Friday, July 11, 2014

Charles and David Goldstein


19 comments:

ampersand said...

I took out "Days that Shook the World" ,a 2003 BBC documentary,from my library.
It documents historical events ,generally juxtaposing 2. I am watching Kennedy's assassination and Nixon's resignation. Not once, not twice but three times the narrator states that in November 1963 Texas was a hotbed of Radical Republicans.

In reality in 1963 Texas the Vice President of the United States was a Texas democrat. The Governor and both U.S senators were democrats, 22 of 24 U.S congressmen were democrats, 140 out of 150 state representatives were democrats and all 31 state senators were democrats.
They also described Castro as "the Socialist Liberator of Cuba" and Lee Oswald as "a Young man"
These are some of the people who control past present and future.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Nice work Chip.

Unknown said...

Ampersand - what gross propaganda.

The modern left want the kind of power Castro created for himself these decades. A nation where the elites are rich and the rest of us are poor and dependent on the state.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

It must have taken quite a bit of time to do that.

Unknown said...

Has Harry Reid been yammering on about the Koch brothers again?

I assume Harry wants to write an amendment to the constitution that bans the Koch brothers.

Unknown said...

related: Nancy Pelosi is frightening.

deborah said...

Okay, am I the only one who finds Kelly's faux indignation annoying?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Okay, am I the only one who finds Kelly's faux indignation annoying?

The makeup and the lights could be insurmountable speed bumps on her way to expressing a genuine emotion.

On top of that, she wasn't talking to a live person, but an imaginary one.

Not that I'm taking her side or anything ;)

deborah said...

:) uh-huh. I think she looked so much cuter with that short haircut (bob). I don't care for her hair swept back like that.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Even when good enough to be overwhelmingly approved, shooting it into instantaneous success... it was hardly perfect.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Very cool. Nice job Chip!

Chip Ahoy said...

Thank you, Lem. It did take some doing, but I got a system.

It is two YouTube videos where I go
screensave screensave
screensave screensave
screensave screensave
screensave screensave
screensave screensave
screensave screensave

For both videos.

Then onto one frame I go select/copy/delete/paste/next
select/copy/delete/paste/next
select/copy/delete/paste/next
select/copy/delete/paste/next
select/copy/delete/paste/next
select/copy/delete/paste/next

With both videos, Reid and 1984

These are the two files to draw from.

After that it's all layers, layers, layers, layers, layers. over and over an dover and dover Endover Endover. Until I go insane.

Then crop out the whole thing except the YouTube video portion. Reducing the two files considerably. Save.

And do that with both videos.

So a lot of repi repi repi repi repitition.

Then choose the frames I want to keep. Narrowing it down greatly. I have way more Harrys than needed, and a lot more backgrounds than needed too.

I had to outline Reid six times. This was most of the work. But I saved the paths and used two twice for a savings of two Harry Reid paths. So eight Harry Reids for the effort of six Harry Reids. Ridded the Harry's of their backgrounds.

The paths are turned to selections, the selections feathered and inverses so the background of Harry disappears.

A new file is opened that will be the final thing. The two existing stacks are resized for the new one.

Both piles of screensaves are copied to a stack of layers in one new PDF file, each to be a different video frame. From both original videos. Reid and 1984.

The new file starts out as a stack of 8 Harry Reids. Everything else goes away. I erase it off my laptop to make space.

The Harrys are lined up by the reflection on the wood podium. I expand the window to huge then on a new layer make a mark on top of the wood reflection dot, and line up each Harry with that dot, actually a few pixels. That mark layer is discarded after the placement of each Harry is found.

The stack of 8 Harrys is copied and pasted 5 times, for 32 Harrys in sequence without knowing how many backgroundless Harrys will be used.

Between each Harry I slip a frame from 1984 as background. Some of the frames of the crowd do not get a Harry.

The original two files are discarded. Now there is only one PDF open in Photoshop, only one on my harddrive.

Compress each set of Harry+background. Saving with each move.

You see, *strikes a pose* I've become rather handy at the perspective tool too. So I can take any Harry and shrink him, perspectivify him, for the last frame in accordance with that frame's perspective.

Write words, Change INGSOC to DEMSOC

Frames are derived from the layers. A row of frames is generated from the stack of layers. Each frame given its own timing.

The timing goes 4,4,2,2, 2, 1.5,1.5, 1.5...4.

At last the file is saved as gif and not as jpg and comes out to be 2.3M and that is way too big, because nothing is shared between frames. And optimized with less colors is unacceptable. I tried several ways. None looked good. That is the frustrating part.

I resorted to online optimization, and that brought the file down to 900K which is still frighteningly large but acceptable.

And this is the story of the gif.

Aw, bless. You're asleep already. *turns off light*

Deb, I was not annoyed with that Fox lady. I happened to hear it earlier but did not see it. She's reading. I think she's lovely. And spot on. I did not detect falseness. Pelosi, on the ohter hand, is annoying as h-e-double cattle prods, and stupid and should know better, but apparently doesn't. In her, I sense vast insincerity.

And anyone convinced by Pelosi is stupid too. Too stupid to bear.

But I was very annoyed at that guy stammering. When Kristen Powers came on, I go, "Okay, I-i-I-I think, Kristen, let's hear your stuttring." But she didn't! Then the guy came on and picked up the stammering slack, no Fox interview is complete without that.

deborah said...

"I did not detect falseness."

I retract the word faux. She just lays it on a little heavy for me.

Lydia said...

deborah,

I'm with you on the laying it on too thick. In general, I think she comes across as over-rehearsed.

I do thank her, though, for telling us about Reid's saying the Hobby Lobby decision was one made by "five white men". How did I miss that in all this mess? Maybe the MSM ignored it?

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

There's an evolutionary explanation, probably.

deborah said...

Lydia:
"I do thank her, though, for telling us about Reid's saying the Hobby Lobby decision was one made by "five white men". How did I miss that in all this mess? Maybe the MSM ignored it?"

I missed it too, as I didn't pay much attention to the HL case. Turns out Pelosi could have been more specific; they were five Catholic men.

But saying they were talking about diaphragms, and whatever else she said should be actionable by her fellows. I would love the Republicans in the House to bring her up on some sort of morals charge like violating her congressional oath by publicly lying.

Unknown said...

Kelly is the anti-MSNBC. The anti- Rachel Maddow. I like her.

via hot air:

"Exit question: "If your birth control isn’t your boss’s business, why are you asking your boss to pay for it?"

Aridog said...

For the record, I like Megyn Kelly in her current role. She seems capable saying what others either miss or ignore. She had no problem mentioning that "5 white men" remarks of both Pelosi and Reid. I suspect Clarence Thomas is amused, as well as Steven Breyer...who was a member of the dissent.

Unknown said...

It's all about base racism, tribalism and sexism with the modern left, isn't it?

They can't even do it with a shred of honesty.