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lake_wrangler · Post by **lake_wrangler** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:29 pm

Those are some very nice photos!

I like the water fountain, towards the beginning, and all the ones with trees in them. Oh, heck, I like them all!

Catawampus · Post by **Catawampus** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:14 pm

lake_wrangler wrote:. . .and all the ones with trees in them.

Those are actually ents, mooting. It seems that white was the new black a few centuries ago, and so they've gone all modish.

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:21 pm

How a Near-Pristine 35mm Print of Orson Welles' 'Chimes at Midnight' Was Found

Ryan Lattanzio/Thompson on Hollywood wrote:Distribpix Inc.'s Steven Morowitz and filmmaker Joel Bender have uncovered an "almost pristine" 35mm print of Orson Welles' "Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight," starring Welles himself as the titular knight, a bawdy, boozing flaneur lifted from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays and "Henry V."

Long unavailable on home video formats due to legal tussles, "Chimes at Midnight" was found tucked among tens of thousands of pounds of film elements owned by Morowitz, who evidently had been sitting on the print for 20-plus years. "One thing is for sure and that is that the world wants a gorgeous and definitive release of Falstaff," he co-wrote on his blog with Bender. DCPs have floated around various retrospectives, and Bay Area cinephiles have caught a 16mm print of the film at the Pacific Film Archive.

The uncut print takes up seven reels, which they took to a film lab for digital processing. But no restoration has been done—yet.

"The 35mm print is in such great condition that it is begging for a full 4k scan restoration," wrote Morowitz. "This would at least guarantee a viable digital archive and one that can stand for future generations of cinema lovers."

"Who owns the rights? Why has there been no definitive film restoration? Who has the original negative? Why was it pulled after a few play dates in New York City. The questions go on and on."

Take a look at a sampling of screengrabs (and a clip) below, and follow the rest of this story over at the Distribpix blog here. And if you're a film preservation buff, Morowitz and Bender dig pretty deep into the technical nitty-gritty of this discovery.

Following digital screenings of the film at the Sedona Film Festival, Orson Welles' daughter Beatrice Welles revealed that a "major DVD/Blu-ray label is interested in releasing and restoring 'Chimes at Midnight.'" Let's make this happen.

...and there was Grayte Rejoycing.

TazManiac · Post by **TazManiac** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:18 am

Calling http://www.stanfordtheatre.org/

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:49 pm

Missing Log Cabin Found 3,750 Feet Away From Original Location

ABC News/MEGHAN KENEALLY wrote: A man returned to his property in Oregon earlier this week only to find that his log cabin was gone.

It wasn't wrecked from bad weather or bulldozed to the ground. The entire building was just not there.

Police eventually found the cabin 3,750 feet away from its original location and now believe they have figured out who took it.

The case appears to involve a complicated ownership agreement regarding the property, a fire at the main house on the land that displaced the people who had lived there, and changing romantic relationships, according to investigators from the Klamath Falls Sheriff's Department.

"Quite frankly, it's one of the most unusual moments I've ever seen," Sheriff Frank Skrah said at a news conference Thursday.

The approximately 1,200-square-foot cabin was a secondary building on a larger property that was jointly-owned by three individuals -- two men and a woman.

The man who reported the cabin missing built it and was the only person listed on the home loan, sheriff's officials said. However, the second man allegedly then sold the cabin to a neighbor without the owner's permission, the officials added.

The first man returned to the property on Tuesday for the first time in months to find the log cabin missing and then reported it to police.Police were able to determine that the neighbor who paid $3,000 for the cabin had no idea it was stolen.

The home was first listed as $10,000, but the buyer was able to haggle down the price, officials said.

"To quote him, 'It was a steal of a deal,'" a sheriff's department official said at a news conference on Thursday.

The investigation is ongoing and no charges have been filed.

TazManiac · Post by **TazManiac** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:29 pm

I'll bet there where Crop Circles involved...

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:36 pm

0705, 25 Fecruary 2015:

It didn't amount to much, and it didn't last, but ...

jwhouk · Post by **jwhouk** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:12 pm

Funny, it was flaking up here, too. Unfortunately, it only landed on the six inches of snow cover we already have.

TazManiac · Post by **TazManiac** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:17 pm

This last Saturday the TV broke out with an Emergency Broadcast; 'Winter Storm Warning for Northern San Mateo County...', there was a five mile wide thunder/hail storm cell transiting Daly City.

They told everybody to go indoors.

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:48 pm

Someone Wrote Gay Erotica About The Colour-Changing Dress

Lane Sainty/BuzzFeed News Reporter wrote: {Chuck Tingle's} latest book is called Pounded by the Gay Color Changing Dress.

While the rest of the world was arguing over which colours the dress actually was, Tingle – who calls his erotic stories “tinglers” – was cooking up his next book.

According to the book’s description on Amazon, Pounded by the Gay Color Changing Dress stars Kent, just a regular gay man searching for somebody to love. But then he meets Channing: “a living gay dress who is famous online”.

Soon enough, their story turns into “a hardcore gay love affair that will reveal once and for all just what color the dress really is,” reads the description.

“This erotic tale is 4,400 words of sizzling human on gay dress action, including anal, blowjobs, rough sex, cream pies, and color changing dress love.”

{full article}

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:55 pm

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Someone Wrote Gay Erotica About The Colour-Changing Dress

Ya know, i didn't even think about how this sort of fit in with the current WS continuity...

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:44 pm

I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera! I Got My Camera!

I'm somewhat happy and slightly enthusiastic.

lake_wrangler · Post by **lake_wrangler** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:16 pm

Say... did you just happen to get a camera?

Which one did you get?

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:04 am

lake_wrangler wrote:Say... did you just happen to get a camera?

Which one did you get?

Nikon D5300 body; upgrading from D3200. Selling the old body to someone on the Misfile forum.

Three posts from the Misfile forum:

Pictures taken with my phone. Its pix are adequate but nothing to get enthuasiastic about.

Nikon D5300:

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Don wrote: So is the biggest diff between the new one and the old one the tilt/swivel LCD preview screen, or is there something else? :huh:

No, there are a few other insignificant differences:

In fact, i don't particularly like or dislike the swiveling screen - except that you can flip it over and protect the screen.

I just noticed that that chart (lifted from a review site) doesn't mention the WiFi capability - which allows you to transfer images straight to phone or tablet ... and also allows you to see what the camera sees remotely with Android or iThing apps - and take pictures remotely, as well.

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$489 and change (with free shipping, three day ground, and the seller called me before shipping to verify name and address). It's new, but it's grey market, so Nikon US won't do warranty work on it. However, the seller (who has a 99+% favourable rating on eBay) gives a one-year warranty.

The GPS is kinda wimpy - it's not locking in inside the house.

It'll prolly work outside, though.

It also has automatic exposure bracketing, if you'd rather do your HDR yourself.

And a built-in intervalometer for making time-lapse videos. (You'd probably want the AC power unit for that, since you can only get about 500 exposures on one charge.)

Post by **Dave** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:47 am

So, how many liters a week of home-brewed Microdol-X are you going to go through, satisfying that thing's appetite?

TazManiac · Post by **TazManiac** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 2:42 am

That's funny. Let me give you some perspective;
Just today my buddy saw me open a stuck desk drawer of his and behold an item, which he then told me to pick up and keep for my own as he had moved on so long ago he's forgotten it was in there....

Only, it's got a scratched lens so every serious shot will require a pass through Photoshop or Gimp...

(but it's freeeeeeee....)

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:31 pm

Not photoshop - a real photo.

Mr (or Ms) Weasel was apparently hungry, but Mr Woodpecker had other ideas.

I am put in mind of Henery Hawk and Foghorn Leghorn.

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:57 am

These girls are twins:

TazManiac · Post by **TazManiac** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:44 am

You never saw the Cosby Show, have you?

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 5:42 pm

Twins?

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