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Slim Pickens posted:That's a really common look/color grade in a lot of Hollywood movies these days. Not sure if there's a specific reason for it other than those end up on opposite ends of the color temperature spectrum. Tungsten=3200K which appears orange, daylight=5600K which appears as white normally, but if the camera white balance is toward a 'warmer' color temp(warm as in the feel of the light, not warm as in Kelvin), it reads as blue. The reason is that human skin tones generally fall somewhere on the orange spectrum, so to contrast actors and make them "pop", backgrounds get pushed towards blue-green in post-production color processing.
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xzzy posted:Is Michael Bay making it? That's a lot of blue and orange. Blue and orange are used a lot in paintings to represent depression and insanity; they are also complementary, producing a pleasing mix at the same time as providing a visual clue to the despair felt by the characters in the film. Beksinski and Salvador Dali have done some amazing things with blue and orange.
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Powershift posted:Magic God bless the USSR.
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jamal posted:I love this car: You have no idea! I've seen this car in person a couple of times now, once being at WTAC this year. It's perfection to the point where I want to sell my Evo and build something else because I'll never get close to this. From the B-Pillar back is one single carbon fibre clam. Same for the front end. Has push-rod suspension which looks amazing in person. Fuel Cell is next to the driver in the cabin, covered by more carbon fibre.    
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Are those eccentrics on tapered splines? Is this what I am seeing here? Is it some sort of self retaining taper / redonkulous press fit? I'm pretty stoked to see how this works out.
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Can't embed HTML5, but this is pretty cool. http://gfycat.com/ActualTallAsianpiedstarling
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General Wiggles posted:Can't embed HTML5, but this is pretty cool. we need a winking miata emoticon (yes I know that's a 240sx)
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World's cutest turn signal.
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Phy posted:World's cutest turn signal. 
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I've finally got something I can put in this thread: a brand new racetrack is under construction just a couple hours' drive south of me. 
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Definitely a car focused track rather than bike, but cool. Another Seattle area-ish track.
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I really dislike modern track design, every course I see seems to use a paint-by-numbers approach. I understand that with the amount of money it takes to build a track they have to do things a certain way, but it feels like it really robs the enterprise of any opportunity to build a reputation.
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wesley snypes posted:I've finally got something I can put in this thread: a brand new racetrack is under construction just a couple hours' drive south of me. That looks like a fairly decent kart track on the left, get in there.
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Instead of making the kart a smaller smoothed out version of the main course, they should have scaled up the main track from the kart track.  The corners look more fun.
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BlackMK4 posted:Definitely a car focused track rather than bike, but cool. Another Seattle area-ish track. That would be an awesome track on a literbike.
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Fucknag posted:post-production color processing. is ruining modern cinematography. I hope in a few years I can buy a version of these movies with a more natural color spectrum. A little tweaking is great but most blockbusters look like there is an ape at the controls.
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iwentdoodie posted:That would be an awesome track on a literbike. I've never been one for firing a missile... I like corner speed. 
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wesley snypes posted:I've finally got something I can put in this thread: a brand new racetrack is under construction just a couple hours' drive south of me. Wait this is near Seattle? Details?
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Guinness posted:Wait this is near Seattle? Details? Area 27, in Oliver, BC - the southern end of the Okanagan valley. About a five-hour drive from Seattle, I guess. It's all spearheaded by Jacques Villeneuve, and he's catering hard to all the rich people who already vacation here in the summer - hockey players, etc. I spoke with a rep last summer, and they seem to be on course to have the track open by mid-summer 2015, helped along by their golf-course-style memberships - starting at a $30k buy in, and going all the way up to $90k, plus yearly dues. The rep said that the curbing is going to be all right for both cars and bikes, and money from the members will go towards keeping usage fees reasonably cheap, and keeping pro staff on site of course. The pictures don't show it, but there are some areas with fairly large elevation changes. I can't say for sure where, because it's been a while since then and the track layout's been altered. The karting course is going to have drop-in events with junior karts, paddle-shift karts, and everything in between. There's a bunch more info but I can't remember it all, check the site.
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How long until a subdivision gets built close to it and the people who knowingly moved next to a race track complain about the noise and get it shut down?
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BlackMK4 posted:I've never been one for firing a missile... I like corner speed. I will never forget the instructors at California Superbike School talking about hitting 160+ on straights on the S1000 and being so loving nonchalant. I need that in my life.
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iwentdoodie posted:That would be an awesome track on a literbike. ehhhh a 250 would be more fun.
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Have a look at this guy's videos of his M37 build, it's pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz7hZe255fJvMVZMtmAXaoQ
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cursedshitbox posted:ehhhh a 250 would be more fun. yes, on the kart track.
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cursedshitbox posted:ehhhh a 250 would be more fun. A 250 is no fun on a track with long straights. Just a liability. Now, cart track? 125 two smokes all day.
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iwentdoodie posted:A 250 is no fun on a track with long straights. Just a liability.
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InitialDave posted:Isn't he referencing that video of a guy on a 250 smoking litrebikes around a full-size track? What video is this? It sounds awesome
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T1g4h posted:What video is this? It sounds awesome
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iwentdoodie posted:A 250 is no fun on a track with long straights. Just a liability. There is a rumor - perpetuated by actual track reps, but still unconfirmed so far - that some of the longer straights will have bends running off to the side that can be opened up specifically to keep small-displacement bike racing interesting.
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I know nothing about bikes, is the 250 actually lighter enough to carry that much more speed through the corners? Or is this just a good demonstration of skill>power?
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Both, it looks like the guys on the bigger bikes aren't using anywhere near the entire width of the track in the corners. The guy on the 250 has much better lines
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Fucknag posted:I know nothing about bikes, is the 250 actually lighter enough to carry that much more speed through the corners? Or is this just a good demonstration of skill>power? A little column a, a lot of column b. A very skilled rider on a 250 will out corner an idiot on a supersport. But even in that video you can see the extreme speed difference. poo poo gets sketchy when closing speed differential is that high, no matter how skilled the guy on the smaller bike is.
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wesley snypes posted:There is a rumor - perpetuated by actual track reps, but still unconfirmed so far - that some of the longer straights will have bends running off to the side that can be opened up specifically to keep small-displacement bike racing interesting. I think I know what they're talking about. 
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Fucknag posted:I know nothing about bikes, is the 250 actually lighter enough to carry that much more speed through the corners? Or is this just a good demonstration of skill>power?
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IOwnCalculus posted:I think I know what they're talking about. I hope not. This is the only time I like my bikes around orange cones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXWVYtsf43Y
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Shame he was run over by an inattentive driver in an SUV after leaving the event. 
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Ye olde station wagon at a C&C this summer:
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