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Message # 66251.1.1.1

Subject: Re:Tart Restaurant

Date: Thu 07/01/16 22:34:29 GMT

Name: Malvineous

Email: mrnemesis@ntlworld.com

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By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Thu 07/01/16 03:22:24 GMT

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But look at the bright side......at least wetlook producers are not wasting water when they shoot their scenes.....unlike the messy producers....who waste tons of perfectly good food by applying it to models bodies....while there are people starving for food in Africa.

FYI in the James Bond film "A Quantum of Solace" there was one car chase scene where they trashed 40 copycat Aston Martins just to get all the shots they needed for 1` car chase only....and in the "Transporter" film series they have trashed at least 40 top of the line Audis in each film as well. But while that might seem like a waste ....if they did not trash so much stuff in these films people would not go to see these films....cos unless you do car chase scenes well....you end up doing crappy cgi effects scenes like in terrible Fast and the Furious scenes...which are crap films imho. The fans are not stupid....e.g. in the first 2 seasons of Miami Vice tv show Don Johnson was driving around in a FAKE Ferrari Daytona (a kit car put onto a Pontiac Fiero body) and the fans spotted it and howled and complained...and so did the real Ferrari company file a complaint as well....so everybody was cheering when they blew up the fake black Ferrari, and the real Ferrari company supplied them with a real Ferrari in white for the rest of the series (which they did not destroy).

I must admit....I am a miser...so whenever we trashed props when we were making our wet or messy scenes...we never wasted things that were brand new or in perfect working order....e.g. we once did a pie scenes where the girls trashed a full size Hammond organ with a sledgehammer in my back garden. Now...this was not a fully operational organ....it was an organ I bought from a Thrift store for $50 and I took it home to see if I could repair it and tune it with my other keyboards and synthesizers at home....and I found it was impossible to tune and it was a semitone out of key and impossible to tune with my other instruments....so it was a total dud...so I decided to use it as a prop that my girls destroyed while having a pie fight. We have shot several underwater scenes where we created an underwater living room at the bottom of my pool..and placed a tv monitor and had the girls using mobile phones underwater...but none of these things were in working order....they were already useless items that did not work, so we just used them as props because they could not be salvaged or repaired.

MK

By Malvineous - mrnemesis@ntlworld.com Wed 06/01/16 23:47:49 GMT

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As an amateur historian, even destroying old equipment can be tragic, as you can be obliterating knowledge. There was an instance recently where a US bank had a whole batch of IBM 4704 keyboards shredded instead of letting anyone buy them (even after approached directly by a very dedicated woman who does her best to keep such products in the hands of people who cherish them), which was a horrific waste of one of the most amazing keyboards the world has ever seen (the immensely high grade Model F wrapped up in a 60% form factor), and one that's very rare (since it was never a consumer product). In this case, someone is actually getting replica 4704s made, which is no mean feat! Interestingly, the idiotic bank manager responsible dropped down dead not that long afterwards.

I'm not defending Andrew either — it's a rather sad story altogether.

By Linds - lindsey.ambs@yahoo.com Wed 06/01/16 22:13:46 GMT

Website: https://lindseyambs.wordpress.com// lindseyambs.wordpress.com

A guy I've talked to a couple of times mentioned a restaurant called Tart in Los Angeles. I'd been there several times so I decided to write another story for my blog about my first time there.

I hope everyone enjoys it and thanks for all your suggestions, and positive responses.

Linds