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Better Than Real Because It's Not.


Thursday December 05th 2013, 11:10 pm
Filed under: General

(Oct 19) Long post. It’s December, and pseudoreal is stuck in a museum in Astoria in October.

movie editing machine
This reminds me of when I was an editor of my college newspaper

the force, defeated by common window glass
We keep Yoda in a glass prison for our amusement

remember blade runner?
This would all be computer generated today

but it doesn't project the same image (get it?)
Don’t get me wrong, I like our new digital stuff

true tubes
But there’s something both elegant and real about these machines

as seen everywhere as the representative of old-timey teevees
A classic

this my friend, is a collection of serious shit
This stuff must have cost a fortune when it was new

this stuff, from way before my parents time, somehow reminds me of my own childhood
I don’t think I’ve shared this with any of my friends, let alone anyone else

i even had an 8mm projector
But I used to shoot movies as a child, and had a lot of photography equipment.

the colordaptor, noisy and dangerous!
This thing turned black and white TV into color TV somehow

edison-style
RTFM

old old skewl vinyl
The non-silent movie projector

70's technology!
This, boys and girls, ….

a what with what?
Is a Sony console TV with Betamax VCR.


Sunday November 17th 2013, 3:13 pm
Filed under: General

(Oct 19) It would have been easier to enjoy this place if I hadn’t felt mislead about the Breaking Bad “exhibit” (more like a narrow closet, literally), which quite possibly didn’t contain anything actually used on Breaking Bad. Most of the items I saw were obviously “re-creations” of items used on the show, of generally poor quality. I wonder if that’s why no photos were allowed of this material. There’s plenty of blame to go around. AMC/Sony for the fraud, and the museum for being a party to it. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, which is a shame, since in retrospect, the rest of the museum wasn’t bad. The security staff were unfriendly and in the way, but the rest of the staff were very friendly and helpful. Due to the crappy faux Breaking Bad thing and the obtrusive security staff, I give the Museum of the Moving Image a “Meh” rating, which seems like a shame.

gregory barsamian
This,is called Feral Fount

strobe on
Light off

need a hand?
Illusion on

illusion off
Lights on

it's brooklyn in the house
How it’s done

incubator of the peep show
Mutoscope

if you listen carefully, you can hear their meter
The measure of meters

we call them 'silent movies', but people used to call them 'movies'
Movies existed before sound.

you can hear us now!
But if moving film strips rapidly was the innovation that created ‘films’ out of photography

and ruined the careers of actors with poor voices
Sound was the innovation that created ‘movies’ out of ‘films’.

reel to real
Yes kids, this is where the skeumorphic iOS icon came from.


Saturday June 30th 2012, 11:43 pm
Filed under: General

(Nov 29) It’s become crazy time. My landlord is liquidating his life’s possessions. I’m trying to keep mine from going out the door with his. Still don’t know where I’m going to land, and Port Jefferson doesn’t feel like home because of it.

blue yeti
At one corner of my desk

crystal
Viza gave me this. I wonder if Josh still has his?

wreathes o' electric
The town has decorated for the season and its Dickens Festival

through the lookingthrough glass
The car still feels like something new and transient in my life

won't buy again
This pre-seasoned chicken was all that seemed suitable. It was horrible.

thanksgiving oven
My gesture toward the holiday.

it's coming right at you!
Port Jefferson Village

strange things have been afoot at casa george
Tick tick tick. That’s the sound of Port Jefferson running out.