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Mr. Beaks Chats With John Dykstra!!
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Nice one, Beaks. Dykstra's a bona-fide legend, and the fact that he's still working to push the envelope each year is exciting. This is a heckuva good read by a guy who has proven to be an invaluable resource since his relocation to LA last year, so dig in:
As a kid, I used to while away the hours leafing through any number of movie books that battled for space on my bedroom's bookshelf with baseball almanacs, comic books and Mack Bolan novels. The majority of these volumes were dedicated primarily to genre films – horror, sci-fi and fantasy – and their cultural impact, but one in particular sought to give a layman's nuts-and-bolts understanding into how these films, so often reliant on spectacular visual effects, are made. It was INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC: THE ART OF SPECIAL EFFECTS, by Thomas G. Smith, a title that is no doubt very familiar to many of you who read the site. It's an oversized, glossily illustrated tome that served as my primer for the Special Effects industry which, at that point, was really occupied solely by the book's titular subject.
Of all the brilliant, groundbreaking artists profiled in the Smith's book – Richard Edlund, Joe Johnston, Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett to name a few – the name that always stood out for me was John Dykstra. Charged by George Lucas with hiring the talent and developing the technology that would allow ILM to, over the next twenty years, blaze a blindingly bright trail through film history, Dykstra, according to the book's brief bio, seemed the Zen-like center of the STAR WARS production unit. Equal parts innovator, facilitator and ameliorator, Dykstra was responsible for nothing less than capturing images the likes of which filmgoers had never seen. And if that meant designing and constructing new equipment (i.e. the Dykstraflex camera, a pioneering piece of hardware in the field of motion control for which he won a special Scientific and Engineering Oscar the same year his f/x team won their Oscar for the utilization of it on STAR WARS) to meet these goals, so be it.
But when the upstart f/x outfit, at the behest of Lucas, relocated to Northern California, Dykstra stayed behind to start his own company, Apogee, which went on to provide memorable images for the cult sci-fi television melodrama, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and such films as STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, FIREFOX and Tobe Hooper's Cannon Films combo, LIFEFORCE and INVADERS FROM MARS. Post-Apogee, Dykstra served as the visual effects supervisor on the Schumacher BATMAN entries - easy now, guys, he didn't write them - before beginning his long term collaboration with Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he garnered an Academy Award nomination right out of the gate with his celebrated work on the first STUART LITTLE. Most intriguing about this nomination, aside from it being John's first in twenty years, was how John suddenly found himself pitted against the ILM crew – including old colleague Dennis Muren, who he brought aboard the company way back in 1975 – and their work on STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE; however, any awkwardness was effectively dashed when THE MATRIX ran away with every technical Oscar available. But considering Imageworks rising profile in the visual effects community, it was clearly only a matter of time before John once again went head-to-head against his old company.
This brings us to the reason I'm hanging out in Culver City, CA, looking to steal thirty minutes out of John Dykstra's busy schedule for AICN. That day has arrived; along with Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier, Dykstra has received a Best Visual Effects nomination for SPIDER-MAN, vying for the coveted award against THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS and STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES, both of which boast f/x artists who, at one time, worked for John. But while this is terribly pertinent in my mind, it appears to me that John has plenty of other projects to keep him occupied, most notably a little film called THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN. In fact, a production meeting for this hotly anticipated sequel is breaking up as I follow John's athletic 6'4" frame into his office. As we sit down to begin our conversation, John ponders the notion of competing agains his legacy very diplomatically.
Slouching back into a black leather couch, John confesses, "The part of this business that I enjoy is the invention. So, the idea that we are in a league, a comparable league to an organization that is known worldwide for its inventiveness and for its cutting edge technology is exactly where we want to be. We want to be right there… step-for-step, stride-for-stride with the people who are doing the kinds of images that get this kind of recognition. It's terrific to be there."
It is, in other words, a friendly rivalry, since, as John puts it, "It's too small a community to have hostility. It's very much a friendly rivalry. The thing about films is that they are so collaborative. Each movie is a composite. It's never, with the exception of our film, it's rare for a movie to end up being solely one person's effort." As for what sets his film apart from the work of his former colleagues, John adds, "The thing that's interesting and exciting to me is the difference in the personalities of the films – the different thrusts of the films. And they are significantly different. I think that the SPIDER-MAN movie is much more a story about this character and much less a story about a world, and I think that's the difference between (our) movie and STAR WARS *and* THE LORD OF THE RINGS."
From there, we backtracked a little to the formation of ILM. I was curious to know if, as he brought together this remarkably talented group of technicians, whether or not he had any inkling that their efforts were about to change the way films are made. John humbly allows that, "I'd like to think that I was prescient, but I wasn't. I was actually a very enthusiastic technician, artist, filmmaker – whatever you want to call it – and I saw this as an opportunity to apply a unique talent that I had in a way that allowed me to participate in mainstream filmmaking. So, really, it was less about having some foreknowledge of the brilliance of this story, and was more about exploring every possible avenue of filmmaking in any possible way you can. You know what I mean? It's one of those deals where you set out to become an architect, and you end up, in order to get into architecture, you end up… making hot tubs, but in the process of making hot tubs, you come up with some device which allows you to turn water into hydrogen. So, it's that kind of…. free association employment. And I think that the people that came to work on the first STAR WARS were an extension of that same personal approach on my part. I worked for Doug Trumbull, and I liked the idea of the collaboration being based on friendship, as well as an understanding of mutual talent. And I think that what that combined was the business of communication. And by doing so I think that the… STAR WARS product reflected the camaraderie that the people who were making the film shared. And I think that that is very much the same case with SPIDER-MAN."
I quickly discovered that, while I would never in this lifetime tire of talking STAR WARS with one of the film's integral visionaries, John, ever the forward-thinking innovator, was far more interested in SPIDER-MAN, so I seized upon this opportunity to discuss the ways in which motion control technology has evolved since its inception in the 1970's. Buckle your seat belts.
"That's a strange question because it turns out that motion control is pretty much what it always was. It's a more sophisticated version. It's faster and more capable, but the basic components of it are the same as they always were, which is the ability to control a camera's position in space relative to a frame. Because you vary the time which varies the frame rate, so by varying the frame rate you can vary the speed of the system, but the camera is always in the same place in each frame. That's the idea. And that part's the same as it ever was, I think. The thing that's different, and the thing I think that is truly the change that's occurred, is, because we can do pre-visualization in the computer, we can compose and choreograph the scene using a surrogate of the environment, and because that information interprets now into motion control, which is fast enough to work real time – which is a big change – and it is flexible enough and precise enough to be simulated in the computer – so, what you see on the computer screen is something that you actually get to achieve in the real space – and because we can bring and sets and environments into the computer, we get to think through shots a lot more than we used to. So, many times, in the past using motion control, you'd show up on the day and you'd conceive the shot while you're there. Now, because we have the sets and the ability to do pre-visualization, the more complex shots, specifically, we get to conceive and analyze, and try different variations. You know, if you tried six different camera moves, a complex set of camera moves, on a live-action set, it'd take all day. Six different camera moves done in pre-visualization may take all day, but it's only one guy. And the creatives, then, can come and look at it, and say, "Hey, that's the one we want!" So, you show up on the day, you're not fiddling around trying different things. You get to put more of the money on the screen, which I think is the real focus of our effort.
"And the inverse of that, the odd thing about that, and the other thing about motion control that's changed is that motion control is now user friendly, meaning that, should you get on stage and say, 'You know, this shot needs to be motion control,' you actually can set up motion control and very quickly record a move in a fraction of the time that it would take to use that kind of system back in the days of STAR WARS. People used to groan when they saw motion control come on the stage.
"The thing I think that's critical in SPIDER-MAN, in terms of using motion control, was that the camera became part of the personality of the character. Very specifically, in "spider sense", where you were experiencing directly his sensory input, and how he was isolating things out of the environment and defining them. And I think that the other camera move that is an offshoot of motion control is the cameraman that we created for Spider-Man."
I think this is where John hits upon the crucial visual invention that made SPIDER-MAN the most vastly appealing blockbuster of last year. By creating a "character" – the cameraman – that follows Spidey as he swings through Manhattan, John and his Imageworks team devised a surrogate through whom the audience could feel what it's like to be the web-head. John refers to this cameraman as "the photographer that works for a competition skydiver". Toward that end, you can see where they have, rather ingeniously, added some digital buffeting of the camera to enhance this sense of moving at a high velocity through the skyscraper-ed corridors of the city. But that technical verisimilitude is only half of the achievement; the other half was the attention to character. Even John grows a little animated as he explains, "I think the unique characteristic of our cameraman is that he actually improved over the course of the film. And that was a conscious decision. It wasn't just because we started out at one end and got better because many of the shots that are at the end of the movie were done at the beginning. So, we had the capability of making the performance fluid and graceful, but we chose to give the camera operation sort of the same kind of characteristics of personality, or character arc, that Spider-Man went through himself; he started out awkward, but became facile. It was the same component of personality development as reflected in camera motion, and that's something again where motion control and the ability to pre-visualize helped us significantly."
John is also quite proud of how they met the challenge of defining Spider-Man's character through pure movement. "I know a lot of people say, 'Well, it's easy. He doesn't have a face!'" John laughs a little, and continues, "Well, guess what, the most critical component of an actor in a convention performance is their face. You take that away from them, then the actor *and* the director are stymied because, suddenly, everything has to be done with body language." Nowhere is this more apparent than in the film's final sequence – "The Last Swing" – where we watch a newly confident Peter Parker become the Spider-Man we know and love from the comics. It's this extended shot – twenty nine seconds of screen time, which took six months to complete – that sent so many audiences out on a high note, ready for the sequel, or possibly a repeat viewing.
Pleased as he is with their achievement on SPIDER-MAN, and the subsequent vindication from the Academy, I ask John if he has ever considered returning to improve these images as his erstwhile collaborator, George Lucas, has so famously (or infamously, depending on your own personal assessment), done with the original STAR WARS trilogy.
"No. I don't think so. It's kind of an odd thing because I know George went back and adjusted the first STAR WARS, and when I saw the adjustment to the movie, I went, 'Well, I understand why he did it. I'm not sure that it changed the movie at all.' In fact, in an odd way, the thing that he did which was successful was that he kept the changes that he made to the movie in the spirit of the original movie. The quality of the opticals were not vastly improved over the quality of the opticals that existed in the first film. He didn't go back and put… year 2000 imagery into a film from 1977, which wouldn't have worked. And I give him credit for that.
"Now, you ask about going back to do things in SPIDER-MAN. I don't think so. I think that the film stands in its own right. There's an odd thing that's said, that works of art are never completed, they're abandoned. And I think that 'abandon' is truly what you do. You move on. You learn from that experience, and you go into the next opportunity with a new piece of vocabulary. Our vocabulary, our dictionary, now has pages full of information that we gained from the making of the first film. And the ingenuity that went into the making of that first film is no longer ingenuity; it's a known commodity. So, now, we take our ingenuity and our experience and move into the next movie realizing that the last thing that we want to do is to simply make a better version of that movie. What we have to do is make a *different* movie. That's the only way that SPIDER-MAN 2 will be a success compared to SPIDER-MAN 1."
Finally, our conversation turned to the use of motion capture vis-Ã -vis full (absent the actor) CG character animation, both of which were employed on SPIDER-MAN. John explains, "We used a lot of motion capture for people who did conventional things, people walking and talking, which is really hard stuff to animate because of the subtle cues – we are so intimate with a human being, and when you watch a human being move you know their mental state. You can watch a guy across a room, sitting at a table, drinking a cup of coffee, and guess as to whether he's unhappy or happy without hearing a word or even seeing their face. I think that the key to our survival is the ability to read other people's language, be it directed at you, or not directed at you. This is what made this character so challenging to do. It was to create a surrogate for reality which we know intimately well, and, then, the second challenge was to, indistinguishable from the real character, take that character which we now recognize as a human, and make it do things that humans can't do.
Summing up his philosophy, John states, "Motion capture for things that are conventional that real people can do; animation for things that extend beyond the realm of real things. And they both have their own strengths and weaknesses, and, fortunately for us, they can be used on the same movie."
Creatively, John Dykstra appears to have found in Imageworks (and, specifically, Sam Raimi) the perfect collaborator through whom he can be, along with the rest of his Imageworks team, a true contributor to the finished film by, as John puts it, "expanding the normal areas of our contribution". It's the kind of freedom John has been pursuing throughout his career, which may have, at times, lent it a quixotic tincture. But there is little denying the confidence and contentment John now exudes. Given the ever-expanding tools at his disposal, and their rapidly growing sophistication, it'll be a blast watching him push the envelope he personally sealed nearly thirty years ago.
Faithfully submitted,
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March 6, 2003, 6:26 a.m. CST
Will Spidey win the oscar for best visual effects?
by Rogue_Leader
It is niminated right? Its effects were good, but honestly they were not that great. Good enough though. Not sure if it should win the oscar though. Its going up against some very high profile competition. Not the least of which of course is Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. BTW who won the Golden Globe for best visual effects?
March 6, 2003, 6:34 a.m. CST
A class act
by zacdilone
I remember idolizing Dykstra as a kid, and it's nice to see his evolution into a consummate professional. Nice interview.
March 6, 2003, 6:41 a.m. CST
I used to work directly with John Dykstra
by Goofball_Jones
I worked for a week as a production assistant for the now defunct Apogee when Space Balls was being made. I got to meet my childhood hero about a month before they started with the effects. I had gone to Apogee there in Van Nuys, walked in and wanted to fill out a job application. But the receptionist said they didn't work that way, and weren't really looking for anyone at the time. But I still thought it was cool because they had one of the original X-Wing fighters under a glass case in the lobby. So I thought it wasn't a wasted effort. As I was walking back to my car, I heard someone calling to me and I turned around and it was John Dykstra coming out to talk to me. He took me over to a tree that had a picnic table under it to chat with me. We talked for like 15 minutes about working there. I was like 24 at the time and had zero experience in the biz. But he said he'd put my name on a list of production assistants...and about a month later I was taking film back and forth to the lab. I'll never forget that, even though I worked there for a week only because I lived too far away to drive everyday. But It certainly was fun!
March 6, 2003, 6:50 a.m. CST
Don't get me wrong
by Heleno
Lots of Spidey's effects were great, and deserve an Academy nod and then some, but some of them were just appalling, sub-game standard. The bit where he's running along the rooftops and jumping right after he gets his powers verges on dire, and early parts of the chase sequence following Uncle ben's death are also dodgy as hell. Still, I guess most of the work went into the web-slinging, skyscraper-surfing sequences, which rocked.
March 6, 2003, 7:09 a.m. CST
And to pre-empt all you naysayers
by earthworm
Spidey moves like that because HE ISN'T FULLY HUMAN anymore, he's a Spiderman. Find me a real Spiderman, film him, show me how he moves, THEN you can bitch about Spideys movement. Still think Two Towers will (should?) shade it come Oscar night tho. Shame.
March 6, 2003, 7:19 a.m. CST
REAL Spidermen can talk and shoot webbing out of their butt!
by Dog Of Mystery
And Spider-Man moves like that because it's a goddamn comic book movie. Suspend your disbelief and shut up.
March 6, 2003, 7:29 a.m. CST
Errr UncleFukka, thats the point I was making nt
by earthworm
March 6, 2003, 8:33 a.m. CST
earthworm et al
by Heleno
Just to be clear, I am not slagging off Spidey's effects as a whole. And I am fully capable of suspending disbelief. However, the scene where Spidey ran along the rooftops stood out because I couldn't suspend disbelief - the effects were so bad they jarred me out of my daze. It wasn't the jumping parts I had a problem with, but the running, which any old human can do. The leg movements just don't look natural in that scene, the shadow doesn't seem to match up, and the rhythm just seemed all wrong to me. That one scene stood out in contrast to the general perfection of the rest of the film, and that's why I drew attention to it.
March 6, 2003, 10:15 a.m. CST
spidy FX
by ph27
spidy had the best visual effect shots of the year but only in some scenes. it had the hardest job of any film all year. To create a virtual human that would fill the visual frame alot of the time. TTT should still win every award going for visual effects tho. gollum was magnificent. Even he had his bad moments tho that are easy to forget because of the brilliance of the performance.
March 6, 2003, 10:53 a.m. CST
Dykstra is no Joe Johhnston
by DavidCamp
I think most people are in general agreement. Dykstra may be a nice guy, but it doesn't stop the effects in Spider-man from being fairly poor, effectively stealing the more deserving Minority Reports nomination in the sfx category. Also, Joe Johnston (The god) could kick Dykstra's ass anyday of the week. Joe is my hero, you just got to love that god, and he is 53 this year...yay!
March 6, 2003, 12:33 p.m. CST
Without John Dykstra, Joe Johnston whould be designing blow-drye
by Carson Dyle
It was Dykstra who recruited fellow Cal State Long Beach Industrial Design major Johnston to go to work on a little movie called Star Wars. Joe is a very talented fellow (and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet), but it was Dykstra who first recognized that talent and gave Joe his shot.
March 6, 2003, 1:40 p.m. CST
old argument
by Lazarus Long
As much respect as many of us have for Dykstra, it doesn't change the fact that the effects in Spider-Man seemed a little weak, most notably with the moving CG Spidey. It doesn't matter if he's supposed to move like a spider, like a human, whatever. The point is that it didn't LOOK right. And if it takes me out of the film, that's a problem. Now obviously with TTT they focused on Gollum's expressions more than his movement, so it worked. There weren't a lot of Gollum "action" scenes, and they didn't keep tight shots on him for very long in those moments. HOWEVER, aside from Gollum, as good as WETA's work was, I still think overall ILM did a better job on Attack of the Clones. With the single exception of Anakin jumping on the round cow-type animal on Naboo, there wasn't anything that looked fake (like the wargs, or the flying Nazgul) The new worlds and CG creatures all looked disturbingly real. And while there wasn't any character as well-done as Gollum, they did more CG characters with speaking parts. Dex, Watto, Yoda, Taun We, Poggle the Lesser. That's a lot of work. Lord of the Rings will win the Oscar, but I feel that people are focusing too much on one aspect of the effects. Serkis and the animators of Gollum deserve a special award, but there's nothing done in Helm's Deep that is any more impressive than ILM's work.
March 6, 2003, 1:47 p.m. CST
Dykstra is a legend, but that does nothing to change the fact th
by Red Giant
Articles and publicity always come out "coincidentally" around awards time. The ILM presentations, etc are really just For Your Consideration bits. Both ILM and Dykstra realize the truth of the current hear-and-now situation: Weta is kicking ass. They can't change that. Gollum is obviously in another league regardless of what you compare it to. Yoda is shit compared to him. The only thing Yoda had going for him is history, not the current movies. Gollum was a real presence and actor, unbelievable. That alone would give all awards to Weta. But let's not stop there. I have never seen anything like some of the scenes in Two Towers: the charge of Gandalf and Eomer down the hillside is unreal. Not only does it look wild, it evokes emotions of triumph and salvation since IT LOOKS REAL. It really looks like 3,000 horsemen are coming down the mountain towards a few thousand remnants of the Uruk-Hai army. At no point do you say, "what a fake" or "humans don't move like that". Here is another direct apples-to-apples comparison regarding Spiderman. I really liked Spiderman, I own the DVD, etc. But it was more for Tobey and the acting than effects, since they mostly were average. Pick any scene where a humanoid is running/moving/swinging/flying, and it looks really pretty poor. A couple were strikingly good but way too many were bad. Now, in direct contrast, most of the army shots in Two Towers were all digital with maybe a handful of combatants in some foreground shots. You can't tell at all. And this is 100s of them at once, not just one like Spidey they could concentrate on getting right. Btw, in the FOTR, the ENTIRE SCENE crossing the Bridge of Khazad Dum was digital, meaning the entire camera swoop that tracks them all running across the bridge and turns to show gandalf facing the Balrog - EVERY SINGLE PERSON in that entire sequence was 100% digital. I don't see why we should cut slack for anyone like Spidey's running and jumping fakeness when we know this is possible and is being done just fine (even more complex at that).
March 6, 2003, 2:05 p.m. CST
Two Towers will win only because Gollum didn't get a supporting
by Tall_Boy
March 6, 2003, 2:06 p.m. CST
that being said, Two Towers doesn't "easily" win, all 3 films ha
by Tall_Boy
so there.
March 6, 2003, 2:10 p.m. CST
One word...
by Devils Halo
March 6, 2003, 2:30 p.m. CST
Red Giant Is Right On Target
by Barron34
I am not a huge FX buff, but I have to agree completely with Red Giant, who obviously knows what he is talking about, and hits the nail right on the head. The uruk-hai army scenes are all great, they do not "break character", appear fake, and take us out of the movie at any point, and that seems like a hell of an accomplishment considering how many figures are involved in these scenes. Ultimately, the bottom line is: do these effects "work" visually and dramatically in the context of the story? The Two Towers effects always brought me INTO the story, not OUT of it, like some of the Spidey scenes (a movie that I very much liked, more for character reasons that FX reasons). Attack of the Clones was good in many FX senses, but the scenes with masses of clones or armies were not as realistically displayed as th Two Towers armies. In The Two Towers, the WETA "Massive" software allowed each soldier to move in a distinctive, realistic, believable, and individualistic manner, rather than in an artifically regimented way, like the soldiers in Attack of the Clones. This made the battle scenes in Two Towers quite excellent, very easy to suspend disbelief and be swept up in the epic story. In Attack of the Clones, a scene such as the introduction of the clones on the rain-swept clone planet was obviously inferior, to me. You have these masses of clones that are in rigid lines that were not natural like the groupings of uruk-hai in Two Towers. The masses of soldiers in AOTC did not look natural, but were synthetic in their groupings and movements. It was breathtaking to see large armies depicted like that, but when Two Towers came out, it showed how armies are to be portrayed with CGI. The Attack of the Clones stuff is good, but it doesn't compare to the Two Towers stuff, which was great. This does not even mention the phenomonal wrok of WTA and Andy serkis on Gollum, the first truly great CGI character performance in movie history. Lucas deserves credit for his good work, but frankly WETA's work was better than just 'good'. It was great. Two Towers deserves the FX oscar.
March 6, 2003, 2:30 p.m. CST
Just ADMIT It, Spidey can't jump in the film.
by KONG33
he can't land either. Just admit it sucks and that you'll try harder next time.
March 6, 2003, 2:33 p.m. CST
I never noticed what a monster package he has...
by KONG33
I guess the cgi fellas were having some fun.
March 6, 2003, 4:17 p.m. CST
I've got to agree with Lazarus...
by crimsonrage
...the reason Yoda isn't getting respect is because his performance was not only restrained (unlike Gollum's overacting...still great performance and FX work though) but was not done through motion capture (because of his size) and because he isn't very human. Gollum is a very humanoid creature and therefore it's easier to suspend disbelief with him. When you're looking at Yoda, you're looking at a little green alien testicle in a robe. As for the armies of Orcs...well, they were in the frickin' dark! It's much easier to create believable special effects in the dark. The reason the clones don't move in their own little, quirky ways is because they're not supposed to! They're clones! They're supposed to look the same! The big battle at the end of "Attack of the Clones" is a milestone because it's entirely digital, in broad daylight! Oh yeah, and it's CLEAR. Peter Jackson screwed up what could have been an AMAZING sequence by shaking the camera to the point of incoherence. When shaky cam is used well (like in "Cross of Iron") it can greatly enhance a battle scene. When used poorly ("Gladiator") it completely throws all of the months of fight choreography into the garbage. Regardless of the film's quality, "Attack of the Clones" has the best special effects of the year.
March 6, 2003, 4:23 p.m. CST
Good interview.
by Nocturnaloner
It's rare that someone with such a specialized knowledge can speak about it in a way that is so eloquent and accessible. Dykstra sounds like he would be great to work with. Good questions too, Beaks, and good research. You're one of the best writers here, so stick around.
March 6, 2003, 4:39 p.m. CST
Good article, bad fx
by mortsleam
Dykstra is a legend, and deservedly so, but I agree with those that say Spider-Man didn't deserve Academy Recognition as much as say Minority Report. In comparison to Minority Report's seamless blending of real world locations, miniatures and CGI, Spider-Man comes off as slightly amateurish. I get it: that's what they were going for in the beginning. And yes, the Spidey simulacrum does look like he's learning as he goes along. But why then does the Green Goblin consistently look herky-jerky? And why do the running scenes look wholly unconvincing? That said, I'm hoping Dykstra and his team can expand upon their work in Amazing. As for the Oscars, in all actuality, I'd say there were five movies released this year that qualified for best special effects. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - for giving us the first truly convincing, emotionally resonant, fully realized CGI character, as well as for that amazing scene with Frodo and the Nazgul. Minority Report - for showing once again that it takes a visionary to come up with cool effects, but it takes a director with vision to integrate them into his movie. Reign of Fire - for the coolest Dragons ever created by a company that no longer exists. Spider-Man - for CGI that was true to the tone of the book, if not necessarily reality. And Blade II - just to piss off Lazarus Long. Lazzie, you're blind if you think scenes like the chases in Coruscant or the Geonosis Droid Factory weren't ruined by overly busy, frenetic, annoying glitchy action. Too much going on just for the sake of throwing it up onscreen and saying, "lookee what I can do with action figure profits!" And Anakin riding the bull was worse than anything in any of the other movies, including the Warg Attack, which even I'll admit was spotty. But there's no debate as to what will win this year. It will be The Two Towers by virtue of Gollum. And it should. Because that performance showed what Special Effects were originally concieved to do: not overshadow the performers or the story, but compliment and enhance them.
March 6, 2003, 6:55 p.m. CST
spiderman's writing was much worse than its special effects
by eau hellz gnaw
most of the computer generated stuff looked fake as fuck (the rooftop running is just the best example of that), but at least the movie had impressive scenes in which spiderman swung through the city among the skyscrapers. the writing on the other hand, was terrible for the most part.
March 6, 2003, 7:14 p.m. CST
C'mon man...
by Devils Halo
the Gopher in Caddyshack! GENIUS!
March 6, 2003, 8:30 p.m. CST
Good read
by -Dr.Strangelove-
As always, great work Mr.Beaks, this one
March 7, 2003, 12:11 a.m. CST
The REAL inventers of CG Army Technology
by Lavaman
Sorry Barron 34, but ILM was the first effects house to use the CG Army technique with The Phantom Menace. The Droid/Gungan Battle had fully idependant moving characters 3 years before Weta's "Massive". And by the way, the Clone Troopers moved independently of each other as well. I don't get why there is so much disrespect of ILM's work on Attack Of The Clones, I guess people hate George Lucas so much they ignore everything associated with him. Weta could win because of Gollum(very impressive), But ILM has a shot as well.
March 7, 2003, 12:44 a.m. CST
Comparing Dex, Yoda, clones to Weta digitals
by Red Giant
I won't convince any Star Wars lovers simply since they have their minds made up (as do I, in the other direction). This is meant to address objective people. Btw, I love the OT and hate the crap Lucas churned out in EP I and II - and the general public agrees with me as do the (lack of) award noms. The effects were above the acting, as in acting == grade D and effects == A-/B+. I cannot believe anyone would mentino that Dex character as "realistic". God that scene was eerily uncomfortable watching Ewan pretend to eye him and smile, etc. Horrible animation given the close proximity and lighting, exactly what they need to avoid if they truly want us to look at it as a real creature. Watto is cute and funny, so I tend to overlook his obvious animation as fairly good. The clones marching down the ramp was an improvement over the complete shit that TPM had with the robots, but still all they seemed to do was stagger the walking motions to make them look more "random". My favorite animation from AOTC was actually the tall, thin female alien (forget name). That was very nice although she annoyed me on a different level (way too polite to the point of ass-kissing and moved too slow. Makes one wonder how they ever got anything done/built). Weta and PJ understand how to make armies look real infinitely better, both in volumes of combatants and individualized actions/reactions. They just have a better knack for what little nuances to pull off to give a better reality illusion. Both ILM and Weta had their bad moments, I just think ILM had a lot more of them with very few wins. The creatures in the AOTC arena looked REAL to you?? Were you on acid watching it or something? :) The Wargs and Ents both had a few dodgy movements, although they all had good ones also. Now, if you want to talk about non-character great scenery, Coruscant was very well done in appearance (acting aside). In that camp I might consider them on par if not beter, but not at all on creature work.
March 7, 2003, 9:48 a.m. CST
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by minderbinder
If anything, I'd argue that Starship Troopers did it first...but anyway, the Weta stuff looks REAL, like a huge group of actual people. The Ep1/2 stuff looks like copy/paste.
March 7, 2003, 9:51 a.m. CST
"I know that these scenes are taking place COMPLETELY inside of
by minderbinder
I guess you're completely unaware of motion control cameras? Even with swooping camera movements, you often have real environments and real actors in the shot, whether the camera moves or not has NOTHING to do with how much of the shot is CGI (or other FX).
March 7, 2003, 10:09 a.m. CST
"...the reason Yoda isn't getting respect is because.."
by minderbinder
"was not done through motion capture" Who cares how he was done? The average viewer doesn't know, but audiences have raved about Gollum. (and you could still easily do motion capture if you wanted for Yoda, size is irrelevant) "Gollum is a very humanoid creature and therefore it's easier to suspend disbelief with him." CLUE: Humanoid figures are WAY harder to do, which is partly why Gollum is so impressive. "It's much easier to create believable special effects in the dark." So? PJ uses his FX to tell STORY, not for eye candy. "They're clones! They're supposed to look the same!" So let me get this straight...you bash PJ for having a scene set in the dark because it's "easier", yet you praise Lucas for doing a battle scene the "easy" way of using multiple copies of the same robot (clone, gungan, etc) instead of having unique participants? "The big battle at the end of "Attack of the Clones" is a milestone because it's entirely digital, in broad daylight!" And it's entirely fake looking. Bravo. "and it's CLEAR." Um...I assume by "clear" you mean "unrealistic"? "Regardless of the film's quality, "Attack of the Clones" has the best special effects of the year" You can't be serious. Sure, a few decent shots, but lots of fake looking stuff. ***Remember when a magazine published a still of Sam Jackson in the arena and everyone on this site whined that it obviously was a fake that someone at EW photoshopped together? And remember the shot of gollum's head that everyone on this site (even "experts" who claimed to work in the FX industry) said there was no way it could possibly be CG, it must be a latex head created to make some fake publicity shots? Yep, both shots were in the films, the shitty "too lazy to build a set so let's bluescreen everything" compositing in Clones and the "I can't believe it's CGI" shot in TTT. It also says a lot that some people are actually so desperate for an argument to defend Clones that they're going on about the QUANTITY of FX instead of the quality ("and the oscar for Most visual FX goes to..."). No way, TTT is walking off with the FX oscar easily.
March 7, 2003, 10:59 a.m. CST
by DavidCamp
Well, Dykstra seems cool...but he still hasn't worked with Viggo Mortensen this year, unlike Joe. Hidalgo is gonna be so f**ing awesome. Lets hope Joe is using his October Sky skills, and doesn't pull any of that crap out of the bag like Jumanji again.
March 7, 2003, 6:20 p.m. CST
Minder, good reminder about Starship Troopers being great F/X
by Red Giant
Wow, I had forgotten how good those were. Amazing and more in the Weta mold, IMO. Very well done, can't tell F/X from models, robots, etc.
March 7, 2003, 8:50 p.m. CST
Response to minderbinder
by Lavaman
Good call on Starship Troopers, I forgot, that movie certainly does predate The Phantom Menace's use of CG Army. Barron 34 was acting like WETA invented this technique, which they did not. Also, you say the Droid/Gungan scene looked like shit and was fake looking. I say you are wrong, The Helms Deep Battle looked no better. Also, why does everybody only talk about the Clone Troopers marching single file, during the Clone War Battle they are moving independently all over the place! I happen to love both Star Wars and The Lord Of The Rings, Peter Jackson is doing a stunningly great job with the Rings adaptation, I just don't get why the people who praise Lord Of The Rings have to shit all over Star Wars in the process. Don't trash one movie to prop up another.
March 7, 2003, 9:15 p.m. CST
Fake you say, some people are blind!
by Lavaman
minderbinder, you say the Clone War Battle was fake looking, LMFAO! The Clone War Battle was the most photorealistic war scene ever created using cgi, the Clone Troopers looked totally real even up close. A lot of people thought the Clones were men in costume like the original trilogy, but they were A LL computer generated! The computer generated Uruk-hai army was only seen from a distance making it easier to render, all the close ups of the Uruk-hai are men in costume! Bravo indeed. You say TTT will win the Oscar for best Special Effects easy, no contest. Don't be arrogant, Attack Of The Clones has just as much chance of winning. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
March 7, 2003, 11:57 p.m. CST
by crimsonrage
...maybe I should say because of Yoda's proportions. Integrating motion capture for a character of that scale (with his odd little arms and legs and hunched-over back) is not only difficult but the movements would come off as wrong. Another reason Yoda doesn't get respect is because the animators were tied down by the established look and movements of the Yoda puppet. He can't go jumping around sniveling with overdone facial movements in every scene like Gollum. Of course, you're right when you say it doesn't matter how it was done just if it looks real. Well, Yoda looks entirely real to me (for what he is). Yes, humanoid figures that are supposed to look human are more difficult to do because we're obviously more associated with humans and are more ready to pick out little problems. However, creating a very stylized humanoid figure (which is what Gollum is), while very difficult, is much easier. Creating a believable character that has no relation to anything in reality is much more difficult than a stylized humanoid. No matter what form he's in Yoda is never going to be fully believable to an audience (and no matter how great the Yoda puppet was, we could still all tell that Frank Oz had his hand shoved up his butt). I never bashed PJ (as you call him) for putting scenes in the dark. The battle of Helm's Deep should have been in the dark like it was. I'm just pointing out that it's easier to make effects in the dark (like it's easier to have a bunch of characters move exactly the same...the reason the clones do is because they're not only clones, but they're an army in formation. Ever see "Triumph of the Will"? The Nazis all move the same when marching! How unrealistic!) I bashed PJ for incoherently shaking the camera to the point that the battle became incomprehensible. This has nothing to do with FX...I was just going off on a tangent. "And it's entirely fake looking." Are we going to get into a "This looks fake." "No it doesn't!" argument? Because that'll get us nowhere. I'm actually giving specific reasons why I think "AOTC" has the best effects of the year. I have not once resorted to "That looks fake." Yada yada yada (and believe me, I could when it comes to "The Two Towers"...if you want examples I'll give 'em). Since perception of what looks real and fake is entirely subjective, a "This looks fake." "No it doesn't!" argument will get us nowhere.
March 8, 2003, 6:50 p.m. CST
To Lavaman
by Barron34
I was not "acting like WETA invented the technique". What the f*c! does that mean! I never said any such thing. I love how you put words into someone's mouth when you don't agree with your opinions. Where did I ever say that Jackson was the first to do CGI armies? All that I said was that Jackson and WETA did it BETTER than Lucas in Attack of the Clones. Which is exactly true. Case closed.
March 8, 2003, 6:59 p.m. CST
And Another Thing...
by Barron34
Just because I liked LOTR better than AOTC doesn't mean I am "shitting all over" Lucas and Star Wars. I am an old Star Wars fan, and I am more dissapointed in the latest movies than anything else. They had lots of good things about them, but they are not nearly as good as they should be, in my opinion. Also, I think the effects in AOTC were good, and quite breathtaking at points in terms of Lucas's boldness in attempting such shots. This still doesn't make up for the fatc that the writing, the story, and the acting were not nearly up to par, again in my opinion. Lastly, although the effects in AOTC were quite spectacular, the effects in LOTR (Two Towers) were BETTER. I don't have some vendetta against Lucas. I just think that the latest movies don't compare well at all to the original StarWars movies, and that the LOTR movies are better films, both in terms of story, directing, and effects (not to mention acting). This is just my opinion, and doesn't constitute hating Lucas, etc. Why are some people so defensive about AOTC, etc? It doesn't make much sense to me.
March 8, 2003, 7 p.m. CST
by Barron34
In my earlier post, I meant to write: "I love how you put words in othher people's mouth when they don't agree with your opinions".
March 9, 2003, 12:48 a.m. CST
To Barron 34
by Lavaman
I apolagize if I came across as being a jerk, I do tend to be a little defensive about the prequels, but I do think that Attack Of The Clones has a decent chance of winning the Oscar as well as does The Two Towers. I do love what Peter Jackson and WETA is accomplishing with The Lord Of The Rings, both The Fellowship Of The Ring and The Two Towers are very Epic! I am most anticipating The Battle Of The Pelennor Fields, as big as the Battle Of Helms Deep was just imagine how big The Seige on Minas Tirith will be! Peace
March 9, 2003, 7:40 p.m. CST
by Barron34
Cool. No problem. I'm looking forward to Return of the King very much too. I grew up on Tolkien's books as a kid, was a huge fan, and the books were a big influence on me. Seeing Peter Jackson's film versions of the books triumph as they do is a great thrill for me. Being older now, I am rather jaded as far as entertainment goes, but seeing FOTR and TTT onscreen is to be transported back to that childhood happiness for awhile. Really can not wait until next December. Whatever awards are given out this year, I really hope that Return of the King wins big in 2004. Jackson and company certainly deserve it, and a Best Picture award would be the crown of this great film achievement. Barron out.
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A great car, but mine was unreliable at best
Within 2 days of picking the car up from the dealer it started overheating, the dealer mechanic had connected the electric thermo-fans backwards resulting in hot air from the engine being blown through the radiator. This took 4 trips to the mechanic to fix.
At 99,000 km the heater core outlet failed dumping to coolant all over the road, leaving me stranded. I was told the heater core would cost AUD$1000+ to replace so I by-passed it leaving the car drivable, but with no heating.
The following day the fuel pump failed, leaving me stranded (twice in two days not happy).
At 102,000 Km I took the car to a auto trans specialist for a service after I noticed the gear changes were getting a bit 'sloppy'. I was told that they had found plastic and clutch material in the filter. The mechanic advised me to sell the car before the auto gearbox failed leaving me with a AUD$3500-5000 bill.
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The car is beautiful to drive, the steering is responsive and there is plenty of power.
The interior is a delight, if you turn the stereo down the only sound you hear is the creaking of the leather seats.
There is a slight lack of interior room particularly if the driver is over 6 foot.
The only thing that spoilt the driving pleasure of this vehicle was wondering what was going to break next and how much it was going to cost to fix. I think I must have been unlucky and bought a poor example. Sorry if you ended up buying it.
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6th Jun 2004, 06:58
I concure also. I have had Audi 80 2.6E for some 3.5 years. My also was very unreliable and EXPENSIVE to repair. I had all the same issues, plus timing belt jumping due to a siesed water pump ($1,500), Fuel pump ($500), Radiator Core - After I sold it! ($1200)
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20th Aug 2004, 03:39
Funny, we have one as well, it has been most unreliable. We have had heater core, gearbox, brakes (which is still not fixed, because no one knows what is wrong with it), now we have an idle problem which is currently being fixed. Lucky for us we had mechanical insurance and they spent $11,000 on the car in the first 12 months, we have only had it 18 months. I wonder what is going to be next. It only has 80,000 km.
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It is strange to read such thing about Audi. I think that mechanics are not informed enough about some special feature of this brand or they are superficial. the 2,6 litre Audi is very reliable. Mine is running since 3 years already without major problem (manual).
Only a thermostat and 3 relays went wrong, beside wearing out of brakes which is obviously normal. The tachometer shows 286.000km. I bought it with 189.000 km.
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I'm stuck with a 2.6E also.
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Posted Sep 07th 2013, 12:00am by AFP
... source of hard currency for the impoverished North- after Pyongyang changed tack to make a flurry of conciliatory gestures. ...http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1305185/military-hotline-between-north-and-south-korea-reconnected-tensions-ease
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North Korea agrees to hold family reunions with South Korea
Posted Aug 18th 2013, 05:15pm by AFP
... in the North between 1998 and 2008. The South suspended the tours - an important source of hard currency for the impoverished North - after a North Korean soldier in 2008 shot dead a female tourist who ...http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1297536/north-korea-agrees-hold-family-reunions-south-korea
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North invites South Korea managers to Kaesong
Posted May 28th 2013, 03:48pm by AFP
... Korean president Kim Dae-jung, Kaesong has been a crucial hard currency source for the impoverished North, through taxes and revenues, and its cut of worker wages. ...http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1248181/north-invites-south-korea-managers-kaesong
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Koreas reach agreement to reopen Kaesong industrial zone
Posted Aug 15th 2013, 12:00am by AFP
... of war". Established in 2004 as a rare symbol of inter-Korean co-operation, Kaesong was a key hard-currency earner for the North and the decision to shut it down took many observers by surprise. ...http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1296722/koreas-reach-agreement-reopen-kaesong-industrial-zone
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This year's Pandora will be the last printed edition of the nearly 125-year-old UGA yearbook, staff members told the Athens Banner-Herald in April. Sales of the student-produced book have declined for years and no longer justify the printing cost. "We're not going to sell the books that we need to sell in order to break even," Pandora adviser Cody Ward said. The book sold 1,846 copies in 1999 but only 506 last year. Only 335 copies of this year's Pandora had been sold in April. But the staff is planning to produce a digital Pandora next year that will be distributed free to students in combination with a graduation CD the UGA Alumni Association is already providing to new graduates. To order a copy of the last printed Pandora, visit the links at http://www.uga.edu/ pandora.


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Hi all,
Does anyone have any experience getting the/a sound or network adapter driver installed while running Windows 3.11 in Parallels? I am having a tough time making it work. I have some old games I want to play in the classic environment.
Hi all,
Does anyone have any experience getting the/a sound or network adapter driver installed while running Windows 3.11 in Parallels? I am having a tough time making it work. I have some old games I want to play in the classic environment.
I'm trying to do the same in Windows 3.11. Anyone out there to help with video and sound drivers?
Try using the Realtek 8029AS driver. I found a copy here
Also installed the Microsoft TCP/IP stack which works with DHCP in Parallels.
This will allow you to access file shares on your Mac using SMB (if you have file sharing turned on in System Preferences) and makes it easier to get files onto the Virtual machine.
Last edited by smaltalk80; Apr 26, 2011 at 04:56 PM. Reason: added driver url
I have just set up WFW 3.11 (I won't go into why!) and I've got 1024x768 256 colours working perfectly, using the patched SVGA driver. But I have two problems:
1. Windows (or rather, DOS 6.22 underneath) can't see more than 16 Mb memory. I can set Parallels to 32Mb or 64Mb, yet MEM reports a max of 16Mb. This is using HIMEM from both 6.22 and Windows 3.11 and EMM386 set to NOEMS.
2. I just can't get any sound drivers to work. I've tried Soundblaster and Adlib from 3.11, and I've also tried a few AC'97 drivers for 3.11 that I've found on the web. The AC'97 ones always say that they can't detect the hardware. Parallels is supposed to present AC'97 compatible audio but I just can't get it to work.
Any ideas?
How did I get the video to work?
Best thing is to do a search on svgaptch. There's lots of discussion about it with Virtualbox, but it works perfectly under Parallels.
You need the svga256.drv driver from 3.11 and then you run svgaptch against it to make it (more) VESA compliant. It's limited to 256 colours, of course, but it's better than 16! Ther's another limitation in that a full-screen DOS session will corrupt the video on return to Windows, and there's no way out of that that I can see apart from trying to exit windows blind, using the keyboard.
Still wondering how to get sound to work, though.
Has anyone managed to get sound working in Windows 3.1 / WFW 3.11? If so, please let us know how you did it.
I have tried a few drivers with no luck whatsoever. Thanks...
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FORT WAYNE – The fact has not been lost that JaJuan Johnson was the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year when he was a senior at Purdue two years ago. But being defensive can get more than a little taxing.
Ever since he was released by from the Houston Rockets training camp before the 2012-13 NBA season began, Johnson has been defending himself like a chicken thief with feathers in his pocket.
Why did you get traded from Boston?
Why did you get cut by Houston?
What are you doing in the D-League?
Are you too small to play a big forward?
Are you too big to play a small forward?
What did you do with Jimmy Hoffa?
The first-round NBA Development League draft pick of the Mad Ants bends his 6-foot-10 frame at the knees and takes a seat on a pulled-out wooden bleacher inside the dark Concordia Seminary gym, which has become his new practice facility.
It's life, he sayswith a bit of a shrug. It's been this way my whole career. I've always had to answer questions about my size. It's just one of those things where people looking in from the outside.
I'm a thinner guy, but I think I'm just as strong as these other guys and just as athletic, maybe more athletic; faster. That's why I'm going back to the things I'm good at and I'm confident what I can do.
That's been one of the knocks on Johnson – that because he's a lanky 220 pounds and could snap like a piece of kindling, he can't handle an 82-game NBA season.
And even though Boston traded the former first-round pick, Johnson's former Celtics coach, Doc Rivers, thinks Johnson has the game to be an NBA player.
I know he has the talent, I'll put it that way, Rivers told the NESN website. I told him that this summer. He's going to either have to pull it out of himself or he'll be there (in the D-League), but I do believe that he has NBA talent. I hope he makes it.
There seems to be a consensus among coaches when it comes to Johnson's ability.
Talent, he's got. You don't become the Big Ten Player of the Year, average 20 points and nearly nine rebounds at Purdue without skills.
But when it comes to drive and desire and the intangibles for which there are no statistics, the professional basketball jury is still out.
Even though he played 30 games in the NBA last year, most of it was garbage time, Ants coach Duane Ticknor said. So he really hasn't played in a year and a half. We just need to get him out here playing every day.
He needs to be more aggressive offensively and quit settling for jump shots all the time. He needs to relentlessly run the floor. He can't take plays off, and he has a tendency to not sprint. When he doesn't use his God-given athleticism, he might as well be 6-5. There aren't many players his size who can run and jump and do the things he does.
It's Ticknor's way of saying Johnson has to play like he's 6-10.
And now, the man known as J.J. is back to playing defense, and the one he is defending his himself.
Every level that I've ever played at I've had to prove myself, Johnson said. The NBA's no different. Obviously I have to put a lot more time in and keep working. I'm really confident that everything's going to work out. I haven't lost faith. I know what I can do on the court. It's really just finding a good fit and a good situation for myself.


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Great teachers, support staff and special ed services. The school has been making lots of positive improvements in the curriculum and the building. This is the top elementary school in the area and kids are getting a great education.
With the new principal we have this year, things are really looking up. The teachers are no longer walking on egg shells and the curriculum is finally being aligned to state standards. The building has also been reorganized and new restrooms and classroom doors have been added. I have been very pleased with the changes and the adoption of the MAP testing which will take a lot of pressure off the teachers to teach the tests for accreditiation. My children are doing great and are very happy this year.
Local businesses contribute lots of money to this district. It seems as if between teacher in service mondays, and cramming sessions for 'every child left behind' testing, there is no time for education. We are one of 7 families I know of moving this year due to the mismanagement of this district.
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Does Texting Harm Teens?
My daughter's friends text things they would never say face-to-face.
Leslie Adler: My teenage daughter and several of her friends have a BlackBerry, and consequently, have BlackBerry's instant messenger application known as BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), which allows them to communicate in "real-time." It is like e-mail, only faster, enabling quick "text conversation."
I recently noticed my daughter typing fervently, as if her fingers could convey emotion and her interaction was "animated." I asked her what was going on and she actually told me. She was having "words" with a friend over excluding a mutual friend from an outing to the movies. When I agreed with her position, she allowed me to read the messages her "friend" was sending her, and they made me shudder.
I instantly realized, knowing the sender, that BBM was empowering her to say things she would never, in my opinion, have the nerve to say in voice, face-to-face. Crazy, bitchy stuff that I am sure my daughter would have responded to differently if I were not monitoring her every word at the moment.
With my daughter's permission, I entered this exchange like a social scientist, dictating answers that I would proudly read to this girl's mother, who is my friend, yet the girl continued to stay on her angry and dramatic rant using words that I am sure seemed worse in atonal print ... and my point is:
In the "Stone Age" in which we grew up and people spoke, our mothers heard our conversations. They had some sense of what kind of kids we were and whether we were leaders, followers, manipulators, or pushovers (amongst other things), and therefore, they knew, hopefully, how to direct us to be nicer and better people and friends. With modes of communication like BBM, we really don't know what lurks behind the eyes of the child we see typing away, and though I fully, intellectually, understand the benefits of technology, I wonder if some of it is not so good after all.
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How To Fix / Repair Vertical Lines On Half Of LCD Tv Screen
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asustech007: No, your problem is that giant mosquito inside the TV playing that
trumpet... you need to get him out of there, he'll eat your ribbon cables
lawreneph: I had my laptop in the bag with my calculator. I pulled it out and the calculator got in between the keyboard and the computer screen and put lil lines at the top of the computer screen. I cant get them off pressing does nothing.. Im so annoyed and angry because its a Sony Vaio Z and expensive
Jobe Jahova: Very great and informative video man. Nice work and props.
Hibo Ali: its sad I have 50' tv its have black horizontal line all over on top I need help. Samsung they avoid me for help.
Pedro Vasquez: samsung problem solve
Ben wanan: I learned a new thing,Thankx
turbotrana: samsung suck, I danced for that whole video
sairsad: hello! my Samsung LED, have the same problem, I have placed a few pieces of gum under the ribbons between the screen and the LCD panel, and it worked fine but after an hour, the problem has come back: ( what I must do
GordonFreeman69: Thanks, fixed my lg42 by reseating the two ribbon cables from the tcon board!
Smokeykiller51: I fixed mine ;) .... Called Samsung tv wasn't even manufactured a frigin year ago... They sent a repair man ;D
Barry Bishop: Thanks for the vid. I had the same problem after reseating ribbon the first time. So I reseated again and now the entire screen is jacked up. What's the deal?
timcat100: Welcome to smagsome TV repair
Jai Etwaroo: another freaking dummy video
1975vini: you are so right , most of the problems could be on the flex or stress cables.
The72Wolf: Awesome thanks so much. Works perfect. I truly appreciate your guide through and explanations. You just saved this family from buying a new TV. Thanks
jeram40: How about horizontal problem? Could i solve it with the same method
jeram40: Did it fix horizontal problem too?
No-Buhl Cher: Thank you. Excellent.
O-W -P: didn't find other than this music ?
Brian Kelly: I had the same prob on my Samsung ln52a550p3fxza. Reseating the ribbon cable seems to have fixed the problem. The cables are hidden behind the metallic shielding tape at the top of the set.. Flip the dark plastic bail on both ends of each cable (all 4 ends) and re seat them all. I used a tiny flat blade screw driver to release the two ends that were hard to get at. Also, I cut 2 pcs of vinyl tubing about 3/4" long and forced them down btwn the ribon connector an the chassis to keep pressure on the connector. Use smaller dia tubing so it has to be compressed just slightly to fit into the gap. You dont want too much pressure... Good Luck!
MrMonkey_HD: nobody cares what you say :)
xlife123: Annoying background music.. omfg..
SY1WEK: I wish i can give you a cookie. Great tutorial!
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ramesh dalal: Hi I have a Samsung 29" DNIejr Television some white and colour horizontal line on the top of screen they reduce little bit after sometime, pl adivce
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Kevin Bennett: Did you fix the laptop screen yet?
Noel Nehrig: HELP!!! I had the exact problem and followed these exact steps. It fixed the vertical lines on the right side and then immediately, the screen went black. Haven't been able to get a picture since. Were the vertical lines a symptom of something more severe that I caused to happen prematurely?
chipotletv: @Sarkosity secure them with something not conductive and heat resistant, like I did on this video. You have the same problem, just that the false contact is on the union with the bond tabs. It's not always fixable, Its not always fixable, but Its worth the try. Be very careful, the screen is very delicate and expensive. also you'll be working while the tv is on, So again, be very very careful, you could get an electric shock. Good luck!
Darren Johnson: To the comment below the video of the problem I have is on my channel. The tv has vertical lines
MegaPurpleHelloKitty: @mrbigmacmuncher me too! ;(
S Pierre: I have exactly the same green line on my samsung tv (2 min 38 sec) . Repair guy came and said it's my panel and i had to change it. Be sure i'll try your trick before buying a new one. Thx
mal bisset: nice video it worked for me,whats more of a pain is why youtubers play back ground music
cooldog60: Thanks, another great video!
lelobananaaaw: Thank you Chipotletv, I followed your advice with my out of warranty 4 yr old Samsung LEsomething which was giving me vertical and horizontal lines and split screen.I found out that the exact problem on my tv was that those bitches had attached with tape those flexy cables on the metal frame, once I let them loose the screen went completely crystal clear. Maybe others should try that too. You saved an old tv from becoming recycled material dude, thanks again, greetings from Greece!
Dennis McCarty: I just started getting a very thin red line on the bottom left side of my Samsung 40inch. It only shows when I'm getting an HD signal. I have basic cable and it doesn't show at all when I have analog channels. But when I watch local digital channels or hdmi input, it shows. I know its only going to get worse. Does anyone know about this and what's wrong? Thanks ahead for response.
wescoolya: haha lol it sounds like one of those toys you blow in and spit comes out of it.
Jesse Coleman: where are you putting rubber, this video is very unclear on what you are doing
boempa: Interesting video, very educative. While I have a line problem with my Dell 2709w monitor, I'm not sure if it's the flex cable. The problem is, when powering up, there are about 2 vertical lines on the left, and one on the right. When doing a diagnostics test, it seems it has to do with the red color. While I replaced all the capacitors, that didn't help. I disassembled the monitor, and disconnected all the cables, also the flex cables. I cleaned them and reassembled,but still the same.Any idea?
ddarecki: You are awesome! You saved me from buying a new TV. Very clear and simple instructions. Thank you for taking the time for posting this.
KezioGamming: panel defect !!!!! no t-con, no flexcable PANEL DEFEKT !!!
Parth Khopkar: Thanks mate You Rule!! You saved me 20,000 bucks(inr)....
disasterpastor12e16: Day 2: My TV interference occurs when the TV warms up. Seems to be 13 minutes after I hit the power button, repeatedly.
CAnderson4149: Hello, I have one white vertical line with my samsung lcd tv that looks like the one you have at 2:35 but I have reset my flex cables and no change but they also don't change when I flex my tv. Can you guide me to what might be the problem if my cables have been reset? Thanks for the video!!!!
natedog5656: I cannot thank you enough for posting this! I was about to throw away my Samsung LCD and ran across this just in time. I bought some rubber weather strip (normally used for sealing outdoor crevasses) and inserted it in the top to make sure the connection stayed together (b/c it was visably not) and voila - it worked!! Saved me $600 for the quoted repair or even more if I would have bought a new TV. DONT LISTEN TO YOU LOCAL TV REPAIRMAN - THEY JUST WANT YOUR MONEY!!!
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Cem FX: cool tune :)
William Shanley: Your hard work solved my problem that has been giving me a headache for months. I work in video production and I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am for your wisdom and generosity. Many blessings to you and all you love!
DarkMinitzu: Hi, I had a similar problem with my LCD tv. I reseated the flex cable and lost all picture on the screen. Tried reseating both a few times but it never came back. All I touched were the flex cables. Any suggestions?
Cor Blaak: Great job tnx for the tips Chipo
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But should it have been?
The Rangers currently have the 5th highest payroll in the league, and here's a quick look at their biggest contracts along with their termination years:
Adrian Beltre: 5 years, $80 million, through 2016
Michael Young: 5 years, $80 million, through 2013
Ian Kinsler: 5 years, $75 million, through 2018
Yu Darvish: 6 years, $60 million, through 2017
Michael Young: 5 years, $80 million, through 2013
Ian Kinsler: 5 years, $75 million, through 2018
Yu Darvish: 6 years, $60 million, through 2017
Apart from Hamilton, the Rangers have a few other free agents to worry about with Mike Napoli, Colby Lewis, and Mike Adams, three pretty pivotal role players. Roy Oswalt and Ryan Dempster are also free agents, but I don't see the Rangers bringing either back after underwhelming performances with the team.
Hamilton has said that he'd gladly allow Texas to match any offer he receives on the free agent market, but is still very open to either staying or going. Just to get an idea of what sort of money we may see offered to Hamilton, here's a look at the biggest contracts given out in 2012 with each player's age at the time of the signing:
Albert Pujols, 32 years old: 10 years, $254 million
Prince Fielder, 27 years old: 9 years, $214 million
Joey Votto, 28 years old: 10 years, $225 million
Matt Kemp, 27 years old: 8 years, $160 million
Prince Fielder, 27 years old: 9 years, $214 million
Joey Votto, 28 years old: 10 years, $225 million
Matt Kemp, 27 years old: 8 years, $160 million
At 31 years old, where does Hamilton fit on the list? A career .304 hitter, Hamilton is coming off a career best 43 home run season. He's undoubtedly one of the most dangerous hitters in the game and in a Rangers lineup filled with big bats, it's Hamilton's that really dictates just how far the team will go.
The negative side of Hamilton's package is heavy as well. In his 6 major league seasons, Hamilton has played in over 135 games only twice. Beyond that, this past year, he set a new career high in strikeouts with 162, 69 more than in 2011 when he played 27 less games.
I'm guessing with all things considered that the contract that ends up locking down Hamilton will be something along the lines of 8 years, $180 million. If it weren't for the injury concerns, I'd think the contract would be closer to the $200 million clip, but I think the risk contributes to about $20 million less for the slugger. In today's market, you have to pay a premium for the superstars of the league, and there's inherently a lot of risk involved with that sort of game.
The fact of the matter for the Rangers is that they're one of the biggest spenders in the league and could most likely match any offer Hamilton receives on the market. Without him, the Rangers have a solid lineup, but not the type of lineup that's going to take them back to the World Series again. Hamilton is that difference-maker of a 3-hitter that makes everyone around him more effective. Replacing his bat is a nearly impossible task when there are so few other players in the league (most of which are already signed to long-term contracts) capable of doing as good a job as Hamilton in supplying runs.
The bottom line is that signing Hamilton to a long-term deal is a risk, but a risk that the Rangers need to take if they want to remain one of the AL's powerhouses.


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Spend your holiday in Sri Lanka's spectacular southern beach in a beautiful owner managed Villa. Access from Colombo via southern expressway will be two hours or less and from Katunayaka International Airport to Colombo is two hours.
You are welcome to buy fresh fish, vegetables or fruit from the village market and the
Indulge yourself at ths outstanding luxury beach villa only 7km from historic Galle. The villa has 4 double bedrooms, a large living/dining which opens onto a broad terrace and an infinity pool with spectacular ocean views. Fully staffed Ambalama offers discreet lu
Footprints is a new state of the art luxury 5 bedroom villa, finished to the highest Western standards. This extremely spacious villa is situated on one of Sri Lanka's most famous beaches in Thalpe, just ten minutes drive from Galle Fort, in the south of the island. A footprint is a luxurious property designed in a contemporary
Red Cliff
The villa is set amid sprawling gardens on top of a red cliff. The location provides a stunning view of the Weligama bay on one side and the Mirissa bay on the other. It has its own private beach. Total privacy and relaxation. This exclusive villa is famous for being one of the last creations of the world renowned a
Kingsleys Pearl
Kingsley's Pearl is carefully designed to allow in natural light and the ocean breeze through its many open verandahs, halls and bedrooms. Time is unscheduled here. Lie in a hammock and let the rhythm of the waves put you to sleep; or recline in a Planter's chair with a good book and a cup of Ceylon's finest tea. The villa
Hamilton Beach Villa
Hamilton Beach Villa – Wattala, Katunayake Hamilton Beach Villa is a beautiful secluded beach-front luxury villa set amidst the natural splendor of sea, sand and sunset; the perfect hideout for a serene and relaxing getaway. This luxury Beach Villa which dates back to 1927 has now been completely renovated and refurbished with an el
Ceilao Villas
This four bedroom villa is located in the village of Kabalana on Sri Lanka's southern coast. A perfect blend of sun, sea and sand.
Step onto the golden sands of the Kabalana beach where coral reefs offer protective swimming for all. A few minutes stroll along the beach, await the ope
A boutique hotel situated on one of the most picturesque beaches on the southwest coast of Sri
Lanka. An ideal beach getaway for either individuals or families who appreciate an authentic and intimate vacation.
Lantern redefines the luxury boutique holiday by engaging guests with the local community, offerin
Sisindu C
A beautiful two bedroom beachfront villa with large open plan living, dinning and kitchen on the ground floor, with large chill out sofa.
Upstairs there are two large air conditioned bedrooms with en-suite shower rooms
Saffron and Blue
In the heart of Kosgoda, residing deep in the southern coat, best known for turtle
hatchery, with some of the most picturesque wide beaches in the south,
complimented by a beautiful bay, with many an estuary flowing into the ocean, you
will find the haven that is Saffron & Blue, inspired by the sands
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