From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #46 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 16 2004 Volume 13 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Statuesque [Scott Hunter McCleary ] Re: Statuesque [Aaron Mandel ] Re: off-topic: fire at the fireworks factory ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Powers of 10 ["Jonathan Fetter" ] Re: Powers of 10 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: OT: very, very neat picture of manhattan ["Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Statuesque Thanks to Jeff for a few hints on Statuesque. I've included "A Ton of Feathers" -- don't know where I acquired it -- on a couple compilation CDs and they always ask more about that band. My reply, "dunno, just like the song." Maybe I will find more about/by them/him now. Thinking this new Sigur Ros EP sounds a lot like their countrymen Mzm. Is that the equivalent of saying, "Hi, Mary?" ;) Scott - -- ========= When Air National Guard absentee George W. Bush dressed up in Cruise's "Top Gun" costume and used the USS Abraham Lincoln as a giant, nuclear-powered strap-on, that was as brazen an exhibition of cross-dressing as there's ever been. -- Mark Simpson SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications PO Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:21:14 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Statuesque On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Scott Hunter McCleary wrote: > Thanks to Jeff for a few hints on Statuesque. I've included "A Ton of > Feathers" -- don't know where I acquired it -- on a couple > compilation CDs and they always ask more about that band. My reply, > "dunno, just like the song." Maybe I will find more about/by them/him > now. "Ton Of Feathers, Ton Of Steel" is from Statuesque's EP Angleterre, which (like their first album) came out on a Boston label called Cassiel. Cassiel is defunct and the record is hard to find. Well worth the effort, though. a ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 21:35:59 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: off-topic: fire at the fireworks factory Marc Holden wrote: > http://www.media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=fireworkfactory.wmv Eww, that's the Enschede fire in the Netherlands. A lot of people were killed in that one. I'm not sure how well the camera operator was after that; my Dutch is a bit rusty. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 21:37:09 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: OT: very, very neat picture of manhattan Can you guess how Abelardo Morell did this? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:10:07 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: OT: very, very neat picture of manhattan On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Can you guess how Abelardo Morell did this? > Am I understanding this correctly? he turned the whole room into one giant pinhole camera and then used some kind of long exposure on another camera just under the pinhole on the wall facing the city? Wow. Crazy. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:55:53 -0500 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: OT: very, very neat picture of manhattan Capuchin says: > Am I understanding this correctly? he turned the whole room > into one giant pinhole camera and then used some kind of long > exposure on another camera just under the pinhole on the wall > facing the city? Not exactly. It might not be a pinhole camera, so much as just a pinhole. The image is a longer exposure (probably) from a regular camera in a dark room. On a bright day, try poking a pinhole in a window shade of a very dark room. What light that does pass through the pin hole will cast an inverted image of what is outside the window. He's capturing the reflections of these "shadows" in the room. (Light travels in straight lines or rays. When they bounce off something they continue to do so in a straight line. The pinhole restricts the rays allowed in, making it possible to "focus" what rays are sent through, making intelligible pictures.) - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:35:00 +0000 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: Robyn in Mallorca Is anyone planning to go and see Robyn in Mallorca? If so, please email me offlist. Charlotte _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:12:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Powers of 10 "Just... re...member that you're standing on a planet..." http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:47:48 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Powers of 10 Jonathan Fetter wrote: > > "Just... re...member that you're standing on a planet..." The Polyphonic Spree use the original Powers of 10 filmstrip as a lightshow. Stewart - -- can't decide whether to NP: The Handsome Family - "Singing Bones" or Barenaked Ladies - "Everything To Everyone", both of which I like more than I should. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:59:53 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: OT: very, very neat picture of manhattan >> Well, you're both pretty much right (Ferris & Jeme agreeing on something! Eek!) The room was blacked out, and a small hole is cut in the shade. For a room-sized camera obscura, the hole can be quite big -- about the size of a penny (CAD, USD & GBP all about the same size). A regular camera is set up facing the back wall. You could use a pinhole camera, but the exposure times would be in weeks. Any optical device with no focussing lens and a maximum aperture of approximately >f/100 is a pinhole camera, or camera obscura. One day I'll actually get my act together and post my pinhole photos on the web. It's a fun, if geeky, hobby. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:43:40 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: OT: very, very neat picture of manhattan On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, FS Thomas wrote: > Capuchin says: > > > Am I understanding this correctly? he turned the whole room > > into one giant pinhole camera and then used some kind of long > > exposure on another camera just under the pinhole on the wall > > facing the city? > > Not exactly. Err... I think you're too used to disagreeing with me to respond sensibly. > It might not be a pinhole camera, so much as just a pinhole. The image > is a longer exposure (probably) from a regular camera in a dark room. > > On a bright day, try poking a pinhole in a window shade of a very dark > room. What light that does pass through the pin hole will cast an > inverted image of what is outside the window. He's capturing the > reflections of these "shadows" in the room. Right. That's exactly what I wrote. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:27:20 +0000 (GMT) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: Wang Chung wishes granted Both Dexy's and Lloyd C & Commotions *have* recently reformed. Forgive me if someone else has mentioned either/both of these. Been skimming... Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:03:09 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Band reunited without VH1's aide >>>In fact, of the latter-day versions of groups I can recall seeing in >>>recent years another re-formed with line-up number 75 - saw the Chills in concert yesterday. Pretty damn good too. Unfortunately due to a number of factors I could only stay for a short time, but I caught half a dozen or so Chills songs, and also a few by David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights, who preceded them. The gig was on a barge in the upper harbour, with the crowd gathered around the shoreline of Careys Bay, a small horseshoe shaped bay about ten miles north of here, as part of the dunedin festival. Both bands seemed to be in good form. James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:04:41 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: in the interests of "healthy debate" In the interests of healthy debate, may I present: James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:16:58 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: in the interests of "healthy debate" James Dignan wrote: > > Oh, the author's discovered Hubbert's Peak, and is freaking out. Big news. Why do you think we moved from a small island to a big friendly country with lots of renewable energy potential? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:12:53 -0800 From: "Palle Hoffstein" Subject: Re: Wang Chung wishes granted > Both Dexy's and Lloyd C & Commotions *have* recently reformed. Forgive me if someone else has mentioned either/both of these. Been skimming... > > Crowbar Joe > Two bands dear to my heart. Last I heard the Dexy's reuinion was comprised of Kevin Rowland (still cross-dressing I hear) and the trombonist from the first album, and that was it. If so, not much of a reunion. Still, if I could see the infamous Kevin Rowland live I'd do it in a shot. I love the whole Dexy's catalogue, especially the vastly under-rated "Don't Stand Me Down." The Commotions would be something. As much as I like Cole's solo discs, the two Commotions albums are just so wonderful. Their debut, "Rattlesnakes" is perhaps my all time favourite album. Oh dear, I fear I am giving away my age, waxing on about 80's bands. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:12:53 -0800 From: "Palle Hoffstein" Subject: Re: Wang Chung wishes granted > Both Dexy's and Lloyd C & Commotions *have* recently reformed. Forgive me if someone else has mentioned either/both of these. Been skimming... > > Crowbar Joe > Two bands dear to my heart. Last I heard the Dexy's reuinion was comprised of Kevin Rowland (still cross-dressing I hear) and the trombonist from the first album, and that was it. If so, not much of a reunion. Still, if I could see the infamous Kevin Rowland live I'd do it in a shot. I love the whole Dexy's catalogue, especially the vastly under-rated "Don't Stand Me Down." The Commotions would be something. As much as I like Cole's solo discs, the two Commotions albums are just so wonderful. Their debut, "Rattlesnakes" is perhaps my all time favourite album. Oh dear, I fear I am giving away my age, waxing on about 80's bands. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:59:57 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: feelies (was RH in Tucson, Pylon) - -- Roberta Cowan is rumored to have mumbled on Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 20:19 Uhr -0500 regarding Re: feelies (was RH in Tucson, Pylon): >> > 09/13/90 THE FEELIES 9:30 CLUB D.C. >> >> Hmm, wrong tour. The one where I was traveling with them they played >> Max's On Broadway 02/23/90 and the 9:30 Club some other day around that >> time ... Actually that was wrong. They did *not* play Washington during that tour. I wonder if I was at the September show after all? Could've been in '91 as well, I don't remember. >> I wonder if any fellow Fegs were at shows during that tour? > > Yes, I was at Max's in February! I'm pretty sure Southern Culture On the > Skids opened (though I missed their set) No, the Blackgirls opened for one half of the tour and Marty Willson-Piper for the other half. > and it was an early Friday > evening show so that Max's wouldn't miss out on the Fells Point > weekend bar mob. Hmm, if I'm not mistaken there were two shows that night. > Not very many people there either because it was an > odd time. I don't remember that. IIRC, the shows were generally attended quite well but not sold out. ISTR that Charleston, NC had the lowest attendance, but I could be wrong. Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #46 *******************************