This is an example of the Biking Ninjas reconnoitering hereabouts. This shot taken just after dawn and from a distance but better proximity, light and focus wouldn’t yield much more.
The activity began and proliferated in 2020, subsided in the interim, but may be picking back up.
I only wondered if it was really “a thing” in your area. For the past couple of years, bunches of youths have been breaking into parked cars in the wee hours (I know it is a nationwide thing). I thought maybe this was the new casing method.
We’ve had ‘midnight riders’ for years but most look a little ragged and no masks. This lot dress like a sinister racing team and the bikes don’t look like junk.
There aren’t a lot of break-ins in the neighborhood, automotive or otherwise, and we’re probably below average in crime overall.
Could it be the ‘sinister team’ are actually undercover cops? Stranger things are happening.
Your 8-bit sprite film noir graphics don’t work so well for that level of detail.
One of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Unremittingly awful. And yet The Big Short had been so good. Some directors are one or two hit wonders and then turn to crap. (Mr. Cameron on line two.)
Yeah, the original footage is depressingly murky v2 night vision at twilight. It’s like a windshield looks after someone quickly scrubs it against your will with greasy newspaper and water. A little better, maybe, but not much. I started by applying zoom so all clarity bets were off. Plus discretion.
The video editor is no great shakes, it’s free and I chose it a couple of years ago to do a project real fast where I could learn on-the-fly and then not be unhappy about forgetting what I’d learned. IOW, no investment in the software whatsoever.
Everybody disses it online. Or more like dams it with faint praise. I am drawn to it now because it’s a red-headed stepchild. Homely, but it takes out the trash.
Smart. I can’t speak to Cats (though who can, and besides it has the odious Corden) but Titanic is only fit for those who have major crushes on one or both of the leads.
(And yet still roughly 1,000 times less boring, pointless, and terminally cliched than Avatar.)
If you mean “smoke” as in Salem cigarettes, okay. If you mean there is anything more than simple minded literalness in that mess of a script (Don’t Look Up) then no. All the press hammered home the obligatory climate change parallel but the movie was beneath lowest common denominator pastiche. It’s not a word I tend to use but I think it’s what “polemic” was invented for.
It wasn’t smart. It wasn’t funny or entertaining. It was droning and dumb.
Hell they even managed to waste Mark Rylance. That takes breathtaking incompetence.
Just a bore. Blanchette was pretty good.
All merely my opinion of course. If someone enjoyed it, good for them.