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Ay, caramba!
If you want to get into that whole Latin ska thing, you need to check out La Maldita Vecindad, with their biggest hit Pachuco, as well as Inspector, with Amargo Adios, and Panteón Rococó with La Dosis Perfecta and La Carencia. Latin ska is kind of different from normal ska, but I like it a lot, it's uncompromising party music. Enjoy with cold dark(ish) Mexican beer, like Victoria or Indio.... [more]
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at 8:57 PM on June 11, 2008
Oh, and I worked on that Molotov video. I like it, but I think their first album is hard to beat. Try Gimme tha power, Chinga tu madre, or Cerdo.
But some of their newer stuff is good too. I especially like Frijolero.... [more]
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at 11:08 PM on June 11, 2008
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Books on impact of miracles on Latin American politics?
phrontist: I'm mostly interested in the Catholic angle, but I've been meaning to read something on Protestant movements in Latin America too, I know it's huge in Brazil. Here in Mexico, there are Protestant megachurches, with Brazilian preachers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 3:56 PM on June 11, 2008
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Shipping medication from Canada to México
If you can buy it in Canada, bringing it into Mexico shouldn't be a problem. Mexican customs are lax, and won't question moderate amounts of pills that you're ostensibly bringing in for your own use, as long as they're not narcotics. I've never been asked for a prescription. So if you can get someone to bring them to Mexico, that's probably the easiest. I don't know how you'd get them in Canada, though. Maybe fax the Mexican prescription up to a Canadian doctor you know who would be sympathetic?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 9:50 AM on January 8, 2008
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Como se dice en ingles
This is important to get right generally, but not when it comes to Argentinians. After all, they speak Spanish like Super Mario, they have no right to correct anyone else's pronounciation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 9:45 AM on January 8, 2008
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WHOIS that? It's nobody...
I'd like to speak up for the ability of people to find out who owns domains by using whois. It's a good thing, in the same way that business registration records contain the names of the owners, and so on. Lots of people sabotage that, and in .com registries, it's basically accepted, which sucks for people trying to stop spam and fraud sites. Please don't contribute to this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 9:21 AM on January 8, 2008
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photograph large white flat things and make them look beauteous.
Just to add a comment, if the details are really small, consider either a very high-res digital camera or a medium format film camera, to actually get those details without losing them to the grain. Oh, and not too fast film. 35mm film, especially higher speed, is pretty grainy, especially when you want to blow up details, etc.
Or, of course, take some detail shots while you're at it, don't rely on just blowing up details from a photo of the whole thing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 1:13 AM on December 23, 2007
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Someone wants to buy a domain name I own that I'm not using.
From what I can tell, the guy is not just politically extreme, his blog makes it pretty clear he's an asshole. "Jean Francois Kerry"? A picture of Osama Bin Laden with "Vote Democrat" on it?
Yeah, if you're going to sell anything to this guy, name a very high price. I wouldn't in any case, though, but I wouldn't hold it against you if you needed the money.
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at 10:08 AM on September 21, 2007
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Light source that compensates for orange mask in negative film?
I mostly want to do this because the camera I'm using has 14 bits color depth, and if I need to mess around with the color balance a lot in postprocessing, I'm going to be losing color fidelity per channel. I'm prepared to do some postprocessing, of course, but I'd ideally like the image that comes in to be as balanced as possible, to get as high quality as possible out of the camera CCD.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 9:04 PM on September 20, 2007
Yes, I'd like to be able to also scan reversal and B&W, but negative is much more important, and I would be willing to swap the entire light source to scan non-negative stuff.
But yeah, I've wondered about an RGB LED array, I'm just wondering what it'll take to diffuse and integrate the light enough that it's even, and then get it to be even (as much as possible) over a whole 35mm frame. That's why I figured that a pre-made solution might be preferable.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 9:17 PM on September 20, 2007
Fins: How much would that cost? It sounds interesting. I'm not interested in a perfect solution for the orange base color, really, just something that'll give me something decent that I can postprocess afterwards. I'm planning on running calibration film through the thing anyway, so I should be able to get some decent lookup tables out of it.
And yeah, I know about stuff like the Nikon Coolscan, which is very nice. But I want to scan motion picture film, which is a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 9:40 PM on September 20, 2007
Fins: I can get a decent gate for motion picture film for a couple of thousand dollars, for instance from Oxberry. That'll be pin registered and with a pressure plate, which should be enough to keep it flat and correctly registered. That might sound like a lot of money, but a motion picture film scanner costs a few hundred thousand dollars, which is why I'm curious if I can't get decent results out of something more DIY, I'm thinking maybe 10k-20k dollars in total.
The... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 10:15 PM on September 20, 2007
That's definitely very interesting. Will I be able to mess with the color enough on these heads to compensate to a large degree for the orange mask (with the usual disclaimer of its non-linearity, etc.)? I'm assuming yes, since you can use them to produce very strong casts when printing from negatives...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 10:38 PM on September 20, 2007
No one really uses a liquid gate for motion picture film scanning, outside of the people doing restoration work (Oxberry sells a system for some 15-20k dollars, though). Normal film scanners like the FilmLight NorthLight use a standard pin registered gate.
The alignment is important, that's true, I'm thinking about using an optical table with some optical translation stages to align everything. They're not that cheap, but you get pretty far with a few thousand dollars.... [more]
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at 11:37 PM on September 20, 2007
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How do you sue without suing?
konolia: Um, psychiatrists are fully trained medical doctors. That's what separates them from psychologists. They should be as good at diagnosing and treating your problem as any other MD working outside his field of specialization.
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at 10:11 PM on September 20, 2007
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The Last V8?
The C64 game wasn't crappy, as I remember, but it was very hard. The music was awesome.
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at 11:11 PM on August 12, 2006
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What is the purpose of releasing movies on high-definition dvds when they are too old to have been shot in HD?
Films in 10 years won't be scanned at all, most likely. The move to digital is becoming incredibly fast, in 10 years shooting on film will be pretty much a rarity. It's been suggested that there might be a market for a digital system (camera, recording equipment, etc.) that has higher resolution than 1080p (which is 1920x1080, not bad at all), something along the lines of 4k, but no such thing exists today.
An earlier comment suggested that "at least 3" movies... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 12:31 AM on February 9, 2006
dogwalker: Actually, I made a mistake. It seems it was shot on film and HDCAM, according to this list, which was one of the sources I used. Domino and a couple of other movies used HD in part.
filmgeek: Yeah, the cost of film pales on high-end productions. However, film is still more expensive, so that's just an advantage to HD that's not always applicable, it's not that film is suddenly cheaper than HD on the high end. I've also heard cinematographers talk about how... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joakim Ziegler
at 9:17 PM on February 9, 2006
