Large Format Projectionist

@Benhm3
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18Dec25: Moved to @BenHM3
My background photo, from left:
#1 a remnant of the Spitz Space Transit System planetarium.
#2 the IMAX film frame counter.
#3 Carb sync tool.
#4 a notching tool for exposed movie negative.
#5 (back) is a HeNe tube laser.
#6 tool for opening elevator doors.
#7 MacSE with an SE30 accelerator card.

My icon photo is of my dad & friend in their Stearman.

I live on land stolen from the indigenous Dakota peoples in the treaties of 1837 & 1855.

Blog:https://write.as/benhm3/
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Large Format Projectionist7h ago

TIL when an airless paint sprayer runs out of paint, the motor/pump runs away trying to make up pressure. The hose has none of the pulses under normal operation.

I thought the motor had sheared its key or something. Then I couldn’t trigger it because, as tech support told me, the regulator label might be a bit off.

#Graco tech support is fabulous. They REALLY know their stuff. Thank you Patrick.

Large Format Projectionist7h ago
Show threadAmy Maybe8h ago
As a Woman on the Internet(TM), the block button is MY VERY BEST FRIEND
Large Format Projectionist8h ago
Headline Bot8h ago
ABC7: Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar as editor of the original 1977 "Star Wars" and was part of a group of women whose editing was essential to film's New Hollywood era, has died, a lawyer for her family said Friday. She was 80. https://abc7.com/post/marcia-lucas-death-oscar-winning-star-wars-editor-former-wife-director-george-dies-80/19196655/
Oscar-winning 'Star Wars' editor Marcia Lucas dies at 80

Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar as editor of the original 1977 "Star Wars" and was part of a group of women whose editing was essential to film's New Hollywood era, has died, a lawyer for her family said Friday. She was 80.

ABC7 Los Angeles
Large Format Projectionist8h ago
Ben13h ago
The thing I enjoy about really terrible people on the Fediverse is that they pop up with their bile and hate, then are just immediately swatted away by literally everyone, into silence and obscurity. Walled off from all of the many lovelies. Hurrah! F those Bs. X
Large Format Projectionist8h ago
mcc11h ago
Screenshot from a DM conversation
Large Format Projectionist8h ago
Joy13h ago

My first face study when I was learning color and digital painting in early 2023! It's one of those lightning in a bottle moments, didn't quite know how I got to the end.

#portrait #africanamerican #art #painting

Large Format Projectionist9h ago
Emily Velasco9h ago
Sometimes I remember that the London Bridge is in Lake Havasu, Arizona, and think wtf is with this crazy country. I wonder how many British people know about this.
Show threadLarge Format Projectionist9h ago

@timbray

Why not both?

Large Format Projectionist9h ago
Show threadTim Bray 🇨🇦9h ago

This flower wants to have hot sweaty transgressive sex with you, or maybe just kill you and feast on your flesh.

#bloomscrolling

Show threadLarge Format Projectionist13h ago

@kashif
Ahh, well, as a projectionist, I did create some stuff.

The first programmed “Behind the Dome” tour.
The only digital IMAX frame counter (I had collaborators.)
The first (and only, never used) wireless emergency stop system for the projector.
The first film-platter lift.
I did a real stupid one though: adding two Klipsch Lescalas to a Sonics sound system was dumb. (We tried to fill the “headphone gap” in the 6 channel sound system.)