Juggernuts…

April 12, 2011

FROM THE “FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH DEPARTMENT”…

CATAGORIES: 110 FILM,126 CARTRIDGE FILM,35MM FILM,ART,History,MONEY,PHOTOGRAPHY,SCANNED FILM,YARBZ NEGATIVE/POSITIVE ARCHIVE — Yarbz @ 8:32 am

I sent this to Canon in the hopes that it might find the right person at the right time… If any of you have ever looked for a professional quality, multi-format film scanner (possible Jorsa) than you know how I feel…

This is less a question than a pleading to Canon engineers… PLEASE develop a top quality film scanner which will scan at least all 120 formats. With Nikon out of the biz and nothing out there producing top quality scans from old and new film, there must be a market. Canon, being an electronics company as well as a camera company, should be able to product something… I know you, the reader of this comment, will not be in a position to help. However, you could forward this to the right people who may understand this great need. (Picture me on my knees begging and pleading for this as soon as possible)

Sincere thanks for anything you can do,

Long time Canon user,

Name and address blah blah blah

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April 8, 2011

I want one!

CATAGORIES: ART,GAS FUEL ENERGY,GENERAL NONSENSE — FloridaBill @ 11:46 am

Up to 800 horsepower! I bet it gets about four gallons to the mile, maybe worse, but I would look damn good in it.

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March 10, 2011

FUN CARTOON BY ‘FREDDIE’ FROM THE SGT GRIT NEWSLETTER:

CATAGORIES: ART,BONERS,HUMOR,MILITARY,TRUE HUMOR,USMC / MARINE CORPS / SEMPER FI — Yarbz @ 8:57 am

Click on the cartoon to go to the Sgt Grit store where you can like to the archived news letter or just buy cool stuff!

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January 3, 2011

SHE WAS COOL… GLORIA STEWART

CATAGORIES: ART,CULTURLA & PENTURLA,History,I hate it when this happens,NEWS & BREAKING NEWS & FOLLOW-UP,PHOTOGRAPHY,REST IN PEACE — Yarbz @ 8:06 am

Gloria Stuart, the 1930s Hollywood beauty who gave up acting for 30 years and later became the oldest Academy Award acting nominee as the spunky survivor in “Titanic,” died on Sunday, Sept. 26, of respiratory failure. She was 100.

In her youth, Stuart, pictured circa 1934, was a blond beauty who starred in B pictures as well as some higher-profile ones such as “The Invisible Man” and two Shirley Temple movies, “Poor Little Rich Girl” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” But by the mid-1940s she had retired.

She resumed acting in the 1970s, doing occasional television and film work.

But Stuart’s later career would have remained largely a footnote if James Cameron had not chosen her for his 1997 epic about the doomed luxury liner that struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. Stuart co-starred as Rose Calvert, the 101-year-old survivor, played by Kate Winslet as a young woman.

HERE IS THE SLIDE SHOW FROM MSNBC WITH THE CURTAIN CALLS FOR 2010…

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December 24, 2010

Merry, Happy to all!

CATAGORIES: ART,CULTURLA & PENTURLA,FAILURE TO USE BRAINS,FASCINATING,GENERAL NONSENSE,HUMOR,I hate it when this happens,Jorsa's Life Picture Diary,OLD FRIENDS,PHOTOGRAPHY,REASONS TO BUY DUCT TAPE,SCARY STUFF,SPERM,STUPID HIPPIES,TRUE HUMOR,WTF — jorsabeck @ 11:07 am

The Naughty Santa Monkey strikes again!

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October 14, 2010

CAR AND DRIVER REVIEWS AND COMPARES FAMOUS TELEVISION AND FILM CARS: VERY FUN

CATAGORIES: ART,FASCINATING,FEEL GOOD STORIES,GAS FUEL ENERGY,History,HUMOR,MONEY — Yarbz @ 6:56 am

Click above for the whole article…

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September 30, 2010

RIP: TONY CURTIS: 85 (MY DAD’S AGE…)

CATAGORIES: ART,BEER WINE SPIRITS & SUBSTANCES,CULTURLA & PENTURLA,FASHION,History,I hate it when this happens,NEWS & BREAKING NEWS & FOLLOW-UP,NEWS TO GET PISSED AT,REST IN PEACE — Yarbz @ 6:47 am

Click above for full size image
Click here for the Wiki page

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August 24, 2010

AMAZING IMAGES FROM 1909-1912 RUSSIA PRE WWI AND REVOLUTION:

CATAGORIES: ART,FASCINATING,History,PHOTOGRAPHY — Yarbz @ 8:10 am

With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time – when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.

SEE ALL THE PHOTOS (AT BOSTON.COM) BY CLICKING ON THE PHOTO BELOW: