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5 Famous Actors Who Hate Their Most Iconic Roles
Most actors spend their entire lives waiting for that one role that will make them famous -- most never find it, and that's why we don't have to carry our food ourselves in restaurants. But then there are some performers who finally get their lucky break, that magical part that they'll forever be linked to ... and they fucking hate it. Here are five famous actors we probably wouldn't know about if it wasn't for a character they despise.
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#5. Sean Connery Wishes He Could Kill James Bond
Before being the first James Bond, Sean Connery was just another ex-coffin polisher, footballer, and babysitter with a magnificent accent. After Bond, he was ... well, James Fucking Bond. The guy is like 100 years old and hasn't been in a movie for 10 years, and yet he's still recognized all over the world as the incarnation of manliness. After all, who doesn't love 007? Every woman wants him, and every man wants to be him.
Well, except Sean Connery, apparently. As a previously unknown, starving actor, he was grateful for the fame and success the James Bond role had given him, but he wasn't exactly a fan of actually performing it, saying, "I have always hated that damned James Bond. I'd like to kill him."
Sean Connery, seen here remembering that time Bond nearly got lasered in the dick.
Connery was reluctant to sign up for more than one Bond movie, and when he reached the "last" one, he gave away the entire salary to charity, presumably out of spite (apparently the Bond producers hate charity). As for the character's sex symbol status, Connery observed, "I think one of the appeals[h] that Bond has[h] for women ... is that he is decis[h]ive, cruel even." When the guy who advocates slapping women around to keep them in place thinks you're a little too rude to the ladies, that's some strong hate.
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"... plus, did they have to make him sound so damn Scottish?"
The producers were only able to keep Connery around by throwing more and more money at him (and his charities) every time; he quit after his fifth movie, then after the sixth, and then after the seventh. He'd probably still be playing Bond if the United Kingdom's economy could sustain it, despite hating the guy all the way. Connery felt that the larger-than-life superspy character had quickly become a parody of itself ... so he turned around and did this:
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This would be a great moment for your computer's screen to freeze and your boss to walk by.
That's right, Connery was so eager to persuade viewers to look at him, uh, differently that he put on that ridiculous man-thong and made the LSD flashback nightmare that was Zardoz, a movie about people who believe the root of all evil is dicks. That's not a joke, that is the actual plot of the movie, and since the 007 saga is 90 percent about the exploits of Bond's dick, we can safely declare that it's all James Bond's fault.
#4. George Reeves Thought Superman Ruined His Life
Decades before Christopher "No Relation" Reeve or Henry "Whoops, There Goes Another Building Full of People" Cavill, the first guy to play Superman in a feature film was George Reeves in the promisingly titled Superman and the Mole Men. The film led to the now classic Adventures of Superman TV series, which turned Reeves into a star beloved by children and man-children across the world.
Look at those eyes: He's fucking stoked to be meeting Superman.
Yep, everyone loved Reeves as Superman ... except Reeves himself, who considered the part "beneath his dignity." This may in part be explained by the fact that the show was produced on the cheap, with episodes filmed for $15,000 and individual actors getting just $200 for each one. They couldn't even afford colors for the Superman costume, which was gray and brown to better show up on black-and-white screens -- Reeves thus called it a "monkey suit."
The whole show was sponsored by Kellogg's, and in addition to the episodes, the cast also had to act in dumb cereal commercials ... except the actress playing Lois Lane, because Lois eating breakfast with Clark Kent was deemed too suggestive. So they showed him eating cereal with Jimmy Olsen instead.
Nothing suggestive about Clark waking up with a known cross-dresser.
But the main reason Reeves hated the part that made him famous was that instead of advancing his career, it murdered it. Reeves had previously acted in Gone With the Wind, but after becoming instantly recognizable as Superman and Clark Kent, he stopped getting parts that didn't involve taking his pants off inside phone booths. He got hired for From Here to Eternity, winner of Best Picture at the 1954 Oscars, but according to a widely repeated legend, preview audiences laughed and yelled "There's Superman!" whenever he appeared on the screen, so the producers cut his part to just a few lines. If that story is fake, then that's even worse -- it means they hired him to be pretty much an extra in the first place.
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We're pretty sure the key grip got higher billing than Reeves.
Without a whole lot of other opportunities, Reeves signed up for a revival season of Adventures of Superman. That might suggest that he was kind of OK with the role after all, except for the small fact that before filming got underway, he put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Unfortunately, the bullet didn't bounce. No one can ever know for certain why he killed himself, and some people wonder if it was suicide at all, but the official cause of death at the time was that he was really, really sick of being Superman.
#3. Marlon Brando Hated That His Character in A Streetcar Named Desire Became a Sex Symbol
Before playing Vito Corleone, Colonel Kurtz, or a guy wearing an ice bucket as a hat, Marlon Brando became the defining actor of his generation thanks in great part to his role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Brando played Kowalski with an intensity rarely seen in a motion picture before, by which we mean that half the people in the audience had to change their undies by the time the movie was over. Sure, Kowalski is a coarse, arrogant prick with a hot temper that quickly turns violent, but Brando made him a sexy coarse, arrogant prick, etc., etc.
Before Brando, Hollywood's idea of sexy was a pencil mustache and a tap number.
Of course, not only was this never Brando's intention, but the idea of Kowalski as a sex symbol actually made him sick. He couldn't stand the character. Remember, this is the guy who sent a Native American woman to decline an Academy Award on his behalf to make a statement about racism in Hollywood. He was as dirty a hippie as they come, and felt so disconnected from Kowalski that, while preparing to play him in the original stage version of Streetcar, he had to shrug off his Method acting training and base his performance on other macho assholes he knew (and hated).
Pictured: An actor suited to playing a drunken woman puncher. Also, Marlon Brando.
As such, Brando was severely irritated by all the panties that were metaphorically being thrown at Kowalski. He saw him as less of a "sexy outlaw" and more of a worthless piece of shit. He talks about the character like he just stole his girlfriend, saying, "He had the kind of brutal aggressiveness that I hate." Despite disliking the guy so much, Brando agreed to play him again in the film version of Streetcar, perhaps figuring "Maybe this time they'll get it." Instead, they gave him an Oscar nomination and turned him into a screen legend.
Even after getting Freaky Friday'd with Jabba the Hutt, Brando still couldn't shake off the (according to him, unwarranted) bad boy reputation that started with Stanley Kowalski. Think about it: The poor guy had to gain 200 pounds to escape his sex symbol status.
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So I've been popping in and out of the forums for the past few months. However I sort of disappeared for the past month, so I figure because it being a new year it would be a good time to reintroduce myself.
My name is Conor (yes another one), I live in Boston and I"m a freelance Videographer. Big Vidya Game and Comic book nerd, even though I do not get that much time to do either. Currently playing The Walking Dead and too much XCOM. I don't really do resolutions, however I am really going to try to be more active in the forums this year, maybe even do a C-Blog even though I have no idea what I would talk about. I think everyone I"ve met here on the forums are pretty awesome, so I would like to get to know people even better and meet even more fun people.
With trying to be more active on the forums, I sort of have a stupid question for you guys. How do you keep track of the different threads you follow? Normally I would stay on my profile page and sort of see the new activity, but maybe I"m doing it stupid?
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How do you assess when it is too much? What can a parent do to alleviate this and teach coping skills? When does professional intervention need to be sought?


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My friend was having problems with a USB flash drive, and I suggested he do a low-level format. Then it occurred to me that I don't even know how to do that in Linux. So... how can I low-level format flash memory in Linux? My friend tried a "full format" on the drive in Windows and it failed.
"Low level formatting" was done on floppies, where you could write at different densities by choosing to organize the tracks and sectors differently. But this makes no sense for most modern media. Its notion of how to organize the data on the device is fixed and unchangeable. It doesn't make any sense at all for flash, which has discrete bits, rather than magnetic domains. Higher level formatting is possible, which is
This will destroy ALL data on the hard drive, all boot sector info and all data on all partitions. It will not however render the disk useless, you simply have a clean disk that only needs to have partitions created and a new boot sector installed, which will happen when you install any OS including Linux or Windows. This is a good way to clean up any bad partitions, viruses, botched installs or data that you don't want to be seen.
There is no way to do a low-level format on most flash devices, since they have an additional translation layer from USB/ATA/SD/etc. to MTD which obscures the low-level MTD devices (which can be low-level formatted if gotten to directly [which you can't]).
Low-level formatting means many different things to different people and on different contexts.
The original meaning was a step needed in the formatting of disks - disk drives need header, sync and other patterns written on the media before it can store data to it. In this way the head can detect when it is A) on a track and B) where it is on the track. Low-level formatting a floppy prepares the disk to be able to read and write blocks. Early MFM and RLL PC hard drives could be low-level formatted, often using a utility built into the hard drive controller's (an ISA card) ROM. Modern IDE and SATA hard drives are low-level formatted too, but only at the factory.
Various other meanings include writing zeros to all blocks, configuring the drive to disable "hidden" areas such as HPA and DCO and then zeroing all blocks, or other things more related to partitioning than formatting.
Raw flash needs a different initial preparatory step at the factory - each flash "eraseblock" (analogus to a "block" on disks) needs to be tested and marked as bad if it is indeed bad. Each "eraseblock" has an additional small "OOB" block that holds error correcting information - and this is where it is marked as bad. You do NOT want to repeat this step as the act of writing to a bad block could prevent you from setting that particular bit again that identifies it as bad.
But you are not dealing with raw flash. You are dealing with a USB flash drive. There is a controller chip in all flash drives that accepts USB commands from the host and talks to the raw flash inside on the host's behalf. Some of these controller chips can be configured to report part of the flash as a separate CD-ROM partition, or act like two separate USB storage devices. Depending on the make and model of the controller chip, you may be able to find a recovery or configuration utility (likely Windows only) that could reset this controller chip. You would begin by opening the flash drive, looking for the smaller of (likely) two chips that are on the small PCB, and doing some Googling. The make and model printed on the outside of the case is not likely to help you find who made the controller inside of it.
I've come across devices in the past (although not for a while) which implement the SCSI FORMAT UNIT command - from Linux you can use:
sg_format --format /dev/sdX
to reset these devices to a factory state (USB storage spec is derived from the older SCSI standards).
I believe some newer USB 3 devices also implement ATA security commands, so you could use https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase which is likely to have the effect of resetting the flash translation layer to its factory state (as it typically does with SSDs).


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Conner99 wrote:i think i might have to remind Hams that that this fixture last season gave us 7 goals and we gave Tottenham a bit of a thumping to win 5-2 ...
specnur wrote:Pity about this game is that we won't get a good idea of Where Arsenal are at when it comes to big derby matches!
The scoreline in my opinion is a bit misleading ,not that i thought Spurs were incredible or didn't deserve to be down a man,but some of the things i saw from Arsenal with the man advantage was very concerning. I didn;t see Cazorla take full advantage and rip that midfield apart especially with the lead footed Huddlestone in there,i thought any decent midfield would exploit that Spurs midfield ,but it didn't happen. I hope Wenger see's this and addresses it.
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I have a desktop running Windows 8 with the following specifications:
• Core Duo 3.2ghz processor
• 500GB hard drive
Every time I try to install Ubuntu I get the following error:
Busybox v1.18.5 (Ubuntu 1:1.18.5-ubuntu4) built in shell (ash)
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I'm sure this largely has to do with personality (well behaved, cautious) as it does age, but what is an appropriate age for kids to start using a push lawn mower? Or a riding mower?
We had to go by size and strength rather than age. Our oldest is small for her age, so she and her sister started together. I went by "big enough to push the lawn mower and smart enough not to stick their hands underneath." That turned out to be 12 for the oldest and 10 1/2 for the second. Our third started when he was 10, but mainly because he wanted in on bidding for the job...
I rode my grandpas riding mower at nine or ten. The problem was more a question of not being able to actually do the job than safety at that point, meaning my grandpa had to go out and do it again to get the spots I missed.
So, fun, but hardly useful at that age.
I did, usefully but not enjoyably, mow my parents lawn with a manual mower at about the same age too.
Clearly depends on how mature the child is, not how old they are.


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By Brian Beutler
If you're of the opinion that the events of the past several days are parts of a shrewd political gambit that will ultimately result in the best stimulus package we ever could've hoped for, this post isn't for you. If you're not, here's how a motley assortment of folks think the effort can be salvaged.
But now Obama needs to remind the American people that unless the Republicans get on board, they will bear political responsibility for failing to act in the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Obama is, sadly, much to blame for giving the Republicans so much leverage. He defined the challenge as biparitsanship not saving the U.S. economy. Right now, he has only one chance to re-set this deteriorating debate: He needs to give a major speech on the economy, explain to Americans what is happening and what must be done. People will, as of now, still listen to him — and what else is his political capital for?
The administration should use its supposed vaunted community organizing to build public pressure for its version of the stimulus, and then Obama, Pelosi, and Reid should hold a press conference where they say:1) The only reason why the bill has not passed and Americans have not gotten economic relief is because of the Republican Party. And the only reason why the Republican Party has been able to obstruct is because of the filibuster (more accurately, Senate rules, but close enough.).
2) If the stimulus does not pass now, any future economic pain is solely the responsibility of the Republican Party. Any American who finds herself out of work, without medical care, etc. etc. can lay blame completely at the doorstep of the GOP.
3) Budget bills cannot be filibustered.
4) Thus, our intention is to pull the stimulus package now and resubmit it as part of the budget process. We will resubmit this budget with Democratic priorities and Democratic principles, and it will reinforce the goals that President Obama advocated during the campaign and for which the country gave him a mandate.
5) It will pass in that form.
6) To be sure, it will be much better to have a package now, but we will not compromise on what the American people voted for last November. And as we said, the public knows quite clearly upon whom the blame should land.
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(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -- The Columbia College student development office and the Unity in the Community program are pleased to welcome Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and New York Times best-selling author, and Laura Simms, award-winning storyteller and human rights activist, to campus Feb. 19 to 21.
Beah�s acclaimed book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, tells the riveting story of how he was caught up in civil war in Sierra Leone. The book chronicles his rescue and his personal journey in rehabilitation to regain his humanity. Beah, now 27, is UNICEF�s advocate for children affected by war and is one of the world�s most tireless advocates for child soldiers and an eloquent spokesperson for the healing power of sharing the stories of one�s life.
Thursday, Feb. 19 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Beah will read excerpts from his book and speak about his experiences, his use of writing as a tool for resilience in the aftermath of trauma and as a means of sharing his story to advocate for human rights. The event will take place in the Dulany Hall Banquet Room. Lunch will be provided and a book signing will follow. There's space for only 136 people, so RSVP to Kim Coke, director of student development, at 875-7420 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The American �mother� of Ishmael Beah, Laura Simms is an award-winning storyteller, recording artist, teacher, writer and humanitarian. Simms� remarkable performances of traditional stories interwoven with personal narrative have earned her worldwide recognition and honors since 1968. She brings her expertise to collaborative projects worldwide, exploring social issues, peacemaking, creativity and community disaster dialogue. Author of The Robe of Love, her newest book, Becoming the World, has served thousands of teachers worldwide in addressing issues of tolerance and resilience.
Storytelling and compassionate action, a conversation with Laura Simms, will be held in Launer Auditorium Friday, Feb. 20. Simms� books and CDs will be available for purchase and signing from 7-7:30 p.m. Milbre Burch, a Grammy-nominated storyteller, will interview Simms about her international work and personal storytelling from 7:30-9 p.m. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions, too.
On Saturday, Feb. 21, a storytelling workshop will be presented by Simms from 9:30-11 a.m. at the Columbia Public Library. This workshop is aimed at teachers, librarians, storytellers, community workers, youth workers and the interested public on telling stories of peace and justice as pathways to reconciliation. The workshop is free, but registration with the library is required and limited to 40 participants. To reserve a spot, call (573) 443-3161 or email Sarah Howard at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Also on Saturday, Making Peace, Heart Uprising, A Storytelling Concert for Adults by Laura Simms, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Launer Auditorium. The performance features stories which tap into the magic inherent in both myth and our everyday events and will be sign language interpreted.
Kim Kinyon Coke, director of student development, and Dr. Lisa Ford-Brown, associate professor of speech and humanities, were instrumental in bringing Beah and Simms to campus.
"Bringing them to Columbia College is an opportunity to hear of another's experience. There is a wealth that resides in individuals stories. It is in sharing those stories that we come to understand one another more and gain wisdom and knowledge that we didn't previously have," said Kinyon Coke. "I hope their stories will bring a new perspective, a changed understanding and inspire those that hear them speak."
A complete list of events involving Beah and Simms is available online.


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Missing since 1922, an historic loving cup stolen from the Battleship USS Nebraska silver set, has been recovered.
The loving cup (a two-handled cup designed for drinking from both sides so two can share it), will be presented to First Lady Sally Ganem by the NEBRASKAland Foundation at the Statehood Day Dinner March 2.
The cup had been stolen in 1922 and recently purchased from a New York City antique silver dealer. It was part of a silver serving set given to the Battleship USS Nebraska from the State of Nebraska in 1908. Prior to decommissioning the ship, the U.S. Navy returned the set in 1922 to the state on loan, but upon arrival it was discovered that the loving cup was missing. It will now rejoin the set, which is on display in the dining room of the Governor's Residence.
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The directions in this quest ("Mighty Morphin'") are really poor. I'm stuck on "injecting pods" at the waypoint area, but there is nothing to interact with. I saw videos online of fighting "mutated badass" varkids, but they aren't in this area, and the varkids in other areas just die. I don't see any pods. What do I need to do to collect this garbage for Hammerlock? (And, specifically, how can I make varkids mutate?)
You need to visit the Varkid Ranch. Shoot a few of the Varkids there and run around a bit, and eventually they will stop and stick their face in the dirt. At this point they will start to form a pod. A big orange sack thing.
Run up to it and press [E] to inject it. Then you can wait and a Badass Mutated Varkid will spawn, you can then kill that and that's it. Just repeat as many times as you need.
NOTE: a Varkid will not mutate into a pod if it's by itself
NOTE: (at least for the XBox 360) if you kill the mutated Varkid and the sample appears, make sure you pick it up. If you do not pick up the sample and save your game, then you will not be able to mutate Varkid in the future, so you will not be able to complete this optional side quest.
You only have to damage the varkids a little bit to get them to turn into pods, but sometimes you have to wait a few seconds for it to happen. It feels like forever. Then, as mentioned above, walk up to it and use your Use button on it.
If you've already woken up Mordecai, he might kill the pod while it's in the middle of mutating.


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9 Mar 2012 4:28 AM #1
Buttons property missing from Window
Designer version tested: Designer 2.0.0 build 309
Operating System: Mac OSX Lion
Framework: Ext JS 4.x
The designer does not include the buttons property: Ext.window.Window > buttons
You can add the buttons property manually to a Window with...
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9 Mar 2012 6:50 AM #2
Yeah we don't support that at the moment you have to add a toolbar docked bottom ... the verbose way
dockedItems: [{ xtype: 'toolbar', dock: 'bottom', ui: 'footer', defaults: {minWidth: minButtonWidth}, items: [ { xtype: 'component', flex: 1 }, { xtype: 'button', text: 'Button 1' } ] }]Phil Strong
13 Mar 2012 1:23 AM #3
Thanks for the reply Phil.
The ui: 'footer' goes an long way to working around it.
13 Mar 2012 9:35 PM #4
Glad we got at least a work around.
It's not something we won't add it's just stupid low on the list of uber features we're adding to D2Phil Strong
17 Feb 2013 4:44 AM #5
How do you add that dockedItem list to the window using Sencha Architect 2? The only code that is editable for me are the event bindings and functions.
19 Feb 2013 5:45 AM #6
Problem can be solved by creating another container and docking it to the bottom. Then you can put the button in that container. Only thing it aligns to the left, but that can probably be fixed with some custom css.
20 Feb 2013 8:34 AM #7
Components can be docked once they sit inside any container.
Drag out a panel
place a button in the panel
search for dock in the config panel
set it's dock to top
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Short while ago google had changed their ranking algorithm, in the name of providing more relevant search results for it's users, according to their official blog, this change impacts 11.8% organic search results, say it another way, google thinks about 12% of it's search results are really bad and need to manipulated. They planned and started the update about one year ago, maybe that's why some of my ranks dropped out of first 10 pages, the good thing is that those keywords promoted by content rich links are not affected, a few of these keywords ranked better than ever, it's safe to say that old way of link building is doomed.
So what exactly is linking campaign the old way? a lot of marketing companies did and are doing the plain link building, they add your links to those linking websites without context, the only updates on those websites are the new links, and most of them are useless, the name of link spamming sites is justified. The latest google update will definitely downgrade most if not all of these sites, the links on those spamming sites won't work anymore.
Let's check out a few examples. When I got into online marketing long time ago, I started promote the keyword, bungee cord, of course with old way of link building, a lot of sites I used had too many links, worst yet, those sites had no content at all. I would give credit where credit is due, this linking strategy worked, eventually the keyword could be found on first page, the party was over when google updated it's algorithm. Something opposite happened to this keyword, chain puller , we promoted this keyword with articles and blog posts, not too many plain links have been built, you can imagine how this keyword ranks. So contextual link wins this time, what about future? Actually this is all about content, as long as you dole out high quality content, you will attract readers as well as search engines. You may think there are already too many blogs out there, it's not true, there will never be too many good blogs, for instance let's examine this one, baby stroller , I didn't put too much effort into it from start, but I never stopped posting, and to my surprise, I have high ranks for some of competitive keywords. As far as SEO concerned, quality article marketing is much better than plain link building. Now imagine you have your own blog network, something like aircraft cable, you will have the power to push any sites up in search engines.
Remember content is king, you just need to create content, publish and share with people, and put your keywords in the context you're good to go, this strategy will prevail in short or long term. Whatever you do, you will need persistence and patience, you shouldn't expect things to improve overnight, be it your business or search rankings, keep writing, publishing, sharing and creating, you will see the day of success. Ezine is one of the best article directories out there, new article will be indexed within an hour if not minutes, and some popular blogs will get your post indexed in minutes, there venues are ideal for promoting your site, I believe you should see for yourself, let's look at this one, ratchet winch , quality content, nice presentation, indexed by google, this article is a good example of article marketing.
We're not finished yet, please remeber, the social media is the must have channel for your marketing effort. The Twitter tools is a wordpress plugin, you can install it, sign up for a twitter account and create a new application, configure your twitter tools prpperly, then every new post on your blog will show up in your twitter page, it's real easy and useful, no one should miss this tool out.


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Incredibly Thin. Incredibly Powerful. Don't let the PowerShot ELPH 300
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First off, let me be the first to tell you that I was a sceptic of this camera. I did not think at first that it would be as good as it really...Read complete review
First off, let me be the first to tell you that I was a sceptic of this camera. I did not think at first that it would be as good as it really is. I do not write reviews, EVER, so this is a very compelling product that you should buy because it brought me to write one :). I bought this camera two days ago, and got to "break it in" that very night when I got it. My sister in law had her baby, and boy did it ever perform. I was taking pictures in a very low lit room. It was medium sized with only one lamp on. (REMEMBER, you are not supposed to use flash with newborns, so I did not, and this served as a real world test for this camera. I feel that the only way to see how powerful a camera really is, is to see what it can do without a flash) I was scared to look at the pictures when i got home, because, after all this is one of the worlds smallest cameras. I plugged in my memory card into my computer and what i saw shocks me. The pictures taken in a dark room, were clear and were even brighter than the real life room itself. Beings i used no flash this is stunning. There was minimal to NO noise at all in the pictures too! This camera is treading on the grounds of both of my sisters DSLRs and taking it by storm. I saw one revewer saying that the build quality of these were bad. That is the biggest load I have ever heard. This camera is rock solid, and feels quite literally like a very solid block of iron, it seriously feels that rigid. Absolutely no sense of plastic-ness feel here. It even has a rough (that is the right word, it is textured) but in any case makes you feel like you will never drop it. All in all it just adds to the feel and performance of this device that, if i had the money, would pay double price for. As for the flash, it is very bright. dont let the small flash lens fool you, this sucker packs a punch. I took a pic of a dark room with flash, and it illuminated the whole room in the picture to appear like it had full lighting on. this was not a small room either. It has absolutely stunning 1080, plus you have the ability to zoom in while taking video. That in and of itself is one selling point for this camera. Only select few allow you to do 1080, that is all on top of the zoom which isnt in 95 percent other point and shoots. lots dont even give you 1080 either. Colors were ABSOLUTELY awesome. Need i mention the CMOS sensor? that is what is allowing me to take the great low light photos. Paired with canon's software, these low light photos are grain free (with very very minor exceptions, only noticable when pictures are blown up HUGE!) As you can see, i could go on, and on all night about this, but you will never experience it until you get one. Go out and buy one. Trust me, you will not be dissapointed. Please disregaurd these people that are badmouthing it! Many people hate canon because they are biased and want a different camera company to be better. Reguardless of what they say, i can tell you that if you can stand still at all, even remotely, for just one second, you can a great photo, even without flash in dark situations.
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Bought this camera as an upgrade to our sd400 right before a vacation trip. Came back and downloaded our pictures and was very disappointed. No joke, our sd400 from quite a few years...Read complete review
Bought this camera as an upgrade to our sd400 right before a vacation trip. Came back and downloaded our pictures and was very disappointed. No joke, our sd400 from quite a few years ago takes better pictures. They are sharper, more define, and have better color saturation. I still can't believe it. To further confirm this I took identical photos with each camera. Don't get me wrong the pictures are useable but if you have an older sd line camera, save your money. The worst part is I can't even take it back because while on vacation my 14 day return window closed. Bummer. I knew I should have purchased the s95.
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color problems
By suzy
from Los Angeles, CA
Comments about Canon ELPH 300 HS Black Powershot 12.1 Megapixel Digital Camera:
This camera is great in low light situations and in normal light, but not in bright light. Colors fade out in bright light. I tried auto, and various other light settings trying to match the color in front of me with what was on the screen, and could not find a setting that did it.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Missing High Shutter Speed Feature
By TG
from Phoenix
The ELPH 300 HS has one serious flaw that could be fixed by Canon with software. That flaw is that you cannot set a high shutter speed for things like sports photography. Yes, you can pick a high ISO that will increase the shutter speed, but this results in grainy photos. Yes, you can use High Speed Burst for sports, but this results in shutter speeds that are too slow to stop the action and it results in small file sizes that cause grainy photos when cropped. THE SOLUTION is for Canon to create a "P" menu item similar to the ISO menu item that will allow the user to specify a desired shutter speed. Canon, please read this and fix this problem.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Great camera, great value
By Richard
from Long Island, NY
I use the camera in business nearly every day. I have had it about 8 months now - it takes great pictures in all sorts of lighting conditions. Handy size. I have tried other brands over the years, but I have to say that I've never been disappointed with Canon.
(5 of 10 customers found this review helpful)
By Waldo
from Fort Worth, TX
I have been using this camera for about 6 months. I was attracted by the sleek little body, and shiny red paint. I also had time to test many different cameras of similar size before buying. In the store, this seemed ideal. It is missing many features I once coveted. Manual focus, precise aperture control, for example. Many of those features I don't really want though, as I use my camera mostly for taking quick pictures of my projects or quick snaps while my child is doing something silly. For most of my pictures, everything worked out well. The camera seems to focus easily on the desired target. White balance has been satisfactory. Saturation levels are about where they should be (IE: not over-saturated like most junk cameras). Shutter speed is reasonable, though not quick. The camera also seems to do well in low lighting. One of the best features, and what sold me on this model, was the slow synch flash. That allows the flash a little time to fill in all the foreground, and background with light before the picture is taken. So far, that has been a godsend, allowing pictures to come out that otherwise never would. However, here we are 6 months later, and I am forced to question Canon's build quality. I only open the battery bay to charge the camera. That isn't needed often. Yet, this most recent attempt was met with the door falling off in my hands. No matter how many times I questioned that on my other camera, it never happened. In 10 years owning it, it never happened. No it was not a Canon. So my advice to anyone buying this: get an extended warranty and hold on tight to the receipt.
(2 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
Great all around Deal
By ozzie
from San Francisco
My first photo/video camera. Superb color photos. Great auto focus. Easy to carry in pocket or purse. Simple to use. Get a big enough data card for recording movies. I got a 16G which is about 1 hour of video. Get a carry case - I bought the "Caselogic" which has a side pocket for extra cards.
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Poor Lens Cover
By Emily
from Seattle
I bought this camera for a trip to Guatemala. I have had it for about five months and took extremely good care of it. I always wore the wrist strap, I always placed the camera in a case so it wouldn't break, and I never lost the camera. I put it in my bag to take it on a day trip and when I took it out to take a picture I had realized the lens had a dent in it and now the shutter doesn't open. I am very disappointed that it could not stand one day in a bag without getting a dent and it was in the camera case. It turns out the warranty does not cover this and now I have to take it to a shop to get it repaired. Otherwise I was satisfied with the camera.
(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
Big Disappointment
By AGG
from California
I have owned 3 excellent Canon point-and-shoot cameras in the past, but sadly this camera represents a big step backwards in quality and performance. The body is cheaper and the paint chips; the shutter is flimsy and cheap and allows dust in when closed; the lens frequently feels it is having an 'error' and refuses to open; some shots are blurry even in optimal conditions, leading to many lost photos; the low-light mode seems worse than past models; and the biggest problem is the terrible battery life, especially in cold weather conditions: it is not uncommon for a freshly-charged battery to decide it is suddenly out of charge after only a few hours of skiing or hiking (not using the camera that whole time, but taking it out for an occasional photo during that time). This battery issue is extremely frustrating and senseless! I warrantied one 300HS due to this, and my second one also has this problem. Come on Canon, get your quality back up to your old standard! I love Canon and want to see these issues fixed!
(3 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
not happy with this camera
By geezercycle
from Canada
I purchased this unit at a local big box store with big expectations, given the other reviews. I used it for five days, at various functions, and found it to be lacking. For a high megapixel rating it produced blurry, grainy, over-saturated colour pictures. Automatic mode is slow to focus and doesn't lock on at times. Maybe I just got a bad one.
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I love this camera!
By shootingstar
from Wisconsin
I love this camera and have been using it for about a month now. I love all the features on it, and that it is small and light-weight. It's easy to carry around and comparing it to my friend's camera, this works so much better. My only problem with it is when I want it to focus on closer objects, even with the macro setting, it doesn't work very well, and it makes me frustrated.
Great Little Camera
By BikeGeezer
from San Francisco area
This is my 3rd Digital Elph and the smallest so far. It is wonderfully small and easy to carry (careful you don't mislay it!) and reasonably priced. It focuses well, is fast, and has lots of good features. The batteries last well, it is very fast, and takes clear, sharp pictures in normal light. Low-light performance is not so good unless you use the flash. The movies are shocking good for such a small unit, and will fill your big flat-screen with a sharp, almost high definition picture, plus good sound. The only problem is the videos are in the .MOV format instead of .AVI, so they don't play well on Windows Media Player or Picasa. I would recommend this camera to anyone who needs a very small, good quality pocket camera.
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I have an account at Manilla and Evernote. I currently scan in all of my mail store it in Evernote. For paperless bills, almost all of them get pulled into my Manilla account. I am wondering if there is a way to automatically get the documents from Manilla into Evernote? Right now, I have to download each document from Manilla, and then import it into Evernote.
I looked on If This Than That but there wasn't a Manilla channel. I can't find any evidence that Manilla has an API, so that is probably the reason.
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disableCaching in Ext.chart.Chart only works if timestamps happen to be unique
We had a problem with Ext.chart.Chart, where we had 6 charts on the page, and with disableCaching set, it was possible for the cache buster to fail if the timestamp for 2 charts were the same. This would result in a 304 (Not Modified) request for a chart, resulting in a blank white flash applet (no chart rendered). The code in Ext.chart.Chart.initComponent that manages this that contains the bug:
if(!this.url){ this.url = Ext.chart.Chart.CHART_URL; } if(this.disableCaching){ this.url = Ext.urlAppend(this.url, String.format('{0}={1}', this.disableCacheParam, new Date().getTime())); }
//enforce charts to always have unique caching id by appending this value, instead of using //extjs's algorithm which always just gets the current time in millis, which can fail if the code //runs fast. Ext.ux.plugins.ChartNoCachePlugin = (function() { return { init: function(chart){ if(chart.disableCaching){ chart.url += '_' + Ext.ux.plugins.ChartNoCachePlugin.index++; } } }; }); Ext.ux.plugins.ChartNoCachePlugin.index = 0; //and to use the plugin you would specify in your chart config: plugins: [new Ext.ux.plugins.ChartNoCachePlugin()]


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Libertarianism as a Form of Nihilism
What happens when you adhere to a system of ideas that prioritizes the market as an arbiter of value? What happens when you repeat incessantly that the best, or perhaps the only measure of value arises out of commodification and exchange? Should it be surprising that in the world created around that commitment, certain other "core values" become endangered or maybe even extinct?
I don't want this entry to be a polemic, but no doubt it will be read as such. My sense here -- not a fully-formed and elaborated argument to be sure, but an initial thesis -- is that in a practical and political sense, libertarianism is a form of nihilism. By this I obviously don't mean that libertarians believe in nothing, or that they are moral relativists. In fact, the opposite is true, if we move from a debate over this or that particular value to the question of systems of valuation. At this level, libertarians argue that a single system is in fact authoritative: the market authoritatively confers value. Other expressions, especially those mobilized by the state, are not only wrong but potentially oppressive.
This radical priority on what Marx called exchange-value has a problem: How do we value things in themselves? Is there a way of valuing objects or subjects -- human beings for example -- that doesn't address what they might contribute to the market of goods and services? What about the vulnerable who exist on the margins of markets and don't contribute anything commodifiable? The implication here is that life itself only gains value when it enters the market -- in the labor of a worker, for example. Before that moment, it's off the radar; we can't even speak of life in the libertarian vocabulary as being "devalued" because outside the market there's no scale, no measure of better or worse. It literally doesn't exist. It is in this sense that I would call libertarianism nihilistic: in its total commitment to exchange value it marginalizes and even kills-off other systems of valuation. Sadly, such systems might be more sensitive to entire ways of life outside the tedium of capital flows and commodity exchange.
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Robert Geroux: You've raised interesting points. No doubt commodity exchange is important.
However, you refer to "other systems of valuation." But you do not explain any other systems of valuation. What other systems of valuation do you have in mind, and how would you explains each of those other systems of valuation?
Robert Geroux: You've raised interesting points. No doubt commodity exchange is important.
However, you refer to "other systems of valuation." But you do not explain any other systems of valuation. What other systems of valuation do you have in mind, and how would you explains each of those other systems of valuation?
Great starting point for some very interesting questions. Not sure I'd have picked "Nihilism" as the term, however, and I'm not convinced that the way you've framed it works. I'm open to being persuaded otherwise, however.
I might have gone with a word like "supremacist" or "hegemonic," and then made the focus of activity that occurs outside the realm of commodity exchange "subaltern." Thus, among the priorities of libertarianism is a sorting of people not into those who are or ar not, but into those who are good and those who are bad.
Perhaps this is nihilistic in the same way that you mean it. I hope that you share mroe of your thoughts in the comment thread.
(When I was in a PhD program, my research was in extreme right wing politics, so I am primed to see an explicit overlap of the white supremacist and libertarian ideologies.)
First, I think you are talking about one specific part of the overall "right-libertarian" philosophy, namely market capitalism. I don't mean to get into a semantic argument but I think it is very important to not let general phrases like "libertarian" be co-opted by those who have very narrow market capitalism interests. There are many more facets of both right- and left- libertarian philosophy and a richness of thought and tradition that I think is getting lost when we use the word in this narrow way.
To being said, I would agree that market capitalism in its truest form has some nihlistic tendencies, but only in the sense that it is amoral. However, I would disagree that it is purely nihilistic since it does not posit that NOTHING has any intrinsic value (although yes it does suppose that PEOPLE have no intrinsic value). Rather it supposes that the invisible hand of the market is the supreme authority and arbiter of value and all that is right and good. Market self-corrections, a rising tide lifts all boats, and all that. So it clearly worships a false god, but it does not say there is NO god.
interesting topic - Would love to hear more thoughts on this.
I agree that "nihilism" isn't quite striking me as the most appropriate term. It seems more to me that the market evangilists imagine that the market transcends human dignity, and conversely gives us meaning.
Acceptance of this is less nihilism, I think, than idolatry.
How do we value things in themselves? Is there a way of valuing objects or subjects -- human beings for example -- that doesn't address what they might contribute to the market of goods and services? What about the vulnerable who exist on the margins of markets and don't contribute anything commodifiable? The implication here is that life itself only gains value when it enters the market -- in the labor of a worker, for example.
The word "value", of course, has more than one meaning. As the questions are posed here, I'd think the answers are pretty clear to those of us of a Christian orientation: human beings certainly have value apart from their market value. We hold to the intrinsic dignity and worth (value) of all human beings as creatures of a God who is good, loving and just, and this truth gives rise to moral values that, among other things, urge us to protect the welfare of the poor and marginalized. At the same time, work itself is an important value in Christian anthropology, as it is through work that humans attain the dignity that God has in mind for us. This dignity through work, though, is not always reflected in the market value of the labor being expended - hence the conundrum that shortstops and linebackers earn more than nurses and teachers.
When we discuss important topics like this one, which use words with multiple meanings and connotations like "value", I wonder to what extent such words, pregnant with many possible understandings, have the ability to shift our way of thinking by virtue of those connotations. When the anti-abortion movement took possession of the world "life", it's quite likely that they scarcely thought of all the implications of claiming the pro-life standard; Cardinal Bernardin and then John Paul II elaborated on the meaning of "life" and drew conclusions that, in some cases, probably were not particularly palatable to those who first wrapped themselves in the pro-life mantle. A word like "liberty", which helped foment the American revolution, seems curiously shorn of its expressive power these days - probably to the chagrin of the US bishops. But a word like "rights", particularly when appended to "human" or "civil", seems more powerful during our lifetimes than perhaps it did two hundred years ago, when arguably human and civil rights were less less highly valued than they are now. Now there is an effort to revivify a movement by appending "rights" to "worker's", but it is still to be seen whether that notion will stir people to action. In the case of the word "value", i think we've seen a diminishment in common discourse, such that the intrinsic value of a human is reduced to his market value. We're bound to resist this diminishment, I believe.
How central is the deification of the market to libertarianism? And how widespread is it outside libertarianism? IMO those are the first questions that have to be answered in deciding if libertarianism can be called nihilistic.
My outsider's impression is that the mainspring of libertarianism is what Justice Brandeis first called "the right to be left alone" (a right not specified in the Constitution, it needs to be pointed out). Like any ideology, libertarianism has spawned its sects and heretics. I couldn't say with confidence that market absolutism is a necessary part of libertarianism. But I could easily stand corrected.
My insider's impression is that the absolute ascendancy of the market over any and all objections is hardly confined to libertarianism; that it owes its existence -- perhaps -- to the rise of science after the Enlighetnment, and that it turns up in decision-making everywhere from corporations to households to rectories. And if that's the case, there isn't much to be gained by pointing out that it also sticks to libertarians. ISTM that the major sin or our era is not abortion but idolatry, that what's in our wallets is our idols, and that the Church should be inveighing against it, and would be if more church leaders could imagine a world run by something other than money.
That last sentence is obiter dicta.
I see libertarian as valuing a puritanical calvinist ethos that it sees as rooted in the bible. That God tells adam and eve that from here on end, we will have to toil with the sweat of our brow, in order to survive, as punishment for sin, is the starting point of libertarianism. The more you work the better a person you are,is the meme. We see this every time a politician stresses how his/her parents worked themselves to the bone and pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps to show they're good people.This gets coupled with the calvinist notion that god rewards us in this life if he finds us pleasing. Hence material wealth is a sign that you are favored by god-a good christian. Put these two concepts together, work is the highest value there is, and calvinist; if you're rich you must be good, and that sets the course for radical right wing laisez faire capitalism.It's a distortion of christianity and humanity. And prior to globalization which exposes capitalism as a pyramid scheme, prior to globalization it did mean advancement for the majority of people in the US and great creativity and high standard of living. But it's becoming morally untenable in a country of 350 million.Now it becomes apparant that an enlightened technologicaly advanced society has to provide for all its citizens, that relying on the wealthy to provide living wage jobs and decent benefits is not sufficient in a globalized economy. Exploitation of others labor whether at home or abroad is not ethical and not christian/ humane. Libertarians are in denial if they really believe that charity will fill the gap if a centalized governemnt ceases to insure everyone's well being whether through decent labor laws or providing for a guaranteed income or job. They forget the exploitation that those on top resort to, to remain rich and powerful without a government to prevent abuse.The unimpededed- free - market- will -solve- just -about- everything human, ethos, is nihilistic as it sees the quest for material and ever increasing growth as the engine we should all be on and want to be on .It has God as validating the system but the system becomes the idol.
I think that Rose-Ellen Caminer is correct in seeing libertarianism as stemming from an immoral Calvinism rather than an amoral nihilism. It sees the wealthy as blessed by God and the market because of their merit and the poor are cursed. To interfere with the natural working of the market is to interfere with the Divine order.
To address your points the best I can,
1. Your questioning of the premise of the topic is justified. Deification of the market is not necessarily central to libertarianism, in the broader context of the word. In fact some libertarian thought is specifically opposed to it. Hence my concerns in my earlier post about using the term libertarian in such a narrow context. When we are talking specifically about various right-libertarian philosophies it does become central. I am no scholar on these matters but I have read some of the literature on the movement and it's various offshoots. I would suggest that anyone with even a passing interest of this topic do some independent reading. It is really interesting stuff. Yes the Enlightenment did contribute to libertarian philosophy as it was starting to take shape as a movement per se, though from my understanding at least it contributed to both left- and right- libertarianism. I am also under the imoression that -for the purposes of this discussion - we are talking about libertarianism as expressed in the current day US - which definitely has a more dominant capitalist-centric orientation.
2. You are absolutely correct in stating that the worship of the market is not unique to libertarianism. But then again the whole God vs Mammon question predates libertarianism and market capitalism altogether. I think Robert's intent was to examine what contemporary right-libertarian economic philosophy (maybe the "Austrian school"??) has in common with nihilism, and not to say that this is specific to libertarianism, but I will let Robert clarify exactly what he was going for.
"Laissez-faire market capitalism" is a bit more unwieldy but perhaps more accurate than "Libertarianism" for this post?
P.S.btw;I welcome the fact that so far anyway, it appears that most of today's immigrants;from Latin America, China, Russia, Europe etc. unlike the immigrants of the past, are not buying into this libertarian; pull- yourself -up by -your- own- bootstraps, your value- is- proportional- to- how -much -you -work, ethos.Or the; let the bull market "animal spirits"[paganism] reign supreme.They fully expect, and rightly so , IMO, that the state has an obligation to take care of it's people.That's the purpose of the state; first to have a legal framework to ensure individual rights and freedoms and for defense and then, especially in a highly advanced stage, to provide for the well being of its citizens. Even providing them with living wage and benefits, jobs or incomes, health care,upper education free of charge for those who qualify."Entitlement" , is not a dirty word ,nor is "nanny state"; It's the hallmark of fairness, equality , justice which a democractic advanced society embodies or should embody. The right wing libertarians are appalled that so many people are on food stamps. Those on food stamps have no shame;it is right and just that if there are no living wage jobs, the government should make sure the people are fed!The scandal for them and the left in general,is that there are not enough living wage jobs with benefits and that the right is adverse to providing a guarteed job or living wage for its citizens.That it is more important that a capitalist enterprise remain profitable to its shareholders then that it provides a living wage and benefits, shows that the workers are being held hostage to the capitalists.The same that was said when workers started unionizing is now being said by the right about people demanding more equitible distribution of wealth.There will be no businesses if workers get more. It was untrue then and it's untrue now,The right wing libertarians want to hold back progress as they cling to the more and more marginalized model of laissez faire capitalism.They are the last die-hards on the planet, I think.Fifty or a hundred years from now, these demands will be seen as recognized civil rights and the right wing libertarian position will be recognized as patently unethical .The phrase "pursuit of happiness" does not get most 21st century immigrants flag waving like it did 20th century immigrants but Obama care sort of does.
Makes Libertarianism sound like a religion rather than a political/economic system. It seems to set the Market up as god and all who exist are subject and answerable to the Market. That the Market should choose who lives and who dies. As if the Market is our creator and we are its creations instead of the other way round.


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According to Merriam-Webster and other places, "excretion" is defined as waste products that are eliminated from the body (urine, sweat, CO2).
Vomit is also leaving the body, but like bleeding, the process may not be voluntary/intentional and the "excreted" product isn't actually waste.
Should vomit count as excretion, or is there a better word describing "things that leave the body, intended or not"?


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A new partnership among the three online players will see them selling one another's online advertising in an attempt to compete with Google and grab more ad dollars together than separately.
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Microsoft's proposal to take over search on Yahoo's Web pages will make for a more competitive Internet advertising market, according to four major ad agencies.
Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to find out whether to file formal notice of their search deal with the European Commission or with individual countries, Microsoft says.


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Grammy Museum takes charge of music history
|The Iron Mountain archival facility in Hollywood houses a massive collection of film and musical treasures including many items for the Grammy Museum. Old musical instruments, like this vintage accordion, are also stored there. (Michael Robinson Chavez/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
Hundreds of 10-inch 78 rpm discs - some from Thomas Edison's record label - reside in archival boxes on 20-foot-long metal shelves, near antique radios and phonograph players, musical instruments, posters and some celebrity fashion items stored out of sight in sturdy garment bags.
Vintage synthesizers in their original cases take up a shelf right below three distinctively different accordions, an instrument Mark Twain famously dubbed "the stomach Steinway."
The Grammy Museum may have opened a little less than four years ago in downtown's L.A. Live entertainment complex, but it's already looking at myriad new ways to store and exhibit its extensive collection of music history.
"People offer to donate things, but until we had someplace to properly store and preserve them, we've had to turn a lot of those offers down," executive director Robert Santelli said last Friday during a walk-through of the museum's growing archive.
"We have to be able to safely store the items, insure them - and be sure we can make them accessible to the public at some point, because we are an educational museum," he said. "We're working without an acquisition budget, so we have to rely on donations."
Grammy Museum assistant curator Ali Stuebner slipped on a pair of white cotton gloves to peek under the lid of a 4-foot-tall 1920s-vintage Edison phonograph resting against one of the storage space's bunker-like concrete walls, and to show a visitor one of two old (but well cared for) piano accordions donated by squeeze-box virtuoso Ernie Felice. She later riffled through a couple of large boxes, each holding perhaps thousands of 5-by-7-inch white notecards collected from one of Yoko Ono's wishing trees, a project for which passersby were invited to complete the thought "Imagine a world ..." in their own words and / or drawings.
It's gems like these that caused the museum to enter into a partnership with Iron Mountain about 18 months ago, the company providing the storage space about six months later.
The Grammy Museum's spot in the massive building is modest: It's a repository of about 900 air-conditioned square feet, compact compared with some of Iron Mountain's 800 other entertainment-world clients, whose holdings fill a 10,000-square-foot floor of the 14-story building.
All the major record companies store master recordings made over the last 90 years here, said JeffAnthony, Iron Mountain senior vice president of entertainment services. These recordings have increasingly become a part of revenue-generating plans as new music has become ever more challenging to break.
Though movie studios, record companies, sports franchises and the USC School of Cinematic Arts also store items here, Anthony says the pairing with the Grammy Museum dovetails with his company's mission to assist clients in digitizing their collections and, ultimately for those businesses in the private sector, making them profitable.
"It's about monetization," Anthony said of Iron Mountain's for-profit clients, who have since discovered the payoff - through home video, reissues and myriad licensing opportunities - for being mindful of history.
The Grammy Museum's own recorded history is stored at Iron Mountain but in digital form, an archive of more than 200 performances and live interviews recorded at the museum since it opened December 2008. The audio-visual archive at the museum opens to the public on Wednesday.
Beach Boys creative leader Brian Wilson was the first in a continuing string of visiting musicians that includes Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Bootsy Collins, Flavor Flav, Glen Campbell, John Mayer and, yes, even the accordion-wielding king of the novelty song, "Weird Al" Yankovic.
The interviews and question-answer sessions have also included record industry veterans such as Clive Davis (for whom the museum's 200-seat concert theater is named), former Warner Bros.-Capitol-Asylum Records executive Joe Smith, and Curb Records founder Mike Curb.
"We've captured more than 800 songs played and performed in the museum, and we're at about 225 artists we've interviewed for these living histories," Santelli said. "Each of these are pieces that help to tell a greater story."
The interviews and performances have been digitized and will now be available for students, academics, journalists and everyday music fans to see and hear at the museum.
The archive is opening in conjunction with the museum's newest exhibition, this one surveying the 125-year history of Columbia Records, a show that's also packed with pop-music artifacts.
Among the items: a pair of Johnny Cash's boots and his lyrics for the song "Cry, Cry, Cry"; Bob Dylan letters and lyrics; a jacket and trumpet that belonged to Miles Davis; jewelry worn by Billie Holiday; a tie and letter from Louis Armstrong; one of Barbra Streisand's dresses; a Willie Nelson bandanna; stage sketches and lyrics from Public Enemy's Chuck D.; one of Pete Seeger's banjos; and a trombone played by New Orleans jazz pioneer Kid Ory.
Glancing at the boxes of old Edison 78s and the inventor's still-functional contraption once used to play them in homes around the country, Santelli said, "Our goal is to make sure we can find all these items a good home in the museum somewhere - and to make them available for the common good."
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