Posted on 08/19/2017 8:43:44 AM PDT by mairdie
Live long and prosper: William Shatner creates portrait of Spock composed of Trekkie selfies in tribute to Leonard Nimoy.
William Shatner has created the ultimate tribute to his former Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy - a portrait of Spock composed entirely of Trekkie selfies.
The incredible picture is made up of thousands of fans giving the Vulcan 'live long and prosper' salute in a moving homage to Nimoy who passed away aged 83 in February of this year.
Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the original sci fi series, appealed for the selfies on Twitter earlier this month without letting on what the pictures were for.
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Derivative drivel. Shattner may be a good person, but he needs to let actual artists create art.
His best role was Denny Crane in Boston Legal
As he got older, he did a better job w/o the trademark emoting. I bet he can laugh at some of his roles/lines and just be grateful he had the opportunities he did.
I think a sincere desire to honor both Nimoy with the memorial, and to honor the fans who helped make Nimoy who he was as an actor, as they made the portrait of him, was a rather brilliant and good thought. It didn’t have to be high art. It was just kind.
As for art for the artists, I rather like that art isn’t confined to those who can get approval to be in museums or galleries. I love that people have tools to express their visions. As for the viewers, Google images sure makes it easy to sort through all the visions of all the people and pull out to enjoy just the individual, unapproved images that just hit something right inside you.
I was forced into one quarter of Bosch and Bruegel by my advisor, an expert in those artists, and I suffered that quarter. I’d much rather choose some of the amateur Trek artists’ work over seeing those two acclaimed artists every day for 3 months.
I don’t limit myself to art in galleries. Today, galleries only select non objective art and usually with a anti religious or anti establishment content message.
But, having an open mind to amateur artists does not require one to listen to every clumsy high schooler playing (or attempting to play) Stairway to Heaven, even if he is well motivated.
If Shattner had offered some tiny element of originality I would not have made the comment.
I suppose I would often choose kindness over originality.
As to the anti-religious slant in art today, I find it horrifying. And it’s not anti-religious in general. More anti-Christian. I accept that people choose to do horrible work. I can’t accept that I have to pay for it with my taxes. I would like to see most of the arts pulled from government support. We used to have a patron system and the new Internet fundings would allow people who support a particular position to fund it so that I don’t have to. And there’s still the problem that the liberals have taken over the museum field, as they have the education field. I don’t know how to balance free speech against disgust in a museum setting.
Yea, I meant anti-Christian. Probably also anti-Jewish. A dog pissing on a Nun is high art. I’ll pm you a link to my preference in art.
The U-Matic era was in Public Access Television with simple RM-440 controllers using non-frame accurate control track pulses for marking edit points.
Moving to two different local broadcast stations, the Betacam/ Type C era was with Ampex A-B editors with timecode and computer controlled edit decision lists and simple Grass Valley Model 100 switchers for wipes and dissolves. The match frame editing worked well, and the EDL worked for 'opening up' an edit to insert a new scene, but required a full new rendering to the recorder.
Our first NLE editors were Media 100s running on Macs with a small shared drive array that had just enough storage for the raw footage of about a dozen projects at a time, then eventually transitioned to Avid Xpress editors with a video server large enough to hold the entire station's video library. Not part of your video, but on-air playback also transitioned from computer controlled videotape playback using an Odetics robotic videotape handler, to having just interstitial spots on a video server but long format programs on videotape, to 100% video server.
Sadly, I am no longer in broadcasting. But read all of the trade magazines in the 1985-2010 era and closely followed the NLE development during that time. Thank YOU for the trip down memory lane.
Incredibly exciting! I was rank amateur but loved the whole field. I used to make the 1” broadcast repairman stay for as long as they paid him (half day or full day) to teach me about details. One of my most prized possessions was a timecode calculator. I am definitely going to get husband to respond to your post with the details of his configuration. He misses it to this day. If I ever find my white paper I’ll put it up on my site as a PDF.
My site has the most bizarre stuff from an 1802 book on how to collect electricity with your lightning rod and then use it to cure EVERYTHING, to the language reference manual we submitted for the contest to design the Department of Defense standard language. I adore bizarre and eclectic.
I’ve been hogging the editing system to make the Animal video and just got it up on YouTube, so I’ll go back and encode Part 1 of the non-linear demos. It’s Montage and the first part of E-Pix.
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>> “Is that a Berber carpet canvas?” <<
It is a bunch of small “selfie” photos stuck to something, or printed on something.
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Ah, the 'joys' of drop frame vs. non-drop frame timecode.
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I know he is a collector of western art and antiques.
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“There’s....something in selfies!”
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>> “His best role was Denny Crane in Boston Legal” <<
As disgusting as that show was, I have to agree!
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I worked with Quad, 1” inch, some 3/4, Beta SP & Digital, and DVC Pro.
The RM440 I learned how to use in the television curriculum at a tech college. I edited quite a few projects.
The AVIDs were becoming mainstream about the time I escaped the public TV world.
AVIDs were for the elite producer/director class and a couple of dedicated editors. Never mind most of them knew next to nothing about computers of any kind.
I did and even carried a few certs all paid for by myself. A couple of times an editor job came open. I went through the kubuki theater of the process. The end result - someone from outside that knew very little got the job. Typically that person was a pal of someone higher.
How about 3-2 pulldowns? Loved the concept.
Or brother or son-in-law or nephew or daughter. When I questioned the gentleman at the post house about how long they took to train these people he explained that he had paid his dues and others needed to do likewise.
I completely agree about paying dues in certain lines of work.
There were a couple of us competent and capable types that knew how to do most jobs there. However, none were in any of the ruling cliques therefore nothing mattered.
Only when there was a disaster or someone responsible was required were C&C’s acknowledged at all. At most after whatever was over, an atta-person email was the most that could be expected. That was rare except for one executive PD. He was a great guy to work for and the most organized person there was.
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