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#776495
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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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.

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#776382
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Star Wars Posters - In the style of other movies (And LP mashups too)
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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.

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#776347
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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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.

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#776242
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Star Wars Posters - In the style of other movies (And LP mashups too)
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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.

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#776228
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Star Wars Posters - In the style of other movies (And LP mashups too)
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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.

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#775561
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Team Negative1 - Return of the Jedi 1983 - 35mm Theatrical Version (unfinished project)
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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.

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#775553
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Star Wars GOUT in HD using super resolution algorithm (* unfinished project *)
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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?

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/130819

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/130820

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.

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#775245
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team negative1 - star wars 1977 - 35mm theatrical version (Released)
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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.

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#774883
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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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.

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#774589
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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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.

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#774548
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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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.

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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.