Jahled

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1188227741/veryhard.jpg They said something about his mother

A strange thread.. but it reminded me of something. Years ago I worked for a paparazzi image agency called Bigpictures here in London, doing little more than spending all day in Photoshop. It was fun for about five minutes working 9-5, five days a week, on an entire photo shoot of 'famous' people, and then got boring as hell. I really have no interest what they get up to in their rather over rated lifestyles, and certainly would prefer to read about something more interesting in the paper on the way to work. There was an incident while I was there which more or less made me leave. Prince Harry, third in line to the British Throne was having a 'quiet night out,' at about the most exclusive night club in London, when the poor lad lost the plot as he was leaving at two in the morning, pissed as a fart, and lashed out at a photographer, all of which was caught on film and camera by the massed hoards of paparazzi waiting outside. The photographer worked for us and later in the day we had various news crews outside our offices ALL DAY! Everytime I went for a smoke there was like a TV camera shoved in my face and a reporters asking if I had anything to say about the incident, which of course I or any of my colleagues didn't, because we had been told not to say anything. But the experience was horrible, and really intrusive. It made me realize what the industry I was working in, and what it must be be like for the 'famous,' having all this on a daily basis. I left shortly after. When Princess Diana died there was a mass-hysteria in London and days of people making right prats of themselves at Buckingham Palace openly crying, etc for this dead aristocrat. I remember one incident when I was watching the news which genuinely made me growl at the TV screen. Some woman was being hysterical and started accusing the media of causing her death, like an idiot yelling at the journalists covering this mass out pouring of lunacy. 'You killed her!' she yelled. No dear, You killed her. The paparazzi cater for demand, and if there is demand from rather sad people actually interested in the 'famous', who actually would prefer to read about some Hollywood divorce battle over what is really going on the world, then the paparazzi will have their industry, market, and profit. And so it will go on. Just an angle. It might help Tofu dude!

^actually there is another picture of this 'captured Scout trooper,' in rebel Endor-uniform out there on the net. Middle aged guy with a white beared. Edit: http://www.tk560.com/endor2.jpg

An orb! So rebel research and development is now confined to consulting with one of Feanor's Palantiri? It will end in madness, I reckon..

Haha The Emperor is clearly an enlightened man and concerned about alien natural habitats, before he unleashes his rage.. in the form of Special Forces dude, Jahled; treading carefully as to not tread on any endangered Slabnoced Frogs as he waves his men into position, with one eye on the ground

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1187609406/jabbakitten.jpg Jabba being shown the plans for his new secret weapon..

Just for a laugh, feel free to vote and comment in the style of learned art critics to my entry here: http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designaposter/entry/?id=1776 Be sure to use words like Juxtaposition between eternity and the moment sort of bullshit, it will be a laugh!! Edit: Follow Jeccy's example!

http://www.jahled.co.uk/Commander_jahled.jpg Commander Jahled 10 Dip 85 Esp 90 Com 95 Lead +/- 15 random for each Can be a General, Capable of troop research. Will not betray side, 20% Jedi Possibility. A commander in the 481st Imperial Combat Special Forces, Jahled is a keen naturalist and once refused orders to clear a rebel insurgent base, until a rare flock of Mohobla birds and been coxed from a marsh by his men imitating grazing nerfs. Whilst this might have been frowned upon by his superiors, his subsequent flawless storming of the rebel base secured his promotion. He leads from the front, does not needlessly squander lives, and has the subsequent complete trust of his men.

Interesting stuff.

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/27426/1187434652/OPTALIEN.gif Foldsfive strikes again. Alien. Woo

Anything less than seven hours a night requires a sturdy ale at lunchtime, to get me through a working day, and the weekend is my special treat! I nice lie in

Fascinating stuff Tex, and $10 million!!!! I got to work unusually early today, swiped the office camera, and went out for an early morning stroll around the zoo. First port of call were my friends the otters who hadn't been let out to their heated hotel room. I moved on, to the meerkats. Something a bit odd, a freaked out keeper opening that part of the zoo was viewing them intently. http://www.flickr.com/photos/56199878@N00/ Babies! They had been born during the night, and with amazing luck I turned up with camera first thing in the morning. Above is a flickr photo stream you can see them, but I didn't have to much time to follow their progress throughout the day on account of there being only two out of five of us in our department. Whilst you will note one is being eaten by the others; which I was assured is completely natural by the Curator of Mammals for their species, (it was born dead, or quickly died) the other two were doing fine when I had a peak at lunchtime. These were the first photographs, we normally press releases stuff like this, so here first!

Wow! That's very interesting Eagle. Nice one for posting it.

Bath time!!

I forgot to point out a little trick I deployed with that gif that's handy for slashing file sizes of gifs. That, for example came out of Image Ready at a whopping 700kb, which is obviously far to large for a gif for any purpose other than raping bandwidth. As you can see, the animation has 'scan lines,' every other vertical pixel is a black line, which when applied to the animation massively reduces the file size, whilst not having much effect on the over all image appearance. Here's the technique, referenced for Photoshop, though I can't see how it couldn't be achieved in Paintshop Pro or other image software. once you have all frames in imageready create a new layer at the top of the others, so it's at the top of the layers panel, then create a new imageready/photoshop file; 1 px wide 2 px deep, transparent background. Fill in the top px black then click edit: define pattern, then, back on the main animation on the new blank layer (which should be transparent), click edit - fill - pattern, and don't click preserve transparency. It 'should' then put the scanlines over all the frames for you and there you are. Finally, to boost the illumination of the now 'scan lined' image, because they tend to make everything seem pretty dark, put an adjustment layer underneath the scanline layer to up the brightness/contrast of all the layers beneath (in the layer menu of photoshop). Huzzah!

Hahahaha My evening is complete! Thank you Tex!

What happens if a moderator comes and deletes this post of yours? Back to seventh place I'm sure you'll have plenty of opportunities to [/cough]spam[/cough] post in the future Tofu. And should Elvis come back, the contest for 6th/7th place could get interesting. Elvis? Yo, The King! Ooops! Wrong one Elvis? Hey J, could you give a knock on his front door (since he lives in your neck of the woods )? Thanks Last I, or we, heard from ElvisMiguel, he was living in somewhere called Croyden, which is extreme South London, kinda next to Gatwick airport. I live right at the opposite end of London in East Finchley, which is bang on the A1, the most northerly access/exist road from London. A hard front door to quickly knock on, in other words. I haven't had wheels for years! An estate agent I think he last said he was. I miss the guy.

I just caught up with this, and nicely Tofu! Good to see creativeness from us lot, though one of you guys' little sister will surely be bawling her eyes out at how you roughed up her teddy bear

IT'S A CLAP!! http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1187016958/clap.gif Our cruisers can't repel clapping of that magnitude!!!

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1186925561/offtoskool.jpg When I saw the source picture this couldn't be helped!

Congrats Mad on 7000, though having not been around for a couple of days, I feel as if i've missed the party!

Book I spotted in our strong room. Check out who wrote it. If your still lost wikipedia Napoleon's family.

In all honestly, this is something that has never bothered me, given it was as aspect of the film I didn't even notice. Greedo basically says he's going to kill Solo, so Solo shoots him. Simple survivability. I couldn't give a hoot what was adjusted in the original or special edition I failed to even notice whenever i've watched any version of the movie! Greedo dies, the film moves on.. A rather good point! Also, takes you to the end of RotJ where the Emperor hadn't foreseen been thrown down the Death Star by Vader, despite frequent mutterings of 'Just as I had foreseen it!' But never mind.. I think there is a wide body of opinion that Dark Empire was a pile of tosh for continuity with the EU, it's quite frankly when I gave up on any of it all. It's a fun and well drawn comic yes (despite the rather rushed Empire's End), but is simply to silly at to many points to be considered a serious addition to the EU. The fact it is why I gave up. I was, as far as I remember, thinking you lucky, lucky bastard, Hayden! Oh come now, given we had to have some courtship with Luke's and Leia's folks, a little romance can't be wrong? Emm.. I'm not sure of this. GL needed a vehicle in which to explain the 'clone wars' and give us the Spartan will of iron frequently referred to with the Stormtroopers. Also, you are basically an idiot (not aimed at you Max!) if you haven't grasped by this stage that Palpatine (as mentioned in the original book) is manipulating events as an excuse to create the military machine that would be the Empire. The final scene of the marching hoards of Stormtroopers watched by Palpatine with Imperial March, explained it to me.. Yoda fighting whatsoever bothered me in the prequels. It simply all looked wrong. I could expand this to the mass battles involving Jedi; portrayed like Supermen in combat scenes, and reality coming across as a John Woo film on steroids. The distinction was red shifted to the somewhat ridiculous in my opinion. I'm also reminded of the wise one's words in ESB; 'A Jedi uses the Force for Knowledge, never for attack.' What was unleashed in the prequels somewhat blew all this away, and lacked any subtly with the deployment of the Force. You are not alone. Look above Complete agreement. Why did he ignore stuff he wrote in the original books? The Mandelorians, for example, described as a race of evil warriors defeated by the Jedi during the clone wars. Why ignore what he's already put pen to paper for tweny odd years and change it in the prequels with no reference to Mandelorians, and having the Fett gene as the clone good guys, in AotC at least? I frown. Again. Again, I can go for this, with comments above you post. I don't really have a problem with Heyden etc Agreed, the saga had to start somewhere. Incidentally, I saw Episode One in the company of a work college who hadn't seen any of the original films, and he simply loved it. I've had my doubts, but your assessment quite obvious.

So I have! That was unexpected, last time I checked I was a good few hundred off.

That's amazing footage, and just to think the baby survived all that! Being mauled by fully-grown lions and then a crocodile!! Excellent linkage E!