Grain silo cinema
Note to self: stop dreaming. You can’t afford to buy a new camera, even if it does rate as significantly better than what you have, according to Snapsort.com (my new favourite site for photo geekiness). There.
In town, our “rated by the Guinness Book folks” summer attraction is underway. Yes, the Moulin à Images (no translation available) will light up the night sky (in a selected neighbourhood) later this evening. The show is fun to watch, at least once, so the producers have upped the ante. Tonight, the show will be presented in 3D.
Pity that one-eyed, colour-blind people “need not apply”; I would have added it to my personal calendar which is quickly filling up for the summer months. Those who attend will don a pair of spectacles, and then try to ooh and aahh in concert with the soundtrack. Yes, the same soundtrack that has the local people ready to pierce their eardrums in an attempt to find relief. I understand; night after night after night, the same sequence, without the charm of a catchy hook in the bass line. As bad as Top 40 radio, in the long ago time when radio actually mattered.
The producer admits that the show isn’t “really” up to the 3D standards imposed by an IMAX world. The seating sucks. They would have had to paint the grain silos in a matte silver shade, and the audience would have had to be arrayed (carefully) along the edges of the wharves to assure optimal viewing angles. The shipping authority wasn’t ready to approve the decorating job. Next year? Maybe?
