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[SteelCurtain]

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I swear my daughter is the sassiest kid ever. This face about killed me!


And this one makes her look like she owns the joint, look at that milk belly! You wanna go? Yeah I will finish you... Right after my bottle.

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Sooooo coooot!

I wanna pinch all the little bebe arm rolls!

[brewer]

This one has knuckle rolls. What the hell to they feed um in Texas?

[A Theist]

A last few days from hell. Woke up last Friday to a basement full of water. Sump pump went out. I replaced the old one about 15 years ago. It way outlived its original 5 year warranty. I was able to jiggle the switch around until I got it working long enough to make a trip Home Depot for a new one and some PVC pipe. I worked in standing water but got everything put back together and working again. The big part was the clean up because the water also went into the finished area of my basement. Some more wet vaccing and let some fans run to dry things out. The last few days have been busy.




The new pump installed. 

[Fireball]

Bummer. I live high and dry, with no basement. If it floods here, it pretty much stays in the street.

[Jenny A]

A last few days from hell. Woke up last Friday to a basement full of water. Sump pump went out. I replaced the old one about 15 years ago. It way outlived its original 5 year warranty. I was able to jiggle the switch around until I got it working long enough to make a trip Home Depot for a new one and some PVC pipe. I worked in standing water but got everything put back together and working again. The big part was the clean up because the water also went into the finished area of my basement. Some more wet vaccing and let some fans run to dry things out. The last few days have been busy.




The new pump installed. 

We lived at the top of a hill at our last house, but due to a spring the water table was about 6 inches below the basement.  Everytime it rained over eight hours the sump pump ran and ran and ran.  I spent one birthday when it died bailing water while Mr. scoured town for the last sump pump.

[Aegon]

A last few days from hell. Woke up last Friday to a basement full of water. Sump pump went out. I replaced the old one about 15 years ago. It way outlived its original 5 year warranty. I was able to jiggle the switch around until I got it working long enough to make a trip Home Depot for a new one and some PVC pipe. I worked in standing water but got everything put back together and working again. The big part was the clean up because the water also went into the finished area of my basement. Some more wet vaccing and let some fans run to dry things out. The last few days have been busy.




The new pump installed. 

Oh god. Hurricane Sandy flashbacks.

[Rev. Rye]

When you have autism, you become obsessed with a lot of random subjects, some of them can get really esoteric. Case in point: two-strip Technicolor. When I was first really getting into cinema and its history, one subject that really wound up fascinating me was the strange hues that came from the early days of cinema, back when people first managed to film in colour (using multiple exposures of one image, one with a green filter and one with a red filter). I'll include a scene from King of Jazz (One of the few all-colour features of the era to survive intact, and soon to be released on a Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-Ray, joining a number you can probably count on your hands), and I think you'll see one of the stranger features of this early process:






Yes, they made a colour film of Rhapsody in Blue... on a system that couldn't properly do blue. They could do a decent approximation if they manipulated the prints just right, but a lot of the prints didn't. Strangely, the lower-quality prints near the end did blue better than the HD remastered version. But, honestly, the strange colours intrigued me (and still do!). It's just enough to look like a barely passable colour picture of reality (presumably due to the blue cones in our eyes being less numerous than the red and green), but it's so strange it can't help but draw me.

I recently discovered an app called "Recs" (by Boogie Software) that allows people to use their iPhone cameras to channel a lot of vintage looks (Two and Three-strip Technicolor, several types of black and white, multiple 8mm stocks, Polaroid, VHS, Pixelvision, and a couple 80s computer displays, and even a couple based around the stocks that recorded our trips to the moon.) It's free (though there's apparently a full version to buy for $3, but no extra perks seem to be advertised), but be warned it consumes a lot of battery.

So, in honour of my 4000th post, here are two selfies I took to commemorate this strange, obsolete, and intriguing colour process (using the Hollywood 1929 filter):





I can only assume in the horizontal one, I've just realised I'm in a Guy Maddin film.

[A Theist]

When you have autism, you become obsessed with a lot of random subjects, some of them can get really esoteric. Case in point: two-strip Technicolor. When I was first really getting into cinema and its history, one subject that really wound up fascinating me was the strange hues that came from the early days of cinema, back when people first managed to film in colour (using multiple exposures of one image, one with a green filter and one with a red filter). I'll include a scene from King of Jazz (One of the few all-colour features of the era to survive intact, and soon to be released on a Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-Ray, joining a number you can probably count on your hands), and I think you'll see one of the stranger features of this early process:






Yes, they made a colour film of Rhapsody in Blue... on a system that couldn't properly do blue. They could do a decent approximation if they manipulated the prints just right, but a lot of the prints didn't. Strangely, the lower-quality prints near the end did blue better than the HD remastered version. But, honestly, the strange colours intrigued me (and still do!). It's just enough to look like a barely passable colour picture of reality (presumably due to the blue cones in our eyes being less numerous than the red and green), but it's so strange it can't help but draw me.

I recently discovered an app called "Recs" (by Boogie Software) that allows people to use their iPhone cameras to channel a lot of vintage looks (Two and Three-strip Technicolor, several types of black and white, multiple 8mm stocks, Polaroid, VHS, Pixelvision, and a couple 80s computer displays, and even a couple based around the stocks that recorded our trips to the moon.) It's free (though there's apparently a full version to buy for $3, but no extra perks seem to be advertised), but be warned it consumes a lot of battery.

So, in honour of my 4000th post, here are two selfies I took to commemorate this strange, obsolete, and intriguing colour process (using the Hollywood 1929 filter):





I can only assume in the horizontal one, I've just realised I'm in a Guy Maddin film.

You kinda remind me of Peter Ustinov. I always loved his acting.

The video was great, btw. Old movie fan?

[Rev. Rye]

You kinda remind me of Peter Ustinov. I always loved his acting.

The video was great, btw. Old movie fan?

Hells, yeah! In fact, I got the new Kino Blu-Ray of Judgment at Nuremberg coming in the mail one of these days.

[LadyForCamus]

I swear my daughter is the sassiest kid ever. This face about killed me!


And this one makes her look like she owns the joint, look at that milk belly! You wanna go? Yeah I will finish you... Right after my bottle.

Oh my gawwww, look at that little pumpkin!  😍