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glad you liked it, seafarer62...thanks for the review and have fun in the Soo! 
hi steveo! being a mapsman, have you played the lakes map game at the film site? i was bad at that, lol
....there is also a map showing the location of cities in the USA where it is playing - I don't know what OmniMax is?
http://sciencenorth.ca/consumer-sites/mysteries-lakes/
http://sciencenorth.ca/consumer-site...lakes-glp.html
http://sciencenorth.ca/consumer-site...-listings.html
yes, that digital sound sure is clear (but some say may lack the original analog warmth)
i think Wayne chose those colours because Gord's Gold, no? 
for those who aren't aware, Val also has a mailing list full of GL plus Folk tidbits
check out the corfid Links section...it seems to be the only site that has a Links section to other GL websites...terrific stuff! |
jj- hey how u doin... 'tseeer, regarding a couple things you asked above, I was curious about IMAX and OMNIMAX both, never having been to either, I am embarrassed to say. I hope this cut and paste from wikipedia is not superfluous for you on Imax, but it does at least answer the OMNIMAX Q you had:
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****** Q on OMNIMAX - comes with IMAX in the package:
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IMAX (short for Image MAXimum) is a film format created by
Canada's IMAX Corporation that has the capacity to display images of far
greater size and resolution than conventional film display systems. A standard IMAX screen is 22 metres (72 ft) wide and 16.1 metres (53 ft) high, but can be larger.
As of 2008, IMAX is the most widely used system for large-format, special-venue film presentations. As of March 2007, there were 280 IMAX theatres in 38 countries (60% of these are located in Canada and the United States). Half of these are commercial theatres and half are in educational venues.
A variation of IMAX, IMAX DOME (originally called OMNIMAX), is designed for projection on tilted dome screens. The largest IMAX DOME in the world is IMAX Adlabs[1] at Mumbai, India with a screen area of 12,700 sq. ft. Films can also be projected in 3D with IMAX 3D. The largest IMAX 3D Theater in the world is Prasads IMAX[2] along with South Asia's only 4D Simulator at Hyderabad, India.
It is the IMAX at Darling Harbour in Sydney, * Australia, however, which possesses the largest screen in the world.
*Hey jj we ought to ask Steve from Sydney, and Joveski if theyv'e been, huh ?
That was interesting for me; hope it answered your OMNIMAX Q, jj,
As u you see, I put the short-read for IMAX in light blue, and short-read for OMNI in green.
Char, I hope (really) that ANY use of color doesn't give you a headache; that would not be too cool of me. Lemme know Okee ?
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Next Q jj:hi steveo! being a mapsman, have you played the lakes map game at the film site? i was bad at that, lol
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No ! Cool ! Gotta check it out, and will let you know at some point-thanks for the tip, jj.
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Next Q jj:i think Wayne chose those colours because Gord's Gold, no?
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jj - I save SO MANY 'favorite' sites to scroll-through that I have to have a visual clue scheme that is eye-catching to find what I want fast, using mnemonix, color, caps, U-name it ! I do believe you are right on the
Gold Wayne's site versus
Gord's GoldI, though ! - it IS a perfect backdrop for the classic GG1 photos front and back, and base color skin for 'Wayne's World'.
Val's blue with that irridescent vertical streak down the left is really cool, too. Of course the content is what matters, but the initial catch-your-eye is high on both. I know Val has designed other websites for ppl, lots I think. Valerie ? Hook-em initially with first-glance appearance, then keep 'em reading with substantive content.
Kudos to both Wayne Francis AND Valerie MaGee on very well-thought out and compelling sources to keep returning to; both treasure troves in their own right.
As fas the GG1 album cover front and back photos of Gord were the photos that had every guy that was GL FAN 75 I think it was asking his barber- "How does a guy get his hair to do that?", and God help you if you were in an older-style MEN's barber shop. The response was "whatsammata wit'you, dat takes a PERM - you know, what da WOMEN get that smells bad in the WOMEN'S BEAUTY SHOPS, and sets you back $20"(in '75). And then looking around at all the guys that your barber said loud enough to make sure they heard, waiting for a cut and that da**ed smelly water; "Naw, he he, I was uhh, just curious what-ta... dem fancy guys and rock stars do to make the hair like that, you wit me ? Sure ain;t for me, no sirree". Da88 !
So between that, and my beard growing-in in fungus-like patches until it filled in, in my senior year of High School, I couldn't pull it off -I thought it would 'get the chics' haha in school. Oh well. By the time My beard beard was filled in enought to re-consider gettin 'the perm-aaaaagggg", 'fros" on caucasians were not acceptable behavior in the small Mtn Town my parents moved to in my senior year. They were still cool for African-American guys, but a white guy wearing a 'fro', in a town where every guy was supposed to look like a mountain guide - North-Face Michelin-man-puffy down/gore-tex from head-to Raichle or Vasque-toes(monster climbing boots) - if not they'd kick your a88....lol...
Cpme to think of it, THERE WAS A GUY THAT COMPLETELY LOOKED LIKE JOHN DENVER in my senior year in Colorado - and he had it all down, from the Woolrich green-and black buffaloe-plaid shirt-jac on the 'Rocky Mtn. High' album covetr with Denver (Deuchedorff) (sp?), to the ubiquitous AND requisite Navy-Blue Down Jacket, Hiking/climbing boots (with Vibram lug-soles NOT MEANT FOR CONCRETE - the old yellow label Montagna-block climbing sole would wear down to leather midsole from wearing them through one winter in town - and the street salt, oh-man what a way to destroy (back then) $80 boots (now c $300-450) !.
Anyway - our local John Denver man (who to this day STILL is a strolling al fresco Cafe minstrel with stax of his Indie CD's for sale at $10.... went on to have EXACTLY Denver's blond foop haircut, the EXACT round wire-rims, even LOOKED like him facially -AND down to the floppy leather hat....probably gave the guy schiziphrenia (sp?) ....lol... If you go to Estes Park, Co this next summer, he'll still be there, guitar case open or tasteful coffe-can open for tips.... but you know he really IS good ?
He's added in to his J Denver repertoire some of the local 'Lazy-B Wranglers' tumblin-tumbleweed real Wester songs boys- they've been singing like the 'Sons of the Pioneers' for years up there on the Lazy-B Chuckwagon Dinner steak rides, on half-dead 35 yr-old worn out nags..lol... The guy with the great bass voice for songs like 'Ghosr Riders On The Storm' unfortunately died a few years back, he had loved his whiskey, Old Bear Squeeze, or something, and would sing up a deep Ghost-Riders like you've never heard, but he fell off of the back highest level of the mini-bleachers they performed on and conked his head too many times... I don't know if it was that , or the booze that did him in.
Thats my story for today.