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  1. martinsantos

    Unpopular music opinions

    :D :eusa_clap
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    The Library

    If I had a library like this I wouldn't go out to lunch, dinner, work, anything. Just would stay there until I finish to read all!
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    Happy New Year 2011!!!!

    A great 2011 to everyone! Martin
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    Photography in 30s - the LEITZ Style

    Developing the miniature film - part one n beggining of the XXth Century development of negatives was in trays. Negatives came as glass plates, sheet film or some roll films. So you would develop each negative individually, getting the best result in that particular photo wo the copies would be...
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    Any writers?

    Of course I can't say "I will write a masterpiece". In fact, I would be very happy to write something that I would be proudly about! And the biggest problem I always find is that the stories turn "fake". Hard to discover this, as I like to use "real" stories (a lot of 'noir' material, as I...
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    Vintage Coffee Makers

    These glass percolators in this thread as just wonderful! My grandmother had one. I always liked to see it working, it was very different. And soon discovered that the result was very tasteful, too! :D
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    Photography in 30s - the LEITZ Style

    I agree that fans are boring. From every aspect of life. A friend of mine is a nikon fan. Love those reflex. I hear paciently - ever if I really dont't care about TTL metering, autofocus, etc. And I do not like Nikon results. It's another school and another idea about photography. Cameras...
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    Photography in 30s - the LEITZ Style

    Dear Dr Strangelove. I don't know you, but I started to visit and participate this forum because it's funny and additive. We can find others with the same interests, share opinions and dislikes. readed a lot of older threads, and never found such a reaction like yours here! And even so...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    :eusa_clap :eusa_clap Of course Adorno understood everything wrong. Too much Alba Berg in his ears, maybe?! Once I readed, to justify the errors of Adorno, that he used to listen german jazz, and this would be bad jazz. I don't believe. I think he was too much dedicated with...
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    Photography in 30s - the LEITZ Style

    ...Or Zeiss Contax? Sad to get this type of answer.
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    The demise of VHS

    Sure I remember! The first computer my dad bought (1981 or 1982) had a large memory of 8 Kb, we had to make our own programs. And they were recorded in those audio tapes. Somewhere in home I still have some magazines with "programs", that you would copy (word by word) to try! I don't...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    Never knew about this in Ella's life... Sad. But her life was without great tragedies or something like that, I suppose. (never readed any biography) It was around the 50s? Martin
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    Photography in 30s - the LEITZ Style

    Maybe you're right. Or better, really you're right.
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    Photography in 30s - the LEITZ Style

    As Dr Strange convinced me (look next post), let's take the old crank camera and take photos outside. It's a beautiful afternoon.
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    Photography in 30s - the LEITZ Style

    I really don't know if this is the correct place, or the Golden Era forum. My idea is to show part of an whole system of photography, the Leitz system. We always think first, about photrography in 30s and 40s, in those Speed Graphic. And forget about this genuine product of design of those days...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    I believe that the hallmark of genius of that someone still can produce great art ever with drugs, too much alchool, etc. I don't think Anita O'Day was (is? Is she alive? I don't know) great because her life. She is great when she starts singing. The problem is when we hear someone putting...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    From Bix Beiderbecke, you mean? These personal tragedies can make a good cinebiography - but usually don't help the own musician (by the way, I didn't see Bix's film, just got the LP. I liked it!). In fact, tragedies don't help anybody... Remember the begining of Billie Holliday "self"...
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    Poll: Bela Lugosi's 40's, Poverty Row Films

    Just loved that film! It's a film just with the actor's work, very human and pleasant. And the way the director found to get a "happy end" surprised me.
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    Vintage New Years Eve Noisemaker Anyone?

    I do not have any... But i would like to use a thing like this. Probably makes a lot of "noise". And it's wonderful, too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg_t8kwGifg
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    Most attractive 30's - 40's movie star (dolls for the guys, guys for the dolls)

    Susan Hayward, too!

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