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Middletown, CT
The Inn at Middletown
This is funny if you got a minute: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0
From the back.
Nikon F65. An Ilford 35mm B&W film, but I can't remember if it was a Pan F Plus, Delta 100, or FP4 Plus 125. It was definitely an Ilford film as the only B&W films I used were from them.
We were going to have dinner at a friend's place, and as soon as we enter the building, this is what welcomes us...
One certainly felt like running backwards and get the hell out of there on time! LOL.
Homage to Stanley Kubrick
184th and Broadway,
New York
(Taken with 3G iPhone)
self-portrait with Lois at her house
"Should have taken acid with you
Melt our tongues and become unglued"
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Canon 6D Mark II and Sigma 24-105mm f4.0 Art lens.
[Made a typo saving the photo. I decided to keep it. :)]
'Well, you know, Doc, when something happens, it can leave a trace of itself behind. Say like, if someone burns toast. Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind.'
Upload for Macro Mondays Stephen King Challenge.
Strobist info - SB900 at 1/16th power in 60cm soft box camera left about 75cm from subject and a little higher. Triggered with on board flash.
Processing - used a Lightroom preset called " A Farewell to Arms" which I then tweaked a bit to get this effect. Looking at the image now at lunchtime on Monday I think the axe handle is a bit over exposed. I may fix this later.
This is the Hotel Bethlehem. Above it gather the clouds of a terrible storm. Moments after taking this picture, the skies opened up -- terrible rains hammered the ground, like beads of liquid gunmetal wrought by the teats of Thor himself! Soon, the clouds parted, and a writhing mass of tentacles emerged --
Okay, no, that didn't happen. And no, this ain't a spider shot -- I've only got a few more of those, gotta parcel 'em out.
This really is the Hotel Bethlehem, but those clouds aren't really there. I put 'em there for effect.
Cheating, I know. So it goes.
I mentioned it yesterday, but I'll mention it again today --
If you're interested in finding out how I edit photos (adjust, not wholesale manipulate), read on:
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Day 306 of 365 - All Work And No Play
Macro Monday 11/02/09 - Stephen King
I tried to recreate a still I found out of the movie; in retrospect not sure the hand works here but it's ok. You get the idea. The shot in the comments I did some time ago and I thought I would include it as it works really well for the theme this week too.
The texture I used for the paper was provided by borealnz. Thanks!
I wondered if my lone Lilith (Smoke and Mirrors whose twin, Trouble, I have never owned) might be a good twin to my new Eden (Not Pretending) who for now at least doesn't have a matching sister! I decided to dress them in matching dresses and once I did this they suddenly reminded me of the Grady twins in The Shining. So that meant I had to create a suitable diorama... Anyhow I think they look quite good together, what do you think?
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You may recognize the Timberline Lodge in Oregon as the Overlook Hotel in the classic horror movie "The Shining." Although the interior shots were filmed on a soundstage, the exterior shots were filmed right here at the Timberline.
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At 101 years old this year, the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado has seen many guests in its time; celebrities, presidents, the well-to-do and the not so well off have entered through its doors over the last century. Most have left again... but not all.
A member of the historical hotels National Heritage list, the Stanley is also well known for being among the most actively haunted sites in the United States. Built in 1909 by F.O. Stanley for his wife Flora, the hotel is said to be haunted by the couple, by the man, Lord Dunraven, who owned the land before them, by past guests and by former employees. The isolation of the hotel amid the beautiful Colorado Rockies, and the old-world, "different" feel of the place was strong enough to inspire Stephen King when he stayed there the night before Halloween in 1974 with his wife. They were the only guests that night, and King spent many hours wandering the old corridors. The result of that night was a little novel called, The Shining.
We recently had the pleasure of attending a ghost hunt at the Stanley hosted by the TAPS crew who make the SyFy TV series, Ghost Hunters. It was great fun, and we did experience a few "odd" things. Many of the people who were there with us had more dramatic experiences.
But more of that next... :-)
I just finished reading one of King's newest books, The Outsider. I enjoyed it very much, but it was quite obnoxious to come across his passive aggressive shot at Kubrick yet again.
It has been 40 years, & he still can't get over it. His attitude is insufferable.
I think King is a brilliant writer & I love his work, but he needs to get over it.
This line in particular about younger directors being more risk takers is particularly ignorant.
The level of craftsmanship in Kubrick's work post 2001 are impeccable, & still very influential today.
It would have been very easy if Kubrick decided to just make a word for word adaptation of The Shining.
Instead, Kubrick made it more of a surreal psychological experience. The steadycam work was still really new at the time, & the camerawork in general adds to the unsettling feel of the film. It was a creatively rich film.
As for Barry Lyndon (which is one of his best), one of the big things that interested Kubrick was using the 50mm F0.7 lens to shoot the scenes in candle light. This was immensely difficult & challenging to get right because of the extremely shallow depth of field. I'd say this counts as "risk taking" because of the immense challenge & if it didn't turn out, it'd have forced Kubrick to make the film in an entirely different way.
King whinged & whinged to Kubrick to get the rights to make his own version of The Shining, which he granted on the condition he cease publicly attacking his film, but he continued to do so after he died.
I loved this miniseries version of The Shining as a kid, so I do have a soft spot for it, but objectively it is nowhere NEAR the quality of Kubrick's film.
What Kubrick omitted was pretty much stuff that wasn't going to work on film anyway. Things like moving hedge animals & firehoses coming to life aren't scary.
The hotel blowing up is a Hollywood cliche. Kubrick avoided cliches. The hedgemaze worked much better for what Kubrick was aiming for.
One of the things King attacks him for is changing his characters. Well, Mr. Barlow in Salem's Lot was a cheesy & lazy Nosferatu rip off. He didn't have a problem with that.
Pennywise in the dreadful 1990 miniseries of It was more for laughs & didn't have the intensity of the character in the book. King approved of that.
He has also said Kubrick's Wendy is the most misogynistic character in film history, which is not only ignorant, but hypocritical if you ask me since he recently came out & said he'd love to write a Friday the 13th book from Jason's POV.
The purpose of a woman in Friday the 13th (or any slasher, which is the laziest kind of horror you can make) is to take her clothes off & get killed.
The miniseries scared me a lot as a kid, particularly the woman in the bathtub, but seeing that scene as an adult it is very cheesy. There is so much makeup used which I think makes it look fake. The character also talking to Danny takes away the scare element in my opinion.
Kubrick's film, & this scene has gotten under my skin a lot more as an adult. The sound design, lack of dialogue, & the cackling laugh of the old woman is really creepy.
I actually just watched the film a couple of weeks ago because this year is its 40th anniversary, & this scene is quite nightmarish.
King doesn't know anything about cinema as an artistic medium, or the craft.
Again, I think he is a brilliant writer, but his shots at Kubrick 40 years later is childish & obnoxious.
Kubrick also didn't keep attacking King or his book publicly either.
This is the Front Lobby of the Stanley Hotel. If you've seen the 1997 miniseries, "Stephen King's The Shining" you'll probably recognize it as it was shot at the Stanley. Guests who visited the hotel before the miniseries was made, however, will probably be confused. A favorite question that tour guides ask is "what kind of wood do you think this is on the walls?". The answer is: plaster. The Stanley Hotel was decorated by F.O. Stanley's wife, Flora. She loved bright, clean rooms, so the entire hotel was painted white.
Stephen King made it a condition of the filming of the miniseries in 1997 that they use the Stanley Hotel as the location. He hated the fact that Stanley Kubrick had chosen not to use the Stanley Hotel either for the interior or even exterior shots for the film version of "The Shining". However, both Stephen King and the producers of the miniseries decided the hotel didn't look "foreboding" enough being all white. They asked the hotel management to allow them to paint all the plaster columns and beams to look like wood, which was agreed to. So all the wood you see here is actually paint as applied by Hollywood special effects people. They also replaced all the light fixtures with period fixtures. After F.O. and Flora Stanley died the hotel struggled to remain open. All the original period light fixtures were sold decades ago as the hotel lurched from one foreclosure to another. The hotel management and the producers signed an agreement that the paint and lights would remain untouched for a period of time (can't recall how long). I also believe the hotel can ask the studio to return the hotel to its original look following that... which they haven't, of course!
The level of mastery shown in the paint technique is unbelievable. I've stood right next to the columns and stared at them. You cannot tell they aren't varnished wood until you touch them. It's an amazing tribute to the workmanship of people working in Hollywood.
Equally amazing is the fact that nearly the entire first floor is painted with faux wood, as are all the landings and other places you'd expect to see wood (like staircases) on the other 3 floors of the hotel. The only room on the main floor that was spared from the faux wood look was the old haunted Music Room which was left in its original white decor. Legend has it that Mrs Stanley herself haunts that room, so it's probably a good choice!
I wondered if my lone Lilith (Smoke and Mirrors whose twin, Trouble, I have never owned) might be a good twin to my new Eden (Not Pretending) who for now at least doesn't have a matching sister! I decided to dress them in matching dresses and once I did this they suddenly reminded me of the Grady twins in The Shining. So that meant I had to create a suitable diorama... Anyhow I think they look quite good together, what do you think?
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Today is the birthday of actor Jack Nicholson. So my uncle suggested making some popcorn and watching a double feature containing “One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “The Shining”. I thought that was a great idea, specially the popcorn part, but I thought that those movies were not really something for a small sheep. One was too sad and the other too creepy. I put forward the motion to watch Chinatown, because that’s about a detective back in the olden days, definitely more of a sheep movie. So we watched that and it was a great choice because it even had some sheep in the movie! That made me very happy and so I renamed the movie Chinashaun :-)
Happy Birthday Mr. Nicholson.
When I first entered Jean Sol Partre building corridor I immediatly thought of "The Shining". I didn't say anything however.
When we went down JSP told me "Have you seen, this is The Shining corridor. I didn't say anything before ...."
The Overlook Hotel Corridor sequence, shot with the subjective low point of view, is definitly one of the strongest movie sequence you can hardly forget !