Anyone have any useless talents?

Naw, there was this whole "useless talent number x" gag that ran through dialog, in Planet Terror.

I actually enjoy Rodriguez's stuff, a lot.
 
i can walk around with my eyes closed or in the dark using my strange tingly feeling in the bridge of my nose. When i get close to something it starts tingling. Dont really understand why but i can walk around in teh dark and not walk into anything because of it... straaange.
 
hoarp001 said:
i can walk around with my eyes closed or in the dark using my strange tingly feeling in the bridge of my nose. When i get close to something it starts tingling. Dont really understand why but i can walk around in teh dark and not walk into anything because of it... straaange.
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I can walk around in the dark or with my eyes closed. I don't get a feeling in my nose but if I know the layout of where I am I can do it, I just go very slow and constantly move my hands around to find objects that could damage me. :thumbsup:
 
I can see in the dark perfectly by using this trick

[Please note overdoing this may damage your eyes]

1. First find a still camera that has flash

2. Turn the lights off in the room so that the room is pitch black

3. with your eyes open make the camera flash

4. NOW quickly after the flash close your eyes

5. Keep your eyes closed

6. YOU should start to see the room appear vividly(like a photo developing)

In case I happen to be the first to discover this, for now I'll call this the:

"Anhar's Recall impact exposure method"
 
Tom Marshall said:
Anhar, you should write a white paper on the subject. :thumbsup:
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Not sure what the profs would think about it, I'd be laughed of campus.. :D

I mean the one I'm doing now (officially) they raised their eye brows at me, I got into a bit of a debate with the one of "big cheese" he thought it wouldn't work, well hehe I got it to work so I'm gonna be smiling when my formal presentation comes..

Anway Tom, if you have a camera handy give it a shot (no pun intended)
 
Anhar Miah said:
Not sure what the profs would think about it, I'd be laughed of campus.. :D

I mean the one I'm doing now (officially) they raised their eye brows at me, I got into a bit of a debate with the one of "big cheese" he thought it wouldn't work, well hehe I got it to work so I'm gonna be smiling when my formal presentation comes..

Anway Tom, if you have a camera handy give it shot (no pun intended)
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You'll go blind doing that, Anhar... :laugh:
 
I think I can take on those profs, in a bare fist fight...

as a side note, I finally found the martial art style I was taught : Han Mu Do of course our master ran away to America to "expand" his style, but he never came back. {sad thing is thats a true story}
 
Tom Marshall said:
Anhar, you should write a white paper on the subject. :thumbsup:
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um like your rods in your retinas like get overwhelmed by the intense level of light or like whatevs and like hit maximum stimulation and like needs a sec to like recover and like you um get this residual dark spoting that um looks almost like you're staring at like a negative looking like residual dark imge... 9th grade biology duh.

EDIT: And um like for you cinematographers out theres: Like the rods respond to um light and like the cones are like so into color, so um like it's a luma and chroma situation. So your iris (aperture) in dark light is all the way open. Bam, like flash of bright light. And a protein pigment called Rhodospin (responsible for basic lumanence info) like dissasociates or some sh!t and takes a few minutes to like regenerate. Um K? SO of course where ever the highlights were, appear the darkest and you get a weird negative like image with no chroma info.
 
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Johnny Cola said:
um like your rods in your retinas like get overwhelmed by the intense level of light or like whatevs and like hit maximum stimulation and like needs a sec to like recover and like you um get this residual dark spoting that um looks almost like you're staring at like a negative looking like residual dark imge... 9th grade biology duh.
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well its a little bit more complicated then that, lets see

you start off with a photon that hits the nerve cells, a highly complex molecule chain occurs, our first stop is 11-CIS-retinal then: This is over simplified:

11-cis-retinal >> rhodopsin >> transducin >> transducin bound to GDP >> releases GTP >> three connect to form GTP-transducin-rhodopsin >> binding causes phosphodiesterase >> breaks down cGMP >> This causes the level of concentration of cGMP to lower, closing the ion gate which causes electron flow and we register "light"
 
Anhar Miah said:
well its a little bit more complicated then that, lets see

you start off with a photon that hits the nerve cells, a highly complex molecule chain occurs, our first stop is 11-CIS-retinal then: This is over simplified:

11-cis-retinal >> rhodopsin >> transducin >> transducin bound to GDP >> releases GTP >> three connect to form GTP-transducin-rhodopsin >> binding causes phosphodiesterase >> breaks down cGMP >> This causes the level of concentration of cGMP to lower, closing the ion gate which causes electronic flow and we register "light"
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What would we do without you? :beer:
 
Anhar Miah said:
well its a little bit more complicated then that, lets see

you start off with a photon that hits the nerve cells, a highly complex molecule chain occurs, our first stop is 11-CIS-retinal then: This is over simplified:

11-cis-retinal >> rhodopsin >> transducin >> transducin bound to GDP >> releases GTP >> three connect to form GTP-transducin-rhodopsin >> binding causes phosphodiesterase >> breaks down cGMP >> This causes the level of concentration of cGMP to lower, closing the ion gate which causes electron flow and we register "light"
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yeah like cause u was in honors biology and i was in remedial :(

but that explains the chemical chain and not the phenonmenon, so come on!! keep going

EDIT: what are you studying BTW? you're a lot smarter than the average filmmaker
 
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