giovedì 22 aprile 2021

Due parole sulla superlega

SONO FAVOREVOLE


https://www.ateralbus.it/la-superlega-e-morta-viva-la-superlega/

https://www.geopolitica.info/fallita-la-superleague-vincono-i-tifosi-le-risorse-del-qatar-psg-e-lausterity-tedesca-bayern/?fbclid=IwAR0_xwMXOGY3Di8GABgnqDH5kuX-ojWQJlVSF6S0_xEFhKXUWqbnMYniJH8

https://bundesitalia.com/2021/03/17/qatar-bayern-monaco-polemiche/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0NP_nz0MVBNesZKhH0OXH0CFQ1FWj5Fqp8GLbpZzsDdf0DxPY-8bffBbw

https://it.uefa.com/insideuefa/mediaservices/mediareleases/news/0268-1213fb84fd8b-0955ff43be10-1000--il-nuovo-format-delle-competizioni-uefa-per-club-dalla-stagione/

https://twitter.com/francescocosta/status/1385309426488422401?s=19

giovedì 15 aprile 2021

Lo scemo del paese



LA STORIA DELLO SCEMO DEL PAESE

In un paesino un gruppo di persone si divertiva con un uomo noto come lo "scemo del paese", un povero cristo che viveva svolgendo piccoli lavori e di elemosina.

Ogni giorno queste persone incontrando lo “scemo” al bar si divertivano dandogli la possibilità di scegliere tra due monete da 1 e 2 euro e una banconota da 5 euro e lui puntualmente sceglieva sempre le due monete anziché la banconota, e ciò è inutile dirlo era motivo di derisione.

Un giorno, un signore che guardava il gruppo divertirsi alle spalle del povero uomo, lo chiamò in disparte e gli fece notare che è vero che prendeva due monete ma che le stesse insieme valevano meno della singola banconota, a questo punto lo “scemo” rispose: “Signore lo so bene, non sono così scemo. La banconota vale due euro in più, ma il giorno in cui la sceglierò, il gioco finirà e non “vincerò” più le 3 euro al giorno.”

Questa storia finisce così ma non prima di aver tratto alcune conclusioni:

1) Chi sembra fesso, non sempre lo è;

2) Coloro che presumono di essere più intelligenti, spesso sono i fessi della situazione;

3) Un’ambizione smisurata può finire per tagliare una fonte di reddito sicura.

Ma la conclusione più interessante che possiamo trarre da questa storia è che ciò che conta non è quello che gli altri pensano di te, ma quello che tu pensi di te stesso.

Perché, guardate, il vero intelligente non è colui che sembra esserlo ma colui che lo dimostra.

(Web)

Per altre curiosità visita il sito www.fenomenologia.net

martedì 13 aprile 2021

Genesis Live Bataclan France 16mm January 10, 1973 (4K)

 E' stato pubblicato su YouTube il filmato restaurato del concerto dei Genesis del 10 gennaio 1973 al Bataclan di Parigi. Il filmato, per gentile concessione del sito web The Genesis Museum, è stato restaurato in 4k.


Il live è girato su un film in 16mm, la band si esibiva in supporto del quarto album della band britannica, "Foxtrot", il video ha una durata di circa 38 minuti. Vi sono delle interviste aggiuntive oltre alle canzoni "The Musical Box", "Supper's Ready", "The Return Of The Giant Hogweed" e "The Knife".



00:00 The Musical Box 10:03 Supper's Ready 21:22 Return Of The Giant Hogweed 26:48 The Knife 33:21 Interviews NOTE: 4K Version still being processed by YouTube Technical Details: This was a really big project. Not that the source was bad, the source was actually very nice. However, the source had many anomalies, but enough "clay" was there to mold this into something even better. The entire process was helped immensely by Ikhnaton, who provided material as well as suggestions and many many previews. The first step was to work on the sound, as the sound was missing for the first part of The Musical Box. The sound still exists but, well...this is another even longer story. Unfortunately, there were not many great recordings that were close enough in time to match the video performance. The best match turned out to be from the official Live LP, although I had to jump through many hoops to not only match the video from a month earlier, but also to match the rest of the audio in "tone". I then inserted a "patch" of audio to erase the overdub from the narrator. This also had to be EQed to match as reasonably close as possible. In the end I used more than one source as the camera is behind the keyboards during this portion, and they needed to be higher in the mix than found in most soundboard Musical Box recordings. I then remastered the rest of the audio to give it a bit more life, some compression and reverb and stereo effects, though not too much as this is a small club and would be strange if it sounded like Giants Stadium. There were also some odds and ends like the sound reel being flat as it spun up to speed, some ambient audience needed between songs, etc. Most of the audio quality was nice however so it didn't need too much surgery. The video was much more of a process. AI tools are becoming very useful and fairly fast, but often make things worse when used improperly. There are also about 25 different AI models that I use, each with several different settings. I try many different models in order to get the result I am looking for on the source I am working on, without creating unwanted artifacts. I also normally have to do more than 1 AI pass. These video tools basically do 3 things well. Noise reduction, up-sampling (increasing size), and enhancement (adding detail) and there is rarely 1 perfect model or setting to get all three, without some very strange things happening. For example, one of the models I tested did a great job on the foreground, but determined that the curtains were hair and they started flowing:) For this film I did 2 passes with 2 totally different models, one of which was still in beta release. I also upscaled higher than desired and then Lanczos reduced back down to get even more detail without adding size. I also used AviSynth for spot/dirt removal and cleanup, scratch removal on one of the camera reels (mostly during Hogweed), and additional sharpness. I used Neat Video for some additional NR/blending in the lights, which are brighter than normally seen on concert films of the time, and it was very difficult to train a tool to recognize the difference between foreground and background in this case. Then I used FFMPEG for frame interpolation to get smooth motion. Finally of course some color grading in TMPGEnc, to give it more realism, despite some color and lighting inconsistencies between the camera angles. For the production we decided to move the interviews to the end, as they are mostly annoying during the performance. There was also only a lower quality source for the final reel of The Knife, so the brightness and detail is greatly reduced during the final minute or so. I won't say that all of these processes were without penalty. But as always, the benefits of each process have to be weighed against the penalties. For the processes we used, we felt there was enough added benefit. Is it definitive? No. Not only do we know there was more of this show filmed, if all the reels could get a higher resolution direct transfer without compression, the results could be better still. But in my opinion, the results we were able to obtain rank this film up there with the best of the Gabriel-era Genesis films. As always, we hope the fans enjoy this. But we ask that our work on this film not be used without permission or credit to those who put all of the time, effort, and money in to making this happen. Otherwise, those involved will not share their work in the future. Ikhnaton & http://GenesisMuseum.com

sabato 10 aprile 2021

Genesis - The Fountain of Salmacis / Twilight Alehouse / The Musical Box / The Return of the Giant Hogweed - Live 1972 (Restored & Remastered)

https://fb.watch/b8SThfc9hK/

Genesis - The Fountain of Salmacis / Twilight Alehouse / The Musical Box / The Return of the Giant Hogweed - Live 1972 (Restored & Remastered)
Video Denoised, Sharpened and Upscaled by BrunoSamppa, 2021
Audio Remastered by BrunoSamppa, 2021
16mm film - Radio Télévision Belge Francophone / Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique - Pop Shop - Brussels, Belgium - 20-Mar-72
1. The Fountain of Salmacis
2. Twilight Alehouse
3. The Musical Box
4. The Return of the Giant Hogweed
Tony Banks – organ, Mellotron, piano, electric piano, 12-string guitar, voices
Mike Rutherford – bass, bass pedals, 12-string guitar
Peter Gabriel – lead voice, flute, bass drum, tambourine
Steve Hackett – electric guitar
Phil Collins – drums, voices, percussion

Hallo Prince Philip

 


Il Principe Filippo, duca di Edimburgo, nato Principe Filippo di Grecia e Danimarca è morto. R.i.P.

Nato il 10/06/1921 - 09/04/2021, praticamente un secolo e per 74 anni consorte di Elisabetta II, Regina del Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord e degli altri reami del Commonwealth.



 

   




Venite già sediati


Accadono cose inconcepibili nel 2021 ed in un paese che vorrebbe entrare nella EU... ma d'altronde stiamo parlando di una dittatura islamica. 
#Micheldimettiti

Ed in Italia, Draghi, pur dicendo la verità, crea un incidente diplomatico mica male... esticazzi!