tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44215288964864211412024-03-05T22:03:43.806-08:00Magnum ArtsThe official blog of Magnum Arts. Visit the website at magnumarts.netMichael K. Lymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009486124650604823noreply@blogger.comBlogger400125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421528896486421141.post-17847803084715248672014-03-15T08:00:00.001-07:002014-03-15T08:02:20.458-07:00The NEW Magnum Arts Blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The time for this blog to remain on the Blogger platform, has come to an end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There will be <b><i>no more posts</i></b> on this blog format, magnumarts.blogspot.com. It's been a good platform, I've done a lot with it, but as I move into creating websites for a living, it is time to move to a better, more customizable and more responsive blogging platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new Magnum Arts now has a new logo, a new look and a new user experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new blog address is <b><a href="http://www.magartsblog.net/" target="_blank">www.magartsblog.net</a></b>. A lot easier for people to type in than magnumarts.blogspot.com. It's three simple syllables: mag - arts - blog. Compare that to mag -num - arts - dot - blog - spot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new blog, created on a WordPress platform, will have several important advantages:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be importing some of the best of the Magnum Arts blog over to the new format in the days ahead. This blog will remain active and accessable, and all of the links to the blog posts on this site will continue to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But all new blog posts from this point forward will be on the new blog format, not this one. Check it out at www.magartsblog.net or click on the<b><i> new </i></b>Magnum Arts logo, at the bottom of the page. Your feedback, it goes without saying, is always welcome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the 5th year I've organized the 501st Legion's participation in the Dark Sky event, which draws attention to the growing problem of light pollution (the reason we don't have pitch-black nights anymore). The Dark Sky festival gets more bigger and more popular every year. The crowds are respectful, excited and fun to hang with. The event takes place in the small, Mayberry-like street in the town square, which was filled with interesting exhibits, displays and demonstrations. Telescopes were set up to observe the night sky; visitors could see Jupiter, and other planets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy these pictures, which were taken by Keith, a 501st Member, and Amanda, a woman who works at Walt Disney World as a photographer. She heard about the event and wanted to hang with us, so I put her to work with my camera, and I think you'll agree she took some amazing shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of my Cartooning and Drawing students are interested in sequential storytelling; developing characters,writing stories for those characters and providing characters with believable motivations, personalities and dilemmas to solve. Here are a few good resources that deal with these important issues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a video presentation I put together, that covers </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some of the common steps and considerations involved in creating your own graphic novel, including creating compelling characters, plotting, use of panels, dialogue and word balloons, as well as helping engage your readers. It has some fun animations that make it entertaining, and will help you get started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Graphic novels are coming of age, finally being recognized for the literary genre they are. Where once they were dismissed as high-brow comic books, they are now looked upon as a serious and established genre of literature, encompassing all genres, art styles and techniques.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exhibit A: The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has released a very cool resource for educators (like myself) and parents called <i>Raising a Reader</i>. It's a free book about how graphic novels can inspire interest in reading and writing among students who have grown up with video game consoles, smart phones and endless cable TV. If you're going to the ComicCon in San Diego they will be there as well to distribute copies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click <b><a href="http://cbldf.org/2013/07/cbldf-releases-raising-a-reader-a-resource-for-parents-and-educators/" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> to get your free copy, either print-ready or on-line!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sci-fi blog <a href="http://io9.com/" target="_blank">i09 </a>has a great article about the mistakes writers make when building fictional worlds, and it's a good read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're going to build an artificial world, you have to spend some time thinking about how it works, and what kinds of people live in it. What kinds of power sources does this world use? What is the infrastructure like? What kinds of people live there, and what do they do there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example this picture. Obviously an industrial society that has been around a long time and is starting to decay, with urban class warfare and a minority that feels oppressed. Standing on the rusty railing looking at this view I can smell the pungent stench of hydraulic oils, grease and pollution the air. There is the clanking sound of tools being used and dropped, huge industrial generator units, the whine of flying cars cruising by, the cursing and shouts of the denizens who work here. At the end of the day they'll go back to their tiny modular living units in the lower levels of the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thinking about these things will help make the difference between a flat, non-engaging backdrop, and an engaging world your readers will lose themselves in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The blog i09 has a great article about how to create convincing supporting characters in your stories or graphic novels.This is a good list to keep in mind when you're creating your worlds, and the people in them, so that your supporting characters are not bland background scenery.</span></div>
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This post is based on a lecture I attended at DragonCon a few years ago about the nature of art, sequential storytelling, manga, and the different types of manga. It is by far the most visited post on this blog. </div>
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According to the book <i>The World of
Japanese Comics</i> by Frederik L. Schodt, the word manga can mean anime, caricature, cartoon, comic
strip, comic book, or animation. It was created by the Japanese
woodblock print artist Hokusai in 1814, who was trying to describe
something like whimsical sketches. However the word manga did not
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A publishing company used to be required in order to produce and print a manga book, with trucks having to deliver them to stores. It is now possible, because of the
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<i><b>“Why do you waste your time reading
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How many of you have had to justify your
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Consumers of manga have traditionally
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comic books. There has not been a lot of respect given to manga,
despite the fact that it has a very strong following, and readers are
very devoted to the format, much like football fans are very devoted
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Manga, anime, cartoons, and comics have
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word "comics" implies a format incapable of any kind of high
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The most common graphic novel that is used to rebut these
claims is the graphic novel <i>Maus </i>by Art Spiegelman, a graphic novel
published in 1986, with the sequel published in 1991, that tells the
story of Spiegelman's father and his experiences surviving the
Holocaust. This graphic novel was the only one to win a Pulitzer
Prize in 1992, which helped to gain some legitimacy for the format of
the graphic novel.<br />
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legitimacy for the format is the very <i><b>word</b></i> comics. Most of what we
read in comics and manga are not comical or humorous. The word "comic" is associated with standup comedians, slapstick comedy, and lowbrow
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of heroes, battles, and gods, and they were told<b> in sequence</b> in
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<u><b>Above left:</b></u><b> </b>One of the most common Mayan art themes painted on Maya vases is the royal audience.
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Sometime around the 1600-1700s, a division
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everyone. But during this time, two classes of art became prevalent: the
cheap art for the masses that cost little to produce, and the
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<i><b>High ar</b><b>t</b></i> was supposed to be the epitome
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The appreciation of high art depended on educated taste, intelligence, and social standing. High art
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<i><b>Low art</b></i> was aimed at the common masses, not
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Lichtenstein (right), who deliberately copied the look of comic book panels
using oil on canvas to simulate the crude quality and offset printing process used to make comic
books, to make the point that pop art was just as
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The comic strips created by underground
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Our brain is wired to interpret and see the human face. It is a form of
survival, it helps us to recognize whether a predator or another
person is a friend or foe, based on their facial expressions. Is this
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language are what our brains interpret to help insure our
survival. This is why people see faces in clouds, and why inanimate objects seem to
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We see <i><b>ourselves</b></i> in comic books, which
is why we do not need extremely lifelike illustrations in order
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A perfect example is Charlie
Brown, which has a bare minimum of facial features, but is a
character that almost everyone identifies with. The simpler the
illustration, the more symbolic it is, and the more meaning that we
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The three things which determine facial expression are the
eyebrows the eyes and the mouth, because they move. The nose, chin, shape of the head...they do not move, and you cannot tell a person's expression by them.<br />
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Manga has an extreme level of detail in
the backgrounds, but manga faces tend to be extremely simple. The
faces have been stripped down to the bare features on purpose. This
allows the reader to fill in the blanks on their own. Our brains take in
a little bit of information, and fill in the rest.<br />
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Which is why when you see only the upper half of
a character in a comic strip panel, you know he has legs even though
you can't see them. If you cannot see the characters' other arm, you know it's there, because your brain is telling you it's there.
People who have brain damage are unable to make this distinction.
When we read comics and manga, we are creating a three-dimensional
image in our minds that moves with the story, because our brains are
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Where are Charlie Brown, Lucy and Linus standing? On a city street? In a house? In a desert?<br />
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They are standing outside. How can you tell? Those scratch marks in the background. What are those? They could be anything.<br />
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<b>Manga: Built For <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Speed</span></i></b></div>
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Manga is meant to be read very quickly;
readers do not spend a lot of time on each page, Manga artist design
their pages to be <i><b>scanned</b></i> rather than read, and they use a lot of
imagery and symbols that our brains can interpret very quickly in
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The average manga reader takes roughly
20 minutes to finish a 320 page comic magazine. This breaks down to
16 pages a minute, or just under 4 seconds spent on each page. This
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Unlike
American comic books, Japanese comics make extensive use of purely
visual effects and symbolism. American comic strips have been
shrinking in the newspapers for years and consist of only three or
four panels; American comic books are 20 pages per issue. The typical
Japanese comic book artist has over 30 pages to use as they please
<i><b>per week</b></i>. One manga story will often consist of 10 volumes, or over<i><b> 2000
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Manga artists deliberately make their
characters symbolic, so that you instantly know who a character is,
or what kind of character you're looking at. In manga, the character
must be instantly recognizable. For example a shojo heroine has
instantly recognizable features, such as big bright eyes, a demure
face, a particular type of body and posture, and hardly any nose. The word <i>shojo </i>refers to a young woman approximately 7 to 18 years old.<br />
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they would look like a freak. But in the world of manga it looks
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One of the most recognizable
characteristics of manga is the large, childlike eyes of many of the
characters.<br />
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The large eyes in manga and animation have become a
fixture since the 1960s, when Osamu Tezuka began drawing them in this
way. Tezuka, considered by many to be the godfather of anime, is responsible for such famous anime works as <i>Astro Boy,</i> <i>Kimba
the White Lion</i>, and <i>Black Jack</i>. Osamu Tezuka's prolific output,
pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned
him such titles as "the father of <span style="text-decoration: none;">manga</span>",
"the god of comics"and <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">kamisama</span></span>
of manga . Learn more about him<b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_Tezuka">HERE.</a></b><br />
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However, Tezuka did <i><b>not</b></i> invent the big eyed
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In his autobiography he writes, “I
felt that existing comics were limiting...most were drawn... as if
seated in an audience viewing a stage, where the actors emerge from
the wings and interact. This made it impossible to create dramatic or
psychological effects, so I began to use cinematic techniques...
French and German movies that I had seen as a schoolboy became a
model. I experimented with close-ups and different angles, and
instead of using only one frame for an action scene or the climax (as
was customary), I made a point of depicting a movement or facial
expression with many frames, even many pages... The result was a
super long comic that ran two 500, 600, even 1000 pages.”<br />
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<b>Why Such <span style="font-size: x-large;">Big</span> Eyes? </b><br />
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Research has shown that large, childlike eyes
increase the attractiveness of a character, and manga artists use
childlike eyes to increase the appeal of their protagonists. In manga
eyes you see the eye reflection that exaggerated, regardless of the surrounding lighting.<br />
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lighting of characters who are dead or who have died is darker, and
does not have a reflection. People with large eyes in manga are
considered more trustworthy, where as the narrower, stereotypical “beady
eyes” are associated with distrustful and dishonest characters,
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At some point the spiky hairdo became
the symbol of the good guy, whereas the evil characters tend to have
more elaborate clothing, and narrower eyes. These are clues which
help instantly identify the type of character in a manga novel. Manga also has a a large assortment of symbols and iconic imagery to depict various emotions that do not happen in real life, but serve to illustrate various emotional reactions in characters. To read a lot more about manga iconography, click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_iconography"><b>HERE.</b></a></div>
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Below is a list of all of various anime and manga genres. as you can see, manga has genres targeting both genders, in all age groups.<br />
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<b><u>Manga Genres</u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Okatu</b></u> - Fans of anime in the United States. In Japan it is a derogatory term for anime-obsessed fans with no life and usually no job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Manga</b></u> - Japanese comic books, or comic books drawn in that style <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga" style="color: yellow; text-decoration: none;"><b>(wikipedia link)</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Doujinshi</b></u> - Anime and manga made by fans </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi" style="color: yellow; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(wikipedia link)</b></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Mecha</u> - </b>Anime focused on giant fighting robots</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Bishounen</b></u> - literally "beautiful youth", stories involving androgynous men geared to female readers. "Bishi" is a slang term for this genre. One of the appeals of this genre is the breakdown of traditionally strong male roles (athlete, warrior, martial arts expert, etc).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Shonen</b></u> - Literally "a few years"; manga that targets the 10-18 year old reader. A popular genre, it is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">generally about action/fighting, but often contains a sense of humor and strong growing friendship-bonds between the characters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Shonen-ai</b></u> - Stories about beautiful, effeminate boys in love with other </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beautiful, effeminate boys, usually targeted to female readers. Shonen-ai does not contain sexually explicit love scenes, but has implied love scenes as part of the storylines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Shojo</b></u> - Literally "young girl", manga targeted to the 10-18 year old female reader</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Shojo-ai</b></u> - <i>Shojo-ai</i> is the American term, <i>Yuri</i> is the Japanese term, and refers to romance love stories between girls, targeted to female readers, with one girl having more masculine qualities than the other. Yuri can focus either on the sexual, the spiritual, or the emotional aspects of the relationship, the latter two sometimes being called </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shōjo-ai</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by western fans of manga.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Fanservice</b></u> - Unnecessary elements to a storyline, usually sexual in nature, to please a core group of fans of a series</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Ecchi</b></u> - Anime or manga that has borderline pornographic or sexual content (skimpy clothing, partial or full nudity). Derived from a Japanese word meaning "erotic", "lewd", "sexy", or "lascivious"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Seinen</b></u> - A word meaning "young man", manga targeted at older males, usually between 18-30 years old. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has a wide variety of art styles and more variation in subject matter, ranging from th</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e avant-garde to the pornographic. Seinen manga is distinguished from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shounen, or boy's manga by having a stronger emphasis on realism and also by having a more well developed storyline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Josei</b></u> - The female equivalent of Seinen </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Yaoi</b></u> - Also known as boys' love, this is manga of a homosexual nature, created by women for female readers, with more sexual overtones to the storylines. </span><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi" style="color: yellow; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(wikipedia link)</b></span></a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Hentai</b></u> - Sexually explicit anime pornography. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hentai</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has a negative connotation to the Japanese and is commonly used to mean sexually perverted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Shotacon </b></u>- A slang word that refers to romantic or sexual attraction to young boys, or a person who has such an attraction. It refers to a genre of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">manga</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anime</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> wherein pre-pubescent or pubescent male characters are depicted in a suggestive or erotic manner, leading critics to charge that this genre encourages the sexual abuse of children. Understandably, shotacon is very controversial. Given the extreme sensitivity of this type of material, possession of it can lead to arrest and conviction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Magical Girl</b></u> - girls with superhuman powers who fight evil and protect the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Meccha Anime</b></u> - vehicles, pilots and/or machine operators as the principle themes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Gag Anime</b></u> - Anima that has no plot, but a series of jokes, strange situations and over-the-top reactions by characters. Some of the gags can seem downright surreal and alien to western readers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Harem Anime</b></u> - stories involving a protagonist of either gender surrounded by multiple characters of the opposite gender, and the situations that arise from it (a male surrounded by women, a woman surrounded by men). This genre is usually risque and has sexual themes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is Anime Appropriate For Children?</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Permanent character deaths - in some storylines, a main character may be killed off, sometimes brutally, without warning and early in the storyline. These characters are not revived to make a happy ending. Such plot points could be upsetting</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dark or gray areas of morality - Unlike western stories, where main characters are generally either good or evil, some anime have characters that do good deeds but also have less-than-honorable motives as well. A character may help people for a fee, for example, but allow a town of innocent people to get slaughtered because his fee was not paid</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watch it. Most anime can be found on-line</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check the back of the DVD case for the age-based rating</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read reviews of the anime in question</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask around, ant anime-based conventions, clubs, on-line forums, comic book stores</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4421528896486421141" name="freecomic"><b>Free Comic Books </b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/" target="_blank">The Digital Comic Book Museum</a></b> is on my list on links over there on the right, but it's worth a separate blog post to make sure you know how cool this site is. There are loads of comic books, all absolutely free for the taking (or in this case, downloading).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The comic books are from the forties to the sixties and are for the most part obscure and short-lived titles, from Westerns, pulp-science fiction, crime, humor and specialty publications. They have been scanned by various contributors, preserved for all time. Because they were printed on cheap, low-quality newsprint (hence the name "pulps"), the pages are yellowing, but they are perfectly readable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are a product of their time; the fashion, social customs and stories are all from the era they were created in, and reading them is like stepping back in time. And...did I mention they are all<b><i> FREE??</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some files are in a format that requires Comic Book Reader in order to view them. CBR is a free application that makes it easy to read comic books on your computer or iPad. Once downloaded, open up the comic book and you'll see small icons of each page lined up vertically on the left, with the selected page taking up most of the screen so you can read it. You can control how big the selected page is, to make it easier for you to read. Click on the link below to take you to the download page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.cbrreader.com/" target="_blank">COMIC BOOK READER</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a couple of pages from some of the comic books I've downloaded from this cool site (click on each image to make it larger). </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGi9WUbTlC1Obb_ROLaxNRGdBX8eIWG9-ugPd8OPOMHPlkwUe_HsW1UjzoVes3YAulcs6GRO1Dm5YGGPHFHflNiMnr8nQR8CRD05kJN-sgIfhwVjJazF404kfh9afnq_5wCIQDY6go5JWT/s1600-h/perspective.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGi9WUbTlC1Obb_ROLaxNRGdBX8eIWG9-ugPd8OPOMHPlkwUe_HsW1UjzoVes3YAulcs6GRO1Dm5YGGPHFHflNiMnr8nQR8CRD05kJN-sgIfhwVjJazF404kfh9afnq_5wCIQDY6go5JWT/s400/perspective.jpg" height="59" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243694506893408610" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4421528896486421141" name="perspective">This post is going to teach you the basics of drawing perspective.</a> Perspective is a technique that makes your buildings and drawings look real, since they converge on an invisible vanishing point, the way things do in real life. If the perspective of a drawing is incorrect, it is noticeable right away, and robs your drawing of its credibility. You don't want that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2BIEcVKj25FH4tSDrMvED5Jd9FygBoPf-fq9vYHznig5T5M5M8X1-a8PCAV_jFKKmTh956psKbNvCahBo2KFpaydhDWVzuHggazAxDNWspop6uTNJMbz8UyADBWdi0QC11ffnTTPTVIKV/s1600-h/railroad_tracks418.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2BIEcVKj25FH4tSDrMvED5Jd9FygBoPf-fq9vYHznig5T5M5M8X1-a8PCAV_jFKKmTh956psKbNvCahBo2KFpaydhDWVzuHggazAxDNWspop6uTNJMbz8UyADBWdi0QC11ffnTTPTVIKV/s320/railroad_tracks418.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243712085385852482" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">The Vanishing Point</span><br /><br />Everything you see has a vanishing point, a point where everything comes together. At the vanishing point is the horizon line, the horizon of the earth from your point of view. This is the way things look to your eyes, from where you're standing. Normally you can't see this point, because there is too much stuff in the way: buildings, trees, cars, etc. But if you stand on a set of railroad tracks, you can see the vanishing point perfectly.<br /><br />The tracks just seem to "merge" together. The tracks don't really meet, of course; it just looks that way, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">from your perspective.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The horizon line and the vanishing point are the first things you need to establish when setting up your drawing. Everything will converge on the vanishing point, because if it doesn't, it just won't look right. You can see examples of vanishing points and perspective everywhere you look, as in the following examples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Need a clue? Check out this close-up...</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoGu6Qm6DlAWvWHaF-1xDoK4eQKvG6RHLJRE-uci_dMrWh9NiahlR43KLfimyrnyBl0LdfA2oJIshVYNu0NrSIx8YEh5unaHy-D00vNFnDHpyCxtT3bCPzEJ1NUBSeiygctOMyNVr0SJMt/s1600-h/wrongperspective2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoGu6Qm6DlAWvWHaF-1xDoK4eQKvG6RHLJRE-uci_dMrWh9NiahlR43KLfimyrnyBl0LdfA2oJIshVYNu0NrSIx8YEh5unaHy-D00vNFnDHpyCxtT3bCPzEJ1NUBSeiygctOMyNVr0SJMt/s400/wrongperspective2.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243708317748202722" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Now look at these perspective guidelines. See the mistakes in perspective?</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWQKpTYOHV2rjPasmkmd04azUngCjhKS1oyQ6oR-5LsaLvEQsFQE-HlQE0W9lMEurPialTvgv8LOm3sxOQn98C4RpBAvZt-CL3O9nzqHFggLn8VIl48U5CxOIHNS5ZXrX7QMT8ZJ_TWLZ/s1600-h/wrongperspective3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWQKpTYOHV2rjPasmkmd04azUngCjhKS1oyQ6oR-5LsaLvEQsFQE-HlQE0W9lMEurPialTvgv8LOm3sxOQn98C4RpBAvZt-CL3O9nzqHFggLn8VIl48U5CxOIHNS5ZXrX7QMT8ZJ_TWLZ/s400/wrongperspective3.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243708783537791330" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">This drawing is a mess. The castle doesn't line up with the vanishing point at all, giving it an odd, weirdly-angled look. All the angles on the front side of the castle should meet at the same vanishing point, or else it will look wrong, like this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How To Draw Proper Perspective</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Now that you know what proper perspective is supposed to look like, let's create a perspective drawing, step-by step. Don't worry; it's not as hard as it looks. Ready? Here we go!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">STEP ONE:</span> Horizon and Vanishing Point</span></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9DzzA42sIKPR1k7n-HGvEgtmbouoaqegQXtMgMC4zbNdhlp5lbmLz50V20JmnCNteoyApc7xcJwYRbBK3qtJk8QIvlHT6jn2KDw_pTTxJ0gb28-w8aYKLUAvfMxVOn_gEstLNj5iXmtL/s1600-h/Perspective1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9DzzA42sIKPR1k7n-HGvEgtmbouoaqegQXtMgMC4zbNdhlp5lbmLz50V20JmnCNteoyApc7xcJwYRbBK3qtJk8QIvlHT6jn2KDw_pTTxJ0gb28-w8aYKLUAvfMxVOn_gEstLNj5iXmtL/s320/Perspective1.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243712953621792146" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br />LIGHTLY</span> draw the horizon line with a ruler on your paper. Do not press down hard, because you will need to erase a lot of this line later. Your pencil should be <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">barely touching</span> the paper. This is your horizon line, as if you were standing on a flat, featureless desert plain. Somewhere on that line, pick a spot; that will be your vanishing point (or VP, from now on).<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">STEP TWO:</span> Create Your Guidelines</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /><br />Now it's time to draw the near and far edges of your buildings. Where you put them is up to you, but they will always be perpendicular, or at a <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">right angle</span>, to the HL (horizon line). If your building edges are at an angle, your building will look odd, as if it was built with a slanted face. Some buildings are, obviously, but for the sake of this exercise, let's keep it simple, shall we?<br /><br />Erase the HL behind your new building face. We don't need to see it anymore, because it's hidden now. This is why I urged you to keep your lines very light.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Now let's draw the sides of the buildings that face us, from our point of view, from where were are standing. There is no perspective here, because we're looking head-on at the sides of these buildings. They do not recede toward the vanishing point. So, these lines should be parallel to the HL, perfectly horizontal. They should <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">not</span> be angled at all, otherwise they will look strange. I have colored the face of the building just for the sake of clarity; you may want to lightly shade your buildings, just to keep them straight in your mind while you're working.<br /><br />Now, let's take it up a notch, and draw some more buildings, whaddya say? You've come this far, right?<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSO2Mi18qox3OUQhEDStc-SaQzQ5EaTKyIBqnCYM9u3fRVjjych7eKSBnwOodbwpxHPRpCWyJ-vJO4s9jwbdr43UqXDr-Q78rumY0vOsG3kpFEj2q-dcZG5opDT-etFmnJLIB0IKyMWPEj/s1600-h/Perspective6.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSO2Mi18qox3OUQhEDStc-SaQzQ5EaTKyIBqnCYM9u3fRVjjych7eKSBnwOodbwpxHPRpCWyJ-vJO4s9jwbdr43UqXDr-Q78rumY0vOsG3kpFEj2q-dcZG5opDT-etFmnJLIB0IKyMWPEj/s320/Perspective6.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243725830844011890" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Draw some more guidelines, again, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">lightly.</span> Line your ruler up with the VP, choose another angle, and draw a line. Do the same thing for the other side of the street. Erase the excess lines you don't need to see (like the ones leading to the VP; you don't need those anymore).<br /><br />Then draw the straight up-and-down edges of the buildings, then, lastly, the roofs, which will be horizontal. See? You're starting to get the hang of it now. Wasn't as bad as you thought it would be, huh?<br /><br />The only problem is our buildings have no windows or doors. They look like huge cement blocks. Well, let's make fixing that our next step!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Yes, more guidelines. Hey, you need 'em when your doing perspective drawings. OK, ruler on the VP, and draw some narrow guidelines this time. You may want to lightly shade between your guidelines, just to make it easier for yourself. You can draw as many rows of windows as you want. Do the same thing for the other side of the street.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUgD0ZTgi_TqfmTlnivQ048ln1Tz6-dNAhNGL7Tq-OryoUN4XxHjmjQyfZLG3LkjPekLjsSXINRPVkLxQVKgtAKOX3qJZ2B8iHvb3_ht8ZoVEuls1F-sX6KVkX0qNdpsfrnsAgHb6sMgk/s1600-h/Perspective8.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUgD0ZTgi_TqfmTlnivQ048ln1Tz6-dNAhNGL7Tq-OryoUN4XxHjmjQyfZLG3LkjPekLjsSXINRPVkLxQVKgtAKOX3qJZ2B8iHvb3_ht8ZoVEuls1F-sX6KVkX0qNdpsfrnsAgHb6sMgk/s320/Perspective8.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243732059764887218" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The edges of your windows should be straight up-and-down. This is important. Check to make sure the lines are straight by comparing your ruler to the edge of your paper. If the ruler is not at the same angle as the edge of your paper, it won't look right. Make sure your windows get thinner the farther away they are, the way the do in real life.<br /><br />Use the same technique for the doors as well.<br /><br />And that is perspective in a nutshell! Make sure your lines join at the VP, and you'll be fine. Hope you enjoyed this lesson. As you practice with perspective, you'll see how changing the angles of your guidelines give you very different results. Most important of all, your drawings will look accurate.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSZzLuF3PUwm5vUT9uTAZ2bgj7DjCtZbd4iTCsmT3l7GuTYeA9qvouarh7uVVwtqsPgnoF15ZL29HLLOq_xDMh1vhiLfEwqdyEme5mWvES7bSNxFKdJxbAEJEbgzrFMU6nGyPqdEzl5Yx/s1600-h/cooltext95745356.jpg"><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSZzLuF3PUwm5vUT9uTAZ2bgj7DjCtZbd4iTCsmT3l7GuTYeA9qvouarh7uVVwtqsPgnoF15ZL29HLLOq_xDMh1vhiLfEwqdyEme5mWvES7bSNxFKdJxbAEJEbgzrFMU6nGyPqdEzl5Yx/s400/cooltext95745356.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244345707188955282" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fear. Most people make their decisions based on some level of fear. “If I try that, I might fail.”, or “If I do this, others will think poorly of me.” or the big one: “If I take a chance, I might end up living in a van down by the river.” Fear is the biggest factor that holds people back from trying new things and fulfilling their dreams. I better not chance it; it’s just too risky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t get me wrong; we live in dire economic conditions right now. There are millions of people in this country out of work or under-employed, so there are real-world consequences to going off on a new path on a whim. The fear of losing something is the biggest hindrance to new thought processes. “I’m just trying to hold onto what I have.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, do not let this fear be an excuse for not stretching your mind in different directions. Take your mind off its leash from time to time and let it run free, without restrictions. In my drawing classes, the biggest challenge I see my students struggle with is their inability to let go and create spontaneously. When sketching, they hesitate, they judge themselves critically, they get frustrated when a masterpiece does not emerge right away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a symptom of our society’s relentless demands for conformity and success: don’t act so weird. Watch what you say. You’re not good enough. Don’t make people feel uncomfortable. Better not say that, someone might get offended. Just keep it to yourself. You can’t do that, are you crazy?! If you can just go ahead and stay in that box, that would be grrreat, mm-kay? Thanks a bunch. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHVstiM0Vhbg4skXUSFW5C-iCpnTS800OAf6bkJgOqtTqKhOt-zzaAYPjXMKVP2Nfg10UgwEySdUZ8EKz3KszmTWLzhKYl93VMwaqZFteUunymLIuFrD16XPGYEXgaZA-pKXpQNJhbE0/s1600/you_have_been_bad.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHVstiM0Vhbg4skXUSFW5C-iCpnTS800OAf6bkJgOqtTqKhOt-zzaAYPjXMKVP2Nfg10UgwEySdUZ8EKz3KszmTWLzhKYl93VMwaqZFteUunymLIuFrD16XPGYEXgaZA-pKXpQNJhbE0/s200/you_have_been_bad.gif" height="200" width="105" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coupled with that is a fear of failure. Our society teaches us, constantly, that failure is shameful and to be avoided at all costs. This is why every student gets a trophy, so no one will fail. This mind-set is why innovation in business is shriveling. Newsflash: <b><i>FAILURE IS PART OF LIFE</i></b>. Get used to it. You will fail (and have probably failed at some point in your life in the past). Trying to avoid failure is like trying to pretend the sun won’t come up in the morning. No one gets a free pass from failure. Myself, I’ve learned more from my failures than I've ever learned from my successes. The more comfortable you are with the concept of failure, the more you’ll be able to learn from it when it happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the greatest entrepreneurs were people who launched projects most people thought were ridiculous. When Walt Disney began building Disneyland in Anaheim it was widely derided; people called the park Walt’s Folly. Disney had setbacks and failures, but he never quit, despite what people thought. Steven Schussler, founder of the Rainforest Cafe restaurants, was so passionate about his concept he built an artificial rain forest in his house to attract investors. His house even got raided by the DEA, who thought the high energy usage meant he was growing pot. It took TWO YEARS before he attracted an investor who would give him a chance, and the rest is history. His autobiography, “It’s A Jungle In There” is an excellent read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is my suggestion: take your mind off the leash and engage in some kind of creative endeavor, whether it be drawing, painting, sculpting, fixing old cars or even quilting. And when you do this, <b>DON’T CARE</b>. I’ll say that again: <b><i>DO NOT CARE. </i></b>Get your analytic mind out of this process! It has no place here. Create without thought, without judgment, without reservation. Do not think. DO. When you do this, you will get into that special place called the ZONE, the place where you are operating on pure instinct, and your creativity is flowing almost without any conscious thought. It is in the zone where some of your best insights and ideas will emerge, because those ideas are not constrained by your fearful, logic-based restrictions. It’s a lot like meditation.</span></div>
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Michael K. Lymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009486124650604823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421528896486421141.post-36549260137832701582013-12-26T11:25:00.000-08:002013-12-26T11:25:16.533-08:00Ice Carving Attraction in Orlando<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope everyone reading this had a safe and fulfilling holiday season! This post is jam packed with fun holiday goodness, including pictures and video! Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Gaylord Palms resort in Orlando is an enormous place, with a massive atrium filled with tons of plants, waterfalls, rivers, walkways, reproduction stone castles, even live animals, and it's all enclosed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also home to a very popular ice carving show called, fittingly enough,<b><i> ICE!,</i></b> which features over <b><i>two million pounds</i></b> of ice carved by Chinese ice carvers flown here from China. The theme this year was<i> Frosty the Snowman</i>, and visitors walked through a colorful winter wonderland of ice and characters from the holiday cartoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> <u>NINE DEGREES</u></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in there. Visitors were given parkas to wear. Enjoy these pictures and video of this awesome display, which will run until January 5th, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this blog post are pictures and videos of the ICE! exhibit and the Gaylord Palms resort itself. I'm heading back there soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Here's a video walkthrough of the <b><i>ICE! </i></b>attraction. You don't even have to freeze; I endured the cold so you don't have to.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are four slides in the "town square" part of the attraction, all made of ice, and <b><i><span style="font-size: large;">HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL IT'S COLD IN HERE!!!</span></i></b></span></div>
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<br />Michael K. Lymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009486124650604823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421528896486421141.post-55057621363613133292013-10-31T02:19:00.001-07:002013-10-31T13:47:14.819-07:00Our Democracy At Risk - Stop Watching Us<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This phenomenal video with actors, whistle-blowers and veterans make the case that our democracy is at a crossroads. If people in this country want their freedoms, they have to stand up to protect them, or find themselves deprived of them. It's already happening, it may happen to you. The dangers to our cherished civil liberties have never been greater, and it's up to all of us to defend them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The NSA is a wildly out of control agency intent on maintaining its power with as little oversight as possible. <i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us" target="_blank">The Guardian</a></i> newspaper, which broke the story, has set the standard in reporting on the NSA's abuses. Keep track of the latest developments with their feature <i>The NSA Files.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The NSA cannot even follow the few constraints it has, constraints imposed upon it by Congress. Even when they are subject to rules, they disregard them. Read about that <b><a href="http://gawker.com/audits-show-the-nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-ti-1151817812" target="_blank">HERE.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The highlight was a group of kids who performed the Thriller Dance, and it's obvious they worked hard at this, because they were awesome. I recorded the whole dance; check it out below:</span></div>
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<br />Michael K. Lymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009486124650604823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421528896486421141.post-15253437289718814382013-09-13T13:21:00.003-07:002013-09-13T13:21:54.413-07:00Snake Plissken Vs. Batman: The Comic Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, not really, but this is a comic book series I would TOTALLY read!</span></div>
Michael K. Lymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009486124650604823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421528896486421141.post-76383156194623492542013-09-08T18:34:00.000-07:002013-09-17T14:07:58.225-07:00Dragon*Con 2013 - More Costume Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UMO Photography has you covered. They took this one of me on Thursday and their Facebook page has <b><i>hundreds</i></b> of pictures of awesome costumes, a lot of which I hadn't seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>How did I miss all those great costumes??</i></b> Unfortunately, at Dragon*Con, you just can't see 'em all, which is why it's great that people take so many pictures, so we can at least see what we missed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UMOPhoto" target="_blank">Facebook page of UMO Photography</a> here and lose yourself in all of the epic costumes that were at Dragon*Con this year. Makes me impatient for next year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To see pictures of Dragon*Con costumes and events, click <b><a href="http://magnumarts.blogspot.com/2013/08/dragoncon-2013.html" target="_blank">HERE!</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a great video that proclaims that girls like geek culture, will continue to like geek culture without the permission of boys,<b><i> thank you very much</i></b>, and if you can't accept that, well, then that is <b><i>your</i></b> problem. It is time for sexism in the geek and cosplay community to take a hike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy this fantastic video from DragonCon TV this year called <i>Last DragonCon</i>, written and performed by the lovely and talented Deena Roth, a parody of the song Last Friday Night. This song has been stuck in my head all weekend. This is what DragonCon is all about!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The car is in remarkable shape, and very carefully aged to replicate the look of the battered car used in the film. He even removed the middle D in DODGE from the rear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below, just for kicks, is a page from the sales brochure for the Monaco of that same year, 1975. It was a no-frills, bare bones ride with few luxuries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love how the brochure proclaims that "This is Monaco. Dodge Monaco" a la "Bond...James Bond." I guess repeating the name like that is supposed to make it sound more impressive. Even the <b><i>glove-box coin holder</i></b> is included in this base model! If that isn't luxury I don't know what is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This, my friends, is a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance, the same year of the ambulance used in the movie <i>Ghostbusters</i>. Cadillac ambulances of this year are extremely rare; Miller-Meteor made less than one thousand of them that year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I talked to the owner (a Ghostbuster, natch) and he told me he had given up looking for a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miller-Meteor ambulance, until he finally found one. It was in bad shape, and it underwent a complete ground-up restoration that cost somewhere north of six figures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was money well spent; this car is absolutely <b><i>immaculate</i></b>, and a gorgeous classic has been saved. Ecto-1 has her own Facebook page, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ect-OHIO, check it out <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheEctOhio" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> and like the page. There are pictures of events the car appears in to raise money, as well as parades and other activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THIS is cool: a replica Cylon raider spaceship from </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Battlestar Galactica</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I wasn't able to talk to the owner, but I can only imagine how much effort and time went into building this creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the parade, the Cylon spaceship is parked in front of the Hilton in preparation for its journey back home. Too bad it can't really fly...how cool would that be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Below:</b> the wings are raised for transport so that it won't take up three lanes of traffic. I'm amazed at the work and ingenuity that goes into building something like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This woman was impressed by the fact that I recognized her costume and car from the cartoon <i>The Adventures of Penelope Pittstop</i>. I remember watching that show on Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Below:</b> For a blast from the past, here is the intro to <i>The Adventures of Penelope Pittstop. </i>The villain is voiced by the late great comedian Paul Lynde. I <b><i>love</i></b> the dramatic way Penelope runs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below: another<i> Jurassic Park</i> John Hammond costume. I'm impressed with the baby raptor egg!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a public service here is the official Dragon*Con broadcast of the parade, which runs about one hour (my parade video will be only about ten minutes, just the highlights). Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best of the pictures I shot from DragonCon 2013. Above is myself hanging with Lee Majors, <b><i>The Six Million Dollar Man</i></b> himself, the height of my Dragoncon this year. He was there with Lindsay Wagner, aka <i>The Bionic Woman</i>, and I attended a very cool discussion panel with them both;<b><i> video and pictures are below!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To get things started, enjoy this fantastic video from DragonCon TV this year called <i>Last DragonCon</i>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">written and performed by the lovely and talented Deena Roth, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a parody of the song </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Friday Night</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. This song has been stuck in my head all weekend. This is what DragonCon is all about! The lyrics are below, and below that, the pictures!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Power Rangers in my bed, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a brain slug on my head, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think my costume might be ruined, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't remember this tattoo, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I'm still seeing stars, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jedis passed out in the hall, T</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hink I need a Dr. Who, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is that a Trekkie or a grue?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Staying up all night, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cause the con suite's right next door, O</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">h well. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh it's all a blur, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but I know for sure I scored. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frak!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Dragon*Con, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah we gamed all night with Spock, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw Han take the first shot, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made out with an Ewok, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Dragon*Con, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got to meet Jean-Luc Picard, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that chick from Battlestar, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was all a bit bizarre, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Dragon*Con, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saw you at Dragon After Dark</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You kind of looked like Tony Stark, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I think I felt a spark, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Dragon*Con</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah, we tore the place apart, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think we may have gone to far, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whoa-oh</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this Dragon*Con, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do it all again! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Dragon*Con, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do it all again!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can't believe that I forgot </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am I in the Marriott? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How'd I end up in this room? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the heck did I consume? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dressed up like the Baroness, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having drinks with Boba Fett, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think that ale was Romulan, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was such an epic win!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bumblebee, Starscream, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a fangirl's dream and more! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh yeah </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh it's all a blur, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I know for sure I scored! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frak!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this Dragon*Con, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do it all again! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Dragon*Con, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do it all again!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>So say we all! (x8)</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this Dragon*Con, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do it all again!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did the driving this year, with four of us in the Magnum Mobile, which was packed to the hilt with our gear. We had a rooftop car carrier jammed with overnight bags, food we would consume during our stay, and costumes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Above: </b>Compare the actual Starbuck, from a still from the TV series on the left, to the woman on the right. Practically an identical twin. Bravo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the open air courtyard of the Hilton, overlooking Atlanta, costume groups gather for a group picture and to take pictures of each other's costumes. It's a good spot for photographers to set up some lighting equipment and have more space to get good pictures. This is where Snake Plissken had his rematch with Batman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Snake Vs. Batman</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I met Batman last year when Iws asked to do a photoshoot by Deandre Bonds, who is a photographer who had some lighting equipment (see the pictures <b><a href="http://magnumarts.blogspot.com/2012/09/snake-plissken-and-batman.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>). This year, it was time for a re-match, with Snake Plisken fighting the Dark Knight. Zoltan Hawes and I have become friends since our first meeting, and we will meet again next year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every night the crowds gather in and around the Marriott Marquis to mingle, take pictures of the fantastic costumes and be seen. This is one of the biggest draws of Dragon*Con, seeing what costumes people have created. Every year there is something new, unusual or expected. This video gives you an idea of how crowded it can get.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Below:</b> Two lovely ladies doing a Merida costume from the Pixar movie <i>Brave</i>. Disney incurred the wrath of its customers by unnecessarily sexing up what was, in the movie, a strong, independent and uplifting role model for girls. When Disney began marketing the character, they gave her a bigger bust, a narrower waist and no bow and arrow. Disney had a golden opportunity to provide a good role model for girls and they <b><i>blew it.</i></b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Above and left:</b> This fantastic robot costume was the highlight of Friday night's activities as people formed a circle to admire the skill, craftsmanship and dedication that went into making this fantastic costume.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Costuming is truly an art form, and some people spend many hours building their costumes. In this case the effort clearly pays off. This is one of the coolest costumes I saw at Dragon*Con this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Below:</b> A short video clip of this awesome work of art</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like,<b><i> lots</i></b> of rubber nipples. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You never know what you will see at Dragon*Con. That's part of the appeal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Below: </b>a close-up of the costume. It looks like a lot of time (and rubber nipples) was spent making it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <i>Raiders Of The Lost Ark </i>group who created an Ark of The Covenant out of beer cans. <b><i>Beer cans!</i></b> How cool is that?? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ingenuity of costumers who come to Dragon*Con never ceases to amaze me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Below:</b> These <i>Predator</i> cosplayers spotted me and immediately recognized the character. The Arnold Schwarzenegger cosplayer and I got into an arm wrestling match shouting lines from the movie at each other. Good times, man, good times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the previous post I wrote about the cool vintage photography equipment that will soon be available via eBay auction. The Macbeth QuantaLog densitometer given to me as a gift sits on my desk beside me as I work, a beautiful example of industrial design that, sadly, we don't see any more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take this 1938 Univex Mercury camera, with a distinctive half moon top which housed a unique metal rotary shutter system, giving it a wide range of shutter speeds. The space was put to use with a depth of focus table, and a Tricor interchangeable lens system rounded out the modern design. This camera is not just functional, but beautiful to look at, a design that pleases the eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below are some links to websites that have lots of scans and images of beautiful industrial design, not just in photography, but in cars and appliances as well. Enjoy these links, and enjoy the beauty of a lost era, in which everyday objects were designed to please the eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an awesome site, with loads of vintage car brochures, advertisements and manuals submitted by people and covering cars from all eras. Pure car porn (if you'll pardon the expression).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can read car brochures from the era of big, stylish cars, see how they were marketed and how manufacturers catered to design trends of the time. Even car <b><i>names </i></b>were cooler back then, with names such as Fireflight, Thunderbolt, Rocket 88, Firedome. What to we have today? Letters and numbers that don't mean anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Below:</b> Take a look at this 1971 Chrysler Imperial. This car is GARGANTUAN. Can you imagine maneuvering this thing in crowded supermarket parking lots? You'd need boat fenders to toss over the side. This car came with a huge 440 cubic inch motor that sucked down gas like it was going out of style, and a Torque-Flyte automatic transmission. Not long after these land yachts were rolling off the assembly line the gas crisis struck, making Americans rethink their passion for huge cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a <b><i>huge</i></b> collection of vintage advertisements, photographs, book and magazine covers and publicity stills. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of retro goodness, in high-resolution, courtesy of Ultra Swank, a groovy website that celebrates all things retro. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an amazing website with posts on all sorts of cool subjects: science, retro-futurism, gadgets, photography, steampunk, you name it. You can lose hours of time on this site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DRB has a great post about the evolution of cameras, with some great pictures of interesting cameras. Check out the post <b><a href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/05/evolution-of-camera.html" target="_blank">HERE.</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another fantastic website, this one has huge collections of vintage photos and documents from just about every era in which stuff was printed or photographed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awful postcards are a hoot, and this site has 'em, in spades. Every day there is a new bad postcard that makes you wonder what was going through the mind of the person who thought, "Yeah, <b><i>THAT</i></b> image is compelling! We'll use THAT one!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A good example is the one below, from Napanee, Ontario, in Canada. Not only is there nothing remotely inviting about this motel based on the postcard, but the street light pole makes the <b>M</b> look like a <b>N</b>, spelling <b>NOTEL</b>. Umm, you couldn't have taken one step to the side before taking the picture...?? This isn't a postcard, it's a crime scene photograph.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a French site that has a ton of kitschy, retro postcards of French towns, staged pictures of kids, men, women, couples, dogs and cats, and retro pinups. The clothing and style of photography is pure vintage, and visiting this site is like stumbling onto your Aunt Maude's huge postcard collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my favorite sites, updated every week, with another really bad example of an independent comic, or one with a weird, hokey or just plain awful story line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The comments are utterly hilarious and this is one site you won't want to miss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This panel is from a series of McDonald's comic books starring the familiar orange-headed clown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The caption from this panel: <b>Ronald's just a regular guy who wears a clown suit and a red wig and hangs out in the neighborhood joining in the wagon races. Perfectly normal.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are loads of awful comics on this site, all with hilarious commentary. Make sure youi check it out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are some of the pieces of equipment that were for sale. To recap, I went to Wisconsin to help a thoroughly delightful woman named Vera sell a large amount of darkroom equipment, at the request of her daughter-in-law, whom I met through the </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Found Slides, A Life Remembered</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> adventure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">To see the original slides that started the whole saga</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">, click</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://magnumarts.blogspot.com/2013/05/found-slides-life-remembered-another.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Found Slides, A Life Remembered</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> will be published as a graphic novel next year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Among the brochures and owners manuals I found, was a catalog from Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin filled with photography and darkroom equipment. There's no date on the catalog, but I found a letter sent to Vera's late husband and dated 1960. This gave me a lot of insight into how much these devices cost, and what they were used for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In no particular order, here they are, with my notes about each piece. If you are interested in any of these pieces, let me know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Below: </b>This is part of the workstation in one room of the darkroom area, and shows one of the enlargers, a couple of timers, a power unit, and other equipment. The square things hanging on the wall on the right are negative carriers. The negative would be sandwiched in the negative carrier and slid into the enlarger, where precisely timed and balanced light would expose the photo paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an amazing large format camera made by the Calumet Corporation, Chicago Illinois. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This camera was capable of producing negatives as large as 8"x10", a huge size that would create incredibly precise, crystal clear photographs and transparencies that could be enlarged to huge sizes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Calumet could also control distortion when taking close-up pictures, and offered a great deal of flexibility to commercial and professional photographers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below are some scans from a 1968 Calumet product catalog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Below left:</b> A Lektra Laboratories electronic decade interval timer, model TM-8. This was used to make precise interval exposures, and would automatically shut off the darkroom safe when the enlarger was on, and cost $96.00 in 1960.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Provides 1,110 separate time intervals with laboratory accuracy. Reproducible control is easily reset in the dark, makes timer ideal for color work. Timing constant switch can be used to control printing room while light. Can be used in black and white printing to switch off safelight when enlarger light goes on. Range: .1 to 111 seconds in steps of .1 sec. Capacity: 1500 watts non-inductive A.C. Voltage: 115 volts, 50/60 cycles. Controls: push button n panel, built-in provision for remote control; foot switch receptacle bypass for easy dodging. 10 lbs, 12 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2. AC Only, $96"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a Simmon Chromega D3 enlarger, the second of two enlargers in the darkroom. This one is not as elaborate as the bigger Chromega D4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a lot of in depth information about both these enlargers, click <b><a href="http://www.jollinger.com/photo/enlargers/omega-d.html#modeld2" target="_blank">HERE.</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>From the catalog:</b> "Designed for on-easel analysis of color negatives. Two banks of attenuators makes it possible to index two different types of color negative criteria. Easily converted for use with transmission or reflection optical density measuring attachment. Photometer has on-off switch; attenuator selector switch; reference button for light source in optical attachments; linerity adjustment control; 4 apertures (3, 5, 7 and 10mm), aperture hood and two diffusers. Light-sensitive probe contains PM tube and color filter disk."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an Adams retouching machine, which could hold negatives up to 8"x10", and vibrates the negative to smooth out pencil or dyes strokes, leaving no visible marks. It will work today, no matter what film technology is used, and was considered an essential tool for retouching. It will work with all formats, with a little practice. it can be a fast and inexpensive solution compared to digital retouching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Retouching photographs before the age of digital images was an art form unto itself, and required time, patience, a steady hand and a good eye. Machines like this made the process much easier. It sold for around $295, which would be around $2,328.07 in today's dollars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a Weston Photographic Analyzer, Model 877, which was sold in 1947. It is a densitometer that determines the exposure times for printing and making separation negatives, and based on my on-line research, some hobby photographers still use them today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It cost $125 in 1951, which would make that $1,123.06 in today's dollars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This beautiful piece of equipment was made by Macbeth, and is a Macbeth Quantalog color transmission densitometer, model TD-102. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A transmission densitometer measures transparent materials, such as negatives, or film transparencies. To learn more about what they are used for, click <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densitometry" target="_blank">HERE.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This piece of equipment sold for $845.00 in 1960, which would be an astounding <b><i>seven thousand dollars</i></b> in 2013 ($7,591.87, to be precise).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>From the catalog</b>: "Linear scale, smallest graduation 0.02 density units; mirror design of scale face eliminates parallax. Reads A.S.A diffuse transition density, visual and through color filters. 0-4-0 density units range +/- 0.02 density units accuracy; +/- 0.01 density units repeatability. Reads up to 6.0 without filters. Only two electronic controls and four individual controls. Turret-type filter assembly for easy insertion or removal from probe. Built-in upscale density reference available at flip of switch, permits speedy calibration without need for step wedge. Anti-fatigue light within probe further assures circuit stability. For regulated 115/230V 50/60 cycles, 60W. Operator can read center of sheet of film up to 22" in width. Stage center contains removable aperture disk to permit measurement of samples through various diameter apertures. 16 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 12", 24 lbs. Single unit with 1, 2 and 3mm apertures, dust cover and 0-4-0 calibrated step tablet."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This one is mine, a gift from Vera, and currently has an honored place in my studio. Of all the pieces I photographed, I liked this one the best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a Macbeth Quantalog reflection densitometer, model RD-219, used for measuring the color and visual densities of materials. It came with a cover, and the original instruction booklet, complete with an attached document indicating the unit was tested and calibrated by someone named Jeanette Child (she hand-signed the document). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Macbeth Corporation was based in Newburgh, New York. I haven't been able to dig up much information about this company, but it's a safe bet they're no longer in business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Below: </b>This elaborate unit is an Arkay semi-automatic processing station, in essence an elaborate stainless steel deep sink which allows the photographer to precisely control the temperature of the processing, as well as the agitation, which used nitrogen, an inert gas. Tanks of nitrogen would agitate the chemical washes over the films and photographic papers, and a gas timer controls the nitrogen bursts that agitate the developing chemicals. This was about as precise as you could get back in the day. The catalog description is below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the catalog description: "Provides the professional photographer with exacting temperature controls, uniform agitation of developing chemicals and consistent results. It will handle every commercial processing material - color papers, roll or sheet film - with precise control. The water jacket design and versatile tank arrangement keep the unit from ever becoming obsolete. The master water jacket housing...consists of two water jackets for holding insert tanks a d a special compartment for the wash tanks. The burst is built into the basket, moves with it, bursting only the chemical tank being used. A timer accurately controls the present duration of gas burst into the tank as well as the intervals between bursts. The unit can also be set up for continuous gas flow. The timing range is from 1/10 to 6 sec. for length of burst, 1 to 60 sec. for "off". Chemicals cannot back up into burst distributor. Gauges indicate temperature of incoming water and water in jacket. Additional features include Vacuumatic Breakers to prevent solution contamination, Auto-Resetting Timers for 3 different processing steps, Water Wash Temperature Gauge and Regulator, Spray Attachment, Vacuum drain Valve to empty tank in less than 1 min., Siphon Outlet, and much more. Unit is 71" long, 35" wide, 33" high."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To see the original slides that started the whole <i>Found Slides, A Life Remembered</i> saga, click <b><a href="http://magnumarts.blogspot.com/2013/05/found-slides-life-remembered-another.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To read the <i>Found Slides, A Life Remembered</i> story, click <b><a href="http://magnumarts.blogspot.com/2013/05/found-slides-life-remembered-update.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finding the slides in the vintage slide projector has been a gift that keeps on giving, with the latest development being a trip to Wisconsin. There are pictures <b><i>and</i></b> video!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the memorial service for Hugh Forsythe, to whom I returned the slides so that the Forsythe family could have them again, I met Mr. Forsythe's daughter-in-law Sandra Forsythe. The service at the Bay Pines VA took place on a sunny, cloudless day in the bucolic, expansive grounds of the Bay Pines cemetery where Sandra arrived with an elaborate urn that held Mr. Forsythe's remains. It was a tougher experience than I expected; both Hugh and Donna had passed away, and I had liked them very much, the first time I met them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the ceremony Sandra and Hugh Forsythe's son Hugh invited me back to the house for the reception. They had heard about the founds slides story and told me that Hugh and Donna had gotten a big kick out of the whole thing; it had been a welcome development while they were dealing with their health issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sandra was a cheerful, upbeat person who stood a tad shorter than me, slender, with a full head of neatly styled black hair trimmed with silver. She had a disarming, easygoing aura that put me at ease right away. At the reception I told her (and several other family members) the whole story, and the Forsythe family accepted my presence there as one of their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sandra mentioned that her mother, Vera, had a large collection of vintage photography and darkroom equipment left by her father, who had passed away. Would I be willing to help her go through it all, and sell it somehow?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Sure," I answered. "I love old photography equipment. It sounds like it would be a lot of fun. Where does your mother live?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"She lives in Wisconsin." Sandra answered casually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"Wisconsin??"</i></b> I asked. "That's a long ways from here."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I'd send you up there, you could stay with my mother, Vera. She's a sweetheart, you'll love her. She lives in this huge house, and my father had this elaborate darkroom with all sorts of equipment. My mother doesn't know what to do with it all. She just wants to clear it out. Whatever you sell it for I'd be willing to give you a commission."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Well..." I said, thinking, "I would love to go up there and help your mother. I'll have to see if I can get time off from work. I've never been to Wisconsin. It sounds like it would be a fun trip."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You'd love my mother." Sandra said enthusiastically. "She very active, and she still works every day."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As luck would have it, I was given an opportunity to return to school to earn a second degree in web development, not two months after that. I left my job and had three weeks before classes began. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sketches made during the trip up to Wisconsin; I'm getting more into field sketching. Above is a sketch made while waiting for the plane to take off. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The huge house had a warren of basement rooms, most devoted to storage. In the far back corner of the basement was an S-shaped entrance to two side-by-side rooms which comprised the darkroom areas. The right side room held the enlargers, enlarging easels, color analyzers, photography papers, timers and other equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other room, which was divided into two rooms, held a huge stainless steel deep sink for developing and washing negatives and prints, densitometers and lab chemicals. The equipment was top shelf stuff, and had not been used in years.<br /><br />Below is a short clip of what the darkrooms looked like before I began sorting and organizing, a brief first look at equipment that had lain dormant for years.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To see the full collection of pictures from the items in the darkroom, click <b><a href="http://s342.photobucket.com/user/magnumarts/library/Vintage%20Darkroom" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>. Ebay auctions will be launched; if you are interested in any items let me know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of it was professional, top-of-the-line equipment in its day, and all of it had been cared for, and was in pristine condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't know what some of it was used for; it had been made and used before I was born. To the right are timers and a power unit (the blue cube). Below is one of the color enlargers, with a vintage color analyzer unit beside it on the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a Kodak Ektromatic processor, a piece of equipment for which you can no longer get the chemicals it requires. Below is a vintage promotional postcard for this piece of equipment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taking a break from the darkroom, I researched the equipment on-line, to see what kind of value they might have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vera lives beside a huge soybean field. The air smells so fresh and clean up there, not like the congestion of Pinellas County, Florida</span></div>
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<br />Michael K. Lymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009486124650604823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421528896486421141.post-63625251455407675792013-08-16T08:46:00.001-07:002013-08-16T08:48:40.494-07:00Corrupt Police Caught On Camera Admitting Their Corruption<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve Hindy, of <a href="http://www.sharkonline.org/" target="_blank">SHARK</a> (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) has tangled with the police on numerous occasions while legally protesting the activities of groups that harm animals. In this latest incident, he was illegally stopped and detained by Oregon's Malheur County Sheriff's Deputies, who were acting strictly at the request of the Jordan Valley Big Loop Rodeo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the illegal stop by the police, the officers admitted the possibility they might get sued, captured by their dashboard camera. Hindy obtained the dashboard camera footage through a FOI request, which clearly demonstrates the illegal conduct of these officers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just another reason, as if one were needed, that there must be oversight of the police.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unedited dashboard camera footage is<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVac7X0SS4" target="_blank"> HERE.</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a great, short video about why comics are so great, why it is such a treasured literary format in all its forms, why it is appreciated by all generations. The comics/graphic novel format has something for everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LiveJournal has some incredible, high-resolution cutaway illustrations by Frank Soltesz that show the inner workings for industrial buildings and companies. This is some seriously beautiful stuff.</span></div>
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Michael K. Lymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009486124650604823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421528896486421141.post-10472000592250905402013-08-16T08:13:00.003-07:002013-08-16T08:34:36.287-07:00How To Decode NSA Doublespeak<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when the NSA isn't lying, it uses misdirection to give a certain impression, while meaning the complete opposite, as a way to dodge telling the complete truth. The government uses circular logic and twisty rationales to avoid being completely honest. The goal is to mislead the public about what exactly it does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To keep up to date on the latest revelations about illegal government/corporate spying, check out <i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us" target="_blank">The Guardian's</a></i> ongoing coverage <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/the-nsa-files" target="_blank">HERE.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most recent update involves the NSA's thousands of privacy violations, in spite of it's reassurances that it respects the rights and privacy of Americans. Real about this revelation <b><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/newly-published-leaks-show-nsas-thousands-of-privacy-violations/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike McMaster, a member of the R2 Builder's club ( a group that builds movie-accurate R2-D2 droids), built an amazing WALL-E robot that is incredibly expressive and life like. WALL-E even has his roach companion sitting on him! This is an amazing accomplishment, made all the more impressive by the fact that it was built entirely from scratch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The link to the WALL-E Builders club message boards is <b><a href="http://walleforum.com/index.php" target="_blank">HERE.</a> </b>Below this video is another video of another WALL-E, at Disneyland in California. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This absolutely <b><i>brilliant</i></b> parody website and accompanying video embodies the hatred many customers have toward their only option for cable television and Internet: Time Warner. In many areas of the country, Time Warner is the only choice people have for their Internet and cable television, meaning that they simply don't have to care whether you like them or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their contempt for their customers was most recently displayed by arbitrarily jacking up the price they charge for their outdated cable boxes to their customers (read more about this <b><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://magnumarts.blogspot.com/2013/07/telco-companies-try-to-smear-book-about.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></b>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time Warner, however, was not amused, and had the account of the persons responsible for the parody site repeatedly shut down. However, the website and video live on. Check them out; it's some of the most brilliant satire I've seen of a predatory monopoly. For good measure, the video The First Honest Cable Company is below. It's what cable companies would say of they told the truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our march toward an omnipresent surveillance society continues, with the government and intelligence community doing everything they can to make sure their power to spy and eavesdrop on Americans continues, despite what American citizens want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're passing through train stations, sports stadiums or bus stations you may find yourself being questioned by a branch of the TSA called VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response). Agents wearing bulletproof vests are wandering through the crowd, pulling some people aside for questioning, searching bags, purses and back packs, all without probable cause or due process. Have these efforts ever stopped or uncovered any terror plots? The TSA won't say, citing, conveniently, the need for secrecy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As <i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us" target="_blank">The Guardian</a></i> (and numerous other publications) reports, Congress has been denied information it has asked for by the NSA. Information requests have been rebuffed and ignored. Without access to information, Congress cannot do its job. This arrogance is exactly why the NSA needs to be reined in, why its unchecked power needs to be scaled back. Read the story about this <b><span style="color: yellow;">HERE. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the refrains Americans have been fed by the government (and the police, for that matter) is that hey - if you don't have anything to hide, then you don't have anything to fear. So relax, these programs only affect terrorists, not you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is severely faulty logic that conveniently allows our rights to be marginalized in the relentless effort to combat "terrorism", in whatever form it takes. The ACLU has a good essay about why this reasoning is so flawed. An excerpt:</span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NrX_AnXjFGM" width="853"></iframe>Michael K. Lymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009486124650604823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421528896486421141.post-47147763709889029022013-08-03T05:29:00.001-07:002013-08-03T05:37:37.960-07:00The 7 Deadly Sins of World Building<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sci-fi blog <a href="http://io9.com/" target="_blank">i09 </a>has a great article about the mistakes writers make when building fictional worlds, and it's a good read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example this picture. Obviously an industrial society that has been around a long time and is starting to decay, with urban class warfare and a minority that feels oppressed. Standing on the rusty railing looking at this view I can smell the pungent stench of hydraulic oils, grease and pollution the air. There is the clanking sound of tools being used and dropped, huge industrial generator units, the whine of flying cars cruising by, the cursing and shouts of the denizens who work here. At the end of the day they'll go back to their tiny modular living units in the lower levels of the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thinking about these things will help make the difference between a flat, non-engaging backdrop, and an engaging world your readers will lose themselves in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The blog <a href="http://headlikeanorange.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Head Like An Orange</a> has some amazing animated gifs, a veritable cornucopia of mesmerizing, moving imagery. This is a fun, brief pit stop during your travels through the series of tubes known as the Internet.</span></div>
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