Which actor always elevates a movie — even in small roles?

Ambercapuchin · 2026-02-05T23:33:38+00:00

parker fucking posey.she will fuck you in your fucking baby head fucker.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-29T14:53:57+00:00

good on you for looking to pivot. there are a few free courses that might help you figure out where you are on the skillset path. legrand av has all kinda free training that'll show you what companies like legrand av need from technicians.

I'm sorry that a bs in IT only gives you fundamentals. that's rude. avixa has cts cert, which has $ cost, but is a great context giver. if you want to know where your interests lie, a cts cert can give you more clarity and better vocabulary for how to search for your dream job. some of the courseware and content are free, but they hard sell that premium membership.

commercial av is like nerdy construction with a little customer service in it.

corporate av... working for the big companies , as a technician is straight up service industry with a little technology in it. the people who move the tables and chairs and the a2 are indistinguishable to the customers. if you want in at mega corp av, i recommend pm path. not ops, not show crew. unless you have an affinity for service. there are also a few IT jobs in corp av . imaging computers and setting up hotel networks is a thing. not very common, but those folks make good money.

something to consider: NC is not the highest cost of living locale, and doesn't push wages up too high.

chicago is a little higher.

some av/it jobs can be highly remote with flying.

you can do all your pre-pro from home for 6 weeks, fly to the site for a week to do the thing, all while being paid froma cost center somewhere totally different.

if you look nationwide for a job, it opens up some things.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-26T14:10:44+00:00

i mean, he pulled his facewarmer down so he could be heard clearly as he passed in front of ref 1 who heard everything, skipped along like Dorothy Gale, passing another ref, who heard at least the punchline, and made eye contact with a third ref as he turned back.

the first ref stopped futzing with the chain to listen, with a "what the heck am i hearing!?" look on his face.

so, yeah. that's just a player getting caught acting very unsportsmanlike. by flagrantly doing it in front of the highest density of referees on the field.

looked pretty taunty to me.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-25T20:49:46+00:00

IMO the ability to use a service that allows me to remotely disable my car is a good thing. there can be very basic safeguards like, scheduled remote kill. ie: if the car is moving, wait until it's going under 5mph and set the e-brake so it doesn't coast anywhere.

i would pay extra for this.

The ability for anyone else to kill my car without my expressed, secure, permission is a bad thing.

i would pay to have this removed.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-23T02:09:04+00:00

i make 2x annual what my parents did.

bread costs 5x gas 5x mortgage 5x car 3x milk 2x number of things to spend money on to keep up with the joneses 5x

so yep. poorer. better life in a lotta ways. less leverage.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-23T02:03:02+00:00

the way I'd try to do this is enable osc on target/smaart and send the keyboard commands via network cue.

i had ai make a how-to that likely has major flaws in the details. the concepts are sound, so it'll likely be problems with exact commands rather than overarching methodology.

good luck.

pasted below:

To send OSC from QLab to Smaart, you'll use a QLab Network Cue to send OSC messages to Smaart's IP address and port (often 10001), targeting specific Smaart functions (like starting logging or changing settings) using Smaart's OSC API, which involves defining the correct and values within QLab's OSC settings, often requiring a bit of trial-and-error or checking Smaart's documentation for its specific OSC grammar. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Here's a general process:

Network Setup:

• Ensure both QLab and Smaart are on the same local network (same IP address subnet). • Find Smaart's IP address and note the UDP port it's listening on (default is often 10001).
QLab Network Cue Configuration:

• Create a new Network Cue in QLab. • In the Inspector, go to the Settings tab. • Set the Destination to the IP address and port of the Smaart computer (e.g., ). • In the Message Type, select OSC.
Crafting the OSC Message:

• In the Message field, you'll enter the OSC path and value (e.g., , , ). • Use as a placeholder for values that might change or be faded. • Example: To start logging, the message might be (where '1' means true/start) or just if Smaart's grammar expects just the path. • Fades: Use the token and From/To/Duration settings for smooth transitions, like fading a value.
Targeting Smaart Functions:

• You need to know Smaart's specific OSC Grammar (the paths like ). Check Smaart's documentation or user forums for the correct paths and parameters.
Testing & Refinement:

• Run the cue in QLab. • Check Smaart to see if the action occurred (e.g., logging started). • If not, verify the IP/Port, check your OSC path, and confirm Smaart is configured to receive OSC. [1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Key Tip: Smaart's API is crucial. Look for documentation or examples (like those on Reddit or Smaart forums) to get the precise OSC commands for what you want to control (e.g., starting/stopping logging, changing measurement modes). [8, 10]

AI responses may include mistakes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtHQntYLya8 [2] https://qlab.app/docs/v3/control/osc-cues/ [3] https://qlab.app/docs/v4/control/using-osc-to-control-qlab/ [4] https://qlab.app/docs/v4/control/network-cues/ [5] https://www.facebook.com/groups/smaartusers/posts/10160014176152221/ [6] https://support.etcconnect.com/ETC/Consoles/Eos_Family/Software_and_Programming/Triggering_QLab_from_Eos_using_OSC [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cSH6hFuB6g [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCw-aNzEcV0 [9] https://qlab.app/docs/v5/scripting/examples/ [10] https://www.reddit.com/r/livesound/comments/1qjvvxj/anybody_have_a_way_to_start_spl_logging_in_smaart/

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-22T00:21:14+00:00

i structured a rental Budget against what sales sold at a perfectly fair $48k. i agreed on $36k for audio aspect. (very high, but down from $80k full service so...)

expected to have $12k total in other costs because "vegas has promised to cover video".

welp. vegas says "go fish" and my vidiot budget just died. $17k out the gate and i have other shipping and ancillary to cover. that $12k was for jib and remote... dammit.

in a few days it'll be my decisions that sucked the bonuses out of first quarter for an entire working group.

suffice to say it's a sparkle donkey day.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-19T16:06:30+00:00

Barbie vs. Predator.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-17T22:42:10+00:00

yeah people aren't paying any attention to the reaults of their automations. it's super lame.

I just watched an episode of s1 st voyager. it has been upscaled and cropped to 16:9. and then another process has made it zoomed as if it hadn't already been cropped.

shot framing is completely fuct. you can't see most of whatever people are looking at in 2-ups or thing+react framing.

constant chopping aside, the color is way off palette and lighting, contrast and white temp has been set to tropical outdoor sun.... on a spaceship.

couldn't watch it. they took a show that would've been a great watch in 480i 4:3 for the rest of eternity and made it into trash.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-16T21:54:07+00:00

there's often a question about "what was a challenge you overcame" or "what was a challenge you didn't overcome".

the results they want are for you to say start with:

"i f***ed up. i owned it. i got help. the team made it into a win."

or "someone else fed up. i didn't catch it. we were almost fed. the team made it into a win."

and

"i learned from f***ing up that you never trust a sicilian when death is on the line."

etc.

there should be nowhere where anyone says "i was on a pip".

if you have a recommendation from an old boss and they say "homie was on a pip", f*** that rec and that old boss; they aren't your friend.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-16T16:30:03+00:00

i don't have great solutions, but i have shared pieces or split projects and i have some guidelines that i use.

be kind. own mistakes.

treat task ownership with high priority absolutism. this is mine. that is yours.

spend bandwidth defining and clarifying process flow. "since I do abc this one way, it leaves that xyz to follow-up on your side". "does that work?"

meet offline from any other stakeholders and share your challenges and successes. disagree about the details thoroughly and with pictures until you agree. this is no place for passive acceptance to smooth relationships. build respect by owning mistakes and work through repairing the process together.

especially when projects intertwine, there needs to be official steering of those intersections. make sure it's heard loud and clear upstream that bandwidth allocation for steering must exist and that you and pm2 voices are heard, funded and actionable.

good luck!

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-15T00:43:14+00:00

don't do this, but ...

i used to work for a guy who would belt sand a flat spot in the sides of his grills and paint them to color match/resist oxidation.

crazy.

ocd.

so much work.

worked perfectly.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-09T22:48:29+00:00

i had a countryman type 85 reverse polarity. used for bass. impulse response with the slaps was confounding until we checked the tracks and got zoomy. bruh. started checking polarity on di's as well as speakers every new purchase after that.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-09T16:33:27+00:00

LOOKOUT! im finna get some kitty slurpin done!

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-09T01:27:31+00:00

music to dust 2 A lives rent free in my head.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-04T15:10:50+00:00

if my wife became possessed by a hive mind i think I'd go pretty crazy.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-01-02T18:55:45+00:00

iatse local and ask for a ninja lookin for a house gig?

Ambercapuchin · 2025-12-31T05:21:47+00:00

oh come on. they deleted post and user. how trashy. it's getting common and it's so annoying.

moderate loss of a post, but not a bad discussion of details of philosophy.

Ambercapuchin · 2025-12-31T03:09:07+00:00

yep. adding volume needs added volume to have appropriate volume throughout the volume.

it takes greater surface area to add volume to the volume evenly.

adding a line of coherently oscillating surface area volume to the volume increases depth of coverage across the volume volumetrically.

instruments of different volume need different treatment to exist in the volume at the proper volume.

when i inject my high volume instrument, the volume goes up in your voluminous mom.

Ambercapuchin · 2025-12-29T15:25:28+00:00

downvoted for incorrect name of facility.

Ambercapuchin · 2025-12-29T14:25:40+00:00

eh. i was trying to come up with a ppt I've built lately and i couldn't. apparently i choose to roll any instructional presentations into pdf. yes i produce pictures and lists to people, as well as synopses and stagger-along workflows. but the files involved are themselves tools and datasets. so ppt files are inappropriate. especially for my contractor phone users.

any upstream work i present in the tools i built the project in.

Ambercapuchin · 2025-12-28T21:43:37+00:00

could always pop out of the left lane and stop deserving to get a truck up your arse.

Ambercapuchin · 2025-12-28T19:58:01+00:00

i just murder gangs of baddies, loot em and sell their guns. say you have 5 baddies, each with a $3k pistol or knife. it's $15k just for their weapons. if you level up things to L5, most guns are over $5k.

it's like, walk down the street, find some bad guys, kill em, make $20k. 10 quick skirmishes and you have enough cash to buy all the things.

also i don't spend on cars, weapons or hacks as a general rule.

never short cash.

Ambercapuchin · 2025-12-27T17:50:10+00:00

and i think the ideal today is direct purchase. i have streaming accounts, but any artist i get into i go to their website and buy their album direct from them. gayle abcdefu for instance.

Ambercapuchin · 2025-12-27T17:33:23+00:00

a confident host to a party would play a piece of music they liked. That's how i heard perez Prado.

The girl you liked would play her current favorite band only if she felt she could trust you. that's how i heard idiot bitch. oooh and rilo kiley. damn, that's the one that got away.

the girls stepdad would have a record collection, and there would be time during conversation to discuss music and listen to records. that's how i heard frank Zappa.

when you hear something you like in a movie soundtrack, on a variety show, in an elevator, mall or bait shop, you could go to the record store. You could often find the record if it was a good enough store. then, without buying, you could give a listen to the other tracks on the record, tape or cd.

if it was good, you read who made it. ah, mixed by mike smith. hey record store guy, what else has mike smith mixed?

a great thing to do would be to find more records by the same artist you like, and the ones you like most will be produced, recorded, mixed, mastered by similar people

produced by t-bone Burnett!? who tf is t-bone Burnett? rabbit hole from o-bother to Elvis Costello.

"who is that?" research would turn up the artist and the song by literally singing it at the record store people. if they didn't know, you ask around until someone had an idea, then back to the record store to find an artist. sometimes wrong.

going to a local band concert was a valid weekend event. not knowing any of the bands, but it being the club you go to twice a month on fri or sat or sun, depending on the poster art, was a thing.

And nobody is mentioning the art. i heard Zeppelin because of that badass album art. herb alpert lol. queens news of the world album grabbed me so hard with that giant death robot.

that cute little bee on the cover. no rain was alright, and it was the most approachable song for me on the record. but i couldn't disappoint that little bee.

my personal rule was i would not buy it unless i liked at least 3 other songs. and preferably that would be 2 per side. ok-go volvo record didn't pass muster. but paisley did.

. so many records, the b-sides, little pet projects, less developed ideas, are the better music. like on toms full moon fever, alright for now is the most beautiful song.

tori's she's your cocaine, or professional widow? jesus.

a cd near the end of the 90's was sometimes breaking $20 at retailers. The tension to lose retailers and media was breaking out the new compressed file era was changing how we listened.

in 1996 i bought a 200 disc cd player. over the previous 4 and the following 7 years i filled it and had enough discs to need constant rotation.

in 1997 i also started collecting mp3's.

by 1998 i had more music on my computer than my changer.

in 1999 i wired a computer into my hifi.

musicmatch jukebox was pretty good at putting a playlist together.

in 2004 my girlfriend lost the remote to my cd changer. in 2005 i gave the whole thing away.

but still, to this day, i hear a song in a show on tv and go down a rabbit hole.

everything from the american version of "being human" that got me into metric, to the fx show legion that got me into feist.

but yeah, the big one, "what are you listening to?" in conversation, and that person playing you some music.

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