Leonardo

TheBoost said:

Bingowings said:

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Dark City (1998)

The Matrix (1999)

Each film has it's strengths and weaknesses. I guess if I had to pick a favorite it would be The Thirteenth Flour.

Clearly there was a bit of end of the millennium doubt of all things bug going around.

  A professor of religion I used to work with spoke very highly of all these films.

He said science fiction, especially speculating on things like Virtual reality were opening doors to Westerners to engage with these traditionally Eastern ideas and views about the nature of reality. A lot of these notions, he continued, were bubbling around the zeitgiest since the 60s, but were still really hard to express until we started visuallizing them with these computer stories.

 Wow! Imagine that, a teacher with knowledge and personal culture!

I had an art teacher that was all right, he had "street smarts", bless him, but when presented with the notion of science fiction would make a smirk and mumble stuff akin to "it's not real".

At least, I think it was my art professor, it could've been some other teacher. Point is, I've met a couple other people that just dismiss SF altogether and just shake their head, don't know the first thing about it, and seem outright put off by the mere concept of it.

"It's not real"... what, and Sherlock Holmes was a real dude that lived in London a long time ago and solved murder mysteries? Mel Gibson was the real William Wallace? Roberto Benigni died at the end of "Life is beautiful"? (I wish!)

I'm sorry my post went completely off topic, but I had to vent since Boost brought up an interesting anecdote.

Perhaps, if some of you fellas wanna discuss, this could become a topic of its own: have you met people like these?

"It stopped raining, gee that's better, muddah fuddah kindly disregard this letter!"

Sounds like you're looking for Kdenlive:

http://www.kdenlive.org/features

I would also recommend "Ubuntu Studio".

ubuntustudio.org

It is an entire distribution completely dedicated to multimedia production, be it audio, photo, video, and as such it already comes with Kdenlive, and a bunch more useful programs and libraries. I've been toying with the live DVD lately and I'm impressed. For example, with Ardour, I was able to mix a couple of songs from scratch (well, I had the single tracks recorded in advance on another machine) making use of the many free effects that come with it.

Just a quick tip, guys:

do not go to Imgur.com right now.

You WILL CRY.

I am silently crying my eyes out at this very moment.

WRONG!

I heard about it almost as soon as it hit the news, a friend sent me a text msg. I thought to myself "please let this be a hoax" and went back to sleep. Sure enough I heard the news reports this morning.

SilverWook said:

There was a bit in one of his early stand up specials where he portrayed himself as an old man. That will be bittersweet now.

I was immediately reminded of the one where he portrays himself and a "newspaper guy" character in split screen at the end of the special. Is that the one?

It still feels very surreal.

I even chocked up hearing the corny italian theme song to Mork & Mindy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-0ITvpyZA

Star Wars actually launched Robin's career.

The story goes that Garry Marshall's children saw the movie and told him "we want aliens in Happy Days" and that's how Mork was born.

SilverWook said:

Mike O said:

Fuji are dead and Kodak will be by the end of the year. 

 Odd, as I see more 35mm film for sale in drugstores and the like than I did a year ago.

Should I hoard as much as I can, and store it in the fridge?

 Shit, you just reminded me, I have two (already out of date before I put them in the camera) rolls of film still to develop!

I sure hope something shows up!

DuracellEnergizer said:

I admit that my opinion may have been coloured by the stories I read about her adopting an American accent to deliberately disassociate herself from her Scottish roots; I tend to dislike people who forsake their heritage. 

 Then you must really hate Freddie Mercury. ;)

(and lil old me...)

Heero Yuy said:

Tsss why not cokebacks or sumthin? Tssss

oh Tatooine Chippah! :)

Ryan McAvoy said:

Leonardo said:

Bingowings said:

1980's gay stereotype.

 beard, glasses and flannel?

 I taking a moment to enjoy the extra layer of humour to your comment that perhaps you didn't intend ;-)

 beard?

Bingowings said:

1980's gay stereotype.

 beard, glasses and flannel?

not sure if serious.

If serious, my winter attire is fabulous then!

I thought you were Spartacus.

TV's Frink said:

Leonardo said:

 *facepalm* I'm such a ditz sometimes...

 No offense intended, but you aren't sexy enough to be a ditz.

 Sez you! *humpf*

SilverWook said:

Leonardo said:

I'd like to add this to the list:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-V25-MKV-IS-OUT-NOW/post/718485/#TopicPost718485

AKA "Hey, look there's a cop! Hey dude you want some pot? Here let me roll it for ya."

 And nobody thought to notify a mod? I'm on vacation, and I still feel the need to keep an eye on this site.

 *facepalm* I'm such a ditz sometimes...

mmm... Still, if one just sent an email saying "somebody just uploaded STAR WARS on your servers" I think they'd take it down immediately.

Moth3r said:

Can I just remind everyone that if you quote a post, then the original post is edited by a mod, the quoted part in your post doesn't automatically change to the edited version - I have to go in and do it manually. 

 Sorry about that. I wasn't thinking. I was just baffled.

pitpawten said:

Yeah, looking at the thumbnails on the archive.org site it looks like it was transcoded hastily with a free program as some of them have what looks like the "this is a free version" watermark in the middle of the image!!

This doesn't fit with a misguided fan if you ask me.

Someone legitimately trying to get themselves and others a good copy of this would not go and use a transcoder with a watermark every 5 mins......

 Are you calling shenanigans?

ssshhhhh, twister will hear ya!

I'd like to add this to the list:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-V25-MKV-IS-OUT-NOW/post/718485/#TopicPost718485

AKA "Hey, look there's a cop! Hey dude you want some pot? Here let me roll it for ya."

That's the least of our concerns.

No etiquette, no respect of the rules...

I know I'm not a mod and I should be minding my own beeswax, but this ain't looking right to me.

Ebaillargeon82 said:

Ok, in regards to the real world, I decided it would be less confusing if fans (including myself) only need to download the Despecialized Edition and not bother with all those confusing .srts (they confused me). So, I decided to convert the MKV file into an AVI file. I then uploaded it on YouTube.com, but Fox almost immediately blocked it on copyright grounds. Then, I uploaded it on archive.org.

So you can watch the Despecialized Edition at:           * DELETED *

For some reason, I can't stream the video (as of this writing). But fans can still download it. No need to download all the confusing stuff (well, to me, it was confusing) that I mentioned above.

 Dude. What the hell.

No way Harmy gave permission for any of this.

If he did, I'll eat my hat. With mustard.

You wouldn't, cause right or wrong is subjective. However, don't diss the Rick, man. He's one of my favourite comedians and a brilliant guy. If you don't like him, that's fine, he's not for you.

I don't care for metal, cause it's not for me. But I won't go around saying (all) metal is shit or isn't music.

TV's Frink said:

The use of "retarded cunt" strikes me as unnecessary.

trust me, Frink, those are the perfect words. And I reckon Ricky Gervais would (possibly) agree with me:

https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/424616337470914560

Having said that, I love the idea of Leo doing stand-up.

 Thank you. This made my morning.

Warbler said:

Cosby's Noah's Ark skit never bothered me. 

 It's one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life.

The thing I really feel bad about, besides bombing, is not giving credit publicly to Cosby. Those 40 people now think it's my material, when it's not.

Incidentally, this is why I'll never be a politician.

I'll try not to do such things in the future. I feel too icky. No more standup for me until I write my own material.

Tell you the truth, even if I was kinda sorta expecting that, I still was dumbfounded by the mere statement, and the expression on her smug face. The only comeback I could muster up was "Lady, if you're offended, that's your business".