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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At one DC, me and my wife somehow were talking to Nichelle Nichols in some room. She was super nice.
My favorite is Claudia Christian. Ivanova has no equal.
My wife corresponded with Erin Gray some a long time ago. Erin is another class act.
Just about all the B5/Crusade crowd were always talkative and fan friendly.
What few Stargate people I met were really good too.
I ran into so many and it’s all a blur at times.
The most surprising personality was Traci Lords.
She had long lines the first year that were crazy and it wasn’t a big deal to me.
The next year she was back and this older co-irker of mine begged me to get her autograph. My wife thought it was good natured enough.
She didn’t have the crowd the second time around when we dropped by. Traci was actually very personable and was really amused about how my pal was so desperate for an autograph. We all hung around for a few minutes.
Exactly, but uglier and without Julia on my arm.
I’ll have to turn the YouTube computer on, but I will. Sounds wonderful. Someone asked me so I created the World Con bid for D.C. a long time ago. Don’t remember if they got the con. Think not. Many of my vids from that period are in such bad shape that I have to essentially remake them to put them up. The World Con bid has problems so I haven’t done anything with it. I’ve never gone to one. The artist who did those two portraits I posted was an avid WorldCon attendee. ComicCon is a major big deal! Best of luck with that. Big work but big fun. I’ve worked at some fan cons - ran a vampire video room - but have only run computer conferences. Picked out all the places I wanted to visit to put them. Montreal, Salt Lake City, New Orleans and Charleston. The meetings weren’t bad either.
During the DragonCon experiences, I considered trying to get in the video production. DragonConTV makes some really funny stuff.
I was a little public broadcaster person and was looking to make some other friends in video production. It never happened.
Maybe the little Columbia Con could get some of the folks from Samurai Cop I. I doubt they’d charge that much.
We watched the Rifftracks version and I had tears from laughing so hard. The commentary is icing on the cake.
SC should be a guide of how not to make an action movie.
Nichelle Nichols has such a great reputation. My personal favorite, only met in autograph lines, was DeForest Kelley. Everything I’ve heard says he was a wonderful man, and I loved that his charity was no-kill animal shelters. Husband spent quite a bit of time talking to Frederick Pohl at a tiny MA con because no one else much showed up. Husband was thrilled.
I fear I’m an unrepentent autograph collector. First one was from the gentleman who played The Grey Ghost, Todd Andrews, back in the 50’s. Still remember getting one from a physicist that I explained that I’d heard he would get a Nobel prize one day. Oh, one of my Physics professors did. Very old by that time and spent an entire quarter teaching us that it wasn’t an x,y world. It was an x-x0, y-y0 world. My husband’s PhD advisor remembered his class tried to get him kicked out of teaching for senility.
My wife is bigger on autographs than I am.
We have a fair collection between us.
One is a wedding present of a sort from Peter Jurasik. We had gotten married a few weeks before that con.
The subject came up and he was ecstatic. He insisted on taking an autograph as a present. It’s hanging by the bedroom door.
Peter remembered us every time after that as the wedding kids for the times we went.
One of the horrors of my life is that one of my music video students became so enthralled with video making that she QUIT HER TENURED PROFESSOR position to move to Las Vegas and get into video production. And she was AWFUL! And I never had the guts to tell her. She was back at her college a few years later, so she must have figured it out. Before IBM trained me in video production, I practiced with my fan friends. The woman whose table I slept under wanted to get into TV so let me make a video that she wrote and narrated. Again, dreadful. But she actually got onto the crews for two separate TV series.
I used to attend all the National Association of Broadcaster conventions and wrote a white paper on non-linear editors when Avid was just a tiny booth you wouldn’t notice. Passed around my paper and it spread like wildfire. They were phoning it back from Las Vegas to New Jersey. Just hysterical. But they told me that I clearly understood computers but not broadcast and I should visit Hollywood. So I said fine. I’ll stay and go out next week. So they set up a whole series of visits for me with production houses and editor/directors. Absolutely fascinating. Most obvious thing was that the level of nepotism was so intense that they had to do the most unbelievable type of training over an unbelievable amount of time to make sure people could do the work. I’d have gone crazy in that environment. They let me loose through all the notebooks so I could xerox pages and follow the data through the whole process, so I did learn a lot.
TV production as I found out is a super buddy buddy system.
I liked what I did but I made a comical salary. It took a few years to get off the plantation.
The IT field has treated me better.
Since I am an experienced production and engineering person, I sometimes do some lightweight stuff in my job. Nobody except for one other guy knows anything about video and editing.
I am the resident expert and go through bouts of making stuff.
PERFECT - production and engineering! My husband was my engineer. They sent him out to Hollywood for a one day seminar in sound. I got sent to a week long set of classes in Maine. Took Editing the Scene from the editor of the Pawnbroker, and a wonderful class in screenplay writing. Editing turned out to be more for theory. Husband is a Not Invented Here sort of guy, so after he dragged the one inch VTRs into the closet, he built his own edit controller and router, so nothing I did followed ANY standards. He did get a paper on his router into SMPTE. But the theory from the editing class was excellent. You must be having a wondrous time. Glad you found IT. Good field with some good people.
He played in a couple of the Twilight Zones before he did Star Trek.
Shatner understands how to have fun and entertain w/o being a snob.
The father of non-linear editing was George Lucas, who invented (or rather commissioned and paid for the invention of) the first working non-linear editor, the EditDroid. The problem with the EditDroid was one of storage. There were no hard drives big enough to hold the video, so all of the source material had to be burned onto Laserdiscs. Way too expensive for anything but full blown Hollywood productions, and there film editing still reigned supreme.
Lucas couldn't sell the EditDroid, so he eventually sold off the company to ......
Avid.
I remember those banks of laserdiscs! That is fantastic that you remember that!
Non-linear editing was the most exciting thing going. The reason my paper got so much excitement was that I interviewed EVERYBODY doing ANYTHING at the time and explained in detail the advantages/disadvantages of each of the manufacturers for my employers. Not that IBM would ever DO anything like that. It was just the way I learned things - writing it all out. So when I showed up the year after with this finished analysis, everyone wanted the info on their competitors, of course!
The one thing that was driving me crazy about what was going on in the field was that they had the opposite problem to me - they knew so much less about computers than about editing. So where I kept grinding my teeth that I wanted to be able to insert a general algorithm somewhere, like for doing ripple edits, they gave me a fixed set of preprogrammed options. I did suggest generalization of some functionality at every booth I visited, but it never made sense to them. So ripple edits, even in non-linear, still remained a major pain in the butt.
I actually still have some video I shot at the convention back in the day. Maybe I should actually look at it again! Sincerely thank you for the memories.
And he and Nimoy were BOTH in Get Smart. Nimoy was the villian.
Villain. Sorry about that. And I meant that they were both in the same episode.
Glad to offer the apology. There is something about Shatner that I like - Canuck or not.
Thanks - I had forgotten that.
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