How Bowers

Somehow I have been missing most of your posts. Amazing stuff!

My favorite water tower was the one in my hometown of Sacramento at Cal Expo featuring a 185-foot mural by supergraphics artist Barbara Stauffacher Solomon which has since been painted over.

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At some point in the mid-‘90s it occurred to me I could walk into the exit hydrolators and bypass the movie. If a CM spotted me they would tell me I needed to go around to the front. But most days no one was posted there so I’d go in and freak out people waiting for the exit hydrolator.

That guy needs to go to Lightening McQueen’s Racing Academy!

What, in this economy?

Well, there go my plans for a Thunder in Paradise reunion at RetroMagic 2028.

“left for the day” a.k.a. laid off in 2004.

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“Now eventually, you do plan to have a theme in your theme park, right?”

I thought the park wasn’t about making movies anymore?

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The thing that kind of stinks about your category is that there are some individuals that get named in the nomination, who do become "Emmy Award-winning". I assume they're in supervisory roles.

Here’s a practical example. “The Office” won 5 Emmy Awards, but Steve Carell has never won an Emmy for acting on the show. So he is not the “Emmy Award-Winning” Steve Carell. You worked on an Emmy-nominated show but you yourself are not Emmy-nominated.

It’s still quite an accomplishment!

What is your favorite theme park and what does it have that Epic is lacking?

If you could put any Disneyland onomatopoeia on a historical plaque, what would it be?

I enjoy the “psss-psss clickety-clack” of the pneumatic cylinders in the tiki birds.

Here is the site that the AI built its copy from. The text on this page from 2014 includes the phrase "quite small" and has all the details of the spaces listed in only a slightly different way.

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They just lumbered around in there.

NEW CENTURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OPERA HOUSE THIS REGAL OPERA HOUSE IS ORNATELY DECORATED, FEATURING GOLD-ACCENTED ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS AND THEATRICAL MASKS REPRESENTING COMEDY AND TRAGEDY. ORIGINALLY SERVING AS THE MAIN STREET SAWMILL, THIS BUILDING HAS BEEN A FUNCTIONING THEATER EVER SINCE.

Marty called,
wants you to stop using ChatGPT.

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“…has been an opera house ever since.” Ever since what? The Great Sawmill Disaster of 1889? Also it was never a saw mill - it didn’t turn logs into lumber. History is now vibes only.

From the days of yore on Twitter, “foamers” are hardcore fans of the parks, who are often critical. Typically older. “Dusters,” from “Pixie Dusters,” are younger, overwhelmingly positive fans who believe everything announced is awesome. Critique is not allowed.

I don’t know if you’re asking or making a social commentary.

AA Walt riled up the foamers and dusters!

Most people lack the vocabulary to describe what they’re hearing and the industry keeps positioning audio restoration (like what was used in the Beatles “Get Back” movie) as AI, so they don’t know what else to call it.

Dude, I’m asking for clarification to find out what your point is because your statement was so vague. I’m not attacking you. I saw a reel this morning that used source audio instead of an echoey in-theater recording, and it sounded better. It’s absolutely been digitally cleaned up & lost low end.

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Which sounded exactly like Walt back then. And your point is?

It’s so real you can almost sense the cancer eating him from the inside out.

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That moment Walt comes to his feet from the leaning position and takes a step forward, though.

Shifting weight is huge. And here the “leg” that holds the weight has no knee bend, so the leg seems stiff.

They definitely tried to capture “the spark.” They also left all the wrinkles, bags, and liver spots off of his face and hands. It’s an idealized Walt, which is a choice.