Category: lost horizon

Texas in: 3 Movies

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three movies I recommend to those of you new to Texas… ones I discovered after living here a few years.

The struggle with voice: an accent that isn’t southern, yet out of tune actors, regularly mimic a southern drawl in playing a Texas accent. The sound of Three Burials is the voice of West Texas. The title’s keyword is Melquiades. Chosen because it is difficult to pronounce by the non-Spanish speaker. Listen to Tommy Lee Jones as he speaks. Watch as he mounts, sits a horse. Even the small parts — how he is comfortable with a pistol in his back pocket.

Not the standard Hollywood western — certainly not a Western for an air-conditioned theater. It was filmed in Texas. Even the Mexico scenes. This is Tejas. It is the one film I’d suggest for those of you short on time. It was prompted by actual border events. The key scene is the one in the shack with the blind man.

“In 1997, a group of marines, purportedly on a drug interception mission, shot and killed 18 year-old Esequiel Hernandez Jr. “in self defense.” Hernandez, who was armed at the time and whom the marines claimed fired at them, was outside herding goats. It was the first murder of an American citizen by military personnel since Kent State. “

Three Burials:

Three Burials trailer…
” i like the way Spanish sounds…”

Filming locations in Texas included Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Lajitas, Midland, Monahans, Odessa, Van Horn, and Redford

Dallas Buyers Club:

DBC is likely the movie you’ve seen. It is an excellent film providing the other side of Texas. The voice is another flavor: Matthew McConaughey. This too was based upon a true story.

Dalls Buyers trailer

Dallas Buyers is the most familiar movie of this lot. It is also the movie that is more revealing about the Man’ Man nature of the Western Man.

Bernie is the other side of the Dallas Buyer’s Club.

Bernie:

The third movie is also based upon actual Texas events. In Texas, as in most of the US, life is a fiction awaiting a script and a casting director.

Bernie trailer

My rewatch section is the telling about the sections of Texas.

“life behind the Pine Curtain..”

Calvin and the Shallow Market

Posted on Posted in film, Getting Stuff, lost horizon, the arc, The Biz

The try-buy: one order to try, then done.

A one-buy try and done. The curious will lead you into market deserts — a product for his own use if more useful.

First Factor of Success: willing to fail

The pigment market exists because of the failures of …. nope. It exists as an extension of the alt-photography born in the alternative 60s. Finding a different way, a distinct path was a significant landscape of the 60s conversion of photography and art. Pigment printing, gum or carbon is advanced as being archival, long-lasting, and durable; far more lasting than dye-based photography.

“After two years of research, the Natural Pigment color pastes are now on sale. I also restocked the synthetic pigments, and updated the yellow. “ 2022

I thought the pigments didn’t succeed in market, but reading his current site, they are all in stock, in different packaging than before, ready to ship.(Jun 2023) ‘rl’

Often, shallow markets are maintained by persons supplementing their worklife, bringing skills of one field into another. Electronics crosses into chemical darkroom.

// pools: why don’t they readily form? LFF /Kodak requires proper intermediate — success bridge gap// age-skill

ability to recover. resilience after failure. time to fail. Salvich/Efke ..

//how does Backer Market work, succeed in funding success.

Can it support you, how well, for how long. Can you grow; more people, more products.

Why aren’t others making, doing what you do? Questions any investor would ask; ask yourself. Sometimes the only answer is that it is the only thing you can do to satisfy the deeper part of yourself. That part unreached by financial analysis.

Your reason can be, as many people’s are: you hangout with interesting people.

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