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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..”

absolutes in changing times

Posted on Posted in overnight notes, the meta 
“… fans won’t work..” forcefully said. Why so strong a statement. Does the speaker keep current with that field? Not likely, since they made their fan decision last decade . 
They are defending their prior commitment, as well as pushing for dominance of the topic. 
These are the positions that stop knowledge as they halt group growth.

landscapes format formula
misread to interpret our bias. we read though our eyes
why does he do it
why do you let him — it hurs; but who, and how
a mis-reader: wiley is very widely mis-read.. suffers from wide misreading of such items as the Carmel Pinecone
DW: freshman scan .. a QC crit..
If yo have a point, make it.


craft can’t be difference [defense] — no elite

Dogleash Mysteries

We begin in gasps for air & become capable of words and walks

are poems are backlit [projections]
some people turn every answer into a polemic— making the forum a pandemic of polemics

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state.” – Paul Outerbridge

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” – Robert Frank

Notes on…

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Keyed color processes

Avoiding distractions

Dithering and the ink/pigment print. Pounding one contrast into another.

karoshi”, or “death from overwork”

Three Letters… Separated by amateur hours:

did he gain clarity, typing skill, or something else.

26-May-2012, 03:50

 If needed, add more BTZ, in 25ml / liter amounts. However, you can only do this twice or three times more before you kill your developer.

in a thread: Benzotriazole (BZT) use in defogging bromide papers

years later, 2023:

in thread: Benzotriazole Questions

BenzoTriAzole is the way the components should be divided up, hence, BTA is the proper acronym. BTZ is seen often, but is erroneous.

Note: the used acronym, in photoland is BZT, or BZTA, not BTZ. The enthusiastic expert (above) is typing, or thinking, out of sync. Chemists often use BZT as shorthand. The less used form, although the one preferred by emulsion chemists is: BTAZ 

As in: 

Do not use denatured alcohol, as the denaturant can be harmful to photographic processes.

Do use alcohol, iso propyl alcohol or other water miscible organic solvents. I usually use 1% in DW though.

For a 2% solution of BTAZ in alcohol use 2 g BTAZ in 98 g alcohol. This makes 2% wt/wt BTAZ in solvent.

This is true for any mixture regardless of density. That is why weight is better than density.
Be cautious in handling benzotriazole, especially in powdered form. It is extremely toxic so avoid inhaling the powder particles. I recommend you download the MSDS before using.
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The effects of benzotriazole and bromide are more. detectable at low densities. This is obvious with the observed values for base plus fog. As development time increases or  when agitation is employed the effect of bromide becomes insignificant compared to that of benzotriazole as the density continues to build up with time, the effect of the benzotriazole level ceases to be a significant factor in the resulting contrast and speed values. 

benzotriazole has an effect on the developed density levels with Increasing development time. This is more evident at the lower exposure levels. 

common acronyms to facilitate discussion.

TAI: 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetrazaindene
PMT: 1-phenyl-5-mercaptotetrazole
2-MBI: 2-mercaptobenzimidazole
6-NBI: 6-nitrobenzimidazole
MBTA: 5-methylbenzotriazole
Sodium carbonate (anhy)10 g
Benzotriazole10 g
Water to 1 litre
Ilford IBT

[sidebar on use in film is in my PanF for masking post ]

Dmax of BW paper.

is determined by the paper. The shape of the curve is altered by development. Kodak D-72 (Dektol) can be used as a reference developer when discussing curve shape. Reproduction image used by the eye is based upon toe and shoulder shape. Sharp shoulder and high Dmax is less often chosen that a softer shoulder with lower Dmax. Open shadow seems darker even with the same Dmax. Usual Dmax of glossy paper is 2 -> 2.3; with matte paper is 1.8-> 2.0. Specialty papers (lithography) have Dmax of 3.2

Goniophotometry: the measure of density as a function of angle of light and viewing system