Random photos, comics, etc.

[Jim Cassedy]

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r2d2 2u2!

[Leo Enticknap]

I was recently asked to look over the booth of a theater that closed during the pandemic and hasn't reopened since, and report on what needs to be done to get the place back open. Found in a tool and hardware cabinet:

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It can't have been a very happy workplace!

[Leo Enticknap]

Just when you thought things couldn't go any lower...

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[Marcel Birgelen]

Now, the humor in this topic has... euhm... sunk to rock bottom.

[Tony Bandiera Jr]

The full Titanic experience....

I wonder if they had a sinking feeling before the trip....

[Frank Cox]

The full Titanic experience....

[Marcel Birgelen]

Meanwhile...


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[Leo Enticknap]

I wondered how long it would be before we'd start to see this sort of thing...

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[Jim Cassedy]

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☞ (Thanks to fellow FilmTech-er & friend Terry Wade for originally sending this to me)

[Frank Cox]

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[Frank Cox]

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Iceberg lovers go wild over viral photos of the 'dickie berg' off Newfoundland's coast

Photographer Ken Pretty — from the town of Dildo — captured aerial photos Thursday

A man from Dildo, N.L. has captured the attention of iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly-shaped hunk — now popularly known as the "dickie berg" on social media — off the coast of Newfoundland.

"I'm gettin' a lot of response, a lot of reaction to the photo because of its resemblance to ... part of the male anatomy, say," chuckled drone photographer Ken Pretty.

In an interview Friday, Pretty said he noticed from his very first photograph that the iceberg, in an area of the province known as Conception Bay, had online potential.

The berg got its nickname from the term "dickie bird," a Newfoundland euphemism for the male anatomy.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Had a similar thing happen to a long time projectionist. In his case he left the hard plastic shell on. Pretty quickly he began to smell it, but... it was way too late.

Then there was the guy moving a 35mm Gone With The Wind.. by himself. Of course he dropped it and was immediatelly fired. Took the other staff 3 days to untangle it and make it runnable again.

[Leo Enticknap]

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This was an expensive mistake to make, and I'm sure as heck glad that it wasn't me that made it! This is a 6.5kW bulb as well, so quite an ouch.

I once had a co-worker who accidentally left the inner plastic wrap/sheet (the one with shoelace-type cords on it that Ushio bulbs ship with) on a bulb after installation, but it's beyond comprehension how someone could leave the entire blastproof condom on. I'm surprised that it even fitted through the UV filter hole and into the (Barco B series XL) lamphouse module, and that it didn't blow up.

[Randy Stankey]

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That picture makes me feel sad.

Projecting movies has been the one thing I loved to do most, ever since I was a kid, but, now, I'm stuck in a shop, connecting wires all day long.

That kind of work has disappeared from my town. Digital projection is just uninteresting and unfulfilling but there's no way in Hell that I'd ever find a job like that in another place which would make the expense of moving worthwhile.

Some days, I just want to go to sleep and never wake up again.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

We had several sets of film clamps which helped immensnsly, three splicers, lots of tape and stuff to. And a pack up person in case I collapsed. The best part of the whole thing was starting in 1999, end finishing up in 2000...