The "What You Got In The Mail That Isn't A Vinyl Toy" Thread

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Bruce Lee: The Legacy Collection by Shout! Factory.

 

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Man oh man, what a wait for these. But finally grabbed the last 3 I have to read. Thanks Chad for hooking me up at a most reasonable price.

 

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I am jealous of your find. You have a land camera there. It uses fujifilm, super cheap and a lot of fun to use (i take photos of sally joe with mine) any decent camera store will have the film, heck, even amazon should have it. its called FP 100c for color and FP 3000B for black and white. at the top it should have a little switch to choose the right film (small number '75' i think, should be for color, sometimes its red)

Its a really fun camera to use and it runs on AA batteries, just check that the terminals arent corroded. A few tutorials online should give you a great feel of how it works. Its waaaaaay cheaper than any of the 600 or X70 film polaroids, now that film, via Impossible, is super expensive.


Have a blast taking pics.

 

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Ah, its a Zip. completely missed that. I sent you a PM with a ton of info, but just for anyone else out there.

Use THIS tutorial to convert to use the 100c. If you want, you dont have to. You can always get another LanCa, but playing with them, like toys, is half the fun.

I hope this helps a bit.

 

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Very nice! Now I just wanna know what's on those discs.

 

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Brown Leaf Mimic Praying Mantis

 

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came home to this in my mailbox yesterday, totally unexpected.

Happy Year of the Horse!

 

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^ So what exactly is it? Looks too cool.

 

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It’s a postcard, Atom sent them to friends & supporters for new years. While it’s no Gargamel Zodiac, I <3 it just the same.



He sent me a similar piece of original art for year of the dragon.

 

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^Really a fun idea! So it's shaped like a playing card, and it came wrapped in plastic? Any more art on the inside? So cool that he remembers fans like this.

 

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It's nice when a delivery actually fits in the mail slot.
David Bowie Reality "DualDisk".
The DVD side also contains the full-length version of Steven Lippman's excellent Reality film.

 

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hello

 

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...took 'em out of the postage bag, and chucked em in a jar - my first Madballs!

(well not my first, that happened back in the early 90's - BUT my first to own as a collector and not a snot nosed child)



NOW all i need is some of those mini-madballs to fill in the gaps!

IF ya gots any and ya don't want 'em - PM me.

 

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Continuing the theme of buying things back.....Don't you just hate when you think you're done with one obsession and you sell some of it off to pay for another, only to realize you love them both equally and have to buy them again? I never thought I'd want to DJ again and was happy selling some of my vinyl after digitizing it to listen to. Now I regret it because I can't stand digital DJ's. It's all about the physical act of beat matching with actual records you can touch for me. Sad part is this obsession is worse than toys and fucking hell vinyl is hard to come by compared to about 10 years ago:

 

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^^^THIS^^^
I think (EDM) vinyl has been dying a slow death since before Technics 1200's were discontinued. That was a major setback for the soon-to-be "lost art" of beat matching, and each CDJ manufactured is another nail in the coffin.

Good luck with reopening that door, Lixx. Glad to see vinyl's not completely dead... yet.

 

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Not everything has to be physical. I appreciate a DJ that matches beats from vinyl, but so does the one that does it via software. There is more to it than that. Both are valid forms of playing. It's still having a good idea about what mixing is.


One thing that it is true, it looks cool as hell and shows some true dedication.

 

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While I'm not going to dispute that beat matching mp3's or CD's is DJ'ing, it's not really the same. Having a controller tell you everything is matched up BPM wise isn't really teaching your ear to listen for pitch. Equipment failure, bad mp3's, hard drive failure, I'm just not down with digital dj'ing. The only advantage I see is not having to lug records around, but sometimes having too much of a selection (due to everything being at your fingertips) is in itself a problem. I remember when people started using cd's/mp3's (I've been spinning vinyl since 1994) me and my friends would laugh when DJ's would have bad mp3's and right in the middle of a track you'd hear that skipping washing machine sound. Sure records skip also but you usually know about it and can physically see where it's going to happen. Records and analog sound have been proven to have better sound quality.

Besides all that, why do I hate digital DJ'ing? Well for starters they cost me my job and livelyhood in NYC. I got laid off from being a buyer as brick and mortar stores started closing down (well that and 9/11 crushed all business south of Houston in NYC around the time). Unless you have some cush stock market job, and you work in a niche industry you don't have savings. Losing my job and my apartment being sold in the same week- pretty much exiled me out of a city I loved.

Thanks. Now if I can just find a pair of those elusive technics 1200's for a decent price and in decent shape I'll be all set. Sold mine in 2004 when I thought I would never DJ again- if I had known Technics would have stopped making them in 2010 I would have never done that.

 

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Agreed. If a DJ is good- he or she is good regardless of equipment. I'm just partial to vinyl (of all kinds apparently).

 

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Holy crap! I had an encounter with one of those when I was a kid: As we were all leaving school at the end of the day I was about to step on this big brown leaf to hear it crunch. Fortunately I caught a glimpse of something that made me bend down and actually examine it. It was one of these fellas (not this species, of course. I was in Virginia) about as long head-to-tail as my 12 year old foot (size 10 ½ US?)!

It was already dead but I still would have felt bad squishing it unceremoniously. No one that I tried to show it to could see through the camouflage though; they just thought that it was a leaf.

 

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^ Indeed...if this thing is in its natural environement, with the wings folded up, you will never see it. Looks like kaiju to me, plus framed bugs just look cool on my bookshelves. This one is about 4 inches, just a baby compared to what you ran into