Howl's will be out of commission for a while, Disney wants to check the disc so I'll be sending it to them really soon. If I haven't mentioned it yet, the disc reads fine in set-top DVD players, but not my laptop DVD drive, go fig. I know the drive isn't buggy, I ran the the Volume 1 Disc of Samurai 7 in it with no trouble, after the Howl's disc had problems.
Several things I feel I need to bring up again, only because I probably forgot to mention them before:
About Pixia:
The help file for Pixia is a separate install (Look for pixhlp_e.exe, or pixhlp_e.zip on the download page).
Pixia has the sepia filter (View->Filters->Effects - near the bottom of the list for sepia)
Pixia also has an additional filters download, and it has a sepia filer included , if you install this, you get an Effects 2 listing in the filter browser (View->Filters).
About IrfanView:
The "sepia" and a few other filters for Irfanview are a separate installation, the Irfanview plug-ins download which is separate from the main download.
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Yep, those are the ones, though they're not as picky with the trees they infest here, I think they start with Elm though and move on to others from there. A few years back we had them in the crabapple tree in our yard.
Always take what you can get in terms of inspiration, no matter what the source or location (Keep it legal and don't trespass though). Of course I like creepy tunnels, creepy houses, creepy cemetaries, creepy old school buildings, creepy battle sites, creepy old hotels, and just about anything that's got a paranormal story associated with it creepy or not (the town of Point Pleasant WV's Mothman for example - I love being in that town). AND I'm also one of the hair-brained idiots who won't run away from an area when the ghosts are banging doors and throwing things, but toward it with my camera and DVR to collect the evidence of paranormal activity I want and need. I do have some EVP clips from a walk through a local cemetary, if I can clean them up a little and convert them to a more friendly format (currently in wave format), I'll give you all a listen to some voices that weren't there.
The nearest two Hastings stores are both in Richmond, Indiana or Kentucy (I thought that was strange). I don't think they're anywhere in what is considered the "northeast" US actually, so for now getting to one of them is out of the question. There was a Sam Goody up in one college town, but that closed down a couple months ago, so basically none of the good stores are near enough to me to be of any real use. If anyone from a decent animé and related materials store actually read stuff like this, I'd be more than happy to tell them where to put a store that would make it close enough for me to get to it more than once a year, right now I've got Best Buy an hour away in two directions, and get there once or twice a year if I'm lucky.
The most local video rental store I know of actually carried the locally filmed, low budget, garbage fest, "Bubble" which is a sign of their caliber itself. That movie was terrible: Poorly filmed, poorly acted, and poorly written, and poorly directed, I don't care if the clown is a big-wig in Hollywood. I think my best bet is a prepay credit card, and a quick browse online, I found a couple sites selling it (cross checked against the bootleg list - wouldn't want to waste my money on that junk - I'd rather pay more for the real thing and know it's legit anyway), I just need to get the money, and have it in the right form to shop online if I want to guarantee finding it. I may have some luck in the nearby college towns, but even those aren't guarantees until I actually get out and see what's there.
Anime Dreams!
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- Sanosuke (Rurouni Kenshin), for Caprice [Upload Pending]
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- Melfina (Outlaw Star), for Outlaw Melfina
- Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), for kout3uka
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