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Every actor's not-so-secret desire
It is not uncommon to hear an actor say, "But what I really want to do is direct." Some do it to exercise another side of their creativity, some just want to tell personal stories, some do it to gain control, and others, well, they just might not be very good actors.
That is not the case with Tom Hanks. He is a good actor, and he will release his second directorial feature this weekend. Larry Crowne tells the story of a recently unemployed man returning to community college to complete his education. Julia Roberts plays his teacher (and love interest), Mercedes Tainot, and while Hanks acted in his directorial debut, 1996's That Thing You Do!, he was not the lead, so this will be the first time Hanks directs himself in a lead role, something many actors-turned-directors eventually do.
Hanks is by no means the first nor will he be the last star to turn to film directing. Below we take a look at a few established actors who made the leap (either temporarily or permanently) to the other side of the camera, some more successfully than others.
20 key actors-turned-directors
Ben Affleck
# Films Directed | 2 |
Average Metascore | 73 |
Average Gross | $56.2m |
After an acting career that encompassed everything from Kevin Smith indies to Michael Bay blockbusters, Affleck surprised many in 2007 with the dark and assured vision he brought to his adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone Baby Gone. His effort was acknowledged by the National Board of Review with the award for Best Directorial Debut that year and, while not too successful at the box office, the film earned Affleck enough clout to return to the director's chair with 2010's The Town, based on the Chuck Hogan novel Prince of Thieves. This time, Affleck directed himself in the lead role, upped the action quotient and produced a film that made over $150 million worldwide while also being embraced by critics. Affleck will break out of his familiar contemporary Boston milieu with his next film, Argo, the story of CIA operatives and Hollywood execs teaming up to free American hostages in 1970's Iran.
Next movie (as director):
Argo (2013)
Warren Beatty
# Films Directed | 4 |
Average Metascore (1 film) | 75 |
Average Gross | $63.1m |
With a co-director credit (with Buck Henry) on the 1978 reincarnation comedy Heaven Can Wait (a summer blockbuster that also earned nine Academy Award nominations), Warren Beatty began a directing career that would cover a wide variety of genres. His next film, Reds, was a biopic of John Reed, an American journalist who chronicled the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. With a runtime over three hours and a large historical canvas, the epic scored twelve Oscar nominations, with Beatty winning for Best Director (though Best Picture was lost to Chariots of Fire). When Beatty decided to return to directing in 1990, his technicolor take on the comic strip Dick Tracy -- starring his then paramour, Madonna -- was a box office success. His most recent directorial effort, the 1998 political satire Bulworth, combined Beatty's political and comedic energies but, despite solid reviews, it found no love from moviegoers. Beatty has starred in each of his directing projects, and that trend will continue with his recently announced Howard Hughes biopic.
Next movie (as director):
Untitled Howard Hughes film (2013)
Peter Berg
# Films Directed | 5 |
Average Metascore | 53 |
Average Gross | $78.9m |
Peter Berg's 106-episode run as Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope had almost come to an end when his feature directorial debut, Very Bad Things, was released in 1998. That picture's pitch-black humor now seems out of place next to Berg's other directorial efforts. The Rundown, an action-comedy starring The Rock and Seann William Scott, was followed by his adaptation of Friday Night Lights, written by his cousin, Buzz Bissinger. The success of that film led to the creation of a critically lauded but sadly under-seen TV series created by Berg. In recent years, Berg has taken on larger, more action-oriented productions: The Kingdom, Hancock, and the upcoming Battleship (yes, based on the board game). Berg has another action film lined up: Lone Survivor, the story of a failed Navy Seal mission in Afghanistan.
Next movie (as director):
Battleship (May 18, 2012)
George Clooney
# Films Directed | 3 |
Average Metascore | 68 |
Average Gross | $26.3m |
After making a mostly seamless transition from television to film, suave leading man Clooney stepped behind the camera for the first time in 2002 with the Charlie Kaufman-scripted adaptation of game show host Chuck Barris' oddball memoir Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Though Clooney has been a much bigger box office draw as an actor than as a director, he scored an Oscar nomination for his work helming the critically lauded drama Good Night, and Good Luck. While his next film (Leatherheads) was a major flop, Clooney looks likely to enter the awards picture once again with this fall's Ides of March, a political drama based on the play Farragut North, which he will also star in.
Next movie (as director):
The Ides of March (October 7, 2011)
Kevin Costner
# Films Directed | 4 |
Average Metascore | 56 |
Average Gross | $87.1m |
To win Best Picture and Best Director Oscars (two of the film's seven total wins out of 12 nominations) with your directorial debut is auspicious, but to follow that film with two big-budget failures drastically reduces your chances of a successful career. Dances with Wolves was almost universally lauded upon its release, but now many movie fans dismiss it as the film that unjustly beat out Goodfellas for Best Picture. That feeling was only fueled over the years by the failure of Waterworld (which Costner co-directed without credit with his Fandango and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves director, Kevin Reynolds) and The Postman — two muddled attempts at creating message-oriented blockbusters. Some critics viewed 2003's Open Range as a return to form, but it has taken a long eight years for Costner to return to the director's chair. His next film, the period drama A Little War of Our Own, is currently in production.
Next movie (as director):
A Little War of Our Own (2012)
Danny DeVito
# Films Directed | 6 |
Average Metascore (4 films) | 54 |
Average Gross | $36.8m |
Of his six feature film releases, Danny DeVito's most successful entries have been the darkly comic Throw Momma from the Train and The War of the Roses. Those films also happen to be his first two, and while he tried to branch out with an epic biopic starring Jack Nicholson (Hoffa) and the kids' movie Matilda, DeVito was never able to repeat the success of those earlier films. He tried to mine the same comedic territory as his earlier triumphs with 2001's Death to Smoochy and 2003's Duplex, but both films fell flat with audiences and critics. His directing career has been quiet since, but DeVito never stopped acting, so check out his comic chops on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Robert Duvall
# Films Directed | 4 |
Average Metascore (2 films) | 67 |
Average Gross (2 films) | $10.4m |
While he directed a documentary (We're Not the Jet Set) and the little seen Angelo My Love (a look at New York City gypsies), Robert Duvall's directing career began in earnest with 1997's The Apostle. Duvall wrote that film in the '80s and, even with his incredible acting resume, no studios were willing to back it, so Duvall financed the picture himself. The independent release gained him his third Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role (he won previously for Tender Mercies) and won Best Picture and Best Director at the Independent Spirit Awards. Five years later, Duvall directed another small, intimate picture: Assassination Tango. The film's depiction of an assassin falling in love with the tango while on a job in Argentina mirrored Duvall's own fascination with the dance. His wife, Luciana Pedraza, starred in the film alongside Duvall, but it was Duvall, not his Argentinean wife, who knew how to dance the tango.
Clint Eastwood
# Films Directed | 31 |
Average Metascore (16 films) | 71 |
Average Gross | $41.9m |
The most prolific actor turned director on our list (with 31 released features) began his directorial career in 1971 with the psychological thriller Play Misty for Me. Since then, he has tried his hand at comedy (Bronco Billy), romance (The Bridges of Madison County) , the biopic (Bird), and, recently, an abundance of historical dramas (Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, Invictus). But in the end he might best be known for the genre in which he gained fame as an actor — the western. A string of films in the genre — including High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Pale Rider — culminated with 1992's Unforgiven, for which he won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars. Eastwood would be nominated in both categories again for 2003's Mystic River and 2006's Letters from Iwo Jima, and he would win both awards again for 2004's Million Dollar Baby. Even though his work has been consistently well reviewed, his latest film, Hereafter, received the lowest Metascore of any of his films since 1997's Absolute Power. Maybe he can turn that around later this year with his J. Edgar Hoover biopic, J. Edgar, starring Leonard DiCaprio.
Next movie (as director):
J. Edgar (December 14, 2011).
Jon Favreau
# Films Directed | 5 |
Average Metascore | 66 |
Average Gross | $167.8m |
In 10 years and what will soon be six films, Jon Favreau has gone from directing small indie comedies to huge summer blockbusters. Made, in which he co-starred with his Swingers buddy Vince Vaughn, led two years later to his breakout comedy hit, Elf, starring Will Ferrell. A minor misstep followed with Zathura (well received but not well seen), but that did not prevent him from changing the path of his career, as well as that of star Robert Downey Jr., with 2008's Iron Man. The inevitable Iron Man 2 followed, and in a few weeks, his latest comic book adaptation, Cowboys & Aliens, will hit the big screen. Favreau has opted out of directing Iron Man 3 — those duties with fall on the shoulders of Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) — but he has already lined up his next project, Magic Kingdom, which will be written by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon and will tell the story of what happens when Disney's theme park attractions come to life.
Next movie (as director):
Cowboys & Aliens (July 29, 2011)
Jodie Foster
# Films Directed | 3 |
Average Metascore (2 films) | 58 |
Average Gross | $14.5m |
When your acting career includes two Best Actress wins (for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs), it's hard for your directing career to reach the same level of success, and, unfortunately for Jodie Foster, her films have earned neither universal praise nor box office grosses. Her first directorial effort, Little Man Tate, was released the same year as The Silence of the Lambs and looked at the struggles of an eight-year-old prodigy and his mother, something Foster was most likely very familiar with, having acted since she was six. Home for the Holidays, starring Holly Hunter as a struggling single mom who returns home for Thanksgiving, can still be found on TV anytime from October through December, but it's her latest film, The Beaver, that's garnered the most attention, thanks not to her direction but to her star's penchant for getting drunk and yelling slurs at his wife or a whole race of people. But The Beaver is another solid examination of a broken family, so perhaps Foster will get a chance to direct again without any media distractions.
Mel Gibson
# Films Directed | 4 |
Average Metascore | 61 |
Average Gross | $130.5m |
While his personal and professional lives might currently be a shambles, Jodie Foster's Beaver star Mel Gibson was once a bankable leading man and an assured director. Gibson's 1993 directorial debut The Man Without a Face did not prepare anyone for the epic scope and success of his next film, Braveheart. That film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including Best Director and Best Picture for Gibson. But even that triumph could not have prepared the world for the success of a violent depiction of Christ's death filmed in Aramaic, Latin, and Hebrew. The Passion of the Christ was controversial but bulletproof at the box office, earning over $370 million in the U.S. and almost $612 million worldwide. His penchant for putting his heroes through numerous tortures didn't abate with his third epic, Apocalypto, a look at the life of a young Mayan man as he tries to avoid sacrifice and save his family. Will he direct again? He has enough money to finance a film himself, but he might have to wait a bit to find distribution.
Dennis Hopper
# Films Directed | 7 |
Average Metascore (3 films) | 69 |
Average Gross | n/a |
By the time Easy Rider was released in 1969, Dennis Hopper, at 33, had already acted in almost 20 films (including Rebel without a Cause, Giant, The Sons of Katie Elder, Cool Hand Luke, Hang 'Em High, and True Grit) and appeared in 40 TV shows. Along with being an actor, Dennis Hopper was a photographer, a painter, and a sculptor, so adding director to that mix seems pretty obvious in retrospect. Easy Rider is still seen as one of the cultural touchstones of the '60s. Hopper won a Best First Work award at the Cannes Film Festival where it premiered, but the film became a burden to live up to especially when coupled with drug and alcohol problems. His next film, The Last Movie, won the critics prize at the 1971 Venice Film Festival but was widely regarded as a failure. Hopper didn't direct again until 1980's Out of the Blue, which he took over two weeks into production after originally planning only to star. It is seen by some critics as a lost gem of independent filmmaking. While Blue Velvet and Hoosiers re-established his acting career, 1988's Colors, a gritty look at gang violence starring Robert Duvall and Sean Penn, is considered Hopper's directorial comeback, but it didn't lead to anything matching his early work. His later works - Catchfire (which he took his name off of), The Hot Spot, and Chasers - are barely remembered, save for a nude scene by a young Jennifer Connelly.
Ron Howard
# Films Directed | 22 |
Average Metascore (14 films) | 58 |
Average Gross | $90.3m |
Making the transition from childhood star to respected director is rare. Almost as difficult is making the move from directing silly (successful) comedies to serious (Academy Award winning) dramas, but Ron Howard has been able to do both. The comedies — Night Shift, Splash, Cocoon, Gung Ho, Parenthood — are beloved, and the dramas (including Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, and Frost/Nixon) are respected. Even Far and Away, Ransom, and The Da Vinci Code have fans. Ron Howard is skillful at making films that are popular with either critics or audiences (and, yes, sometimes both), so it was notable when his recent return to comedy, The Dilemma, was such a misfire. But that film shouldn't linger too long in the minds of moviegoers; Howard has multiple projects in the works, including an ambitious, multi-film adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.
Next movie (as director):
The Dark Tower (tbd)
Penny Marshall
# Films Directed | 7 |
Average Metascore (4 films) | 58 |
Average Gross | $58.1m |
Prior to her directing career, people knew Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio, one half of Laverne and Shirley, but after becoming the first female director to have a film gross more than $100 million, she became a sought-after director. The movie that proved her talent was 1988's Big, starring Tom Hanks in his first summer blockbuster. Two years later, her third film, Awakenings, was nominated for Best Picture, but Marshall was not nominated for Best Director. Marshall teamed up with Hanks for another major success in 1992, A League of Their Own. That film allowed Marshall to explore her love of sports, and provided a catchphrase to all of America: "There's no crying in baseball." Marshall's later feature efforts failed to catch on with filmgoers, but after a long break from directing and a few small acting roles, she stepped behind the camera again, this time on TV where she directed an episode of United States of Tara.
Sean Penn
# Films Directed | 4 |
Average Metascore (3 films) | 63 |
Average Gross | $9.8m |
While his acting career has achieved heights few actors even dream of, including winning Best Actor for Mystic River and Milk (along with three additional nominations), Sean Penn's directing success has been more modest, much like his films. Before Into the Wild, Penn specialized in small, dark, intimate dramas that could quickly turn to violence, and while the films were small, he was able to put together strong casts (with Jack Nicholson starring in both The Crossing Guard and The Pledge). Into the Wild's story of Christopher McCandless allowed Penn a wider canvas in which he could still tell an intimate story, and Penn was recognized for his effort by his directing peers with a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures from the DGA.
Robert Redford
# Films Directed | 8 |
Average Metascore (6 films) | 62 |
Average Gross | $33.7m |
Like Kevin Costner, Redford's first film as a director, 1980's Ordinary People, won an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture, but the film often joins Dances with Wolves on lists of least worthy Best Picture winners because it beat out another Martin Scorsese film, Raging Bull. Luckily for Redford, his output since his debut has been a step above Costner's, even with a few recent hiccups. After two solid efforts (The Milagro Beanfield War and A River Runs Through It, Redford was nominated again in the Best Director category for 1994's Quiz Show, but with his most recent films, Redford seems to be going for message over moviemaking. Lions for Lambs and The Conspirator both reflect Redford's politics but little of his filmmaking skill.
Rob Reiner
# Films Directed | 15 |
Average Metascore (10 films) | 56 |
Average Gross | $44.1m |
It was probably quite a shock to audiences when they discovered that the person who was Michael 'Meathead' Stivic for 184 episodes of 1970s sitcom All in the Family was also Marti DiBergi, "director" (and actual director) of This Is Spinal Tap, but by 1984 Rob Reiner had been in the business for 25 years and learned plenty about comedy. Of Reiner's 15 films, eight can be considered great successes, if not with critics then with film lovers who still watch them today. That list includes not only Spinal Tap but also The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally..., Misery, A Few Good Men, and The American President. These films, all released by 1995, are unfortunately balanced out by the quality of his most recent releases, none of which were able to capture the magic of his earlier films.
Next movie (as director):
Summer at Dog Dave's (2012)
Tim Robbins
# Films Directed | 3 |
Average Metascore (2 films) | 72 |
Average Gross | $15.6m |
With his debut feature, Tim Robbins followed Rob Reiner's lead and made a mockumentary, though his subject wasn't a rock band but a corrupt right-wing politician and folk singer. Bob Roberts was well received and gave Jack Black his first feature role. Robbins built upon that success with his next film, 1995's Dead Man Walking, based on the true story of Sister Helen Prejean's (Susan Sarandon) meetings with death row inmate Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn). Both actors received nominations for their work (with Sarandon winning Best Actress) while Robbins was also nominated for Best Director (losing out to another actor turned director, Mel Gibson). Robbins' next film, Cradle Will Rock, was respected but not loved, and since then he's directed TV, written a play of which he filmed a live performance (Embedded: Live), and returned to acting. His most recent appearance on film, Green Lantern, premiered two weekends ago.
Sylvester Stallone
# Films Directed | 8 |
Average Metascore (4 films) | 43 |
Average Gross | $78.3m |
After the success of Rocky, Sylvester Stallone wanted to direct. He got his feet wet with the little seen Paradise Alley before returning to the Rocky franchise to direct Rocky II, Rocky III, and Rocky IV. All were box office successes, and even his dreadful sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive, brought people to the theater, but Stallone took a 20-year break from directing after Rocky IV. He returned to the director's chair in 2006 with Rocky Balboa, the sixth Rocky film. He followed that up with another sequel, Rambo (the fourth in the series), before breaking semi-new ground with the The Expendables. Not surprisingly, that film's sequel is due in theaters August 17, 2012, but Stallone will not be behind the camera; that duty has fallen to Simon West.
Ben Stiller
# Films Directed | 4 |
Average Metascore (2 films) | 66 |
Average Gross | $59.2m |
After working in television for years and even starring in his own eponymous Fox show, Ben Stiller jumped to feature directing with 1994's Reality Bites. His follow-up, The Cable Guy, is either a cult classic or a major misfire depending on whom you talk to, but in the more than 10 years since, he's become a bankable star. With most of his time taken up with acting, he only directed two more features, Zoolander and Tropic Thunder. While the latter film was the bigger box office success, Zoolander sequel rumors have been flying around for more than a year, and there's still the possibility of a spin-off for Tom Cruise's Les Grossman character from Tropic Thunder. Stiller doesn't have his next directing gig lined up, but he will be in theaters November 4, 2011 in Tower Heist.
A few more
Below are the average Metascores by actor/director for all actors who have directed at least two scored films. The list excludes people known primarily for their directing rather than acting (or who started as directors before moving into acting).
Actor | Films Directed | Avg. | Actor | Films Directed | Avg. | |
Agnès Jaoui | 3 | 76 | John Turturro | 3 * | 58 | |
Ed Harris | 2 | 71 | David Schwimmer | 2 | 54 | |
Robert De Niro | 2 | 71 | Jonathan Frakes | 4 | 53 | |
Billy Bob Thornton | 3 * | 70 | Griffin Dunne | 4 | 52 | |
Stanley Tucci | 4 * | 68 | Diane Keaton | 2 | 52 | |
Anjelica Huston | 2 | 65 | Kevin Spacey | 2 | 47 | |
Denzel Washington | 2 | 64 | Chris Rock | 2 | 47 | |
Kenneth Branagh | 12 * | 61 | Clark Johnson | 2 | 47 | |
Steve Buscemi | 4 * | 61 | Betty Thomas | 8 * | 46 | |
Vincent Gallo | 2 | 60 | Ethan Hawke | 2 | 40 | |
Bill Paxton | 2 | 60 | Forest Whitaker | 3 * | 37 | |
Yvan Attal | 2 | 58 | Roberto Benigni | 8 * | 31 |
* One or more of these films does not have a Metascore. (All actors in the table have at least 2 films with a Metascore.)
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Nov 28, 2012, 11:45 AM | #1 |
Strongly considering moving from MacPro 4,1 to Hackintosh. Thoughts?
So I use my mac mostly for photoshop work, web development, etc- and bootcamp for gaming. Current have the 8 core- 2.26 machine from early 2009. I'm noticing that it's starting to feel a tad slow running the tasks I rely on it for. With all the component sales going on the past few days I've started to slowly buy up pc components thinking it'd be a fun little project to build a hackintosh. I'm thinking of building a rig with a i7-3770K @ 3.5 ghz, 16 gig of ram, a 660ti vid card, etc etc. I'm referencing the tonymacx86 blog for help.
So basically I want your opinions. Is this a mistake? I'm guessing the final cost for this build will be <$1200.. and mac pro has been sort of the bastard step child at apple for years with its outdated tech. So I'd like to hear what you all think. Should i stick with the mac i have now and just try to upgrade the ram? go forward as planned?
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:00 PM | #2 |
If you can upgrade the processors for 1200 I'd go that way. Hacks are fine I like mine well enough but that doesn't mean they're for everyone. If you like to futz and customize they're great if you like the integrated Apple experience not so much.
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:01 PM | #3 |
8 gigs of ram hog-ties photoshop, especially if you have anything else running.
have you considered getting a pcie ssd? that owc thing looks great. as long as you can keep feeding those 16threads data fast enough, I think there's still a ton of life left in the 2.26. also, a couple of years from now, those 6 core 3.33 and 3.46 chips will come down in price. i dont think an i7 anything will be much faster, especially if what you're doing in photoshop can make use of all those cores/threads.
2012 MPB 15, 16GB, 512SSD - Logic Audio 2010 Mac Pro, 64GB, 1T SSD, X5680 swap x2, EVGA GTX570, VEP5, Kontakt, and AE |
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:03 PM | #4 | |
Hackintosh 3.5Ghz i7 3770k, 32 GB RAM, eVGA GTX 680 2048 MB SuperClocked, Samsung 830 128GB SSD MacBook Pro Late '08 2.8 Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 9400M & 9600M GT |
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:10 PM | #5 |
so far I've only bought some ram and a power supply so it's not a huge deal if i dont immediately follow thru on my plans. Maybe ill just keep the mac for work and play games on the pc. Just wish it wasnt so expensive to upgrade the processors! photoshop is def bumping up against the 8 gigs so maybe throwing in another 8 could settle it
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:12 PM | #6 | |
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:56 PM | #7 |
Keep the CPU!
Rather get 32GB RAM, a GTX 680 (runs fine with Mac) and a few SSDs. I do the same, photoshop, video editing (usual GD-stuff), and a bit of gaming. Except when rendering in video editing, I never get my 2.66 Quad past 50% usage, and I get those 50% while gaming. For PS and stuff, you don't really need a superb CPU.
Hackintosh 3.5Ghz i7 3770k, 32 GB RAM, eVGA GTX 680 2048 MB SuperClocked, Samsung 830 128GB SSD MacBook Pro Late '08 2.8 Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 9400M & 9600M GT |
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:59 PM | #8 |
Running a Hackintosh is a hobby. You do it because you really want to and/or because you want to have a consumer version of a Mac Pro for a lot less money. I've ran several Hackintoshes over the years and while yes it has gotten a lot easier lately they are not fool proof. I would never use one as my main work machine. I need my work machine to just work. I can't be bothered spending time fiddling with it if some software update breaks something.
For a home computer that's only used for entertainment? Sure, a Hackintosh can be cool. My main home PC is a Hackintosh but I hardly ever boot into OSX anymore since it's mainly used for gaming these days (my MacBook Pro is my main work machine). If I were you, I'd keep the Mac Pro and update it as necessary. |
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Nov 28, 2012, 01:20 PM | #9 |
This late in the game with Apple's longtime change to Intel, you shouldn't have any issues and it doesn't take a techie anymore to get it done.
These days, the difference between a Mac and a PC is the OS and some little hardware design preferences where Apple goes the extra mile to make more pleasing cases. But with so much of the aluminum and sleek Mac designs being blatantly ripped off by PC makers, it's pretty much only the OS that is different these days. That being said, while OS X is great, Windows has upped their game and isn't inferior anymore. Do some research on the processors, RAM, and motherboard, and you will find very little reason to have to use an Apple product to run OS X. Depending on how much horsepower you put into a Hackintosh, it can usually be cheaper but you can also make a supercomputer Hackintosh with OS X and that will cost quite a bit more. Had you decided to build a Hackintosh during the very first year of Apple's changeover to Intel, and you don't have some techie background, it may be been a little scary but still do-able. There's so much known about this hobby or task that it's no big deal. Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IEWlvb9dEs Last edited by 63dot; Nov 28, 2012 at 01:33 PM. |
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Nov 28, 2012, 01:27 PM | #10 |
there are merits and detractions to going either way - but from what I can see here, you already own the 4,1. upgrading it will be inexpensive (ram, ssd, videocard to a lesser degree $$) vs building a hack (buy everything).
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"No land on Earth possesses more wonder than Egypt." Thus claims the character portrayed by actor Omar Sharif in the IMAX movie Mysteries of Egypt, coproduced with National Geographic, and opening Friday, September 24, at the combination IMAX/IMAX 3-D theater in South Miami's Shops at Sunset Place.
Whether outfitted in a tailored three-piece suit or a flowing caftan, Sharif cuts a dashing figure as a wise grandfather who thoughtfully explains the marvels (manmade and otherwise) of his native land to his curious granddaughter, played by Kate Maberly. She's more interested in apocryphal mummies' curses than in anything of substance, but soon she and the audience are captivated by the tale Sharif weaves. Beginning with a re-enactment of the funeral of King Tutankhamen, the 50-minute film intersperses a black-and-white dramatization of archaeologist Howard Carter's sixth, and at last successful, search for the pharaoh's well-hidden tomb with stunning color footage and fascinating information about the history of Egypt, its 3000-year lifespan earning it the title of longest-lived ancient civilization.
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What if that was the last of the juice in the battery? I drove to work, it sat for about 12 hours, then started driving home. I was on it for about 5-10 minutes before it died. |
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I might suspect the battery if you original one had tested bad and if the new one you said you got was also testing bad. Battery is my first suspect for most issues on my Shadow. When most start tearing apart the carbs, I'm testing electrical connections and outputs. if your issue is Electrical, the problem could be any thing, with a wire attached to it. It is literally possible for a short in a completely unrelated circut to cause issues for other circut. Just depends on the location and manner of the short, and the ease of repeatability.
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I agree with most post prior, except that a short in a wire would not kill a whole bike, unless the short is coming from the main power patch to the distribution box. Even a frayed wire wouldn't do this. For a whole bike to go down like such you are looking more for a dead ignition switch, loose or broken battery terminal, bad battery major things. Possible main grounding issue.
It would have to be one hell of a short to completely put a bike down and it would most certainly pop some fuses. Best advice is start small work big. 1) Test Battery 2) Check all fuse's (even the sneaky inline ones...yes there in there) 3) Check to see if your getting juice to and from your ignition I had the same thing happen to me, was riding bike just shut off....turned out the ignition switch just decided to break connections due to age and use....it happens. Not trying to undercut anyone's experience or expertise, you are all wise yoda's! |
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That's got to be the easiest fault ever..
You haven't said if you have a digital multimeter..If not you can buy one for $10 that will be good enough for any fault finding on your bike.. Test one..switch the multimeter to 25v DC or any dc voltage above 20 volts. measure with the red lead on the positive terminal of the battery and the black lead to the negative terminal. expect about 13v. Test two..move the black lead to the engine block..expect the same voltage as test one.. Test three.. move the red lead to the fuse box and with the ignition switched on test all the fuses, expect the same voltage again. Test four.. locate the 30a main fuse, somewhere near the starter solenoid and put the red lead to that, expect the same voltage again..Note that this is the probable cause.. John.
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If totally dead,as John stated check the batt first. go to Johns test one and two, if all is good. the main 30 amp fuse at the starter solenoid, is most likely blown, its behind the right side cover. the main fuse box has 4 fuses. if the main fuse is blown, Then check for chafed, burnt and shorted wiring. If no power at the fuse, and checking for bad grounds using voltage drop test if you are familair with that. then go with the suggestion of testing at the ignition and so on. it is easy to do as others have stated, just new to you perhaps.
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I really truely doubt that it is the battery. If the bike started and ran for 5-10 minutes, and then died after hitting a bump, it is likely a bad connection, bad fuse, or switch. A battery bad enough for the engine to die, would still provide some power for lights. The ignition systems on these things are very tempremental, so lower voltage will prevent them from firing the engine, but lighte are lights. A little power normally gives a little light.
Follow the checks that John gave. He seems to eat and sleep these things, atleast the electrical parts. A bad connection will lose the power completely, as will a bad fuse and switch.
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Status of the bike, curious if you have found the fault yet and if so what was the issue for future readers.
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The big Shadows have a main fuse under the seat (35 amp I think). Pretty sure if that one is out you would not have anything. To kill that quickly it sounds like a main fuse or a connection. As someone mentioned, a defective kill switch would not affect the lights. I think it is either a fuse or a connection. So check connections around main fuses and the ground connections also. On many bikes there is a main ground on the frame somewhere that all the other grounds feed into. If the bolt worked loose on that there could be a sudden loss of pretty much everything also.
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Nice news. I was looking for this type of news. Good post.
There seemed to be two factors to Pittsburgh's trends. One is the historically horrible "special" teams. The other is 3rd down DVOA.
So, season-to-season, 3rd down DVOA tends to regress. Does it also regress in-season? If so, there's the possibility that this will be less of a factor in their downward trend going forward.
Not that it can make up for the worst special teams EVAR!!!
Teams whose DVOA drops on third down tend to struggle with it all year, then rebound the next season.
And they aren't the worst special teams ever; that still goes to the 2000 Bills. The Steelers are just the worst kickoff team ever. ("Ever" meaning "since at least 1994.")
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I think that makes sense. So many things can happen in the offseason - focused practice, roster movement, key players getting healthy, etc - to change things in that area, many of which aren't really available during the season.
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The Land of Nod (Hebrew: eretz-Nod, ארץ נוד) is a place in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located "on the east of Eden" (qidmat-'Eden), where Cain was exiled by God after Cain had murdered his brother Abel. According to Genesis 4:16:
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.[1]
"Nod" (נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb "to wander" (לנדוד). Therefore to dwell in the land of Nod is usually taken to mean that one takes up a wandering life.[2] Genesis 4:17 relates that after arriving in the Land of Nod, Cain's wife bore him a son, Enoch, in whose name he built the first city.
Places named "Land of Nod"[edit]
Land of Nod is the name of a small hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located at the far end of a two-mile-long road which joins the A614 road at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.
Land of Nod Road is the name of a residential road in Windham, Maine, USA,[3] and another in Headley Down, Hampshire, UK[4]
Popular culture references[edit]
One of American writer John Steinbeck's most famous novels is East of Eden. The betrayal of a brother is one of its central themes.
The Land of Nod also refers to the mythical land of sleep, a pun on Land of Nod (Gen. 4:16).[5] To "go off to the land of Nod" plays with the phrase to "nod off", meaning to go to sleep. The first recorded use of the phrase to mean "sleep" comes from Jonathan Swift in his Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation (1737)[6] and Gulliver's Travels. A later instance of this usage appears in the poem The Land of Nod[7] by Robert Louis Stevenson from the A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods (1885) collection.[8]
In The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes book, The Land of Nod is a pun on the mythical land of sleep, or The Dreaming, Cain's destination after murdering his brother.
In Bad Monkeys, a psychological thriller by Matt Ruff, the main character frequently refers to apparent contradictions in her back story as "Nod problems."
In Sleeping Beauty, a good fairy, unable to break the spell that has made the princess fall asleep for 100 years, sends the entire kingdom to the Land Of Nod to sleep for a 100 years so they can be with the princess when she awakes.
In games[edit]
In the World of Darkness role-playing setting by White Wolf Game Studio, the land of Nod is the home in exile of Caine, the first vampire. God's curse upon Caine is interpreted as transforming him and his line into vampires.
The biblical quote is mentioned in the Command & Conquer video game, and is thought to be the origin of the name for the Brotherhood of Nod, as the group's charismatic leader is also known only as Kane. Kane's command center, known as the Temple of Nod, also houses a coffin bearing the name Abel upon its surface, and the preserved body of his most trusted officer, Seth (in reference to the biblical Seth), whom Kane shot in the head after Seth's attempted coup d'état. Their relationship is never explained; however, upon introducing himself to the player, Seth states that he is "Seth. Just Seth. From God, to Kane, to Seth."
In music[edit]
Twelfth Night, a symphonic progressive rockband with Geoff Mann, made an album in 1981 called Smiling at Grief, including the song called "East of Eden". A second version was recorded in 1982 on the album Fact and Fiction.
Billy Thorpe closed his album Children of the Sun ... Revisited with the song "East of Eden's Gate."
Contemporary Christian Music and country music artist Susan Ashton, in her debut album Wakened by the Wind, released a song called "The Land of Nod." It warned against being too comfortable slumbering in exile.
Canadian indie band Stars mentions the Land of Nod in the title track to their album The Comeback EP: "Just got back from the land of Nod..."
Classic rock band Journey mentions the east of Eden in their song "Frontiers" from their 1983 Frontiers: "And all the heroes have gone east of Eden, we all need new frontiers."
Trey Anastasio has a track named Land of Nod on the album Traveler.
Dead Can Dance named the sixth song of their 1984 self entitled debut Dead Can Dance "East of Eden".
Tom Waits mentions the land of Nod in his song "Singapore" from the 1985 album Rain Dogs: "We sail tonight for Singapore, we're all as mad as hatters here I've fallen for a tawny Moor, took off to the land of Nod..."
Bob Dylan's song "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum" from the 2001 album Love and Theft refers to those "Livin' in the Land of Nod, Trustin' their fate to the hands of God".
The gothic rock band To/Die/For sings about the Land of Nod in the song "Vale of Tears", in the verse "Sleep well my darling, and leave this vale of tears behind. Land of Nod is a better place".
English rocker Pete Doherty uses "East of Eden" as the title for a song he wrote for his band Babyshambles. The opening lyric to the song states "I've been wandering East of Eden"
Musician/cartoonist Sean Hartter refers to "Nod" as a place with his "The Man From Nod" [9] electronic/live music project. Here "Nod" is meant to be a wilderness of jumbled ideas and disjointed notions, the opposite of Eden...much more like the state of a dreaming mind.
The heavy stoner metal band High On Fire included a song called "Return To Nod" on their album Death Is This Communion.
The darkwave band The Crüxshadows refer to Nod in their song called "East" from the 2003 album Ethernaut with the repetitive phrase "East of Eden".
The German rock group Unloved uses the phrase "heading nod" in the corresponding song from the 2006 album Killersongs as a metaphor for dealing with unpardonable guilt. Nod becomes not a certain land but a state of self-forgiveness ("It only remains for me to leave, a ridiculous 'sorry' on my lips. it only remains for me to live, telling, I didn't mean it").
Dave Matthews made popular a song written by Daniel Lanois called "The Maker". In it is a reference to the Land of Nod otherwise called East of Eden: "Brother John, have you seen the homeless daughters standing here with broken wings. I have seen the flaming swords there over east of Eden".
East of Eden was a British rock band from the 1960s/1970s.
Classic rock group The Eagles titled their latest album Long Road Out of Eden.
Natalie Merchant sings "The Land of Nod", based on the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, on her album Leave Your Sleep.[10]
American hardcore punk act Trash Talk released a single titled "East of Eden" in 2009.
Scottish rock band Big Country included a song "East of Eden" on their album titled Steeltown.
Rapper Ikon the Verbal Hologram refers to the land of nod in the song "Books Of Blood: The coming of the Tan": "You have entered the Land Of Nod now, face the deafening thunders And the spiritual wonders".[11]
On their freshman album, the English electronic band Is Tropical entitled one of their songs "Land of The Nod".[12]
Japanese freeform hardcore producer Betwixt and Between released a song titled East of Eden
Australian Black Metal band Lustration included the song "3061 BC Land of Nod Somewhere East of Eden" on their 2012 album Psymbolik.
On their album The Whole World is watching, Morning Glory includes a reference to the Land of Nod in their song Gimme Heroin, as a metaphor for the "nodding" state achieved through heroin use. [13]
Other uses[edit]
In the United Kingdom and some parts of the United States, the phrase "to go off to the land of Nod" refers colloquially to falling asleep.[14]
In the comic book The Strange Talent of Luther Strode, while not directly said to be it, the land of Nod is shown. The story takes place in the modern day; Cain is still alive and completely bound head to toe to a wall with four other men. A man simply known as The Librarian is shown coming from the Land of Nod after speaking with Cain about Luther.[15]
- ^ Genesis 4:16, King James Version
- ^ Asimov, Isaac (1981). Asimov's guide to the Bible : the Old and New Testaments (Reprint [der Ausg.] in 2 vol. 1968 - 1969. ed.). New York: Wings Books. ISBN 0-517-34582-X.
- ^ Trepanier, Elisa. "Windham, ME Road Map" (PDF). Elisa Trepanier.
- ^ "Land of Nod, Headley Down, GU35 8 map". Bing maps.
- ^ "Land of Nod | Define Land of Nod at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "The Land of Nod". Everything2.com. 2001-03-04. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "18. The Land of Nod. Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1913. A Childs Garden of Verses and Underwoods". Bartleby.com. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
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- ^ "Songs by the MAN FROM NOD, Citizen of". Acidplanet.com. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "Leave Your Sleep | Read | The Land of Nod". Nataliemerchant.com. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "Books Of Blood: The Coming Of Tan Feat. El Lyrics - Jedi Mind Tricks". Sing365.com. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "Is Tropical - Native To (2011)". Avaxhome.ws. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/morningglory/gimmeheroin.html
- ^ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176869
- ^ Luther Stordecast #1@55:15


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Way cool plaid skater skirt featuring simple box pleating at front and super soft fit. Zip closure at side.
*100% Cotton
*27"/68.5cm waist
*14"/35.5cm length
*Model is wearing size small
*Measurements taken from size small
*Hand wash cold
Anna is a US size 2
Height: 5'8"
Bust: 33" / Waist: 23" / Hips: 33"
Astrological sign: Scorpio
Can't live without: Cute animals and R. Kelly.
Tell us a secret: I have a huge crush on Prince.
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