Random photos, comics, etc.

[Marcel Birgelen]

Meanwhile...


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[Leo Enticknap]

I wondered how long it would be before we'd start to see this sort of thing...

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[Jim Cassedy]

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☞ (Thanks to fellow FilmTech-er & friend Terry Wade for originally sending this to me)

[Frank Cox]

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[Frank Cox]

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Iceberg lovers go wild over viral photos of the 'dickie berg' off Newfoundland's coast

Photographer Ken Pretty — from the town of Dildo — captured aerial photos Thursday

A man from Dildo, N.L. has captured the attention of iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly-shaped hunk — now popularly known as the "dickie berg" on social media — off the coast of Newfoundland.

"I'm gettin' a lot of response, a lot of reaction to the photo because of its resemblance to ... part of the male anatomy, say," chuckled drone photographer Ken Pretty.

In an interview Friday, Pretty said he noticed from his very first photograph that the iceberg, in an area of the province known as Conception Bay, had online potential.

The berg got its nickname from the term "dickie bird," a Newfoundland euphemism for the male anatomy.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Had a similar thing happen to a long time projectionist. In his case he left the hard plastic shell on. Pretty quickly he began to smell it, but... it was way too late.

Then there was the guy moving a 35mm Gone With The Wind.. by himself. Of course he dropped it and was immediatelly fired. Took the other staff 3 days to untangle it and make it runnable again.

[Leo Enticknap]

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This was an expensive mistake to make, and I'm sure as heck glad that it wasn't me that made it! This is a 6.5kW bulb as well, so quite an ouch.

I once had a co-worker who accidentally left the inner plastic wrap/sheet (the one with shoelace-type cords on it that Ushio bulbs ship with) on a bulb after installation, but it's beyond comprehension how someone could leave the entire blastproof condom on. I'm surprised that it even fitted through the UV filter hole and into the (Barco B series XL) lamphouse module, and that it didn't blow up.

[Randy Stankey]

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That picture makes me feel sad.

Projecting movies has been the one thing I loved to do most, ever since I was a kid, but, now, I'm stuck in a shop, connecting wires all day long.

That kind of work has disappeared from my town. Digital projection is just uninteresting and unfulfilling but there's no way in Hell that I'd ever find a job like that in another place which would make the expense of moving worthwhile.

Some days, I just want to go to sleep and never wake up again.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

We had several sets of film clamps which helped immensnsly, three splicers, lots of tape and stuff to. And a pack up person in case I collapsed. The best part of the whole thing was starting in 1999, end finishing up in 2000...

[Jim Cassedy]

Yesterday we had a sneak-preview of another soon-to-be-released flick: "Beau Is Afraid" and the studio
also sent another huge display standee that took up most of the hall/lobby area that we had to put it in.
I'm hoping some day, they will come up with a way to holographically do 3D projections of those things-
- it would not only save some resources, but also the time/labor it takes a couple of 'the kids' on the
floor staff to set them up for display and break them down for disposal.

And we only had one platter!!!

That doesn't sound like fun! Hopefully you had alotta spare film clamps and/or a "platter pocket"!
Also make-up & break-down must have been 'fun'.
I've always tried to avoid working "platter jobs" - so I've been lucky enough never to have to run
a festival off one. I still frequently run film, and the 'worst thing' I usually have to deal with is ones
arrive wound on cores- - badly.


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[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Hey, nothing wrong with some overtime... The most time I spent in a booth was 24 hours. Egyptian theater in Boise scheduled a 24 hour film fest for the millinnium. And we only had one platter!!!

[Jim Cassedy]

Is this particular pipeline about 15,000 feet down? Or is the movie not even about an actual pipeline?

Oh, geeze Mark, I had two overlapping live events AND a 35mm show to do that day, so I didn't
have time to sit & watch the flick, but from what I've seen in the trailer and a little bit during the
tech-check, it's about a college age-ish kid who enlists the help of a bunch of his friends to blow
up a petroleum pipeline some evil oil company has built across his father's (or grandfather's)
farm- - to save humanity. . or something like that.


The other live event was an advance premiere of the APPLE TV's "TETRIS" movie. I really
wish I could have watched that one, but I was really up-to-my-ears in workstuff. I clocked
something almost 14 (union!) hours that day- - it was just exceptionally busy and one
of my co-workers was off, so pretty much had to handle all three events single-handedly.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Is this particular pipeline about 15,000 feet down? Or is the movie not even about an actual pipeline?

[Jim Cassedy]

Late last month, we did an advance studio preview screening of the upcoming "HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE"
movie due for release soon. (There was a live Q&A with the director & some others involved in the flick too)

- - and THIS Is One Of The Lobby Displays They Sent Us
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> Thats A Real 44Gal Drum, Not A Cardboard Or Fiberglass Mock-Up
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. . . I can hardly wait to see what they're going to send us for OPPENHEIMER!

(I'm actually trying to figure out a way to make some sort of giant dry-ice mushroom cloud
or something in the lobby for the opening night here)

[Frank Cox]

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