Posts by BenWilson
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Capture: Art On The Street, in reply to Lilith __,
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These guys were doing some of it.
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How do we put multiple pics in one post?
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Avondale reprazent. Vacant lot, next to the spider.
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It is a map, but when asked to explain it, he refused, saying it's for Zane only. I don't have high enough clearance.
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This morning, I found this blu-tacked to the door to the children's playroom like Luther's Theses against the Indulgences, my eldest son's solution to the problem of too many toys cluttering it. I'm still somewhat baffled by the diagram.
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The same house many decades later, with my father standing on the roof, proud owner of a do-up. When Mum went to buy a second hand washing machine from some lady in Remmers for $10, she was asked where she was taking it to. When Mum said "St Mary's Bay", the woman looked at her kindly and said "Oh, in that case, dear, you can have it for $5". You probably wouldn't get that reaction nowadays.
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Something I instantly recognized in Te Papa. The house in the middle of the shot, with the pyramid roof, is where I grew up. This shot would appear to be taken from the Post Office at Three Lamps (now a Belgian Beer Bar), and shows St Mary's Bay back when it was a bay, rather than a motorway.
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My kids don't like any of them. I thought it was their age, and cinematic length film but no. They like LOTR. Extended edition.
They're very young, 3 and 6, and I think they simply don't like cluttered special effects that are all the way through all of the movies. They can't work out what's going on. LOTR has less clutter, and you can pretty much see it's people fighting monsters, for the most part.
I felt the prequels suffered very much from trying to tie the stories together. It put constraints on any interesting development that the characters could have. To that end, sequels will most likely be better.
But for a really detailed and humorous look at why they sucked, try Plinkett. There is some very good breakdown of serious fails of directorship in there. In particular, the way that Lucus uses the exact same visual technique for all dialog, for hours on end. And direct comparisons that show why epic length sword battles end up not being epic.
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm dissing myself, mostly, for lacking the musical hardness required for listening to that.
ETA: I could listen to Loopcrew indefinitely, though.
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