Old Favourite

[Rob C]

This one stayed with me from the first time I saw it; great images, and great mood. Full of excellent stills that nobody ever made -afik.

http://youtu.be/BBHjxjGlkMo

Rob C

[RSL]

Hi Rob, Just discovered that the clip is, as they say, "blocked in my country." Here's what they had to say: "This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Sorry about that."

Love the "sorry about that." It's what we used to say in Vietnam: basically a middle finger in the air. I'm sure that's the intention here.

[Walter Schulz]

If you're using Firefox: Stealthy is a plug-in able to deal with this finger issue.

Ciao, Walter

[RSL]

Thanks, Walter. I may give it a try just for the hell of it, not because I actually want to watch a Michael Jackson clip. What I'm wondering at this point is what SME is. Could be Sony Music Entertainment, could be S.M. Entertainment (Korean), could even be Sloppy Meateaters (a now defunct band), or possibly Socialist Market Economy (a now defunct political system). Even more mysterious is the phrase "on copyright grounds." Does that mean they have an actual judgment that can keep YouTube from playing the clip, or does it mean they've threatened YouTube and conned them into refusing to play it in the U.S. Crap like this keeps growing. Michael Jackson? Come on! Get serious!

[Rob C]

It's a pity you can't see it, Russ; for me, though it's obviously a  very staged production, it has all the visual excitement of what I'd think great street photography should be about.

(On a musical note - I used to have it on tape, and it made perfect driving music for motorways. Took the mind totally off the boredom of the road... ;-) !)

There's an Italian radio station that I pick up in the afternoons on the car radio - RDS or something similar, strange it reaches Mallorca on FM - and the other day I thought I was about to hear the MJ song in question. To my surprise, despite the incredibly similar sound and driving rhythm, it turned into a Motown-style song with totally different words that seemed, themselves, to be ripped off something else I sort of remember...

Wedges and thin ends...

Rob C

[Richowens]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6678i3u7lVI&context=C3e9f952ADOEgsToPDskKVsaAr-hv9--jSGncNqHvK

Try this one.

 And SME is indeed Sony Music Entertainment.

Rich

[RSL]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6678i3u7lVI&context=C3e9f952ADOEgsToPDskKVsaAr-hv9--jSGncNqHvK

Try this one.

 And SME is indeed Sony Music Entertainment.

Rich

Thanks, Rich. That one will do it, and I'll watch it as soon as my wife goes out to make up some pirates for a local play.

It would be interesting to know whether or not Sony has a judgment that effects the cutoff. In any case Sony just lost a possible camera customer, though I'd bet knowing that might cause them to raise the finger again.

[Rob C]

Thanks, Rich. That one will do it, and I'll watch it as soon as my wife goes out to make up some pirates for a local play.

It would be interesting to know whether or not Sony has a judgment that effects the cutoff. In any case Sony just lost a possible camera customer, though I'd bet knowing that might cause them to raise the finger again.

Russ, did you keep your Leica M* or have you no film stuff left in the arsenal?

Rob C

[RSL]

No such luck, Rob. I still regret getting rid of the M4. At the time I had an M2, M4, and a IIIf and a fair collection of Leica and Canon lenses. When we moved to a place where I couldn't set up a darkroom I gave up and sold the lot. That was about the time my sons were heading for college, so the cash helped, but the empty hands didn't.