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You have to scan through some junk, but there are some nuggets in there:
Also worth a look, LOL80’s
Steam Trek: The Moving Picture
Via Lunadude
Star Trek as an old silent film. Brilliant!
Reminiscent of Georges Melies’ Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip To The Moon) filmed in 1902
Steam Trek: The Moving Picture
The distant future, the year 1980
Praise the Lord and pass the popcorn
Living in suburbia it’s quite common to come home and find that the house has been doorknob spammed in some form or another. It could be anything from a menu and coupons from the local Chinese restaurant, pizza parlor or sandwich shop to any number of home repair or lawn maintenance services.
Saturday I found this hanging from the door handle:
I know there’s no such thing as a free lunch movie and there’s got to be a catch. Obviously it’s a promotional gimmick for something. I flip it over and I see this:
I’ve been doorknob spammed BY A CHURCH!
These leaflets are not cheap ones, either. Glossy and full color, they had to be a pretty penny to have printed.
If I read this correctly they’re holding their services at the movie theater on Sunday mornings.
Wayne “The Train” Hancock
For concert photography I have been favoring my Sony 50mm 1.4 lens quite heavily. It’s a fantastic piece of glass and the results speak for themselves. Last night I decided to break with the 50mm and work with my Tamron AF 28-75mm f2.8 XR Di while attending the Wayne Hancock show at Fitzgeralds.
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As you can see, the Tamron did fine in terms of clarity and exposure. On top of that I was able to capitalize on the wider angle when framing up my shot.
I was still interested in close up work and the Tamron did not disappoint there, either:
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But the true joy of this lens is the ability to shoot at a wider angle and from a greater distance so I am not having to crowd the stage…
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I am definitely going to experiment with this lens some more in the coming weeks.
Umbrella Man
Butterfly Macro
Red-Banded Hairstreak Butterfly
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo
Long, LONG before there was American Idol there was a nationally syndicated program called The Gong Show.
Contestants would perform their variety act in front of a panel of celebrity judges and if they were not “gonged” in the first 20 seconds the judges would rate the performance on a scale of 1-10 and the winning act would receive a cash prize.
I vividly remember my my friends in Three Day Stubble getting “gonged” off the show almost immediately.
I watched the program pretty regularly “back in the day” but I don’t recall seeing this.
Watching this video it’s hard to imagine that the guy wearing the rocket would one day go on to score the music for movies like Batman The Motion Picture and the theme from the Simpsons.
I wonder what ever happened to the acts who’s only claim to fame may be that they lost to the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo on The Gong Show?
That makes two Gong Show conrestants I have met in person
And one time getting “gonged” myself from a recreation of the Gong Show.
There’s a hidden message here somewhere.