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Originally Posted by Godless Commie
(Post 1513782)
I have quite a few more.
Please let me know if it is OK to post them here. I really do not want to be flagged/flogged/banned for thread crapping... Feel free to post as many photos of your amazing world travels as you wish.
Originally Posted by Godless Commie
(Post 1513784)
"A first for me, I had to yield to crabs crossing the road...
Crabs, goats, poultry, feral dogs... None of them cared. Also, I find that cat oddly beautiful. She has a strong and wild look about her. |
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We took ridiculously expensive cameras and equipment with us, and no one except the DP, camera operator and the camera assistant was allowed to touch them.
They somehow trusted me with the Alexa mini. Just the lens on the camera is worth about $120K... https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...09eb56b232.jpg "Daladala" is what they use for public transportation. Crudely modified Toyota trucks with benches at the back, and a guy collects money. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...31c697d843.jpg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...b32a6e6e3.jpeg |
Originally Posted by Godless Commie
(Post 1513800)
We took ridiculously expensive cameras and equipment with us, and no one except the DP, camera operator and the camera assistant was allowed to touch them.
They somehow trusted me with the Alexa mini. Just the lens on the camera is worth about $120K... https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...09eb56b232.jpg I don't have any Arriflex lenses in my station (we use Fujinon and Canon, which are better suited to live-broadcast use, whereas Arri is more intended for cinema production), but I absolutely know what you means in terms of the cost. My news shooters destroy 2-3 of them every year (to be fair, this is understandable and expected given the operating conditions), and it's always painful. This reminds me of a picture I snapped a few weeks ago in the storage room, after we received the last few pieces from an order I placed a few months ago: https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...cac228b396.png The thought in my mind at that moment was "I just stacked $1 million worth of equipment on $300 worth of flimsy wire carts I bought from Amazon. This is utterly absurd." I'm also reminded of a demonstration which went very badly wrong a few years ago at a broadcast tradeshow. A vendor from a company which manufactures a cheap knock-off of the Stedicam was demonstrating its performance using a camera which was on loan to them from Arri when, well, it broke. I never found out what happened between the two companies afterwards. |
There is no land ownership. Land and trees belong to everyone, and no one claims ownership.
If you need a home, you just build it anywhere you want, without infringing upon others. Houses do not last very long, because torrential rain season. They just build another one rather that deal with repairs and whatnot.. Tree trunks, limbs, driftwood, palm fronds, whatever is handy is used... https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...4138c5aa1.jpeg Then they build walls using mud and rocks as filler... https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7bb048a2de.jpg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...07ac543734.jpg Kombu, a resident of Mjongoni, just abandoned this house after the walls got washed away during the rain season, and built another one about 100 yards away... https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...5f08147afc.jpg |
Originally Posted by Godless Commie
(Post 1513802)
Kombu, a resident of Mjongoni, just abandoned this house after the walls got washed away during the rain season, and built another one about 100 yards away...
This has the side-effect of making me feel like an old man who will experience no further wonders... |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1513811)
I feel as though I am living vicariously through you.
This has the side-effect of making me feel like an old man who will experience no further wonders... |
Originally Posted by Godless Commie
(Post 1513812)
I am quite a bit older than you, Joe..
Many of the people with whom I work have spent the whole of their lives working at a single job, with a single company, within a single state, within a single country, and they feel perfectly content and satisfied with that lifestyle. One of the odd side-effects of becoming a director at a young age is that you have to attend the retirement parties of people whose greatest achievement is having spent 40-50 years working for the business which I now control. This also has the uncomfortable effect of marking me as a "newcomer" within the business from their point of view, and therefore less a member of the group defined as "us," as compared with those people who have just been mindlessly punching the clock for decades, doing the same thing every day and never seeking to improve. While I recognize that I have already exceeded these limitations by a great deal, the idea that the second half of my life might be spent within such sheltered confines is more terrifying to me than the prospect of even the most painful and horrible death. |
Originally Posted by hi_im_sean
(Post 1513752)
Van Gogh, because he cut off an ear.
Boss is having me plot this on 4ft wide paper to hang on the workroom floor for operations personnel to ponder at. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...b59e87918d.png Its a Brady label that I modified a bit. Erat might like this. |
OH man. This got me re-reading his 14 points and 7 deadly diseases. I am a believer, and now I have been reminded at why I think our present management are ...... We were thinking they were operating by a 1980's playbook, but, in fact, it is a 1930's playbook.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...fb0d593b37.png Revolutionized Japanese industry when sent their by MacArthur after WWII. I like this quote the best: "the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable" He also proved that statistically based census is more reliable than 100% census, but the US Government still tries for the 100 style. |
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See next post. I fail on occasion, and somehow was not able to edit this one.
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Cold air intake (old picture from this site, another thread):
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Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 1513867)
Wm Deming would fire your boss. Why not train people properly instead of relying on printers to do it for you?
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Originally Posted by hi_im_sean
(Post 1513906)
Lol, you have no idea what you are talking about.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1513811)
I feel as though I am living vicariously through you.
This has the side-effect of making me feel like an old man who will experience no further wonders... http://www.philsp.com/data/images/e/...ures_v1_n3.jpg |
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