The World’s Fair and Other Lies
In a classic example of doing things the long way around, I’ve just completed a revamp of the largest chunk of Inventing Situations grabs from the 1939 World’s Fair. As many of you are aware, there used to be a cluster of 333 images (minimum run time 2 hours, 47 minutes) from the fair in the middle of the rotation. These were the old automatically generated grabs from archive.org’s copies of the Medicus home movies of the fair. Here’s a mosaic of all the old images (454 kb). A lesser, saner mind would have solved the problem of the monotony of these grabs by removing the least cap-able images, spreading the images out over the rotation, or just throwing the lot of them out.
Being me, I went and downloaded all of the movies (except for the one that seems to have vanished from the archive), hand picked images from each and placed them in three blocks spread through the rotation. The new groups are each 140 images or less (minimum run time 70 minutes). Take a look at mosaics of the new images here (144 kb), here (161 kb), and here (171 kb).
I’d like to think this is an actual improvement, though I’m not sure if the sample images shown above make it clear or not. The first cluster should be showing up on IS today or tomorrow, which should make it easier to judge. Of course, there are still a bunch of other films from the fair in the rotation, but most of them are in much smaller bites.
Why am I telling you this? I like stories.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Why am I telling you this? I like stories.
I’m glad you cleared that up Gersh… cuz I was thinking “Worst Post Ever!” up until you clarified that.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
…Compared to a lot of blog entries that clutter up Google results these days, this blog is, even at worst, somewhat approaching Shakespearean.
Blogs (like everything else these days) are only good until all the average morons descend upon therewith, whereupon dilution occurs, and the apparent delusion of quality seems to slip down a nearby culvert like to a furtive rat upon a startelment.
(This entry will of course come up in Google searches for keywords, ‘Shakepearean’ with ‘furtive rat’… My apologies, Oh Shakespearean Rat Seekers. Blame Google.)
August 25th, 2006 at 3:50 am
dude!
i was bored and looking for info about my big ass white brick and, as it turns out you’re the guy that did the page about cover tunes at talkingheads.net? cool as all get out, man.
like i said before, nobody tells me nothing!
(i’m guessing you have the remastered cd of ’sounds like…’, right? does that live version of ‘found a job’ kick ass or what? it’s even better than the version on the ‘79 live disc.! i miss those fuckers, man. ‘actually saw them twice. the first time on the steps at ucla in ‘78. i’d all but kill for a copy of that bootleg. but enough about me…)
August 25th, 2006 at 3:57 am
oops!
i mean ‘the name of this band…’!
’sounds like talking heads’ was the title chris wanted for ‘little creatures’ (but i bet you knew that) sorry. i’m doing malt liquor and zombie movies. i’m all ferschimmled.
me
August 25th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Zoog - Just be glad I did this WO D’S F IR post instead of one discussing the subconsious Simpsons refs/rip offs I found in my caps at http://hipsoda.com/jazz/gallery/.
Up - Glad you think this blog is better than those written by an average moron. I consider myself a well above average moron.
d.cat - Check your mail. And please don’t kill me.
August 28th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Whatever, man, I’m just touched by the fact that the first mosaic is 144kb. Nice tribute, man.
Uhhh… you did do that on purpose, right? Right…?
August 28th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Yeah, on purpose. Sure.