Recently found out that Richard Matheson's vampiric novel, "I Am Legend", is being adapted to film yet again. Thankfully, this time, it appears to be well adapted (just guessing because of who's attached to it and the title is unaltered).
Francias Lawrence (Constantine) is attached to the project as director, which has me optimistic.
Richard Matheson is also responsible for the novels behind What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, Duel, and the two previous movies adapted from I Am Legend are: The Omega Man (1971) and The Last Man on Earth (1964).
Apparently, one of his other novels, "The Shrinking Man" has been announced to be re-adapted ... or remade, since the other movie was called The Incredible Shrinking Man as is this version.
Hopefully, these adaptations will be better than ones before it, since What Dreams May Come is an example of a Matheson novel properly adapted. Given the rich material Matheson writes about, it would actually be difficult to not make a good movie based on them ... but it has happened before. I stay optimistic, however, with Lawrence attached I have no fears. Yet, Shrinking Man has Keanen Ivory Waynes attached as the director ... the "smartest" movie he's ever made was "White Chicks" ...
... Yeah ... Chew some gum it might help get the bad taste out of your mouth.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Tue Feb 21st at 2:22am 2006
Posted by Crono on Tue Feb 21st at 2:22am 2006
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 22nd at 12:36am 2006
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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 22nd at 12:36am 2006
I need a "Thumbnail Generator" guys.
Not a "Web Thumbnail Generator" but a genuine thumbnail making program.
Preferably, one that can do multiple images at once.
Web generators make pages for posting on websites.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 22nd at 9:04pm 2006
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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 22nd at 9:04pm 2006
*bumps*
I know that some of you are prolly laughing but this is becoming a serious issue.
I have found so far:
10 dead links and
about a dozen Web thumbnail generators.
Doesn't anyone know a free thumbnail maker thats just a thumbnail maker?
I do not want an entire webpage, I only want to make a few thumbs so I can write a new tutorial.
Yes, before you ask, I could have already made a bunch of resized images using PSP and don't think that I haven't already kicked myself in the ass for not doing so but, I thought it would be simple as going to www.download.com
What does this have to do with "recently found" ???
I recently found that its hard as hell to find a thumbnail generator on 56k. Just another reason why I hate it. 
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by parakeet on Wed Feb 22nd at 10:14pm 2006
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Posted by parakeet on Wed Feb 22nd at 10:14pm 2006
picasa 2 ^___^ , i bet there's a more specialized program , but google's bit does do the trick..
Also there is ifranview .. which is an image resizing program .. not sure how able it is to mass resize though..
Also there is ifranview .. which is an image resizing program .. not sure how able it is to mass resize though..
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 23rd at 12:54am 2006
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 23rd at 12:54am 2006
I have come to the conclusion, after many hours of effort that... This tutorial will have to wait until I get back from this run.
I never imagined it would be this hard to find a stupid program.
If anyone thinks of a program while I am away, please send a PM with the link.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Dr Brasso on Thu Feb 23rd at 1:44am 2006
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Posted by Dr Brasso on Thu Feb 23rd at 1:44am 2006
why cant you write a macro/script or something for psp jon? it does batch files ok doesnt it?
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 23rd at 1:48am 2006
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 23rd at 1:48am 2006
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why cant you write a macro/script or something for psp jon? it does batch files ok doesnt it?
Doc B...
I may not be the oldest, but I am the oldest dumb person here. What did you just say again? In layman's terms.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by ReNo on Thu Feb 23rd at 2:51am 2006
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Posted by ReNo on Thu Feb 23rd at 2:51am 2006
Macros are a set of actions which you record, and then at the press of a button they are repeated. You could, for example, hit "record new macro" and do the following...
Resize the image to 200x150
Tweak the brightness and contrast
Sharpen
Save the file with "_thumb.jpg" appended to the filename
Close the image
...then stop recording. Now you just open up a bunch of images, select one, and hit the "play" button for your macro. All of the above actions will be carried out quickly and automatically. You can also set up batch processing in most of these programs so that it will automatically run the macro on all the images in a folder, or the like.
Now actually using these tools depends one which on you have, but if you search for your graphics package of choice and "macro recording" or something you should find plenty of tutorials explaining it.
Resize the image to 200x150
Tweak the brightness and contrast
Sharpen
Save the file with "_thumb.jpg" appended to the filename
Close the image
...then stop recording. Now you just open up a bunch of images, select one, and hit the "play" button for your macro. All of the above actions will be carried out quickly and automatically. You can also set up batch processing in most of these programs so that it will automatically run the macro on all the images in a folder, or the like.
Now actually using these tools depends one which on you have, but if you search for your graphics package of choice and "macro recording" or something you should find plenty of tutorials explaining it.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Dr Brasso on Thu Feb 23rd at 3:18am 2006
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Posted by Dr Brasso on Thu Feb 23rd at 3:18am 2006
*quoting reno ....all what he said
he explained it much more clearly than i would have jon....and well he did... thnx duncan....
you have psp9 yes?...im pretty sure you can write yer own scripts etc with it....
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 23rd at 10:19am 2006
Now actually using these tools depends one which on you have, but if you search for your graphics package of choice and "macro recording" or something you should find plenty of tutorials explaining it.
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 23rd at 10:19am 2006
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Now actually using these tools depends one which on you have, but if you search for your graphics package of choice and "macro recording" or something you should find plenty of tutorials explaining it.
Thats the missing key. I would have been sorely depressed had this part been missing because... I use google a lot but if you search wrong, you end up with a lot of wrong searching.
Thanx guys.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Feb 23rd at 5:37pm 2006
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Feb 23rd at 8:27pm 2006
Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Feb 23rd at 8:27pm 2006
Poo. Someone who had previously rated me a 4 dropped me down to a 1 and now my snarkmarks are no longer devilish.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by ReNo on Thu Feb 23rd at 8:45pm 2006
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Posted by ReNo on Thu Feb 23rd at 8:45pm 2006
Awww, what a spoil sport 
Cool that Lep coded that in though ![<img src=]()
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by French Toast on Thu Feb 23rd at 10:32pm 2006
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Posted by French Toast on Thu Feb 23rd at 10:32pm 2006
hah, sweet.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 24th at 5:51pm 2006
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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 24th at 5:51pm 2006
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Awww, what a spoil sport Cool that Lep coded that in though 
Cool that Lep coded that in though Most of us oldtimers are so far beyond 666 that we seldom look anymore but the 666 thing has been that way for a while.
Anyway, I bumped Morph up to a 5 and it seems to have been overkill cause he shot past 666
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Sat Feb 25th at 10:20am 2006
Posted by Crono on Sat Feb 25th at 10:20am 2006
Sony recently released an image for Spider-Man 3 which shows spider-man in his COMPLETELY AWESOME BLACK SUIT. Missing the white spider on the chest though.
I'm just wondering if they're going to have it be the symbiote or what ... Raimi said he doesn't like venom yet here we are. (Also, doing Venom now before, oh I don't know, The Lizard, is a can of worms that can't be contained) I also have a sneaking suspicion they're going to flip the roles of Mary Jane and Gwen Stacey as in MJ = Dead and teach SM a lesson and GS = Bones him when they get married.
Oh well, whatever, Whatever they do will be good, and I kind of want them to adapt the source material instead of just showing it. Something few comic fans can understand, I think. It's just like they started a new title or something. Oh well.
Here's the picture: BIG and Small ... just the way Orph likes it.
Note* Don't get on my ass if you don't like the 100KB size of the small one, they're remotely linked and I'm not hosting them. If someone else wants to: go for it.
I'm just wondering if they're going to have it be the symbiote or what ... Raimi said he doesn't like venom yet here we are. (Also, doing Venom now before, oh I don't know, The Lizard, is a can of worms that can't be contained) I also have a sneaking suspicion they're going to flip the roles of Mary Jane and Gwen Stacey as in MJ = Dead and teach SM a lesson and GS = Bones him when they get married.
Oh well, whatever, Whatever they do will be good, and I kind of want them to adapt the source material instead of just showing it. Something few comic fans can understand, I think. It's just like they started a new title or something. Oh well.
Here's the picture: BIG and Small ... just the way Orph likes it.
Note* Don't get on my ass if you don't like the 100KB size of the small one, they're remotely linked and I'm not hosting them. If someone else wants to: go for it.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Andrei on Sat Feb 25th at 12:27pm 2006
Posted by Andrei on Sat Feb 25th at 12:27pm 2006
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/
I just found this site, and I really got a kick out of it. Especially the forums. You have got to see the forums! I really hope that this is a joke and that such idiots don't really exist.
I just found this site, and I really got a kick out of it. Especially the forums. You have got to see the forums! I really hope that this is a joke and that such idiots don't really exist.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sat Feb 25th at 2:11pm 2006
Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sat Feb 25th at 2:11pm 2006
I couldn't get the image of black spidey to load. Could anyone else?
Re: Recently Found
Posted by French Toast on Sat Feb 25th at 2:43pm 2006
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Posted by French Toast on Sat Feb 25th at 2:43pm 2006
No, 'tis broken.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 25th at 4:18pm 2006
Note* Don't get on my ass if you don't like the 100KB size of the small one,
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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 25th at 4:18pm 2006
? quoting Crono
Note* Don't get on my ass if you don't like the 100KB size of the small one,
But, its such a nice ass...
A bit touchy there Crono? Seems to me that a warning was all it ever took to forestall a gripe, from anyone.
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