In the United States, Hollywood film production studios are at a standstill.

The coronavirus already has three new mutations that may be resistant to vaccines.

Will it be the end of dramatic art production?

Or what would be the solution to continue producing films, series and soap operas even if the vaccines are not fully effective?

So i've been reading about image sensors (much of it is way over my head) but I'm doing my best to learn and I'm curious about foveon x3 image sensors or at least the concept with regard to video. From what I've read (and much of that is written by foveon or sigma itself so it's hard to know for sure) this sensor or technology seems like it might provide some real benefits. They "say" that it records more color information than regular sensors that don't utilize their stacked pixel sensors as it captures light at different wavelenghts with the use of different layers of silicon within the sensor itself and thereby captures "full color" at each pixel location. This all sounds really good to me but I've looked and haven't really seen any extremely positive reviews of either the sensor or cameras using the sensors. My main question is whether this sensor or concept might make a ripple in video imaging technology or if there are limitations that keep this from being a serious option for sensors in video.

The UK will formally ask to join the likes of Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore in becoming a member of a mammoth free-trade partnership under its post-Brexit plans.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/brexit-uk-seeking-membership-trans-pacific-free-trade-partnership/?fbclid=IwAR3IqE25yLrwZV_I_9hS7ACUrH05W5xkAGouV8dlWvdjBuLox07p6XRw-kE

Huawei Mobile 5G launch-Live

https://www.ebay.com/e/_electronics/shop-all-certified-refurbished-holiday-deals

A government-backed semiconductor manufacturing project based in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has gone belly-up, with key operator HSMC mired in debt. The local government said the project amounts to nearly RMB 128 billion (around $18.7 billion) in investment.

No surprise. Under such oppressive regime, truly innovative things would never happen. If they can't talk openly about real issues, how can they progress forward? According to them, "everything must be perfect." like the Lego world.

Since Y2K, China's food imports have been accelerating. IMO this is the biggest policy mistake. Food insecurity can lead to a major crisis.

This summer they had a historical record in flooding that lasted 4 months. Three Gorges Dam, the worst creation of mankind, made the situation worse. A lot of farming lands in southern China went wasted. Drought leaves some food, but flooding wipes out all crops in affected ares. To make the situation worse, many cities' emergency food storage buildings had burned down mysteriously since the flooding. Some people found rice bags full of stones. Smell corruption?

AFAIK this is likely to be a new weather pattern and high chance of recurrence in the coming years. Suffering of tens or hundreds of millions people in China might be far worse than Syria's.

What did CCP learn out of this? They plan to build 3x bigger dam than Three Gorges Dam that is already the biggest dam in the world.

Even the coronavirus hasn’t stopped the world’s biggest asset bubble from getting bigger. After a brief pause during coronavirus lockdowns in February, a Chinese property boom in some megacities that many thought was unsustainable has resumed its relentless upward climb, with prices rising higher and investors chasing deals despite millions of job losses and other economic problems. In March, 288 apartments in a new Shenzhen property development sold out online in less than eight minutes. A few days later, buyers snapped up more than 400 units in a new housing complex in Suzhou. In Shanghai, apartment resales neared a record high in April, by one estimate. One Saturday last month, nearly 9,000 people each put down a deposit of one million yuan ($141,300) to qualify to buy apartments in a Shenzhen development.

One of the worst outcomes of super capitalism happening in mainland China. This mimics very much like Japan before Japan's real estate asset market blew up in 80's. Capital gains are not going into good investments. This speculative money will boost up into the sky and slam hard into the ground.

Rumors are that during spring Olympus management seriously discussed exact percentage of females, people of color and lesbian/gay in their public photo crowd, they hoped that it can save a day. No in sales, no. But they hoped to apply for move credits using it.

Actually I saw statistics for two largest photo forums - >90% are white (aka supremacist) males, on third one that also discuss video it is >96%.

And it’s getting really everywhere!!!!!!

If I can tell you there is such a chip and it’s packed inside your regular kn95 masks and a lots of regular ones. Would you believed me????

Folks it’s already deployed and running

Why would u use a chip they store location anywhere? From anything any how anywhere.

https://www.amazon.ca/Cultural-Cold-War-World-Letters/dp/156584596X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1597728723&refinements=p_27%3AFrances+Stonor+Saunders&s=books&sr=1-2

Hidden Hands - A Different History of Modernism 4 PART SERIES A series which re-evaluated some of the ideas about modern art.

1. Art and The CIA - Exposed the role of the CIA in promoting the American abstract expressions such as Jackson Pollock after the war.

2. A Clean White World - Showed how an obsession with hygiene and cleanliness that pervaded the Bauhaus and modernist architects had its roots in the fllth and horrors of the First World War.

3. Sleeping With the Enemy - Reviews the roles played by the great painters of France after their country was occupied in 1940 - those who colloborated, those who stood firm.

4. Is There Anyone Out There? - An exploration of the extra-ordinary fascination the early Modernists such as Piet Mondrian and Kandinsky with the paranormal and the spiritualists.

Channel Four 1996

What it means "safe to watch"?
It means that your television set / monitor will become undamaged after viewing this film. All windows will be intact.
No hostages will be taken as the result of viewing.
Brain damage will be minimal. In case if you still have some grey cells they might even get some real work.
And you even won't use bucket for vomiting.

Opposite topic - http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9796/triumph-of-meanness

P.S. Heavy moderated personal topic, post only double checked entries and only after PM me, so no complains. All movie discussions must go into separate topics.

See also as above Zoomable Gigapan image

Thanks a lot for anything on this I'm completely confused :)

Mike

I would read all narrative books, all comic books, to learn how to write...

I would see all soap operas and series to understand how to write stories...

I would see all movies to perceive stories...

And i would go to acting stages classes and performances...

I would study all professions to know about all kind of human work...

I would meet all kind of people in all kind of places to learn about life...

I would never care about equipment and gear...

But i would care about make lots of friends who love art

and I could start a business to make money before think about make movies, so i could finance movies with my own business

You dont need gear, you need script and money.

This devotion to Americana papers over the foreign status of all three gun companies: Glock is based in Austria, Taurus in Brazil and Beretta in Italy. When it comes to feeding the voracious American appetite for firearms, overseas gun makers have not only borrowed U.S. icons—they’ve taken substantial market share once held almost exclusively by American manufacturers like Colt and American Outdoor Brands Corp., formerly Smith & Wesson.

as I DIY a lot and also prefere to get my gear without the "premium price tag" of European resellers, I order things very often directly from China via Ebay. Its the general market place in the web, its quite save, a lot of offers arround the world....oh and you get fucked over quite hard:

If you use the search function in Ebay with "world wide" enabled (and who doesn't?) it does not display all offers that match your search words. It filters out many auctions that 100% match your search, especially offers from China!

I had this issue with Olympus pro lenses for arround $2000 from Japan and tiny parts for soldering for $0.50 from China. I typed in some words to search, got 0 hits and the exact item I was looking for was displayed in the "more items related to.." below. I used copy&paste of that auction headline into the search window and again got 0 hits. I clicked on the item, the auction/item was display properly and also stated that this seller has 935 other items for sale. Klicking on "see other items" resulted in 0 items found.

I was using ebay Germany. So I tried ebay USA - some items got now "found" properly, others didn't. Lately I was using ebay Germany but with a proxy server in between - this looked like it showed all results. If ebay doesn't know where you sit, it doesn't know what to filter for.

I contacted ebay support with this issue:

1. "It can take time to display your auctions properly" - automatic answer, totally off topic.
2. "You should update your browser and enable cookies. The ebay search function is working fine." - standart reply, off topic.
3. "Can you please give an example of that problem" - wow! I did.
4. "We had a look at your problem. This is a KNOWN issue. We are working on it." - What?! Now its a known problem...and not solved..?

But...they solved the problem: Today I was using a proxy server again to get some "single row 2.54mm round pin male headers" for PCB soldering and the proxy-method doesn't work anymore. And it will take them not much time to adjust the "related items..." search function aswell to not display auctions that are not "good" for you.

The only way I know of now to find all items that match a search frase is using Google. But as Google scanns through all listings from time to time, its not up to date and very often you find what you are looking for, but the auction allready ended.

Has anybody any ideas how to get around this censorship?

https://www.creativelive.com/class/adobe-lightroom-classic-the-complete-guide-ben-willmore

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2M0W9hN1ZzxQiLMQeuHAm3C9itYEp3lS