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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-06-2010, 02:16 PM:
 
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Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 05-06-2010, 07:12 PM:
 


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Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 05-06-2010, 09:33 PM:
 


This happens to be right in front of a brand new grocery store which is getting lots of business right now. I wonder how many kids are asking their parents what the sign means.

I especially like that you can visit their web site to catch the answers AND MORE! (Can you be more specific?)

And... the short answer to the billboard's question is supposed to be "no," but what if you have sex in the hot tub? Duh...
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 05-08-2010, 02:47 PM:
 

quote: Greg Anderson

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but what if you have sex in the hot tub? Duh...

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One could have sex in a hot tub & not catch gonorrhea.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-10-2010, 11:39 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 05-17-2010, 12:37 PM:
 
This is a picture of the booth from the Space-Age Drive In from Tullahoma, TN. This was a 550 car drive-in built in 1969. Equipment was Norelco DP-75's with 6500 watt XeTRON lamps and Norelco lenses. They used 5-100 watt Norelco amplifiers.

This drive-in reportedly ran a 70mm print of 2001.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-17-2010, 04:43 PM:
 
It's so space age that even a black and white photo of it has color moire.
 

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Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 05-17-2010, 06:13 PM:
 
No, they called it "Space Age" because it was close to Arnold Engineering & Air Force base. Arnold is where NASA and the Air Force do a lot of their aerodynamics and wind tunnel testing.

Arnold Air Force Base
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-29-2010, 03:53 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 05-29-2010, 05:10 PM:
 
http://www.bspcn.com/2010/05/27/25-horribly-sexist-vintage-ads/


 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 05-29-2010, 05:18 PM:
 
That would be this Sabrina.
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 05-29-2010, 07:39 PM:
 
Audrey Hepburn she ain't
 

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Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 05-29-2010, 09:12 PM:
 
Though I have a feeling the projector isn't the reason for posting that picture of Sabrina, here's another projector. And now that I think of it, this one may be more approriate for her than for Bob Stack...


 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 05-31-2010, 06:03 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 05-31-2010, 12:19 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 06-08-2010, 07:58 PM:
 


The Cygnet audience laps up another blockbuster.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-08-2010, 08:51 PM:
 
Ewwww, what a crappy auditorium! No incline. A pathetically tiny screen. No regard for acoustics. What is this, an auditorium at the Telluride Film festival? Oh wait, there are no seats facing sideways...
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-09-2010, 04:12 PM:
 
I *am* big. It's the pictures that got small.
 

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Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 06-09-2010, 04:27 PM:
 
"Pirates of the Carribean: The Search for More Rum"
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 06-09-2010, 05:01 PM:
 


Stretch-o-vision
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 06-09-2010, 05:54 PM:
 


Tails-out-o-vision.
 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 06-09-2010, 08:47 PM:
 
Video engineering a Christina Aguilera concert. Ms. Aguilera wishes it to be known that she and her husband have personally seen the destruction in Haiti and are very, very concerned.


 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-09-2010, 08:57 PM:
 
Phil i thought we would see you on a more appropriate sized screen like a IWERKS Extreme 1570 one after all size matters
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-09-2010, 09:13 PM:
 
Wow. She looks old.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 06-09-2010, 09:44 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-09-2010, 10:33 PM:
 
I like how the Empire IMAX is blocky as shit.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-09-2010, 11:38 PM:
 
I thought all those pictures of that auditorium (above) were two pictures horribly photoshopped together, but it turned out to just be a paint job.
 

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Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 06-10-2010, 08:11 AM:
 


THREE-DEE
 

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Posted by Don Furr (Member # 1469) on 06-10-2010, 08:43 AM:
 
Stop it Hillary.....you're killing me!!!
 

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Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 06-10-2010, 11:19 AM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Ewwww, what a crappy auditorium! No incline. A pathetically tiny screen. No regard for acoustics. What is this, an auditorium at the Telluride Film festival? Oh wait, there are no seats facing sideways...

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Aparently the academy ratio was all the rage when they put this theatre up. I'm also informed stadium seating in stalls, tends to ruin the sight lines for circle patrons.
 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 06-10-2010, 06:35 PM:
 
Contributing

 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-10-2010, 09:42 PM:
 
just wait till he does the 3d version
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 06-12-2010, 12:34 AM:
 

quote: Gordon McLeod

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just wait till he does the 3d version

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And it can be called Cap'n Coot: The 3D Ride Adventure! - Now in 3D
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-13-2010, 05:28 PM:
 
Help ME! All the above posts are making my head spin. OH, AND so is the room!

I want Royalties/Residuals for the use of my likeness!
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 06-13-2010, 05:54 PM:
 
OK Phil. Any money we make from using your likeness we'll be sure to pass on to you.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-13-2010, 06:06 PM:
 
Thanks John!
 

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Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 06-13-2010, 11:02 PM:
 
Minus an 80% finder's fee.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-26-2010, 11:53 AM:
 
My wife and I and several friends went to see Weird Al in concert last night. During one song, Al comes down off the stage and serenades women in the audience. Here are two pics of Al serenading my wife. She's not in the second one because I'm obviously sitting next to her and I couldn't back up far enough, and they're a little fuzzy because I snapped them with my phone, but it was hilarious.




 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-26-2010, 02:34 PM:
 
He kind of looks like Tiny Tim in those pictures. Was he singing One More Minute?
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-26-2010, 06:57 PM:
 
I've seen him sing "One More Minute" to the ladies, but this time he was singing "Wanna B Ur Lovr" from Poodle Hat.
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 06-27-2010, 09:00 PM:
 
His suit looks like the other half of Tommy Lee Jones suit from Batman movie number 7 or something... the one with Jim Carry as the Riddler...
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-28-2010, 12:16 AM:
 
He looks like Dee Snider.

 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 06-28-2010, 01:35 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-29-2010, 03:37 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Koutsoumis (Member # 1855) on 06-29-2010, 04:22 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 06-29-2010, 07:31 AM:
 

quote: Jennifer Pan

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Batman movie number 7 or something... the one with Jim Carry

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3 or 5 or 6, depending on what one considers a "Batman movie"
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 07-04-2010, 01:51 AM:
 
There's an app for that:


 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-04-2010, 06:45 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 07-08-2010, 04:11 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Ben Wales (Member # 92) on 07-24-2010, 06:27 PM:
 


No more long waits for that Ingesting your Movie on the Cinema Server!
 

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Posted by David E. Nedrow (Member # 4981) on 07-24-2010, 10:11 PM:
 


Were this my car, no way am I fixing it. I'd drive around and when people asked me what happened to it, I'd just say "bear" and drive away.

The story from the Beeb: US bear takes short ride in car and leaves it wrecked
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-05-2010, 03:34 PM:
 
Okay... So I'm tuning up the B-Chain, making with the pink noise and all that...

I start getting phone calls asking what all that loud noise is and how can they make it stop. I got fed up with explaining what pink noise is for and why I need it so I just made up a sign to put on the auditorium door.

Problem solved!


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-05-2010, 03:40 PM:
 
I was just finishing up replacing a Dolby CP65 about a year ago and the floor staff started letting people into the auditorium before I had finished resetting levels. An old lady kept shouting up to me to turn it down. I told her I'd be done quickly, I just had to set the sound levels. She shouted back that it was too damn loud. Thanks for that, but you're not my goddamn SPL meter now get out of the auditorium if it bothers you! Of course I didn't say that, but I wanted to.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-05-2010, 07:10 PM:
 
I don't expect the public to understand about sound system calibration but theater staff should have a basic idea of what's going on.

I don't expect them to understand how pink noise generators work but anybody who has worked inside a theater for any length of time should know what "SPL" means or at least they should understand that some guy makes a lot of noise in the theater every once in a while.

No!... Run a little pink noise in this theater and it's a federal case!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-07-2010, 01:36 PM:
 







 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-11-2010, 01:24 AM:
 
The Ford Theatre in Afton, Wyoming on Aug. 7, 2010.

They were supposed to be showing Despicable Me.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-11-2010, 01:54 AM:
 
That's pathetically awesome.
 

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Posted by Demetris Thoupis (Member # 833) on 08-11-2010, 01:58 AM:
 
So that does mean that they cannot "shoot" the film? Is it a Digital venue or a film venue?
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-11-2010, 03:29 AM:
 
Film, I'm sure.

I was hoping to get a look inside -- it looks like a pretty nice little theatre. Maybe Mark G. has been in it.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-11-2010, 10:57 AM:
 
Camera Broken Sorry Rated PG. I never heard of that movie before. Who's in it?

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-17-2010, 05:46 PM:
 


Ummm...***NOT*** ME toots!
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-17-2010, 05:51 PM:
 

quote: Bobby Henderson

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Camera Broken Sorry Rated PG. I never heard of that movie before. Who's in it?

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Polly Esther.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-18-2010, 10:42 PM:
 
If you're a big Smokey and the Bandit fan (like me) these then and now pics of the locations may be of interest...

Link to the series

Here's an example...

Then...


Today...

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-18-2010, 10:52 PM:
 

quote: Mike Blakesley

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The Ford Theatre in Afton, Wyoming on Aug. 7, 2010.

They were supposed to be showing Despicable Me.

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Okay... How many of you guys would have been knocking on that theater door saying, "I can fix it!"


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-18-2010, 11:16 PM:
 

quote: John Wilson

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If you're a big Smokey and the Bandit fan (like me) these then and now pics of the locations may be of interest...

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Now I really really HATE Smokey and the Bandit. That's because it would take maybe 10 to 15 minutes tops to drive from one end of Jonesboro to the other in a semi-truck loaded with cases of Coors beer. It would take longer to load the truck than drive across town.

Smokey and the Bandit ought to really piss off anyone from Texarkana. "Hey didn't they film parts of Smokey and the Bandit here?" "No, you retard! I oughta cave in your skull with a baseball bat for even bringing up that idiocy!"

I absolutely despise lies in bullshit movie geography. We see it. It's there and we know it. Just like in Patriot Games where a car chase begins on US-50 in Annapolis, MD but somehow winds up on I-105 in fucking Los Angeles, Cali-fucking-fornia. Who do these idiots thing they are fooling? We have perfect freeze frame these days on DVD and Blu-ray. We can clearly see the Maryland US-50 scenery in one shot and the obvious I-105 scenery with California state highway symbols on signs in another shot. Google Earth Street View lets us see that you're using lower Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles as a location on 199,887,878,264 movies. Movie studios: We know what you're doing. YOU SUCK.

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-19-2010, 12:08 AM:
 
Well what were they supposed to do? Film it all the way across four states?

It's the same with any movie. You think The Matrix was shot in some fictional US city? NO, it was shot on the streets of Sydney. The same town where the audience laughed at the supposed 'America-fying' of the city.

It's one of those pities that the folks that know the locations of where it was shot are disadvantaged but everyone else gets to enjoy it. Such is the life of watching movies, I guess. Some lose but the majority win.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-19-2010, 01:15 AM:
 

quote:

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would have been knocking on that theater door saying, "I can fix it!"

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I'm 4 hrs away from Afton, Wyo. ..wonder if they use videotape for that 'camera' .. lol
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 08-19-2010, 03:21 AM:
 
People are still looking for the Georgetown subway stop that No Way Out depicted...or the Pacific Bell telephones in Dullas Airport (Virginia) (Die Hard 2).

Movies have historically not used the actual places...there is nothing new here and it doesn't bother me unless it is overt. Sometimes it is fun picking off these discontinuities.
 

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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 08-19-2010, 04:02 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-19-2010, 04:43 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-19-2010, 07:56 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-19-2010, 01:13 PM:
 

quote: John Wilson

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Well what were they supposed to do? Film it all the way across four states?

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quote: John Wilson

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You think The Matrix was shot in some fictional US city? NO, it was shot on the streets of Sydney.

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quote: Steve Guttag

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Movies have historically not used the actual places...there is nothing new here and it doesn't bother me unless it is overt. Sometimes it is fun picking off these discontinuities.

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Some movie productions do go to the effort of being accurate with location. Others will substitute one place for somewhere else and hope no one will notice. The productions may have been able to get away with the practice before, but it's stupid for them to keep doing it today. The general public has too many tools at its disposal to spot light the errors. The major productions have the ability to shoot in multiple locations and also have tools to digitally recreate specific locations without having to film there.

Part of the job in suspending the audiences' disbelief is portraying the setting in a believable manner.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-19-2010, 06:33 PM:
 
It simply doesn't matter to the majority of the audience. I have no idea where those places are so why would they bother to film it everywhere they said it was just to placate the small (very small) amount of the audience who would know?

If they had to do that, it probably would never have been made.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 08-19-2010, 06:43 PM:
 
Only nit pickers will notice and care about things like that. Unless it's something totally retarded like someone in Braveheart checking the time on his Rolex, I think most people will just sit back and enjoy the show. They have other things to worry about.
 

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Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 08-19-2010, 07:12 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 08-19-2010, 08:05 PM:
 

quote: John Wilson

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It simply doesn't matter to the majority of the audience. I have no idea where those places are so why would they bother to film it everywhere they said it was just to placate the small (very small) amount of the audience who would know?

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quote: John Wilson

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It rains a lot in Seattle? I did not know that.

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Me neither. So why in HELL did Bobby Sherman convince me "The bluest skies you've ever seen...in Seattle."?

FVCK'N BOBBY SHERMAN!
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 08-20-2010, 07:57 AM:
 
I always thought it would be awesome if somebody doing a low-budget movie did several establishing shots of various different city signs through the movie that...aside from the name of the city...were the exact same shot.

LOS ANGELES
(background)

PUEBLO
(same background)

SAVANNAH
(same background)
 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 08-24-2010, 07:26 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 08-24-2010, 07:42 PM:
 

quote: John Wilson

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It rains a lot in Seattle? I did not know that.

You see my point?

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quote: Bobby Henderson

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I recently saw a network TV promo for a police drama set in Detroit that is actually filmed in Detroit. If people really don't care and would put up with something like Toronto getting passed off as Phoenix why would the producers bother filming a new TV series set in Detroit on location in Detroit?

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quote: Dennis Benjamin

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it was entirely impossible for a Bus to make a jump like the one in the film

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I lived through most of the 70s and 80s thinking that the Trans Am could jump over a creek and continue basically undamaged, based on the scene in the movie "Smokey and the Bandit." The making-of documentary on the DVD from last year said that the car was in fact completely destroyed after making that jump.

But it's still a fun scene!
 

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Posted by Mark Hajducki (Member # 1732) on 08-25-2010, 08:36 PM:
 
If you know the exact location of scenes of a film it can be terribly distracting as you know when one street does not connect to another.

During 16 Years of Alcohol I found myself distracted by the careful avoidance of showing the sex shop in the street they were filming in. It was, however, shown in reflection.

There were also other geographical discontinuities throughout the film.

The animated film The illusionist also caused me to notice geographical and historical inaccuracies, as well as working out what has changed since the days the film was set.
 

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Posted by Geoff Jones (Member # 3668) on 08-25-2010, 08:58 PM:
 
I can has random pictures?
 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 08-26-2010, 01:45 AM:
 
Westbrook want random pictures too.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-26-2010, 02:50 AM:
 
You can has random:












 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-26-2010, 09:03 PM:
 
There really is a pot at the end of the rainbow!



...but it's not full of gold!
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-28-2010, 12:01 AM:
 
This is in St. Augustine, Florida.

Somehow this year I'm having a knack for finding ridiculous theatre marquees.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-28-2010, 01:20 AM:
 
Randy, that's awesome. Is that shopped?

Mike, that cinema looks dreadful. Concrete? Was it built inside a parking garage? It has all the splendor of one.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-28-2010, 01:24 AM:
 
Joe, I literally know nothing about it...we were riding a tour train and zipped past it. I only had time to snap the photo....didn't even see what the marquee said until I looked at it on my computer! Would have liked to get a closer look at the place -- it looks like two or three businesses in one.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-28-2010, 08:04 AM:
 
Don't know if that photo was altered. I got it via e-mail.

Everybody's got a wise-guy uncle who e-mails jokes and funny pictures to everybody in his address book. Right?

Shopped or not, it passes the plausibility test. It really could happen.
 

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Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 08-28-2010, 03:53 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Mike, that cinema looks dreadful. Concrete? Was it built inside a parking garage? It has all the splendor of one.

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It looks just as dreadful from google maps street view.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-28-2010, 10:42 PM:
 
Well I did a little reading about that St. Augustine theatre on the web. Looks like it's one of those quirky old mom-and-pop theatres, but it's modern in some respects -- they have 4 screens and they serve food there. It has a number of bad reviews, but some good reviews by older people who like nostalgia.

So apparently it's a quirky, old place with a lot of nostalgia and considered a "must see" by some.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-29-2010, 03:56 AM:
 
Somebody has a sense of (naughty) humor here...



And some good stuff here...


 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 08-29-2010, 08:59 AM:
 
When I lived in St. augustine, I think I had to repair a projector there once. I don't remember anything about the theater or booth. Our office was just down the street from them.

For the locals, those tour trains, the horse and buggys, and all the tourists driving around are a pain in the ass. When you are driving and get stuck behind one it creates alot of road rage. I once had the pleasure of getting stopped at a light next to a trainful of tourists. I immediatly rolled down my passenger window and turned my radio all the way up to a Bloodhound Gang tune ( a lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying ). My wife was in the car and freaking out because they could see her but not me. I locked the windows and kept her from touching the radio controls. Maybe that was the beginning of my divorce
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-29-2010, 09:07 PM:
 
Tourists can indeed be a pain, but tourism is a clean industry and brings in lots of $. We probably spent at least a hundred bucks in St. Aug and we were only there for about 5 hours.

As for your radio thing -- were you in town the day we were? Because some dude with a loud radio pulled up next to the train we were on.
 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 08-30-2010, 08:53 AM:
 
Mike, That was about 8 or nine years ago.
 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 09-05-2010, 11:45 AM:
 
Found a picture of my first car.

Many good memories in that car. 16 years old and having a blast in the early 80's
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-07-2010, 06:12 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 09-07-2010, 01:10 PM:
 
, while this is just a photo from the net, it's the same bodystyle, year, color and condition that mine was. 327 that went from 0-60 in about 4-5 seconds, 4 barrel Holley that opened up when you hit the gas. I only raced it twice (that I remember), first time, a mustang pulled up next to me, when I stopped at the next light and he finally pulled up there was smoke flowing all around his car. Second time was an old Nova full of guys, I was just cruising down the street doing about 30MPH in 3rd or 4th gear and they were being obnoxious and revving the engine and trying to look like bad asses. I slowly put the car in nuetral, looked at them and smiled, downshifted to 1st,then saw them in my rear view mirror as they were turning off the road and I was doing about 100 MPH in 2nd gear. The fastest I ever drove it was 145 MPH, top down, tears rolling across my face from the wind. It had a lot more power to go, but I was running out of road and had to slow down.

My friends nicknamed it the "Pussy Magnet".
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-13-2010, 05:48 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Elliott (Member # 4006) on 09-15-2010, 01:56 AM:
 
On that sign, are the people getting shorter, or does the urinal move farther up the wall as you go down each line?
 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 09-21-2010, 01:10 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 09-21-2010, 09:39 PM:
 
Apart from the obviousness in the picture above...what a horrible, horrible sign!
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-21-2010, 10:31 PM:
 
Yeah, that display has the unmistakable odor of business owner "self signage." Yet the slightly psychopathic looking hand made lettering has a sort of natural charm to it. The crappy composition (everything shoved too close to the edges of the sign face) is really what ruins it. At least the amateur has the excuse of not knowing any better.

When the design travesties are computer generated and manufactured with sign making equipment (vinyl cutters, routers, etc.) then there is no excuse. "Graphic designers" fobbing off displays set in Arial and distorted to hell need a vicious punch in the face. If the dude is getting paid to design such garbage he has no excuse; he has the duty to know better or get busy finding a different job.
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 09-21-2010, 11:37 PM:
 


This is just so wrong...

...but soooooo funny.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-30-2010, 02:27 AM:
 
As has become my custom, here's my annual photo of our concession crew. We have four "newbies" this year -- graduation is tough!



That's Alex, Taylor, Andrea, Andrew, Maddy and Ashton. A nicer bunch you'd never meet.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-30-2010, 02:47 AM:
 
Why did you trap them in a barn? Did you murder them after this?
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-30-2010, 11:07 AM:
 
No, if I murdered them then I would have to get back there and sell popcorn, and that ain't happening.

We always ask the group for suggestions on where they want to take pics and this year somebody came up with "a farm." Got some cool shots on old tractors and other vehicles.

I do think it's interesting that today's photographers tend to look for the most rustic backgrounds possible. No problem finding those around here.
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 09-30-2010, 01:48 PM:
 
Since Phil isn't around to do it I'll stand in for him and say:

Andrew...Hubba hubba..
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-04-2010, 04:41 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Why did you trap them in a barn? Did you murder them after this?

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Lol! You beat me to it.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-05-2010, 08:11 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 10-06-2010, 01:24 PM:
 
Time to buy some cookies

 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 10-06-2010, 04:56 PM:
 

quote:

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Since Phil isn't around to do it I'll stand in for him and say:

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Where is Phil?
 

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Posted by Jeremy Weigel (Member # 4208) on 10-15-2010, 11:00 PM:
 
Guess he couldn't decide which he wanted to wear.


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-16-2010, 08:40 PM:
 
Hot Dogs and Donuts:


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-19-2010, 12:38 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 10-19-2010, 12:25 PM:
 
Joe, that made my whole day.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-19-2010, 06:18 PM:
 
Who sized that image down? Nobody runs Film-Tech on a 640-pixel wide monitor any more. The 550-wide pixel limit needs to go away. It's just plain stupid.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 10-19-2010, 10:45 PM:
 
Yeah! The width limit needs to expand to something like 1600. Or better yet 1920. Shit, while we're talking let's make it 2560! Do I hear an even 4000?

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-19-2010, 11:17 PM:
 
That's just stupid as well. Just do what I do over at the Magicbox and auto-size them if they are above a certain limit. If you want to see the full size, you click on it.
 

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Posted by Eric Robinson (Member # 2966) on 10-21-2010, 01:18 AM:
 


From: peopleofwalmart.com

Bobby...thanks for turning me onto this site.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Weigel (Member # 4208) on 10-21-2010, 04:18 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 10-21-2010, 05:04 PM:
 
Eric,
I had the chance to tour the Wal-Mart in Poplar Bluff,MO one night around midnight. Scared the fuck out of me. Thats when the the inbreds came down from the hills to shop. I laughed, I cried, and I ran as fast as I could after I paid for my items. Scarey shit! I still don't like going into Wal-marts, unless I'm drunk and I can make fun of people without feeling bad.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-21-2010, 05:45 PM:
 
Why on earth would you go into a Walmart sober?
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-21-2010, 06:19 PM:
 
I wonder if anybody has ever recognized him- or herself from a People of Walmart pic. That would really suck -- go into work and have people say "Hey, I saw you on People of Wal Mart!"

WalMart: Where you'll definitely want to sanitize your shopping cart.®
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 10-21-2010, 10:09 PM:
 
Thankfully our local Wal-Mart Supercenter®™ locations have plenty of the sanitary wipes at the entrances. Gotta wipe those shopping cart handles.

The stores here have plenty of "feature creatures," especially the Sheridan Road location. Late nights on the weekend can be particularly hilarious. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get a good camera phone shot of some of these characters yet. Gotta be careful. Some of those zany folks may have extensive criminal records and violent tendencies.
 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 10-28-2010, 03:27 PM:
 
Early 80's school dance, Yes I was trying to "cop a feel" I think my thumb got a little boob action during posing for the pic! "Hooray for Boobies"


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-06-2010, 12:17 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-07-2010, 10:37 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 11-13-2010, 07:55 PM:
 
This sign recently appeared in the window
of a long-vacant storefront in my neighborhood.

When I first saw this, I almost dropped dead!
I'm pretty sure it's a joke, but someone went
through a lot of trouble to create & hang this.
But I guess it's one way to 'urn' a living. . .
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-14-2010, 01:16 AM:
 
They have the best ice cream there!
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-17-2010, 08:16 PM:
 


Phil would have loved this site...



And another...


 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 11-22-2010, 06:39 PM:
 
What's wrong with this picture?


 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-22-2010, 06:45 PM:
 
I hope that's a removable centre.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Weigel (Member # 4208) on 11-22-2010, 06:47 PM:
 
70mm loaded on a 35mm platter?
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-22-2010, 07:15 PM:
 
Did you take that pic at my place?

As Joe will confirm, you can fold that 70mm film in half to work with the 35mm rollers no problem, but it would be helpful if the brain wasn't flipped.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-22-2010, 08:26 PM:
 
Yup, that was definitely taken at Brad's old place. My pics from that same party confirm that the print has the same rings (not just center rings, but the difference in slitting that makes rings in the print). In fact, I bet that picture was taken AFTER the movie played as it fed out from the center deck.

EDIT: Yep, here ya go:


 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 11-22-2010, 09:06 PM:
 
I think Joe and Steve G. will find this image useful:


 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 12-03-2010, 02:24 PM:
 
This picture was taken by a trail cam on my parents property near Mondovi, Wisconsin.


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-03-2010, 09:07 PM:
 
An albino buck? I get the feeling a taxidermist somewhere just shot white into his shorts thinking about stuffing a white deer buck.
 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 12-04-2010, 12:43 AM:
 
Its illegal to shoot an albino deer in Wisconsin, so if you show up with one at a taxidermist you better have a good story . Apparently years ago a guy walking in the woods found an albino buck shot dead and abandoned, he called the police right away (they figured the buck was shot by accident and when the hunter realized what he'd done he just left it); long story short the deer was given the full body taxidermy treatment and is now on display at a local nature preserve.

This is the second albino buck in this area I'm aware of in the last 20 years, this one is getting pretty old and won't be around much longer; I am told, however, that there is a new buck roaming the woods now, even larger than this one.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Weigel (Member # 4208) on 12-04-2010, 04:51 PM:
 
What's wrong with this pic?


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-05-2010, 12:40 AM:
 
Nothing. The sign speaks the truth.
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 12-05-2010, 01:32 PM:
 
Not quite Joe. Those of Jewish faith don't eat pork.
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 12-08-2010, 12:18 PM:
 
A pic of me and my bike, "Double Nuts" out at Competitive Edge, in Hesperia, California.



Link to the track: LINKY
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-08-2010, 12:20 PM:
 

quote: Tony Bandiera Jr

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Not quite Joe. Those of Jewish faith don't eat pork.

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I know THAT, but that doesn't stop it from being delicious at that time, does it?
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 12-08-2010, 12:33 PM:
 
What?!?




 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-08-2010, 02:56 PM:
 
Feels like I'm looking in the mirror.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 12-12-2010, 12:07 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 12-13-2010, 08:51 PM:
 
I stared at that, completely ignoring the text, for about 3 minutes trying to find the photoshop error.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 12-13-2010, 09:51 PM:
 

quote: Mike Olpin

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I stared at that, completely ignoring the text, for about 3 minutes trying to find the photoshop error.

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It should be obvious. Her boobs are actually much larger than that.
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 12-13-2010, 10:07 PM:
 
Christina Hendricks- The woman your boyfriend masturbates to?!?!??

Sorry. Seen better heads on a 7/8 hex head bolt.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 12-13-2010, 11:50 PM:
 
Who's looking at her head?
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-14-2010, 12:31 PM:
 
I stared at Christina Hendricks' 39D rack (yes, I looked up her measurements) for a substantial amount of time before bothering to read any of the headline copy. Some of that stuff was hilarious. "I had to pay for my own drink": one woman's horror.

I'm not intending to pick on Ian, but I always find it a bit funny when someone claims an attractive celebrity is ugly or whatever. It's a pretty common phenomenon. Regarding Christina Hendricks, I sure wouldn't kick her out of bed. I think she has a pretty face and her figure is AWESOME. Hollywood and the fashion industry do too much to define sexy as bony. It's refreshing to see someone who is naturally stacked get more attention than models as skinny as a walking coat hangar. To get back to the point, I think Anne Hathaway is beautiful, but one of my friends has laughed at that opinion claiming she's ugly as hell. That same friend's wife wouldn't hold a candle to Hathaway in a contest on looks. Obviously I can't say that to my friend to defend my positive opinion on Hathaway. He might kick my ass. Most of the women I've dated are average looking, not magazine cover gorgeous. Sadly, the hottest looking ones have usually had the shittiest personalities.

Question. How do you get mayonaisse out of a computer keyboard?

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 12-15-2010, 09:22 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-15-2010, 10:45 PM:
 
The hell kind of meme is that?
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 12-15-2010, 10:55 PM:
 
Look here...
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-15-2010, 11:50 PM:
 
I didn't even know that was Hugh Jackman.
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 12-16-2010, 01:08 PM:
 
Hell I thought it was Billy Mayes the pitchman!!
 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 12-21-2010, 09:41 PM:
 
A bit of light reading material for my holiday break:


 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 12-22-2010, 08:32 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 12-31-2010, 02:34 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-02-2011, 01:14 AM:
 
So I check the temperature on my iPod which uses Yahoo as a source.



Today is Saturday. Notice how the high today is 19 degrees and the low is 8, but somehow right then the temperature is 46 degrees! I'll be sure to let all of the frozen ice on the roads know that they need to melt.

Yahoo fail.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-02-2011, 01:49 PM:
 


I had to step back into another room before I saw Marilyn... barely. Basically, if you can read the text in the picture, you see Einstein.
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 01-02-2011, 02:15 PM:
 
This proves MY theory of relativity: Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe were related.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-02-2011, 09:39 PM:
 
And again!



1 degree and snowing? This would never, and I mean EVER happen on an Android or WebOS device. Damn you Apple!
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-02-2011, 09:52 PM:
 
The bugs are everywhere, even on Android. A couple days ago I had my phone attached to my notebook PC via USB. When I powered off the notebook it changed the time on my phone and its location to somewhere in China (I think). I rebooted the phone and the problem corrected itself. I usually don't have background sync enabled on my phone to conserve battery power, so its automatic weather display only refreshes itself when I tell it to do so.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-03-2011, 10:56 PM:
 
Keep reading, it'll hit you.


 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-03-2011, 11:05 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-03-2011, 11:14 PM:
 
You know, the first time someone changed the text of the green band it was amusing. Now it only generates a groan and a look upwards to the sky.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-04-2011, 12:00 AM:
 
Not fair. Those colored girls get all the good deals.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 01-04-2011, 12:43 AM:
 
So this girl gets in for free... Right?


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-04-2011, 12:44 AM:
 
What we all wanted to see:


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-14-2011, 01:22 AM:
 


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.
and also these macro shots of eyeballs.
 

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Posted by Jay Glaus (Member # 6011) on 01-14-2011, 11:38 AM:
 


Sunset at the drive-in last year while the 40" of snow was melting
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-14-2011, 01:38 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-14-2011, 04:25 PM:
 

quote: Jay Glaus

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Sunset at the drive-in last year while the 40" of snow was melting

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Nice shot Jay. Thanks for posting it.

Do you have any more of your theatre?
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-22-2011, 12:14 AM:
 
Now showing: Harry Potter and the Icicles of Death


 

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Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 01-23-2011, 11:51 PM:
 
This is rather self-explanatory. The extra options for the space heater seemed a bit strange. And if it looks like it's composed funny, I cut out the random stuff in the middle of the page...


 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-27-2011, 05:57 AM:
 
Too many ads!



(everything in a cardboard box in this picture is a :30 or :60 commercial to be shown before features; this 6-plex now shows up to six minutes' of commercials! up from zero in 2002!)
 

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Posted by Ben Wales (Member # 92) on 02-01-2011, 05:23 PM:
 
Those Racoons are Stealing Fuel Again!


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-01-2011, 06:48 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-01-2011, 07:09 PM:
 
That would be pretty tricky to do.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-01-2011, 09:16 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-01-2011, 10:47 PM:
 
As if this poster (and the first 2 films) weren't warning enough...I'm going with Mike's theory on this one:


 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 02-02-2011, 12:22 AM:
 
I hope it's in 15/70 IMAX. Think Big.

AJG
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-02-2011, 11:35 AM:
 
There are some good ones though. Wasn't JAWS a big red logo?

Definitely gives a person an indicator that a second look is a good idea!
 

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Posted by Christian Appelt (Member # 1067) on 02-02-2011, 02:14 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-02-2011, 03:07 PM:
 
I don't get it. There is no point of reference.

Also, why are frame lines marked when they can clearly be seen anyway?
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 02-02-2011, 07:32 PM:
 
I'd interpret that to mean 9 feet from First Frame of Picture (FFOP). Changeover people rely on those.

Some people have frame counters that don't give you convenient access to get a piece of tape in, so I've known a few people to mark the frame so it doesn't get lost between the time it comes out of the counter and the time the tape is applied.

Or maybe it's just their habit to mark frame lines?

Either way, I don't really see the harm.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-02-2011, 09:35 PM:
 

quote: Manny Knowles

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I'd interpret that to mean 9 feet from First Frame of Picture (FFOP). Changeover people rely on those.

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Yeah, I get that. I just don't get what makes it worthy of the picture or why that being the 9 foot mark would be so amazingly unbelievable.
 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 02-03-2011, 01:33 AM:
 
Possibly just the tone of it like "OMG its the 9 foot mark!!! Dont miss it!!!" Or not, just a guess...
 

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Posted by Christian Appelt (Member # 1067) on 02-03-2011, 04:54 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-03-2011, 06:39 PM:
 
If the entire print looks like that, I'd call it unrunable. Or at least unexhibitable.
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-03-2011, 06:59 PM:
 
If the entire print has that girl in it, I'd call it fantastic!
 

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Posted by Christian Appelt (Member # 1067) on 02-05-2011, 04:27 PM:
 
Ian, what do you think about this lady - probably Mitzi Gaynor's sister who made a living posing for motion picture labs?


 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-05-2011, 05:11 PM:
 
Christian.

I would call that lady Pure Class. Very nice indeed.


 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-05-2011, 05:48 PM:
 
yes our lady in red
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-06-2011, 03:30 PM:
 
I don't get why this movie has been such a big hit.


 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 02-06-2011, 03:36 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-06-2011, 03:54 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-06-2011, 04:05 PM:
 
In the spirit of way too many other posts recently, I offer this:



Please note that mine was not discolored, but I tinted the hell out of it in Photoshop so that people here at Film-Tech would comment on how great it is.
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-06-2011, 05:11 PM:
 
Yum. Another fave Lad Lady.

Regards the tinting job... too much red.

P.S. Joe, she's perving at your legs.
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 02-07-2011, 09:22 PM:
 
For no particular reason, I will remind the room that Quentin Tarantino tossed a bunch of such color test chick thingies in the credit sequence of "Death Proof" (aka the Tarantino movie everybody here but me hated).
 

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Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 02-07-2011, 10:27 PM:
 
I'm with you Sam, your not alone. I loved Death Proof. Planet Terror not so much.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-09-2011, 09:42 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-14-2011, 05:25 PM:
 
So Disney DOES use sex to sell films.


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-14-2011, 05:49 PM:
 
...and MORE sex!


 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-14-2011, 06:47 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Christian Appelt (Member # 1067) on 02-15-2011, 12:31 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-22-2011, 05:49 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Christian Appelt (Member # 1067) on 02-23-2011, 02:47 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-03-2011, 04:36 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-08-2011, 08:50 PM:
 
Some shots from a recent film festival:

A note on a print, obviously written by someone who hates film:



The film was a mint-condition scope print. The "digital" copy was a DVD. Do not fear; we showed the print.

Me with Oscar (a real one, but not mine):


 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 03-09-2011, 02:49 AM:
 
Hey! I've got a pic like that one too!



Also not mine.

That Oscar statuette was awarded to Kay Rose for Sound Effects Editing on "The River." She passed away in 2002 and her daughter brought the award to work (USC) for the students to pose with on the night of their first public screenings. I couldn't pass up the opportunity.
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-09-2011, 09:27 AM:
 
Nice shot, Manny. The one in my picture was awarded for the Best Documentary Feature in 1982 ("Just Another Missing Kid").
 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 03-09-2011, 10:55 AM:
 
so did you guys give 5 minute speeches until the music started playing?
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 03-09-2011, 06:33 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Robert D Hall (Member # 5674) on 03-10-2011, 05:53 PM:
 
Under the front cover of a Dolby cp500. Must have been in the middle of a reboot because the error rate indicator only gos to 7 before faulting out.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-10-2011, 06:32 PM:
 
No, I've seen a DA20 do 8, hold it there and play back without dropping. It was a real of Social Network and we were missing the airpot in the reader which did not help things. It sounded fine.
 

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Posted by Robert D Hall (Member # 5674) on 03-10-2011, 06:59 PM:
 
You are right Joe i checked and it will go to 8 before fault. But should read 5 or below on a good film.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 03-10-2011, 07:11 PM:
 
CP500. The King's Speech. Holds a solid 8 on this reel. Apparently the Weinstein boys decided in their wisdom not to licence a DTS track for this feature.

I guess no-one would have thought it would still be going on so long after release.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-10-2011, 10:08 PM:
 
I've only ever seen Dolby Digital degrade by about a number over the life of a print. We've had some that have played a looong time and they were tracking 3s and 4s when they left. Anyone who thinks that Dolby Digital gets to the point where it can't be played due to normal running either has a shitty print to begin with, crappy equipment or does not take steps to keep their prints pristine.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 03-13-2011, 03:42 PM:
 
Apart from the obvious need to have film paths not damaging the tracks, it can also depend on the stock and as well as how green it is.

I had a print of Passion of the Christ that went from 3's to straight 7's within the 1st week because the prints were all still green. It never went beyond 7's though thanks to FilmGuard but I know many locations here were playing it in SR from day 2 or 3 onwards.

The distributor did not bring DTS discs out for the season of the film. As far as I know, we were the only theatre in the country to play it in DTS after a kind upload of the files for me from somewhere.

As far as this reel on The King's Speech goes, this particular one was always higher than the others on this print...around 6 to 6. with the others being 4's.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-15-2011, 11:15 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-16-2011, 02:05 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 03-17-2011, 09:37 AM:
 
If you ever find yourself appointed local executioner
or just need to hang somone (or yourself) for one of
those kinky-sex things, don't just use any old rope!

I found this one here in San Francisco's Chinatown
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-18-2011, 01:11 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-18-2011, 08:05 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 03-19-2011, 09:39 PM:
 

quote: Scott Norwood

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Me with Oscar (a real one, but not mine):

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quote: Manny Knowles

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Hey! I've got a pic like that one too!

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Only the very coolest of people have pics like that.



Totally not mine. We briefly had it on display in our lobby.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-24-2011, 01:08 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 03-24-2011, 04:02 AM:
 
Now THAT was funny...
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 03-24-2011, 04:26 AM:
 
Ab-so-lutely Brilliant!!

WINNING!
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-24-2011, 11:45 AM:
 
Yeah, that is a laugh riot. Cinnamon ring. Never heard that term before. I'll never look at the Cinnabon store in Central Mall the same way again.
 

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Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 03-24-2011, 01:36 PM:
 
That one's going out to a few friends of mine. Awesome!
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 03-27-2011, 04:24 PM:
 


So I guess this means 'No' then?
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 03-27-2011, 05:00 PM:
 
Well...


 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 03-28-2011, 06:47 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 03-29-2011, 02:55 AM:
 
In the not too distant future, YouTube, Twitter & Facebook will merge to form one giant, idiotic,
super time wasting website called...


 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 03-30-2011, 04:31 PM:
 
More Cartoon Subtleties.

The Plot: Three hours of a fat mouse inserting and removing anal beads for the entertainment of Cinderella, who has informed him that this is the only way he'll ever see cheese, and his family, again.


 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 04-01-2011, 09:18 AM:
 
I grabbed this nice shot of the Southern half of the Golden Gate
Bridge at sunset out the window of the bus on my way home last nite.

I pass this way on my way to & from work every day.
It's always a scenic view, but some days it's 'special'.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 04-04-2011, 10:00 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-05-2011, 01:41 PM:
 
Look closely.


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-05-2011, 01:46 PM:
 
Wow. The crusty crusader!
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 04-05-2011, 03:33 PM:
 
I never would have figured that out without Bobby's hint.
 

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Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 04-05-2011, 06:29 PM:
 
That's just Batcrab. Knew him in the old days when he hung with Superanemone. Clawed his way to the top.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-12-2011, 06:30 PM:
 
Looks like Mickey is a little buzzed?


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-12-2011, 11:02 PM:
 
He might just be really satisfied after giving Minnie a good rogering.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-17-2011, 12:39 AM:
 
This one is courtesy John Wilson.

Can you imagine what this stock photo shoot must have been like?



Source to other stock photo images most people would not want their face in.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 04-17-2011, 06:23 AM:
 


Ahhh...that's better.

Apparently, wrinkles in the rectal area are difficult to clean. Well there you go. You learn something new every day. Now I just have to get that extension on the hose to reach the bathroom.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-17-2011, 02:16 PM:
 
Why is that guy smoking? And what it he holding (besides the cig)?
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 04-17-2011, 06:38 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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And what it he holding (besides the cig)?

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Playboy?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-17-2011, 10:52 PM:
 
OK. I guess that could be part of the magazine. I thought he had something else between his hands.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-18-2011, 09:30 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 04-24-2011, 06:56 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 04-24-2011, 09:56 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-24-2011, 10:05 PM:
 
I don't understand the ET GIF. Why does he keep going back and forth. Why is Spider Man on the bike?
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 04-24-2011, 10:19 PM:
 
..is that the old "E.T." game that was released for the ARARI 2600, or ColecoVision?

(..like the Bell&Howell 8mm GIF senario...)
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-24-2011, 11:22 PM:
 
No way, Atari 2600 E.T. was way more primitive than that. I get the walkie-talkie, but even if it were a gun instead it still wouldn't make much sense.

As for the GIF below it... WHO SITS LIKE THAT? It makes it hard to suspend my disbelief. Also might be time to change that bulb and re-time that shutter.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-24-2011, 11:34 PM:
 
That projector is crap. The takeup reel is turning way too slow. It is slowly accumulating film onto the floor.
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 04-24-2011, 11:34 PM:
 


So much for MY happy meal
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 04-27-2011, 10:36 AM:
 
The Sahara Casino & Hotel will close on May 16. Opened in 1952, it is one of only three remaining casinos from the "Rat Pack" era. Its inconvenient location at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip, despite being adjacent to a monorail stop, is surely one of the reasons for its demise.



The Riviera, one of the other casinos from the era, may be next on the list, with its parent company in bankruptcy.

[ 04-27-2011, 12:39 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 04-27-2011, 01:27 PM:
 

Interesting film, based on the premise that Lincoln
actually died from a serious lower intestinal blockage.
 

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Posted by John Hegel (Member # 628) on 04-27-2011, 06:42 PM:
 
I was in Vegas last week and payed special attention to the Sahara. Its hard to imagin shutting down a property that is so large. The buzz I was hearing is that MGM bought the property and it may be updated much as they did at the Tropicana.

I like the feel of the older Vegas properties and hope that this one will be spared.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 04-28-2011, 12:53 AM:
 
I don't think I like the new look at the Trop. It's very white; not a luxurious Bellagio white, but a cheap Ikea white. I suppose it could be worse and look like 1978 threw up in the Wynn.
 

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Posted by Jim Henk (Member # 3628) on 04-28-2011, 01:50 AM:
 

quote: John Hegel

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Its hard to imagin shutting down a property that is so large.

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I dunno... Have you seen some of the youtubes of hotel demolitions in Vegas? It's quite a show. And if there's one thing that Vegas loves, it's a *BIG* show.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-29-2011, 11:50 AM:
 
Redneck Mansion:


 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 04-29-2011, 01:51 PM:
 
That is awesome!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-29-2011, 04:20 PM:
 
But is it built to code?
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-29-2011, 05:16 PM:
 
If you think "code" describes the proper temperature of beer, you might be a redneck.
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 05-01-2011, 04:29 AM:
 
That is actually a set for a Dutch production of Ivanov.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/redneck.asp
 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 05-01-2011, 11:44 AM:
 
Checking out the crown jewels . . .


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-05-2011, 09:59 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-11-2011, 11:45 PM:
 
Wrong... Just plain wrong!


 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 05-12-2011, 02:54 AM:
 
You have GOT to be kidding!!
Who are the dipshits who design these things?

Don't they ever THINK?

Common Sense - FAIL
 

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Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 05-12-2011, 08:08 AM:
 
Did they misspell "Pedophile"?
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 05-12-2011, 10:37 AM:
 

quote: Ian Parfrey

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Who are the dipshits who design these things?

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quote: Ian Parfrey

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Don't they ever THINK?

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Thought process? Evaluating the design concept? Considering how the viewer will "read" or interpret the finished design? Most amateurs don't do that. They just throw together what they think looks "cool." Or worse, they may not care how it looks. The person doing the design work may not have a clue, make not give a shit or BOTH.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-12-2011, 08:06 PM:
 
More really bad design work:


 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-13-2011, 07:15 PM:
 
That's great!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-13-2011, 11:22 PM:
 
Good stuff, but not as good as this one.

"How to keep an idiot busy"

 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 05-14-2011, 03:10 PM:
 


We win!!!
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-14-2011, 09:48 PM:
 

quote: Brad Miller

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"How to keep an idiot busy"

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Lol!
 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 05-15-2011, 04:22 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-17-2011, 09:15 PM:
 
Too many pictures to upload here, but wow....

60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 05-17-2011, 10:51 PM:
 


One of my favs...I did the title on the top.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-18-2011, 10:05 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 05-19-2011, 05:45 PM:
 
Gee, I get off work to head out to my car and I find this:



It was an a failed attempt of car theft. Jammed a screwdriver in the ignition to unlock the steering wheel and shifter, then cut wires below to "hotwire" ...

..they prob got close, but got caught by a passer-by, thus they just HAD to bust out the windshield, quarter window and hatch window.. before they ran off.

Why?
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 05-19-2011, 05:50 PM:
 
Pricks.

I hope they accidentally set fire to themselves.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-19-2011, 08:35 PM:
 
Geez Monte... thats a real pisser. But thats the sort of stuff insurance is for...

Mark
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 05-20-2011, 12:31 AM:
 
Sadly, the vehicle only has liability coverage, thus this is the time I wish I did have comp on it to cover this sort of damage...

...must love my job to go through this....

-Monte
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-20-2011, 09:56 PM:
 
Telling it like it is:


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 05-20-2011, 11:23 PM:
 
"Use Your EZ-Pass • Or Take It Up The Ass"

I could make a fake highway sign design of that and even set in Clearview Highway, the new highway sign typeface being used in many states around the US.
 

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Posted by Christos Mitsakis (Member # 143) on 05-21-2011, 08:56 AM:
 
Its one of the entry points of Attica Tollway here in Athens. This photo is around for some years now. Fake of course, protesting for the always increasing toll rates.
 

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Posted by Tristan Lane (Member # 1169) on 05-21-2011, 09:20 AM:
 
I'm parking out front from now on. Bastards.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 05-22-2011, 10:09 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-22-2011, 11:16 PM:
 


Yeah, I might watch it.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-23-2011, 06:42 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 05-26-2011, 02:58 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 05-28-2011, 02:34 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-28-2011, 05:57 PM:
 
That no parking sign reminds me of the Alchemy Mindworks license agreement:

quote:

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Should you fail to register any of the evaluation software available through our web pages and continue to use it, be advised that a leather-winged demon of the night will tear itself, shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know that.

Alchemy Mindworks accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage or expense caused by leather-winged demons of the night, either.

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-30-2011, 03:29 PM:
 
How to Identify a Meth Lab


 

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Posted by Marco Giustini (Member # 4544) on 06-04-2011, 01:41 PM:
 


Found by a UK supermarket. A "children laughing" jingle is played back every now and again, to attract children.

At night, when it's dark and nobody is around, it's quite spooky!
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-11-2011, 10:14 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-17-2011, 04:48 PM:
 
Irony...


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 06-17-2011, 09:37 PM:
 
Yep, it's irony alright. Fake looking flames are more cool to have on your truck than real flames. That could probably be said for a lot of things, although Jimi Hendrix tried to make a Fender Strat look more cool decorated in real flames. But he ended up being a total dick by destroying a Fender Strat. The asshole.
 

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Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 06-18-2011, 12:02 AM:
 
He didn't completely destroy it. There was still enough of it left in 2008 to sell at auction for $604,000


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/05/2356180.htm
Hendrix's burnt guitar fetches $600,000

Posted Fri Sep 5, 2008 10:00am AEST
Updated Mon Sep 8, 2008 8:45am AEST

Jimi Hendrix's 1965 Fender Stratocaster is shown to the media in London. (Getty Images: Gareth Cattermole)

The first guitar that rock legend Jimi Hendrix burned on stage has fetched 280,000 pounds ($604,000) at an auction in London.

Also sold was the first management contract signed by The Beatles on January 24, 1962, which bears the names "John Winston Lennon", "George Harrison", "James Paul McCartney" and "Richard Starkey" (Ringo Starr).

Hendrix set the 1965 Fender Stratocaster alight - a gesture he later became famous for - following a landmark performance at London's Finsbury Astoria in March 1967, and had to be taken to hospital to be treated for minor hand injuries afterward.

At that point, the guitar was taken to the offices of his aide Tony Garland, and was kept at Garland's parents' garage in Hove in southern England, before Garland's nephew unearthed it in 2007.

Ted Owen, director of acquisitions at the Fame Bureau rock memorabilia firm, which organised the sale, described Hendrix's act as "a watershed in live performance".

"He raised the bar of what could be expected and paved the way for a series of imitations and pastiche that exist to this day," Mr Owen said.

Daniel Boucher, the 51-year-old American collector who bought the guitar, said it "changed music".

"Obviously it is an investment, it couldn't not be an investment for that amount of money, but I bought it because I like it."

He said he would have the guitar converted for right-hand playing - Hendrix was left-handed - so that he could play it himself.

The contract signed by The Beatles, meanwhile, fetched 240,000 pounds ($518,000) at the auction, and also bears the names of Harrison's father Harold and McCartney's dad James as their sons were under the age of 21.

Manager Brian Epstein added his name on October 1, 1962, after getting the fab four a deal with EMI for the release of Love Me Do.

Mr Owen described the document as "the most important music contract of all time" which "completely changed the lives of The Beatles".

"There's no other (contract) that's going to be historically, socially or politically as important as this," he said.

Also in the auction was Jim Morrison's last notebook, which contains lyrics, poetry and musings from The Doors frontman, fingerprints of Elvis on a gun permit and the Bechstein piano used by The Beatles to record one of their biggest hits, Hey Jude.

quote: Adam Martin

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Really scary platter

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That looks like a Harbor Freight platter!
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-18-2011, 02:39 AM:
 
This is the spillway at Fort Peck Dam, in Fort Peck MT. Just a few years ago this reservoir was at historic record lows; now, it's the highest it's ever been. This spillway is being used for only the 4th time since it was completed in 1940, and for the first time since 1997. There are 16 metal gates, each weighing 80 tons. This thing is massive -- the picture really doesn't do it justice. The lake is over 130 miles long.



They are releasing approximately 50,000 cubic feet per minute in this picture -- the most ever, but the capacity is 250,000 cubic feet. All this was caused by the record rainfall Montana has received this year -- we've had over 11 inches already, and normally rainfall for a WHOLE year is just around 12 inches. And, almost none of the snowpack in the mountains has melted yet -- and it's at anywhere from 150% to 200% of normal. Flooding has been the norm in Montana this year.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-25-2011, 10:55 PM:
 
I should have said 'cubic feet per second' in the above post, not per-minute.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-06-2011, 12:18 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-06-2011, 09:46 PM:
 
Aw that lady probably can barely read much less tell one typeface from another. Now if that shirt's caption was set in something more happenin' like HTF Knockout then, um, uh...

...I think I'd probably still shag her rotten even with the Comic Sans shirt. Gotta see the face though. What if it was ugly enough to scare a freight train onto a dirt road?
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 07-06-2011, 09:58 PM:
 
It's not the face you fuck. It's the fuck you face.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-16-2011, 08:55 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-17-2011, 07:35 PM:
 



 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-18-2011, 04:23 AM:
 
The "handwriting" looks like anything but.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-18-2011, 05:05 AM:
 
Yeah, it's cracked.com
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-18-2011, 10:08 PM:
 
The least thing they could have done is use real handwriting for the red ink notes rather than a script typeface. Scripts are painfully easy to spot. Just look for any repeating characters. Like in the word "see." Done.

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-19-2011, 01:18 AM:
 
They're not made by Cracked. It's part of their weekly competitions.
 

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Posted by Gregory Marshall (Member # 6346) on 07-19-2011, 11:50 PM:
 
Adam... not an Eprad platter! No!!!!!!
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 07-21-2011, 09:03 PM:
 
Hot dog. From an Indians game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Summer, 1992.


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-25-2011, 12:16 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-25-2011, 03:20 PM:
 
Scott,

I can't believe you still have that Hot Dog. Those preservatives in them sure work well.

Brad,

That's a beaut.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-05-2011, 08:39 AM:
 
I've been posting a lot of pictures on Flickr.com, lately.
http://www.flickr.com/randystankey (Film scans only.)

These two pictures have had the greatest number of hits in the last two weeks:

Lifeguard on Presque Isle.


Bubbles at Sunset Point.


Y'know, I never thought about it when I took the photos but I can sort of understand that pictures of girls on the beach would be popular but, for cryin' out loud! That girl in the second picture is only 13 years old!

Are people really just a bunch of hornballs or am I just that naive?
 

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Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 08-05-2011, 09:37 AM:
 
That lifeguard is cute. Its sad Randy but people are hornballs. I could tell the girl was young before I read your caption. However wearing a two piece suit that's about 4 years older then she is doesn't help make her not look older. They are great shots though, love the black and white. Guessing you shot them?
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-05-2011, 10:02 AM:
 
Yup. Shot all of the photos on that Flickr page with film. Virtually no digital there. (Maybe 5 or 6 out of almost 200.)

The lifeguard was meant to be sort of a fashion shot. I expected that one to get a few looks but it was not meant to be a bathing suit shot.

With the second one, I was shooting the older kid playing with the younger kids. (That Asian kid with the big stick was pissing me off because he was popping all the bubbles before any of the other kids had a chance to play.) Yeah, I realize that the older girl is cute but I never thought of her anything more than "cute." She might be 13 going on 30 but you see that all the time on the beach. She still wears braces, for cryin' out loud!

BTW: Comments and criticism on my Flickr page are very much appreciated. The main reason I post on Flickr is to help me decide which pictures to make darkroom prints from.

Of course, I like my pictures but it can get expensive buying paper and chemistry. Working on just the ones that people like best helps me keep cost down and allows me to focus my efforts on the best ones.
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 08-05-2011, 10:30 AM:
 
The Hitchcock's Nightmare is a great photo. Nice work! I too love black and white photography.

AJG
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-05-2011, 04:28 PM:
 
I don't visit Flicker because I hate the site mainly due to the spinning red and blue circles, but people probably see a thumbnail of a girl in a bikini and click on it hoping for hotness. Likely they are disappointed.

Any photo can be black and white.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-05-2011, 08:23 PM:
 
Glad you like the birds pic, Aaron. That one has 17 hits and a "interestingness" score of 3 and it's only been up for a little over two weeks. Subtract the horndog pictures and the ones that got hits from people who are actually in the pictures and it's at the top of the list.

Joe, it is pretty hard to make a color print negative into black and white because of the orange mask. Even with a #5 contrast filter or 100% blue/cyan (in a color enlarger) you still can't restore all the contrast.

I suppose you could scan the negative and run it through Photoshop but, then, you have to color balance the image twice. Once to scan and reverse the color. A second time to filter the color to black and white.

Black and white film does not respond to all colors equally. That's one reason why people like the "look" of black and white film. Yeah, yeah, you can tinker with the color to B/W conversion but it's probably easier just to shoot the damn picture with film in the first place.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-05-2011, 10:06 PM:
 
In old school analog photography, the kind of photography I learned in art school, black and white works exactly opposite of how you shoot color. With black and white you expose for the darkest areas in the image. You must protect the blackest regions to keep them dark as possible. With color you expose for the highlights. This is one of the fundamental reasons why colorizing black and white images doesn't work at all. Other additional reasons apply as well. But the exposure method is a big part of it.

It's certainly possible for someone to fake good quality black and white imagery with RGB-based color digital cameras. The main area where you start is by protecting the darkest regions. That's the source of all the contrast. If your highlights or the overall tone of the image isn't high enough try blowing up the image into 16-bit per channel mode and playing with levels or curves there. Get into masking certain parts of the image and doing other tricks if you want to get more exact about things.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-07-2011, 06:50 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-10-2011, 07:41 PM:
 
*sniff*

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 08-12-2011, 10:43 AM:
 
D'oh!

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-13-2011, 03:14 PM:
 
Give 'em a break. That's a hard word to speel.

Look at this result from Google Shopping for Amazon.


No wait, look CLOSER!


The item weighs 2 pounds.

 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 08-18-2011, 09:25 PM:
 
My longest flight delay ever: 36 hours. This was in 1994, from Boston to Rome. As you can see in the picture, they are fixing the center engine. This was after we had taken off, flown for a half hour, and then turned around and landed at Boston again, due to mechanical issues. We finally departed the next day.


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 08-21-2011, 04:21 PM:
 
I had something similar happen to me, also on a DC-10. It was on a flight from Memphis to Amsterdam in 2005. About 3-4 hours into the flight all the lights in the cabin suddenly went out, apart from the emergency Tivoli-type lighting strips on the floor. Shouting at the top of her voice (because the PA system had also lost power), a flight attendant told us that the captain had told her that there was "some sort of an electrical problem" (no ... really?!), and that we were diverting to an airport in Greenland, the name of which I couldn't pronounce at the time and can't remember now. After landing, some of the pasengers were booked onto the spare capacity of an Air Greenland flight to Copenhagen the following morning, but the rest of us (of which I was one) had to wait until Northwest engineers had flown in with spare parts to fix the DC-10. We never were told exactly what that fault was, though we were assured that no safety-critical systems were ever in danger. There again, they would tell us that, wouldn't they? I eventually got home about 26-27 hours later than I should have done.

If the problem had been with the tail-mounted engine it would have been a very big problem in somewhere like Greenland, I would have thought, because unless trijets visited there regularly and thus they had the gantries and scaffolding needed to gain access to that engine, they'd have needed to ship them in, probably using surface transportation given the size of the objects involved.
 

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Posted by Jeff Kane (Member # 6372) on 08-26-2011, 11:53 AM:
 
Would've been Kangerlussuaq/Sonde Stromfjord. Only airport in Greenland that can handle widebody traffic. What on earth did they do with you in the meantime???
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-30-2011, 06:34 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-11-2011, 10:22 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-13-2011, 10:59 AM:
 

quote: Jeff Kane

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Would've been Kangerlussuaq/Sonde Stromfjord. Only airport in Greenland that can handle widebody traffic. What on earth did they do with you in the meantime???

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We landed around midnight local time and had to stay on board the plane for about an hour after that. At that point they took us off and into an airside departure lounge, where we waited until engineers had flown in and fixed our plane, which took until around 5-6pm the following day. Around mid-morning they made a call for anyone who only had carry-on baggage on the DC-10 who would like to transfer to the other Copenhagen flight, and I would guess around 20-30 people went. We were eventually on our way again late the following evening. They did arrange coffee/tea/sandwiches etc. during the day, but would not let us out of the departure lounge because of immigration formalities. The airport staff seemed pretty well organised, given that 300 or so people suddenly dropped in on them at virtually no notice; but if the delay had dragged on past second night they would have had to try to find accommodation for us in nearby hotels, I would have guessed. That having been said, there may well not have been 300 spare hotel rooms sitting empty anywhere near the airport in somewhere like that. It's not as if Greenland is a buzzing centre of tourism or business travel!

To bring this post back on topic, here is the aircraft in question, shortly before departure from Memphis (original photo taken on Kodachrome 64 with a polarising filter):


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 09-13-2011, 12:14 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-13-2011, 02:15 PM:
 
As Deep Throat would say, follow the money!
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 09-13-2011, 03:57 PM:
 
Shot that photo with a Zeiss Ikonta IV. 120 format film. Tri-X 400. I am testing out this camera to see how well it works.

I was walking along the beach on Presque Isle when saw the writing on that log. I laughed out loud. I just had to take the picture.

The phone number is for a cell phone, somewhere in Pittsburgh, PA. That makes sense. A lot of people come up from Da' Burgh to visit Presque Isle. We call them "Mup'eres." When you ask them where they are from, they say, "Mup 'ere from Pittsburgh."
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-13-2011, 05:27 PM:
 
The idea (of the phone number's area code) being that the "Mup'eres" must also be somewhat geographically challenged, given Cooper's last known location?
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 09-13-2011, 05:46 PM:
 
Randy--nice shot! Was that scanned from the negative or from a print?
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 09-13-2011, 05:55 PM:
 
Thanks, Scott!
Negative. I might print it but I have to find the time.
Basically, I use the scanner to preview images and decide which ones to print. I put most of my best scans up on Flickr and watch the hit counts and popularity scores. After a couple-few weeks, I see which ones have the most hits and use that information to decide which ones to consider printing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/randystankey/

Leo, Mup'eres aren't known for intelligence.
I think that's part of what made the scene seem funny to me. There's humor in the non sequitur.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 09-17-2011, 12:42 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-29-2011, 01:52 AM:
 




Inevitable follow-ups:
# Pork. The Other White Meat. -- National Pork Board
# You're in good hands with Allstate (but why am I wearing a condom?). -- Allstate
# Taking Care of Business. -- Office Depot
# When it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight (even though you wish you could ask them to leave). -- Fed Ex
# So easy a caveman can do it. (God, and they do too -- probably more than anyone else EXCEPT THEY NEVER WRAP IT UP) -- GEICO
# I'm lovin' it. -- McDonald's
# M'm! M'm! Good! -- Campbell's Soup
# It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. -- Perdue Farms
# It takes a licking and keeps on ticking. -- Timex
# Home of the Whopper. -- Burger King
# Connecting People. -- Nokia
# Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. -- Almond Joy/Mounds
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-29-2011, 12:25 PM:
 
I recognize the nudie stretchie pants image from the People of Wal Mart web site.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 09-29-2011, 03:58 PM:
 
ICK!!

If I was the manager at Lowes, I would have sent that employee home! Those aren't appropriate clothes to wear at work, let alone in public!

What's worse is she's Black and she's wearing pants for a light skinned White person. It's just, plain gross!
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 09-29-2011, 06:54 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-29-2011, 07:02 PM:
 
I am quite over it.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 09-30-2011, 02:48 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 09-30-2011, 08:51 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 09-30-2011, 10:00 PM:
 
As the Late Phil Hill would say to that pic:

Hubba hubba.

I miss him a lot......
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-08-2011, 04:48 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-08-2011, 07:53 PM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-10-2011, 09:22 PM:
 

 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 10-11-2011, 01:00 AM:
 
*patiently sits, waiting for the picture to load*
That's gonna be awesome.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-11-2011, 02:17 AM:
 
Never seen a loading bar like that.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-11-2011, 04:30 AM:
 
Until now, you mean.
 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 10-11-2011, 10:26 AM:
 
I think something is wrong...the picture still has not loaded yet.
 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 10-12-2011, 06:30 PM:
 
That's too bad it isn't loading for you guys. It's a great pic! Here - I'll re upload it for you:














 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-12-2011, 07:03 PM:
 
Film-Tech doesn't support Flash either.


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-12-2011, 07:27 PM:
 
But, apparently, Java is okay.


 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 10-12-2011, 08:18 PM:
 
She will soon wear a hole through the bottom of that cup!
 

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Posted by Jonathan Goeldner (Member # 4854) on 10-12-2011, 10:50 PM:
 
and it's oddly hypnotic...
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 10-13-2011, 12:43 AM:
 


"Keep it down, will you?"
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-13-2011, 07:05 AM:
 

quote: Jonathan Goeldner

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and it's oddly hypnotic...

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Mainly because there's only one part of the picture that moves. Only the hand stirring the coffee moves. The rest is dead-still.

It is a phenomenon called "The Valley of Strangeness."
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-13-2011, 01:30 PM:
 
I think you mean "The Uncanny Valley".
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-13-2011, 02:23 PM:
 
Yeah, that!

I knew it was something like that... Must be the Trazadone.
 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 10-14-2011, 08:16 PM:
 
Trazodone kicks ass. Speaking of prescription sleep aids, have you met my pal Ambien Walrus?


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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-18-2011, 04:55 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 10-18-2011, 08:22 AM:
 
This made my Droid X go nuts and it kept beeping like crazy. I had to reset the phone to get it to stop.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 10-18-2011, 12:28 PM:
 
Ha ha. The QR code doesn't have a Dolby logo in the middle of it. It's digital. But not Dolby Digital. Suckers!

The bar code app in my Evo 4G had no problem reading it, but then my notebook screen has a ultra-phiggidy RGB LED backlit 1920 X 1080 native resolution screen.
 

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Posted by Melanie Loggins (Member # 6454) on 10-18-2011, 01:15 PM:
 
Joe, we don't know each other very well, so I recognize that this could be misinterpreted, but... perhaps you have just a tiny bit too much time on your hands?
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 10-18-2011, 01:32 PM:
 
Visit this page to generate your own custom QR codes. The resulting code can be saved on your computer in PNG format. Just open it in Photoshop or whatever to convert it to Film-Tech friendly GIF or JPEG.

You can have lots of fun with this stuff. Make a QR code that has a web site link in it. Print it on its own and stick it on a wall somewhere. Curious people will need to see what it is. Then they'll find out it's a disgusting image from LiveLeak or Rotten.
 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 10-18-2011, 01:50 PM:
 
I knew that it was a QR code and not a Dolby Digital code. Otherwise I wouldn't have tried to scan it with my phone. Not sure if it was a malfunction of my phone or the QR code that Joe made, but that beep was annoying. I'm not going to retry it in case it does it again. My phone makes a tone beep when it has successfully scanned a code, but it just kept replaying that tone over and over.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 10-18-2011, 02:20 PM:
 
Which bar code scanner app were you using? I have the ZXing Barcode Scanner 3.6 on my phone. The app works better at scanning QR codes from printed materials. Scanning from computer screens is more tricky depending on the quality and type of the screen.

I've seen people stick QR codes on LED-based "jumbotron" outdoor message centers. Good luck at scanning a code from one of those things. They make the auto-focus sensors in various kinds of cameras go a little crazy. Most phones don't have a manual focus setting with their built in cameras.

I think a QR code is a pretty good thing to stick on the back of a business card. Encode your contact info into the QR code and most phones will allow it to be automatically added into an address book without all the stupid typing.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-18-2011, 03:07 PM:
 

quote: Melanie Loggins

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perhaps you have just a tiny bit too much time on your hands?

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Why do people always say mean things like this whenever someone else does something creative? I apologize for not being a boring automaton.

Joshua, it works fine on all QR readers I've tried. The reader you are using is likely not very good. Download a different one.
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 10-18-2011, 06:33 PM:
 
Worked a treat on the Mobly fone I found on the train the other night.

I now want to have way too much time on my hands so I can play with the idea.

Genius....useless but genius.
 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 10-19-2011, 12:34 AM:
 
Very funny!!
Worked with Google Goggles on my Droid X. Just took a min to load the full text.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-19-2011, 01:17 AM:
 
For the iPhone and iPod Touch, the best one is simply called Scan. It's free, no ads and works like a charm. We should have a thread where all communication must be handled via QR codes. It'd be so popular that it might even reach two whole pages!
 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 10-19-2011, 08:27 AM:
 
I have ScanLife. It also reads barcodes and gets online competitive pricing while in the store. My Droid X has been acting up a lot lately since the latest update. Sometimes it locks up and it almost always reboots itself when I shut it off. I have sat there and watched it turn on after fifteen minutes of being shut off. I will shut it off at night (since some dude in Cleveland has a similar phone number to mine and creepy people call at all hours of the night) and it will turn itself back on after I go to bed. My wife will nudge me at 3am because my phone is beeping and getting junk e-mails coming in from China since it is day time over there. I have to put it on silent and then turn it off in case it reboots itself in the middle of the night.
 

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Posted by Boris Sorokoumov (Member # 4629) on 10-19-2011, 09:54 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 10-19-2011, 01:58 PM:
 
lol ...like to see a sausage in a Philips bulb carrier...
 

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Posted by Boris Sorokoumov (Member # 4629) on 10-20-2011, 01:33 AM:
 
)) That's Osram carrier
 

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Posted by Melanie Loggins (Member # 6454) on 10-20-2011, 10:17 AM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Why do people always say mean things like this whenever someone else does something creative? I apologize for not being a boring automaton.

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You know what? You're right. I didn't intend this to be mean. Maybe I was frustrated by the lack of time in my life to do something like this and hating on you because you do. Forget I said anything. Follow your bliss.
 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 10-20-2011, 01:05 PM:
 
Took part in my cities first annual zombie pub crawl. I didn't do my own makeup so I can't take any credit for awesomeness/lameness:

 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 10-22-2011, 01:31 PM:
 
From a recent job at Henry's Lake, Idaho:



My good friend and landlord has a cabin site up there and I was there to replace his deathtrap electrical. This is one view from his front yard.

If anyone would like full size copies of this and a few other great scenic shots contact me.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-28-2011, 06:06 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-28-2011, 08:09 PM:
 


What really gets me is the hole in the bottom of the box!
 

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Posted by German Marin (Member # 918) on 10-29-2011, 11:37 AM:
 

... Hum... SUCSESFULL! sure!
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-01-2011, 11:43 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 11-02-2011, 09:55 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 11-03-2011, 03:10 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 11-03-2011, 06:00 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-05-2011, 11:05 PM:
 
He'll probably be banned eventually but until then, here's a tip:


 

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Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 11-07-2011, 09:33 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-07-2011, 03:44 PM:
 
How long has that feature been in place!?
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-07-2011, 05:03 PM:
 
Does that even work?

I tried that with what's-his-name before he was banned...Kirk? Kent? Anyway, some dip. I don't recall it being successful. He'll be booted eventually. They always are.

BTW, Mark...I like your pic up there ^^^^^

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 12-14-2011, 05:38 PM:
 
8' wide, 4' tall...
700 pounds...
10,000 watts power handling...

Behringer's new iNuke Boom iPhone speaker:



Unveiling in January 2012 at Winter CES. MSRP $29,999.99
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-14-2011, 08:37 PM:
 
That $30K iPhone speaker makes about as much sense as attempting to stick a top fuel dragster engine into a tiny Smart car.
 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 12-14-2011, 08:38 PM:
 
All that to play some lossy MP3's... Some people have too much time/money.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-10-2012, 06:08 PM:
 
The more I look at this...the more I smile.


 

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Posted by Bruce Hansen (Member # 281) on 01-10-2012, 07:33 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-10-2012, 11:32 PM:
 
Yeah ok, whatever bub!



The DMV should revoke his driver's license for impaired vision.
 

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Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 01-10-2012, 11:39 PM:
 
..and his psychologist should commit him for impaired brain cell count.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 01-11-2012, 12:26 AM:
 
How stupid!

People do shit like that because they think it makes them look tough but, if I got in a fight with him, guess where my first shot would go?

I'd rake his eyes. He'd be on the ground, crying like a baby in fifteen seconds.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-11-2012, 08:28 AM:
 
Maybe he's afraid of being poked in the eyes. Might have watched too many Three Stooges episodes with Moe doing that.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-17-2012, 09:24 PM:
 
Maybe he's an habitual jail inmate and hates it when he's released. This would no doubt make him feel at home.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-17-2012, 11:09 PM:
 
Just curious... would anyone here hire that guy? And if so, what do you suppose he's qualified to do?
 

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Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 01-17-2012, 11:11 PM:
 
part of it is his pose/expression, I wonder what he would look like with a big genuine smile on his face.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-17-2012, 11:32 PM:
 
He'd look like a smiling guy with bars over his eyes and lip piercings. I never really understood why anyone male or female would be in to piercings.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-21-2012, 02:12 AM:
 


VIDEO
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-21-2012, 05:49 PM:
 
Lol! It works!
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 01-21-2012, 05:54 PM:
 
Couldn't help but think of this!

AJG
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-23-2012, 01:43 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 01-26-2012, 09:43 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-26-2012, 10:02 AM:
 
Who's "Morgran Freeman"?


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-26-2012, 04:54 PM:
 
Fast food false advertising

If someone wants to upload them all, that would be nice for the archives.
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 01-27-2012, 12:32 PM:
 
While everybody knows food is always gussied up for commercial shoots, I think most of that guy's comparisons are unfair and in fact, gussied down, regardless of his claims otherwise. Most of the burgers look like he sat on them on the way from the burger joint.

That or he lives near the worst examples of each chain in the world.

The exception being the Jack in the Box tacos. His example is a fairly accurate representation of what the ones I buy look like.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-27-2012, 01:53 PM:
 
I have received some rather ugly looking burgers at fast food chain places over the years, but don't recall getting any that were that misshapen or squashed.

I think some of the photos are pretty close to reality though. For instance, I've never bought a crunchy taco at Taco Bell that was that loaded with ingredients. The same thing goes for just about any other taco restaurant chain.

Another thing to consider is food photography is a perverse art onto itself. Real, edible food often does not photograph well. All sorts of strange ingredients are applied to food items in advertising photographs. Some of the ingredients may not even be real. In the end the images are heavily Photoshopped. The ad photo versions of those Burger King burgers look so perfect I have to wonder if they're really artificial 3D rendered models. The onions, pickles and tomato are so perfectly sliced and arranged and perfectly balanced and saturated with color that it looks fake. The burger could be a "digital asset" in a Pixar movie production.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-28-2012, 04:14 PM:
 
I think that guy would have had better results (but then, not as interesting) if he had gotten his food to "eat in" and taken the pics right in the restaurants. When they wrap a burger in a sheet of paper and then throw it into a bag, it gets squished and messed up a little. But those pics look pretty darn accurate to me, having seen real life examples of most of those burgers.

I'd have liked to see him include Wendy's in there. Their burgers always taste fine but they often look terrible, what with the square patty hanging out all over. Never could see the wisdom in THAT idea. If they want to give me a little more beef, then fine, but put it in the middle of the patty where it belongs.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-28-2012, 06:09 PM:
 
Unless the photographer could drag his lighting kit into the restaurants taking photos of the food on site "dine in" would yield even uglier images. Most burger joints have some type of fluorescent lighting, which throws a dull yellow cast all over everything. Even if you white balance for that lighting food images are still going to look like hell.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-28-2012, 11:05 PM:
 
In the case of that blog, "color" isn't such a big deal. He's more comparing the size and squished-ness of the food. You could probably fix lighting issues in Photoshop, eh?
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-28-2012, 11:43 PM:
 
Tweaking color after the fact only gets you so far, provided you shoot in RAW where you have more latitude to even futz with things like color temperature, etc. Shooting photos just with the light coming from the overhead lamps in the restaurant is going to bake all sorts of color/contrast problems into the image that simply can't be corrected with software.
 

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Posted by Tony L. Hernandez (Member # 3524) on 02-05-2012, 07:51 PM:
 
Myself and my best friend John Templeton with our full Cinerama Reels before the vinegared film got pitched:

My husband Jack, Myself and John at the opening night of the Boulder History Museum's "Hollywood, Colorado" exhibit which we helped design, install and loaned items to. The projector is a Simplex Standard used from 1940-1984 in the old University Theater. The burnt up shipping reel on takeup is one of the sole surviving items from the original Fox Theater in Boulder's fire that burned it to the ground. You will also see an old "NeuScope" splicer and an old drive-in speaker and heater from one of the Highlands drive-ins in Boulder, as well as a shipping can with the first 2 reels on "Bundle of Joy" enclosed:



Another pic of us with the Cinerama reels


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 02-05-2012, 09:24 PM:
 
Damn. Too bad the Cinerama film was thrown out due to vinegar syndrome. I wonder if those huge reels could be reused on any regular 35mm projectors.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 02-05-2012, 11:26 PM:
 
Nice one Disney. That's not racist at all.


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-06-2012, 12:18 AM:
 
The Disney logo isn't right and the artwork doesn't look like it's up to Disney's standards.

Dollars to donuts, it's a Chinese knock-off.
As such, they either don't know or don't care. Probably a little of both.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-06-2012, 11:58 AM:
 
I don't know, I think the Disney logo looks fine, it's just shot from an angle so it looks distorted. It doesn't look any worse than some of the stuff they sell in the stores at the theme parks.

They are simplifying their brand and just putting "Disney" on everything.

But given the subject matter, yeah it's probably a knockoff. They are uber-careful about stuff like this after the Aladdin and Pocahontas debacles.
 

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Posted by German Marin (Member # 918) on 02-07-2012, 05:56 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 02-07-2012, 06:21 PM:
 
I hope that thing is grounded properly...
 

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Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 02-07-2012, 07:59 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-07-2012, 11:38 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 02-08-2012, 06:52 AM:
 


That was actually painful to make.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 02-08-2012, 08:05 PM:
 
Obviously Jock submitted the version optimized for smart phones.

 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 02-09-2012, 05:32 PM:
 
That's some post-modern art right there!

(Is this still the post-modern era, or have we moved on?)
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-09-2012, 09:28 PM:
 
I never understood the term "post modern". What does that even mean? For anything to be post modern, wouldn't it have to be imported from the future?
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 02-10-2012, 04:16 PM:
 
It’s cold in Europe. So cold, a Swiss guy put a wood stove in his Volvo





More photos can be found here.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-10-2012, 05:06 PM:
 
A bald person wearing a toupee. He deserves his coldness.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 03-01-2012, 11:11 AM:
 
I bought this on e-bay several weeks ago:

"Projectionist's Solitaire" - (April 1946)
I'm going to frame it & hang it in my apartment.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-01-2012, 03:16 PM:
 
That'd be a funny picture if it somehow showed his arc going all askew.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 03-02-2012, 11:29 PM:
 
Great picture, Jim.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-03-2012, 02:25 PM:
 
No wonder Brad hasn't responded to my recent e-mails. He was killed at the corner of Bowles and Simms:



Finally, Film-Tech is now mine to control and manipulate!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-09-2012, 09:05 PM:
 
Check out the score for A Thousand Words. It's almost as good as Jack and Jill.


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-09-2012, 10:30 PM:
 
Cheated a little to bump the "NOT IT!" thread. Honestly, I really do not want to see A Thousand Words. I'd rather write "a thousand words" a thousand times than see that movie.
 

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Posted by Edward Havens (Member # 4715) on 03-10-2012, 12:01 AM:
 
What do you expect of a movie that was shot in April of 2008 but not released until March 2012?
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-10-2012, 08:59 AM:
 
Kind of surprised that movie just didn't go straight to home video release.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-10-2012, 09:52 AM:
 
They were probably hoping to capture whatever Eddie Murphy "buzz" that would have been generated by his Oscar hosting gig.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-10-2012, 02:14 PM:
 
He hosted the Oscars? Awesome.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-25-2012, 07:30 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-25-2012, 08:40 PM:
 
Taken with Hipstermatic, only available for the iPhone. Not sure why people love apps like that.
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 03-25-2012, 09:34 PM:
 
It's a sign of the times.

The whole "retro" thing seems to be an odd mix of a yearning for nostalgia mixed with acceptance of superficial representations of the things from a bygone era.

I guess it's a kind-of "escapism" -- not wanting to be "here and now" but okay with using "here and now" technology to have a pseudo-experience of something else. In this case, an attempt to recreate the past.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-25-2012, 10:56 PM:
 
I see it as something much more simple: "My pictures have absolutely nothing interesting and I can't take decent pictures so I need to add stuff to them to make them at least somewhat visually interesting."
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-27-2012, 02:49 AM:
 
After being sent just that photo the other day, I now found an actual news article about it. The article also includes a better quality photo.

News Article

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At least in Chilliwack, police officers disguised as panhandlers have become the B.C. RCMP’s newest tool in cracking down on distracted driving.

Earlier this month, RCMP Const. Bryan Martell appeared at a Chilliwack-area intersection dressed in a hooded jacket and ball cap – and sporting a few day’s growth of beard.

Wandering alongside stopped vehicles he carried a cardboard sign reading “Hello, my name is Constable Martell. If you’re on your cell phone right now, you are about to get a ticket.”

If he spotted a driver texting talking on his cell phone, Cst. Martell radioed ahead to a uniformed officer who would then ticket the vehicle.

As a result of the one-day blitz, officers handed out 21 tickets and gave out countless verbal warnings, RCMP traffic officials told the Chilliwack Times.

Since February, 2010, British Columbians have been barred from using any sort of handheld electronic device while driving.

As of September, 2011, the legislation had generated nearly 50,000 tickets and according to the B.C. government, has saved 16 lives.

In July, 2011, a distracted Chilliwack RCMP officer was to blame for a head-on crash that killed a 20-year-old.

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Rural areas in many jurisdictions have higher MVI fatality rates than urban areas. Suggested causal factors include:
•greater proportion of highway travel
•longer emergency response times
•greater distance to medical facilities.

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It seems that the government could do more to prevent deaths by motor vehicle accident if it bought more ambulances and built more hospitals. Don't you think?

Of all motor vehicle deaths in 2009, 112 of them were drug and/or alcohol related.

Don't you think the police could do more to prevent motor vehicle deaths if, instead of paying cops to dress up like homeless people, they increased the number of D.U.I. checkpoints?

Even if you assume that all of the police chief's statistics are correct, the number of deaths prevented per dollar spent is way out of whack.

They handed out 21 tickets as a result of this campaign. Assuming a fine of $100 per ticket, that amounts to $2,100 collected in fines.

What is a police officer's salary? How many man-hours were spent on this project? What was the total cost of this?

I'm willing to bet that they spent way more than $2,100 to do this, pulling police officers off other duties where their time would be put to more productive use and possibly saving other lives.

They could have done more good by spending the money somewhere else.

This whole project amounts to nothing more than a circle jerk by your elected officials.

Why are people so fucking stupid that they accept this kind of mental masturbation?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-27-2012, 04:21 PM:
 
I think trying to read the teeny-tiny text on his sign while driving would be more dangerous than driving while on the phone.

Also, his sign does not specify that I need to be driving, so could he issue me a ticket if I'm just walking by?
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-27-2012, 04:34 PM:
 
I think that, as a stunt, it's not a bad one. Stuff like this is intended to be a consciousness-raising exercise, not a money-maker. They got news headlines and publicity out of it.

A lot of policing comes down to what you don't see. You rarely hear people discussing how they didn't get mugged that day, for example. I recognize that in some ways this is like the famous tiger-repelling rock* but now people who see a homeless person by the side of the road will wonder if it's really a cop ready to nab them for distracted driving.

I think it's self-evident that distracted driving is hazardous. Fiddling with cell phones is up there with changing the 8-track in your Charger. The difference and reason that I can see for the focus on cell phones is that the distraction is more frequent, longer-lasting and currently far more common than many other things that you could be doing while driving.

Policing isn't supposed to operate on a cost-recovery basis, and I think most of us would agree that trying to do it that way would be a bad thing.

* MOE: "I have here a rock that repels tigers!" JOE: "How do you know that it actually works?" MOE: "Do you see any tigers around here?"
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-28-2012, 02:54 PM:
 
While it is dangerous to do anything that takes your eyes off the road, I think it's far MORE dangerous to be texting than doing things like, say, changing radio stations.

If you are fiddling with your car stereo, it's kind of a mindless activity. But when you're texting, you're kind of in a dream state because you're having to concentrate on what you're writing. In other words you can change radio stations while still thinking about driving, but you really can't do that with texting.

If I was running things, the penalty for the first offense of texting while driving would be a big fine, plus confiscation of the phone and cancellation of your cellphone account for at least a year.

Talking while driving is bad too, but at least you can still keep your eyes on the road while doing it. For that, I'd make the penalty less severe....say, suspension of your cellphone account for three months plus a fine.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-28-2012, 04:44 PM:
 
If you assume that every person who was cited that day was destined to cause a fatality because they were using a cell phone while driving if they didn't get stopped by the cops and if you add the number of lives the police chief says would have been saved, the number adds up to 37 people who didn't die.

However, there were 112 fatalities due to drunk driving. Isn't it logical for the police to spend their money on D.U.I. checkpoints versus paying cops to dress like homeless people?

What portion of all the people who died due to any kind of motor vehicle accident, regardless of the cause, because they didn't get to the hospital soon enough? Wouldn't it make more sense to have more ambulances available? How about building a field hospital to handle trauma cases that are too distant from the main hospital to receive urgent care?

What if British Columbia passed a law that allowed insurance companies to drop their coverage on motorists who receive one citation for driving with a cell phone? Combine that with a "zero-tolerance policy" giving the police very limited discretion on issuing tickets for people caught with cell phones while driving. That would stop the problem in a heartbeat.

Further, it would cost the government/police almost no extra money for enforcement over what they are already spending on "stepped up enforcement." It wouldn't divert police manpower away from other critical functions.

How many other people might have been killed, injured or become victims of crimes because the cops were dressing up like homeless people?

I agree with Frank. It's nothing more than a stunt but I don't agree that it was a good stunt. The cops have better things to do with their time than playing games.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-29-2012, 01:02 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-29-2012, 07:04 PM:
 



 

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Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 03-31-2012, 08:25 PM:
 
I saw this in an antique store in Petaluma, CA this afternoon. They were asking a mere $1095.00 for the table.


 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 04-02-2012, 06:05 AM:
 
That's one of the saddest things I've ever seen.
 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 04-19-2012, 03:28 PM:
 
...and I thought that I really liked projectors. Look closely at her tattoo.


 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 05-05-2012, 04:25 AM:
 
The Grand Theater in East Greenville holds a "Farwell to Film" event as it runs its last reels before switching over to digital. After showing "The Majestic" reels of film were carried to a waiting hearse. Here, co-owners Ed Buchinski (left) and John Schorts carry out the reels from the first movie of the double bill. (MICHAEL KUBEL, THE MORNING CALL / April 16, 2012)


 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 05-16-2012, 06:16 PM:
 
On a much happier note!



Bench-check of a 70mm print of THE LAST STARFIGHTER that's been held by a private collector for more than fifteen years and represents to the best of my recollection the first "new" 70mm print to become available in Australia in around ten years.
 

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Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 05-21-2012, 04:46 PM:
 
"Take me out to the Ballgame"

Every august, at the local danish filmfest, a great football-match is played between filmdistributors and cinemas.
These are the fearsome defends of the distributors.


 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 05-22-2012, 10:07 AM:
 
They should have gone to the bathroom BEFORE the match.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-31-2012, 03:05 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-02-2012, 09:39 AM:
 


Photobombed by your own dog!
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-18-2012, 02:12 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 06-19-2012, 01:12 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 06-22-2012, 02:21 AM:
 
Coming soon to London...


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-23-2012, 02:12 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Allan Young (Member # 6332) on 06-24-2012, 03:02 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 06-27-2012, 09:03 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-28-2012, 01:03 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-29-2012, 03:21 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 07-12-2012, 11:03 PM:
 
[IMG]What did this film just call me!? [/IMG]
 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 07-13-2012, 02:03 AM:
 
I've got a collection of leaders from junked 35mm prints that carry the same text - amusingly it's the Danish word for "end".

Unfortunately I've been unsuccessful in getting Deluxe to make Danish their official language.
 

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Posted by Paer Hoegberg (Member # 3133) on 07-13-2012, 03:28 PM:
 
Also in swedish "Slut" means "End".

On the topic, i got a laught every tile i put an film on the platter.
On most films the leader says "Swedish version" and the tail "Finish".
 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 07-13-2012, 06:41 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 07-13-2012, 07:35 PM:
 
So Mark, you're already chopped frames out of an Imax print of "Dark Knight Rising"?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-13-2012, 09:09 PM:
 
The only way you know that it is IMAX is that it says "IMAX" in the lower right corner. Otherwise we'd all think it was 35mm because it is clearly no different.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 07-13-2012, 09:54 PM:
 
Every time you make a splice with an ultrasonic splicer, you lose a frame of film. unless you are careful to cut and join the film on the correct frame line with the correct alignment of your cuts.

But, now that you've cut out that film, your sound is forever going to be fifteen sprockets out of sync.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-13-2012, 11:56 PM:
 
But what evidence do you have that the film has been cut? Or that Mark ever even touched this? It could be from an article.

EDIT: spleling
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-14-2012, 04:22 AM:
 
All 15 perfs are intact. I'm sure he pulled it from an article or something.

BTW, way too much headroom there. Silly IMAX aspect ratio.
 

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Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 07-14-2012, 10:05 AM:
 
That is for sure a scan and then cleaned on the edges to not show the frame line. Then again, we all know that and I'm not really sure why I'm posting this....
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 07-14-2012, 03:15 PM:
 

quote: Kurt Zupin

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That is for sure a scan and then cleaned on the edges to not show the frame line. Then again, we all know that and I'm not really sure why I'm posting this....

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Because you missed the sarcasm of my post....
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-15-2012, 04:04 PM:
 
Also pretty sure IMAX haven't started adding a watermark to their prints.
 

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Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 07-15-2012, 07:18 PM:
 
No but they print these strange looking eyeglass symbols at the bottom of the frame

 

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Posted by Dave Macaulay (Member # 813) on 07-15-2012, 07:50 PM:
 
That's what a frame cut out with an ultrasonic splicer looks like assuming you want to splice the cut ends together. You have somewhat less than the full space between sprocket holes left at each end, losing the frame line. The matching cut ends have more than half, which overlaps in the splicer.
I would suspect this is a marketing giveaway frame, but nobody cutting multiple frames would flip the roll around to make this type of frame, or even use an ultrasonic splicer to cut them. And the edge code is too perfectly placed. So it's probably a photoshop project.
 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 07-15-2012, 10:25 PM:
 
I think that frame is a promotional one, as it appeared today in the NY Times in an article about the benefits of seeing BATMAN in 15/70. They compared that to a 35mm frame of the same shot.

Aren't those green glasses from the Imax film version of SUPERMAN RETURNS, with only a few shots in 3D?
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 09-21-2012, 02:25 PM:
 
The space shuttle Endeavor flew over the Golden Gate Bridge
this morning on its' way to Los Angeles, where it will
be 'retired' at a science Museum. I was able to get a few pictures:








 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 09-21-2012, 02:58 PM:
 
Is it flying that low on purpose? Still about 400 miles to go to get to L.A.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 09-21-2012, 03:21 PM:
 

quote: Richard Hamilton

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Is it flying that low on purpose?

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Yes, Rich- -
They did several low altitude fly-bys at points along the
route to give the public a last chance to see it before
it sets down permanantly in LA. The area around the bridge
was packed with spectators. I heard all the 'viewing points'
along the route had large crowds who came to out see it. I got
out there real early to get a good spot, but it was well
worth the wait!
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 09-25-2012, 06:43 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 09-26-2012, 05:44 PM:
 
There's a great selection of shots of Endeavour available here:
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2012/09/23/endeavour-in-the-sky/
and also here:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sfendeavour2012&m=tags&s=int

In a few of the shots you can see the F-15 acting as a photographic chase plane - NASA have released a bunch of images from it too.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 10-23-2012, 02:29 AM:
 


British slang for an in-car GPS navigation system = satnav.
British vulgar slang, literally referring to female genitalia, but used more generally to mean someone who draws attention to themselves by doing something stupid = twat.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-24-2012, 01:43 PM:
 
Sign from the Sunset Drive-In in Miles City, MT. I think it closed sometime in the 80s or maybe the 70s. There's nothing else left.


 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 02-08-2013, 10:00 AM:
 
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Franciso has an exhibit with
some of the sets & stop-motion puppets from the movie
PARANORMAN on display. Here's a few pix I took the other
nite on my way to work at a nearby screening room-

"Norman"- He's about 10in tall, but there were
several different size "Norman's" used depending on
the size & perspective of the set used in the shot.


Norman's house was the largest item on display. Its about
4.5ft high, and the detail was amazing. If you look close
you can see there's a tiny water spigot & garden hose,
and even a little electric meter & phone box on the side.


Here's the van used in the chase near the
end of the movie. It's about 2 feet long.


These figures are only about 4in high, and built only from
the waist up. Tiny LED's illuminate the interior of the van


Part of the "school hallway" set:


Once again, the detail is amazing! Check out
this tiny AV cart that's part of the school set:


Norman's Parents


"Mr Penderghast"


-jc-
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-03-2013, 08:33 PM:
 
Here is a digital painting some fan did of our show.



I'll see you in your nightmares.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-21-2013, 10:38 AM:
 
Thumbs and Ammo
Lots of funny pics there...
















 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-24-2013, 02:35 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-24-2013, 02:43 PM:
 
Next time Kirk, use the communicator. Bathroom stalls aren't readable from the Enterprise.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-07-2013, 05:36 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-13-2013, 01:39 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-15-2013, 01:00 AM:
 
Are Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping actually Tigger and Winnie the Pooh?
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-26-2013, 08:06 PM:
 

Picture from the Calgary flood
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-26-2013, 11:21 PM:
 
WARP DOGS!

More pics at the link above.


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 07-22-2013, 01:44 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 07-22-2013, 06:05 PM:
 
Off to a bad start.


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-25-2013, 09:17 AM:
 
No kidding. This typo ran in our local newspaper yesterday.



I wouldn't be surprised to see this image on Jimmy Kimmel Live or some other show making fun of newspaper headline goofs sometime soon. Target opens its legs for the pubic regions of customers!

Some of our residents are so freaking excited about Lawton finally getting a Target, as if it finally puts the city on the map. I thought getting an Olive Garden restaurant was supposed to do that. Sadly, we still don't have a Chipotle here.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 08-20-2013, 04:00 PM:
 
There have been a few news articles over the past couple of days stating that the Canadian military is currently testing a new "stealth snowmobile" at a cost of $620,000.

I think this cartoon is wonderful:

Love the tip-toeing dogs.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-15-2013, 04:04 PM:
 
I had lunch at Norma's Cafe today. Pretty good overall. This is just one section of their menu.



I must say though I'm tempted to try the peanut butter and jelly. For that kind of price it must be incredible.


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-15-2013, 08:37 PM:
 
Why mom's shouldn't text.




 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 09-17-2013, 04:51 AM:
 
Doing a vinegar check of the 70mm holdings:






 

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Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 09-17-2013, 01:28 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 09-26-2013, 08:30 PM:
 
Bill... You must be at a loss for words...
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-07-2013, 01:59 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-03-2013, 07:47 PM:
 
How did they turn out Jock?
 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 11-05-2013, 12:46 AM:
 
POLTERGEIST is faded as all hell (as is to be expected) but otherwise fine (for all the good that does), and two prints of 2010 have started to turn and will unfortunately have to be junked. The other 2010 print, which was the "choice" print and stored separately, is still fine though.
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 11-18-2013, 12:10 AM:
 


The view from my (future) front yard....
 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 11-18-2013, 08:06 AM:
 
Jock, I'm sure there's a market for 2010 even if it's faded, I wouldn't junk it
 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 11-18-2013, 04:51 PM:
 
Not faded; vinegared, and getting bad too. (I could have been more clear, I realise now)

We still have one very good print of it (unfaded) and that's going nowhere. Be assured that fading on its own is not sufficient reason for us to junk a print!
 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 11-19-2013, 09:33 AM:
 
Aww, that's unfortunate. :/
 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 11-25-2013, 12:45 AM:
 
Yeah it is, but these things happen.

On another note:



I suppose it's better than them just taking a guess?
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-25-2013, 01:11 AM:
 
So no end credit offset is better than taking a guess? Ok I'll agree with you there, but Alien was a scope movie. It is not "full container".
 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 11-25-2013, 08:54 AM:
 
That was the bonus point

Now we just need to find out if they've junked the print of the Director's Cut.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 12-26-2013, 01:05 AM:
 
Back to the Stealth Snowmobile:

 

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Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 12-27-2013, 04:40 AM:
 
Don't know what all this talk of snow is about... it's going to be a lovely 38 degrees here tomorrow.

That's just shy of 101 F, by the way.

Had some nice weather the last few days though - even felt justified in raiding the special film fridge



(yes okay it was one post that happened to include snow but a segue's a segue)
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 01-16-2014, 04:29 PM:
 
If you have ever tried to explain programming to a non-programmer, you'll relate to this:

 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 01-19-2014, 12:29 PM:
 
Took this shot at a theatre in Hollywood last week. This was between a double feature at a repertory house, the first feature was Academy, second feature was flat. In between shows, the projectionist came down and manually adjusted the masking, then went up and ran a loop of SMPTE for about 30 seconds to confirm his sizing. Many in the audience were in the lobby or outside, but there were still about 30 or so seated. At first I thought the guy was just being a conscientious pro, then I thought he should have a better idea where the masking stops were so as to avoid having doing this (he clearly nailed it). No one in the audience seemed to mind.

So. Meticulous or sloppy?


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-19-2014, 02:06 PM:
 

quote: Mark Ogden

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So. Meticulous or sloppy?

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Both. If he just had a pullstring to move the masking with, there is no reason not to color code the various stop points on the rope. For example black for 1.33, green for 1.85, red for 2.39, etc. Essentially you get the masking set dead on, then pick a spot where both sides of the rope (one moving downward/one moving upward) have no tape on them and you wrap the color around both ropes individually. Then the next time you need to go back to that setpoint, you just move the ropes up and down until the two colored pieces of tape line up again.
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 01-19-2014, 04:23 PM:
 
Two stops: flat & scope; just knot the rope. It was done that way in a house I worked long ago.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-19-2014, 07:15 PM:
 
What Brad said is exactly what we did at the Regency Tamarac since we didn't have motorized masking. Marking it once removed the worry about being wrong. And of course we'd always have masking changes between each show any time two movies doubled-up.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 02-04-2014, 12:38 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Chase Taylor (Member # 778) on 02-07-2014, 01:51 PM:
 
Some customers, maybe ;-)
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 02-08-2014, 01:36 PM:
 


I know the intent is GPS location, but really, email or text a dog?
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 03-14-2014, 01:50 PM:
 


FINALLY, somebody takes on those "Labor Dispute" sign guys.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-15-2014, 10:35 AM:
 
At first glance that banner seems to be doing a good imitation of the labor dispute banner, but ultimately it is a failure on the part of whoever designed it.

The only thing the designer got right was the general layout. He failed to match the typefaces used on the labor dispute banner (Futura Bold and Futura Extra Bold) opting to stretch the living shit out of Impact instead. Lazy bastard. The red vinyl used on the prices banner isn't the same either (it's noticeably more dull looking, probably a cheap cast/intermediate vinyl).
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-15-2014, 11:30 AM:
 
And that's why the effort was a failure and accomplished nothing.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-15-2014, 01:35 PM:
 
This is so nutty that I initially thought it might be someone's idea of a joke, but I guess it's real.

I got a phone call from someone a few days ago telling me something about advertising. Between the quality of the connection and the speed that the guy on the other end of line was talking, I couldn't really understand what he was trying to tell me. Therefore, I told him to email me whatever it is that he was trying to say and hung up the phone. Never gave it any further thought until just now when his email showed up.

This outfit straps signs to birds. Here is part of their description of what they do: "The concept of bird advertising is simple. Imagine a plane pulling a banner advertisement - now imagine this on a smaller scale with birds pulling many smaller advertisements in the city." "All ... birds are fixed with patent-pending harness system technology."

Ok, this sounds pretty damn weird. I went to their website and here are a few of the pictures that I found:



Look at the size of the signs that they are making those poor little birds drag around! That just seems... cruel. In addition to all of that weight, the signs will get caught in trees and whatever else they are trying to perch on.
The photos look like they were taken in India or somewhere like that, but their website shows an address in Vancouver. Hopefully some of the animal protection outfits will take some action before they get this thing off the ground anywhere around here.
 

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Posted by Marco Giustini (Member # 4544) on 03-15-2014, 03:32 PM:
 
This is simply disgusting
 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 03-15-2014, 03:46 PM:
 
I refuse to do business with any company who hangs their ads on birds like this.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 03-16-2014, 12:53 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 03-16-2014, 01:04 PM:
 
Poor birds. How awful.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-16-2014, 02:32 PM:
 
Any American business owner would need to have his head examined if he seriously thought about using this birds dragging signs form of advertising. Aside from seriously pissing off groups like PETA, it would turn off and anger a LOT of potential customers.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-29-2014, 08:32 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-30-2014, 12:30 PM:
 
Like the old joke about losing three out of four engines on a four-engined airplane - the airplane ETA gets later and later as each engine shuts down; the self-loading cargo response: "If we lose that last engine we'll be up here all day."

A 777-200 proly glides pretty good for such a big aircraft, like one of my old flight examiners used to say, "Flies just like a piano..." ;
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-07-2014, 06:22 PM:
 
Sometimes junk mail slips through. I don't know why I read this one but it gave me quite a laugh:



I want to reply and confirm that I did in fact receive her mouth water.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 04-10-2014, 11:12 AM:
 
I don't think this is going to work.

 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 04-10-2014, 01:00 PM:
 
Blind adherence to procedures?
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-10-2014, 03:54 PM:
 
Man that's funny.

Obviously the train, with just the locomotive on the front weighing more than 100 tons alone, would have no problem pressing its wheels right through that crap on the tracks like a hot knife through butter.

But supposing those hose protectors would work, the firefighters would have a nice train derailment to clean up.
 

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Posted by Jarod Reddig (Member # 6363) on 04-11-2014, 12:51 AM:
 
That seriously pisses me off about those poor birds. I absolutley hate animal cruelty. Whoever dreemed that up should be sentenced to a mandatory year of dragging a 50ft banner attached to his junk than get pecked to death by the pigeons invloved in the ordeal.

Man what idiot fire fighters. Hope they don't have to put out a fire out one of our homes yikes prolly got gas in the water tank to douse the flames lol.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-15-2014, 12:19 PM:
 


The moon, as seen from our backyard at 9.16pm yesterday evening. Shot using a Nikon D3200, 300mm lens, ISO100, f28, 2 second exposure. The moon itself was only came out at 824 pixels in diameter in the original photo - what you see here is cropped in Photoshop. But the fact that any detail is visible at all with anything less than a telescope attached to the camera body is a remarkable demonstration of what a 24 megapixel sensor can pick up.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-15-2014, 02:00 PM:
 
f/28 or f/2.8? I'm a little confused about that f-stop. I'm guessing you meant f/2.8 (which would also mean you would have a pretty expensive 300mm lens).

The apertures of most lenses shrink down no more than f/22. Some will go down to f/32 or f/45. I'm not sure I see the point of such tiny apertures. They can increase depth of field, but it always comes at a cost of increased diffraction which softens the entire image.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-15-2014, 02:24 PM:
 
It was one of these, which will go down to f32. But at f32 it will distort a lot at the extreme end of the zoom range, as you point out, and so I tend not to use anything smaller than 28. Needless to say, the moon pic was taken tripod-mounted.

It came as part of a body plus two lenses (28-70 and 70-300) kit with the F75 film camera I bought in 2005. I got a real bargain on the outfit: a local high street electronics chain at the time was discontinuing sales of film cameras and fire-selling their remaining stock. I got the entire outfit for GBP250, and part of the reason it was so attractive is that the G-mount lenses will also fit Nikon D-SLR bodies. At that time a D-SLR of any reasonable quality cost an insane amount, and so I decided to buy that and carry on using film for the next few years, knowing that I could re-use the lenses if I later bought a Nikon D-SLR. I bought the 3200 in December 2012, and still shoot the odd roll on the F75.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-15-2014, 02:56 PM:
 
Did you try taking any shots at bigger apertures, such f/8, f/5.6, etc.? Most camera lenses will deliver the sharpest results between f/5.6 and f/11.

I personally wouldn't use a really tight aperture, like f/22 or smaller, unless I was taking some kind of photo that required reasonably sharp focus of nearby objects and stuff far away. The moon is pretty well at the infinity focus position. If there's nothing else in the frame you could get away with shooting it using your lens' biggest aperture (f/4.0). Your exposure time would be far shorter, which would reduce any softness caused by tripod vibrations due to wind or other things.

That's pretty nice to have the flexibility of attaching the lens to film and digital bodies. My father has an old Canon F-1 body and some good lenses to go with it. But AFAIK the bayonet mount style of those lenses is not compatible at all with newer Canon EF bodies.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-15-2014, 11:41 PM:
 
Getting reasonably sharp focus of something far away was what I was aiming for, hence f28. As mentioned earlier, f32 on that lens tends to cause slight vignetting when zoomed to 200mm ish or more, hence staying clear of it. Annoyingly, there is a bit of cloud about tonight, or I'd have re-attempted the same shot with a slightly wider aperture.

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My father has an old Canon F-1 body and some good lenses to go with it. But AFAIK the bayonet mount style of those lenses is not compatible at all with newer Canon EF bodies.

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You can get converters, but needless to say the focus and aperture will have to be set manually; and because the D-SLR has no way of knowing what the aperture setting is, I'm guessing that it may refuse to set the shutter speed automatically, too. I've never tried using a totally manual/mechanical lens (i.e. no servos or electronics in it) on a modern autofocus/auto-aperture 35mm or digital SLR. My understanding from people who have is that it can be done, but the results can be variable and there can be a whole new learning curve involved in persuading the camera's software to cooperate.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 04-16-2014, 01:48 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-16-2014, 12:19 PM:
 

quote: Leo Enticknap

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Getting reasonably sharp focus of something far away was what I was aiming for, hence f28.

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The problem is the use of such a tiny aperture isn't necessary for photographing the moon unless you have something else in the frame nearby, such as a person standing nearby in the foreground. At a larger aperture, such as f/8 or even f/4, you'll likely see significantly more detailed results, not to mention improved contrast.

The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II lens I bought last May delivers exceptionally tack sharp image quality wide open at f/2.8, although depth of field is very narrow and vignetting is noticeable at that f-stop setting, especially on a full frame camera body. This lens delivers maybe a tiny bit more detail in the f/4 and f/8 range, but stopping down definitely eliminates the vignetting. At f/16 the effects of diffraction start becoming noticeable. Edge details softens slightly and contrast is a little reduced. Diffraction problems are even more noticeable at f/22. Image quality on this lens isn't terrible at f/22, but it's not in the same "wow" category I see at f/2.8 through f/11.

Diffraction is more pronounced on some other types of lenses. I've been looking at Canon's 100mm L-series f/2.8 macro as a possible future purchase. It can double as a great portrait lens. Canon's 100mm macro delivers some of the sharpest results available in their product line. But you have to shoot at bigger apertures to get those results. Diffraction really makes the lens soft at f/22.

Diffraction is a serious issue with smaller sensor cameras, like the ones built into smart phones. Some major improvements will have to be made in both camera sensor design and lens optics technology to lift smart phone camera image quality anywhere near the level of current DSLR cameras.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-17-2014, 08:56 PM:
 
My rule of thumb is to shoot two stops larger than the smallest aperture for maximum sharpness.

If the camera's smallest aperture is ƒ22 then ƒ11 or ƒ8 would be the setting to use for maximum sharpness with less diffraction from the aperture blades. Theoretically, you might use the largest aperture but, then, you start running into depth of field issues, especially at short distances. I've got a couple of lenses that go as wide as ƒ1.2 but, at any distance shorter than ten feet, my DoF can be only a few inches. The tip of the nose might be in sharp focus but the rest of the face will be blurry.

I suppose you could set the camera for hyperfocal distance: ƒ22@635ft, if my calculation is correct, your circle of confusion would be 0.02mm.

Given the amount of enlargement the picture has been given, the fact that you can still just make out the Tycho crater on the surface is still pretty remarkable.

You still have to consider that, during even a 1 sec. exposure, the moon would have moved enough to blur the picture. Unless the camera was on an equatorial mount with tracking gear, you are bound to get some motion blur.

So... Overall, it's a pretty damn good shot!
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-17-2014, 10:45 PM:
 

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You still have to consider that, during even a 1 sec. exposure, the moon would have moved enough to blur the picture. Unless the camera was on an equatorial mount with tracking gear, you are bound to get some motion blur.

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I was going to mention telescopes with computerized/motorized tracking. I wish I had one of those things when I was a kid. They're fucking cool. Too bad such setups aren't all that cheap.

Nevertheless, that's another reason to shoot that moon shot using a bigger aperture, like f/8. Much shorter exposure time and reduced chance of blur.

I'm still lusting after some super-telephoto combination rigs. One day I will have a 400mm f/2.8 lens. I just don't have $11,000 in cash laying around to blow on one right now, and don't feel like cashing that much out of my IRA (and paying a tax penalty) for it either. But I will have one eventually. I've seen some impressive moon shots taken with 400mm f/2.8 lenses stacked on 2X teleconverters.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-17-2014, 11:39 PM:
 
Put a 400mm on a tripod mounted on a 7D (cropped sensor) and you could get a super-detailed moon shot with an exposure time of probably 1/20 or even faster. And it will be super clear. Crank the ISO up a little (say 640) and you could leave the shutter at 1/60 or faster. The moon wouldn't even have permission to noticeably move during that time.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-17-2014, 11:58 PM:
 
I've been thinking about the 7D as a back-up camera for my 5D Mark II. Ultimately, I'm just going to get a lot more serious about event and portrait shooting gigs. As much as I salivate over Canon's EF 400mm f/2.8L II lens, my next big purchase is going to be more studio lights. Gotta go where most of the money is. And that's with portrait and event shots.

The 400mm f/2.8 package does have a justification: sports photography. Football is HUGE here in Oklahoma. I know I could do a lot of business taking photos of promising high school football prospects (not to mention other sports). But my 5D Mark II body isn't all that hot for sports photography. A series 1 body would be a hell of a lot better for that. I do think there's a market there which is not being exploited.

High end event photography is another thing. I'm wondering how some of these guys weasel their way into shooting medium and large format digital. The equipment is so damned expensive it's just unbelievable. Who did they rob to be able to afford buying this gear? I couldn't see blowing $50,000 on a camera body alone. 50K could get you one hell of a Canon or Nikon based DSLR kit covering the gamut from super telephoto down to extreme aperture prime.

At any rate, I'm gonna have a friggin' 400mm f/2.8 lens. Some guys buy motorcycles as adult toys for themselves. I'm gonna get a big fucking honking super telephoto lens. So there.

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-18-2014, 09:49 AM:
 

quote: Bobby Henderson

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Nevertheless, that's another reason to shoot that moon shot using a bigger aperture, like f/8. Much shorter exposure time and reduced chance of blur.

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Consider that the moon is 300,000 miles away and I don't think you have to worry much about DoF. Your two-fifth and three-fifth calculations come out to something like 120,000 and 480,000 miles. With a range of more than half a million miles, I don't think DoF means squat.
(Okay, okay... I know those calculations are baseless. That was humor. )

Point being, at astronomical distances, I don't think aperture and DoF have much bearing. Use whatever aperture is necessary to get the picture you want. I don't think that, in astronomical photography, it would be a problem to leave the aperture wide open, if necessary. (Or just one stop short of wide open.)

quote: Joe Redifer

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Crank the ISO up a little (say 640) and you could leave the shutter at 1/60 or faster.

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I wouldn't go any faster than that, even with film, unless I was shooting with a format large enough that grain wouldn't be an issue. Even with a 4x5 I wouldn't want to go much above 400.

I would also leave the camera outside for at least an hour or two in order to let it cool down to ambient temperature, preventing heat from causing sensor noise.

When shooting black and white film, you don't have to worry about reciprocity drift causing colors to shift. So, leaving the camera outside to cool to ambient would help prevent distortion from heat inside the camera.

Still, for just walking outside and taking a picture of the moon, Leo's picture ain't bad.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-18-2014, 05:51 PM:
 

quote: Bobby Henderson

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I've been thinking about the 7D as a back-up camera for my 5D Mark II.

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quote: Randy Stankey

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I wouldn't go any faster than that, even with film, unless I was shooting with a format large enough that grain wouldn't be an issue. Even with a 4x5 I wouldn't want to go much above 400.

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Even at an ISO of 1000 it'd be far less grainy than Leo's current pic.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-18-2014, 07:12 PM:
 
You're right, Joe, but I'm one of those weird guys who still shoots with film. I think diffr'nt.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-19-2014, 10:49 AM:
 

quote: Randy Stankey

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You still have to consider that, during even a 1 sec. exposure, the moon would have moved enough to blur the picture. Unless the camera was on an equatorial mount with tracking gear, you are bound to get some motion blur.

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quote: Leo Enticknap

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I'll try again, both with a smaller aperture...

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A smaller aperture number which would give a larger aperture opening. Right?
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-25-2014, 11:06 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-25-2014, 11:56 AM:
 
120 Yashica Avenue
Nagano, F22S60
Japan
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-25-2014, 03:29 PM:
 
"Dreamy Camera Cafe", a coffee shop built to look like a Rolleiflex TLR, just outside of Seoul, South Korea...
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-25-2014, 04:23 PM:
 
Since the sign wasn't in English I figured the camera would have to be a Yashica Mat instead of a Rollei.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-25-2014, 10:16 PM:
 

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A smaller aperture number which would give a larger aperture opening. Right?

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Sorry, yes, smaller number / bigger hole (as the actress said to the bishop).

There are times when cellphone cameras have their uses, though. About 2-3 weeks ago there was a slightly more than trivial earthquake: near the epicenter (somewhere near Long Beach IIRC) it caused serious damage to a couple of buildings and quite a bit of more minor damage. Where we are, about 40 miles away, it was enough to have ceiling lights swinging. By the following day, the local Home Depot had already spotted a business oppportunity! The manager there was certainly quick off the mark.



I would have stood out somewhat trying to take this with an SLR.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-25-2014, 11:23 PM:
 
Don't worry. I was only making fun.
You just got you mords wixed. I do it too.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-28-2014, 05:34 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-28-2014, 06:36 PM:
 
Wouldn't it have been easier to chop the plugs off and use a strip of terminal block?
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-28-2014, 08:55 PM:
 
If you were going to do something like that, you might as well just bite the plugs off the ends of the wires with your teeth, strip the insulation back with your fingernails, twist the wires together using your fingers then secure them with duct tape.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-29-2014, 12:47 PM:
 
As the chief projectionist who first trained me always said, human teeth are the best wire strippers ever invented.

When I mentioned this to my father-in-law, who is a dentist (I couldn't resist seeing his reaction would be), his response was that sooner or later you'll probably be able to get replacements for those at Loew's, too...
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-01-2014, 08:38 PM:
 
Now available in Japan, for the Delorean owner in your life:


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-03-2014, 10:33 PM:
 
Three car thieves ran off on foot across a muddy Saskatchewan field on Friday afternoon. It would be almost impossible to walk, let alone run, in a field when it's this muddy -- your shoes would each weigh about 40 pounds within the first few steps!

A nearby farmer gave three police officers a ride in a bucket on the front of his tractor so they could get across the field to catch the crooks:


 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 05-19-2014, 05:37 PM:
 
Today Hollywood. Tomorrow THE WORLD (Hitler ruined everything)



1930 Technicolor focus chart.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-24-2014, 03:52 PM:
 
70mm print of 'Lawrence' ready to go over to the Aero for tonight's screening. My back aches just looking at it...


 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 05-24-2014, 04:53 PM:
 
What were the shipping charges?
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-24-2014, 05:27 PM:
 
That's Lawrence in the back, but what are the seven canisters in the front?
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-24-2014, 06:30 PM:
 
Hmmm. Since the Aero is showing West Side Story tomorrow night in 70mm, that's proly what those cases are... ;
 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 05-24-2014, 07:01 PM:
 
Not enough reels for West Side Story. Probably Vertigo. I think that's the booth at the Egyptian.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-24-2014, 09:42 PM:
 
Yeah, Vertigo is showing right now at the Egyptian tonight. The American Cinematheque seems to be in full 70mm mode this holiday weekend... ;
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-26-2014, 01:39 PM:
 
Paul's picture left out one rather important detail - for the projectionists at any case! Those 70mm shows came in just after our elevator went out...



About half of those reels made it up there by Yours Truly's elbow grease (many thanks to Oliver the manager for helping me, and lugging the others). Yup - Jimmy is in the foreground and Larry is in the background. T.E. Lawrence was a notorious fitness freak, and it seems that he's imposing it on us from beyond the grave! But at any rate, hauling those movies was probably easier than hauling Kim Novak out of San Francisco Bay.

Sorry I missed you on Friday, Paul (I'm a Seventh-day Adventist and therefore don't work Friday evenings). My colleagues who ran Larry both at the Gypo and the Aero report that it looked great, though. I ran West Side Story at the Aero last night and it was fantastic - a very clean print (a little dirt from plattering at the starts and ends, but otherwise mint), razor sharp, the DTS with five stage channels sounded great (the noise reduction wasn't too aggressive, and so it really did evoke mag sound) and we had an almost sellout crowd.

Of course the elevator was fixed just after we got the films up the stairs.

Martin - shipping 70mm isn't too big an expense for us, because one of our colleagues goes and gets the prints from local depots in a van. We're very lucky in that both our (the American Cinematheque's) theatres are located pretty close to where many 70mm prints are kept (both those of the studios and some of the big non-profit archives), and so we don't have that economic hurdle to get over in order to play 70mm.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-26-2014, 02:36 PM:
 

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Of course the elevator was fixed just after we got the films up the stairs.

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Of course! And the Egyptian has one of those booths with an elevator that gets you to the booth floor... (well, a few steps short but close enough). At least it's only a few steps from the landing level at the top of the balcony to the booth floor...

Glad to hear the shows looked/sounded good. Sorry I missed these sessions, but I am finally moving back to SoCal after my adventures in The Land of Enchantment. Hopefully I'll be a member again of both the Cinematheque and the SMPTE Hollywood Section in short order, enjoying some good films on some great screens!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-26-2014, 03:59 PM:
 
Leo, what makes you think the dirt at the reel changes were from plattering? My experience has been exactly the opposite.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-27-2014, 02:00 AM:
 
Splices at the starts and ends of reels consistent with plattering, ID frames, fingerprints around the splices, and in the case of Vertigo, chinagraph edge marking of the sort that is used as a quick 'n lazy way to find the splice when packing off a print from a platter. Granted, this could also have indicated the use of a tower or double-MUT type system, but these prints had the classic evidence of having been made up into longer rolls carelessly.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-28-2014, 04:16 PM:
 
The power was off here for a while this morning...


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-28-2014, 06:19 PM:
 


Fixed that for ya. Wasn't quite small enough.

Also, wouldn't turning the power on be a good way to get the bear down ASAP?
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-28-2014, 07:42 PM:
 
A friend of mine sent me that picture -- that's what he sent me.

Maybe getting the bear down too quickly could bring the power line down too. Probably better to just say "shoo" and watch it leave on its own.
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 05-28-2014, 08:50 PM:
 
Damn, and I thought our squirrels were bad.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 05-31-2014, 09:08 AM:
 
Last week I ordered a 10-pack of some very strong
neodymium magnets for a project I'm working on at home.

I knew they'd arrived when I opened my mailbox the other
day and found this package securely stuck to the inside :

( Hopefully nobody on my mail carrier's route was
expecting a new credit or ATM card that day! )
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-31-2014, 08:46 PM:
 
Your mailman's way of saying, "Here's your mail... Bastard..."
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-16-2014, 08:27 PM:
 
Impressive photos of then and now (WW2).

click here
 

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Posted by Allan Young (Member # 6332) on 06-18-2014, 07:49 AM:
 
These D-Day landings interactive photographs are even more impressive.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 07-24-2014, 02:13 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-01-2014, 12:58 PM:
 
While working on a new device from USL I noticed this...


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 08-01-2014, 04:09 PM:
 

Pampered House Mouse ?
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 08-05-2014, 10:11 PM:
 
OUCH!


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 08-07-2014, 10:22 PM:
 
This must have given all the expat Brits in Santa Monica a giggle:


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-12-2014, 06:35 PM:
 
Not a picture, but I can't seem to locate the "random links" thread, and it didn't seem right to start a review on Boyhood for this on craigslist...

You Farted During "Boyhood" - mw4m (Pasadena) web page

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There we were, just enjoying a nice quiet Saturday night at the movies. A slow mover, Linklater's "Boyhood." Some popcorn. A few sodas. Nothing really happens in the film, we found. For about 90 minutes or so we stare listlessly at the screen. It's a thinking man's film, I say. Beautifully shot. It's about life, and death and relationships and things of that nature. Just then, at a brief, carefully-timed cinematic pause in dialogue, an enormous fart from somewhere in the back pierces an otherwise silent movie theatre. It had the impact of a baseball bat hitting a leather couch, or George Foreman working the heavy bag. Whack. Loud, deep and masculine.The seat cushion heroically absorbed most of the blow, but not enough that each and every person in the movie theatre instantly burst into nervous laughter. The laughter continued for what felt like a good 5 minutes, until tears streamed down our faces. Even well after the blast, we quietly chuckled to ourselves with a 'remember the time that guy farted in the movie theatre' gleam in our eyes. And just like that, with a soft chuckle and a deep breath, we were back into the film. Things happened, people drove around Texas, relationships came and went, there was crying, there was hope. It was as if we had all forgotten about the fart that had brought us together that night. As the sun began to set on screen, the teenage boy, no longer a boy, transitions into an adult, before our very eyes, and looks, intently, lustfully into a young girls eyes, as if to lean in for a kiss, and braaaaaaap. Another fart from the back row, like two giant hands clapping together, and the screen goes dark, roll credits. We decided, after laughing our way out of the theatre, and all the way home, that this was the best movie that we had ever seen. I imagine the lone fartist sauntering off into the sunset. His work here done.
If only I could say thank you, kind sir. You are truly a master of your craft.

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 08-12-2014, 11:47 PM:
 

Training to be a Man?
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 08-24-2014, 10:43 AM:
 
We had quite an earthquake event overnite here in San Francisco.

You wouldn't believe how much the old (1926) building I live in shook.

It was enough to make some of the water slosh outta the toilet!

Some of my kitchen cabinets & closet doors flew open,
but no real damage here.

Except:

This Radio In My Kitchen Nearly
Shook Itself Off Of The Shelf


I Seem To Have A Few New Cracks In
The Plaster Above My Bathroom Door


Later, I walked down to the theater near my house
to check on things there. All OK except for a few
things that fell off the shelves in the storage room,
and SOMEBODY is going to have to re-stage the candy!


Prelminary estimates rate the quake as a 6.1 on the Richter scale, which
is a pretty good size shaker!

(In my neighborhood, which is known as "The Richmond District" we rate quakes
according to "the Richmond scale", which is how many BMW car alarms get set off)
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 08-24-2014, 12:14 PM:
 
Doesn't the earthquake mis-align the projectors in the theatre? Or do you have them bolted down or something to prevent that?

All that I'm dealing with here today is more rain. Yay. So far there's a bit of water dripping from the ceiling in one portion of my basement; I've just now put a couple of pails under the drips. If that's as bad as it gets, it's not too bad.

Since the big flood a few weeks back I've been working on putting channels in around the edges of my basement to direct the water into my sumps. I don't know how well that's going to work, but if this rain continues I might be finding out shortly.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 08-29-2014, 08:38 AM:
 
As if we needed further evidence of the 'demise of film' - -

Here are 2 pictures taken at the loading dock of a major "film" festival:

Film Delivery - 2012


Film Delivery - 2014


It's also worth noting that many of the prints you
see here are just back-ups for some of the DCP shows

. . . and just inside that door, DCP drive boxes & HDCAM tapes are stacked chest high
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-29-2014, 02:26 PM:
 
That top pick looks like half of our film can pile we had at the UA Greenwood Plaza 12 at any given time. We'd always run special stuff, trade screenings and prints for the higher echelons of corporate employees. It was always fun sifting through the cans trying to find the proper ones when breaking down a print. I was glad when I got to the Mann Chinese 16. Despite having 4 more screens, we had waaaay fewer prints to build and way fewer cans.
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 08-31-2014, 11:15 PM:
 
At EBR-1 (Experimental Breeder Reactor 1) in Idaho:



Lunch at Pickle's Place, Arco, ID:


 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 09-01-2014, 12:08 AM:
 
And here's the sunset at the end of the ride. The storm clouds had dumped rain on me earlier in the day. Raindrops hitting you at 70mph in a leather suit are just like bee stings.. :


 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 09-01-2014, 02:04 AM:
 
Nice Pix, Tony.

I sure hope that suit has a cape. Even a little tiny one. It would make my day.
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 09-01-2014, 10:44 AM:
 
Thanks Manny. And sorry, no cape..but I was not wearing anything at all under that suit..it was for a challenge on my sportbike rider's forum. I rode "commando" in my full race leather suit.

It was shall we say, arousing.

And that pic made something more obvious to me..I really need to update my profile pic on here..the one I have now is really bad, you can tell I was not doing well and had a lot of extra weight on. (I was about 185 when the profile pic was taken, and now I am back down to 140.)
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-01-2014, 01:51 PM:
 
Jim: if you're suffering from film deficiency syndrome at Telluride, we've got an acetate and polyester overdose here at Cinecon!



And there's about the same amount of film again which isn't visible in this pic.

And here's one of them in action - a full-aperture silent print, hence threaded to bypass the optical sound reader altogether. Thanks to the very high RPMs of the Norelco shutter, they're almost flicker-free, even as low as 17 FPS.



Writing on the wall, though: we've got four major festivals this month, of which Cinecon is the first. As it's essentially an archival festival dedicated to showing rare and difficult-to-see movies, almost all of the five-day program is on 35mm: only one feature (Meet Me in St. Louis) and a couple of Chaplin shorts were DCPs. In contrast, there will not be a single foot of film projected in the other three festivals: everything is either DCP, BD or HDCAM.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 09-22-2014, 01:59 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 09-22-2014, 02:11 PM:
 
I Finally fulfilled my dream of owning my own DRIVE-IN


Maintainence and overhead are extremely Low; Still looking for that Profit Margin to begin
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 09-22-2014, 02:22 PM:
 
WHAT A GREAT TOY! And it looks like it's in really good condition, too.

I've never seen one before. Where did you get it? ebay or something like that?

I'd love to have something like that to put on display in my lobby.
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 09-22-2014, 03:05 PM:
 
Interesting Story about this Toy Frank. This came around about 1959-60 and was made by REMCO. I wanted this for Christmas so bad I even made a personal trip to the Shopping Center to remind Santa that this was the number one thing I wanted for Christmas. I was 10 yrs old. So on Christmas Morning I'm up at 5am expecting this to be under the Christmas tree. Well it wasn't!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1zM7sSbU4w

In it's place was an Opaque Projector from a Company I can't even remember. Too say I was disappointed was an understatement. Too make a long story short. My parents told me years later that none of the Major Retail Stores had it in stock at Christmas,it was either a popular toy then,or wasn't popular. I never ever saw one owned by any other kid I knew. so in haste they got me the other projector; which actually was a neater piece. However when I was looking at Vintage Toys on EBAY last year. I saw this and memories came about and I had to have it. It's in Pristine Condition and has all the 16mm Film strips.

It was never a movie projector type drive-in, which was kind of disappointing. More of a Film-Strip theater; But it's neat to have something you thought you could never live with out even if it cost probably 20 times more than it originally cost

I also have one of these Excel P42 Toy Televisions which actually had a 16mm type projector in the back. These came about in the late 40's early 50's It's a really neat Toy...




 

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Posted by Scott Jentsch (Member # 1681) on 09-24-2014, 10:38 AM:
 
How large is the screen?

I like the idea in the comments of the YouTube video of putting an iPad/tablet where the screen is. That would make for quite a display indeed!
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 09-24-2014, 11:10 PM:
 
Someone up here read my post about the Opaque Projector I got instead of the Drive-in and sent me this Ebay Link asking if this maybe was the Projector.....The Answer is Yes that's the One.It was actually a neat little Toy. You could put it over photographs, Magazine or comic book pictures.illustrations,etc,. and project it on the wall or a Sreen if you had one. It made a very Large in Focus Image. Being at the Time that I thought the Little Drive-In actually had some type of little movie projector instead of Film Strips;This turned out to be a better Toy...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1950-s-plastic-Magnajector-portable-electric-projector-NOS/221554120350?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D444000%26algo%3DSOI.DEFAULT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140402094601%26meid%3D0e4f70bc8ca84ddc997051db8c186164%26pid%

Scott; I've got it boxed up and put away but the AD with it says 4" x 6" I think it was bigger. One of my little ACER Laptop's screen measures 5" x 8-1/2" and it looked about that size...
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 09-26-2014, 04:41 PM:
 
I'd say this is an acceptable reason for the package not being delivered:



(Some guy near Vancouver got this notice from Canada Post.)
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 09-28-2014, 09:20 PM:
 
YES;But he was ready to accept the Package



OOPS! I overlooked the C.O.D. charge,Bear didn't have the Cash!


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 10-01-2014, 01:11 PM:
 
I wondered why my Computer Tower was crackling & Smoking


 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 10-01-2014, 10:44 PM:
 
Oh jeez Steve, that reminds me.

One evening last summer, I was picking up a print from the local drive-in theater that had just closed for good a few days prior, that we were going to open at Plaza the next day.

I was familiar enough with the "booth" (just a trailer) that I just walked in nonchalant and was getting clamps, etc. In the low light, I saw what appeared to be the tail of the feature laid over the top tailed out. I wend to grab it and got within a few inches before I realized it was in fact, NOT the film tail, but but a tail nonetheless!

I jumped out of my skin, and nearly shat my pants. It took me a good solid 10 minutes just to get my wits about me and quit running around in circles out in the field. Then another 15 minutes to coax him off of the print, down the platter, and through a hole in the floor.



The punchline??

The print was "Planes".

I can't make this stuff up.
 

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Posted by Joe Elliott (Member # 4006) on 10-04-2014, 02:08 PM:
 
Took me a minute to get that one. LOL Good one though.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-04-2014, 02:36 PM:
 
So were you clamping the first feature on the center ring, or the second feature not on the center ring?
 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 10-04-2014, 03:09 PM:
 
I've got a better one. When we put the print of "Snakes on a Plane" back in our delivery room for pickup, there was literally a snake on the floor right were the print would set. It was just a small garden snake, but you could not ask for better timing than that.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-04-2014, 03:34 PM:
 
Looks to me like the movie on the top deck is complete on a center ring ready to go. The one on the middle deck is the first half of the second movie and the print on the bottom deck is the second half of the second movie. They just ripped the splice (which was made with opaque tape!) mid-show and called it a day. Then someone put masking tape (!) all over the second half of the print. What they hoped to accomplish by doing this is incomprehensible. There is no advantage to be had time-wise or effort-wise by doing this. Was this booth operated by someone who has had many, many strokes? This place clearly deserved to close for good.
 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 10-04-2014, 04:02 PM:
 
HAHAHA!

I was clamping and taking "Planes", which is full and complete on the middle platter in the photo. So yes, quite literally, there is a snake on Planes.

There's a total of 4 movies on the platter stand shown. A double feature on the top, and a freshly (lazily. To be fair, his father had just passed, on top of the place having just closed, 0 fucks were given) split double feature on the middle and bottom platters.

The projectionist that did that is....... a character. He's a real interesting fellow, pretty good guy. He liked working with film but as you can see, wasn't exactly good at it.

He worked at the 10 plex I work at for a few years and after threading, he would get up from kneeling by using the platters as support(Larger fellow). The Speco LP270s at Plaza 8(where he also worked for a while) could handle it, but nooooot so much the AP3s... all the decks ended up warped and that made for some less-than-enjoyable tear-down.
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 10-07-2014, 10:57 PM:
 


"TWEETYBIRD AT 60"



"MADONNA'S OBAMA CARE DENTAL PLAN"
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-23-2014, 02:20 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 10-23-2014, 12:47 PM:
 
The Reason for the Projectionist leaving the Booth!

THE ROOF LEAKED


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-24-2014, 02:29 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 10-26-2014, 07:23 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 10-26-2014, 12:37 PM:
 
Future Halloween Pumpkin Carver


 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 11-05-2014, 02:05 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-13-2014, 10:22 PM:
 
I guess this Could be Considered "Getting in your Face"


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-19-2014, 07:43 PM:
 
"THE TONKA TRUCK MOTEL"


No room for the Little Guy at Motel 6
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-24-2014, 08:30 PM:
 
When it starts eating through the can, it's probably time to throw away the Renovex.



Back of the can:



Who needs FilmGuard when you have Renovex?
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 11-26-2014, 01:07 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 11-28-2014, 10:16 AM:
 
This sign was posted inside the doorway of a local chain pharmacy:

I asked one of the clerks about it and he said that the term
'Black Friday' was both "politically incorrect and racially insensitive."

I just rolled my eyes and did my shopping rather than attempting
to explain the entomology of the phrase and that it has nothing
whatsoever to do with race.

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 11-28-2014, 10:46 AM:
 
Well, if that is true then CHRIST-mas is religiously insensitive to Jews and Muslims. So, Christmas should be taken off the list, too.

Then, since Thanksgiving is racially insensitive to American Indians, that should be taken off the list.

If that's the case, then, the whole sign should be taken down. It really wouldn't be necessary, anymore. Would it?

Besides, putting up signs is culturally insensitive to people who can't read English.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-28-2014, 12:19 PM:
 
Wow Jim. That's absolutely ridiculous.

What Randy said.
 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 11-28-2014, 03:35 PM:
 
Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens. The VFX guys, not so much.


 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 11-28-2014, 03:37 PM:
 
I was reading something today which suggested the true origins of the term "Black Friday" actually comes from first responders and retail employees and how they view the chaos of the day. I don't know whether this is more true than the idea of retailers "going into the black" on this day, but it makes sense.

The other point in the article was that the busiest shopping days are actually the 4 weekend days preceding Christmas Day (or December 23 if Christmas is on a weekend. At least in terms of actual sales, if not volume.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-28-2014, 06:38 PM:
 
I don't like the term at all myself, no matter what the origins. I still call it "the day after Thanksgiving" which I've called it since I learned about the calendar and stuff.

Here is the explanation from Wikipedia, which sounds pretty good to me:

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The day's name originated in Philadelphia, PA, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic that would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation was made: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss ("in the red") from January through November, and "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or "in the black".

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Here in small town USA, the day after Thanksgiving is one of the slower days of the year because everybody heads out of town to shop with the masses. In the heyday of our electronics/music business, things would get steadily busier the closer we got to Christmas with the last week being positively chaotic. I miss those days -- auto parts is pretty steady and is driven much more by the weather than anything else.
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-29-2014, 02:14 PM:
 
Everybody's covered(except Purple People Eaters)


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 11-29-2014, 08:18 PM:
 

quote: Jim Cassedy

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I asked one of the clerks about it and he said that the term 'Black Friday' was both "politically incorrect and racially insensitive."

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We're showing Lawrence of Arabia tonight, and running a couple of reels to test just now reminded me of the fact that the characters of middle-eastern extraction are referred to as "wogs" by the British officers frequently, throughout the movie. I get the impression that this term was never really used in US English, but in British English it's up there with the n-word on the political incorrectness stakes, so much so that I'm surprised that the film is still allowed to be shown in the UK - at least, without a disclaimer title card at the start.

As for Black Friday, when I first heard the term I was a bit confused. "Black [insert day of the week here]" in Britain means one on which an economic disaster took place (for example, "Black Wednesday" in 1992), so the first time I was in the United States during a Thanksgiving week, I was scratching my head as to why everyone was so cheerful at the prospect of Black Friday!
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-29-2014, 08:59 PM:
 
McQueen Pondering on What should have been...


 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 11-29-2014, 09:32 PM:
 

quote:

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I get the impression that this term was never really used in US English, but in British English it's up there with the n-word on the political incorrectness stakes,

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I was in a meeting once of a lefty liberal group and the leader of the meeting kept referring to "wogs" when she meant "wonks." I finally stopped her and explained the difference. It would have been entertaining, though, to create a position in the organization for the "policy wog."
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 12-10-2014, 05:53 AM:
 


WTF?
 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 12-10-2014, 04:24 PM:
 
Bottom three lines changed with photoshop. There is a side by side comparison floating around the net somewhere of the original and this one.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-10-2014, 07:10 PM:
 
Dustin is right, the bottom 2 lines are Photoshopped. You can tell by looking at the pixels. Hilarious, though.
 

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Posted by Jarod Reddig (Member # 6363) on 12-11-2014, 04:21 PM:
 
LOL funny stuff!
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 12-12-2014, 01:21 AM:
 
This is Michelle Obama's Healthy Lunch Program Proposal for Public Schools

Meanwhile her 2 Daughters are going to a Private School at $36,000 a year and enjoy Gourmet Meals


 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 12-12-2014, 02:21 PM:
 
More 70mm for screening at the Egyptian in Hollywood, CA this month (Interstellar and Lawrence of Arabia)...


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 12-14-2014, 01:06 PM:
 
Sorry I missed you - I worked Thursday (two very crisp and sharp 35mm prints, of Memento and Insomnia), but Mike was officiating on Friday.

Given that your post was the 666th in the thread, maybe we should have had The Exorcist sitting out by the elevator!

quote: Steve Matz

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This is Michelle Obama's Healthy Lunch Program Proposal for Public Schools

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I can see the point of low carbs, but NO carbs?! Has she actually got professional nutritionists in to advise on this, or did she just spend half an hour logging on to pauladeenisevil.com and get her dietary info from that? Everything in moderation, y'all...
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 12-14-2014, 02:44 PM:
 
Lest we forget, it was during the Reagan administration that they proclaimed ketchup a vegetable.

Surely Michelle Obama's idea of a healthy lunch is a joke. C'mon, a hot dog? And what is that red thingy on the left? A goof ball or a tomato?
 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 12-15-2014, 04:25 PM:
 
I would take that picture as being an accurate depiction of what the proposed guidelines would mean with a very large grain of salt.
 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 12-15-2014, 10:28 PM:
 
But only one grain!!
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 01-02-2015, 01:38 AM:
 
I find that this pertains to many LAWYERS!


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 01-03-2015, 11:57 PM:
 



YES; WERE STILL WAITING!
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 01-04-2015, 11:40 AM:
 

quote: Leo Enticknap

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I can see the point of low carbs, but NO carbs?

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Apples have carbs. Not to get too deep into a Joke picture, but no highly refined carbs (like a white bread hot dog roll).
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-15-2015, 10:29 AM:
 
Haruo Nakajima, the original "Gojira" suit-actor, at Hollywood&Highland and Godzilla's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in April 2011:


 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 01-15-2015, 10:32 AM:
 
I expected him to be taller.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-15-2015, 02:17 PM:
 

quote: Rick Raskin

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And what is that red thingy on the left? A goof ball or a tomato?

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quote:

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Mr. Douglas: When do you think these will be ready for picking?
Mr. Kimball: Well, that depends on what they are. If they’re radishes, you should have picked them three days ago. If they’re crab-apples, they’re too soft. If they’re peas... wrong color.

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-16-2015, 12:59 PM:
 
Too bad they can't spell...

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-22-2015, 05:33 PM:
 
Ray Dolby gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today. That's Dagmar Dolby and family in the picture:


 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 01-23-2015, 11:48 AM:
 
Having to kneel for the picture seems creepy.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-23-2015, 04:10 PM:
 
Maybe they knelt to unveil the star first and then stayed there for the picture?
 

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Posted by Ron Yost (Member # 1850) on 01-23-2015, 07:57 PM:
 
As one can tell from the eye lines, they're not looking at the camera that took this picture. Not sure why HWOF used it.

Search Google for 'hollywood walk of fame, ray dolby', then click on the DailyNews link .. they have a slide show containing very nice images from the angle they were posed for .. starting with #6.
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 01-26-2015, 09:22 PM:
 







"My Dog thinks Laptops are Latrines"
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 02-01-2015, 01:18 PM:
 
Measles Mouses


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 02-04-2015, 11:29 PM:
 
Got tired of building the Traditional Snowman; How about a Snow Shark QUINT: "Were gonna need a Bigger Porch"



 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 02-05-2015, 04:06 PM:
 
The Ultimate Surf Woody !


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 02-05-2015, 06:38 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-05-2015, 11:11 PM:
 


Seen outside the restrooms at the Krikorian 14-plex in Redlands, CA. Somewhat tasteless, given what happened to the real one! At least the game didn't involve picking up bits of space shuttle wreckage. The same lobby also features standees for the Paddington Bear movie and Fifty Shades of Grey alongside each other. Someone at that theater obviously has a politically incorrect sense of humor...
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 02-06-2015, 10:58 AM:
 
I was a spacecraft controller at Hughes in El Segundo on the day Challenger was lost. We lost a colleague that day too - Greg Jarvis was a Hughes payload specialist on that flight. His office was right above our Operations Control Center (OCC) - I used to occasionally see and talk with him during his training for that mission. Talk about "non PC" humor (my specialty) - the shuttle jokes were already flying around the various labs at Hughes that afternoon. I realize it's a coping mechanism - a very human way to deal with such losses. Still, kinda weird to experience it at such a close distance.

OK, 'nother pic - this one from Barco's blog. Shows the results from their first test of a proposed 6KW CO2 laser for image projection:


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-06-2015, 07:48 PM:
 
The only explanation I can think of for that game machine is that it was pulled from wherever it was and put into storage for a long time immediately after the disaster, and then more recently the theater bought it for its lobby (maybe from a used game machine dealer, or Ebay, or some source like that), unaware that Challenger was one of the two shuttles that blew up. When I saw it I thought "Hang on a minute, is that ... ?" and had to look it up on Wikipedia to confirm that yes, it was. Most of the kids working at that place probably weren't even born when the Challenger disaster happened, and so they probably just don't know.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-06-2015, 11:57 PM:
 

quote: Leo Enticknap

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Most of the kids working at that place probably weren't even born when the Challenger disaster happened, and so they probably just don't know.

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Very true! I was born in 1973 and I have no knowledge of anything that ever happened between -∞ and 1972.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-07-2015, 01:53 AM:
 
I was also born in 1973 and remember the Challenger disaster, because I was in middle school at the time and we all made predictable jokes about how [insert name of strict and unpopular teacher here] should have been the one in the spaceship. I just couldn't remember the name of the spaceship involved until I looked it up after seeing that game machine. However, no-one born later than the mid-70s is likely to have any personal memory of it, and that means most of the workforce in a typical suburban multiplex now.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 02-08-2015, 02:09 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 02-08-2015, 03:44 PM:
 


Roughly translated = Kiss my ass.
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 02-11-2015, 10:57 PM:
 
MICKEY ROURKE gets one more final Plastic Surgery


EARL SCHEIB - $29.95
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 02-17-2015, 11:16 PM:
 
EXREMELY RARE PHOTOGRAPH


NBC NEWS Correspondant BRIAN WILLIAMS with President Abraham Lincoln - 1864


See; I knew Neil Armstrong had been Lying all along
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 02-18-2015, 03:22 PM:
 
Christmas at my house here in Idaho, there was about 2-3" of snow on the ground, and more snow fell that week.



And a winter sunset from my yard:


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 02-21-2015, 01:00 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 02-24-2015, 11:41 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 02-25-2015, 01:42 AM:
 
MODERN DAY DIGITAL PROJECTIONIST!


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 02-27-2015, 01:44 PM:
 
This is strange, and rather interesting.

What colour is this dress?



It looks white and gold to me, but apparently about 26% of the people who see this picture think it's blue and black.

If you ask Google to show you visually similar images, it shows you images of blue and black dresses.

In real life, the dress is actually blue and black, as seen in another photo of the same dress:



Interesting.
 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 02-27-2015, 04:16 PM:
 
I had seen it as both, but until now, hadn't seen it actually change in front of me and wasn't convinced that each picture wasn't different.

Optical illusion at it's finest!
 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 02-27-2015, 05:10 PM:
 


I just can't buy that perception of color or differences in seeing light could cause you to see two completely different color schemes.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-01-2015, 12:34 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-02-2015, 01:41 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-02-2015, 10:21 AM:
 
50 years ago this week, The Sound of Music opened at the Rivoly Theater in NYC and went on to a 93-week run there. My dad was the music editor on that flick - he took us to see it when it began its southern California run a week later:


 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-02-2015, 02:38 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 03-02-2015, 10:49 PM:
 
ELIZABETH TAYLOR would have been 83yrs old February 27th


Elizabeth Taylor - Born February 27th 1932 - Died March 23,2011
 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 03-12-2015, 03:13 PM:
 
From everyone's favorite movie


 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 04-23-2015, 07:25 PM:
 
Just came across this picture taken at the Strong facility Omaha Nebraska in August of 2010 when I was there for digital projector training.

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-09-2015, 03:07 PM:
 
A little poster tease...


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-18-2015, 05:36 PM:
 
Seen at my local Home Depot:



I wonder if they sell a deluxe version that will dissolve no. 2s as well ... ?
 

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Posted by Stephen Frazza (Member # 2320) on 05-29-2015, 03:30 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-07-2015, 02:53 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 06-07-2015, 07:04 AM:
 

quote: Justin Hamaker

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Just came across this picture taken at the Strong facility Omaha Nebraska in August of 2010 when I was there for digital projector training.

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I drove by there, and from the highway you could see they had a walmart sized parking lot full of consoles and platters. completely full. Hundreds and hundreds of them. This was a year or two ago. I couldn't stop at the time, but then could never find it again even after a few special trips.

Heartbreaking!
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 06-07-2015, 09:23 AM:
 
Jerry Mathers( Beaver Clever)turned 67yrs old on May 2nd


Looks like he became what he was always Famous For ?
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-08-2015, 01:52 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 06-28-2015, 03:10 AM:
 
Breathtaking sunset at Lakeport Auto Movies in Lakeport California on June 27, 2015. We are treated to beautiful sunsets on almost a nightly basis, but tonights was one of the most spectacular I have ever seen. Everywhere you looked people had their cameras out to capture the spectacle.


 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 06-28-2015, 08:16 AM:
 
To bad you weren't showing this:


 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 06-28-2015, 09:24 AM:
 


(Actually, I think Mary Pickford's eyelashes WERE a foot long...)
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 06-28-2015, 12:01 PM:
 


I would seem that the BBC's hard-of-hearing subtitlers had a bit of a moral dilemma when confronted with Kanye West at Glastonbury ... and eventually gave up.

I remember Beverly Hills Cop was first televised on the BBC: the censorship was done by dubbing, and "mothercrusher" entered the UK English dictionary as a result. Looks like we now have "-ducker" to add to that...
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 06-28-2015, 01:34 PM:
 
Re: Monster Movie Screen: Someone seems to have been padding the numbers -Exhibitors Herald 7/26/19:

 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 06-29-2015, 09:57 AM:
 
I saw a reference to that screen many years ago, but that is the first time I have seen a picture. If the fairgrounds was configured then as it was in later years, they could have put the screen in the racetrack infield and projected from the top of the grandstand.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 07-13-2015, 01:56 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-09-2015, 03:33 PM:
 


English might be hard.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-15-2015, 06:22 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 08-15-2015, 07:00 PM:
 
Joe, I shared that image and people were confused. I made something a little different to help those who couldn't comprehend.


 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 08-16-2015, 06:05 AM:
 

quote: Justin Hamaker

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Joe, I shared that image and people were confused. I made something a little different to help those who couldn't comprehend.

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In other words, you proved that, yes, it really IS that hard.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-16-2015, 06:18 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-31-2015, 03:59 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-01-2015, 06:34 PM:
 
Tesla steampunk watch

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-01-2015, 10:04 PM:
 
I was searching for something that has nothing to do with Telluride and stumbled upon this picture of a presentation report from our last show there. With the state of the cinema industry and knowing Telluride is coming up this week, I wish the best of luck to this year's projectionists that they don't have these sort of film problems.


 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-14-2015, 09:17 AM:
 
How to deal with that Lucas guy...


 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 09-14-2015, 04:09 PM:
 
Don't know if this one is already up, but Hollywood & Vine subway stop:

 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 09-14-2015, 06:53 PM:
 
Not to go OT, but were those pedestals any good? I'm sure they were heavy and all, but it seems to me with the lack of mass underneath that they would be unsteady to say the least.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 09-14-2015, 06:57 PM:
 
The pedestals base are actually reversed from the way they should be sitting. If one fell over it would be no surprise!

Mark
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-15-2015, 09:51 AM:
 
I always liked those stands when doing temporary installs because they were a little easier to carry and move during setup and strike. They're still fairly heavy - I never felt they were lacking in stability. As for the ones in the picture, that's the way we usually put them in - with one leg facing forward. With the installations I did, the projector weighed more than the lamphouse, so having a stand leg under the projector seemed to be the way to go.
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 09-15-2015, 09:53 AM:
 
I suspect the stands are bolted to the platform.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 09-15-2015, 09:56 AM:
 
I saw quite a few of these recycling trash cans on one
of my recent film festival excursions. Some bins were
actually marked "Cans Only " and "Bottles Only "


But, inside, it all goes into the same trash bag!


(What made this funny to me is that I had stood and
watched someone take a bag of cans and bottles out
of his car and carefully stand there and sort through
them to make sure each one went in the proper 'hole' )
D'oh!
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 09-15-2015, 12:40 PM:
 

quote: Paul Mayer

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the projector weighed more than the lamphouse, so having a stand leg under the projector seemed to be the way to go.

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Maybe so, but every installation I can recall seeing and every old
projection room photo I can find shows the 'leg' towards the rear.
I don't think it's a matter of which end is heavier, (the projector or
the lamphouse,) but where the 'center of gravity' is.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-16-2015, 10:08 AM:
 
Of course! I implied that since I thought the projector weighed more than the lamphouse, the center of gravity would be toward the projector, hence placing one leg directly under the projector. But since all the installations you guys have seen with this type of stand have one leg pointed to the rear under the lamphouse, that must've been the intended way of installation. As I stated earlier, I've only done temporary installs using this kind of stand - guess I got lucky that none of them tipped during those shows.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 09-17-2015, 01:55 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 09-17-2015, 04:36 AM:
 
Yep, I make widescreen videos with my smartphone and show people that holding the phone sideways that you do capture a lot more info.

With DCP-o-Matic, it comes in handy to make DCP content from your own phone.
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 09-17-2015, 06:15 AM:
 

quote: Jim Cassedy

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I don't think it's a matter of which end is heavier, (the projector or
the lamphouse,) but where the 'center of gravity' is.

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I think the rake on the projector would affect the center of gravity. Thus either position for the pedestal would be correct given the particular circumstances.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-23-2015, 08:19 PM:
 
From a 'clean up' day in 2014 at the Rialto Theatre in Pasadena, CA. Anyone care to ID the lamphouse sitting in the orchestra pit?


 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 09-23-2015, 08:58 PM:
 
Peerless Magnarc
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-23-2015, 09:12 PM:
 
I thought it might have been a Magnarc but was thrown off by the lack of the glass backlit name badge along the top. I take it later Magnarcs didn't have that badge...
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 09-24-2015, 01:08 PM:
 
Is the organ lift still there?
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 09-24-2015, 02:10 PM:
 
My first reaction to the photo a few posts back was to say "Magnarc",
but the more I looked at that lamphouse, the more I think it isn't.

Aside from the lack of the usual glass name-plate on top, the ass-end
is all wrong for the Magnarcs I can recall working with. The metal-work
along the top is different too.

Magnarcs had dowser handles on both the 'operating' and 'non-operating'
sides of the lamphouse. The lamphouse in the center of the photo doesn't
appear to have a dowser handle on its' non-operating side.

Also, the doors on a Magnarc swung UP to open. The lamphouse in the picture
clearly has hinges on the front which means the door swings open from the rear.

The only place a Magnarc had a hinge assembly like that was in the rear, so
that you could swing open the back-cover to change the negative carbon.

All these things make me think that it's not a Magnarc. Close, but no cigar.

(It's also making me think that I have entirely too much free time this week)
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-01-2015, 11:18 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 10-01-2015, 03:47 PM:
 
I'll go with a Magnarc. The above photo it is from the non-operating side its missing the dowser handles. The hinges are correct for the rear door and it looks like the meter placement is also correct.

I too have to much time on my hands today. Its been raining for 2 days and a storm is a brewin'.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-01-2015, 04:16 PM:
 
Stone Age Technology


 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 10-01-2015, 06:30 PM:
 
Ah, Yes! The Flintstone Granite-o-graph.

Note the un-trackable groove to the right of the needle.

Grooves are definitely not spaced for maximum time on the disc, pre Columbia era for sure.
 

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Posted by Randy Pryde (Member # 7488) on 10-01-2015, 09:34 PM:
 
I wonder how that would compare with RCA's infamous Dynagroove?
 

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Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 7758) on 10-02-2015, 08:27 PM:
 
Also, this isn't authentic to scale either in that the curve of the grooves, at that level of magnification with an actual LP, wouldn't be very evident.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 10-03-2015, 01:23 PM:
 
If it were supposed to look like Dynagroove, the size of each groove wall would vary according to the level of modulation in the grooves surrounding it.

In some ways, I think Dynagroove got a bit of a bad press. I have around 10 Dynagroove LPs, and only one of them sounds totally egregious. I do most of my everyday listening on a Denon DP300 and Audio-Technica 440 cartridge, Cambridge Audio phono preamp and main amp, plus Wharfedale speakers. Although the cost of buying all those items (or equivalent) is probably around $1k now, they probably deliver an audio quality equivalent to an insanely expensive setup in the mid 1970s (the main period of Dynagroove). My British Decca Dynagroove pressing of Andre Previn conducting Walton's Symphony #1 sounds every bit as expansive and uncompressed as most of my pre-Dynagroove, 1960s Living Stereos. Maybe it's my hearing, but there's nothing wrong with it to my ears.

Now as for DynaFLEX, I'd like to see anyone make one of those out of granite!
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-03-2015, 01:33 PM:
 
Must be a hard rock recording, unless the record is made of iron ore in which case it would be heavy metal.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-03-2015, 04:23 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 10-09-2015, 08:44 AM:
 
From Flickr via consumerist.com:



One picture is indeed worth a thousand words.

Unrelated, not the theatre in the picture, demolition has begun on the Abby Quad Cinemas building in West Milford NJ. It has been closed for for a few years now. Build in the mid 1970's, it is similar in design to the Jerry Lewis Cinemas of the period. It was featured on the cover of Boxoffice magazine in 1976 with an article describing it as the future of theatre design.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-20-2015, 12:55 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-21-2015, 02:08 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 11-03-2015, 08:56 AM:
 
The bigger the glob the better the job...


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-07-2015, 12:33 PM:
 

MGM Processing Lab - 1930's




MGM Printing Room - 1930's - 4 Million Ft. of Printed Film per Week
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-07-2015, 10:38 PM:
 
I found this Chart of Movie Lengths which seems kind of high for the 1930's discounting Films like "Gone with the Wind" Most of the B Pictures then were between 60 and 70+ minutes. I did a calculation using 90 minutes as the average and if MGM Printers were cranking out 4 Million ft. of Film per week, than that would be over 555 Prints. That seems pretty impressive for that time, however there were a lot of Movie houses back then...

Check this out: someone's compiled the average runtime of each decade's Top 50 movies (http://www.infinitypoint0.com/60/imdb-film-length-project/) (as voted on by IMDB users, at least):

10s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 79 minutes
20s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 98 minutes
30s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 96 minutes
40s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 109 minutes
50s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 114 minutes
60s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 127 minutes
70s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 125 minutes
80s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 129 minutes
90s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 127 minutes
00s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 129 minutes
Pretty interesting stuff. The biggest change is from the 10s to the 20s; I'm guessing the increasing popularity of "talkies"(1927 onward) probably had a lot to do with that. Also interesting to see that it's pretty much held steady for the last 40 years or so.

So, what kind of conclusions do you think we can draw from this? That truly great stories take awhile to tell, and that early on we simply lacked the technology and production values to do so properly?
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 11-08-2015, 12:55 PM:
 

quote:

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That truly great stories take awhile to tell, and that early on we simply lacked the technology and production values to do so properly?

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Technology perhaps, production values back then were FAR better than the garbage of the last 30 years or so. (especially the last 15 or so).

There are also NO good storytellers left anymore (Quentin does do good stories but they are dark and violent). Hitchcock's North By Northwest is a great example of the old school way of telling a great story without use of foul language and gore.

Now, a pic for your viewing pleasure, this is my yard last winter:


 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 11-08-2015, 02:36 PM:
 

quote: Steve Matz

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Pretty interesting stuff. The biggest change is from the 10s to the 20s; I'm guessing the increasing popularity of "talkies"(1927 onward) probably had a lot to do with that.

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The biggest influence on the time would be the actual introduction of the "feature" film. The 10's were the late period of the Nickelodeons. The average film was 10 and 20 mins. If what he was really compiling was feature times, there were just so few "features" to significantly compile. And a "feature" film could be as short as 45mins in the teens.

Nonetheless, an amusing exercise.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 11-09-2015, 11:26 AM:
 
New Star Wars floor staff shirts...


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 11-12-2015, 10:04 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 11-13-2015, 12:49 PM:
 
Disney now owns the Star Wars franchise, but what if they were to buy the Friday The 13th series...


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-17-2015, 10:29 PM:
 
ROCKY Comforting RONDA ROUSEY!


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 11-18-2015, 01:18 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-18-2015, 01:21 PM:
 
Ronda Rousey hiding Face at LAX on return to the States !


WOW! She really did take a beating....Nice Work Holly
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-19-2015, 06:56 PM:
 
This would seem to be Logical ?


Caution New Fathers; beware of those Incubators
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 11-23-2015, 10:00 AM:
 
Anybody have a use for some of this old, "obsolete", "extinct", "film" gear? Pic is backstage at the Highland Theatre in the Los Angeles 'burb of Highland Park...


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-23-2015, 12:32 PM:
 
Don't Count on it !


 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-23-2015, 11:30 PM:
 
How the term "HARLEY HOG" Came About! (true story)

Back in the 1920's a Harley-Davidson Dirttrack Racer named "Ray Weishaar" use to bring a Baby Pig to the Races as both a Mascot and Good Luck Charm. Ray would Parade his little Friend on his Fuel Tank before and after a Race. The Name "Harley Hog" began to be heard widespread and the rest is History


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-24-2015, 01:42 AM:
 
No idea who this person is, but...

Fake Black Friday ads

quote:

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I added some fake Black Friday deals to this store's weekly in-store flyer

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 11-30-2015, 11:59 AM:
 
Kids seen at a HOTROD/MUSCLE CAR Parade !


 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 12-05-2015, 08:53 AM:
 
Last night at the Fiesta Drive-in in Carlsbad, NM... via owner Zach Rogers and his drone:


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 12-07-2015, 12:23 AM:
 
Vaguely related to the "Doorbuster" in Brad's spoof Target flyer, a local diner started offering "locally sourced" opossum burgers a few months back. Not a very smart advertising strategy - the idea of eating something that had itself been eating on the freeway verges of Colton and San Bernardino would be enough to turn anyone vegetarian, even if the prospect of eating vermin hadn't achieved that to start with.

The "gifts you'll only use once" raised a giggle, too - we have both a juicer and a bread machine gathering dust in a kitchen cabinet. They've been used a little more than once, but not much. It takes as long to disassemble and wash the components afterwards as it does to make the bread and the juice, if not longer.
 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 12-07-2015, 01:06 AM:
 
I have a crock pot that is still new, in the box. From several years ago.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 12-07-2015, 10:29 AM:
 
Siphon coffee maker somewhere around here. At least it is entertaining to watch when it is used...
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 12-07-2015, 04:20 PM:
 
Electric knife received as a wedding present 42 years ago. Still NIB.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-11-2016, 02:28 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 01-12-2016, 12:10 AM:
 
Knievel tried to Jump 14 of those English Double Decker Buses back in 1975. Made it but crashed when landing breaking his Hip. Don't know why America never adopted those style Buses....
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-13-2016, 01:19 AM:
 
I'd guess because there was never any need for them. The road layout of central London was put there by the Romans and a lot of it hasn't changed much since. It was designed with horse-drawn and slave-drawn carriages in mind, not the internal combustion engine. Most streets just have one lane in each direction, they are not in a regular grid pattern with large intersections, and have lots of tight corners and awkward angles. So if you need a bus that can carry more people than a single-decker of a certain length, all you can do is add another deck, because if you lengthen the bus, its turning circle becomes too big for the roads.

The last British city I lived in, York, had a similar problem. When the bus company introduced articulated "bendy buses" in the early '00s, it didn't end well. There were several incidents in which they took out street lamps, vehicles coming the other way and injured pedestrians and cyclists, so much so that they had to be abandoned within a few months on most of the routes. If they hadn't been, it would only have been a matter of time before someone was killed.

Most US cities and suburbs simply don't have that problem, as all the major roads have at least two lanes in each direction and the intersections are big enough for a 100-foot long vehicle to turn in, easily.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 02-07-2016, 01:06 PM:
 
Most of the neon sign at a local theater stopped working after a recent
wind/rain storm. The owner sent me this picture and asked if I had any
idea what was wrong. Ironically, I think the film title says it all...

Yep, I'd say there's definitely a "big short" somewhere......
 

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Posted by Harold Hallikainen (Member # 5405) on 02-07-2016, 10:40 PM:
 
San Luis Obispo has at least one double-decker bus. Recently, a driver went "off route" and did not fit under a railroad bridge.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article56481033.html

Harold
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-13-2016, 02:03 AM:
 
We bought our cat, Casper, a new kitty condo but he pays the thing no mind. Instead, he prefers the box that the thing came in!



Any cat toy in the world, he could have... But he'll play with a plastic milk jug ring for hours!
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-07-2016, 03:46 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 03-07-2016, 05:21 PM:
 

quote:

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Any cat toy in the world, he could have... But he'll play with a plastic milk jug ring for hours!

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Just like children
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-07-2016, 05:35 PM:
 

quote: Harold Hallikainen

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San Luis Obispo has at least one double-decker bus. Recently, a driver went "off route" and did not fit under a railroad bridge.

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Sounds like a case of life imitating the movies.

As for cat toys, ours has a $2.99 catnip-filled fabric mouse from Target. She chewed it pretty much to oblivion, and so I bought her another of the exact same model, from the exact same store. She refuses to touch the replacement, even though the original is now little more than a pile of shreds.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-07-2016, 06:27 PM:
 
Cats are fickle like that.

Even just a short time ago, Casper liked to sit inside circles. Don't know why but he did. Now, since we left a sheet of newspaper on the floor, he has taken to that, instead.

He'll just plunk himself down on the paper and occasionally claw it and tear at it. I think he likes the crinkly sound it makes.
Then, when the paper gets too torn up, we toss it and put out a new one.

Not even five minutes later, Casper comes along as if to say, "Hey, there aren't enough claw marks in this paper!"
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 03-07-2016, 10:18 PM:
 
Nice lookin' cat, Randy!

My old cat didn't care for the his nice comfy cat-bed.
He seemed to prefer sleeping on, and playing around for
hours inside of empty popcorn sacks I brought home from
the theater. I think it had something to do with the crinkly
brown paper the inside was lined with.




 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 03-08-2016, 10:11 AM:
 
In ancient times, cats were worshiped as gods.
Somehow cats have never forgotten this.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-08-2016, 01:04 PM:
 
Thanks, Jim.
Casper is an adopted cat. GF wanted a cat so we went to the Animal Welfare Society. We had to fill out an application and interview and the whole thing. It would have been easier to adopt an orphan from Africa!

Makes sense that the cat of a guy who runs a theater would play in popcorn sacks! . He must have been a theater cat!

I don't know what it is with cats and paper bags. Like you say, it must be the crinkly sound and the texture. With those old popcorn sacks, it might also be the smell. Figure if cats hunt mice and rats that often hang out in stores of grain, they might make an olfactory association with the scent of popcorn as a hunting ground of sorts. I don't know... just a guess.

Kenneth, cats are STILL worshipped as gods. Why else would we collect their poop in little boxes?
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 03-08-2016, 02:19 PM:
 
I have two. Cats are psycho.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-08-2016, 07:12 PM:
 
I used to have a cat that I thought should have been named, "Dammitt."

"Dammitt, get off the kitchen counter!"
"Quit tearing up those papers, Dammitt!"


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-08-2016, 08:52 PM:
 
Mine likes to claw cardboard boxes to bits - she's exercising the tendons in her front legs, which tend to get stiff and crampy if not used (hence the reason cats like scratching posts, carpets, human flesh, etc. etc.).

As for cats being worshipped as gods, I was once accused of being Satanic and unchristian by someone whose train of logic was that the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, the ancient Egyptians were bad people whose asses God collectively kicked (for more on this, see Exodus or the film The Ten Commandments), and therefore anyone who likes cats now is similarly a bad person. However, this individual had many other, even wackier beliefs (if you've seen the Kevin Smith movie Red State, he reminds me of the lead character a little bit), so I didn't take it too personally...
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-08-2016, 11:03 PM:
 
Casper looks like my little guy, Chobi - a 14-pound pure white domestic short hair who talks A LOT. Wouldn't trade him for anything.

When I get back to full-time work, I will adopt another to be a playmate for Chobi - a pure black domestic short hair who will be named Jiji (actually Jiji II), after the cat in Kiki's Delivery Service.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-09-2016, 01:36 AM:
 
Casper says to say hi to Chobi!



Paul, be careful about putting a black cat and a white cat together. They might cancel each other out and disappear!

Casper is very quiet and well behaved. I rarely hear him make a sound besides the occasional "murr" (half meow, half purr) except when we put him in his carrier to go to the vet. Besides that, I haven't heard him make sounds more often than I can count on one hand. He doesn't tear things up. He doesn't get on the counters. He's very clean, too.

I have a cheapo Oriental rug on the floor near the front door for wiping feet, etc. That's the place where he's allowed to scratch and claw and he is good about sticking to his designated scratching place. Only a few times has he scratched on the sofa. We just tell him "no" and he gives us that look like, "I wasn't doing anything, honest!"

(BTW: Cat's claws grow in layers like an onion. The outer layers need to be sloughed off. Scratching pulls off those old, dead layers.)

As for his crinkling and tearing place, I have a big stack of broadsheet sized newsprint that I used to pack dishes and stuff when I moved. I've got so much that I'll never use it all. I just put one of those on the floor and Casper goes to town on it all he wants. If I had known he was going to be such a cheap date, I could have saved a fortune on cat toys!

Leo, I used to be married to somebody with a personality like that. There were times when you couldn't mention any subject without being led down some "irrefutable" path of logic to some half-baked conclusion. The only possible answer would be "Yes, dear..."
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-09-2016, 02:21 AM:
 
I guess we should try to bring this back on topic a little bit...



There was just too much of a light range for me to be able to redeem this one in Photoshop: lower the exposure and contrast (working from the raw scan, shot on Fuji Velvia 50 using a Leica M2 and 50mm lens, scanned on a Pacific Image 3650 - an old scanner, admittedly, but it can still see a helluva lot of detail) and detail in her forehead goes away. The range in the shot was just so great that either you have to lose detail in the "whited out" as you see it now, or at the dark end. Pity - otherwise, it would have been a lovely pic. There's a window on the other side of the bannister, and at the moment I took this photo, direct sunlight was blazing straight through it. Ten minutes later, and the original shot would probably have captured some detail in the whited out part. But ask a kitty to come back and do that pose ten minutes later? Forget it.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-09-2016, 03:03 AM:
 
Very nice looking kitty!
She could pose in a cat food commercial.

Casper's got a nipped ear. He wouldn't pass the audition.
 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 03-09-2016, 07:01 AM:
 
Here's my late behemoth. Raised him from a kitten that fit in my palm(abandoned). He was just under 20lbs as an adult. He was so bad ass. Great cat. We just called him "Cat" and he responded to it. Would come when called most of the time. Didn't even mind water too much. He would hop in the shower with me occasionally. He was more like a dog than a cat... he liked rough petting and horseplay.

Sneaked out of the house and got hit by a car last fall, he was only a few years old.


 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 03-09-2016, 10:26 AM:
 
My first cat, Gizmo:



Sadly he had to be put down in June 2011 as he had a lot of problems. I had him for about 13 years, got him as a kitten that fit in my hand. He was big, weighed in at 16 lbs as an adult.

He hated that brush in the picture, he would attack and bite it when I tried to use it on him. But he (and Turbo) will let me brush them with MY hairbrush..)

Shortly afterwards, a new furball found me. Meet Turbo:



He loves sitting on my motorcycles (yes they are kept in the house) and generally getting into trouble. He was evidently abandoned or a runaway because he was outside, skinny and had a collar with no ID tags outside my old apartment in L.A. He followed me upstairs and the rest is history. Turbo is also a big cat, he's at 20lbs right now (and on a diet as I think he's too fat.)

He will not play with any toys I buy for him (if someone else buys a toy he'll play with it for a while) and prefers post-it notes, plastic bottle caps and any electrical hardware I leave laying around.

I recently may have found out what happened to him and why he was outside.

I was playing a video on my computer of a house fire, and when the smoke alarm on the video went off Turbo woke up in a panic, ran around the house to the doors and ended up hiding under the bed. (Normally loud noises don't bother him much, but the alarm at low volume did.)

So I think he was in a house or apartment that caught fire and got out during the chaos and ran away.

Gizmo was fully toilet trained, Turbo will pee but not poo in the toilet unless I catch him in time and put him on the seat.

Turbo will also soon be famous as I am writing a song spoof of Green Day's "Jesus of Surburbia" titled "Turbo Of Surburbia".
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-09-2016, 01:48 PM:
 
You can never have too many cat pictures, can you?



This is "K.C.". The letters don't stand for anything. Just KC.
KC was my first cat. He's gone, now.

KC is also the cat I should have named "Dammitt."
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 03-09-2016, 03:31 PM:
 


What's it with cats in sinks? This is Mimi, a rescue cat we got several years ago.

And this is Clarice another rescue at her least favorite place, the vets office. She's 13 and we've had her almost 7 years now.


 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 03-09-2016, 08:46 PM:
 
More sink cat. He was in it all the time. I could turn the water on and he'd just let it pool up behind him then he would drink it. Weird ass cat Haha


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-10-2016, 12:28 AM:
 
So many people say that cat's don't like (or are afraid) of water but, in my experience, that's not true. Every cat I have ever had or known liked to play in water. Water dish. Sink. Bathtub. Faucet.

I think that most cats do like water just so long as the water isn't bigger than they are.

BTW: Here's Casper's picture from the vet.



Casper's vet likes to get pictures of their patients because you can't ask a cat or a dog what its name is. If they have a picture of the animal it's a positive ID. (We also got Casper microchipped.)

Casper is distinctive because of the notch in his right ear.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-21-2016, 01:26 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-24-2016, 01:51 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-13-2016, 11:44 AM:
 
Concentric spirals...


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 04-16-2016, 02:02 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Ted Uzzle (Member # 9135) on 04-26-2016, 10:30 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 04-28-2016, 04:10 PM:
 
The most ill-timed Windows 10 update reminder ever:

- - right in the middle of a local TV weather broadcast.
 

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Posted by Mike Schulz (Member # 4297) on 04-28-2016, 05:17 PM:
 
I love the posture of her hands. That is totally a "awww, now what in the F is this?" expression.
 

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Posted by Harold Hallikainen (Member # 5405) on 04-28-2016, 09:25 PM:
 
Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMPeTrHNX1U .

Harold
 

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Posted by Ted Uzzle (Member # 9135) on 04-30-2016, 09:16 PM:
 
You probably already saw this.

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-30-2016, 09:51 PM:
 
Does Windows really do that? That's pretty obnoxious. Does it have an ear-piercing alert sound that goes with it?
 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 05-03-2016, 04:56 PM:
 

 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 05-07-2016, 09:04 PM:
 
Oh Buck, that looks like the NCM Client preshow after it has ended it's freeze frame and the sms has not yet taken over...or someone turned the lamp on before the First Look has started playing...
 

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Posted by Marco Giustini (Member # 4544) on 05-08-2016, 10:21 AM:
 
Silver screen?
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-16-2016, 02:05 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 05-16-2016, 05:58 PM:
 
Yes, silver screen. You can tell by the blinding hot spots.
 

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Posted by Marco Giustini (Member # 4544) on 05-18-2016, 06:19 AM:
 
how can someone thinks that a high gain screen will give you more light (except rare/proper installations) escapes me.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-27-2016, 08:22 PM:
 
Showed up in my FB feed from Melbourne today:

The Duke of (the) Astor


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-03-2016, 01:50 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-03-2016, 02:00 AM:
 
Movie credits are ridiculous.

In the film days when there were never enough prints, I thought each theatre could have a one-sheet sized poster with all the credits on it. That way the stuidos could use all the saved film to make more prints, and people would have no reason to bitch if they "missed" that vital music credit they were hoping to see.

People really only care about three things in the credits:

- Where it was filmed
- Who played the characters
- Who sang the songs

The rest is mostly just feeding egos.
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 06-03-2016, 08:55 AM:
 
Don't forget...the credits are also sometimes used in lieu of pay or as much pay. The credit also is a verification of work on a particular project for a resume.

That said, I don't hold with the group that consider credits as part of the movie or it being rude to exit during them anymore than I find a bibliography required reading for a book. If I'm interested then yes, it is great to have the information there.
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 06-03-2016, 09:45 AM:
 

quote:

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People really only care about three things in the credits:

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Well, there are also Easter Eggs, wacky credits and typos.
And sometimes, they have friends who worked on the film.

Since most of the audience has their cell phones out by then anyway, they should just project a giant bar code that will like to the credits that they can watch on their phones at their convenience
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 06-11-2016, 06:40 PM:
 
Showed up in my FB feed from the New Beverly today:

Snoopy in da booth!


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 06-11-2016, 08:44 PM:
 

quote: Steve Guttag

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Don't forget...the credits are also sometimes used in lieu of pay or as much pay. The credit also is a verification of work on a particular project for a resume.

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quote: Leo Enticknap

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Still, there has been credit creep on this ever since: when I first started working in this business (late '80s), a credit crawl longer than 3-4 minutes was very unusual. Within a decade, the average seemed to have grown to 5-7 minutes. On a major blockbuster now, the credit crawl can occasionally bust 10.

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I remember the amazement expressed at the credits for Superman being a record-breaking seven minutes, which now seems rather quaint.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-23-2016, 06:09 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 08-06-2016, 02:27 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 08-08-2016, 10:00 PM:
 
Wrestling is the best.


 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 08-08-2016, 10:25 PM:
 

quote: Leo Enticknap

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Still, there has been credit creep on this ever since: when I first started working in this business (late '80s), a credit crawl longer than 3-4 minutes was very unusual. Within a decade, the average seemed to have grown to 5-7 minutes.

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In the last year it seems to have gotten much worse. Rather than 8-10 minutes being a rare exception, it seems to be more the rule now.

Here's what we have for recent movies
- Legend of Tarzan - 8min
- Jason Bourne - 10min
- Star Trek Beyond - 10min
- Ice Age: Collision Course - 10min
- Suicide Squad - 10min
- Ghostbusters - 7min
- The BFG - 8min
- Finding Dory - 10min
- The Shallows - 6min (movies like this used to be 3-4 min)
- Warcraft - 9min

Then you have lights out at 4 minutes and Bad Moms at 5 minutes.

One good thing is studios are starting to give the time for the first credits and the start of the credit crawl.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-10-2016, 01:53 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 08-12-2016, 01:24 PM:
 
That's trippy.

(HAA!)
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-14-2016, 10:01 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Hajducki (Member # 1732) on 08-24-2016, 04:35 PM:
 
Two mobile cinemas on the same street


Britain's last surviving 1960s mobile cinema.

Vintage Mobile Cinema

quote:

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The Ministry of Technology built seven of these custom mobile cinema units in the late 1960s, to tour the country, promoting modern production techniques to British industry. The seven Bedfords were operated by PERA, or the Production Engineering Research Association. Films would be played within the cinema, with supporting displays shown in the trailer that accompanied the towing unit as they toured the nation’s factories.

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Picturehouse's Moving Cinema (The link claims that this is Britain's only HGV derived mobile cinema- that is not correct as the Screen Machine provides a mobile cinema for the remote parts of Scotland.)
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 08-24-2016, 10:40 PM:
 
As everyone knows, the "Cinema-In-A-Truck" idea has been around
for decades. Here's one in a POPULAR SCIENCE issue from 1938.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-24-2016, 11:50 PM:
 
These days, with "slide out" campers being all the rage, a guy could make a pretty nice wide theater in a truck. Could maybe make a 16-foot screen.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-25-2016, 01:27 AM:
 
The only thing missing is the auditorium format like CTX for Cinema in a Truck eXtreme!
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-25-2016, 01:55 AM:
 
"CineTrans-Ultimate" or "CT-Ultimate." If you're into TLAs, "CT-U" for short. (A portmanteau of "Cinema" and "Transport" or "Transportable.")

There has to be a hyphen!
 

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Posted by Mark Hajducki (Member # 1732) on 08-25-2016, 07:04 PM:
 

quote: Mike Blakesley

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These days, with "slide out" campers being all the rage, a guy could make a pretty nice wide theater in a truck. Could maybe make a 16-foot screen.

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The mobile cinema in the second picture I posted is like that, when traveling the trailer is similar in width to the towing trailer.

Video of the Scottish Screen Machine, it expands at about 36 seconds in.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-27-2016, 01:07 PM:
 
But... why? Why would anyone desire to be in a moving truck as they watch a movie? I mean I guess it would be good for human trafficking to keep the revolts and escape attempts down.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 08-27-2016, 02:38 PM:
 
Novelty.

Same reason people go to movies shown on an inflatable screen in a park.
 

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Posted by Geoff Jones (Member # 3668) on 08-27-2016, 03:12 PM:
 
Cinema Ultimate Novelty Transport?
 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 08-27-2016, 07:43 PM:
 
Geoff, please....

Someone will out your acronym.

Really!
 

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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 10-17-2016, 09:26 AM:
 
You have to worry about what people call an expert.

I asked in a online chat with SKY broadband the following question.

"I AM THINKING OF CHANGING MY ISP"

After a few security questions the chat went as attached.


 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 10-17-2016, 10:12 AM:
 
You were likely talking to a bot, though you'd think the program would know what an ISP is.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-19-2016, 07:48 PM:
 


From the caption:

quote:

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Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However, the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also, the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now, scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the FORTRAN language, the computer will be easy to use.

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-19-2016, 08:22 PM:
 
I've seen that picture before and I've always wondered why it has a steering wheel.

Grand Theft Auto?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-19-2016, 11:39 PM:
 
That should be in the bad Photoshop thread. Every 2004 computer comes with its very own Dwight D Eisenhower. The steering wheel(s) are the shutoff valves.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-20-2016, 01:44 AM:
 
It's a click wheel!
 

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Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 10-23-2016, 03:34 PM:
 
I think that is a commonly mislabeled urban legend type picture. If you look at the right of the control desk there is a J handle like they use in power plant control rooms and on ships. IIRC this picture was some type of prototype control panel for a nuclear submarine. Though I could be wrong.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 10-23-2016, 10:31 PM:
 
Looks like part of the old set from "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea"
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-23-2016, 10:38 PM:
 
It's a mock up of a submarine's control panel. The picture is from the Smithsonian, I believe.


 

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Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 11-28-2016, 11:50 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 11-29-2016, 12:17 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 11-29-2016, 12:38 AM:
 
Warning: Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
 

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Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 11-29-2016, 05:35 PM:
 
Sean, I've had dreams about that. I was one happy mofo.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 12-02-2016, 12:55 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 12-02-2016, 06:49 AM:
 
We cruised last week on the NCL Escape and they showed several movies in 3D. We saw Finding Dory. The theatre is multi use and they fly the screen. They also showed Star Wars TFA which we skipped. The good news is no one used cell phones during the show.




The short preceding Finding Dory


 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 12-03-2016, 07:38 PM:
 
This van has been parked near my house for the past 3 days. You'd think that by
now a "high security lock specialist' could have figured out how to pick the lock!

LoL
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 12-28-2016, 11:59 PM:
 
I'm surprised that it hasn't been towed if it's been there for that long. In Hollywood there is an urban legend that the title of the movie Gone in 60 Seconds refers to the time taken for your vehicle to be towed after the meter runs out!



How to sunbathe if the outdoor temperature is near freezing.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-13-2017, 04:38 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 02-21-2017, 09:59 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 7758) on 02-21-2017, 07:45 PM:
 
At the Dodge dealership in Oroville, California:


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-22-2017, 01:16 PM:
 

quote: Sean W was the last to post

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I like how this is "LIVE". "OK everyone, any minute now they'll be converting back to film. The auditorium is empty but it will surely fill beyond capacity once they convert back to film. This should happen any second now."
 

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Posted by German Marin (Member # 918) on 02-24-2017, 04:44 AM:
 




Doremi, I know what you did there!
 

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Posted by Timothy Eiler (Member # 383) on 04-18-2017, 03:04 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-04-2017, 10:59 PM:
 


The lightpipe assembly of a Barco DP4K-45L with its cover removed and the laser clusters powered up. The laser control board can be seen top right. Needless to say, the course tutor had to defeat several safety switches in order to make this happen (e.g. on top of the assembly, center). It was very useful to see what actually happens between the light source and the lens.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 07-03-2017, 04:58 PM:
 


So are you supposed to excavate your baby's nose with this thing and then the ears?!
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-13-2017, 02:28 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 10-18-2017, 08:23 AM:
 


This cellphone pic doesn't show the difference very well, but the grilles of the fan on the right are totally clogged with dust and grease (despite it being black and the one on the left white), whereas the one on the left looks like it's just been unpacked and plugged in.

I'm guessing that the fan on the right became gradually more clogged, gross and disgusting over time, until eventually, its owner simply couldn't muster the courage to remove and clean the grilles ... so (s)he simply went to Home Depot and bought a new one! There again, this was at an airport (poor air quality all the time) and in very high humidity (Honolulu, in cloudy/drizzly weather: I measured 72% in the booth I was servicing about five miles away), so it probably didn't take more than a few weeks for the fan to get that bad.
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 11-28-2017, 02:05 PM:
 

So, who really needs 4k or 70mm anyway. . . . . ?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-29-2017, 03:46 AM:
 
Wait... are they projecting Home Alone 2 from a VHS source? Or is Home Alone 2 FINALLY coming to VHS on December 6?
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 11-29-2017, 10:27 AM:
 
No,Joe, they are actually showing it off of VHS.

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 11-29-2017, 10:32 AM:
 
Believe it or not, VHS is now the subject of nostalgia and cultism among a small subculture.

Towards the end of my time at the American Cinematheque, I had the, erm, privilege, of officiating in the booth at a "Weirdathon," which roughly translates as an all-night show of the worst movies of the 1970s and '80s. One of these masterpieces was Matilda (1978), of which the only surviving copy that the programmers could find was an ex-rental VHS tape.

Not wanting to risk old 1970s cheap tape stock from sticking, jamming, dropping out, etc., during a show, I captured it and DCP-ized it. Before rendering, I deinterlaced the picture, applied a little light touch noise reduction to the linear audio track to get rid of some of the hiss, and edited out the worst dropouts. In short, I improved the quality of the eventual technical presentation, from f***ing abysmal to just abysmal.

In the interests of full disclosure, the screening was advertised and listed on our website as being from VHS. In the event, we actually got a complaint that it looked "too good" for VHS, and that we shouldn't have edited out the trailers, logos, adverts and anti-piracy snipes from the front of the tape, because they add authentic atmosphere to the presentation.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-29-2017, 01:11 PM:
 
What are they using to deinterlace and upscale? Assuming they didn't DCP it beforehand and did it in real time. That theater looks like they know what they're doing when it comes to good deinterlacers and upscalers. I bet they even have an OSSC.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 12-14-2017, 09:29 PM:
 


Tesla electric car charging points in the lot of a Starbucks just off the 5 freeway in Buttonwillow, CA.

I stopped to refuel (with both coffee for me and 87-grade for my low-tech, manual transmission Honda Fit) en route to a service call in northern California earlier today. When I saw these, I thought WTF?! This place is literally in the middle of rural nowhere, by the side of a freeway. Look 50 yards beyond the strip mall by the freeway, and it's mountains on one side and desert on the other.

However, looking at a map, this is almost exactly the halfway point between LA and the Bay Area. If you have a 200-mile range Tesla and you need to move it between Silicon Valley and SoCal, this is basically the perfect place to recharge, which I'm guessing is why these charging points were installed here.

There's just one tinsy problem, though: any millionaire in a status symbol Tesla is going to have to have to make that skinny vanilla latte last a very long time while their car recharges. As for me, three minutes at the gas station across the street had me all set for the next 450 miles (and ass raped by Jerry Brown in the process, but that's OT for this forum).
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-28-2017, 04:28 PM:
 
How fast do they charge? When they can charge as fast as a car fills up on gas, let me know. Then I'll be interested.
 

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Posted by Jeffry L. Johnson (Member # 453) on 01-03-2018, 10:31 AM:
 

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a Supercharger provides up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes.

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Take a potty break every two to three hours.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-08-2018, 11:28 AM:
 
The credits alone are worth it. I would have booked it.


 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 02-12-2018, 10:24 PM:
 
A new coffee shop just opened right next to one of the
screening rooms I work at in downtown San Francisco.
It's sort of a "Robotic Starbucks".

You Place & Pay For Your
Order At One Of These Kiosks


Then this robotic barista-thingy
makes & serves your coffee to you.


No More Snooty Baristas - -

- - - and there's no tip jar!

I haven't had a chance to try their product yet, but
it's gotten good reviews online, and the price is a bit
less than what you'd pay at a Starbucks.

I'm wondering how long it will be before we start
seeing this type of technology making & serving
popcorn & sodas at cinema concession stands?

In the words of former San Francisco mayor Gavin
Newsom: "It's going to happen, whether you like it or not."
 

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Posted by Jarod Reddig (Member # 6363) on 03-04-2018, 06:22 PM:
 
Whoa that looks indeed like the future Jim!
 

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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 03-08-2018, 08:49 PM:
 
- - and today I saw this driverless street sweeper
going down the street as I was getting ready for
work. It was being shadowed by a car with a bunch
of cameras and antennas on top. A decal on the car
door said "CRUISE AUTOMATION"


Robots are apparently taking over the world. What
next? Suppose somebody decided to kick all the
projectionists out of their booths and automate
everything? Where would we be?
. . . oh, . . wait a minute - - Never Mind.....
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-16-2018, 09:31 AM:
 
Note the serial number:



I hope his line of business and the fact that he's in a disabled spot are unrelated!


 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 03-16-2018, 12:16 PM:
 
I learned the hard way not to park near handicap spaces as the occupants of said spaces likely became handicapped due to their bad driving.
That hard drive, though...
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-17-2018, 10:05 AM:
 
Yeah! Sometimes, I wonder whether the definition of "handicapped" includes "mentally handicapped!"
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-17-2018, 12:09 PM:
 
"Of course I'm handicapped. I can't read."
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-17-2018, 01:13 PM:
 
If you're suggesting that he's in a disabled spot illegally, he may not be. Permits for the permanently disabled in CA are on the license plate (and his clearly isn't a disabled plate), but temporary ones (for example, if you're driving around a relative who is recovering from a broken limb) take the form of a pennant that you hang from your rear view mirror. He may have had one, but if he did, it isn't visible in this shot (pun not intended).

Just to be clear and prevent the risk of this becoming a political discussion, my original comment (that I hoped that his line of business and being in a disabled spot were unrelated) was based on the speculation that he might be in a disabled spot because he'd accidentally shot himself, not an expression of any view about the regulation of gun ownership and use.
 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 03-17-2018, 01:33 PM:
 
Understood. I could easily shoot myself and eventually end up being allowed to park in handicap spaces.
I assume the gun shop owner has to be legally parking as the fine for parking in one of those spots without the permit can be quite expensive, depending on the city or state.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 03-17-2018, 02:12 PM:
 
When handicapped parking first became a thing, the Saskatchewan government issued special license plates with a wheelchair logo on them.

Shortly afterward, they stopped doing that because (it was said) those license plates indicated an easy target for bad guys. I don't know if that was based on any particular incident or not. Now, and for the past many years, handicapped folks get a card to hang from the rear view mirror instead.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-17-2018, 02:42 PM:
 
I'm guessing that enforcement of disabled spot eligibility here isn't very effective (even if the fines are high on paper), because abuse of them is said to be widespread.

But that could be because getting hold of the permits legitimately is easier said than done. My wife was offered one by her doctor during the final two months of her pregnancy, who sent the relevant paperwork to the DMV. The temporary permit finally arrived about three months later, a month after our son had been born and she had no need for it!
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 05-16-2018, 12:15 AM:
 
I was walking past the local vet's office and I see that he has a new sign on his building that I just had to take a picture of.


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-19-2018, 09:19 PM:
 


I think I've just spotted one of the reasons why pets disappear from our neighborhood on a sadly regular basis, and why our cats are strictly indoor kitties. This pic was taken about 50 yards from a kids' playground in our development, too. I've no idea if this is snake is poisonous and/or inclined to attack humans, but it was not in the least bit bothered by my coming within a few feet of it and pointing my phone at it.
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 05-20-2018, 12:25 PM:
 
Not going to claim expertise here, but looks like a garter snake, which is completely harmless..
Most poisonous snakes in the US have big triangle heads (not that you want to try to figure that out in a panic).
The big exception is the Coral snake, which is also the deadliest.
 

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Posted by Cobi Fox (Member # 10476) on 05-20-2018, 05:23 PM:
 
Not sure what this even is, but it is "Post Your Random Pictures"...

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-21-2018, 04:07 PM:
 

quote: Martin McCaffery

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Not going to claim expertise here, but looks like a garter snake, which is completely harmless..

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Gopher snake, according to a friend of my wife's, and she agrees - harmless. Like the skunks and opossums that roam around here all the time, they've clearly adapted well to living among humans.
 

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Posted by Cobi Fox (Member # 10476) on 05-22-2018, 04:28 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-22-2018, 05:19 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Cobi Fox (Member # 10476) on 05-22-2018, 05:40 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Cobi Fox (Member # 10476) on 05-22-2018, 08:16 PM:
 
TOP TEN PHOTOS TAKEN BEFORE DISASTER

 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-04-2018, 02:05 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 08-08-2018, 04:37 PM:
 
Only in California!



Seen in the checkout lane display at my local supermarket. I'm surprised that they're not selling the stuff itself by now!
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 08-08-2018, 05:26 PM:
 
Is that a seed pack?
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 08-08-2018, 07:17 PM:
 
Nope - just a magazine.

However, I did notice that just after CA legalized pot, the local Home Depot started aggressively promoting home hydroponic growing kits, which consisted of a tank with holes in the top and a liquid circulation pump, with LED illumination above it.

They came with seed pods for innocent veggies and herbs, but I suspect that this isn't what most of the kits were used for...
 

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Posted by Cobi Fox (Member # 10476) on 10-28-2018, 10:30 AM:
 
When your cinema has bad sound


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 12-11-2018, 09:43 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-01-2019, 09:54 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-26-2019, 12:54 PM:
 
Someone sent me a package yesterday. It is coming from a city about 60 miles away. As you'll see, it's taken a bit of a detour!


 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 01-26-2019, 01:00 PM:
 
My wife ordered some bedroom furniture from Costco shortly before last Christmas.

It was shipped from Vietnam (where it was made) to Vancouver, to Toronto, to Regina, and then brought here yesterday.

Vancouver to Toronto to Regina? That's an extra 3200 miles of travel versus shipping it from Vancouver to Regina directly. And it would have gone through Regina to get from Vancouver to Toronto, too.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 01-26-2019, 02:19 PM:
 
All FedEx Express packages go through the FedEx SuperHub in Memphis.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-31-2019, 11:14 AM:
 
The journey that flash drive eventually took was sender's address > FedEx depot at Lancaster, CA > LAX > MEM > ONT > Leo's house. Presumably if Ontario had been his nearest FedEx depot, the detour to Memphis wouldn't have happened; but for a "no rush" delivery, it worked out cheaper for them than putting it on a truck directly from Lancaster (or LAX) to Ontario, even though that distance is relatively short.

That having been said, FedEx probably don't do many deliveries of small, light objects over short distances. If it had been me sending that, I'd have used the USPS (about $5 with tracking, compared to $20 for FedEx).
 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 01-31-2019, 12:00 PM:
 
Ok, enough chit-chat about Leo's package.

Here's a tree in my backyard covered in hoarfrost:


 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-31-2019, 08:22 PM:
 
Nice pic! Polarizing filter to get the deep sky?

We seem to have dodged a bullet here, weather wise. The northeast and midwest are having one of the most brutal cold spells in living memory, my relatives in England are reporting the same thing, but in SoCal, it's just mild and a bit rainy.
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 01-31-2019, 10:14 PM:
 
It was -44 outside here yesterday when I got a phone call:

"We're bringing that sign right away so we need you to show us where to put it."

It would have been nice if they had picked a warmer day to do that.

So outside I go to stand on the sidewalk for an hour while they get this into place.

 

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Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 02-01-2019, 01:22 PM: