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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:09:30 -0500, Warp wrote:
> > I apologize for the more blog-style posting, but...
> ...you don't have a blog? ;-)
Not really. I have a rant page, but that's about it.
--
- Warp
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47d2e02b$1@news.povray.org...
> Warp wrote:
>> The amount of interesting detail in this photo is staggering.
>
> I bet they spent *years* modeling it :)
and a submarine spent few hours demodeling it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
Marc
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On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:22:22 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:09:30 -0500, Warp wrote:
>
>> > I apologize for the more blog-style posting, but...
>
>> ...you don't have a blog? ;-)
>
> Not really. I have a rant page, but that's about it.
Maybe you need a blog, then. ;-)
<scnr>
Jim
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St. wrote:
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
> news:47d2c84a@news.povray.org...
>> Somehow I find some old photographs to be really fascinating. The older
>> the photograph, the more fascinating. For example, consider this
>> photograph
>> taken in 1897:
>>
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/HatfieldClan.jpg
> You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice the boy
> wearing a dress, (left, top row)? And is that, (shall we say), a 'short'
> blond haired lady to the right? It makes you think about what the mindset of
> these people was like back then. Hard times indeed.
The most distracting thing in these old photos is that you never see
anyone smiling. Hard time indeed. Either that or "cheeeese!" was still
to be invented. :)
and to think Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin were just a few years away...
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nemesis wrote:
> St. wrote:
>> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
>> news:47d2c84a@news.povray.org...
>>> Somehow I find some old photographs to be really fascinating. The older
>>> the photograph, the more fascinating. For example, consider this
>>> photograph
>>> taken in 1897:
>>>
>>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/HatfieldClan.jpg
>> You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice
>> the boy wearing a dress, (left, top row)? And is that, (shall we say),
>> a 'short' blond haired lady to the right? It makes you think about
>> what the mindset of these people was like back then. Hard times indeed.
>
> The most distracting thing in these old photos is that you never see
> anyone smiling. Hard time indeed. Either that or "cheeeese!" was still
> to be invented. :)
>
> and to think Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin were just a few years
> away...
You try standing still for 5 hours, waiting for the film to be
completely exposed (or whatever the term was), and see if you can smile
the whole time ;)
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Chambers wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> St. wrote:
>>> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
>>> news:47d2c84a@news.povray.org...
>>>> Somehow I find some old photographs to be really fascinating. The
>>>> older
>>>> the photograph, the more fascinating. For example, consider this
>>>> photograph
>>>> taken in 1897:
>>>>
>>>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/HatfieldClan.jpg
>>> You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice
>>> the boy wearing a dress, (left, top row)? And is that, (shall we
>>> say), a 'short' blond haired lady to the right? It makes you think
>>> about what the mindset of these people was like back then. Hard times
>>> indeed.
>>
>> The most distracting thing in these old photos is that you never see
>> anyone smiling. Hard time indeed. Either that or "cheeeese!" was
>> still to be invented. :)
>>
>> and to think Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin were just a few years
>> away...
>
> You try standing still for 5 hours, waiting for the film to be
> completely exposed (or whatever the term was), and see if you can smile
> the whole time ;)
what?! 5 hours exposure?! Are you sure? Whenever I see Old West
movies, there is a flash and bum, photo taken. I might expect long
times of exposures -- though not 5 hours! -- for photos like these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Image-Frederic_Chopin_photo_downsampled.jpeg
But that is from 1849! Not 1897, which already had cinema movies in 15
FPS or so...
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nemesis wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> You try standing still for 5 hours, waiting for the film to be
>> completely exposed (or whatever the term was), and see if you can
>> smile the whole time ;)
>
> what?! 5 hours exposure?! Are you sure? Whenever I see Old West
> movies, there is a flash and bum, photo taken. I might expect long
> times of exposures -- though not 5 hours! -- for photos like these:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Image-Frederic_Chopin_photo_downsampled.jpeg
>
>
> But that is from 1849! Not 1897, which already had cinema movies in 15
> FPS or so...
I was exaggerating it to the point of absurdity, of course :) I
remember hearing that they had long exposure times, but I don't remember
exactly what they were. Probably around 30 seconds, but don't quote me
on that.
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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this site struck a chord with me some time back:
http://www.shorpy.com/
see http://www.shorpy.com/shorpy: 'shorpy at work in 1910'
http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/01094u.jpg
maybe 12 years old at the time? he later died in a mine accident at the age
of 31, crushed by a rock. for most of his life, clearly, he knew nothing
other than that mine.
I expect the mine owner lived in a nice mansion somewhere.
-- Chris
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"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospamgmailcom> wrote in message
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> St. wrote:
>> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
>> news:47d2c84a@news.povray.org...
>>> Somehow I find some old photographs to be really fascinating. The older
>>> the photograph, the more fascinating. For example, consider this
>>> photograph
>>> taken in 1897:
>>>
>>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/HatfieldClan.jpg
>> You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice the
>> boy wearing a dress, (left, top row)? And is that, (shall we say), a
>> 'short' blond haired lady to the right? It makes you think about what the
>> mindset of these people was like back then. Hard times indeed.
>
> The most distracting thing in these old photos is that you never see
> anyone smiling. Hard time indeed. Either that or "cheeeese!" was still
> to be invented. :)
LOL - I doubt it, cheese has probably been around for some time, but
the word 'cheese', yeah, I can see these guys not knowing that word for some
reason. I dunno. Back then, I doubt if a smile would be raised by one of
them burping...
Thinking about it though, they didn't have the concept of another person
'seeing' a picture of them. So why would they smile?
>
> and to think Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin were just a few years
> away...
Yeah, well, that's just trashed my last sentence above. ;)
~Steve~
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Damn, those guys sure would use those guns if you messed them about.
~Steve~
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