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  1. Doctor Strange

    Ghost signs

    Yes, there was clearly a billboard above it at some point in the past. Just painted bricks there now. I also still shoot with a Nikon F2, but even with my smallest lens (the awesome Nikkor 45/2.8 GN) it's so much larger and heavier than the OM-2 that carrying it is a definite schlep. But you...
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    Ghost signs

    Recently shot in Beacon, NY... with my classic Olympus OM-2 and good old Tri-X!
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yeah, of course... but that was derived from Heart of Darkness too.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Ad Astra, the recent SF film with Brad Pitt. Really good production design and effects, but the story's a mess. It's essentially Heart of Darkness plus daddy issues, with out-of-nowhere action sequences that aren't essential to the story (a rover chase with Moon pirates! a distress signal...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Obits for the great Carl Reiner: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/arts/television/carl-reiner-dead.html https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carl-reiner-dead-comedy-legend-720797
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    My New Schott Jacket

    It might be a bit older than you think. I had a very similar Schott 674 I got around 1984. There were two different models of the jacket in the store that day. The one I got had a white pile lining and a faux-mouton collar. The other had a plain collar and a quilted lining. Both were...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Marvel Comics artist Joe Sinnott, who to my mind (and many others) was the best inker for Jack Kirby's amazing pencils, including their classic long run on Fantastic Four: https://www.newsfromme.com/2020/06/25/joe-sinnott-r-i-p/
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    Just Got my new Akubra Snowy River and...

    I had a terrible experience with Hats By the Hundred nearly a decade ago. Conversely, I've bought several Akubra hats from Hats Direct, Everything Australian, and Aussie Bush Hats & Oilskins that went perfectly. I ordered a Carbon Grey Bogart. They sent me a black one. I emailed them...
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    Show us your photography

    Thanks. Your shots are excellent too! I still regularly shoot with my OM-2 also. I have four lenses, and as a backup body, my old OM-G (aka OM-20). The OM-2 is undoubtedly the most ergonomically pleasant SLR I've ever used, with outstanding lenses and dead-on metering. (I also sometimes use...
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    What was your very first leather jacket

    After Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, I NEEDED a leather jacket: I was 26 and had only owned crappy vinyl knockoffs. My first jacket was thin black cowhide with a brass zip, only vaguely like the Indy jacket (the right shirt-style collar and barrel sleeve cuffs, but slash pockets, no windflap...
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    How long have you been a member?

    It'll be sixteen years for me in the fall. That's a lot of jackets and hats ago. Lots of film and TV (and so on) discussions too.
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    Show us your photography

    And now for something completely different... Some recent shots from around Beacon, NY... made with a circa-1963 Olympus Pen F half-frame 35mm FILM camera. I've had this camera in the collection for years, but it had overexposure problems (the auto-diaphragm was slow to close), and I only just...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Agreed, Worf. Good cast in a really bad film! The last film I watched was the recent Ophelia, with Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, and Clive Owen. It essentially tells the story of Hamlet from her POV... in a very loose adaptation that expands the story with some unnecessary bits (e.g., Queen...
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    Stetson Temple

    I had a gray ("Caribou") Temple from 2002 to 2016. I thought it was a great hat... until I started buying Akubras. The Temple lost its shape after a couple of years of exposure to rain and snow. The sewing of the ribbon was sloppy. The sweatband leather felt like cardboard, and it...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Eh, I didn't get what was so special about Logan. I'm not saying it's bad, just that I didn't find it some great leap forward, or all that emotionally powerful. It's more serious, sure, but the X-film series is all over the map. It's definitely one of the better ones, along with James...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    All Through The Night includes nearly my favorite Bogie line, when he's describing the Nazi threat to his underworld friends: "These guys are strictly no good, from way down deep."
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    The great Jerry Stiller (not to the Coronavirus): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/obituaries/jerry-stiller-seinfeld-dead.html Let's get out the aluminum Festivus pole in his honor.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I also watched the Westworld finale last night. Meh. I give them props for doing something REALLY different this season, but I had my usual response to Westworld: this show looks gorgeous, the actors are solid, but what the hell is going on? It exemplifies the Twin Peaks approach of keeping...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's a creepy film with some good visual flair. But since all the main characters are major a-holes, it's hard to feel any sympathy as things get ugly. And quite apart from its debt to The Wicker Man, since every familiar trope of the dead-teenager movie is in play (e.g., black guy dies first...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Watched it recently. Eh. It was clever and well done... for what it is. I liked it more than most Tarantino films. His dialog is great. His direction of both actors and scenes is great. His dedication to outstanding production values is great. But his entire output perversely glorifies what...

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