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  The tall bar was a lot easier than 7 years ago.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq6yz_QRMBo Final waterfront run was probably finished today. Pleasantly surprised by some random shots, letting the camera drift sideways & the lion move out of frame.  Another trick was letting it drift in & out during a diagonal shot.  One that wasn't done was running towards & behind it.  Definitely looks better the farther away it is but the drogue just isn't practical for sideways shots or crowded areas.   Based on how long ago the last waterfront run was, lions don't expect to do it again.  It was Dec 2024.  Manely a time limitation, among other things.  ------------------------------------------------------------  Tried getting across the bridge in RC & got bounced in short order.  Was so frustrated, cut the power instead of doing a power button shutdown.  The pro lost the file & wrote over the sectors. h...
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  Lions get nostalgic for dreary days of long ago, during extended heat waves.  Stroads worked when there wasn't a lot of traffic.  Not so much in today's extremely crowded world.  Most of the stroads existed before lions drove.  Crow Canyon was the local stroad.  It's manely shuttered now.   A lot of lion childhood was spent on Newark Blvd, Santa Rita Rd.  Lions would live on a stroad in Titusville.  Ocala has similar rents, for now.  The best deals are all low income but not age restricted, so they only show up on apartments.com instead of after55.com.  The income limit is $40k.  Upon retirement, it'll probably be $60k.  The object of the game is to distribute enough IRAs & make enough interest to get above the ACA minimum, below the ACA maximum & below the rental maximum.  Of course, full price might be a better experience.  FL*rida now has joined Calif* in rent inflation. Reviewing weather d...
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IT 2019

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A potato quality copy of the final installment of the 4 episode IT franchise arrived on the hard drive.  It was a quite a step up from the other 3, a very enriched envisioning more faithful to the 1990 version & probably the book, if lions ever finished it.  Of course, actually pacing is very slow in digital movies.  It only feels fast because of high speed playback.   It seems an increase in budget after the success of IT 2017 allowed them to revert some of the plot points back to the original text, like bringing the abusive father back to life & having the heroine hit it off with an abusive man instead of the alpha male depicted in episode 1.  They might have bent those points assuming it was going to be a flop.    Noted a living breathing ARRI film camera with a magazine full of money.  Funny that the magazine had IT 2 printed on it, with a shooting date in 2018 while the movie was set in 2016.  The director was an actor &...
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