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First journey into 120 medium format photography. Test roll on a two quid Soviet TLR.
Lubitel 166B camera.
Ilford FP4 Plus 125 120 film.
Reddish South station. There were four running lines through here at one time. Rationalisation reduced them to two around an island platform and access to Stanley Bell's wagon works. Today, partially due to the single line bridge (cheapskates) over the M60 near Denton and short sighted railway planning, we're down to one line. No point in providing lighting for the one passenger train a week (the Parliamentary!), in one direction only, to Stalybridge. If you want to ride it, it departs Stockport at 0940 on a Friday, otherwise, you'll have more luck photographing things like the biomass trains or steam specials!
More and more, I'm craving the benefits of an ultrawide zoom lens. The Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 is my dream right now...
Lol, might take me a while, so in the meantime, while I'm saving up the money tutoring, and interning at the hospital, I'll make do with what I have! ^^
Hope everyone is enjoying themselves! Happy week ahead!
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Cheapskate ultrawide technique = panorama :) Take a walk along the docks with me
Had the long running Dukes Of Hazard TV show been introduced in more modern times no doubt it would have been Mattel who would have snapped up the rights to model the associated vehicles but back in the late 70's and 80's it was Ertl who famously did. As a very young child I indeed had the full set of models though sadly they have long gone, you can still find them easily online but they ain't cheap and so in my typical cheapskate fashion I now possess the next best thing ;-p
Unbelievably a few of the associated Dukes Of Hazard castings have been copied in China and means I now get the chance to reacquaint myself with the original Ertl Pontiac Bonneville Police car albeit in a much cheapened form! Made or at least marketed under the T.NA brand this casting shares the same crisp and squared up body of the original with a lightweight metal body and the use of those Matchbox copied wheels so beloved of Chinese diecast manufacturers at the moment. Ironically there are no Police markings on this model of any kind but as a charming oddity it hits the spot! Part of a six vehicle set bought directly from China. Mint and boxed.
Blue hour at the field across from my house in East York, Toronto. I tried for a kind of cheapskate-hipster, Hudson River School Faux Romantic thing.
McDonald's #6983 (3,985 square feet)
2601 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA
This location was built and opened in 1984. It was renovated in November 2019.
The roof was painted this shade of blue sometime back in 2013-2014 and was previously red. It's always good to come across these mansard roofs nowadays since they seem to be dying out around here.
I attempted to photograph this location back in spring, but right when I pulled in the parking lot this skittish homeless guy tried to approach me when I rolled my window down. Being the cheapskate I am I drove the hell away from this property! I'm grateful that the restaurant wasn't renovated over the summer so I was able to go back today and try again.
By Baron Bercott, 1962-65. Brutalist municipal buildings in three main blocks - town council offices in main block, council chamber and committee rooms in municipal suite and a public hall block with 1,200 seat capacity large hall, a small hall and other ancillary accommodation, approved December 1960. Also Westbank block with parking facilities for 300 cars, by Alexander John Macaskill Currell, 1959.
Falkirk Council have recently moved out to the former Thomas Cook facility at Larbert deciding not to proceed with plans submitted by Ryder Architecture in 2015 which would’ve seen the Westbank building demolished and the new building erected on its site. A £20m cut in funding from the Scottish Government in 2017 has been blamed as the deciding factor in the embarrassingly cheapskate option.
Baron Bercott was also responsible for the (now demolished) Callendar Riggs Shopping Centre that occupied the east end of the High Street.
If this were Greek mythology, and Achilles was a cheapskate who wore old socks and walked around an office without shoes, would you blame Paris for shooting at his heels? (Was this label far too tenth-grade-literature for anyone to recognize these references??? Sorry!)
T-Shirt lady at United Skates Of America roller skate rental.
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This lady was friendly enough, but she tried my patience when she decided to follow us on our hike - asking over and over and over, for more than two hours, if we would buy something from her.
Little did she know she was dealing with a cheapskate Canadian. I can wait the blubber off a seal if need be. By the end of the day she was so bored and downtrodden that I convinced her to buy one of my camera batteries, two blades of grass, and a button from my shirt. I make her special price.
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Jim's caption ..............
Hi Bob,
We walked around Flushing Meadows Park today. We heard lots of happy shouting and applause coming from the tennis stadiums.
The ball fields are car parks for the tennis tournaments, charging $25 per space. Football and cricket players are out of luck
Being cheapskates we parked for free a longish walk away. Who gets that $25? Probably not Flushing Meadows Park.
Best wishes,
Jim
by FARGO.
Grafitti on the wall of the oil derrick at the end of Windward Avenue, Venice Beach.
1980s 1970s 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 action activity active adult aggressive ass athletic athlete audio anatomy athleticism baby ball beach body boy beauty beautiful bikini big booty butt buttock board boardwalk carnival clothing coast California cheapskate cheapskates child childhood costume children city clothes color cool couple cute dance dancing day derby disco enjoyment equipment erotic exercise exercising extreme exotic females face family famous fashion feet figure fit fitness friends fun female friend girl girls group happy healthy holiday hand healthy hot ipod lady lifestyle holding holding hands inline injury intense kids lace landmark leather leg legs leisure lifestyle little life lifestyles “Los Angeles” motion model models music male movement moving muscular muscle males man naked nature outdoor outdoors ocean pacific pair pantyhose pinup park parent people performer performing pier play pretty promenade portable pool playing person relax relaxation road roller rollerblades rollerskates rollerskating rollerskater rollerskaters recreation rollerskate radio race recreational retro roll rubber relaxation rink sexy shoe skateboard sports sensual sporting stockings sweat “Santa Monica” satin sex shorts skates smiling style sun sidewalk skater smile sunshine standing skate skating skaters sport street sand sea “Southern California” surf tourism thigh thin trim tourist travel toddler team teen teenage teenagers training urban young youth Venice "Venice Beach" vintage vacation walk woman water weather white weekend women wheel wheels west westside
Nita pulling my strings as usual.
Olympus XA2 compact camera (cost 50p)
AgfaPhoto Vista Plus 200 35mm film from Poundland.
My big vacation trip for 2023 was a week in the Bay Area in early September. While mainly a sports trip between Auburn playing at Cal and one last time to see the A's in Oakland before scumbag cheapskate sleazeball bastard John Fisher moves the team out of town (don't get me started), of course there was a bit of trackside time worked into the plans as well.
On Wednesday morning before driving to the Coliseum for the afternoon A's game, stopped by Jack London Square to see what was moving. Within a few minutes, Capitol Corridor train 529 showed up with the now-usual CalTrans Charger on the point.
Seattle Public Library
Architect: Rem Koolhaas
OK, I know nobody has been counting, but this is photo #200, the limit for cheapskates such as myself who would rather delete an old picture than pay for the premium package.......but I now get to add as many as I like, thanks to my charming wife who bought me the 'pro' title for my birthday (some things one does have to buy if it doesn't come naturally).
This view was taken practically overhanging where we parked on the street--if one looks through the grid below one can see the entry facade.
Seen arriving at London Victoria with a train from the south of London is Southeastern Class 465, 465174.
The Class 465's and 466's were amongst the last designs to be built by British Railways as part of the family of units known as the 'Networkers'. The Networker units comprised of a group of various units to replace ageing DMU and EMU stock on most London commuter lines. Classes under this designation included:
- Class 165/166 units working out of London Paddington and Marylebone to replace the ageing Class 115 and 117 slam-door stock
- Class 325 mail units adding extra capacity to the Mail Train services on the West Coast Mainline
- Class 365 units working out of Kings Cross to allow for earlier Class 317's to be sent elsewhere
And finally the Class 465's and 466's, units built to replace a certain number of slam-door units on the Network SouthEast regions.
The original intention was to build a fleet of at least 700 Class 465 and 466 units to see off a majority of the slam-door stock, unfortunately due to we Brits being a bunch of cheapskates, only 147 sets ever made it onto the mainline, thus stalling the eventual replacement of the slam-door trains until 10 years later in 2005 following the introduction of the Desiro and Bombardier units.
On the plus side, the Class 465's and 466's did see off the Class 415 EPB units which dated back to 1951, and are currently going through a gradual refurbishment by Hitachi to give them updated traction motors and better interiors
We found this Zoltar Speaks machine outside the arcade on the Santa Monica Pier. The button on the front that is lit up says "Español." The sign above the machine says, "Children Only 70 Lbs. or Less." The coin (bill) slot is labeled $100 although the glass says $1.00. In the background you can see a Rambo sign next to the Dance Dance Revolution game—it must be a rough game.
Zoltar has a ring on the ring finger of his left hand, but we didn't see Mrs. Zoltar anywhere nearby. I wonder if the rainbow beads he's wearing are significant.
Zoltar Speaks machines are 77 inches tall. They come in three sizes: Premium (33"W x 28"D), Standard (27"W x 25"D), and Economy (24"W x 24"D). They are priced at $8,500, $7,500, and $5,500, respectively. Zoltar Speaks comes with 16 pre-recorded messages and you can add as many of your own messages as you'd like. There are 23 different messages that are dispensed on paper cards at the front of the machine. The eyes and jaw move and the crystal ball lights up. On the Standard and Premium models the arm and head move too. You can add breathing animation to any of the models for an additional $700. The only address I could find for the manufacturer was www.zoltarmachine.com/.
The Zoltar Speaks machine was part of the plot in the movie Big (1988). The basic plot goes something like this (from Wikipedia):
After being humiliated while attempting to impress an older teenage girl at a carnival, Josh Baskin (David Moscow) goes to a wish/fortune-telling machine (called Zoltar Speaks) and wishes that he were "big". The next morning, he sees a face in the mirror he does not recognize. Overnight, he has become a 35-year-old man (Tom Hanks). With the help of his 13-year-old best friend, Billy Kopecki (Jared Rushton), Josh rents a cheap room in Manhattan and gets a lowly data-entry job at the MacMillan Toy Company. In a memorable scene, he meets the company's owner, MacMillan (Robert Loggia), checking out the products at the FAO Schwarz toy store, and impresses him with his childlike enthusiasm. They end up playing a duet together on a Big Piano, a foot-operated electronic keyboard, performing Chopsticks and Heart & Soul. This earns Josh a promotion to a dream job for a kid: testing toys all day long and getting paid for it. He soon attracts the attention of the beautiful, ambitious Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins), a fellow toy executive. A romance begins to develop, much to the annoyance of her current boyfriend, Paul (John Heard). As Josh becomes more and more entwined in his "adult" life, much to the annoyance of Billy, he soon begins to wish for the carefree life of a child again and becomes determined to find the Zoltar machine to reverse the wish.
The Swedish version of Big was printed on 35mm film and was 2,855 meters long.
In the end credits for Big, Harold 'Whitey' McEvoy was the Transportation Captain. I've heard people say, "Never trust Whitey," but I don't know why—maybe he's a bad driver.
Also in the end credits for Big, Elizabeth Shelton was the Assistant to the Costume Designer. This was not my aunt Elizabeth Shelton; it was a different one.
The person who hired Danny Irom for the crew must have stuttered. Mr. Irom was the Second Second Assistant Director.
In the credits "FAO Schwarz" (the toy store) is misspelled as "FAO Schwartz" ("t" added).
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Update: This photo was used to accompany an article BC Predicts: June Baby Bargain Forecast on May 31, 2009 on the Baby Cheapskate website.
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Reading Class. Chapter 1. One of the beauties of cheapskate film photography, over Canikon consumer photography, is that although we don't have oodles of glossy magazines dedicated to our style of photography in the newsagents, we can buy incredible cheap film photography books at car boots, and charity shops.
The Dining Room is Empty - Let's all go out on a 'cheap' photo date! Hmmm? How about dinner at some lunch truck? A movie matinee? Into that huge 99 cent store? A day at that flea market or thrift store? Look! See that cheaply dressed person! What a cheapskate! Sure... I like Cheap Trick! And VW Bugs! Did Andy Warhol have Campbell's Soup for lunch? Do you remember who "Rosebud" was in the movie Citizen Kane? Funny how so many originally cheap items from our past are worth so much money today. Funny how we cheerish the memory of what came cheap but gave us great enjoyment... So come along on an ODC CHEAP DATE! And Have loads of cheap fun!
This dinning room of this old paddle steamer would have been very romantic in its hey-day. Imagine a leisurely cruise upstream or downstream on the tranquil River Murray at a relaxing pace, along the picturesque riverbanks, past scenic towns while enjoying a light meal of exquisite local river-land produce. Sitting back sipping on a glass or two of a famous South Australian or Victorian wine, served by your own personal waiter. All in this dinning room................
I was cheated.............the dinning room was empty and there was no relaxing cruise and no exquisite food and wine
Sigh.............................all in the imagination
You could dance on this floor.......!!!
Known as 'the Queen of the Murray', she was built in Moama in 1876 as a barge having her steam engine installed at Moama the following year. In 1882 she was taken to Goolwa to be prepared for passenger service and there she was beached. She was sawn in half, by hand, and the two parts were pulled apart by bullocks to allow an extra one third to be built in between the two parts.
In service, her lower deck was used for cargo, the engine, the dining room and galley; the middle deck was used for passenger accommodation while the top deck was used for the wheelhouse and to accommodate the crew. The Gem also had a Smoking Room at the rear of the upper deck for the men and a Music Room for the ladies at the front of the middle deck.
The Paddle Steamer Gem was purchased in 1962 by the then Swan Hill Folk Museum and was towed to Swan Hill by the PS Oscar W, arriving at Swan Hill in July 1963. The expected ten day trip took eight months due to low river levels. Prior to that purchase she had had a long and sometimes checkered history.
Inspired by Senses Fail, gotta love 'em.
Havent actually got there new album yet. It hasn't been reduced in HMV yet, and I've been waiting for about a year now for it to happen. I'm just a bit of a cheapskate to be quite honest!
That's right folks, we buy gold. So if you have any gold mannequins lying around, or even a gold door awning, bring 'em on down to Diamond Dave's and we'll take em off your hands. Tell 'em Hundred Dollar Bill sent ya to see Cheapskate Charlie and will have ya walkin' on home with a handfull of scratch an' a smile on your face...
The Cook Wall Crew
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Roger Corman, tireless producer/director that he was, put out another of his B movies in late 1959. WW is a much more conventional science-gone-wrong story. It also added to a growing sub-genre of science spawned human-animal monster stories. Leo Gordon, who wrote the screenplay, had just given us Alligator People a few months earlier. It co-ran with Return of the Fly, the famous of the human-animal monster sub group. WW amounts to a female version of The Fly but without the transporter technology. Instead, it's the more customary trope of animal juices turn you into that animal.
Shot in less than a week for $50,000, Roger Corman directed this science fiction film about a cosmetic company executive (Susan Cabot) who has found a youth-rejuvenating drug in the royal jelly of wasps. The only side effect is that the taker periodically becomes a wasp and at night slays her victims and devours them.
Synopsis
(never mind that the credits are over a hive of honey bees)
Research scientist Dr. Zinthrop thinks the royal jelly of the queen wasp holds the key to perpetual youth. Hhe promotes his ideas to Janice Starlin, head of a cosmetics company. Starlin Enterprises has been steadily losing revenue since Janice -- the "face" of the company -- has lost her youthful look over the 18 years at the helm. Janice hires Zinthrop. The rest of the staff are suspicious and skeptical. Most think Zinthrop is a con man or a quack. They plot to uncover the scheme. Meanwhile, Janice does get daily injections of the serum Zinthrop developed. After 3 weeks, looks only a few years younger. Zinthrop has a new serum which is even stronger. She tells everyone to plan for a huge new product release that will save the company, etc. etc. Zinthrop is attacked by one of his test animals. The cat reverted from neo-kitten to savage beast with wing buds. Zinthrop, despondent at his failure, is hit by a car. With Zinthrop missing, and impatient with the slow progress, Janice injects herself with the untested new serum. Now she looks remarkably younger. Everyone is amazed. Not long afterward, Janice develops odd headaches. In the lab on night, Cooper snoops right after one of her injections. Now with wasp(ish) head and claws, Wasp Janice attacks and kills Cooper. She also dispatches a night watchman. A few days later, Janice takes the last dose and again becomes Wasp Woman. She kills the nurse assigned to care for Zinthrop. Bill fights with Wasp Janice to save his girlfriend Mary. Zinthrop throws a bottle of acid at WaspJanice, hitting her square in the face. Recoiling in pain, she falls out of a window and dies. The End.
It's interesting how 1959 had three human-animal monster stories. Comparing similarities and differences is food for thought. Perhaps not intentionally, the sub-genre dabbles in the fragile essence of what is humanity, vs. the beastly "nature" side, much as Dr. Jekyll did.
As with most monster movies, there is little or no Cold War analogy. Instead, there is the usual dangers-of-science moral. There is also the hubris of man thinking he (or she) can trump nature -- with the customary fatal results.
Susan Cabot, who does a capable job as the ill-fated woman. She also starred in a couple of Corman's prior films, War of the Satellites ('58) and the peculiar film Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent ('57). WW was her last movie role. Corman movies were no way to grow a career. Michael Marks plays Dr. Zinthrop well enough. His trace of russian accent meshing well with the eccentric scientist role. Audiences had just seen him (briefly) as the night watchman in Return of the Fly. He was also conspicuous as Emil, friend of Mr. Franz the puppet master in Attack of the Puppet People ('58)
Corman's original cut of WW is said to begin with Starlin conducting the business meeting where sagging sales are discussed. This makes the Dr. Zinthrop character a bit of a shot out of left field, but the movie gets going on its own nonetheless. When WW was released for television in 1962, director Jack Hill filmed several minutes of prologue footage. In it, we see Zinthrop as the eccentric researcher employed by a honey company. Instead of working with bees, he has been working with wasps. His honey farm boss is unimpressed with talk of reversing aging. They sell honey. Zinthrop is fired. This prologue sets up Zinthrop and his discovery (as well as need for a patron), so his appearance at Starlin Enterprises is not so much of a non-sequetor.
The poster artist may not have read the script or seen the film. His image of a huge wasp with a woman's head is the opposite of what happens. WaspJanice, like FlyAndre and FlyPhillipe before her, had an insect-ish head and claws, but her own human body. Handily enough, she took to wearing black knit pantsuits as the serum was taking over, so she was dressed for the killer role. The poster does give a refreshing twist on the old abduction trope, even if it's not in the movie. Here, it is a shirtless young man in the clutches of the she-monster, instead of the swooning buxom babe.
Instead of the typical naive scientist creating the monster, we have that trope split in two. Zinthrop follows the role of native scientist who hopes to benefit mankind, but he shows restraint. He was willing to call it quits when things went wrong. Janice took up the task of the fatal misstep, pushed by her desire to save her company and her vanity as a woman. She pushed nature over the edge.
Bottom line? WW is a fairly predictable science-gone-wrong tale, but capably acted and directed. There are enough entertaining moments to keep WW watchable. For fans of The Fly, it can be an amusing other-side-of-the-coin.
Roger Corman directed this science fiction/horror film about a woman (Susan Cabot) who teams up with an eccentric scientist (Michael Mark) who has created an anti-aging cream based on extracts from queen wasps
Another Take.
This goofy but entertaining horror cheapie from producer-director Roger Corman and company involves the efforts of a questionable scientist working for cosmetics magnate Susan Cabot, who is developing a new rejuvenating beauty cream derived from an enzyme secreted by wasps, intended to make women look eternally youthful. A vain woman obsessed with restoring her lost beauty, Cabot insists on being the first test subject. The solution proves remarkably effective at first, transforming her into a sultry raven-haired vixen...until she begins to take on the predatory traits of a giant female wasp, setting out on a nocturnal killing spree. Originally double-billed with The Beast from Haunted Cave, this cheesy monster mash inspired the less-amusing Leech Woman and was later remade for 1980s audiences (i.e., with a higher sex-and-gore quotient) as Evil Spawn.
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Considering the strange and terrible fate of the lead actress -- Susan Cabot apparently lived her own nightmare and was eventually killed by her increasingly browbeaten son -- The Wasp Woman takes on an added poignancy that obviously wasn't intended by the film's cheapskate producer-director, Roger Corman. Here is yet another creature flick hampered by a ludicrous monster costume -- nothing more than a Halloween mask, really -- not quite as bad as it could have been but not very good either. Cabot herself does well enough as the youth-obsessed heroine/villainess and the film does attempt to address both the increasing paranoia regarding aging and science run amok. But the cheesy special effects (if you can call a rubber mask and a couple of claws "special effects") and lack of any kind of budget betray the good intentions. Typical of Corman, the supporting roles are well cast (including the stunning Lynn Cartwright as a Brooklyn-accented secretary) and an attempt to turn modern office life into a sort of Grand Guignol melodrama works at least part of the way.
This is the answer to the exercise problem, yes. I can almost feel my butt muscles coming back.
Paul and I have been skating for about a month now . I hadn't done it in about ten years - I used to be quite serious about it, but then quit in high school because I no longer thought it was cool to have interests.
I think it's the equipment. I'm obsessed with looking up good deals on new skate boots online. these only set me back about $30 because the woman selling them didn't realize she could wipe the dust off of them. I'll probably get a few months out of them, but eventually I want something more modern. they're doing incredible things with padding these days, and I was never allowed brand new skates when I was younger - too expensive for growing feet! (fricking figure skates cost $200+ if you are moderately serious about quality and being able to jump in them.)
How bad to I need one of these retro skate cases now? The white with red trim is freaking adorable.
I've had to stop buying diecast models because I put a second cabinet in but to keep my spirits up during Chemo I went a bit mad and quickly filled it. Now I've come to the point where I have to make spaces and I've nowhere to put a third. Besides collecting starts to get hard as if one is not careful they start buying things for the wrong reasons like filling in gaps. But I suppose I should be filling in those gaps as for instance I've only got one Bedford OB, and as for Daimler exposed radiators I've only got one and that is on a Southport utility. No instead I'm adding a few I liked which I deliberately missed because it was wrong in some way like this Park Royal bodied Daimler Fleetline which cheapskates EFE modelled with their MCW body which looked quite different from the rear. But sentiment plays a part in my collecting and East Grinstead where the same bus XF3 was based was my favourite LT garage and one one night as a teenage spotter when I stranded myself in the small town they said I could sleep in the boiler-room as long as I was out by six. They woke me up with a cup of tea too so nice memories. The next night just like in the teen movies I wanted to sleep under Brighton Pier but forgot it might be cold in January so after five-minutes I went andasked the poiice to put me up in a cell for the night as I had no money. They didn't charge me anything for it lol.
Slightly edited shot of a couple that just got married in Amsterdam, taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing besides some added contrast&saturation :)
You might have heard the expression 'Going Dutch', it usually indicates that you are in the presence of a cheapskate and should be prepared to cough up the cash to pay for your own drinks/food/drugs/liposuction/whatever, because the other person sure as hell won't do it. For the poor lady in this shot it means not going to a fancy Hotel for drinks after her Wedding, as you can see her Husband stole a bottle and 2 glasses and is inviting her to a royal feast in the middle of a public square...looks like a happy Marriage from over here, haha ;-D
P.s. McDonald's is also mocking the Dutch cheapness at the moment with this commercial, lol :))
P.p.s. McDonald's is not the only one making movies about the Dutch, have a look at a film I've made at the same spot on my YouTube page :)
youtu.be/6M4_Ommfvv0?si=lWOy3whulKEoYxNX
"Van Halen"
Another one from a couple of weeks ago here, edited of course trying to convey the feeling inside I get when I don't have to be a boy thing
It's a funny thing this life, I'm happy with Mrs Z she's awesome but then I see good looking girls here and think I wouldn't kick her out of bed. I guess that's the man in me 😜
But what part of me is thinking I wouldn't mind a bit of him making me a woman tonight 😲
You know I'd never but the more you go down the trans highway the more you wonder what if...
What would you do if you were out one night having a few babychams with your girlfriend's and a hot guy invited you into the toilet?
I'd slap him and say pay for a room you cheapskate 😂😂😂
Spooky old alleyways in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. BOO!
Yashica AW Mini compact camera
AgFaPhoto Vista Plus 200 35mm film
The 50p Camera Project 1.
Anywhere hot you appreciate shade; partially see-though shade is even better...
more cheapskate supersampler-ishness!
It’s been a long day, been a long night,
a thousand miles and a dozen fights
And now we head into the setting sun --
it’s time once again for a Walmart run
A gallon of milk -- $2.48
Bundle of socks, I ain’t no cheapskate
But deals are good, saving money is fun --
and it’s time once again for a Walmart run
*Walmart, for the deep discount
Walmart, a pajama house!
Don’t gotta get dressed or put make-up on --
so it’s time once again for a Walmart run
Oh, you hate it, or so you say,
but I saw you there twice on Saturday
Saw you there twice, buying beer and gum --
and it’s time once again for a Walmart run
Gimme some lovin, Sugar Bear
I’ll take you for ice cream and do your hair
Your feet are flat and we’re out of rum --
and it’s time once again for a Walmart run
*Walmart, for the deep discount
Walmart, a pajama house!
Don’t gotta get dressed or put make-up on --
and it’s time once again for a Walmart run
It’s been a long day, been a long night,
a thousand miles and a dozen fights
And now we head into the setting sun --
it’s time once again for a Walmart run
Time once again for a Walmart run...
Time once again for a Walmart run :-)
Roger Corman, tireless producer/director that he was, put out another of his B movies in late 1959. WW is a much more conventional science-gone-wrong story. It also added to a growing sub-genre of science spawned human-animal monster stories. Leo Gordon, who wrote the screenplay, had just given us Alligator People a few months earlier. It co-ran with Return of the Fly, the famous of the human-animal monster sub group. WW amounts to a female version of The Fly but without the transporter technology. Instead, it's the more customary trope of animal juices turn you into that animal.
Shot in less than a week for $50,000, Roger Corman directed this science fiction film about a cosmetic company executive (Susan Cabot) who has found a youth-rejuvenating drug in the royal jelly of wasps. The only side effect is that the taker periodically becomes a wasp and at night slays her victims and devours them.
Synopsis
(never mind that the credits are over a hive of honey bees)
Research scientist Dr. Zinthrop thinks the royal jelly of the queen wasp holds the key to perpetual youth. Hhe promotes his ideas to Janice Starlin, head of a cosmetics company. Starlin Enterprises has been steadily losing revenue since Janice -- the "face" of the company -- has lost her youthful look over the 18 years at the helm. Janice hires Zinthrop. The rest of the staff are suspicious and skeptical. Most think Zinthrop is a con man or a quack. They plot to uncover the scheme. Meanwhile, Janice does get daily injections of the serum Zinthrop developed. After 3 weeks, looks only a few years younger. Zinthrop has a new serum which is even stronger. She tells everyone to plan for a huge new product release that will save the company, etc. etc. Zinthrop is attacked by one of his test animals. The cat reverted from neo-kitten to savage beast with wing buds. Zinthrop, despondent at his failure, is hit by a car. With Zinthrop missing, and impatient with the slow progress, Janice injects herself with the untested new serum. Now she looks remarkably younger. Everyone is amazed. Not long afterward, Janice develops odd headaches. In the lab on night, Cooper snoops right after one of her injections. Now with wasp(ish) head and claws, Wasp Janice attacks and kills Cooper. She also dispatches a night watchman. A few days later, Janice takes the last dose and again becomes Wasp Woman. She kills the nurse assigned to care for Zinthrop. Bill fights with Wasp Janice to save his girlfriend Mary. Zinthrop throws a bottle of acid at WaspJanice, hitting her square in the face. Recoiling in pain, she falls out of a window and dies. The End.
It's interesting how 1959 had three human-animal monster stories. Comparing similarities and differences is food for thought. Perhaps not intentionally, the sub-genre dabbles in the fragile essence of what is humanity, vs. the beastly "nature" side, much as Dr. Jekyll did.
As with most monster movies, there is little or no Cold War analogy. Instead, there is the usual dangers-of-science moral. There is also the hubris of man thinking he (or she) can trump nature -- with the customary fatal results.
Susan Cabot, who does a capable job as the ill-fated woman. She also starred in a couple of Corman's prior films, War of the Satellites ('58) and the peculiar film Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent ('57). WW was her last movie role. Corman movies were no way to grow a career. Michael Marks plays Dr. Zinthrop well enough. His trace of russian accent meshing well with the eccentric scientist role. Audiences had just seen him (briefly) as the night watchman in Return of the Fly. He was also conspicuous as Emil, friend of Mr. Franz the puppet master in Attack of the Puppet People ('58)
Corman's original cut of WW is said to begin with Starlin conducting the business meeting where sagging sales are discussed. This makes the Dr. Zinthrop character a bit of a shot out of left field, but the movie gets going on its own nonetheless. When WW was released for television in 1962, director Jack Hill filmed several minutes of prologue footage. In it, we see Zinthrop as the eccentric researcher employed by a honey company. Instead of working with bees, he has been working with wasps. His honey farm boss is unimpressed with talk of reversing aging. They sell honey. Zinthrop is fired. This prologue sets up Zinthrop and his discovery (as well as need for a patron), so his appearance at Starlin Enterprises is not so much of a non-sequetor.
The poster artist may not have read the script or seen the film. His image of a huge wasp with a woman's head is the opposite of what happens. WaspJanice, like FlyAndre and FlyPhillipe before her, had an insect-ish head and claws, but her own human body. Handily enough, she took to wearing black knit pantsuits as the serum was taking over, so she was dressed for the killer role. The poster does give a refreshing twist on the old abduction trope, even if it's not in the movie. Here, it is a shirtless young man in the clutches of the she-monster, instead of the swooning buxom babe.
Instead of the typical naive scientist creating the monster, we have that trope split in two. Zinthrop follows the role of native scientist who hopes to benefit mankind, but he shows restraint. He was willing to call it quits when things went wrong. Janice took up the task of the fatal misstep, pushed by her desire to save her company and her vanity as a woman. She pushed nature over the edge.
Bottom line? WW is a fairly predictable science-gone-wrong tale, but capably acted and directed. There are enough entertaining moments to keep WW watchable. For fans of The Fly, it can be an amusing other-side-of-the-coin.
Roger Corman directed this science fiction/horror film about a woman (Susan Cabot) who teams up with an eccentric scientist (Michael Mark) who has created an anti-aging cream based on extracts from queen wasps
Another Take.
This goofy but entertaining horror cheapie from producer-director Roger Corman and company involves the efforts of a questionable scientist working for cosmetics magnate Susan Cabot, who is developing a new rejuvenating beauty cream derived from an enzyme secreted by wasps, intended to make women look eternally youthful. A vain woman obsessed with restoring her lost beauty, Cabot insists on being the first test subject. The solution proves remarkably effective at first, transforming her into a sultry raven-haired vixen...until she begins to take on the predatory traits of a giant female wasp, setting out on a nocturnal killing spree. Originally double-billed with The Beast from Haunted Cave, this cheesy monster mash inspired the less-amusing Leech Woman and was later remade for 1980s audiences (i.e., with a higher sex-and-gore quotient) as Evil Spawn.
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Considering the strange and terrible fate of the lead actress -- Susan Cabot apparently lived her own nightmare and was eventually killed by her increasingly browbeaten son -- The Wasp Woman takes on an added poignancy that obviously wasn't intended by the film's cheapskate producer-director, Roger Corman. Here is yet another creature flick hampered by a ludicrous monster costume -- nothing more than a Halloween mask, really -- not quite as bad as it could have been but not very good either. Cabot herself does well enough as the youth-obsessed heroine/villainess and the film does attempt to address both the increasing paranoia regarding aging and science run amok. But the cheesy special effects (if you can call a rubber mask and a couple of claws "special effects") and lack of any kind of budget betray the good intentions. Typical of Corman, the supporting roles are well cast (including the stunning Lynn Cartwright as a Brooklyn-accented secretary) and an attempt to turn modern office life into a sort of Grand Guignol melodrama works at least part of the way.
By Baron Bercott, 1962-65. Brutalist municipal buildings in three main blocks - town council offices in main block, council chamber and committee rooms in municipal suite and a public hall block with 1,200 seat capacity large hall, a small hall and other ancillary accommodation, approved December 1960. Also Westbank block (shown) with parking facilities for 300 cars, by Alexander John Macaskill Currell, 1959.
Council have recently moved out to the former Thomas Cook facility at Larbert deciding not to proceed with plans submitted by Ryder Architecture in 2015 which would’ve seen the Westbank building demolished and the new building erected on its site. A £20m cut in funding from the Scottish Government in 2017 has been blamed as the deciding factor in the embarrassingly cheapskate option.
Baron Bercott was also responsible for the (now demolished) Callendar Riggs Shopping Centre that occupied the east end of the High Street.
No, not stuck to the front of my lens, this was found in one of the Gibraltar Point NNR Visitor Centre aquariums. Could say it was a cheapskate... it doesn't cost to get in. Well worth a visit to the reserve, even if only for the locally sourced café food! Lincolnshire, UK.
Said to be the smallest in the UK this tiny harbour was blasted out of the solid rock and only has sufficient space to accommodate one small fishing boat.
I have recently purchased Photoshop Elements 5(cheapskate that I am) and used it to lighten the shadows in the foreground where there was previously little detail visible. This is my first post to Flickr where I have used Photoshop..
My next trip brings me high up the highest ranges in the world, the Himalayas. And with reports that RX1 batteries would drain to a mere dozen of shots in extremely cold weather, it's a risk I am not going to take, every shot drained, is money lost.
But then a brand new D800 might not be an answer, because I'm used to travel light, mirrorless and all.
Though honestly, just look at those tiny cameras, I doubt they'll have adequate 'cold-proof' above altitudes of 5000++ meters, if any.
Thus, here goes a cheapskate, makeshift full body case cutout, that might just be useful, whether it's just going to be a slight help or a wondrous miracle, I just can't take chances!
Bottom line is, my main camera MUST-NOT-FAIL.
Let's see how well this works.
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Shot from a passenger’s seat while the car was in motion. Maybe I shouldn’t name this structure just a “billboard.” It’s a monster-sized super board and it appears to be twice as wide as it is tall.
This was taken on 15th Street, between 7th and 8th Ave...
What's that? You say you haven't heard of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? What planet are you from? Well, okay, here's the first paragraph of the Cliff Notes summary of the book, the rest of which you can read at
www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/t/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn...
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"When the novel opens, Francie is eleven years old. It is 1912, and the Nolan family lives in an apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. In the courtyard is a tree, called the Tree of Heaven, which always grows, regardless of whether or not it is watered. It even grows in cement, but only in the poorest neighborhoods."
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Or you can read the Wikipedia summary of the plot and the characters here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(novel)
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Or you can stop being such a cheapskate, and plunk down $14.06 to get the paperback version of the book at Amazon, via this URL:
www.amazon.com/Tree-Grows-Brooklyn-P-S/dp/0061120073
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
I discovered this set in an antiques shop in Bradenton, FL in 2007. The owner said her mother had found them. They were a little pricey (and I'm a cheapskate), but so beautiful and unique that I couldn't resist them! I've never, ever seen another similar set. They appear virtually unused. (The photos are awful, so I guess I'd never posted them, thinking I'd take some better ones and never did. I'd replace the photos now, but have stored these safely away and have forgotten where! Will make a better set of photos when I find them . . . I actually do have some ideas where they might be stashed!)
These will go into our renovated linen closet to identify the contents of each self.
I'm delighted that I'll be able to use them soon.
BOX DATE: 2003
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
VARIATIONS: Blonde; African American
BODY TYPE: 1991; molded paisley panties; Twist 'N Turn waist; Shani arms; bend & snap legs
HEAD MOLD: 1991 "Bob Mackie"; pierced ears
PERSONAL FUN FACT: Ah, the name Exotic Intrigue is PERFECT for this lady. I found her at an indoor flea market sometime in 2012, if I'm not mistaken. She was in a small group with mainly Dolls of the World Barbies. Colleen used to buy Harry Potter collectibles from this particular seller, although we had occasionally found dolls at his booth (like my Star Trek set). At some point, he wanted about $6 for each dolly, which was far too expensive for them. Yes, they were indeed collector quality, but I'm a cheapskate generally speaking. I knew if we waited it out, we'd get a deal. Sure enough, the seller ended up letting the dolls go for about $2 or $3 each instead. Some of them still had their shoes! Back to her name...it's very fitting because I found her exotic and intriguing when I first adopted her. I knew that she was "fancy" but I wasn't sure what collection she originated from. Back in those days, I didn't have as expansive of a dolly library as I do now. I believe Colleen actually identified her utilizing eBay. We also discovered that there is also a VERY attractive African American variant, whom I would love to own one day. There is something so very sultry and serene about this gal. I wish Avon still had special edition Barbies, because they are some of my absolute favorite collector dolls!
I am sorry, but this is not good enough. It is not a shopping centre it is three arcades, connected by a cheapskate glass roof and a car park. Westfield has shat upon us big style and enriched themselves big style. This is the city which was pivotal in the development of a civilised and caring society. Is this going to be our monument ? Compare the roof on this structure with that on the Trinity centre in Leeds or the Cabot Centre in Bristol to mention but a few. It is rumoured that the Architect was savaged to death by his guide dog. So be it , but some people should be held politically responsible for for the decision to build this carbuncle and supervise its construction. The Tax Man should be looking off-shore, with a view to confiscating Westfields profits from crime. For chrissake and Ruskin's let's preserve and perpetuate our heritage. Rubbish like this will make it increasingly difficult to determine what our heritage is. Keep calm and carry on shopping.
"Cheapskate!"
...with a rather genius total cost per mile comparison.
Which £100 bargain would you snap up?
Most have no idea how good we had it.
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