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Post by 3piggles on Feb 1, 2022 21:27:33 GMT
I agree, and have seen that myself. Making up answers to not look stupid is as bad as lying. It snowballs out of control. Historically we never learn from that mistake.
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Post by bazookagoof on Feb 5, 2022 1:35:21 GMT
I'm glad you still have the creative juices flowing, even if they're just being held as ideas rather than you having the time/ resources to act on them. I'll look forward to seeing whatever you come up with next (if you show us of course!). Had a talk with my buddy about what he's planning; essentially, it's a commentary about the stupider side of humanity with the action being narrated by a puppet. My buddy is using the term puppet a little loosely; it's a full-size human dressed to conceal age, gender and race. He's not sure how it will go, but I told him all we can do it give it a shot. He'll be doing the heavy lifting as far as writing, and I'll handle all the technical aspects. I mentioned to him that if he wants to do a webcomic style presentation, I have dozens of backgrounds from Odin's Tooth that I can legally use, as they are either my own pictures or royalty-free for public use. I couldn't use characters like Surtr or Jorgen, but perhaps I could sneak Stilgar or the indecisive ninja in at some point. We'll just see how it goes. It's still in the planning stages.
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 5, 2022 20:51:22 GMT
Stilgar is yours. The pictures you used in Oden's Tooth may be your old friend's property, but any new pictures you've taken since Oden's Tooth are your property. Just make sure they stay your property. I'm sure your friend will understand. That sounds great!
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Post by bazookagoof on Feb 5, 2022 22:27:11 GMT
Stilgar is yours. The pictures you used in Oden's Tooth may be your old friend's property, but any new pictures you've taken since Oden's Tooth are your property. Just make sure they stay your property. I'm sure your friend will understand. That sounds great! He says he's got the costume just about finalized, so we'll do a picture test and see how he wants it done. I recommended a "meme" format that can fit an application like Instagram. He mentioned he wanted to do occasional motion video so there would content for TikTok. I imagine we'll start small and grow from there if this proves popular enough. I'm not going into this with dollar signs in my head, although my buddy hopes this will take off. It's no financial drain on me, just a bit of time that I can spare, and I could use a creative outlet, even if it's not really my own creation.
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 6, 2022 15:30:37 GMT
All of these creative outlets go on any resume you write for a job in that industry. These are all things you can prove you did, show them what you did, explain how you did it, etc. It's great job interview material, and it may eventually get you a job you really like. Not a job editing someone else's home videos. Also, just as it is with producers and directors, you don't have to work constantly to be a viable job candidate. You have a have a portfolio of what you've done. I hope we get to see some of it. I do miss the kookie characters from Oden's Tooth
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Post by Bean on Feb 27, 2022 9:25:12 GMT
I was going to mention we watched Rush recently, which is about the rivalry between the F1 drivers Nicki Lauda and James Hunt. I don't follow racing at all, so I have no idea how much of it was truth. Prior to watching it I didn't even know the name James Hunt - I'd knew the name Nicki Lauda, although I couldn't have told you a thing about him. As the story unfolded, I remembered why I'd heard of him though - I have a vague recollection of the accident and of his premature (in the view of everyone else) return to racing.
It wasn't the greatest film, but it was fun, and I'm glad survival rates of F1 drivers has improved over the years!
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 27, 2022 19:59:36 GMT
Nikki stayed with racing until he died in 2019. He is greatly missed by generations of drivers, owners and officials. I've seen him interviewed so many times, it's hard to believe he's gone. I don't know anything about James Hunt, except that he and Nikki were supposed to have been very close friends. If the movie showed them as enemies, it's probably just the typical Hollywood approach to anything; sex and violence sell I haven't seen the movie listed, so will check for it.
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Post by Bean on Feb 28, 2022 8:37:04 GMT
It was about their professional rivalry spurring them on to win (or to want to win), but it also showed they respected each other - the word enemies doesn't reflect how the relationship was depicted. I can imagine they were very competitive, but also that this aspect of their relationship may have been hammed up for the film. Nicki Lauda was involved in the making of making Rush, so that might have improved the accuracy a bit!
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 28, 2022 20:06:50 GMT
What we see happening on the track before, during and after a race rarely reflects how the drivers and their crew chiefs get along in real life. On the track, during a race, it's every team for itself. No matter what happens, once the race is run and tempers cool down, all the friendships are back as they were. I think racing is a very emotionally demanding sport, and having friends to help maintain focus, help you remember what's really important, is imperative. I remember an incident between Kimi Raikkonen and Valteri Bottas, both Finns, when Kimi cut off Valteri, and Valteri made a comment about being totally disappointed by his idol. Kimi retired at the end of last season, and turned over his right to Valteri, so I don't think that comment had much to do with anything. Kimi drove for Alfa Romeo, and he is part owner of the team. It's based in Switzerland, so much closer to Finland that any other team. He found the travel a lot easier, and I'm sure Valteri will, too. I think most racing movies are spiced up for Hollywood (I'm using Hollywood to mean movie and TV audiences). While there are wrecks, most aren't fatal, and families aren't torn apart. Last fatal crash I recall was Dan Weldon, IndyCar, who died in a horrendous crash in October of 2011. That's 10 full seasons of racing ago. Yes, some have been hurt, but they've come back to racing in one way or another. It's just not as violent, bloody and inhumane as it's made out to be. The Tour de France is worse. I used to watch rally, and that's pretty bad, both because the fans are allowed to stand practically in the driving/biking lane, and sometimes they are in the driving/biking lane. Fans get hurt, and cause accidents that injure the drivers/bikers. Again, Ayrton Senna did not need to die. Vic and I were watching that F1 race, and saying if that corner were filled with plastic barrels of water, or even tires, it would be so much safe. It didn't need to happen, but F1 and Europeans are slow to change their ways If Nikki contributed to the movie, I'm sure it was true to life, with Nikki's humor added in
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Post by Bean on Mar 1, 2022 8:41:26 GMT
I'm not a Tour de France watcher either, but have seen footage of fans crowding out the racers, and wonder why it's allowed to go on. Fair enough injuring themselves, but not okay to risk the rider's safety or chances in the race.
They did talk about the death rate from F1 and it wasn't insignificant, but with few of those being in recent decades since safety has been massively improved. I certainly don't think of it being a bloody sport, but if you're driving a car as fast as you can, alongside other people doing the same, then it's definitely going to be riskier than playing chess!
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 1, 2022 20:43:07 GMT
The F1 death rate, like that of many racing venues, goes back to the beginning of the sport. Back then, drivers wore goggles and lightweight helmets that kept things from blowing into their eyes. They needed to be able to see. Their cars were the most basic they could be, and the racecourses were on public roads, no protections at all. Drivers were killed or maimed regularly, simply because there were no protections.
That gave way to things like guard rails to keep the drivers from going off the course and into lakes, trees, you name it. Cars got bigger windshields, and the helmets got more protective. Eventually fire suits replaces the regular team suits, as drivers died in car fires during accidents.
The US has led the way in safety, although I think the Hans device, that yoke-like collar that goes around the driver, tethering and preventing the head from being smashed all over the place, came from Europe. I mentioned the corner where Senna was killed. The track curved and the wall around the track went in a 90 degree corner. He went off the track and hit the wall in the corner. If you watch a race, now, you'll see groups of tired tied together and placed many layers deep to stop the vehicles, or plastic barrels filled with water in the same configuration for the same reason. Those are also placed where concrete walls end on the track, or where guardrails end on the track.
US racetracks also have moveable walls, so when a car hits the wall, the wall gives, like a shock absorber. Some of the F1 tracks have them, too. When a driver hits a section of wall, the race is usually stopped until that section of wall is replaced, and all the debris is cleaned up.
As for the fans in the race lanes, it not only injures and sometimes kills the drivers and the fans, but it costs the teams a fortune. It has been a bone of contention with the Tour de France for years, but officials want the fans to have the best experience, so tend to put police in a few places along the route but leave the rest of it unattended. The race is run on public streets.
With rally, the tracks are often off-road or at least off the paved roads, through forests, pasts lakes, steep hills, sharp drop-offs, etc. There aren't always a good places for the fans to gather to watch the cars pass them, so they move further and further out into the race lane, then get caught out there when the cars come flying around the bend, airborne and out of control for avoiding fans. There's still a lot to be done to make some race venues safer for racers and fans, that's for sure.
Jules Bianci is the last F1 racer to die, 2015, and he didn't die in a crash, but from head injuries sustained in a crash the previous year. Back to better knowledge of head injuries needed for racers and ball players.
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Post by Bean on Mar 2, 2022 8:30:29 GMT
While there's not tons of research yet, there seems to be an emerging link between head injures from from sports to brain conditions like dementia in later life too. As we live longer, they're more likely to show up. I'm sticking to yoga and swimming!
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 2, 2022 20:21:47 GMT
Several VIP football players, who played when there were no concussion protocols, have varying stages of memory loss. It's not bordering on dementia, yet, but probably will as they get older. Brett Farve, who was quarterback for Green Bay Packers NFL team, said he'll be on his way to pick up his daughter from school, and not be able to remember if he already did it, or still needs to do it. He's 52 years old Junior Seau and Aaron Hernandez committed suicide in what's linked to head injury-caused CTE. The effects of head injuries finally made the news to such an extent the NFL couldn't refuse to admit it was a problem. They instituted some strict concussion protocols, which hopefully will help. I'm with you. I'll walk, cycle and swim, and leave the head injuries to others. I really don't need any more trouble remembering things than I already have
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 4, 2022 1:13:39 GMT
I hadn't seen The Incredibles Part 2 yet, but someone pointed out an Easter egg of sorts in it that I found fascinating: The mother is working a job that takes her away from her family, and in the scene pictured, there is a painting on the wall that reflects her distance from her family: The solitary red object represents her, while all the other objects represent her other family members. (The largest is her husband, for example- the tiniest one is her newborn child, and the remaining two are her daughter and son. I need to find time to see this. I enjoyed the first one, and out of all the Pixar movies I've seen, only Cars 2 was a complete trainwreck.
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Post by Bean on Jun 4, 2022 6:55:26 GMT
I definitely didn't notice that! I bet there are loads of things like that which we miss - as the people who make the films, it must be fun sticking them in.
We've been watching the new season of Stranger Things - it's really good!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 4, 2022 17:23:38 GMT
That's one of those things we notice as an art piece, but nothing beyond that, unless someone tells us. Thanks for that info. It makes a lot of sense, now
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 5, 2022 1:53:32 GMT
That's one of those things we notice as an art piece, but nothing beyond that, unless someone tells us. Thanks for that info. It makes a lot of sense, now I wish I'd caught it myself- I usually try to look for things of that nature on repeat viewings. Something else I did catch- this is part of an article regarding the upcoming Indiana Jones movie next year: File this under "I was hired to write an article about a film series I know almost nothing about". His LASSO? Since when? Not in any of the four movies does he ever employ a lasso. Usually when the name Indiana Jones comes up, people think of the hat and his BULLWHIP. I suppose the writer made a mistake, but then that leads me to believe no one there proofreads. Either way, it's a serious blunder.
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Post by Bean on Jun 5, 2022 8:20:04 GMT
Uh oh. I was going to say there'll have been egg on that writer's face, but some people just aren't bothered by making mistakes like that, and they're usually the kind that are happy to write about something they're not familiar with, and don't even bother to get someone more knowledgeable to check things over!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 5, 2022 18:55:46 GMT
When I was reporting for the newspaper, we had very strict rules on the level of information we had to include and verify. There are less journalistic newspapers that don't bother with all that time wasting stuff, but most of us used the New York Times Style Book, and that was our bible. No more, I'm sad to say I'm really noticing the singular and plural mix-ups in the blurbs written for TV shows. It's gotten worse, and what worse than the bad writing is the people adopting that way of writing as if it's correct. Singularizing everything was already out of control, and it's in all the lines in TV shows and movies. It's getting rare to hear someone actually use English correctly. I know language are fluid and evolve, but most of what bugs me is evolving to a stage where people are even less understood than ever, all while claiming no one understands them! I probably won't watch the movie. I don't go to theatres, and by the time it comes on TV I've forgotten I wanted to watch it. If it gets great reviews, we might buy it to watch on Hulu, as we can stop it part way through if it's really long, and finish it another time. I am glad they're wrapping up the franchise. I really don't like to see franchises just drift off without any conclusion. I'm also really glad Harrison Ford is still playing Indy. He is Indiana Jones (don't call me Junior), and should be the last one who plays that part, at least for this franchise. It will all be remade in 30 years with whomever the current, cool actors are at the time.
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 6, 2022 0:35:52 GMT
I am glad they're wrapping up the franchise. I really don't like to see franchises just drift off without any conclusion. I'm also really glad Harrison Ford is still playing Indy. He is Indiana Jones (don't call me Junior), and should be the last one who plays that part, at least for this franchise. It will all be remade in 30 years with whomever the current, cool actors are at the time. From what I've heard, they believe recasting would be a costly mistake, so this will be the final movie. However, Disney didn't buy the rights just to not make any money on it, so like you said, they probably will start making more of them down the road, just not immediately. Someone mentioned that when Raiders first came out, the year 1936 was only about 45 years ago. Not too far back in the grand scheme of things, but would anyone want to see a movie that takes place in the 1930's now? The time frame is closer to 85 years ago! It's less relevant to younger audiences today.
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