Teasing the Korean

Has anyone seen this? How is it?

It wasn't practical. The only way to see color was to line up all three glass plates in a projector and project them onto a wall.

Maybe, I just found out about them today. On the Library of Congress site, they explain how the photos weren't viewed for decades - each photo existed only on isolated monochrome slides (blue, red, green) that had to be superimposed and projected. Digital technology over the last ten years allowed the slides to be combined and printed. Software apparently takes care of slight discrepancies that occurred between each monochrome shot. There's something very eerie about looking into those faces and wondering what happened to everyone after the Revolution, WWI, and Stalin. I'm conditioned to think about that era in black and white - it's interesting to see it in color. Even aside from the novelty of color, the shots themselves are amazing.

"...I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948." http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html?ref=nf

He has a bad hair piece, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/arts/music/11silber.html

Congrats! Chuck, were you involved with the music for the wedding?

MGA, you have a PM. Thanks!

a Interested in the Hawksworth. Can't send a PM for some reason.

Don is really unravelling, huh?

Which years do I have to choose from?

Martin Denny/Si Zentner/Les Baxter - Exotica Suite - Liberty (mono)

Various - Black California - Savoy 70s twofer of Central Ave scene bebop, circa late 40s, early 50s (mono).

Elisabeth Waldo - Rites of the Pagan - GNP Crescendo (stereo, orange label)

Mort Stevens's "Hawaii Five-0" Capitol album has finally come out on iTunes.

You guys scared me for minute. I thought that the Donnas were breaking up.

This thread should be moved to the Politics forum. I am offended.

With the 45 rpm album becoming an audiophile format, it's a matter of time before we come full circle and are back to the days of 78 albums. I've written elsewhere: 78s from the 1950s that were recorded on tape and pressed on modern vinyl sound AMAZING when they're played with the right stylus. Also: Not exactly jazz, but I've managed to find intact 78 albums of Cugat's Rhumbas (Columbia), Sam Hoffman/Les Baxter "Music Out of the Moon" (Capitol) and Rozsa's "Spellbound" (forget the label).

It's really amazing to me that, if I can believe Amazon, as late as 2010 most of Chico's 1960s Impulse albums with Gabor Szabo STILL have not made it to CD. This stuff was huge with DJs at least 15 years ago if not before. Some real luddites must be in charge of reissues. The mind boggles.

By the way: The show directly after Step Outside - Surface Noise - features a segment called "Lounge Laura's Lounge." On this week's episode, the Lovely Lounge Laura will be spinning several tantric textures tracks that didn't make it to my show. You can listen here, after 1 am, 9/2/10, EST: http://www.wmnf.org/programs/364 It's a two-hour show; you need to scroll to the beginning of the second hour (which opens in a new window) to hear Lounge Laura's Lounge. Enjoy!

The show will be archived for one magical week before disappearing forever into the ether: http://www.wmnf.org/programs/144

Welcome back, sounds great!!!

I still have my Dad's 78 album set of "The King Cole Trio" on Capitol, with the pink cover. 4 discs, 8 tunes.

Absolutely!