TypeO
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Hard to go wrong with Beyonce.
Unretouched, no photoshop, just a breathtakingly beautiful honey.
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I quite literally LOL'd.
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Just finished watching Soul Surfer.
I love watching surfing, and it's a nice story.
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I have no idea who it is, I just liked the shot.
Looks a lot like her -
the surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack.
Apparently it's not since she (Bethany) rides goofy foot.
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Is that Bethany Hamilton?
Cool pic.
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OMG.
Dr. Katz was unbelievable!
I used to laugh so hard at those episodes.
TOO funny.
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Your taste has improved immensely.
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Compared to what?
What are you referencing?
Thanks again. I followed up on the music, and she has a great voice.
Indeed.
Can't wait for her "real" album to come out soon.
The song So Fly has a real Sublime-kinda vibe.
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My current musical obsession - Elle Varner.
You can download her FREE mixtape HERE.
Actually got to meet her Valentine's Day in New Orleans!
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It's the 40th anniversary of The Godfather, so I took the time to watch it again on AMC (big mistake: edited + commercials = blah).
Yet I was still captivated by what an incredibly awesome movie it is.
The actors REALLy played their parts well, even the secondary characters (Sollozzo, Capt. McCluskie, etc.) were absolutely perfect.
And I know there isn't a category for Best Murder Scene, but damn, the restaurant scene is incredibly powerful.
While I was watching the movie, I realized how they let the camera linger for extended periods on various dead bodies (Sollozzo & McCluskie, Sonny, Don Corleone's heart attack, Barzini and his driver), which kind of drove home the finality / brutality of it all.
It's something I never noticed before, and now it strikes me as somewhat genius.
Some movies punch up the blood and gore to go for shock value, but those bodies lying motionless said everything.
A whole new appreciation for a classic.
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Tool, Feb. 8, in Duluth, GA (Outside ATL).
Everything I imagined and then some.
The show was absolutely incredible.
I was in 122, back left corner of the floor, first row (the aisle around the floor was directly in front of me.
Other than a fat bitch (literally being a bitch) working security who kept shining her light in front of me trying to "bust" phonecam users, the view was great, and the sound was incredible.
For me, the show confirmed my opinion that Tool is, without a doubt, the greatest band in existence today.
They have achieved the same iconic level of being that Led Zeppelin had in the 70s.
The only other group to even come close to this level was perhaps Metallica during the 80s.
They combine all the elements: the mystique, the incredible studio releases and the ability to perform the material live flawleesly.
I'm 51, and I've seen a lot of concerts, but last night may have been the best performance (combination of music and visuals) I've ever seen by any band ever.
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Yes, I have seen this...several times, in fact. I didn't find it boring in the least. But then, I also like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barry Lyndon, two other films with deliberate pacing that take their time.
If you find that sort of thing "boring", then I suppose you'll be inclined to find Solaris boring. It's a Tarkovsky film...he's interested in making art, not a video game, so a little patience, attention and thought is required when watching his movies.
As usual, the American remake with George Clooney is not as good as the original.
I read the book.
Incredible.
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Just saw that tickets go on sale Friday for Tool in ATL February 8.
Oh yeah.
Hopefully, after Friday I'll be posting the good news.
Took a little longer than I hoped, but it's ON!
Gonna be at The Arena At Gwinnett Center above ATL next Wednesday night for Tool!
I am so psyched!
Last time I saw them was Dec. 7, 1996, so yeah, I'd say I'm due!
Unfortunately, all the setlists I've seen indicate they aren't playing Rosetta Stoned.
However, it is the last show of this particular tour, so ya never know when they might feel generous.
At the very least, I'm hoping they add The Pot to the encore as they did on one of the previous shows in the past couple weeks.
On most of the shows, the encore has been Aenima alone.
One can certainly hope.
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I hope this year to get a better camera (Canon, I heard their movie capability is like film) and the good black & white editing program.
I suppose a good printer and good paper will also be looked at.
I just got my Canon EOS Rebel T3I, 18 MP and full HD video.
And even though I use a Canon 5D at work, my new Rebel actually has one advantage over the 5D - auto-focus in video mode.
The 5D requires manual focus in video mode, which can be challenging for these old eyes sometimes.
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You see to me that edit still looks unnaturally overstatured and I don't think it focuses on the pics strenghts, strong texture and the atmosphere the washed out colour creates.
I did it kinda fast to demonstrate.
And there's no knock against B&W.
The idea is simply that there's a lot of color data - even in muddy, low-contrast photos - that can be recovered.
And it's more useful for displaying as close a representation of the original scene as viewed with the naked eye but not as accurately captured in the original photo, rather than presenting the most artistically dramatic representation.
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I'd try converting this to black and white myself, you've got good texture and subtles changes of tone there but as a colour shot your really lacking contrast which is much easier to heavly manipulate in B&W
There are ways of recapturing color and contrast in Photoshop.
The initial impulse would be tweaking Curves, bumping HSB, Brightness/Contrast, etc., but these processes strip out original image data, and don't look very natural, oftentimes oversaturated.
This is also apparent when viewing the RGB histograms after performing these operations, which will reveal white "stripes" of missing data.
However, by going into LAB mode, you can punch up the original color data that exists in the image without any loss of image data.
Once you have achieved the desired results, simply change back to RGB, where the historgams will reveal NO "stripes" of data loss.
I've taken the liberty of doing a quick LAB color boost on the above photo to demonstrate.
Many photos that are somewhat "muddy" and lacking color contrast can be remarkably improved through this technique.
EDITED to place photos together for comparison.
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I've had this DVD for over a year, maybe longer, and never took the time to watch it.
I bought it at a Blockbuster that was closing down.
Watched it last night, and it was very good.
Had some incredible disaster scenes that were very grisly and slightly disturbing.
Overall a definite "would watch again."
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OK, so I've seen this dozens of times.
Saturday I had a friend over who still hadn't seen it.
So I ordered it up on OnDemand.
Turns out it was the extended version, with additional footage not in the original.
Everyone I've told that immediately said, "Cool!" or "Awesome!"
But you know what?
It wasn't.
Not a SINGLE additional minute helped the movie at all, and most detracted from it.
For me it confirmed that the original edit was the very best.
Some of the very best scenes were left untouched, but others were really ruined.
The toast on the roof - just after Alan cutting his palm for the "blood brothers" - went into an extended quasi-rant from Phil that alluded to coming events (kind of a mild spoiler), something about "no matter what happens tonight.."
It was all so unnecessary.
Very disappointing.
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Just saw that tickets go on sale Friday for Tool in ATL February 8.
Oh yeah.
Hopefully, after Friday I'll be posting the good news.
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We had a maid when I was growing up but it was nothing like the situations presented in this movie. She was treated like a member of the family, was included in holiday celebrations, birthdays, etc. and certainly wasn't expected to use outside facilities. I was born in 1962, the year this movie was set in so I could relate to it from that standpoint in a certain sense. It was horrifying to learn of the treatment the maids were treated to in Mississippi (and elsewhere).
I think the movie did a decent job of pointing out that many people treated "the help" like - as you said - a member of the family, or, at least, with a degree of dignity (for that time, anyway).
But yes, Mississippi was and still is one of the more severe areas for racism.
As recently as the early 90s, when I was in Jackson, many black women would look away or down if I attempted to make eye contact, which I found very revealing.
And as I prepare for remarks regarding my physical appearance as possible reasons women would look away, let me state that in the early 90s I wasn't totally painful to the eyes, and might well have been considered mildly hawt, thank you! lulz
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I didn't really know anything about this movie prior to seeing it other than reading some favorable reviews about it from friends online. I'd have to put it up there with my favorites of 2011 right alongside Super 8 and The Tree of Life.
Just saw this last night on OnDemand.
I thought it was incredible.
My wife had already seen it numerous times at the theater, so I knew it would be pretty good.
I think it's a real eye-opener.
It really nails a time everyone isn't intimately familiar with, yet not all that long ago, culturally speaking.
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Rush: easy to admire, impossible to love. Haven't made a great album since Moving Pictures. Totally unoriginal, and vastly over-rated. IMO.
Opinions, errybody has 'em, no doubt.
I, myself, felt for a long time that they had fallen into that rut of making "Rush" music.
It's difficult to explain, but I saw Pink Floyd similarly.
Bands sometime seem to reach a point where they seem to be striving for their signature sound, sometimes at the expense of originality.
Back in the early 90s, it was announced Pink Floyd had a new release pending.
At the time, Industrial was huge, and most Industrial bands credited Pink Floyd as being the foundation of Industrial.
I remember thinking how incredibly awesome it would be if the new release - perhaps in a collaboration with Ogre, or Alain Jourgenson - was Industrial-flavored.
Kind of a "we laid the groundwork for this, allow us to show you how it's done" sort of thing.
Instead, they released The Division Bell.
I imagine die-hard fans were pleased, but for me, it sounded like most of their other stuff.
The whole thing smacks of a band frozen in time, not really progressing or evolving.
Even Zeppelin seemed to evolve and change with each album.
However...
Unoriginal...I think not. Along with Yes, they brought progressive rock into the mainstream , and made it a recognizable genre in due time. I agree that their best albums are past them, but there are a handful of good ones even past Moving Pictures. Signals is a really good album. You won't find too many bad songs (depending on your taste) within the first 8 albums. Rush made a name for themselves off of sheer talent. All of those guys are fuckin excellent musicians and they wrote a countless number of great songs. Overrated?? Well, only if your not a big fan to begin with.......But, I respect your opinion.
^^^ THIS ^^^
As I mentioned above, I felt for a while Rush had fallen into that same rut that I described about Pink Floyd.
Roll the Bones had some cool tunes, but overall, I was left underwhelmed at best.
However, Snakes and Arrows changed all that.
While maintaining the core of their sound, they got somewhat heavier, added some intensity, and most of all, sounded very modern and distinctly NON-dated.
Far Cry and Workin' Them Angels are a couple of the best songs they've done in years.
It really is a great album.
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I'm thinking Blair Witch Project.
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I'm pretty excited.
Just ordered my own camera, the Canon EOS Rebel T3i 18MP.
Also shoots full 1080i HD video.
Yeah, it's a couple steps down from the Canon 5D MKII I use at work (and take home to use when I want), but it will be MINE!
Also getting an additional lens - Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens, plus a Canon Speedlite and tripod.
It comes with a 16GB card, and I ordered an extra 32 GB card.
All in all, not a bad setup to get started with.
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Clint is one of my all-time favorites.
I personally liked Hereafter, and the opening scene is incredibly realistic.
Some of my favorite quotes are from The Outlaw Josey Wales:
Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes. (yeah, I know HE didn't say it, but it's about him, and I love it.)
And best of all, again not Clint's quote, but possibly the origin of the internet epithet "asshat" -
Union Army officer: Now get back in line before I kick you so hard you'll be wearin' your ass for a hat.
Beautiful Women
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Underboob FTW!!!