[Tig] End Credits at the cinema - topic drift

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Dominic Case wrote:

>  a theory once that in terms of "eras", each century
> begins a few years AFTER the calendar ticks over. It's possible  
> that the
> tension around the "end of the century" and "a new start" have an  
> effect on
> world events.

well as you probably know Dominic the 21st century didn't begin until  
2001
because there was never a "year 0", the A.D. counting began with year 1.
So the millenium celebration was more a product of programming fears  
with
respect to those two new leading digits.

> The nineteenth century didn't really get going until the eighteenth  
> finished
> - with the final defeat of Napoleon.

and the rise of French literature, with Balzac and Stendhal particularly
astute chroniclers of that time.

> THere's a prize for anyone who can segue this back to telecine.   
> (Not sure
> what the prize is, but there should be one!)

Did anyone realize that it was in 1900 B.C. that purple dyes were  
first used,
in the Minoan civilization of Crete?  Since the Minoans weren't aware  
the
ordinal numbers they used would eventually be reversed to count down,  
how did
they refer to their centuries, or better yet how do we refer to  
centuries that
count down rather than up, when considering the naughty decades?

Additionally, everyone is aware of Phoenician blinds.  (Phoenician =  
"land of the purple"; see next paragraph)  Could it be there were  
people who didn't care for purple, so wanted to live behind closed  
blinds, as seems to be indicated by the following paragraph from
http://pffc-online.com/mag/paper_history_shellfish_royalty/

"The earliest archaeological evidence for the origins of purple dyes  
points to the Minoan civilization in Crete, about 1900 B.C. The  
ancient land of Canaan (its corresponding Greek name was Phoenicia,  
which means “land of the purple”) was the center of the ancient  
purple dye industry."

When asked to introduce a self-generated color of interest (or  
"look") to a
project, some colorists astutely ask "what about something in a mauve?"

There used to be (might still be) a supermarket chain in LA called  
Hughes Markets.
(one funny offshoot was that a small mom and pop market on Highland  
Av. in
Hollywood was forced by the large Hughes supermarket chain to change  
their name;
they chose the ironic "Huge").  Sitting in a session once with the  
colorist Bob Festa, he responded to a since-forgotten client request  
with "what about something in this family of hues."  Amused eye  
swiveling ensued.

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Rob Lingelbach
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