SilverWook said:
I couldn't find an OOT screencap of that shot. And I knew someone was going to harp on that. ;)
Not trying to go for a cheap shot, just saying all nations have a way to go in terms of preserving their history for future generations. The US may save their space history, but they allow their film history to be burned.
PM sent. Yes, this project has complete trilogy subtitles for all supported languages--but they may not have existed when a particular preservation was made, so may not have been included at the time.
SilverWook said:
And it's sad Russia leaves it's space shuttles to rot, while our surviving shuttles get museum love.
Oddly mixed message with a Special Edition screencap...
Oh, but you are right in that there was nothing at all Star Wars-related in my original Puggo image, and that hardly fits the theme. So I've edited the original image and now there's a small Star Wars element in there that oddly doesn't seem too out of place at Battersea. I think it has to be pretty subtle to avoid detracting from the whole.
I was actually considering having a very subtle blast door closing on one of the buildings, but ultimately laziness won out and I just did the pug and the text.
Finally, one for Puggo.
“Occasionally glancing up through the rain/Wondering which of the buggers to blame/And watching for pugs on the wing”
EDIT: Found and fixed what was causing issues with scaled-down images.
To address what I feel has been a longstanding lack of official preservation-themed T-shirt availability in this forum, I'll be including some high-res images for just that purpose in the next version of Project Threepio.
Obviously the "official" designs will be specific to this project, but I've also made two unofficial designs for other projects that have been given the thumbs-up by their respective owners for me to distribute. Low-resolution previews available here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Posters-In-the-style-of-other-movies-And-LP-mashups-too/post/776228/#TopicPost776228
Please keep in mind that lots of commercial printing outfits will balk at anything that looks too much like an infringing image, so I can't guarantee every design will be easy to actually get printed--my new punk rock Project Threepio logo seems to be the hardest one to do so far.
Ryan McAvoy said:
^^ Yeah cool. The more obscure the better.
I may have to dig pretty deep. I haven't found a suitable cover for Puggo yet. Obscure helps in the commercial printing department--some of these words and images are well-known enough that they could be rejected on infringement grounds.
Hope I’m not derailing the thread, because I’ve been working on a slightly different kind of mashup–creating LP/Star Wars mashup images for some of our favorite preservation projects.
“Too much alteration running through each frame/Too much alteration driving me insane”
“I have found, I have cleaned, I have scanned these dirty reels/Yeah, that’s really great, I can’t believe I did it, but nevertheless, I have done that for you.” -or- “These guys are from Dantooine and who gives a shit!”
“Star Wars showing in a faraway land/Semoga Force bersama dengan kalian”
Unless the respective project maintainers object, I’ll include much higher-res versions of these (suitable for T-shirts and whatnot) in my next Project Threepio release.
If you’re not familiar with any of these, click the image to go to the Wikipedia article about the original. The middle one’s kinda obscure–I didn’t use the collective team_negative1 identity because it didn’t blend as well.
PM sent.
Puggo: Are you responsible for this? And if so, how come I didn't find out about it until the year was halfway over?
PM sent. Heh, I get to do that in another thread.
Ah, too bad. I'll find it and send you a link to what I have.
So, I'm not clear, do you have a better source for the Han-Greedo bit? Because, if so, this is fantastic!
team_negative1 said:
We are actually looking into 70mm transfers currently. Running some test clips of Empire to see what happens. Nothing about full prints though.
We would want those primarily for their soundtrack.
Team Negative1
Umm, 70mm Empire? Yum, alternate video & audio!
Can't say about this particular film, but I've read that 70mm blow-up prints often do have slightly more detail than 35mm prints. Not sure how the math behind this observation pencils out, but maybe it's just that size matters more than you'd think. Frankly in this case, though, I'd say practical matters such as how well the film was cared for, how long it was in circulation, etc is far more of a concern than hypothetical best-case scenarios.
EDIT: Beat to the answer by happycube.
DrDre said:
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Back to the aspect ratio mystery. Here's two comparisons with Harmy's DE. Some aspects of the frames seem to suggest that the AR should be wider, while others suggest to opposite. Anyone?
I'd probably compare against similar frames from Negative1's project. Harmy's projects, while wonderful, are based on the Blu-rays, which can't be considered definitive references for anything at all.
All three, last I read about it, and I recall some excitingly cryptic comments about the 6-channel mix which I chose to interpret as meaning something cryptically awesome rather than run-of-the-mill cryptically obtuse.
EDIT: Crap, no the 6-channel was for Legacy, which means the cryptic was definitely awesome rather than obtuse, but whatever it is, it's likely not in this project.
G E Predator said:
That shows Lucas has no appreciation for his art.
Or respect for other peoples' art. A most meddlesome executive producer.
It occurred to me that I'd given Operation Eyestrain a cool name but no accompanying logo. So here you go:
The joke may be lost on you if you weren't into the late 80's/early 90's ska/punk scene*. You can look up Operation Ivy to see where this comes from. Feallan, Sadako, this eyedropper's for you!
* To be honest, I wasn't into it either, but I worked in a record store and this image of theirs stuck with me.
PM sent. Labors of love and labors of OCD are sometimes very similar ;)
Mine's pronounceable, it's just Welsh. No, seriously, it's all good. Honestly the concept of having an official shortened URL is probably a little wrong, since people are quite likely used to handling their own shortening and would never think there's one already set up to use.
The need for it came not from Twitter (where I assume it's way more useful), but from the NFO file. Some NFO readers add clickable hyperlinks to URLs, and the way I'd broken up the long URL in the existing NFO file meant it didn't work in those readers. Using a shortened URL, it works without making the NFO file 100 columns wide. And for all three people who use an NFO reader instead of a text editor so they can see the not-actually-very-fancy graphics in the Project Threepio file, well, probably only one of them uses one that does clickable hyperlinks. So Bob, if you're reading this, I did this for you.
Well, mine's one longer, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be browsing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your browser. Where can you go from there? Where? Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Eleven. Exactly. One longer.
...
I guess an "official" ensmallified URL isn't strictly necessary, as people could do it on their own. I just thought the fact that the current project URL approached 100 characters on its own presented a problem. Either of the above enweensificated URLs should work fine.
Project Threepio now has an official, uh, enshortenated URL. So if you need to refer to Project Threepio in some sort of newfangled social media context these kids are so on about these days, you can use this URL:
Almost there.