Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: recurve shooter on March 03, 2010, 09:59:18 pm
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ok, let me start by saying, im not sure i believe in ghosts. but these are.....strange. these are pics of my idiot of a step cousin muddrideing. his mom took them. now these people arnt exactly overflowing with intellect, so i verry seriously doubt they tweaked the pics. check it out. what do yall think?
check out the upper right. at the end of that long mud hole.
(http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy146/ikillgarfish/162.jpg)
ok look close at the big white-gray stump looking thing in the back ground.
(http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy146/ikillgarfish/163.jpg)
tell me what yall think. kinda freaked me out. :-X
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Well when you Photoshop the First Picture...and bring it down to the Pixel...the Image in the Background of the Dude with the Flintlinck and Possibles Bag.... has a Higher Pixel Count than the Main Picture does...so I call it a Photoshop Chopjob.....JMO
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El D: ;D
Thanks! I needed a good laugh today!!!
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ah. cool. well i guess i underestimated the technological abillity of my aquired family. ;D
thanks! still think it looks cool though lol.
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Interesting theory Mike. Obviously your photoshop is different than mine. Once it is saved as a jpeg the pixels are redistributed and the pixels are exactly the same size. If it was a PSD or TIFF format, we could tell if the resolution was off. The color of the musket dude follows the pixelation too closely, it just doesn't fade enough into the neighboring pixels, suggesting it was brought in from another photo. I agree they are fake, but you need a copy of the original to tell what was done to it.
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Not photoshop-Iphone app called "ghost capture. " I've seen I don't know how many of these haints on trail cam pics lately. It's the Civil War guy in the top center, flipped.
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Imagine that Steve, the head is in the middle of the lower group. ;) What amazes me is that people don't have anything better to do with their time.
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ah! thats it. i wouldnt have guessed that, but it makes sence. well at least i know what it is now. man you guys are expert photo anylists. ;D
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ah! thats it. i wouldnt have guessed that, but it makes sence. well at least i know what it is now. man you guys are expert photo anylists. ;D
I better be, that is my major. ;)
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i personally wouldnt be able to tell,im not that up on technology
but my youngest son is a photo/photoshop geek(hobby of his)
he has some(like 3 differant) professional phot shop type programs and such and he would have been able to tell
just like Justin
but they look good ;)
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That soilder gets around he was in my moms office one night one of the security guys took "the ghost picture" "You can fool some people some time but you can't fool all the people all the time"
B.M.
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Awww, you guys don't know anything! Why, I have a picture of a ghost German U-boat off the coast of Mexico when we were on vacation there! Yeah, and guess who was on board? That's right, you can clearly see the ghost of Hermann Goering on the deck. And we didn't photoshop the pictures from books like "U-Boats Of World War Two" and "Hermann Goering: A Biography", either, even if Goering is totally out of scale to the U-boat. And a buddy of mine has a picture that shows the ghost of Joseph Stalin walking around the Kremlin trying to find a match to light his pipe. You can clearly see him patting his pocket for a match. Or maybe a list of officers he was planning on having shot. Anyway, one of those two things. There's no way he could have photoshopped it from the book "Stalin And The Stavka Vodka Party of 1943". No way he went to page 74 and photoshopped that picture of Stalin there.
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lol tsalagi, cant help but thinking there may be some hints in there somewhere. :P
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Ive only seen one real ghost photo, one an English friend's budddy took in the ruins of a WWII USAAF bomber base in Essex. A strange kind of myst, really odd, that was taken in one of the old base buildings. A psychic was consulted and even found a name to associate with it, but that may be just her doing her professional thing.
I've seen enough ghosts that I think there must be real "spirit" photos out there. If you can see it, I think you can probably photograph it. Shame some folks go to so much trouble to fake them. Each ghost I have seen "with my own two eyes" didn't look like dead people. However, the thing in the attic of the house I grew up in I wouldn't wanted to have seen. I never went back up there after that encounter.
Recently, I've been a bit into EVP stuff. I'm sure a lot of it is fake, but some of it is very creepy. You can find some recordings using Google.
Dane
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Dane, was it a Shuggoth in the attic? ;D
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Well as ol W.C Fields, said, " You can fool some of the people, some of the time, ......and that's enough to make a decent living off of "...... ;D ;D
Wayne
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Well as ol W.C Fields, said, " You can fool some of the people, some of the time, ......and that's enough to make a decent living off of "...... ;D ;D
Wayne
i like that. ;D
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It was the Dark Goat herself. This was in the suburbs, so it was odd she wasn't out in the woods. :)
Dane
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That is funny.
My roommate in college and I both saw the 'negative' image of a horsedrawn carriage for about 1 second, passing us on an highway in Connecticut. It was about 2 in the morning and, yes, I was sober. So, for me, either we are both crazy at the same time, or something could be to it. True story. ??? ;D
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It was the Dark Goat herself. This was in the suburbs, so it was odd she wasn't out in the woods. :)
Dane
Ia! Shub Niggureth, the black goat of the woods with a thousand young! Cthulhu fthagn!
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It was the Dark Goat herself. This was in the suburbs, so it was odd she wasn't out in the woods. :)
Dane
Ia! Shub Niggureth, the black goat of the woods with a thousand young! Cthulhu fthagn!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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I actually ordered the big Lovecraft Anthology the other day, haven't read any of his stuff in awhile.
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I actually ordered the big Lovecraft Anthology the other day, haven't read any of his stuff in awhile.
I’ve just been getting back to HPL.
If the anthology is the Necronomican, big fat volume with black cover and silver letters, it is worth having. Any of the Arkham House volumes are worth owning, too. The one on revisions and ghost work is great, and includes The Mound, one of my favorites.
This summer, I am going to do the Lovecraft tour, visit all his residences, his grave, Brown University and see the original letters and manuscripts, and so on. Providence is about 2.5 hours drive from where I live, so no excuse not to get my butt in gear.
I still have to figure out where he lived in Brattleboro when he stayed there a couple summers. The house apparently still exists – maybe it should be called the “Shunned House” lol.
The last few years, my Roman legio has done a Columbus Day parade in Providence, and it is on College Hill, an Italian neighborhood that is the setting for the Haunter of the Dark. It is really cool to walk around knowing HPL had visited that area, and set a story there.
Yog Shuggoth! Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
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Nyarlathotep! Tikilili!
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You guys speaking in tongues, or is your upper denture loose again? ;D Sound like you have been to the dentists, and the Novocaine hasn't worn off...... ::) Or did you just take too big a gulp of "Spring water", or too big a draw of ......Stuff...... ::) ;D
Speak English, boy, this is AMERICA! ;D
Wayne
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Wayne, you just need to read a few H.P. Lovecraft books, he was one of the earliest writers of horror/wierd fiction besides Poe. Good stuff, like The Call of Cthulhu, Dagon, the Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, and such. And it's about eleven on Friday night, so spring water could possibly be involved, too....;D ;D
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Dane, can you post some pics of your Roman legion? That would be cool to see!
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Ok, Hillbilly, I guess I will have to start looking for his books. That way, I can talk code too...... ;D then I won't have to say .....Stuff...... ;D The Dunwhich Horror sounds familiar. ;)
Wayne
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Ok, Hillbilly, I guess I will have to start looking for his books. That way, I can talk code too...... ;D then I won't have to say .....Stuff...... ;D The Dunwhich Horror sounds familiar. ;)
Wayne
Dunwich Horror was made into a bad movie, so maybe you have heard the title that way. There are a handful of Lovecraft stories made into movies, some reallly fun but not really true to the original material. Herbert West, Reanimator, Out of the Mouth of Madness, etc. I do recommend you look up and read a few of his stories. They are not for everyone, but I love his work. Lovecraft idolized Poe, but his main Cuthulu mythos stories were about cosmic evil trying to appear in our dimension and destroy or enslave us. As much science fiction as horror. When the stars are aligned right, and evil cultists lend a hand, these monsters tend to do all kinds of mischief.
Hail Asathoth!
Dane
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Dane, can you post some pics of your Roman legion? That would be cool to see!
Can do, in another thread though, so this one isnt more hijacked than it already is! But here is one....this is a shot of a balllista that Fred, the bald guy in the photo built, a small stone throwing engine, which can get enormous campared to this baby machine. :) Fred is a cop in real life, and a great fabricator. He routinely builds chariots, triumphal arches, all kinds of things.
The Roman hobby is great, because you can make and play with all kinds of lethal toys.
Dane
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lol dont mind the hijacking. the original thread made me feel like an idiot anyway. ::)
those ballistas and trebuchets are awsome. me and my dad made the retarded redneck's version of a trebuchet onece. uh, it threw a brick straight up, and you had to pull the pin and run like hell lol. :P
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Dane, that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Man, that gets my stamp of approval!!! I'd love to be there to see that ballistae shoot! Do you guys make your own caligilae or where do you get them?
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lol dont mind the hijacking. the original thread made me feel like an idiot anyway. ::)
those ballistas and trebuchets are awsome. me and my dad made the retarded redneck's version of a trebuchet onece. uh, it threw a brick straight up, and you had to pull the pin and run like hell lol. :P
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Thanks, man. You made me laugh out loud - retarded redneck version. :)
One of the early pioneers of catapult reconstruction was a German named Schramm. He worked in the late 1800s and early 1900s, an officer in Wilhelm's army. He was demonstrating one machine for the Kaiser, and it misfired, shot a huge stone straight in the air, and it nearly crushed the Kaiser. Whoops.
Dane
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Dane, that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Man, that gets my stamp of approval!!! I'd love to be there to see that ballistae shoot! Do you guys make your own caligilae or where do you get them?
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Thanks for saying that. That machine was amazing. We called it the Roman Atomic Cannon. It weighed close to 3,000 pounds. Setting it up was really dangerous, too. Fred finally sold the machine to some prop house in Hollywood, and we miss it.
Most of us make a lot of our own gear. In the shot of me as an auxilia archer, most of the clothing I made myself. I did buy my caligai, Depeeka, an Indian company, is a good source, but not totaly authentic. The hobnails are all wrong, for one thing. I am planning to make a pair of closed boots this year, with proper hobnails.
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More great pics! Man, It'd be some fun to set up a bunch of junk Ford Pintos and AMC Pacers and start nailing them with that ballistae!
How are caligae as far as comfort goes?
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The caligae are actually pretty comfortable, considering they are completely flat. They are made for right and left feet, unlike some ancient shoes. The caligae are actually boots, not sandles, and what sets them apart from Roman civilian footgear are the hobnails. During the Jewish war, the enemy could tell if it was Roman soldiers because of the sound of the hobnails. Those things grip the ground really well, but are deadly on hard surfaces, so you have to be careful walking on pavement, etc, or you go down hard when your feet slip.
Here are some shots from a march a few of us did last summer. You can see the Roman marching pack, which is more like a pole with the leather bag and other things lashed to it, and you carry it over your shoulder like a hobo pack. We did this along a rail trail in Northampton, got tons of weird looks (all reenactors are used to this, as are wooden bow archers, eh?), but some people who asked some good questions. The idea is to keep up a proper legionarie pace. No weapons, as we didnt want to hassle with getting permission this time, so we left our gladius and pugio in the cars. I am planning more extensive marches this year, something Legio III needs to do more of.
As for the calegia, I felt good after the march. Generally, you start to feel it after a full day of wearing the boots, but they work well and are pretty comfortable.
Dane
PS Notice the hat I am wearing, like Mike Houston's lol. There is pictorial evidence that Roman soldiers wore straw hats, odd as it may seem.
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