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A portrait of Leonard Nimoy made by William Shatner after Nimoy's death
Daily Mail ^ | 11 August 2015 | Hannah Parry

Posted on 08/19/2017 8:43:44 AM PDT by mairdie

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To: mairdie

Derivative drivel. Shattner may be a good person, but he needs to let actual artists create art.


81 posted on 08/20/2017 6:44:14 AM PDT by anton
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To: trebb

His best role was Denny Crane in Boston Legal


82 posted on 08/20/2017 7:13:10 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

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.


83 posted on 08/20/2017 7:43:40 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: anton

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.


84 posted on 08/20/2017 8:43:26 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

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.


85 posted on 08/20/2017 8:55:43 AM PDT by anton
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To: anton

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.


86 posted on 08/20/2017 10:07:35 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

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.


87 posted on 08/20/2017 11:39:16 AM PDT by anton
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To: Yo-Yo
Consider it all due to you, but I did go back and retrieve my footage from the SMPTE meeting. I put up Part 2 first, which included E-Pix, Avid, EMC and FX. For the life of me, I can't remember what VUES was. FX got short shrift at the end of tape. There's very little on Wikipedia on the topic, and I only last year threw out my box of brochures from the period. Sigh. Camera wasn't good in low light, and the interviewer was a very confused font of ignorance, but otherwise interesting.

Part 2
88 posted on 08/20/2017 1:52:26 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie
Very cool video. My video experience was at the lower end of television production, first in U-Matic then BetaCam SP, 1" Type C, and ultimately Beta SX. Full disclosure, I was engineering, not an editor, so my experience was in installation and maintenance, not in editing.

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.

89 posted on 08/20/2017 4:48:43 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

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.


90 posted on 08/20/2017 5:23:35 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: tumblindice

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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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91 posted on 08/20/2017 5:27:53 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mairdie
One of my most prized possessions was a timecode calculator.

Ah, the 'joys' of drop frame vs. non-drop frame timecode.

92 posted on 08/20/2017 5:28:34 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: mairdie

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I know he is a collector of western art and antiques.
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93 posted on 08/20/2017 5:29:34 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mairdie

“There’s....something in selfies!”


94 posted on 08/20/2017 5:29:56 PM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: xp38

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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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95 posted on 08/20/2017 5:31:44 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Yo-Yo

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.


96 posted on 08/20/2017 5:44:16 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Yo-Yo

How about 3-2 pulldowns? Loved the concept.


97 posted on 08/20/2017 5:45:16 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: wally_bert

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.


98 posted on 08/20/2017 5:47:30 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

99 posted on 08/20/2017 5:50:44 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: mairdie

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.


100 posted on 08/20/2017 5:59:12 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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