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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 06-13-2002, 07:25 PM:

Don't blame me, Gerard planted the seed for this in the FHF

"Nan da to?!"
What the hell?!

"Eishagishi no tame no haiku da!"
It's haiku for projectionists!

MicroShaft fans (?) will recognize the source of this one:

DLP screen blank
Of no use is your ire
Avica is down

Paul
I wrote a sonnet
But now I've lost it
Brother, can you paradigm?

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-13-2002, 07:36 PM:

How bizarre ... I heard a Budweiser haiku commercial on the radio on my way to work today and thought up a couple of Imax haikus ...

Big screen overwhelms
Gives young patrons good cause to
Vomit in 3-D

Hot projectionist
Behind the window looks good
Damn, they're all sexy

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-13-2002, 09:03 PM:

Pink, smelly fish snow.
Technicolor I.B. Print.
Scuffing at the gate.

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 06-14-2002, 11:46 AM:

Sound in theatre is too loud!
Whoever heard of a quiet war?
Turn the fader down.

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 06-14-2002, 11:59 AM:

Millions feet of film
Only pension checks come now
Still I hear reel bells

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 06-14-2002, 08:24 PM:

Platters and xenon
Are no match for changeovers
And carbon-arc light.

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 06-14-2002, 08:57 PM:

Reel bell startles me
Pathway to booth disappears!
Projectionist trauma.

.....(Arigato gozaimasu)
Sake jug to Paul!
Basho laughs with glee to see
Haiku on Film'tech.

.....(Sensei)
Thirty years with kids
Twenty-six alone in booth
Which seems better now?

..........................................

"Go, strike another match and start anew...
'Cause it's all over now, Baby Blue."
--Dylan

Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 06-14-2002, 10:48 PM:

Changeover approach!
Sheer terror on the switches!
Cue mark! Relaxed push.

Carbons squish in joy,
their mystic trapped brilliance
lights our fantasy.

People long for you.
Your power brings them your joy
in one film done right.

Dark sweet summer night.
Mosquitos dance in popcorn smells.
Their show must go on.

Small dots to the right
signal big changes to you.
Tiny mysteries.

A mile of pictures,
sorrow, joy, resolution.
All in a night's work.

Clark Gable looks up.
You glance in recognition,
pause, nod, and move on.

A machine at rest
bursts into life and performs
at your proper touch.

The stage lights go down
and your performance begins.
No one knows it's you.

Puppets on linen
Sakoku may not suffice.
No theatre will survive.

Basho on Fuji.
The fire looks into the fire
Ice surrounds their heat.

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 06-16-2002, 09:58 AM:

His socks in sock drawer
Older than some managers
He must work with now.
....Yu-No-Hu

Behind the port glass
How she threads film in the gate
Hands on lover's tie.

Revolving shutter
Slicing ninety-six slices
Baloney per sec.

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-24-2002, 09:20 AM:

The flicker of light.
The sights. The sounds. Film Done Right.
No one knows we're there.

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-24-2002, 04:55 PM:

Seventy-foot screen
Atmospheric theater
I'm in heaven now

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-24-2002, 06:36 PM:

Drive-ins are more fun.
Screw the indoor theaters!
I'll stay in my car.

=TMP=

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 06-24-2002, 07:11 PM:

Single-screen houses
Seventy millimeter
O, wherefore art thou?

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 06-25-2002, 09:34 AM:

Random organic grains
Fill fields of white
Vivid world of color
Film Done Right!

Million silicon pixels
Row's columns well defined
Reflections of what could be
In the mind.

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-25-2002, 11:03 AM:

Pressing a button
Paints bright pictures on the wall.
Let the dreams begin.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-25-2002, 01:28 PM:

Randy -- BRAVO! That one is going on the wall of the next booth I'm working in.

=TMP=

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-25-2002, 02:38 PM:

Thanks!
Please do post it.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-25-2002, 06:17 PM:

POST it?? I was gonna write it on there with a Sharpie

=TMP=

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-25-2002, 07:34 PM:

Here's my shameless plug:
Cinematour dot com rules
Send some photos now!

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-26-2002, 11:34 AM:

Film handler's haiku
You make me count syllables
Many thanks Gerard!

Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 06-26-2002, 07:34 PM:

Working with bozos

Aggravation-cha-cha-cha

Film is damaged now.

The sound is just right
Picture is sharp and in frame
No-one knows I'm there.

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 06-26-2002, 09:02 PM:

James Dean's soul:
Wrapped up tight.
Emulsion in or out?

A shining light
Beaming back at me
A "clean spot" on the screen

Posted by Rick Long (Member # 213) on 06-26-2002, 11:32 PM:

>Millions feet of film
Only pension checks come now
Still I hear reel bells<

brilliant, Gerard

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 06-27-2002, 06:53 PM:

The projection booth...
The soul of the theatre...
No, not the snack bar.

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 06-27-2002, 07:34 PM:

Close-up of clock and then sleeping beauty.
Gloved hand grips knife.
Cue music.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-27-2002, 09:01 PM:

Some people don't know
How many syllables go
Into a Haiku.

Just kidding. They're all great!

=TMP=

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 06-28-2002, 10:12 AM:

Thomas said: "Some people don't know
How many syllables go
Into a Haiku."
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/rdg/haikuhelp.html

So I went to see
What I could learn of Haiku
I learn something new

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-28-2002, 08:41 PM:

See it's not that hard!
Special thanks to John Pytlak
For posting that link.

=TMP=

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 07-01-2002, 08:18 AM:

.....[Royal Visit]

"Doishte?" quoth the Queen
"I'll wear my old gabardine
Ticket price so high!"

Dos billetes por
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Eso, si que es.

......................................

"He ain't heavy, Faddah,
he's muy firken bruddah!"
-------(Boys'Town comes to Brooklyn)

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 07-07-2002, 10:34 AM:

Excellent movie
Perfect sound, perfect picture
No complaints from me

Masked man in red tights
Film handling super-hero
Captain Projection!

Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 09-05-2002, 11:54 PM:

So bright it's hard to
Believe it's not sun light. No!
It's a xenon bulb.

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This one time, at Projection Camp, I stuck a xenon bulb....

Posted by Peter Berrett (Member # 672) on 09-07-2002, 10:08 PM:

Digital Haiku

Film rusting like car
Scratches, splice and fading pink
Digital is best

Also a French Haiku (Warning R-rated Haiku coming up!)

Drive-in je préfer
avec femme on est très chaude
Il ne fait plus froid!

cheers Peter

Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 10-03-2004, 12:32 PM:

It has been 756 days since the last post.

Posted by Brandon Willis (Member # 2345) on 10-03-2004, 12:32 PM:

Stadiums at my
theatre are a damn joke
53 seat house?!?!?

Look at the ghetto
bruthas hanging out all night
out in the lobby

Oh, look what I did
forgot to tuck in the tail
nice little burn hole

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 10-03-2004, 01:31 PM:

we actually had a Haiku board up in our booth a few months ago. Dry-erase, it held up to 20 haiku's. Got too honest though, mgmt. made us erase it....and now my haikus

After I close Booth,
I make my way to Film-Tech,
Joe's Picture has Changed.

John Posts all the links,
Brad Comments on Quality,
Greco about girls.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 10-03-2004, 02:53 PM:

What the hell is a Haiku?

Posted by Tommie Evans (Member # 2674) on 10-03-2004, 05:07 PM:

Cyan in the sumer sky
Yellow like the golden fish
Magenta dying orchid...

Posted by Brent Neal Jones (Member # 1048) on 10-03-2004, 05:52 PM:

Tim Reed

quote:
What the hell is Haiku?

In Japan these poems are valued for:
Their lightness
Their simplicity
Their openness
Their depth
People have tried to translate the Haiku into an English form:
Using no more than 17 syllables.
Arranging these often in lines of 5-7-5 syllables
Avoiding similes and metaphors
Retaining Japanese values

Now we all must meditate and make this a hot topic. Will post mine later...

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-03-2004, 06:03 PM:

The only problem
with haiku is that you just
get started and then
[Razz]

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 10-03-2004, 06:16 PM:

quote: Tommie Evans
Cyan in the sumer sky
Yellow like the golden fish
Magenta dying orchid...

What a beautiful description of color film emusion!
While not strictly 5-7-5 syllables, given a title
I think it's worth sending to Kodak (or Fuji).
More, more!
--Gerard

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 10-04-2004, 03:14 PM:

The layer order (from top to bottom) of color print film is magenta-cyan-yellow. For color negative camera film, it is yellow-magenta-cyan.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 10-07-2004, 02:31 PM:

quote:
In Japan these poems are valued... Arranging these often in lines of 5-7-5 syllables
Retaining Japanese values

Thanks, Brent. I still don't get it.

More telling, why does everyone except me seem to know all about it? I've never heard of this stuff before.