A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure will likely grow to 2 billion by 2030.
The term has traditionally referred to housing areas that were once relatively affluent but which deteriorated as the original dwellers moved on to newer and better parts of the city, but has come to include the vast informal settlements found in cities in the developing world.
Many shack dwellers vigorously oppose the description of their communities as 'slums' arguing that this results in them being pathologised and then, often, subject to threats of evictions. Many academics have vigorously criticized UN-Habitat and the World Bank arguing that their 'Cities Without Slums' Campaign has led directly to a massive increase in forced evictions.
Kevin McCloud (born 8 May 1958) is a British designer, writer and television presenter best known for his work on the Channel 4 series Grand Designs.
He lives in a 15th-century farmhouse in Frome, Somerset, with his wife (childhood sweetheart) Anna-Charlotte McFadyen ("Char", who runs an online interior decoration business) and their two children, Milo (b. 1998) and Elsie (b. 2001), plus Hugo (b. 1988) and Grace (b. 1991) from McCloud's previous relationship.
Born in Bedfordshire, McCloud and his two brothers, Terence and Graham, were raised in a house his parents had built. McCloud attended Dunstable Grammar School, which became Manshead Upper School, and then studied the history of art and architecture at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is conversant in French and Italian.
After graduating, McCloud trained and worked as a theatre designer, then set up his own lighting design practice and manufacturing business 'McCloud Lighting' - at one point employing 26 people. His work includes the carved and painted rococo-style vegetable ceiling in the food halls at Harrods, many projects in conjunction with J.J. Desmond Interiors and lighting installations at Ely Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle, the Savoy Hotel and the Dorchester Hotel. Today he concentrates on television work, journalism and product design, including work for British manufacturers.
Plot
The film is about Slim, Slam and Slum from the Danish cartoon series, three young boys at twenty-something who lives in an apartment in Nordvest in Denmark. They are the kind of guys which is using a lot time sitting on the toilet, playing Playstation and smoking pot. But suddenly they all quit their bad salary jobs, and start on fresh with something new. They get a big weird idea on gaining money, power and respect. First of all they start a popular web site that their conman partner Dahlgård which after a little time betrays them and sell the site. Then the three boys start Boomin Crew, a music group of hip hop. They all suddenly get in love with the three honeys, Dit, Dat and Dut, and their new goals are to try snap up with them.
Keywords: apartment, based-on-comic-book, bathhouse, betrayal, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, break-up, breakdance, cartoonist, city-life, convertible
Just a normal day is more twisted, than you believe
VVS Mand: Hi, there! Wut Wut! Top of the morning to you!
VVS Mand: Well, if this doesn't help in the count of a minute. Then I'll have to goddamn break down the whole can.::Slam: But, how come our new 12 dollar plunger doesn't work a shit?::VVS Mand: I'll tell you why my friend. Because the plunger I have here is actually 15 to 20 times more powerful than that. Feel it by yourself.::VVS Mand: 15 to 20 times more powerful than that piece of crap! Look at it! It's useless!
VVS Mand: [after fixing Slim, Slam and Slum's toilet] [happy] There. That ought to do it.::Slum: Great, dude. Now we can shit again.::VVS Mand: Wait, wait, and hold your horses... [throws a big clump of toilet paper in the WC] ...we have to do the test first.::Slim: Erhh, what kind of test?::VVS Mand: [points at the paperclump in the WC] That one. If it can't take that, we have a very serious problem. And then you'll have the pleasure of my company several times. And you wouldn't want that, would you?::VVS Mand: [the test is working, and the toilet is now fin] [happy] We goddamn did it, boys.
Slim: What about the bill. How much is it?::VVS Mand: 100 bucks!::Slam: 100 bucks?::VVS Mand: No reason to panic. I'll send it by mail.
Slam: [Slim and Slam is sitting in the couch, and playing Tekken 3 on Playstation] Again! Yeah, man!::Slim: Damn! Arrgh!::[pause]::Slim: Gotcha your junkie, man! Did ya see that?::Slam: Fuck you, man! Have a circle kick!::Slim: No!
Slum: [sitting on the toilet] Hey, Slam? Did you read that Robert Crumb moved to Southern France?::Slam: Nah.
Slum: [after looking their nasty fridge] I'll get some sugar from Ulla the Healer! We never have a goddamn shit, in this hash-cottage.
Plot
The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "Daniel Boone", "Park Avenue Logger" and "Hollywood Cowboy") that were distributed by RKO Radio. Hirliman sold O'Brien's contract to RKO, which then produced 18 series westerns starring O'Brien that ended when O'Brien went into the Navy at the outbreak of WW II. Long-time (past and future) O'Brien director David Howard served as Hirliman's Associate Producer on this film. "Windjammer" finds O'Brien as a subpoena server ordered to serve a subpoena on Brandon Evans (The Commondore) for a senate inquiry or lose his job. Posing as a playboy, he boards the Commodore's yacht during a yacht race, and the yacht is wrecked by a gun-running windjammer commanded by Captain Morgan (William Hall.) All hands are picked up by the windjammer, including the Commodore's daughter (played by Constance Worth, at her blonde, plumpish best) and put to work as galley slaves and such, but it isn't long before O'Brien starts knocking heads, and making the gun-runners wish they had left him swimming.
Keywords: action-hero, adrift, b-movie, blonde, california, capture, chest, china-sea, chinatown-san-francisco, cigarette-smoking
Mighty Adventure . . . Glorious Romance !
CAPTURED BY GUN RUNNERS!
Adrift at sea! At grips with a desperate band of ocean outlaws!
Teriffic excitement every minute as your favorite out-door star leaps into flying action!
(Tity Boi Talking)
They'll like this here
It's time to represent the slums
Know what I mean
2-0(yeah)
Tit (bitch)
Shawnna (yeah)
(Bitch)
[Verse 1]
(I -20)
2-0 get it right from the get go
Go broke fuck around pull the kit closed
Talking shit in the dec here the clip go
Sit down smoke dro I'm a let tit flow
(Tity Boi)
This is for my nigga Bo locked in the pen
Done sold caine and even raised his kids
My folks in the holodome even know
I'm know where in the world bin Ladin is
(Shawnna)
Slow down yall why did them niggaz want some
and we a show them motherfuckers they'll get some
I'm from the city of shitty niggaz and big girls
Til we met tit and shawnna bring them the big thugs
(I-20)
Luda Fate Tity Ho I'm the Southside
Face down ass up with her mouth wide
You know the drill slangin pills tryna get green
I'm 2-0 but got a m-16
[Chorus]
(T) Slums
(I&S;) all them niggaz and them bitches with there own ends
(T) Slums
(I&S;) who riding cutless and them caddies on them grown men
(T) Slums
(I&S;) who's in the trap and make them papers till the folks come
(T) Slums
(I&S;) You know that they'll never change unless they owe something
[Verse 2]
(Tity Boi)
I'm like this corner I gotta stay bent
I need every quarter I gotta pay rent
I see you nigga you got fans and shit
But you gotta stop shakin and get your dancin ???
(Shawnna)
She hit a motherfucker straight up of the block serving rocks
Trying to get in my socks before the cops see
And if a nigga wanna take it to the glocks wanna shock
Quicker then a motherfuckers wanna pop me
(I-20)
Keep it chill what you know about Scottsdale
Even late fighting pits and the glocks tale
Mack 10's church preachers even cops tell
And now he pleading over bread cuz the block fell
(Tity Boi)
When I was dead broke I didn't like postas
stuntin round me might stunt your growth
Draw down on four pound on
Pick shawnnas ass from up off the ground holmes
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
(Shawnna)
I wish a mothefucker would try to come test a bitch
In the back ty's niggaz wanna base a bitch
It's them Cadillac trucks and them lexesus
And cant none you niggaz stand next to this
(I-20)
Drug dealer legend in my own time
Nike signs happy faces and the whole nine
Pop pills pop pussy poppin crist nigga
Lil fate I double ludacris nigga
(Tity Boi)
I'm like fuck everysingle free-throw
Even tho I might nigga wit a pink toe
The game is fast but the cash is slow
Why they wanna come to tit like he know
(Shawnna)
You go down the block in that black 6-4
Smoking that stuff in the pack that tit bought
Project niggaz with project flow
Slum ass niggaz wit them slum ass hoes
[Chorus]