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Lower Deck Episode
An episode focused primarily on otherwise minor characters, using their point of view to give an outsider's perspective on the central plot or characters (countering the assumption that The Main Characters Do Everything). Not coincidentally, the principal actors are needed a lot less for this sort of episode than in a typical episode. Lower Deck Episodes usually arise when the crew is behind on their film schedules and have to shoot two episodes at the same time. They are sometimes included as a special feature for the DVD/Blu-Ray release of Hollywood films, particularly animated films. The main character/s are seldom entirely absent, since they have to get their Mandatory Line in somewhere. Named for "Lower Decks", episode #167 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an episode that is notable for both revisiting the life of a minor character from an earlier episode and killing off that same character before we actually see the changes previous events have wrought. See A Day in the Limelight for a secondary character given the spotlight and Villain Episode for villains. See Breakout Mook Character for full spinoffs for mooks. Compare Elsewhere Fic. May overlap with The Greatest Story Never Told. An entire series of Lower Deck Episodes (within a larger 'verse) is an Innocent Bystander Series.
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Anime & Manga
- When Hayate the Combat Butler does these with recurring minor characters, the fact is usually stated enthusiastically by said characters. Sometimes with the main characters complaining that they've been pushed to the sidelines. Of course, this is a given since the series has No Fourth Wall.
- Shinkon Gattai Godannar!! has an episode dedicated entirely to the Bridge Bunnies and maintenance crew, mostly centering around the bustier female member of the maintenance crew as she got called for an arranged marriage that she later turns down.
- Most of Pluto by Naoki Urasawa is told from the perspective of Gesicht, a one-shot character from the original Astro Boy series.
- The One Piece anime has two episodes of "filler" based on the cover story arc of Koby and Helmeppo training to become great marines. Since this is canon (and plays important to the story later) it's hardly considered filler, and was a nice break from the previous chaos.
- All of the stories depicted on the chapter covers are this, featuring the events of minor, secondary or even villainous characters in their lives after dealing with the Straw Hats, some elements of which make their way into the main storyline, like the aforementioned Koby-Meppo arc, Django going from pirate to Marine, and Hatchi's mermaid friend Camie and their ongoing cat-and-mouse relationship with the Macro Pirates.
- Mahou Sensei Negima!: During the Magical World arc, an important number of main characters are transported to it and the action takes place primarily there. There are, however, the occasional chapters that look back at the characters left behind in Japan and the UK.
- The first Fullmetal Alchemist anime has an episode that focuses on Mustang's team. The episode is based on a number of omake from the manga, where Riza "disciplines" Black Hayate.
- Batman: Gotham Knight is an anime movie designed to bridge the gap between the films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, made up of a series of vignettes by different animators. One of the vignettes shows a group of kids discussing/arguing about what they saw when they witnessed Batman fighting someone.
- Episode 18 of Rental Magica featured mainly Daphne and Sekiren, showing what they were up to when Itsuki and Adilicia dealt with a demon problem the episode before.
- Persona 4: The Animation has episode 13, which gets Nanako's perspective on Yu's summer vacation.
- Chapter 480 of Bleach which largely focuses on Ryuunosuke Yuki and Shino, two minor characters who were just introduced and barely had any plot relevance, other than being Afro-San's replacements.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena utilized this for the second season during "The Black Rose Saga". Each of the Black Rose duelists were minor characters (save for Wakaba, who's a supporting character, and Kanae, who debuted in the arc) with ties to the Student Council members. The episodes were dedicated to watching them sink lower and lower into despair related to the Student Council, until they were easy prey for Souji Mikage.
- An episode of the fifth anime season of Axis Powers Hetalia focuses on a french man whose grandfather had met France when he was younger, and now this man runs into France on a street in Paris. The whole episode is dedicated to show the perspective of common folk on the nations, plus showing the audience a more serious and charming side of France (which the audience loved).
- In Citrus, an unnamed Meganekko that appeared in the beginning of the manga, with the only other appearance was near the end of chapter 2 to give a school speech, was given 2 pages in Citrus Special issue 1 between her, Harumi and Himeko, giving a slightly playful observation to their relationships.
Comic Books
- Used in PS238, which is set in a Superhero Academy. In the "Return of the Rainmaker" arc, rather than focusing on the aspiring superheroes of the main school, the focus shifts to the "Rainmaker" program - children with metahuman powers not fit for superheroics. In true Chekhov's Gun style, each of the children ends up having to put their unusual abilities to creative use before the end...
- One issue of Roberta Gregory's Naughty Bits focused on a week in the life of New Age co-worker Sylvia, while main character Midge (aka 'Bitchy Bitch') was on vacation. While her relentlessly positive attitude is a source of annoyance for the perpetually cranky Midge, here we see her as a much more three dimensional character who is just as much, if not more so, stressed out by her job as Midge is.
- Several of Astro City series tend to focus on the viewpoint of minor characters in a Superhero universe, witnessing Crisis-level events from the sidelines or behind the scenes. The stories collected into a paperback under the title "Local Heroes" qualify best, focusing on characters such as a hotel usher and a lawyer working in Astro City.
- Several Judge Dredd stories are told from the point of view of regular people with Dredd himself making only sporadic appearances in them.
- IDW's Star Trek comic book usually re-tells the stories from the original series in the new timeline created in the 2009 Star Trek movie. Issue #13, however, is a Lower Deck Episode taking a very minor character from the film and giving his opinion of the main cast in the form of a letter home to Mom and Dad. It also reveals the fates of some of the original series Red Shirts in the alternate timeline.
- Amidst regular story arcs, the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) devote entire issues to Spike, Celestia, Big Macintosh, and Shining Armor.
- The short story in My Little Pony Micro Series Issue #3 focuses on Hayseed Turnip Truck.
- And a full main-comic entry from the pet's POV.
Fan Fiction
- The Homestuck fanfic "Outsiders" is about the meteor apocalypses upon two planets, as seen from the viewpoint of a completely mundane and unrelated bystander human and bystander troll.
- The Harry Potter fanfiction The Ollivander Children looks at the Second War against Voldemort from the point of view of people who never meet Harry Potter and have no chance of fighting Voldemort, much less defeating him, and their particular struggles in the war.
- Anthropology has two chapters set during Nightmare Night and Hearth's Warming Eve, shown from Lyra's perspective. Naturally the holiday festivities are all an elaborate plot to hide the existence of humans.
- A World of Illusions is about Trixie and the Illusions. Trixie is a secondary antagonist and her two band mates just mooks in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks.
- An unused concept for a Calvin and Hobbes: The Series episode would have tracked what Socrates' owner Elliot was up to during the first four seasons. It was scrapped because it wouldn't have been too interesting.
- Mega Man Reawakened has Arc 4, chapter 2, which focuses on Rush and Bon Bonne.
- Cave Story Versus IM Meen is basically the literal definition of this trope for Cave Story, turning Jack, one of the most minor characters in the entire game, into the lead protagonist, an A Dorkable, Badass Adorable Nerd Action Hero.
- After appearing as minor characters in several movies and a TV series, Jay and Silent Bob finally took center stage in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
- In response to the Bruce and Lloyd's unexpected break away popularity in the Get Smart movie, the spin-off movie Get Smart's Bruce And Lloyd: Out of Control was released, focusing on their escapades while everybody is distracted by Maxwell Smart's adventures.
- Cloverfield is basically a lower deck version of every monster movie ever made. We don't see the perspective of scientists nor any important military figures. Because of this, we have little to no information about the monster and where it came from. Instead, the whole movie revolves around the nameless crowds of people who are trying to avoid getting squashed by the monster.
- Machete is a series of R-Rated action films starring the Spy Kids character of the same name.
- The 87th Precinct novel He Who Hesitates by Ed McBain is narrated by the criminal (and is the only one of the novels to have a first person narration) and the reader only gets to see the cops of the 87th Precinct as they appear to him.
- The Doctor Who novel "Who Killed Kennedy" (available for free online-reading at the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club webpage) takes a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead approach to the early Third Doctor era, notably the Master episodes, from the POV of a Times reporter whose career is sent into a tailspin when he attempts to uncover the truth about UNIT, and later gets recruited by the Doctor to stop the Master from interfering with the past during the Kennedy assassination.
- Bean from Enders Game gives the Ender's series a fresh perspective by having an entire book, "Ender's Shadow" based on him during the same time-frame as the original book.
- The Warrior Cats Expanded Universe manga stories Ravenpaw's Path and Tigerstar and Sasha are this, focusing on minor characters amidst the clan wars.
- The Dresden Files short stories Backup (starring Thomas Raith, whom we know to be Harry's half brother at that point), Even Hand (starring "Gentleman" John Marcone), Aftermath (starring Karrin Murphy after the events of Changes) and Bombshells (starring Molly Carpenter, also set between Changes and Ghost Story). Except for a few moments in Backup, Harry doesn't even show up in these stories, focusing more on important people in his life dealing with the supernatural without him. In each story, the reader gets to see Harry through the eyes of his allies: in Backup, Thomas sees Harry as an artist and philosopher when it comes to magic, in Even Hand, Marcone reveals that all the anti-magic defenses in his stronghold are there in the event that he and Dresden go head to head, since Marcone sees him as a Worthy Opponent, and in Aftermath, Karrin has to deal with a supernatural investigation without Harry's help.
- I, Jedi largely does this as the main story is Corran's quest to save his wife by learning to become and Jedi and infiltrating a pirate ring, with the backdrop of the Jedi Academy trilogy. It features cameos from all of the main movie characters in which they were involved in their own struggles and his conflict was barely relevant to them. Luke does make a significant appearance at the ending and shows just what a proper Jedi can do to the Jensaarai, a splinter group of Dark Side force users. This was after Corran was concerned with fighting even one of them.
- The War of the Worlds follows the first-person narrative of an Action Survivor, a simple middle-class scientific journalist. Likewise, the 2005 film centers around a dockworker who tries to survive the invasion with his two children. Apart from the opening and closing narration, we only know and see what's seen by him.
- There is a central portion of exposition regarding what the narrator's brother saw, which is important as it describes one of only two even remotely successfulnote attempts to engage the Martians in combat.
- Relativity has a few of these, mostly in the Side Stories collections. "Summer Job", "Lady Luck", and "Secrets" are all lower-deck episodes. So is "Rune", which is part of the main continuity (although that's technically a Villain Episode).
Live-Action TV
- Angel:
- Harmony's episode, "Harm's Way".
- "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" from season five, focusing on the mail delivery guy who had been in the background of several previous episodes.
- The Trope Namer from Star Trek: The Next Generation, as mentioned at the top. Specifically, the episode focuses on a group of four ensigns who are concerned about their performance evaluations, and figuring out which of them will have a chance to be promoted. In the background, we hear a more typical storyline going on, but the audience is left in the dark just like the ensigns, who do not have the security clearance to learn what is going on. When we do see real focus on the main cast, the primary discussion still involves evaluations of the younger officers. In addition, the supporting cast, such as Geordi, are superior officers (whereas normally they're subservient to Picard.)
- The fifth-season Babylon 5 episode "A View from the Gallery" took the idea to its logical extreme by focusing on janitors on the space station, characters we'd never seen before and never saw again. The episode also hangs some lampshades. Ever try to figure out the purpose of those vaguely mop-like things are you see random crew members using in the background? So do they.
Bo: Well, what does it do? It's not a cleaner.
Mack: I don't know. Maybe it strengthens the metal or something.
- Stargate SG-1 has done this a few times.
- The 5th season episode "Proving Ground", about some previously unseen cadets in a Stargate training program (one of them had appeared in the 4th season episode "Prodigy", but three were genuinely new).
- The appropriately-titled 6th season episode "The Other Guys", which was also a subversion of All Up to You.
- The 7th season's "Avenger 2.0" featured the same characters from "The Other Guys".
- The 8th season's "Citizen Joe", in which a mild-mannered barber gets psychic images of the SG-1 team and tells the stories to his wife and friends — thus also allowing for a Clip Show.
- Doctor Who:
- The revived series has such an episode in series 2 and 3 doubling as Bottle Episodes. Usually called "Doctor-lite" episodes in the fandom, these two, titled "Love & Monsters" and "Blink" focus on Muggles with only peripheral access to the Doctor's world, and how those characters react to High Weirdness without the Doctor around to explain what's going on. "Love & Monsters" notably had point of view shots of the central character referring to other episodes.
- The 2005 Christmas special "The Christmas Invasion" has the newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor unconscious until near the end, with most of the action up until then focused on UNIT and the prime minister.
- The 4th series, rather than repeating the conventional formula, had one episode focusing solely on the companion, with the Doctor absent except for the very beginning and the very end. This and the previous episode (with the Doctor centre screen and the companion mostly absent) served the same purpose as a single Lower Deck Episode: to release one more episode in the series than the stars were able to film.
- From the classic series, there is "Mission to the Unknown", which basically operates like a typical Who episode—a bunch of alien cultures have united to fight the Daleks, and find themselves under attack. Rather than signposting its lower-deck nature, it simply presents itself as an ordinary Who episode in which the Doctor and his companions just happen to not show up, and because they're not there to save the day mass slaughter ensues. (Of course, they didn't leave it at that, as the episode also functions as a prequel to the serial The Daleks' Master Plan later in the season.
- The Torchwood episode "Random Shoes". It was actually narrated by the protagonist of the episode to differentiate it even further from the normal episodes.
- Highlander had the episode, "They Also Serve" which focused on Joe Dawson and the other Watchers.
- Homicide: Life on the Street:
- The series of episodes starting with "Bop Gun" and ending with "Blood Wedding" which showed Murder Investigations from the perspective of those left behind.
- The final third-season episode, "The Gas Man," follows two new characters as they stalk main character Frank Pembleton and his wife around Baltimore. A variation on this trope, as it wasn't done to free up the main cast for other episodes, but as a screw-you to NBC for the show's constant near-cancellation.
- Millennium has an example in Season 2's "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me," which focuses mostly on four devils swapping war stories (including driving a Broadcast Standards and Practices head so insane he shot up the set of a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of sister show The X-Files.) And it turns out Frank Black managed to see all four of them in their true forms. It's also highly offbeat and humorous, entirely at odds with the show's general tone of hyper-darkness, to the point where it actually seems more appropriate for a Buffy or Angel episode.
- The Battlestar Galactica (2003) has many a Lower Deck episode, often coupled with a Day in the Limelight. Episodes focus on the literal lower deck with Chief Tyrol experiencing the troubles the of fuel shortages and labor disputes. There are also Day in the Limelight episodes focusing on less important pilots. The movie, Razor, is almost an entire Lower Deck/ Limelight of The Pegasus, its former Captains, and its XO.
- The lighthearted Breather Episode slash Bottle Episode "You Kill Me," about The Lab Rat Hodges (not himself part of this trope, being a credits-listed character by this point) running the other Lab Rats through elaborate (and absurd) murder scenarios as part of a CSI-themed board game he was creating. The previous episode featured the Put on a Bus departure of a main character, while the following episode concerned another main character breaking down after becoming addicted to prescription drugs.
- Another episode titled "Lab Rats" features said lab rats trying their best to solve the season's Myth Arc. They didn't do a bad job either, actually identifying a fairly important clue about the killer's psychosis.
- Desperate Housewives season five featured a look back at the life of a previously seen character, handy-man Eli Scrugs (played by Beau Bridges), with the main characters remembering their most significant encounters with him, ending with a flash-back to Scrugs himself visiting Mary-Alice just before her suicide, which opened the series pilot.
- Star Trek: Voyager:
- The episode "Good Shepherd" was a Lower Deck Episode that literally showed the lower decks — the dimly-lit, poorly-maintained areas where the real work of keeping a poorly-supplied refugee ship running was carried out. The three redshirts focused on were misfits who under normal conditions would have been transferred off Voyager long ago, were it not for the long walk home. (They don't get sole focus, though, sharing the episode with Janeway. On the other hand, their interactions with Janeway - and each other - make up the majority of the action, and their character development.)
- "Learning Curve" was a similar episode, which focused on training Maquis crewmembers that, unlike Chakotay or Torres, had no Starfleet experience whatsoever. Tuvok plays as close to Drill Sergeant Nasty as a Vulcan can get.
- Scrubs: The series had a yearly tradition of passing off episode narration via Internal Monologue to other cast members besides the main character, J.D. After 7 years, they exhausted giving the narration to their main cast and went on to the very common supporting cast.
- Season 7 has "Their Story," looking at three minor character Jordan (Dr. Cox's wife and hospital board member), Todd (meathead surgeon) and Ted (the incompetent, put upon lawyer). Each story had a plot involving the main cast and their struggles, with each coming to the rescue even if not getting much, if any, recognition for it.
- Season 8 has "Their Story II", focused on and narrated by the interns that have been slowly introduced since the beginning of the season. As a result, it's remarkably similar to a season 1 episode, one of the interns became a main character in the Spin-Off / Post-Script Season in season 9.
- The episode that followed "Their Story II", "My Full Moon", featured none of the main cast except for Elliott and Turk. They discuss their fears during a night shift while watching over the interns, who collectively get an equal amount of screentime as the two regular characters.
- Remember WENN had an episode where Victor and all the actors disappear after the first few minutes (off to a convention in Harrisburg) and as a result Betty and and the minor station employees have to keep the programming going for a full day.
- Double subverted in the Sanctuary episode "Icebreaker". The episode opens with Henry (a supporting lead character), Declan (a recurring minor character), and a bunch of newbies on an isolated ship in the Bering Sea. The audience expects this trope when the characters reveal that Magnus and Will (the leads) are on their way but severely delayed by the heavy storm, but the trope is subverted almost immediately when Will and Magnus arrive. Double subverted when the real Magnus and Will show up at the end of the episode and reveal that the earlier pair were shapeshifting abnormals.
- The Sopranos began its third season by having a particularly unremarkable day for the titular family shown through the eyes of the rarely-seen FBI. Overlaps with Villain Episode.
- Played with in a 30 Rock episode shown as an episode of "Queen of Jordan". Angie's effort to organize a charity fashion show keeps getting overshadowed by the show's focus on Jack's Unresolved Sexual Tension with his mother-in-law, Liz's feud with a baby and even Kenneth's feud with a power cord. Technically, it's a lower deck episode of her show.
- An interesting example in the Person of Interest episode "Relevance". The premise of the show is that a secret government surveillance supercomputer can predict acts of terrorism and, as a by-product, spot ordinary civilians who will be involved with violent crimes. The protagonists are the ones who deal with the latter, the so-called "irrelevant" list, so its jarring when an episode late in the second season suddenly focuses on Shaw, a Bad Ass assassin whose job is to follow up on the "relevant" list. Much like the Doctor Who examples, their paths cross briefly but we follow Shaw for the whole episode and the protagonists appear in a barely a handful of scenes.
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a Lower Deck Series for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It casts Coulson, a popular supporting character from the films, as the leader of a team of misfit The Men in Black-types who have to deal with weird extraterrestrial and superheroic incidents that, while still dangerous, are usually a bit below the notice of guys like Iron Man and Captain America.
- The episodes "The End of the Beginning" and "Turn, Turn, Turn" are specifically Lower Deck Episodes for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as the team has to deal with the immediate fallout of the movie's events; and the rest of the season is devoted to further consequences.
- An episode of the second season also makes the "lower deck" very important for the plot of Avengers: Age of Ultron: Coulson's team was the one who provided the Avengers with the location of the HYDRA base that they raid on the beginning of the film and they were the ones who pulled Helicarrier that was important for the climax out of mothballs.
- Supernatural:
- "Ghostfacers", which focuses on up-until-then one-shot characters the Ghostfacers who coincidentally end up on the same hunt as Sam and Dean.
- "Bitten", which focuses on a werewolf named Kate.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a variation crossed with The Rashomon, featuring the point of view of two minor Hamlet characters.
- A lower deck scene occurs in 1776 after "Cool, Cool, Considerate Men" when custodian McNair, his assistant, and the Courier are left alone. They joke about how noisy, aristocratic, and eager to start wars without fighting themselves Congress is. Then the Courier sings "Momma, Look Sharp" (a song from the point of view of his friend, who died in the Battle of Lexington) when asked about the fighting.
- A Chorus Line does this for musical theatre. The chorus line of a musical are anonymous, less-skilled dancers who are generally there for the money. This musical examines the lives of these people; explored further in the film adaptation when Cassie, a genuinely talented dancer, auditions - Zack is aghast that she would stoop that low (Cassie doesn't care, she needs the money.) The point is hammered home in the "One" finale, when the original dancers are joined by dozens of identical versions of themselves.
Video Games
- Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life: Blue Shift follow the events of the first Half-Life from the point of marine Adrian Shepard (one of the troops sent to clean up the mess in Black Mesa by shooting who knew about it, thus one of the bad guys in the base game) and security guard Barney Calhoun (a Black Mesa security guard and friend of the protagonist) respectively. While Barney went on to a supporting role in Half-Life 2, fans are still waiting to find out what happened to Shepard.
- Halo 3: ODST begins roughly halfway through Halo 2 and ends with the beginning of Halo 3. It follows the story of a group of ODSTs trying to fight their way through the ravaged city of New Mombasa. (Which was ravaged back in Halo 2, though the player didn't get to see much more than that.)
- The trope is doubly present, as the player character is the "rookie" member of the ODST team. The Rookie spends most of the game separated from his squad, simply trying to figure out what all of the named & voiced characters were doing.
- The Touhou Gaiden Game Great Fairy Wars features Cirno as the only playable character, setting out not to thwart some incredibly powerful being from messing with the natural order of things, but as revenge against the local Terrible Trio for wrecking her house (even though they didn't actually wreck her house). And the obligatory Bonus Boss fight is basically an inversion of stage 1 or 2 of every Touhou game ever, a pitifully weak character getting pulverised by one of the main characters.
- Resident Evil:
- Resident Evil 0 follows Bravo Team member Rebecca Chambers in the 24 hours before the first game.
- Separate Ways in the Updated Re-release of Resident Evil 4 follows the campaign from Ada's point of view.
- Resident Evil 5 has two DLC of these, "Lost in Nightmares" the prequel to the game, and "Desperate Escape" shows Jill and Josh escaping the Tricell facility, taking place while Chris and Sheva fight Wesker.
- Resident Evil: Revelations, has a couple of short chapters where you control minor characters Quint Cetcham and Keith Lumley. Unlike the major characters, their mission are meant to be mostly comedy relief that play on the Buddy Picture tropes.
- Resident Evil Outbreak follows a group of civilian survivors during the Raccoon City Zombie Apocalypse.
- A rather ironic one with Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles have side chapters focusing on various other people temporarily to show what they were doing during that situation, which mirrors the purpose of the games to focus on Wesker and Leon respectively. There's even a chapter in Umbrella Chronicles about what H.U.N.K. was up to during RE 2.
- Medal of Honor: Underground focuses on Manon Batiste, the player's advisor from the first game, before and during the events of that story.
- FEAR 2: Project Origin involves an SFOD-D squad near the end of the first game. The expansion pack's protagonist is a Replica redshirt who gets possessed by Fettel.
- Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain casts the player as an IPCA rookie codenamed Cobra, although Logan and the other main characters are playable in the bonus missions.
- Dead Space: Extraction features, for a short time, Karen Howell, a botanist, who worked in hydroponics. She kills a brute protecting Lexine, but she dies when she calls Warren out for seeding Unitologists into every corner of the ship. Immediately afterwards she is attacked by a tentacle and left to die by Warren while he yells about his "god" having different plans. This leaves the player in serious doubt of his character.
- Star Wars: Republic Commando focused entirely on four clone commandos in three engagements during the Clone Wars. Not a single Jedi in sight.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is this to the film trilogy, showcasing an unrelated group of characters tailing after the Fellowship of the Ring and encountering many of the same things, including the Watcher in the Water, the Balrog, and the Witch-King.
- Round 6 of Fite! leaves Lucco and Guz, the main characters thus far, to focus on Ricci, who had only appeared briefly before then.
- One chapter of GastroPhobia is focused primarily on the Cuckoos and Lord Nightsorrow. It's called "Not Everything's About Phobia".
- Act 5 Act 1 of Homestuck, aka Hivebent, focused entirely on the trolls, who had previously been secondary characters only known by their screennames, while doubling the main cast. Some of those trolls remained side characters, while others...did not.
Web Originals
- Any LoadingReadyRun video featuring Kathleen and her kooky friends is one of these since they deviates from the usual cast and location so drastically. (Includes "Job Hunt" and "Stuck In A Car With Your Friends".) They're usually made due to filming constraints. Namely, the fact that Graham's in Prince George at the time.
- Welcome to Night Vale has The September Monologues, with Cecil only appearing for the intro and outro. The episode features three monologues by The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, Dark Owl Records owner Michelle Nguyen, and Steve Carlsberg.
Western Animation
- Phineas and Ferb:
- "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" is a Lower Deck version of "Bubble Boys," showing Isabella's Fireside Girls troop getting the sap needed for her crush's project at an abandoned amusement park. The sub-plot even has some fun with this by featuring her dog Pinky on a secret agent mission rather than Perry (who does make a little cameo).
- "Not Phineas and Ferb" centers around Irving trying to convince his brother that Baljeet and Buford are Phineas and Ferb. The only things Phineas and Ferb do in the episode are watch a movie and show up in the backyard just in time to make Candace look insane.
- "Deliver of Destiny" shows a day in the life of a delivery truck driver named Paul who gets caught up in the wacky hijinks of both Phineas and Ferb and Perry the Platypus.
- Pixar Shorts:
- BURN-E shows what BURN-E is doing while WALLE has his adventures on the Axiom.
- Similarly, Jack-Jack Attack shows what was happening with baby Jack-Jack and babysitter Kari while the rest of the Parr family was off playing superheroes. This was intended to be part of the movie, but was cut for pacing reasons.
- George and AJ is about the two retirement home workers sent to get Carl Fredericksen from Up, who witness firsthand Carl's unintentional starting of a trend of old people escaping from retirement home life by turning their houses into modes of transportation, most of which are even weirder than Carl's.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars had "Rookies", a clone-focused episode with the main characters as supporting characters. Its predecessor, Star Wars: Clone Wars managed to have episodes entirely without Jedi, but that's only because the episodes were 3 minutes long.
- In South Park:
- "A Million Little Fibers", in which pot-smoking sentient towel Towelie runs afoul of Oprah Winfrey's talking genitalia.
- "Butters's Very Own Episode" focuses on Butters, a minor recurring character up to that point. This is an interesting case in that, after that episode, Butters became a much more prominent figure; these days, he gets more screen time than anyone aside from the main four (and way more lines than Kenny). It is also notable for coming out of completely nowhere; it was the last episode of a season, and the preceding episode ended on a massive cliffhanger.
- Their "re-telling" of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, in which only Pip plays a role (the leading role, that is). All others are completely absent.
- Referred to in another episode focusing around Jimmy, where Stan says that the plot looks like one of those misadventures that spiral out of control, and that they should just keep out of it. We don't see the regulars again until the end of the episode where Stan shows relief that they stayed out of it.
- A second season episode of Gargoyles features Vinnie, a disgruntled ex-Faceless Goon who blames the gargoyles for his unemployment. While plotting his revenge, he narrates clips of his prior encounters with the gargoyles, interjecting his own POV.
- Teen Titans:
- There's an episode which focused on the Titans East house-sitting for the main five when they were off in the Arctic fighting the Brotherhood of Evil.
- There was also the episode that focused on the Hive Five, a group of teen super-criminals that were primarily background characters or Villains Of The Week before.
- The Venture Bros.:
- "The Invisible Hand of Fate," a third season episode of , primarily centers around Billy Quizboy. The series subverts this by making the lower deck episode extremely important to the overall plot. The ep gives us backstory info for nearly every major character, and reveals how Brock became Dr. Venture's bodyguard.
- Billy gets a second episode ("The Silent Partners") in season four. It's also highly plot-relevant (it sets up the season finale.)
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- The episode "Just for Sidekicks", which tells the story of what Spike and the Mane Six's pets were up to in Ponyville during the events of "Games Ponies Play".
- The 100th episode focuses on background characters and a number of ensemble darkhorses. The main characters only have minimal lines while virtually every background character gets a turn in the foreground.
- "Brotherhooves Social" takes place synchronously with "Made in Manehattan" and focuses on Big Macintosh filling in for Applejack in the Sisterhooves Social under the guise of Orchard Blossom. Other than AJ's cameo at the beginning, Rainbow Dash is the only Mane Six character present.
- In Justice League Unlimited, the episode "Task Force X" is told from the villain team Task Force X's perspective. The only notable member of the Justice League to make an appearance is the Martian Manhunter, and he nearly thwarts their mission on his own.
- "The Greatest Story Never Told" focuses on Booster Gold, who gets tasked to the sidelines while all of the greatest heroes are fighting a frighteningly powerful menace, and what he accomplishes in the background while no one notices.
- A lot of JLU episodes focus on introducing new characters, some of which are only used for that episode, some of which become prominent as the series goes on. Episodes featuring the Question, Supergirl, or Green Arrow generally tend to be more important ones, but their inclusion doesn't necessarily preclude a Lower Deck Episode. "Patriot Act" focuses on the original Seven Soldiers of Victory, with the only prominent cast member being Green Arrow. "The Ties That Bind" focuses a lot on the Flash, but mainly showcases guest stars Mr. Miracle and Big Barda. Even in the pre-Unlimited series, "The Terror Beyond" is really more about Solomon Grundy than it is about any of the Justice League, save Hawkgirl. The show would just about always use a main character alongside new, less popular characters.
- The The New Batman Adventures episode "Girl's Night Out" is a Crossover Episode focusing on Batgirl and Supergirl. Batman only appears for about two minutes, calling from Europe.
- A sequence of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes centers on Carl and the Aqua Teens' landlord Markula. The Aqua Teens themselves are absent, having been cocooned by military spiders in the Mojave Desert.
- The episode "The Big Scoop" in The Fairly Oddparents, third season, was Chester and AJ's version of what happened in "A Wish Too Far." When they notice Timmy's sudden popularity, at the same time required to write for the school newspaper, they investigate to find out how he got popular. The voices were redubbed due to different voice actors for Chester and AJ, and the animation was also changed, possibly to match the pace of the dubbed version.
- The framing device for the Recess direct-to-video special, "Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street" is this for the three main teachers, taking place right after the Christmas Episode "Yes Mikey, Santa Does Shave". In the episode itself, Principal Prickly only appeared in two scenes, Miss Finster appeared in the same amount of scenes but had even less dialoge, and Miss Grotke only appeared for a few seconds.
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! has an episode, "To Steal an Ant-Man," which consists almost entirely of Iron Fist and Luke Cage (who had never appeared in the cartoon before this point) fighting criminals. None of the Avengers appear except for The Wasp, who only does so during the first three minutes, and ex-Avenger Hank Pym, who had enlisted the two Heroes For Hire to hunt the man who stole his former crimefighting equipment. Hank gets some additional Character Development in this episode, giving it some connection to one of the show's main plots.
- "New Avengers" provides an even better example: Kang the Conqueror traps the Avengers in another time, so Iron Man calls some of their crimefighting allies (including Spider-Man, War Machine, The Thing, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage) to form their own superhero team. These heroes (plus Wolverine) try to work out their differences and try to stop Kang from taking over the world.
- The entire Transformers Rescue Bots show could be regarded as a Lower Decks series, as it depicts the adventures of four junior Autobots who are not yet experienced enough to join the battles occurring concurrently in Transformers Prime.
- The Aladdin: The Series episodes "Rain of Terror" and "Power to the Parrot" don't feature Aladdin or Jasmine as the main characters, instead focusing on Genie, Abu and Iago. Well, in "Power to the Parrot", it does feature Aladdin and Jasmine, but they are Demoted to Extra and barely have any lines, let alone an impact on the plot, and become Plucky Comic Relief.
- The Quack Pack episode "All Hands On Duck" doesn't feature Huey, Dewey or Louie. It instead focuses entirely on Donald.
- The Samurai Jack episode "The Tale of X-9" is told from the point of view of a robot that gained sentience and free will. Aku only appears briefly in background propaganda and in person only to hand an assignment, and Jack doesn't show up until halfway through the last act, where he cuts down X-9 just as easily as any other robot in the show.
- The Lion King 1½ (or 3: Hakuna Matata) is the Lower Deck version of The Lion King, telling the story from Timon and Pumbaa's point of view.
- The Looney Tunes Show has "Ridiculous Journey" which is a roadtrip involving the "pet" characters journeying home ala Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey while meeting other Looney Tunes characters that haven't been used in the show before, instead of the regular cast of Bugs and Daffy.
- Subverted on Daria—since there are a lot of recurring background characters with interesting designs, animator/director Guy Moore once pitched an episode focused entirely on them, with our protagonists only appearing in the background. Episode director Karen Disher didn't think it would work, however, since fans were already expressing annoyance at any subplot that didn't focus on Daria and Jane. This is Hilarious in Hindsight, since over the years the fandom has put more focus on the backgrounders and made many of them into Ensemble Darkhorses.
- One of the original shorts that preceded the Æon Flux series switches focus from the "heroine" to the point of view of the mooks being killed by her.
- A season 19 episode of Arthur is based around Maria, a Living Prop background character who hasn't even spoken a word in the almost 20 years the series has been running but is well-known with fans. Her episode "Maria Speaks" presents her as The Silent Bob who only speaks to her friend Jenna because she has a very noticeable stutter.


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This is not the first time the schools have considered merging, as Schlegel said about 12 years ago, the same discussions were held, though only in the past year did the discussions become close enough to where the schools would actually need to make a decision.
Many similarities between the two schools were part of the reasons why the boards thought it might be smart to merge. Both schools' foundations are based in Lasallian traditions, come with tuition price tags around $10,500 per year and share services including lawn care and cafeteria service.
On Tuesday, the boards met together and then separately to discuss the merger at The Century House, in Latham. It was agreed prior to the meetings that if one board did not want the merger it would not happen.
Schlegel said that just because the merger is not going to happen now does not necessarily mean it will not happen ever.
"If history teaches us anything, I think we may find us both here again in 10 years from now or 20 years from now talking about the same thing," he said.
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Strange as well that they don't paint these people as crazies or anything, they just seem to cover the story and present facts, not spin as per
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On my home Kubuntu machine, I am running a script to beep on every keypress, no matter which window or application has focus, adapted from this insightful page
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from Xlib.display import Display
import os
import sys
for i in range(0,32):
def main():
if os.getuid()==0:
os.system("modprobe pcspkr")
print("Speaker enabled, start as normal user")
print("If no beep is heard, then run as root to enable pcspkr")
disp = Display()
while 1:
if keymap not in ignorelist:
if __name__ == '__main__':
The script works great, but it pegs both CPUs of my dual-core Intel machine at around 80% each, so I can do little else with the machine. How can I reduce the CPU requirements of this simple script without interfering with its operation? In other words, it should still beep at the moment of keypress, no matter what window or application has focus.
If this is not possible in Python, what other technologies should I look at? C? I would assume that there exists some kernel component which notifies applications of keypresses: how else does KDE handle global shortcuts? How can I get my application to receive these notices as well?
The goal is to make a beep at the moment each key is pressed, as I am training my fingers to type on a mechanical keyboard without bottoming out yet without missing keypresses. I just graduated from Cherry Browns to Cherry Blues and the lack of tactical feedback takes some time to get used to.
Note that any solution must emit a beep no matter which window has focus. This program is intended to be used as a daemon that will run in the background of all applications that I use.


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Fathers are usually giddy with optimism about their children's future when those children are infants. They see only golden promise. But consider the case described in the Grateful Dead song "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo":
On the day that I was born
Daddy sat down and cried
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which could not be denied.
The song tells the story of a rambling, gambling man, and we clearly see the idea that the man's character was fixed from birth. It was clear to the guy's father—it could not be denied— that this kid was no good! How can that be? How can the fate and character of a person be fixed from birth? Don't we choose our destiny? Can't we work out the path of our life and work on the kind of person we become?
It is, of course, an obvious fact that we make choices. We make mundane choices all day long: what to have for breakfast, what record to play, whether to plant petunias or mums in the window box. Occasionally we make choices that have pretty significant effects on the course of our lives: what major to pursue in school, whether to take the job offer and move the family across the country, whether to quit the job and follow the Dead


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The ink wasn't dry yet on the letters of intent from the class of 2009 when Keiwone Malone became the first player to commit to Alabama for the class of 2010. The Memphis star established himself as one of the elite high school receivers in the nation with back-to-back seasons with at least 1,200 yards receiving and Malone spent this off-season working to become an even more dominant player."I worked really hard on improving my strength and my speed this summer," said Malone, who reported to practice at 6-foot-1 and 165 pounds. "I posted a 4.42 forty time when we started practice and I know I've improved my strength as well."Malone, ranked the nation's No. 42 receiver, was a huge part of Mitchell High School's offensive attack, scoring 19 touchdowns and averaging nearly 20 yards per catch."Whenever we need a big play, my team knows they can count on me. Whatever it is going to take to help us win, I'm willing to step up and do it. I feel confident in my abilities as a an all-around type receiver who can do everything you need a big play receiver to do. I can beat the defense deep, I can get in there and be physical when I need to be and I'm not afraid to take a hit in the middle of the field. I'm out there to help my team, not to make myself look good.""We've been practicing the Wildcat a little bit, which should be exciting. It's just another opportunity for me to help my team so hopefully I can make some plays that way as well."Mitchell opens their season next week against Hillcrest and Malone said he and his teammates have high expectations for themselves in 2009."Our team goal is two win 15 games this year, which is how many it would take to go undefeated and win state. We believe it's possible for us if we work hard and we aren't going to settle for anything less."Meanwhile, Malone is planning a busy fall in which he'll take all five of his allotted official visits as well as participate in at least one all-star game."I haven't set dates yet but I'll be taking all five of my official visits this fall. I'm going to Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and one more school that I haven't picked yet. I'm still definitely committed to Alabama. I just want to take advantage of this opportunity that I'll only ever have once in my life and really make the most of it. After that, I'll be playing in the Army All-American game so I'm pretty excited about that as well." ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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Radio has been my life since I was 13 years old. The question I always get is how it all start? I won a trivia contest from the local radio station in my hometown of Paris, Texas. I went to the radio station to get the prize (two tickets to a local theatre) and ... I never left. I was there everyday that summer doing odd jobs, getting the wire copy, getting records for the DJs, etc. Three months later, I was asked to do the afternoon show. (I worked cheap).
After I graduated from Paris High School, I hosted the afternoon show at the top rated station in Beaumont, Texas. Then on October 15, 1967, I received my draft notice and, as luck would have it again, I was asked to do "Good Morning, Korea" on AFKN from 1968-1970 entertaining the troops in the field and hosting some USO shows.
After the military, my lucky break into major market radio happened in 1971 at KLIF/Dallas. I also served as stadium announcer for the Texas Rangers Baseball Team.
In 1974, I married Ms. Marsha and we moved to Phoenix where I was program director of a Top 40 station. I also did work in California and Pennsylvania before moving to Richmond some 30 years ago.
My wife, Marsha whom I've been married to for over 40 years, and I have two children, Michael and Lisa and two grandchildren. I would be very remiss if I didn't also include our two Jack Russell Terriers, "Ms. Sophie-Sophia" ."and "Ms. Zoe (I aint got no middle name) Booth. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Thank you for listening afternoons and I hope you enjoy my show and music. Zay Gezunt
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Before dying in what many people consider an incredibly suspicious car "accident", Michael Hastings had CIA Director John Brennan in his sights.
This week Elise Jordan, wife of famed journalist Michael Hastings, who recently died under suspicious circumstances, corroborated this reporter's sources that CIA Director, John Brennan was Hastings next exposé project.
Last month a source provided San Diego 6 News with an alarming email hacked from super secret CIA contractor Stratfor's President Fred Burton. The email (link here) was posted on WikiLeaks and alleged that then Obama counter-terrorism Czar Brennan, was in charge of the government's continued crackdown or witch-hunt on investigative journalists.
After providing the Stratfor email to the CIA for comment, the spymaster's spokesperson responded in lightning speed. Two emails were received; one acknowledging Hastings was working on a CIA story and the other said, "Without commenting on information disseminated by WikiLeaks, any suggestion that Director Brennan has ever attempted to infringe on constitutionally-protected press freedoms is offensive and baseless."
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David Shriver Soliday, Combahee Oxbow, 1987, photograph, 32" x 48"
Jonathan Green, Loaded Rice Barge, 2013 acrylic on paper, 11" x 14", private collection.
Jim Arendt, Ryan and Greg, 2011, denim, 57" x 56", State Art Collection
Curated by Eleanor Heartney,
author and contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress,
Contemporary Conversations II makes up one half of a two-part exhibit
composed of works by 95 contemporary South Carolina artists. The exhibition is
designed to suggest both the quality and diversity of the state's edge geometric
abstraction to surrealist tinged dreamscapes. Works are inspired by social
issues, memory, local and national history, imagination, art of the past and
aesthetic theory. Together they reflect the many voices and diverse concerns of
South Carolina artists. The Art Museum will exhibit 37 works from Contemporary Conversations II (CCII) and one additional piece
from CCI.
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Citizens. The State Art Collection is a program of the South Carolina Arts
Commission. Contemporary Conversations is the most extensive traveling
exhibition of the collection.
Remnants of the Rice
Culture features aerial photography of retired by still extant tideland
rice fields in the South Carolina Lowcountry by David Shriver Soliday. Soliday
of Charleston, South Carolina, whose work has been featured in such major
publications as National Geographic, National Wildlife and Smithsonian, began photographing Lowcountry rice culture in 1977. His
beautiful sharp and graphic-looking images are printed on infused aluminum sheet
metal, a sleek and contemporary look that juxtaposes wonderfully with the
sweeping views of South Carolina's colonial past. These photographs, aside from
the awe and understanding the incredible skill and expertise it took to
construct the highly intelligent hydraulic systems of dikes and canals that
connected plantation rice fields to one another as well as the vast amount of
land that was cultivated by hundreds and thousands of enslaved Africans. From an
aerial perspective, Soliday presents us with a unique way of looking at tideland
rice culture. We get a visualization of how the various tasks on the ground, or
in the fields, coalesced into the entire, complex rice plantation system.
South Carolina artist Jonathan
Green presents us with a collection of drawings and paintings representative of
the Lowcountry rice culture. The works were created as a proud example of
America's African descendants, whose agricultural knowledge and skill propelled
South Carolina's colonial plantation economy into one dominantly sustained by
rice production. With bright, bold colors and patterns, sweeping landscapes,
billowing clothing and joyful figures toiling in Lowcountry rice fields, Green's
perspective of the historical past poses the question: "What if African people
came here like everyone else - unchained, unenslaved?" Rice will bring
to life the pride Green feels for his Gullah ancestors, who despite the tough
work and often perilous conditions of tideland rice cultivation, survived,
thrived and created the rich and vibrant Gullah culture unique to our coast.
Indigo, second to rice, was one
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leaves could be processed and fermented to yield a blue dye. It is with indigo
dye that denim gets its blue color. For Myrtle Beach artist, Jim Arendt,
Assistant Professor and Gallery Director at Coastal Carolina University, denim
"is tinged with the bitterness of the work of enslaved Africans, who produced
the valuable blue due of indigo." As an artistic medium, denim becomes a vehicle
for people to think about our relationship with work and labor and how it shapes
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GO LILY! I'm glad she made it clear that this video isn't racist. It's an awesome commentary.
I liked it!!!!!
She's right!!!! I am black, 51 years old and no children. You may not like her delivery but she was spot on!!
This is racist? huh? People need to relax.
i love it
She's a stupid, talentless cretin anyway. Living off the fact that she has an actor father - a equally loathsome little twerp.
Im a guy and this video makes me sick. It makes me sick that these women dancing like that have no self respect. And how is this video racist. That is a ridiculous claim and whoever wrote this article has just forced that claim based on one still from the video.
Yesterday I watch modern family and a black guy said to a white guy: " get off me your vanilla fingers" ( isn't that racist?) I think white people are tooooooooo emotional about the past... By preserving this issue and claim that everyone are racists as long as they not following their thought, are keeping the segregation and the over justice towards one side. c'mon, one day it will explode
Hello,Lily Allen!.You're of course a roburst & an amazing star from look of thing's but i'm yet to lay hand's or listen to your new Album\Song's. I'm from Agaie local government,Niger State,Nigeria.
Absolutely nothing racist about it whatsoever. I'm a 60-year=old Welsh woman and I didn't find it offensive at all especially when one of the dancers is a friend.
Dear Andy, how would you know whether these women have self respect or not. I think you mean, you do not respect the way they choose to dance/show their bodies etc. Whether or not YOU respect them for what they choose to do with their bodies is up to you, but self respect comes from inside a person. What a silly thing to say!
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Originally Posted by 2F/2F
Exactly............though I might say "not as valuable," as opposed to "not as great." After all, Per said that this is a decision he has made to prevent his work from being devalued.....
What's being devalued? Do these guys that shriek if there's a print in a medium they disapprove of also police EVERY image in the gallery to be sure someone hasn't gotten a photograph that just simply sucks admitted even if its the 'correct' medium? I doubt it. To me, thats far more important than what type of print someone is using...but the OP and those who defend him don't care about the image, its all about the technique. That's sad, and it devalues art far more than any 'bad' print medium because it makes artistic photography look empty and meaningless compared to the work of painters, sculptors, and others who actually have something substantive to say with their work.
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The message / content is the absolutely most important part of an image.
Without that the very best technical skills are waisted completely/
I prefer to have both unique message and the absolutely finest (in my opinion) print that can possibly be made...
When I posted this statement I had no idea that it would get this much response. In a way I am happy because I have read so many different viewpoints, yours included. This has given me a much better understanding how other photographers feel about their work, marketing their work and showing it to the general public.
Thank you!
Originally Posted by Curt
I don't even think the word analog is correct, no offense Sean, it ties traditional photography to digital. Like it's a second uncle twice removed who isn't talked about that much. When I have been asked what kind of photography I do I've had a hard time with "analog"
I've never described what I do as "analog(ue) photography".
Originally Posted by edp
I've never described what I do as "analog(ue) photography".
Who I am talking to will change what I say. If I'm talking to someone who is a photographer/enthusiast, then I will say "I am an analog photographer". It rolls off the tongue much easier "than I work in a darkroom with chemicals and stuff using real silver to make prints"
If I'm talking to anyone else, I say I'm a photographer. Chances are they don't particularly care how I make images, or even that I do
Originally Posted by per volquartz
The message / content is the absolutely most important part of an image.
Without that the very best technical skills are waisted completely/
I believe that how an image is made is directly tied to the conceptual aspect of any artwork. A viewer may ask "Why film?' and the answer must be relevant to the message of the image.
I'm not convinced that there needs to be another photo secession. We don't need to prove that photography is an art form. Thank you Stieglitz. We don't need to fend off digital imaging. To try would be suicide.
We also don't need to decry the short comings of digital images. Besides sounding elitist, to most people, digital serves its purpose perfectly. And to those elitists who claim technical superiority try printing on an epson 7700 on Hahnemuhle baryta paper. It's perfections in inkjet.
Also the argument that digital prints can be cranked out quicker, thus reducing the value of the medium as a whole is kinda weak. The local shop near me can crank out a hundred chemical prints an hour on its machine. No difference than a commercial digital lab.
I think its time to quote a dead guy:
When the age of mechanical reproduction separated art from its basis in cult, the semblance of its autonomy disappeared forever. The resulting change in the function of art transcended the perspective of the century; for a long time it even escaped that of the twentieth century, which experienced the development of the film. Earlier much futile thought had been devoted to the question of whether photography is an art. The primary question whether the very invention of photography had not transformed the entire nature of art was not raised.
We shouldn't be questioning the validity of digital imaging as art. Rather we should be exploring how it has fundamentally changed Art as a whole (our precious film based imagery included).
This same argument is had for every disruptive technology. Remember that photography started in the 1830's. We didn't have pre-made film until 60 years later. Polaroid's removed all the technical requirements another 60 years later in the 40's. Fast forward another 60 and you get digital.
Thanks to the digital revolution, now the few remaining practitioners can spread their knowledge to people like me and keep the craft alive. Without digital, I doubt we'd have seen the wet-plate renaissance we live in today.
Finally, can we please try to keep it civil in there?
Ah, just what we need, especially now. Yet more intolerance.
What made you think we were running low?
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Originally Posted by alexhill
I believe that how an image is made is directly tied to the conceptual aspect of any artwork. A viewer may ask "Why film?' and the answer must be relevant to the message of the image.
Because film has limits in the quantity that can be shot easily, film changes the way I interact with and think about my subjects. There is value in taking the time Karsh might have to make a portrait.
I'm not saying this can't be done digitally, but it's not the norm, nor is it digital's strong point.
Digital's strength is in democratization: everybody can do it, and with tools like the iPhone with it's PS app; nearly everybody will. From what I've heard 5mp phones are coming soon.
In art there is value in doing things that others can't or won't do.
Originally Posted by alexhill
Also the argument that digital prints can be cranked out quicker, thus reducing the value of the medium as a whole is kinda weak. The local shop near me can crank out a hundred chemical prints an hour on its machine. No difference than a commercial digital lab.
There is a huge difference between 100-an-hour and the production of a commercial digital lab that that can do 1000's in the same time.
Automation is scalable but that beg's another question.
Why do I print by hand with an enlarger?
Because I can and do intend to create a fresh a interpretation each time. I don't resist the urge to "let each print find it's own personality".
I do resist the urge to create exact copies over and over and over. That is the antithesis of automation and digital technology.
In a world full of copies, it's nice to have something unique.
Mark Barendt, Beaverton, OR
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"Digital's strength is in democratization: everybody can do it, and with tools like the iPhone with it's PS app; nearly everybody will. From what I've heard 5mp phones are coming soon.
In art there is value in doing things that others can't or won't do."
You might help yourself(and everyone else here) bury this faked, self-regarding dichotomy by considering where today's equivalent of a master printer, Pascal Dangin, stands. His art certainly has value for the reason cited above, thanks to his extraordinary digital manipulation skills.
i had work in an art fair (the only one i was ever in )... 22 years ago.
i paid my entry fee and waited to see if i "made it in " ...
there was vetting / jury process to weed out some of the "artists"
the folks putting on the fair thought weren't a good "fit" ...
i had matted and framed 11x14 images / 16x20 frames.
a guy down the street had 4x6 mini lab prints that he had picked up at the fotomat.
my work was archival + presented as if the fair was an art gallery ...
his was just in a pile on a card table and thumb tacked on a cork board.
the lady next to me lived in the house behind her selling spot.
she was having a garage sale and had some nice nick-nacks and stretched soda bottles filled with pink and blue sand.
i was young and naive, and didn't know any better.
it seems that per knows what he wants, and knows how he wants his work presented.
i don't see a problem with that.
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We seem to have evolved into the old D vs. A, so....
That's just, like, my opinion, man...


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