timdiggerm

You_Too was correct! Using Chrome developer tools (F12), which are equivalent to Firebug in Firefox, I was able to view individual http requests as the site got each image. This gave me the urls for the individual images, which are all hosted on flickr, such as: http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7269/7553585052_40b213e5c8_b.jpg

After some googling, I used the bookmarklet found here: http://www.bram.us/2008/01/12/my-priceless-flickr-tip-how-to-find-the-original-flickr-photo-url-and-user-from-a-static-flickr-image-url/ on one of the images and found his flickr account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/77542667@N08/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/77542667@N08/sets/ for more organization.

Then I plugged that url  (the photostream link) into the software found at http://www.flickrdownloader.com/ and soon I had all the files on my hard drive. Unfortunately, I didn't download set by set, but manual sorting while looking at his sets was surprisingly quick. From there it was a quick zip and upload.

I played around with a watermark removing tool ("Photo Stamp Remover") but results were pretty attrocious. If anyone has better ideas, let me know.

Anyway, PM me if you want the link. Ender, obviously I'm just sending it to you.

I have solved the problem entirely but am going to wait on posting details until the operation is complete. If this all works correctly, the only thing left to do would be removing watermarks. And good gracious does that guy love his hideous watermarks.

darth_ender said:

I wish I could get some help (hint hint). Most particularly, I'm struggling with starwarsarchives.com. Tyrphanax has offered to help, but I know he's plenty busy. That dude has some unique material, and even though much is watermarked, I'd still like to get ahold of it. But as far as I can tell, since it's a flash site, there is only one way to get those pictures: printscreen, paste to Paint, save.

Couldn't someone w/ Flash (the creation tool, not the plugin) decompile and extract the assets?

And I can only do this with the smaller pictures because once you enlarge most of them, they always take up more than your screen, no matter what efforts you use to try to shrink them to simply fill your screen. 

What about doing an image in pieces and reassembling?

Bingowings said:

One change I am hoping for with ROTS:SE sounds simple but might actually be pretty tricky.

ROTS is now in no possible way the last Star Wars film (unless you class it as the last George Star Wars film) so it doesn't make sense to me that it's soundtrack should end with a medley of themes from films that "haven't happened yet".

What I propose is that a new end title track be constructed, one that sounds like it's going to end on a bum note (The Emperor's theme for example) but then there is a tiny ray of light with a Force theme reprise.

One big problem (one of many) I had leaving the cinema after seeing ROTS was the end titles were way too up beat for such a downer of a film.

Timing such a creature would be a challenge though.

I've got some fan-compiled extended ROTS score, and I think the track called "Revenge of the Sith Orchestral Suite" is exactly what you mean.

Similarly I'd either drop Vader's breathing from the end of TPM or have some similar lead in sound effect acting as a foreshadowing of the next episode.

So in TPM we might hear Nute demand Padme's death.

In AOTC we could hear Vader's breath.

In ROTS we could hear Leia's transmission to Obi-Wan.

By the time ROTJ:R is out we might even have a sound clip that could be placed there to lead into Episode VII.

I really would just rather have none of that.

WOOOOOOOOO BAAAALTIIIIMOOOOOOORE

seriously though, that was the 2nd game I've bothered to watch this season, despite living in the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area, and I found myself remarkably interested.

TV's Frink said:

asterisk8 said:

Can we get a Purist version with Crappy Yoda Puppet, please?

Already got it.  It's called the original DVD.

Oh, so you're gonna settle for pink tint and cropped frames? Some purist!

TV's Frink said:

More git arrogance, please.

Uh, okay?

Git is the best revision control system ever created, far superior to Subversion and other competitors.

Bingowings said:

JJ has proved that he can get actors to play characters (most of the time) instead of just looking bewildered at a dot on a wall but he has very little control over the quality of the situations those characters are facing (otherwise Star Trek 2009 would have been more than just an average Star Trek film with new actors in).

Which, given the writing team they've got, is probably going to turn out okay. I mean, there's no Orci.

This thread is now a merger of OffTopic's Trek and Prometheus threads.

CP3S said:

Oooh, found another great one too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU

Yes, we know

chyron8472 said:

Are you telling her that downloading any fanedits whatsoever is illegal, no matter what form of media one owns a copy of the original work on?

Not only is this not true (it's profiting from the fanedits that is illegal), but you might as well have told her to stick it and to go away.

Good luck proving that in court.

Info_Jedi said:

Oh , there was a moon landing alright. I have no doubt about that. People just never saw it. What was shown on TV was just that , a show. A show being filmed on a set.

As I have already done to others in this thread, I now refer you to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU

georgec said:

SW isn't really sci-fi. SW is an action-adventure-drama that takes place in outer space.

I believe the term you're looking for is "space fantasy"?

craigisashark said:

timdiggerm said:

As much as this is an advertisement and as much as it's the prequels, I think we can mostly agree that we're really glad to see this happen. If you can, eventually, get AOTC's soundtrack released, the way Williams wrote it (particularly the finale), we'd be even happier.

But gosh this is tempting.

Was the CD version different? I'm just starting to looking into the variations of the Episode 2 now and the full plan. Love the input!

As I recall, the CD version is the same as the film, with a chunk of Imperial March inserted into the finale, removing other things Williams had recorded as part of the finale, such as a big intro into Across the Stars. Something like that. The original version's never been released.

BmB said:

 

SilverWook said:

Anyone here who believes in any of this moon landing hoax hogwash, might be interested in some prime Florida property I have for sale. ;)

You're still not making an actual point, just ridiculing opposing beliefs. This is not logic.

 

Any thoughts on the link I posted?  

Blue is often used, particularly with snow, to indicate night, or twilight.

doubleofive said:

I'm still forming my opinion on the idea, but I'd like to point out that all the articles "confirming" it point to the same article on a site you've never heard of using no quotes and a single unnammed source who "works close to the production".

I dunno why no one is paying attention to that.

How we know the moon landings happened: It was impossible to fake

Just remember, source for all this is The Vulture, and they were wrong about Snyder.

Warbler said:

off topic?

Yes, that's the name of the board.

mverta said:

So let it be written.

So let it be done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQnxlHZsjY

georgec said:

Or that inside every Wookie is an Ewok piloting it.

Yub yub, sir.

Pretty good replacement trilogy, though.

I had forgotten about that. I guess Frink's got the top 2?

Frink vs -1

The stupidest forum feud I've ever seen?

TheBoost said:

Warbler said:

you are aware Jekyll and Hyde are same guy, aren't you? 

Now that you mention it, the show does make a lot more sense now. 

Allow me to recommend you read the story, which is not overly long, by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Full text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde