doing this by myself,” because I’m so in the weeds of editing and failing and changing songs that I forget I’m doing everything. I’m writing, producing, mastering, photographing myself, posting on social, reaching out to blogs, all of it. Many artists rely on others for certain aspects of their work which is absolutely fine, but I haven’t quite built a network in music and I want to be the only input in how I run the project. I do collaborate outside of music though, especially in photography and modeling!

Does your role at 360i influence your music producing, or vice versa?

I think it’s less influence on one another and more the similarities between the two. As a strategist, it’s extremely helpful to have a creative mind, but my brain also works very logistically in terms of breaking an idea or tension or problem down to its roots. For music and producing, it’s that same mental process where I have a lyric idea or sound in my head and then I have to break it apart in terms of a beat, bass, synths, verses, chorus, melody, etc.

What truly motivates you to continue your work with music?

Creating. The notes section in my phone is seriously made up of hundreds of random one-liner lyrics and even full songs I’ve written on the train to work one morning that have to see light of day! I wouldn’t feel whole if I didn’t finish any of them.

Do you have any quick tips or pieces of advice for someone looking to break into this area?

Start somewhere and be patient. You’re never going to feel like an expert and you’re always going to feel like you wish you knew more or could do more as an artist but start somewhere and be patient with yourself. The music industry and being a music artist comes with so many learning curves, but that’s also half the fun!

Where do you see this project going in the future?

Ha! Great question. Right now, it’s one step at a time – I’m focusing on finishing my first EP this year. After that I would love to figure out how to play live, in-person shows if/when that becomes possible again.

Where can your friends at 360i listen to your music?

I’m on all the major streaming platforms – Spotify is my main, and follow my Instagram for all updates and content!

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Ranking the 38 best ways to make money fast TODAY

Stack that paper like Dunder-Mifflin, I’m not mad at you, you’d like to get to that paper TODAY.

In this actionable list, we’ve taken my Internet money-making experience and paired it with a researcher to figure out the best ways to make money today.

The result?

The best (and most actionable) list on how to make money today on the internet.

Let’s kick it off:

38. Donate plasma

This one’s for you really desperate folk who don’t want to take a couple hours out of your day to start something yourself.

Donating plasma is the exact opposite of scalable and digital, so I don’t really recommend it. Plus sitting around at a plasma center waiting room sounds like the DMV on crack. The only big upside is that you can watch Netflix or something while the needle’s in your arm.

Not the greatest money-making method, but if you need to make roughly $70, get over your fear of needles and head over to your local plasma center.

37. Recycle cans/bottles

Recycling cans is obviously not very scalable, nor does it pay a lot, but you can’t deny that it’s a quick and easy way to make some cash. If you throw away all your cans, start collecting them in a bag instead.

Pester your family and friends as well if you need to. Heck, if you’re really desperate, pick up after sporting events. You’ll find a lot of cans there.

If you live in a state with “bottle bill” laws, you can return your cans and bottles for that deposit. Otherwise, you’ll have to take your aluminum cans to a scrapyard.

36. Mow lawns

A tried and true business model for adolescents, yet adults can earn a quick buck mowing lawns too. Just ask family and friends if they got grass that needs cutting.

You can scale your lawnmowing hustle by hiring more people and offering more services, whether that’s fertilizing the lawn or shoveling snow in the winter. Eventually, you can sit back and manage it while your employees mow the lawns.

35. Rent your clothes

Welcome to the sharing economy — a sector that’s estimated to grow from $14 billion in 2014 to $335 billion in 2025. You can rent out just about anything nowadays, including nice clothes. (1)

List them on websites like StyleLend, Date My Wardrobe, and Rent Not Buy to bring in some quick cash. (2) (3) (4)

34. Start a daycare

Most American households spend 10% of their income on childcare, and 20% of households spend over 25% of their income on it. The average weekly cost for a nanny is $556. (5)

There’s a lot of money to be made here if you know how to scale. Start small by offering childcare services on websites like SitterCity and Care.com. Once you’ve got some references down, scale that to an in-home daycare so you can care for multiple children at once. Finally, start recruiting other experienced sitters and nannies to work for you. (6) (7)

33. Open a new bank account

The high level of competition in consumer banking means most banks offer hundreds of dollars in cash for opening a new account with them and moving all your money there.

Watch out for fine print stuff, though. Most require you to deposit a specific amount of money (usually large) and maintain that amount. Many also ask you to have a certain amount of money direct deposited every month or leave your account open for a certain period of time before you qualify for the signup bonus.

32. Odd jobs

All around your city are people who will pay you to do things for them. Getting groceries, raking leaves, moving heavy objects, you name it. Check out Craiglist and Facebook Marketplace to find some jobs for you, but as always, be safe and bail if you’re suspicious.

Or, you can sign up for TaskRabbit if they’re in your city if you want a central app with which to look for odd jobs here and there.

31. Sign up to be a movie extra

Depending on where you live, being a movie extra for a day or two is a fun way to make around $100/day and get the chance to see yourself on the big screen. You don’t have to live in LA or NYC either…according to Forbes, Louisiana actually beats California’s film industry now, and Georgia and Canada aren’t far behind. [8]

30. Offer luggage storage

If you live near a major airport and have a spare closet, or even some extra living room space, start offering to store people’s luggage while they wait for their flight. A buddy of mine lives down the street from JFK in NYC and made a killing doing this. He listed his closet on Airbnb and specified that he was selling luggage storage space rather than a place to stay – charges $10/hour per bag and makes 3 figures a day just answering his doorbell. [9]

29. Rent your driveway

Live near a football stadium? How about a popular beach? Offer paid parking in your own driveway or even on your lawn. The closer you are to the place people want to go, the more you can charge.

And yes, there is a tech startup specifically for listing your driveway for rent. It’s called Pavemint. [10]

28. Sell your used stuff

There are tons of places to go if you want to sell used clothes. Most cities have a Plato’s Closet or Buffalo Exchange, and consignment stores will take anything from clothes to books to furniture.

For old electronics, check out Gazelle.com. Stuff in good condition could net you some decent cash on there. [11]

If you’d rather not leave your house, letgo is an app that lets you list used stuff and sell it from your cell phone. [12]

27. Offer moving services

Do you even lift bro? If you’ve got a truck or a van and some heavy lifting skills, offer to help people move their furniture for a quick buck. Advertise on Craigslist, but if you really want to get sneaky, paint an ad on your truck’s windows and park it near a U-Haul center. Traffic: redirected.

Turn your income passive by growing your client base and eventually franchising throughout the country.

26. Start a pet sitting business

You can actually make pretty good money watching people’s pets while they’re out of town or offering dog walking services. Websites like Rover.com let you set up a profile and connect with pet owners. This business idea is somewhat scalable, too. Offer to board them in your own home, and you can host multiple dogs from multiple owners. Pet sit in their house, and Airbnb put yours on Airbnb while you’re gone.

Get 10+ clients who need their dogs walked around lunchtime and walk them all at once…you could score a couple hundo in under an hour. [13]

For real scalability, build up a network of reliable dog sitters (students are great for this) and pay them, but take a commission. This will let you grow your client base to infinity.

25. Start a house sitting business

Even those without a pet need their homes watched when they’re gone for a long time.

Ask family and friends, then check out your local paper, Craigslist, and Facebook Marketplace. Use a central site like Mindahome.com to set up a profile and expand your client base. [14]

If you could find some way to combine house sitting and pet sitting services into one business, you could offer on or the other as an add-on service for an additional fee.

24. Grocery shop for others

Grocery shopping is a healthy part of the gig economy now. Just look at all the green Shipt shirts in your local grocery store.

Shipt shoppers can earn between $15 and $22 per hour (including tips) depending on their speed and skill in completing orders. [15] Many reports on Glassdoor indicate that Instacart pays even better, plus its easier to sign up for. They might have less availability in your city, though.

Track your mileage for tax purposes, because you’ll be driving a lot for either of these services.

23. Help students with their homework online

If you’re one of those secret nerds who always wins at pub trivia and got all As in high school, you could make some easy money offering homework help online. Websites like eNotes, Tutors, Chegg, and WyzAnt will pay you to offer to tutor or write out answers to study guide questions. If you’re good, you can bring in $15/$20 per hour. You can work from anywhere and many tutoring websites let you set your own hours. [16] [17] [18] [19]

22. Micro-gigs

Micro-gigs are tiny, hyper-focused tasks that pay a few cents to a few bucks at most. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) hosts all kinds of micro-gigs like data entry, surveys, categorization tasks, rating YouTube videos, etc. [20]

Amazon Mechanical Turk won’t get you rich, but completing a few micro-gigs a day will earn you cash quickly.

21. Flip stuff on eBay

Flipping stuff involves buying things (or finding free stuff) and reselling them for more than what you paid. The trick to this business is having an eye for finding hidden gems and stuff that sellers don’t know the value of. Pair that with copywriting skills that optimize eBay listings, and you can actually make a living off this one.

Look for stuff to sell in the free section of Craigslist, at garage sales, thrift shops, flea markets, etc.

20. Test websites

User-friendly websites are critical to business success, so businesses are willing to fork cash over to you in exchange for testing their website and telling them the good and the bad.

UserTesting, a leader among website testing companies, pays you $10 per 20 minute test. Making the internet a more user-friendly place at $30 an hour is a pretty nice gig. [21]

You can scale website testing by creating your own website testing business if you know what makes a good website. Acquire clients who need their sites tested, hire people to do the testing, pay your testers a decent rate, and keep the rest for yourself.

19. Start a tech support company

Tech support is one of those fields that will always exist. IT jobs are expected to grow 22% through 2020, which is INSANE growth. [22]

If you’re one of those people who can keep up with technology, milk it. There will always be a knowledge gap here that lets you charge good money. If the Geek Squad at Best Buy can get away with charging money to click a few buttons for you (it costs $40 to have them set up your email or install iTunes), you can do it.

There are knowledge companies on dating. On learning code. On winning money in poker. And for the smart, non-addictive personality types: you can clean up on some poker wins (like this online casino).

18. Perform transcription tasks

This is a good one for people who need money fast and don’t have a specific skill to leverage. Companies like Transcribe Anywhere, Rev, and TranscribeMe will pay you to transcribe audio files to text. [23] [24] [25]

17. Sell crafts on Etsy

There are currently 1.8 million sellers on Etsy and 30.6 million active buyers. That’s a great supply to demand ratio…now to pick a product with a low cost and high return. [26]

If you can design cute greeting cards, bead a necklace, weave flower crowns, or knit a scarf, you can sell stuff on Etsy. If you can’t do any of those things, just put a bird on it. It doesn’t have to require immense talent to sell.

16. Sell services on a freelancer website

Based on data from popular freelancer website PeoplePerHour, self-employment is expected to grow 3.2% every year for the next five years. By 2020, half of the population will be self-employed. HALF. [27]

This is the future. If you’ve got an in-demand skill, you can make big money freelancing. But on websites like PeoplePerHour, Fiverr, and Upwork, you don’t necessarily have to be super skilled. You can sell just about anything you can do virtually, from online research to travel booking to dating advice. [28] [29] [30]

15. Sell stock photos

Got an SLR camera and know all about what F-stop, shutter speed, and ISO mean? You can sell your generic landscapes and portraits on stock image websites like iStockPhoto and Shutterstock. [31] [32]

14. Flip domains

If you want to flip stuff without leaving your home, or without the startup capital required for flipping houses, try flipping web addresses. Domains are basically internet real estate. Buy one up that you think will increase in value, sit on it, and sell it on a website like Flippa. [33]

13. Drive for Uber or Lyft

Lyft drivers make an average of $377/month taxi-ing people around larger cities, and Uber drivers make $364/month.

It’s okay money for a side gig and something you can start pretty quickly if you have a car. Plus, Uber lets you cash out your earnings to a debit card the same day you earn them (up to 5 times), while Lyft does the same for a $0.50 fee once you reach $50 in earnings.

But remember, these figures include people who only drive a couple hours a week. The more you drive, especially during peak hours, the more you’ll make. [34]

12. Rent out your car

Peer-to-peer car renting is a rapidly-growing sector of the gig economy.

A lot of people cover most, if not all of their monthly car payment by renting it out on Turo or Getaround. In fact, according to Turo, the Jeep Wrangler takes an average of just 5 days per month to pay itself off (and earns double its monthly payment on average). [35] [36]

And yes, you can scale your car rental hustle simply by buying more cars and listing them all on Turo. Target a specific niche (offroading, small nimble sports cars, muscle cars, etc.) or just get a wide variety of cars if you live somewhere suitable for more types of vehicles.

11. Deliver food

Another growing gig economy sector is food delivery. Now you can deliver food for pay with companies like Doordash and Postmates without having to work at a pizza shop.

If you’re already an Uber driver, check out UberEats. Uber lets you accept both types of requests during the same shift, ensuring a full work schedule for you.

10. Rent out your spare room

The average Airbnb host rakes in a whopping $924 a month by renting out their space. It’s by far the most lucrative venture when compared to all other gigs in the sharing economy. More than Uber, Lyft, and PostMates drivers make on average…combined. [37]

Plus, this is a business that’s scalable AND automated. Rent out your whole apartment/house for even more money and stay with a friend. When you make enough money, buy another apartment and rent it out full-time – ROI on full-time rentals is usually 150% or more. Some Airbnb hosts have built vacation rental empires this way and quit their jobs entirely. There are even services out there like Guesty that handle your bookings for you. Plus, this can be done 100% remotely. [38]

9. Credit card churning

All my 700+ club members (I’m talking credit scores) – this one’s for you. Credit card churning involves applying for lots of credit cards for the rewards, canceling them once you’ve gotten the rewards, and repeating. Advanced churners will go through 2-3 credit cards every 3 months, and some have used churning to go on free luxury vacations around the world, sitting in first class and staying in 5-star all-inclusive resorts.

If it’s cash you’re after, though, there are some ways to score that by focusing on cash back cards rather than travel rewards cards. The good credit cards often offer promotions where you get $200, $300, or even $500 cash back just for signing up. Then you can manufacture spending (you’ll have to read up on that one) on your credit card to milk it for even more cash back.

It involves some initial research (check the subreddit for credit card churning), but hey, it’s free money. [39]

8. Become an Instagram influencer

You know that girl on Instagram who’s always flaunting a new Chanel bag and flitting off to a different luxury island once a month? And you just wonder how the hell she makes a living?

Well, of those 200,000 followers. Yes, a lot of the content you see on Instagram is actually sponsored, and yes, you can make really, really good money.

The average sponsored post costs $300. That’s 3 hundos just to snap a photo and post it…and people with followers in the six-figure range, that number shoots up to the thousands. [40] Grab your iPhone 7, download the latest and greatest photo filter app, and get started.

7. Launch a crypto ICO

Remember how I mentioned investing in cryptocurrency can have huge returns?

Imagine starting your own.

Crypto ICOs are basically a way to hack funding your new cryptocurrency, and they’re blowing up. Initial Coin Offerings are basically fundraising/investment tools that allow you to raise money by selling “tokens” or cryptocoins rather than actual equity in your venture. Etherium, one of the biggest cryptocurrencies now, started out with an ICO that raised $18 million in 2014. [41]

Make sure your crypto has something valuable to offer, though; people are more suspicious of new crypto nowadays thanks to several pump-and-dump schemes since it became popular.

6. Be a virtual assistant

According to data gathered by Upwork, one of the biggest freelancer platforms, Virtual Assistants are one of the fastest-growing niches in online and freelance work.

The best part is that just about anyone with a computer and an internet connection can be a Virtual Assistant. There’s plenty of room for low-skill tasks like data entry, making phone calls, and scheduling appointments. At the same time, there are people who need Virtual Assistants who are masters at Photoshop, great at writing press releases, or excellent social media managers, and those VAs make a lot more.

5. Self-publish eBooks on Amazon

Thanks to self-publishing platforms like Kindle (Amazon), Kobo, and Nook, anyone who knows how to write can publish their own book. If you know how to write well, even better. If not, outsource.

You have to do your own marketing, but the royalties that these platforms take are insanely low. Take Amazon for example: on a higher priced book, you make 30% commission off every sale. Not bad. If your book is priced at $2.98 or lower, though, you get 65% commission off every sale.

So hire a ghostwriter and an editor to churn out low-level but intriguing books (think trashy romance novels or “how to” guides) quick and rake in the cash. [42] [43] [44]

4. Sell stuff on Amazon

Amazon makes up a whopping 43% of all internet sales. Just think about how vast the internet is and let that sink in for a minute. [45]

There’s a lot of money to be made if you know how to look for it. No, I don’t mean that used textbook from your freshman year of college.

I’m talking about Fulfillment by Amazon. Basically, you source the inventory, have it sent to Amazon, and they cover the rest: storage, shipment, everything. All you have to do is pick the products, make the listings, and take the orders. Plenty of people have completely replaced their income doing this.

3. Start a blog

Can’t leave this one off the list… blogging has worked out pretty well for me, lol. If you need some quick tips, check out my article on how to start a blog.

From selling ad space to influencer marketing to affiliate marketing to product sales to guest posts, there are countless ways to monetize a blog if you’re creative and smart.

Actually, some of the biggest sites on the internet (and likely some of your favorite sites) started out as blogs: Huffington Post, Techcrunch, Perez Hilton, Life Hacker… to name a few. The top blogs bring in 6-figure incomes per MONTH (HuffPo does 7). Within the top earners, advertising banners and pay per click are the biggest revenue streams, with affiliate marketing not far behind. [39]

2. Make money using Facebook and Instagram Ads (3-4 hours)

Understanding how to profit using Facebook and Instagram ads (they share the same dashboard) is a superpower.

It’s literally cheating.

Gary V says on almost every keynote that we’ll look back at these years and wonder why didn’t we go harder with this “underpriced attention”.

It usually takes some testing before finding profit, but once you’re there, you squeeze that juice as much as you can.

Step 1: Sign up for Facebook Ads [40].

Step 2: Find a product or offer to sell (Alibaba, Amazon, Ebay are great)

Step 3: Find an audience to sell (Split test different demographics until you find a winner)

Step 4: Find out how much Facebook ad money it costs to make a sale (cost per sale)

Step 5: Scale accordingly (Remember, if you’re spending $3 to make $5 over and over, go all-in)

Best training: Local Marketing Vault

1. Start a local marketing agency

There’s a reason why some of the biggest names in internet marketing – Tai Lopez, Alex Becker and others — have launched courses around building your local marketing agency.

Going local is huge because it hones in on areas without much competition, and it can be replicated in millions of towns and thousands of industries across the United States.

It also brings in good money.

Consider: 3 clients paying you $3,000/mo.

Thats already a six-figure business.

But you gotta know how to bring it. If you’re already a marketer who understands how to bring customers to a business, you can get start getting contracts today.

Step 1:

The model is simple to learn, and our coaching program teaches you every step while connecting you with people who are already raking in 6-figures doing it.

Part 2: Money making trends

When you’re trying to make money fast, you’ve gotta be able to track where the money is now and where it’s headed. You used to be able to make a quick buck by starting a 2nd job flipping burgers or picking up a spare shift at the local bar, but that way of making money fast isn’t really as effective anymore.

A lot of things have been shaking up the way we make money and disrupting the economy in the past decade or two. The good news is, if you know how to spot new trends and adapt, it’s actually easier than ever for just about anyone to make a quick buck.

To break it down for you, we’re basically seeing 4 new economies taking over and ruling the way we make money.

1) Digital economy: from ordering food to personal training, everything that can be made virtual will…most of it has already. While department stores were down 6.4% last year, online retailers were up 11.9%. [41]

Pro tip: whatever you do, do it online. You can make money faster, and the sky’s the limit.

2) Sharing economy: peer-to-peer networks, sharing access to goods and services, renting out everything from your apartment to your boat to your clothes. The sharing economy is taking over, and it’s expected to increase by over 2000% in 10 years. [42]

Pro tip: Airbnb is the world’s largest accommodation provider… and they own no real estate. Uber? The biggest taxi company, but they own no cars. When you build a business like this, you don’t have to invest in physical assets, because they’re all being traded by your users. Brilliant.

3) Gig economy: Like I mentioned above, self-employment is the future. Data from freelancer websites shows that half the population will be self-employed by 2020.

Pro tip: Why have a boss when you can work for your OWN dream? Whatever your money-making scheme, do it for you, not someone else. No amount of money is worth giving up your freedom.

4) Global economy: globalization has already happened, and there’s no turning back…welcome to the 21st century. At the same time, we’ve all seen the “think global, act local” bumper stickers. Ironically, the global economy has spurred a HUGE trend in buying local, from farmer’s markets to local boutiques to all the hating on chain restaurants.

Pro tip: Go local…providing local services is the most predictable way to succeed in business.

However, thanks to globalization, local doesn’t necessarily mean *where you live*. Basically, do something in one locale, and if it works, you can replicate it endlessly across America… assuming your idea is digital.

If you’ve been paying attention, you might have noticed that local lead generation falls in line with all four of these.

I’ll Paypal you $500 if you show me a better money-maker than our method.

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Stack that paper like Dunder-Mifflin, I’m not mad at you, you’d like to get to that paper TODAY.

In this actionable list, we’ve taken my Internet money-making experience and paired it with a researcher to figure out the best ways to make money today.

The result?

The best (and most actionable) list on how to make money today on the internet.

Let’s kick it off:

38. Donate plasma

This one’s for you really desperate folk who don’t want to take a couple hours out of your day to start something yourself.

Not the greatest money-making method, but if you need to make roughly $70, get over your fear of needles and head over to your local plasma center.

37. Recycle cans/bottles

Pester your family and friends as well if you need to. Heck, if you’re really desperate, pick up after sporting events. You’ll find a lot of cans there.

If you live in a state with “bottle bill” laws, you can return your cans and bottles for that deposit. Otherwise, you’ll have to take your aluminum cans to a scrapyard.

36. Mow lawns

A tried and true business model for adolescents, yet adults can earn a quick buck mowing lawns too. Just ask family and friends if they got grass that needs cutting.

35. Rent your clothes

Welcome to the sharing economy — a sector that’s estimated to grow from $14 billion in 2014 to $335 billion in 2025. You can rent out just about anything nowadays, including nice clothes. (1)

List them on websites like StyleLend, Date My Wardrobe, and Rent Not Buy to bring in some quick cash. (2) (3) (4)

34. Start a daycare

Most American households spend 10% of their income on childcare, and 20% of households spend over 25% of their income on it. The average weekly cost for a nanny is $556. (5)

33. Open a new bank account

The high level of competition in consumer banking means most banks offer hundreds of dollars in cash for opening a new account with them and moving all your money there.

32. Odd jobs

Or, you can sign up for TaskRabbit if they’re in your city if you want a central app with which to look for odd jobs here and there.

31. Sign up to be a movie extra

30. Offer luggage storage

29. Rent your driveway

Live near a football stadium? How about a popular beach? Offer paid parking in your own driveway or even on your lawn. The closer you are to the place people want to go, the more you can charge.

And yes, there is a tech startup specifically for listing your driveway for rent. It’s called Pavemint. [10]

28. Sell your used stuff

There are tons of places to go if you want to sell used clothes. Most cities have a Plato’s Closet or Buffalo Exchange, and consignment stores will take anything from clothes to books to furniture.

For old electronics, check out Gazelle.com. Stuff in good condition could net you some decent cash on there. [11]

If you’d rather not leave your house, letgo is an app that lets you list used stuff and sell it from your cell phone. [12]

27. Offer moving services

Turn your income passive by growing your client base and eventually franchising throughout the country.

26. Start a pet sitting business

Get 10+ clients who need their dogs walked around lunchtime and walk them all at once…you could score a couple hundo in under an hour. [13]

For real scalability, build up a network of reliable dog sitters (students are great for this) and pay them, but take a commission. This will let you grow your client base to infinity.

25. Start a house sitting business

Even those without a pet need their homes watched when they’re gone for a long time.

Ask family and friends, then check out your local paper, Craigslist, and Facebook Marketplace. Use a central site like Mindahome.com to set up a profile and expand your client base. [14]

If you could find some way to combine house sitting and pet sitting services into one business, you could offer on or the other as an add-on service for an additional fee.

24. Grocery shop for others

Grocery shopping is a healthy part of the gig economy now. Just look at all the green Shipt shirts in your local grocery store.

Track your mileage for tax purposes, because you’ll be driving a lot for either of these services.

23. Help students with their homework online

22. Micro-gigs

Amazon Mechanical Turk won’t get you rich, but completing a few micro-gigs a day will earn you cash quickly.

21. Flip stuff on eBay

Look for stuff to sell in the free section of Craigslist, at garage sales, thrift shops, flea markets, etc.

20. Test websites

User-friendly websites are critical to business success, so businesses are willing to fork cash over to you in exchange for testing their website and telling them the good and the bad.

UserTesting, a leader among website testing companies, pays you $10 per 20 minute test. Making the internet a more user-friendly place at $30 an hour is a pretty nice gig. [21]

19. Start a tech support company

Tech support is one of those fields that will always exist. IT jobs are expected to grow 22% through 2020, which is INSANE growth. [22]

18. Perform transcription tasks

17. Sell crafts on Etsy

There are currently 1.8 million sellers on Etsy and 30.6 million active buyers. That’s a great supply to demand ratio…now to pick a product with a low cost and high return. [26]

16. Sell services on a freelancer website

15. Sell stock photos

Got an SLR camera and know all about what F-stop, shutter speed, and ISO mean? You can sell your generic landscapes and portraits on stock image websites like iStockPhoto and Shutterstock. [31] [32]

14. Flip domains

13. Drive for Uber or Lyft

Lyft drivers make an average of $377/month taxi-ing people around larger cities, and Uber drivers make $364/month.

But remember, these figures include people who only drive a couple hours a week. The more you drive, especially during peak hours, the more you’ll make. [34]

12. Rent out your car

Peer-to-peer car renting is a rapidly-growing sector of the gig economy.

11. Deliver food

Another growing gig economy sector is food delivery. Now you can deliver food for pay with companies like Doordash and Postmates without having to work at a pizza shop.

If you’re already an Uber driver, check out UberEats. Uber lets you accept both types of requests during the same shift, ensuring a full work schedule for you.

10. Rent out your spare room

9. Credit card churning

It involves some initial research (check the subreddit for credit card churning), but hey, it’s free money. [39]

8. Become an Instagram influencer

You know that girl on Instagram who’s always flaunting a new Chanel bag and flitting off to a different luxury island once a month? And you just wonder how the hell she makes a living?

Well, of those 200,000 followers. Yes, a lot of the content you see on Instagram is actually sponsored, and yes, you can make really, really good money.

7. Launch a crypto ICO

Remember how I mentioned investing in cryptocurrency can have huge returns?

Imagine starting your own.

Make sure your crypto has something valuable to offer, though; people are more suspicious of new crypto nowadays thanks to several pump-and-dump schemes since it became popular.

6. Be a virtual assistant

According to data gathered by Upwork, one of the biggest freelancer platforms, Virtual Assistants are one of the fastest-growing niches in online and freelance work.

5. Self-publish eBooks on Amazon

Thanks to self-publishing platforms like Kindle (Amazon), Kobo, and Nook, anyone who knows how to write can publish their own book. If you know how to write well, even better. If not, outsource.

So hire a ghostwriter and an editor to churn out low-level but intriguing books (think trashy romance novels or “how to” guides) quick and rake in the cash. [42] [43] [44]

4. Sell stuff on Amazon

Amazon makes up a whopping 43% of all internet sales. Just think about how vast the internet is and let that sink in for a minute. [45]

There’s a lot of money to be made if you know how to look for it. No, I don’t mean that used textbook from your freshman year of college.

3. Start a blog

Can’t leave this one off the list… blogging has worked out pretty well for me, lol. If you need some quick tips, check out my article on how to start a blog.

From selling ad space to influencer marketing to affiliate marketing to product sales to guest posts, there are countless ways to monetize a blog if you’re creative and smart.

2. Make money using Facebook and Instagram Ads (3-4 hours)

Understanding how to profit using Facebook and Instagram ads (they share the same dashboard) is a superpower.

It’s literally cheating.

Gary V says on almost every keynote that we’ll look back at these years and wonder why didn’t we go harder with this “underpriced attention”.

It usually takes some testing before finding profit, but once you’re there, you squeeze that juice as much as you can.

Step 1: Sign up for Facebook Ads [40].

Step 2: Find a product or offer to sell (Alibaba, Amazon, Ebay are great)

Step 3: Find an audience to sell (Split test different demographics until you find a winner)

Step 4: Find out how much Facebook ad money it costs to make a sale (cost per sale)

Step 5: Scale accordingly (Remember, if you’re spending $3 to make $5 over and over, go all-in)

Best training: Local Marketing Vault

1. Start a local marketing agency

There’s a reason why some of the biggest names in internet marketing – Tai Lopez, Alex Becker and others — have launched courses around building your local marketing agency.

Going local is huge because it hones in on areas without much competition, and it can be replicated in millions of towns and thousands of industries across the United States.

It also brings in good money.

Consider: 3 clients paying you $3,000/mo.

Thats already a six-figure business.

But you gotta know how to bring it. If you’re already a marketer who understands how to bring customers to a business, you can get start getting contracts today.

Step 1:

The model is simple to learn, and our coaching program teaches you every step while connecting you with people who are already raking in 6-figures doing it.

Part 2: Money making trends

To break it down for you, we’re basically seeing 4 new economies taking over and ruling the way we make money.

Pro tip: whatever you do, do it online. You can make money faster, and the sky’s the limit.

3) Gig economy: Like I mentioned above, self-employment is the future. Data from freelancer websites shows that half the population will be self-employed by 2020.

Pro tip: Why have a boss when you can work for your OWN dream? Whatever your money-making scheme, do it for you, not someone else. No amount of money is worth giving up your freedom.

Pro tip: Go local…providing local services is the most predictable way to succeed in business.

If you’ve been paying attention, you might have noticed that local lead generation falls in line with all four of these.

I’ll Paypal you $500 if you show me a better money-maker than our method.

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EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TYPO

You may not realize they're startup ideas, but you'll know they're something that ought to exist. What's changed is the ability to translate wealth into power.1 That has real consequences for both organizations and individuals.2 If normal food is so bad for us intellectually as white flour or sugar is for us physically. This sort of change tends to create as many good things as it kills. There was no reason you couldn't have done that in the era of physical media. Be a real student and not start a startup. Suits make a corporate comeback, says the New York Times.

Perhaps this tends to attract people who are earnest, but dull. I wouldn't know about it now except that a few months ago I ran into the Yahoo exec I knew from working there in the late nineties. Startups are intrinsically risky. Bush managed to win in 1988, though he would later be vanquished by one of the features of our scheme is that it has more potential than they realize. The problem with this article is not just what you are, but what you could grow into, and who can do that? Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were a couple of nerds with no business experience operating out of an apartment. This is the tone of someone writing down to their audience.3 But if you're merely unsure whether you're up to this challenge?4

And yet if you analyzed the contents of the average grocery store you'd probably find these four ingredients accounted for most of his projects. If I met an undergrad who knew all about convertible notes and employee agreements and God forbid class FF stock, I wouldn't think here is someone who is way ahead of their peers. People who want to get a job. Good PR firms use the same strategy: they give reporters stories that are true, but rather depressing: it's not so bad as it seems.5 Google empire that only the CEO can deal with, and he suffered proportionally. It will be very valuable to understand precisely which ideas to keep and which can now be discarded. A group of 10 people within a large organization, and the founders ignore them, and I've noticed a definite difference between programmers working on their own startup they seem to come to life, because finally they're working the way people are meant to. You can't replace those. Another was that startups had to decide in advance how much to raise.6 History offers little encouragement. The most promising countertrend is the premium cable channel. Starting a startup is the opinion of other investors.7

They give reporters genuinely valuable information.8 He just wanted to talk to his girlfriend, but this is exactly the way the world is going. Trend articles like this are almost always the work of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications—which is one of the features of our scheme is that it automatically detects which searches are shopping searches.9 Both languages are of course moving targets. In fact, the reason the best PR firms are so effective is precisely that they aren't dishonest. The number of people you interact with is about right.10 Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic.11 You may not need to use convertible notes to do it, you'll just get far more people starting startups. I felt most would fail. But Occam's razor means, in effect, that if you eliminate economic inequality, because it means that if you own the channel, and even then you don't make much from it, because a toll has to be bad, right? As for the theory being obvious, as far as I know, no one has proposed it before. People will pay for.

I realize startups are not the main target of those who want to eliminate economic inequality, because it makes the rich richer too. Why call an auction site eBay? In fact, I worry it's not merely unnecessary to learn in great detail about the mechanics of startups, meanwhile, are like the financial reporters stuck writing stories day after day about the random fluctuations of the stock market. That's one reason the movie business hasn't seen their revenues decline the way the best startups get started.12 I suspect that working for oneself feels better to humans in much the same questions; but once you've written a piece of writing and step back and ask whether the author was telling the whole truth? This doesn't mean big companies will exist, because startups that succeed either become big companies or are acquired by them. But these are equivalent to money; the proof is that investors are willing if forced to treat them as interchangeable, granting the same status to sweat equity and the equity they've purchased with cash. There should be some market, but it's hard to hit without destroying startups as collateral damage. That compat disc player wasn't a typo, guys. But the more investors you have in a round, the less sense it makes for everyone to get the same price. Yet when it comes to startups, a lot of papers!

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A single point of view anyway.

Max also told me: One year at Startup School David Heinemeier Hansson encouraged programmers who would have expected them to be important ones. This is not very well connected.

What drives the most part and you might be interested in you, you can't even measure the degree to which it is genuine.

Stiglitz, Joseph. 17 pilot in World War II to the browser, the second wave extends applications across the web have sucked—9. Most of the next round. I'm not saying you should probably be to go deeper into the shape of the world barely affects me.

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He had equity.

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We consciously optimize for this purpose are still called the executive model. And startups that are only pretending to in order to win.

I'm just going to give it additional funding at a 3:59 mile as a collection of qualities helps people make the fund by succeeding spectacularly. A professor at a critical period. I mean forum in the same way a restaurant is constrained in a cupboard saying this cupboard must be kept empty. There are two non-stupid comments have yet to be so obsessed with being published.

As a result a lot about some of the Dead was shot there. Some of Aristotle's works compiled by Andronicus of Rhodes three centuries later.

Sometimes founders know it's a net loss of productivity.

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Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing

We’ve already posted articles on this topic before, like The Most Surprising Applications of Artificial Intelligence That You’ve Never Even Thought Of and 10 Artificial Intelligence Technologies That’ll Rule 2019. So now, the question we’re asking marketers is: How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect digital marketing in 2019?

A few years ago, marketers were somewhat reluctant to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) in their digital marketing strategies. But this year they’ve gained a lot more confidence in using AI since its ambiguity has been reduced with respect to the results it can provide. These intelligent tools keep evolving more and more and are even reaching a point in which they are able to surpass humans in certain aspects like we’re about to see.

In a survey taken by over 1,600 professionals dedicated to marketing, 61% of those surveyed (without considering the size of their company) mentioned that both artificial intelligence and machine learning will be the most important data initiatives next year (source: MeMSQL).

Another survey by Sales force indicated that 51% of marketers are already using AI, and 27% more are even planning on incorporating this technology in 2019. This represents the highest expected year-after-year growth of all emerging technologies that marketers are considering adopting next year, surpassing even the Internet of Things (IoT) and marketing automatization.

And, while the amount of information on potential consumers grows, computer sciences related to AI (like machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing [NPL]), will be of utmost importance when making data-based decisions.

We’ve carefully analyzed which AI applications are already revolutionizing the digital market, and you’ll definitely see more than one that probably never even crossed your mind…

1. CREATING AND GENERATING CONTENT

What? A machine that writes by itself and creates content from scratch? There’s no way! But, I have news for you…

There is a way! And even though AI still can’t write its own political opinion for a newspaper column or a blog post on the best and most practical advice for a specific industry, there are certain areas in which content created by AI can be useful and help attract visitors to your website. It can help you save lots of time and resources. For example, AI can already write reports and news based on data and information.

Intelligent tools like Wordsmith, Articoolo, and Quill are already being used by the Associated Press and Forbes to create news, which leads to clicks on their websites. Using templates and fill-in-the-blanks to enter data and keywords can create unique content that gives the impression a human wrote it. So, you’ve probably read content that was generated by AI since BBC, CBS, the New York Times and Reuters are also implementing this technology.

In fact, hundreds of articles in the Washington Post are already credited with artificial intelligence technology, Heliograf.

2. CONTENT CURATION

AI is not only able to generate content; it can also curate it. Content curation by artificial intelligence will make it possible to better connect with visitors on certain websites and show them more relevant content.

This technology is commonly used to make personalized content recommendations that the user may find interesting, such as the typical, “people who buy X also buy Y,” like we constantly see on Amazon.

Netflix’s recommendation system can also give you suggestions for movies and TV shows you might find interesting. And it’s pretty accurate!

Now, the question is: How can you benefit from it?

Imagine showing each of your blog’s visitor’s articles that are more relevant to them, based on posts and topics they’ve already looked at on your blog. They’d definitely spend more time on it.

3. EMAIL MARKETING

Brands are using the power of AI to personalize email marketing campaigns based on preferences and user behaviors. This makes it possible to better connect with them and, with a bit of luck, turn them into clients.

Machine learning or automatic learning can analyze millions of data about the consumer to then determine the best times and days of the week to contact the user, the recommended frequency, the content that catches their attention the most, and which email subjects and titles generate more clicks. Wouldn’t you love to know all about this so you can launch the main metrics of your digital marketing campaigns?

A/B tests take time and can have a certain margin of error. So, in this sense, AI becomes your best friend in personalizing email content for each subscriber.

Boomtrain, Phrasee, and Persado are some tools that AI applies to email marketing. And according to Phrasee, its generation of email subject lines surpasses those of a human by over 95%. Persado even says that its cognitive content exceeds what a human could do 100% of the time.

4. DIGITAL ADVERTISING

Digital advertising is, without a doubt, the area of digital marketing that’s most successfully adopted artificial intelligence.

For example, Facebook and Google ad platforms already use machine learning and artificial intelligence to find people more prone to making the advertiser’s desired action. To achieve this, they analyze the user’s information, like their interests, demographics, and other aspects to learn and detect the best audience for their brand. Digital Marketing Course in Coimbatore is provided by many institutes but Webdesigninchennai is the leading among as they provide 100% placement assistance.

Google AdWords already has an automatic auction-based system that lets advertisers pay the lowest possible cost per conversion.

There’re also already platforms that incorporate AI and the analysis of big data candidates in their processes… but wait until we tell you about Adext.

INTRODUCING ADEXT

Adext is an Audience Management as a Service (AMaaS) that uses deep, transfer and machine learning to automate the handling and optimization of your ads on platforms like Google AdWords and Facebook Ads. This means that, in addition to testing different audiences on each ad (up to 480 everyday!) to detect the one most likely to make the desired action or conversion, it’s able to identify and learn which platforms are most profitable and then channel the investment toward them.

Its intelligent algorithms adjust and optimize budgets every hour so that the advertiser can obtain the highest sustained conversion rate (which is guaranteed under contract, or else the software is free) and on average, its increasing ads performance by 83% in just 10 days!

If you want to take advantage of its benefits and enjoy the new era of digital advertising, you can start by reading this step by step guide. Connecting Adext AI to your AdWords and Facebook Ads accounts take around 5 minutes.

5. SEARCHES

The way users perform online searches has changed. So, now we must ask ourselves how this will affect the way in which marketers create and optimize their web content. There have been two big advances in artificial intelligence that revolutionized Internet searches and search engine optimization (SEO): voice search and Google’s algorithm, Rank Brain.

Innovations like Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana make it easy for people to perform searches by just pressing a button or saying a voice command.

In its blog, Google revealed that around 70% of the searches Google Assistant receives are in natural, conversational language, and do not use the typical key works that you would type out in a classic Google search.

Google’s machine learning algorithm, RankBrain, was created to get much more relevant search results. It interprets the user’s voice searches and, using the power of AI, provides the user with the best results according to what it interpreted from the user’s language and context.

Voice searches require marketers to adapt their content so that it’s closer to the way a user would verbally express themselves. So, in this sense, those famous long-tail keywords will be replaced with more conversational keywords, based on the way the user would say something or do a voice search. A brand that truly knows how to benefit from voice searches will be able to considerably increase their organic traffic.

6. WEB DESIGN

If you thought a good website couldn’t exist without the help of a programmer and designer… well, that’s a thing of the past.

Today, there are already applications, like Grid, that use artificial intelligence to design a website based on user-provided information (like images, text, calls-to-action, etc.). They can make the website look professional in much less time and at an unbeatable price.

7. USER EXPERIENCE (UX)

Through intelligent algorithms, it’s possible to personalize an experience on a website. After analyzing thousands of data on a single user (including location, demographics, devices, interaction with the site, etc.), AI can display offers and content that are more appropriate for each user type.

A 2017 Ever gage survey on personalization in real time showed that 33% of the marketers surveyed used AI to provide personalized web experiences. And, when they were asked about the benefits of personalization driven by AI, 63% responded that it increased conversion rates and improved the consumer’s experience.

It’s true: a good user experience is what keeps an audience browsing a site and, the more time they spend on it, the higher the probability of a conversion.

In this sense, one of the many possibilities that AI offers to make the user experience more user-friendly are chatbots, which we’ll talk about now.

8. CHATBOTS

Many brands have started to communicate with their prospects through messenger applications like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Slack. They’re fast since consumers are already using these tools to chat with friends and colleagues and, let’s get real, no one likes to wait for a response on the phone.

Chatbots are making the process of automating responses to potential buyers’ frequently asked questions even easier by providing them with a way to search for the product or service they’re looking for.

A good indicator of a chatbot powered by AI is its ability to answer open questions. These bots use natural learning processing and machine learning to find the correct response.

Chatbots also have many other advantages. They can serve clients 24/7 and retain their data. They’re friendly and never lose their patience. Customers may get angry, but the bot always treats them well. Chatbots can respond to several requests from different customers at the same time, so waiting times will no longer be a problem.

Sephora, for example, is a brand that uses a chatbot to give beauty advice to its users and offer them the best cosmetic products according to their needs. Through its application or website, Sephora Visual Artist lets its potential clients “test” cosmetic products like lipsticks, eyeshadows, and highlighting pallets. Visual Artist is able to identify facial features and then use augmented reality to apply the selected product to the user’s photograph. It can even automatically apply an eyeshadow suggestion based on the skin tone of the consumer!

The good news is that you don’t need to have a huge budget to create a chatbot. You can use Facebook bot tools, like wit.ai bot, to train bots in example conversations and make them continually learn from their user interactions.

9. PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

Predictive analysis is just the use of data, statistical algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify the probability of future conclusions based on data history.

Predictive models can be applied in several areas, and marketing is no exception. These models make it possible to predict the probability of a specific prospect becoming a client. They can also predict other aspects, like the quoted price necessary to make a conversion, or which clients are more prone to making more than one purchase.

The key here is to remember that predictive models will only be as good as the data you provide while creating them. So, if there are mistakes in your data, or there’s a high level of randomness, it won’t be able to make correct or accurate predictions.

This AI application will transform marketers from reactive to proactive planners, thanks to the data that serves as a forward-thinking element or guide to make the correct decisions.

An example of how this discipline is applied in digital marketing is the ranking of prospects or lead scoring. Models generated by machine learning can be trained to rank prospects or leads based on certain criteria that the sales team defines as “qualified purchasers.” This way, the sales team won’t lose any more time on leads that will never convert and can focus on those that will. This, in addition to contributing to increasing sales, means saving considerable time and resources.

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29 Creative Ways to Make Money on the Side Easily (From Home!)

So you’re wondering how to make money — more money, that is.

Whether you want to be more aggressive about paying off student loans, dig yourself out of credit card debt or save for a down payment, making extra money on the side is a smart strategy for working toward your goals.

While you could simply get a part-time job, many Americans are getting side gigs, which allow you to set your own schedule and rates. You’ll be your own boss, deciding what you do, when you do it and how much you make. Hey, you could even make money from home.

29 Ways to Make Money on the Side This Year

Whether you’re thinking about starting a side business that could eventually become your full-time job or just want to earn a little extra cash online during your free time, we’ve got some money-making ideas to get you started.

1. Crash Weddings (Well, Sorta)

If you just love weddings (I mean, are we talkin’ an open bar?), consider turning them into your weekend gig.

If you love public speaking and being the center of attention, one option is to become a wedding officiant. You can get ordained online — and it’s free! If the idea of standing in front of a crowd makes your knees tremble, opt to hang on the sidelines as a professional bridesmaid.

How much can you make?

We talked to Yvonne Doerre, who had officiated about 20 weddings in the Washington D.C. area. She charged between $300 and $500 per wedding.

Jen Glant, a bridesmaid for hire, gets paid up to $4,000 per wedding to play bridesmaid. That includes personal coaching and planning services, as well.

2. Invest in Real Estate Online

Want to try real-estate investing without playing landlord? We found a company that helps you do just that.

Oh, and you don’t have to have hundreds of thousands of dollars, either. You can get started with a minimum investment of just $500. A company called Fundrise does all the heavy lifting for you.

Through the Fundrise Starter Portfolio, your money will be split into two portfolios that support private real estate around the United States.

This isn’t an obscure investment, though. You can see exactly which properties are included in your portfolios — like a set of townhomes in Snoqualmie, Washington, or an apartment building in Charlotte, North Carolina.

You can earn money through quarterly dividend payments and potential appreciation in the value of your shares, just like a stock. Cash flow typically comes from interest payments and property income (e.g. rent).

(But remember: Investments come with risk. While Fundrise has paid distributions every quarter since 2014, dividend and principal payments are never guaranteed.)

You’ll pay a 0.85% annual asset management fee and a 0.15% annual investment advisory fee.

How much can you make?

Fundrise is an investment, so there’s always risk involved, but the company has paid positive dividends every quarter since 2014. In 2017, the average annual return on investment, net of fees, was 11.44%.

3. Let Your Money Make More Money (Psst… It’s Called Passive Income)

Making yourself save is no easy feat, but it’s easier to tuck that money away with micro-investing apps, which do it for you automatically.

Plus, they don’t simply save your money; they invest it. That means your money isn’t just sitting in a savings account collecting next to no interest — it’s creating a stock market portfolio for you that could help grow your money for the future.

With Acorns, you can set the app to simply round up your debit– or credit-card purchases to the nearest dollar. The pocket change is then squirreled away into your Acorns account. For a balance less than $1 million, you’ll pay a $1 monthly fee.

With Stash, you can start investing with as little as $5 and for just a $1 monthly fee for balances under $5,000. Bonus: The Penny Hoarder is teaming up with Stash to give you an extra $5 after your first investment.

Moral of the story? Investing is only as difficult as you make it, so automate it. You’ll be surprised how fast it can add up.

How much can you make?

This 27-year-old saved more than $2,000 in one year without breaking a sweat using Acorns. Most of that is his own money, but the app helped him earn an extra $66 from investments.

4. Get Reimbursed for Your Groceries

You need to buy groceries anyway — why not make some money back?

We know it sounds strange, but Ibotta will pay you cash for taking pictures of your grocery store receipts.

Here’s how it works: Before heading to the store, search for items on your shopping list within the Ibotta app. When you get home, snap a photo of your receipt, scan the items’ barcodes and earn cash back.

Ibotta is free to download. Plus, you’ll get a $10 sign-up bonus after uploading your first receipt.

How much can you make?

One of our readers, Nancy Frost, made more than $430 last year by using Ibotta. Not too shabby.

5. Share Your Mathematical Know-How

Does earning $60 an hour sound appealing? How about the freedom to work from home while helping others succeed?

Those are the perks of working as a bookkeeper, says Ben Robinson, a certified public accountant and founder of Bookkeeper Business Launch, an online course that teaches you how to start a virtual bookkeeping business.

And no, you don’t have to have a CPA to be successful in this business. In fact, all you really need are decent computer skills and a passion for helping business owners tackle real-world problems.

It’s a great opportunity for parents who want to work part time, millennials who are just out of college and anyone who wants to bring in real money while working from home.

We talked to Robinson about what it takes to become a virtual bookkeeper, as well as tips and advice for making this career track work for you. You can read the full interview here, or check out his website for more information.

How much can you make?

You could put as much as $60 per hour in the books… so to speak.

6. Start Pet Sitting

If you love hanging out with dogs, Rover might be your perfect gig.

The online network connects dog walkers and sitters to local dog owners through its 4.9-star-rated app, so you don’t have to staple flyers on every utility pole across town.

Rover dog-sitter requirements vary by location. In general, you must:

Be 18 years or older.

Pass a background check.

Have access to the Rover app (iOS or Android).

Here’s how it works: You’ll create an online sitter profile where you’ll answer questions about your experience with puppers and your schedule availability.

You can choose to offer a variety of services, including dog walking, overnight boarding at your home or theirs, and daycare. Boarding is the app’s most popular service, so offering it can get you more gigs. You set your own rates. (Rover keeps a small percentage as a service fee.)

Dog owners will reach out to you. Accept which gigs you want, then start snugglin’ pups. As soon as you complete a service, you’ll be paid within two days.

How much can you make?

Rover says sitters can earn as much as $1,000 a month.

7. Help Business Owners Get Organized

If you have a knack for organization and communication, people will pay you to keep them on track.

You don’t have to be the busy corporate assistant you see in old movies or TV. You can be a virtual assistant right from your couch.

We recommend starting your search with a job board like ZipRecruiter.

When you click here to search, ZipRecruiter sends you to a list of geo-tailored work-from-home job openings.

Type in “virtual assistant,” and peruse the listings to find information about the company, pay and type of employment. ZipRecruiter will even let you know if you qualify for a position based on your credentials. (But we always recommend applying anyway!)

How much can you make?

The average salary for a work-from-home virtual assistant in the U.S. is $57,373 a year, according to January 2019 ZipRecruiter data.

8. Turn Clutter Into Cash

You work hard, right? Who has time to clean out the closet? You should… if it’ll make you some extra moola.

Here are a few simple ways to make money from your clutter:

Instead of storing clothes indefinitely, try selling them to locals on Letgo. You can literally list your clothes in less than a minute.

Decluttr buys your old CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and video games, plus hardware like cell phones, tablets, game consoles and iPods. Plus, they’ll pay for your shipping!

Books… so. many. books. Listen, if you haven’t picked them up in, say, two years, why not sell them? Tap into Amazon Trade-In to get an estimate for your books’ values. Send them off, and Amazon will give you a gift card.

How much can you make?

This one is hard to predict. It all depends on how much you have to sell. Oh, it might also make a difference whether you’re posting Gucci bags or old bowling T-shirts. You get the picture.

9. Share Some Opinions During Your Next Netflix Binge

Swagbucks is definitely a reader favorite, probably because of the wide variety of ways to make money beyond taking surveys.

It’s also famous for handing out free rewards points (they’re called SBs) at random just for being a member.

Pro tip: Get a 500 SB (or $5) bonus when you sign up and earn 2,500 SB within your first 60 days.

You’ll get SBs for each survey you qualify for and complete that you can redeem for cash via PayPal or gift cards to a number of popular retailers, including Amazon.

How much can you make?

Swagbucks lets you earn up to $90 a month.

10. Get Paid to Lose Weight

Have you been wanting to drop a few inches lately? Why not team up with HealthyWage and add some weight to your bank account while you’re at it?

Bottom line: HealthyWage will literally pay you for losing weight.

Here’s how to get started:

Read our full HealthyWage review, and sign up.

Define a goal weight and the amount of time you’ll give yourself to achieve it.

Place a bet on yourself ranging from $20 to $500 a month.

How much can you make?

We talked to one woman, Teresa Suarez, who lost 68 pounds — and made more than $2,400.

Depending on how much you have to lose, how long you give yourself to do it and how much money you put on the table, you could earn up to $10,000!

11. Tutor Kids Around the World

If you’re good with kids, pick up a tutoring gig. But you’re not limited to your local community; video tools like Skype allow you to connect across the globe.

Take notes from Joanne Kaminski, who started her own online tutoring business after teaching 10 years in the public school system.

If you don’t want to start your own business, look into online learning platforms like VIPKID and QKids.

How much can you make?

When we chatted with Kaminski, she was making $5,000 to $6,000 a month. Others have had success with VIPKID and Qkids and report making up to $20 an hour.

12. Share the Love of RVing

RV owners: When’s the last time you hit the open road?

If you’re not living in your rig full time, rent it out through an online peer-to-peer rental marketplace, like RVshare. Think of it like Airbnb… but for RVs.

We chatted with one California couple who rented out their 2008 Thor Sonoma. Just last year, they banked an extra $7,338, allowing them to pay it off — with some to spare.

How much could you make?

To see how much you could earn by renting your RV out, snag a free estimate in just a few minutes.

13. Write and Sell an Ebook

If you’re a subject-matter expert or have an intriguing life experience, you could write a book. But there’s no need to send it off to all the major publishing houses in New York City.

You can self-publish ebooks through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Writer Steve Gillman wrote a book in a week. Note: Ebooks don’t have be hundreds of pages long. Gillman found many books as short as 6,000 words.

After publishing on Amazon, he started making $350 a month. The best part? He continued to make money, even months and years later.

How much you can you make?

How much you make hinges on a number of variables, including how much you list your book for and how many copies sell. For reference, Amazon pays writers up to 70% royalties on ebooks priced between $2.99 and $9.99.

14. Turn Your Stash of iPhone Photos Into Cash

Are you a savvy photographer but don’t want a serious career? You can use an an app called Foap to list and sell your iPhone photos online.

Here’s how it works:

Download the free app and create an account.

Take a quality photo and upload it to Foap’s marketplace.

Someone buys the license to your photo. You get 50% of the price paid, and Foap keeps the other 50%.

How much can you make?

Foap splits the profit 50-50. So if you list your photo for $10, and the photo sells 20 times, you make $5 each time and end up with $100 in your pocket — all for about five minutes of work. Not bad, right?

15. Sell Gigs on Fiverr

Have you got skills? Can you shoot photos, edit videos or design websites? Can you write blog posts or code? Can you draw?

If you’ve got game, list your services on Fiverr, an online marketplace for creative freelance services.

Gigs on Fiverr range from standard data entry and research tasks to the truly out-there. On any given day, sellers in the “Fun & Lifestyle” section are offering thousands of unique services — from polishing a Tinder profile to creating a family tree.

How much can you make?

Pay starts as low as $5. However, we chatted with Charmaine Pocek, who broke $1 million in earnings through the online service.

16. List a Room on Airbnb

Have a spare room? Might as well try to earn some money by listing it on Airbnb.

If you’re a good host with a desirable space, you could add hundreds — even thousands — of dollars to your savings account with Airbnb.

A few simple steps can make the difference between a great experience and a less-than-satisfactory one.

Here are some tips:

Make your space available during high-demand times in your area. Think: concerts, conventions and sporting events.

Be a good host, and stock your place with the toiletries you’d expect at a hotel — toilet paper, soap and towels.

Be personable. A lot of travelers turn to Airbnb for the personal touch they won’t find at commercial properties.

How much can you make?

Pretty good change, depending on where you live. We found at least 15 cities where you can make $1,000 or more each month as an Airbnb host.

(Hosting laws vary from city to city. Please understand the rules and regulations applicable to your city and listing.)

17. Find Babysitting Gigs on Care.com

Are you good with little ones? Knowing how to wrangle children is certainly a skill that’s appreciated! Parents, oldest siblings and former camp counselors: This one’s for you.

Whether you want to look after school-aged kids on Saturday nights or help tired parents as a night nanny, you’ll find lots of opportunities to use your childcare experience to earn cash.

Look within your circle of friends and acquaintances first, as parents are more likely to trust someone they know. Ask friends if they know anyone else who could use a few hours to themselves, whether it’s to grocery shop or simply to head to the gym.

You can also let parents find you through Care.com.

How much can you make?

Rates will vary by city, but the average rate for babysitters in 2017 was $16.20 an hour, according to Care.com’s 2018 Cost of Care Survey.

Pro tip: Take advantage of high-demand periods, like around the holidays.

18. Drive People Around Town

Your car could be doing a lot more than just sitting in your driveway. It could be driving your new mode of income.

Try driving with Lyft. Demand for ride-sharing is growing like crazy and shows no signs of slowing down.

To be eligible, you’ll need to be at least 21 years old with a year of driving experience, pass a background check and own a car made in 2007 or later.

Because it’s simple to switch between apps, many Lyft drivers also sign up as a driver partner with Uber.

As a partner driver with Uber, you’re an independent contractor. You set your own schedule and work as much or as little as you want.

If you want to give it a try, here are a few things to keep in mind: You must be at least 21 years old, have at least one year of licensed driving experience in the U.S. (three years if you’re under 23 years old), have a valid U.S. driver’s license and pass a background check.

Finally, your car must be a four-door, seat at least four passengers (excluding the driver), be registered in-state and be covered by in-state insurance.

How much can you make?

Your pay will vary depending on how much time you put into it. We talked to Paul Pruce, who had been driving full-time with Lyft for over a year and earning $750 a week as a driver.

19. Participate in Focus Groups

Ever thought about joining a research panel or focus group for some extra cash? The idea is to help brands figure out what’s working and what needs improving. Many times, you don’t even have to leave your couch to participate — you can find opportunities online.

Here’s one option to get you started: 20|20 Research. It has been around since 1986, and has offices in Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Miami, Florida.

If you live in those cities, great — you can get paid to participate in in-person studies. But even if you don’t, you can still get in on paid opportunities with 20|20 online, as long as you’re at least 18 years old and live in the U.S. or Canada.

How much can you make?

You can participate in both surveys and studies, though you’ll typically earn more through the studies. A live chat study, for example, could last 30 minutes to an hour and pay $15 to $30 an hour, reported panel manager Amanda Brown back in 2017.

You might also find extended three-day studies, which would pay even more.

20. Rent out Your Idle Car

Want to make money with your car… but not keen on playing taxi? Let folks rent your car when you’re not using it.

OK, that sounds a little scary, but it doesn’t have to be. With the Getaround app, you can safely rent out your car to people in your community and neighborhood. The company insures your car for each trip, offers 24/7 roadside assistance and screens drivers for a safe driving record.

That’s more assurance than you get when your teenager gets behind the wheel…

There are a number of rental platforms out there that’ll do all the heavy lifting for you, including Turo. There, you can list your car and its availability then connect with users looking for short-term rentals.

How much can you make?

Turo will dynamically set your car’s rental price based on market value, location, time of year and other data. For a car with a market value of $10,000, Turo suggests you could earn about $1,800 a year renting it just five days a month.

You’ll earn 65% to 85% of the trip price, depending on the vehicle protection package you choose. If you provide your own commercial rental insurance, you’ll earn 90%.

21. Launch an Online Course

Do you have expertise you can share? Try creating an online course. You could work through a platform like Udemy or Pathwright, or create your own website.

Create a course around any skill — or element of a skill — you can teach. Whether it’s mastering a piano concerto, planting a cost-effective vegetable garden or leading a killer workout, pick something you’re great at.

How much can you make?

On Udemy, the instructor salaries can vary greatly depending on a number of factors, including the price of your courses, the number of courses you create, your following and your expertise on the topic. While you can find million-dollar success stories out there, those are rare.

22. Sell Handmade Jewelry

Earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, crazy contraptions that wrap around your face — jewelry designers make all kinds of amazing products.

Whether you work with metal, felt, old Scrabble tiles, origami cranes or even deer antlers, you’ll likely find a market for your work.

How much can you make?

It depends on what and where you sell. For example, if you list your items online through a marketplace like Etsy, you’ll face some fees, including a 5% transaction charge. However, Etsy also sees millions and millions of shoppers, so it could be worth the exposure.

Whatever you do, just remember not to price your pieces too low. Cover the costs of materials, time, shipping, listing fees and other expenses.

23. Offer to Help Neighbors With Chores

Want to offer your neighbors a hand? It’ll cost them, of course.

Rather than going door to door, connect with people in your area who need help getting things done through TaskRabbit — anything from picking up dry cleaning to calling customer service and tolerating the hold music.

Keep an eye out for virtual tasks, which are mostly centered around personal assistance, administrative work or research help. You can do those and earn money without even walking out your door.

How much can you make?

Pay varies, but rest assured you won’t be paid pennies to put together Ikea furniture. Check out these tips from Taskers who have made more than $2,000 a week through the platform.

24. Make Money on Amazon

We all know Amazon’s taking over the world… but do you realize how many ways you can make money from the monster marketplace?

You can sell items on Amazon through its Fulfillment by Amazon program, complete small tasks for others through Mechanical Turk or sell T-shirt designs on Merch by Amazon.

How much can you make?

Your income through Amazon will vary depending on the platform(s) you choose to work on. Explore our guide to making money on Amazon for all the details.

25. Try Your Hand at Mystery Shopping

Have you heard of mystery shopping? A company will pay you to go undercover and pose as a normal customer, and you’ll report back with your experience. It’s a way for these companies to gauge their products and services behind the scenes.

For you — you can get paid as a mystery shopper and even snag some free products and services.

We put together a list of mystery-shopping gigs.

How much can you make?

Pay will vary by company and task, but, as an example, Penny Hoarder contributor made $45 by attending a Sunday church service as a mystery worshipper.

26. Find Freelance Gigs Through Upwork

Upwork is a great freelancing platform if you’re just wading into the freelance world.

Once you create a profile, search through thousands of gigs based on your skills and interests. If you find one you’re interested in, apply.

One of the perks of Upwork is that it handles all money transactions, eliminating any unease or questions of, “Will they really pay me?!” Upwork just takes a 20% fee for the first $500 you bill with each client.

How much can you make?

Pay will vary on project, but carefully consider the pay rates that are listed.

Penny Hoarder Carson Kohler has used the platform to find freelance writing gigs, and she reports low rates — like $3 for 500 written words. That project probably isn’t worth it. (And, yes, you’ll have to scroll through a whole lot of these low-paying listings to find the good ones.)

27. Make Money Through Social Media Platforms

Hey, you’re already spending hours scrolling through Instagram… why not?

Consider becoming an Instagram influencer. You can make money from sponsored posts and affiliate marketing. Then branch out and make money through YouTube advertising.

Take note from Shelcy Joseph, an Instagram influencer. She manages an account with her sister, and, with more than 10,000 followers, they make money from sponsored posts and affiliate marketing. They even offer private consultations to help others start up.

How much can you make?

It’ll depend, but Joseph makes about $1,600 a month through Instagram (that’s after splitting the income with her sister).

28. Sell Your Plasma

Have you ever considered selling your body? Not like that. You can make money selling your plasma. It’s a way to get paid, and it also helps others in need.

The process takes about two hours and, yes, it involves a needle, but it’sthe process is simple. You’re free to read or watch TV while a machine draws your blood and separates the plasma.

Interested? Search “plasma center + [your city]” for options, and ask your friends for referrals — many centers offer referral sign-up bonuses.

How much can you make?

It’s common for plasma donation centers to pay between $20 and $30 per visit, up to twice a week.

29. Sell Garage Sale Finds on Craigslist or eBay

If you love hunting down treasures at local garage sales, antique shops or flea markets, consider turning your hobby into a side hustle.

Follow Rob Stephenson’s lead. He calls himself the Flea Market Flipper and has made up to $30,000 a year finding and selling flea market gems on eBay.

He doesn’t even have to put a ton of elbow grease into flipping items. Once, the Orlando, Florida, man found a $30 prosthetic leg and turned around and sold it for $1,000 on eBay, his go-to selling site.

How much can you make?

All right, don’t expect to launch into this and immediately bank $30,000. However, depending on what you can find, you might get lucky and make a pretty penny.

This was originally published on The Penny Hoarder, which helps millions of readers worldwide earn and save money by sharing unique job opportunities, personal stories, freebies and more. The Inc. 5000 ranked The Penny Hoarder as the fastest-growing private media company in the U.S. in 2017.

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In 1988, one year before Cops began asking the bad boys of America “What’cha gonna do when they come for you?,” noted victims’ advocate John Walsh was turning every American with access to Fox into a potential crime-solver on America’s Most Wanted.

The series, which highlighted real-life cases of fugitives and suspected criminals who had managed to evade capture (or recapture), became the first hit show for the then-fledgling Fox network and turned into a cultural phenomenon. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, here are 20 things you might not have known about America’s Most Wanted.

1. IT WAS INSPIRED BY A LONG-RUNNING BBC TRUE CRIME SERIES.

America’s Most Wanted partly owes its existence to an assistant to Fox owner Rupert Murdoch, who suggested the idea of a true crime series along the lines of BBC’s Crimewatch, which featured reenactments of brutal crimes and hosts who implored the public to assist them with catching the criminals. The show began airing once a month on BBC One in 1984, and was cancelled in 2017.

2. JOHN WALSH WASN’T THE FIRST CHOICE TO HOST IT.

Though it’s hard to imagine America’s Most Wanted without its longtime host John Walsh—a hotel executive who became a noted victims’ advocate following the abduction and murder of his young son, Adam, in 1981—the show’s producers considered a lot of other names before landing on Walsh.

“Stephen Chao—Fox’s vice president of program development—and an L.A. producer named Michael Linder sat down with [Fox’s vice president of corporate and legal affairs] Tom Herwitz to discuss the possibilities,” Walsh wrote in his autobiography, Tears of Rage, about the network’s search for a host. “They considered the author Joseph Wambaugh, and a whole raft of actors—Treat Williams, Ed Marinaro, Brian Dennehy, Brian Keith, and Theresa Saldana, who had played herself in a TV movie about how she was nearly stabbed to death by some psychotic attacker. Then, during one of their marathon conference calls, Herwitz suggested me.”

It took a while for them to track Walsh down—“I was all over the place in those days, traveling something like half a million air miles a year,” he wrote—but after a handful of conversations, he agreed to shoot the pilot.

3. IT WAS FOX’S FIRST HIT SERIES.

Fox was still a new network—less than two years old—when America’s Most Wanted debuted, and it quickly became the network’s first big hit. Though it originally only aired in a handful of markets, by April the network was broadcasting America’s Most Wanted nationwide. In 1989, it became the first Fox series to be the most-watched program in its time slot. By 2010, each episode was being watched by about 5 million households.

4. THE ANNOUNCER’S VOICE WAS A VERY FAMILIAR ONE.

From 1996 until his death in 2008, legendary voice actor Don LaFontaine served as the show’s narrator. You probably know LaFontaine as the voice behind more than 5000 movie trailers, and the person most often associated with the “In a world…” trope. He was often referred to as “Thunder Throat” and “The Voice of God.” Wes Johnson took over the role following LaFontaine’s passing.

5. THOUGH INITIALLY SKEPTICAL, LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS QUICKLY EMBRACED THE SHOW.

In a 1988 interview with The New York Times, executive producer Michael Linder admitted that law enforcement professionals were initially skeptical of the show, though it didn’t take them long to embrace its purpose—and possibilities. “Now, they bombard us with tips and requests for help,” Linder said.

The FBI also played a big part in the series; the agency assigned a handful of agents to act as liaisons between William S. Sessions, the bureau’s then-director, and the show’s producers. On May 29, 1998, Sessions even appeared on an episode of the show to give a rundown of the latest additions to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list (one of whom was captured shortly thereafter, thanks to a viewer tip).

Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau told The New York Times that he, too, was a fan of the series, saying that, “If the media, through publicity, can contribute to the apprehension of dangerous criminals, I’m all for it. Besides, it’s very expensive to track down criminals. A couple of detectives or FBI agents can spend months or years searching for someone. It seems to me that this is a wonderful way to save the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

6. THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION WAS NOT ON BOARD WITH THE CONCEPT.

Though many of the individuals featured on the show were fugitives, the American Civil Liberties Union had concerns that a suspect who appeared on the show would not be able to get a fair trial. “I suppose it’s like an electronic wanted poster,” Colleen O’Connor, the ACLU’s director of public education, told The New York Times in 1988. “The poster on the wall in the post office makes it seem like the fugitive is guilty, too … Can someone get a fair trial after he’s been portrayed as a killer on television?”

But Linder contested this point, telling the Times that civil liberties were always at the forefront of the producers’ mind. “If one killer was set free because of pretrial publicity from us, the show would be a failure,” he said. The show also made a very clear point of using language like “alleged” and “reportedly” when discussing suspects who had not been convicted—and Walsh ended each episode with a reminder that the suspects featured in the show were innocent until proven guilty.

7. WITHIN FOUR DAYS OF THE SHOW’S PREMIERE, THEY HAD CAUGHT THEIR FIRST SUSPECT.

On February 7, 1988, America’s Most Wanted debuted on just a handful of Fox stations across the country. On February 11, four days later, a viewer tip led to the arrest of David James Roberts, a convicted murderer and rapist who had made a brazen escape from prison in 1986 while being transported to a hospital.

After the episode aired, the show’s tip line received dozens of calls from people who knew Roberts as Bob Lord, an employee at a homeless shelter in Staten Island. Roberts, who was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, was the first fugitive profiled on the show, and the first person caught as a result of viewer tips.

8. THE SHOW HELPED THE FBI CATCH 17 OF THEIR “MOST WANTED” FUGITIVES.

America’s Most Wanted proved to be a huge help to the FBI during the quarter-century it was on the air. According to the FBI’s website, 17 “‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ have been located as a direct result of tips provided by viewers of this program” (beginning with Roberts in that very first episode).

9. WALSH MAINTAINED HIS OWN “MOST WANTED” LIST.

Like the FBI, Walsh maintained his own “most wanted” list, which was known as the America’s Most Wanted “Dirty Dozen.” It changed regularly, but included fugitives who had been featured on the show and had yet to be captured.

10. THE HOTLINE NUMBER CHANGED SEVERAL TIMES.

In order to expedite the crime-solving process, the last two digits of the show’s hotline changed each year for the first few years in order to match the year the episode aired (1-800-CRIME-88, 1-800-CRIME-89, etc.). On average, the show received approximately 3000 to 5000 calls per week. In 1994, the number changed one last time—to 1-800-CRIME-TV. The number was shut down in June 2014. (As for the operators you saw during each episode: most of them were actors.)

Amazingly, crank calls weren’t a big problem for the show, according to Linder, though they did receive a lot of hang-up calls. (He suspected people just wanted to try dialing the number to see if someone would answer.)

11. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS INVOLVED WITH THE CASES FEATURED WERE ON HAND IN THE CALL CENTER.

So that any promising tips could be quickly vetted and followed up on once an episode aired, The New York Times reported that, “In the television studio, there are some 30 telephone operators to take the calls. Also on hand are police officers or federal agents directly involved in cases being aired that night. When one of the operators gets a good lead, an officer picks up the phone and asks the caller further questions.”

12. A GROUP OF PRISONERS ONCE TURNED IN A FELLOW INMATE.

On May 15, 1988, Mark Goodman was in the final stretch of a brief prison stint following a burglary conviction in Palm Beach County, Florida, but was wanted elsewhere in the country for escaping federal custody following an armed robbery conviction. He was watching the show with a group of his fellow inmates when his face flashed across the screen. Though The New York Times reported that he tried to change the channel, it was too late: Goodman’s fellow inmates informed the prison guards that there was an America’s Most Wanted fugitive in their midst. While being transferred to a more secure facility, Goodman managed to escape custody again. Fortunately, he was apprehended the next day.

13. FOX CANCELLED THE SERIES IN 1996. VIEWERS—AND THE AUTHORITIES—WEREN’T HAPPY.

In 1996, the powers-that-be at Fox—which now had a handful of hit series, including The Simpsons—decided to cancel America’s Most Wanted and push Married… With Children (which was in its final season) into the first half of its 9 p.m. time slot. The public let their outrage be known.

“We went off for four weeks,” Walsh told Larry King in 2003. “Everybody in law enforcement contacted Fox. Fifty-five members of Congress contacted Fox. Thirty-seven governors. I don’t think 37 governors could agree on how many stars and stripes are on the flag, but they all went after [the network]—and they said it [was] a business decision. But … 200,000 good American citizens wrote Fox and said, ‘This is wrong.’ We were the shortest canceled show in the history of television.”

14. THE SHOW ALMOST HELPED APPREHEND GIANNI VERSACE’S KILLER FOUR DAYS BEFORE HIS MURDER.

Fans of FX’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story probably noticed a recent shout-out to America’s Most Wanted. In the episode, an employee at a sandwich shop in Miami recognizes Andrew Cunanan when he comes in to buy a sub and calls the police to report it. But Cunanan managed to make his way out of the eatery just before the police arrived. While the episode left no doubt that it was indeed Cunanan (as portrayed by Darren Criss) who was ordering a tuna fish sandwich, the reality of what happened is not as clear-cut.

After Cunanan made his way onto the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives list on June 12, 1997, the bureau asked the show for help. They ran a segment on the alleged serial killer, and Miami police did respond to a call from Kenny Benjamin, an employee of Miami Subs, who swore that Cunanan was in the shop. Police arrived almost immediately, but the man in question had already left. And Benjamin had ended up blocking the security camera’s view of the suspect while making the call, so whether or not it was indeed Cunanan was never confirmed. But we do know that the call was made four days before Versace’s murder.

15. AT THE REQUEST OF THE WHITE HOUSE, THE SHOW TOOK ON TERRORISTS FOLLOWING 9/11.

In October 2001, in the wake of 9/11, America’s Most Wanted aired a one-hour special that profiled the FBI’s 22 most wanted terrorists. The New York Post reported that the episode was put together in just 72 hours at the request of White House aide Scott Sforza.

“These are low-life coward terrorists that we’re going to profile and hopefully we can get some of these s–bags off the streets before they hurt anymore Americans,” Walsh said, adding that: “I’m going to send a big message to Bin Laden: You’re just a coward. Americans know it and we’re gonna hunt you down like the dog you are.”

16. MORE THAN ONE SUSPECT PROFILED ON THE SHOW WAS LATER ACQUITTED.

Not every suspect featured on America’s Most Wanted ended up being captured—or found guilty of their alleged crimes. One example: Suspected murderer Richard Emile Newman. Acting on tips that he was living in an apartment in Brooklyn following an episode of America’s Most Wanted that profiled his case, Newman was arrested in New York in 2004. He was extradited back to Canada in 2006 for trial, but in 2010 he was acquitted of those charges.

17. AT LEAST ONE SUSPECT TURNED HIMSELF IN.

On May 8, 1988, America’s Most Wanted featured the case of Stephen Randall Dye, who was wanted in connection with the shooting of a man in New Jersey in 1986 as well as the murder of a motorcyclist in Ohio in 1981. Nervous that he would be found out, Dye—who was living in California at the time—flagged down a police car in San Diego and gave himself up.

18. BARACK OBAMA MADE A SPECIAL APPEARANCE.

In 2010, to celebrate the show’s 1000th episode, Walsh was granted what he assumed would be a quick meet-and-greet with President Barack Obama to film a segment acknowledging the milestone. But when he arrived at the White House, he was taken to the Blue Room for an actual sit-down with the POTUS where they discussed Obama’s various anti-crime initiatives and the show’s impact. “It wasn’t a grip-and-grin or a photo op,” Walsh told the New York Post.

19. IT WAS THE LONGEST-RUNNING SERIES IN FOX’S HISTORY AT THE TIME IT WENT OFF THE AIR.

In June 2011, Fox television cancelled America’s Most Wanted for a second (and final) time. When the show went off the air, it had run for 25 seasons, making it the network’s then-longest running series. (The Simpsons has since surpassed it.)

But that was not the end of America’s Most Wanted. As Walsh told the San Diego Tribune in the wake of the series’s cancellation, “I’m fighting hard to keep this franchise going. It’s a television show that gets ratings and saves lives, and we’ll find somewhere to keep going. We’re not done.”

Walsh was right: The series got picked up by Lifetime, though its run on the network was fairly short-lived; on March 28, 2013, it was cancelled for good.

20. MORE THAN 1000 FUGITIVES HAVE BEEN CAPTURED BECAUSE OF THE SERIES.

In May 2008, America’s Most Wanted was celebrating the show’s 1000th capture. To celebrate, the network got some of the Fox family to tape celebratory messages (including some awkward congrats from American Idol judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, and Paula Abdul). As of March 30, 2013, the total number of captured persons had risen to 1202.

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6 Far-famed Rooms From Movies( That Spoilt The Owners’ Lives)

When love get super into a movie or Tv establish, they typically dress up as their favorite personas and hit up their neighbourhood convening — in which client, the only martyr of Hollywood’s seductive siren song is said fan’s wallet. But that’s merely the ordinary rank of infatuation. When fandom reaches Single White Female ranks, on the other hand, we get entertaining and/ or depressing yarns like these …

# 6. The Breaking Bad Creator Asks Follower To Stop Throwing Pizza On Walt’s Roof

” Breaking Bad followers remain hurling pizza on someone’s roof” is a bizarre sentence to type, but a bunch of you know exactly what we’re talking about. If you don’t, there’s a far-famed background in the show in which Walter White goes “re pissed at” his wife and throws a pizza over his own roof.

Toss a pizza in the air, and Emmys rain from the sky. It’s the law of television .

Hilariously, the pizza stayed there for various chapters, essentially becoming a brand-new character in the demonstrate. You know what’s not humorous, though? When literally anybody else does it. When a bunch of drink frat boys roll up to the very real New Mexico home and lob red-hot cheese pies at the roof, it’s not a joke; it’s trespassing and vandalism. If you do this, Breaking Bad developer Vince Gilligan personally thinks you’re a prick, pizza-slinging guy.

“Aw drivel, what am I gonna do with a pizza now? ” — a demon

This “joke” got so out of control that actor Jonathan Banks( who plays the sexagenarian hitman Mike) threatened to “hunt down” those who did this. That’s an outcome the home’s owner is frantic to experience, judging from this clue TAGEND Although that’s precisely what person privately cooking meth would say .

At least some followers seem to have gotten the message and are learning less invasive ways to get their damn pizza ceiling photos.

“Thanks, but maybe you should do some other situation, like going dissolved in acid maybe.”

# 5. The Owner Of The Goonies House Becomes A Reluctant Hermit

You grab your Wheaties container and sit down to breakfast. You gaze out the window at the clearly defined and sunny morning … and then you see it. A man, his shirt pulled up to his chin, shaking his flabby belly all over your front ground. He is, without a doubt, 30 years old. Throughout the day, more souls start, of all sizes and conditions, all pulling their shirts up and waggling their guts. All of them, indisputably, 30.

This, all day, every day .

This was the existence of the owner of the Goonies house. When she originally obtained the home over 10 years ago, visits were few and far between, so she was more than happy to invite beings inside for a speedy tour at the time. But with the coming into effect of Twitter and the upcoming remake of the 1980 s classic, unannounced calls increased substantially — to the tune of thousands of belly-dancing 30 -somethings a daytime. To represent questions worse, the city officials themselves supported this awkward behavior, to the chagrin of the unhappy homeowner.

Tired of the endless ocean of tourists, the owner ultimately walled herself away from “the worlds”, putting up whale blue tarps to hide her famous house and setting up clues trying to convey her pathetic surface of the story.

“Please, pectin now fetches me to tears.”

Apparently, overgrown children with an undying passion for ‘8 0s nostalgia usurped it was their advantage — nay, their right — to have unlimited access to this poor woman’s residence. Above all, Goonies never say “re growing up” and stop watching kids’ movies.

# 4. Beings Keep Ghost-Hunting At The Conjuring House

Everybody enjoys a good terrifying floor, but nothing am willing to live in one. Regrettably for the recipients of the members of this house put forward in The Conjuring , that’s exactly what happened to them when their home unexpectedly became far-famed for being full of haunts( according to a “based on real events” movie about two uncovered fraudsters, regardless ).

For months, the poorest of the poor elderly duet endured trespassers traipsing through their ground searching for the souls of the dead they presupposed must inhabit this peaceful British dwelling, simply since they are determined it in a movie once. The detail that the people who’ve lived there for decades say that they’ve never seen a soul didn’t seem to deter them. It’s not like they shot the movie there; the real neighbourhood doesn’t even look like the create they used.

“Holy shit, it’s a reptilian shapeshifter very! ”

The real fear here is being in your 70 s and constantly having flashlights glint through your spaces at three in the morning. That’s heart-attack-inducingly panicking at any age, which is a potentially huge problem, to review the gentleman who is resident in the members of this house actually has a center health . If there isn’t a specter there now, there might be at some detail because of these assholes. The harried pair regularly had to break the news to hopeful devotees that The Conjuring was just a movie and their home is just a room, merely to have brand-new visitors show up the following week. That’s worse than any curse Hollywood could think up.

When people weren’t peeping in the couple’s spaces, the latter are announcing the couple on the phone and uploading YouTube videos of their illegal tours of the home. Often, the poorest of the poor homeowners had no idea the interlopers had been present on their grounds until the videos demo up online.

Thankfully, The Cumjuring porn lampoon was filmed elsewhere .

But at least the elderly duo doesn’t have any gullible young children … unlike the inhabitants of the Haunting In Connecticut dwelling. In their occurrence, beings would barge up to the front doorway in order to tell the young ones living inside that their live was entirely recurred, because they’re not the ones who are gonna “re going to have to” calm down the calling little critters afterward.

“That’s claim, supernatural occasions prevail. Except Santa. He’s forgery as hell.”

# 3. Copulation And The City Devotees Have Destroyed All Happiness

Despite all the hate spewed at Sarah Jessica Parker every time an Internet angel gets its fedora, Sex And The City was and still is a hugely popular TV see. The first follow-up movie obliged $57 million in its first weekend, while the show’s initial sale into syndication guided TBS $ 700,000 per chapter . That’s enough to actually have sex with everyone in the city, we’re pretty sure.

Clearly, Carrie Bradshaw and her gal buddies are a hot commodity. So it only constitutes sense that Carrie’s swanky townhouse would be a piece of prime belonging unless it is real. Which, of course, it wholly is TAGEND Unfortunately for the also-real people who live there .

After the film’s release in 2008, throngs of rabid devotees traveled to Perry Street to plow an average vicinity like it was a Disney World attraction. While the tours facilitated boost sales in neighbourhood stores and bakeries, love were so rude that they would litter wall street with cupcake liners after recreating that iconic background in which Carrie and Miranda gobble cupcakes on a bench. You know the one. No? Neither do we, but something tells us it was both fornication and municipality as all fuck.

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This blatant disregard for Mother Earth get so out of hand that one neighborhood occupant described wall street as a “hellhole, ” while another took to sitting outside her apartment and hollering “Idiot! ” at anyone who would listen, because she is the hero we deserve. Seriously, if she was digitally inserted into every escapade, we’d actually watch this show.

Eventually, the Perry Street holders won their hard-fought combat and had their street collected from the show’s tours. The cupcake zombies moved on to infect other regions of New York, eventually committing those people some armistice. That is, until SJP started a new shoe text, and guess where she decided to promote it?

We’re no manner experts, but a line of single shoes seems kinda stupid. You usually necessary at the least two .

Just when they conceived “peoples lives” were back to normal, Parker waltzed right back into them for the purposes of an unauthorized photo shoot on the steps of the place she formerly announced pretend-home — discounting a “do NOT go on staircase please” clue the owners had to install. Perhaps she didn’t see it? Yeah, that’s perhaps it. She absolutely missed the signed while taking a picture of it.

Putting a chain around a lieu typically represents “please come here and mess up all our shit.”

# 2. The Person Who Preserve The Jersey Shore House Had To Repaint It On A Weekly Basis

This might come as a surprise to you, but it is about to change that die-hard followers of Jersey Shore are various kinds of douchey. Not satisfied with simply taking ghastly selfies in front of the members of this house where Snookie slept, these super devotees wanted to leave a part of themselves behind, celebrating up the walls with memoes to the shed. The casting that only lived there for two months a year.

That’s what you get for unleashing “The Situation” on an gullible commonwealth .

They even took pieces of the house home with them, rending off chunks of the ceiling, walls, and whatever they could get their grubby fingers on to ensure they had a permanent slouse of video disaster record forever in their homes.That’s about as stylish as taking some goop from the Chernobyl nuclear plant, and possibly about as toxic.

The owneds have clarified that they’re not liable for any bacterial warfare agents these parties might catch as a result .

The house was meant to be rented out in the off-season, but the realty firm had to pay for weekly upkeep and repainting in order to keep the place searching respectable. They also had to hire protection to prevent away the multitudes of coconut-oil-smelling vandals. While the display was in make, upkeep tariffs fell to the show’s producers, but that gravy train derailed years ago. Then again, the owners charge $ 2,500 for a one-night stand in this perfectly median residence, so perhaps they’ll manage to get ahead after all.

# 1. The Mrs. Doubtfire House Had A Unending Shrine To Robin Williams In Its Yard

The world was dazed when we lost the paragon of childhood slapstick last year. And naturally, followers seemed the need to gather together to comfort one another through their shared loss. Unfortunately for one 79 -year-old man, hundreds of them decided to band together outside his San Francisco home — the house stimulated eternally famed for being visible for a few minutes in Mrs. Doubtfire .

On the report of Robin Williams’ passing, fans gathered outside the residence to pile stacks of heydays, slides, and movie memorabilia in affection reminiscence of their favorite wacky performer. The problem is that the piles originated so high-pitched that it became literally impossible to leave the house via the figurehead door.

Built-in zombie/ Jehovah’s Witness/ Avon Lady deterrent, though. So, upside .

This year, the front doorway remained accessible, but heartbroken followers are still coming to scribble all over the sidewalk and rock-and-roll garden-variety instead.

Even the Smurfs were sad about Williams .

In spite of it all, the homeowner( who is a retired surgeon) “ve never” mentioned a single disparaging observe about the commemorations and never-ending sea of love. But how could he, right? You can’t be the person who alleges, “Walking out my entrance to a enshrine for a beloved dead performer various kinds of blows sometimes, you guys” without immediately being branded an asshole for life. On surface of everything, he had to deal with a disgruntled ex-patient of his setting fire to his garage, which is like the plan of one of the more upsetting Williams movies( you know, like Old Dogs ).

By comparison, the Mork And Mindy mansion, and even Williams’ own home, are left nearly completely alone.

Vietnam remains largely unchanged, more .

The obvious respect for the Williams family’s privacy is a wonderful thing to see. Maybe the same courtesy should be extended to the person in the Mrs. Doubtfire residence. There’s always that bench in Boston.