Sylvia_Bandersnatch:

I'm a little confused here.

The Fairness Doctrine was discontinued in 1987, not 1996, and under a rulemaking by the Patrick Com ...

no need to be confused... I was the one who messed up the timeline, But I'm sure we can both agree that was part of the beginning of the end as it were. by the time I was getting into radio, the big BIG local.. historic radio station had a 40/60 blend of local to syndicate broadcasting and had moved towards talk radio. and now its just a conservative shill broadcasting rush, his imitators and all the advertising seems geared towards paranoid reactionaries and under performing corporate sales men with erectile dysfunction. and this is the same station that, in its hey day hosted the Old Dominion Barn dance that the Grand ole opery would go on to imitate.
it's a sad, pathetic boner pill and gold shilling shadow of it's former self.

As to the high school radio station? it was a 100 watt, 100 foot tower deal attached to the counties vo-tech operations. I was looking at electives to take for my junior and senior years. I wanted to take the student pilot classes, but my maffs weren't gud enough, so I took the next glamorous thing, the radio station class.
the power and tower of the station was just enough to reach all the schools in the county but my home school was on the fringes.. if I recall correctly.. it was WRHC 91.1 FM. don't hold me to that.. its a long time ago fuzzy, and I make beer for a living now and I just got home from work.

in any case, the class was run by a Mr. Bob Crawford who was also a part time personality at the big AOR station in town WRXL. which has since changed hands, and formats and is now Nurock, that plays a lot of metallica.

Mr. Crawfords lessen plan was to run the highschool station like a REAL radio station. first year was learning the job, second year was doing the job. those of us that survived to second year were given positions, tasks, and time slots for OTA stuff. I was strong in production and OTA. so I was made production manager and was in charge of making all the OTA spots, PSA's and etc. the production studio was set up with a Mac color classic running whatever waveform multi track editor that was available at the time, I forget its name, but that computer dumped its audio into a channel on the old school analog production studio board for further editing on the reel to reel, where splice and tape was king. and then further mastered to a standard Cart for OTA broadcast.
broadcast studio was a mixture of CD players, carts and Record player.

that's how I learned to edit audio, and I took to the digital computer side well, and loved rocking a razor blade and some cello tape on the reels as well. I would often rough it with computer, fine tune with on the reel with the razor blade, then master down to the carts.

the station itself was simply classified as a non-commercial. even though we were all charged with generating sales in the form of radio station sponcers ala NPR, a traffic manager to manage the OTA traffic ( no Raqueem, the traffic manager is not the guy who does the rush hour traffic report ) managing the talent producing and directing shows.. scripting dialogue, all that good stuff.
I produced, scripted and sold all my own shows in a time and place when it was making my own spots and making flyers by hand printing them out on the xerox machine at the library, and going to all the schools and taking them up.
doing live remotes from the radio station by co-ordinating a board operator and doing the VO over a old motoroloa bag phone that was owned and paid for by the county. this was before cell phones were all over the place and you paid for that shiat by the minute and the county was on your ass about the usage..in the meen time, your live remote was some far flung high school cafeteria where the gutter punks had no idea what the hell you were doing and were trying to change the channel on the PA's radio.

oh.. it got interesting.

but it was great fun. and I did learn a lot... unfortunately, what I learned, went all out the window about three years after I graduated from the program and was trying to make my way in the world. And the apprenticeship at my fathers engineering firm payed far better than the sporadic work radio and flipping burgers afforded me.
eventually the life of a mechanical and electrical technician to very large industrial machinery took over my life to a point where I was no longer able to pursue the craft of the OTA broadcast personality.

Internet radio? from my dealings and observations? a lot of well meaning people that are usually cast offs from the industry which still have the ego for the job, but not the technical, managerial, or emotional fortitude to make it.. meaning.. a bunch of insane egotistical farkers who, while well meaning, possessing of technical knowledge, are lacking actual people and management skills, take their self appointed roles entirely too far and run off anyone who can actually help them with their hobbies and turn it into the well oiled (money making) machine they want it to be.
yes, you do need to be a self centered egotistical prick to make it in the biz, but not so much that it turns off, and pisses off everyone around you.. you are playing deejay on the Internets in between disability checks.. chill the fark out ya twit!
my wife was the person doing the interwebs broadcasting, I was just offering advice, subbing here and there and making some spots when I felt like it. even managed to run a live remote of a nights worth at bands using the computers and the clubs wifi to "broadcast" over the internet they wanted to give me a show, but I just do not have the time nor energy to deal with them in anything but a passing interest. so.. there that is..

*sigh* I hope I clarified my comments :)

gunther_bumpass: Minimalism, limited animation (Pixie and Dixie, ugh),

I really don't think the collective works of Hanna Barbara were ever meant to be high art, I'm pretty sure it was meant to sell corn based surgery breakfast cereal.

One of his lesser-know works.


A master of light.

solitary: He's very, very talented, and he's very, very much of a hustler. Those two things are in conflict.

I'll go ahead and disagree with that assertion. Talented people hustle other people all the time. In fact, hustling itself is something one can be talented at.

logic523: Kar98: logic523: I was the only framer in two shops I worked in who could hand-wrap a mat. It was pretty cool. One time I used a piece of fabric from a wedding garment to wrap the mat on a wedding photo. I made absolutely sure that they understood that I was going to be cutting.

Matte...

You probably say 'fillet' in the same way you would mention a cut of meat.

/I keed. Framing grammar-nazi points are good points.

You were right. Mat comes from matboard Crescent website (new window)

Matte is the finish on paint and or prints (not glossy)

After my time in a frame shop, I went to work for a framing supplies distributor

Psycat: OMG, I would LOVE to show my art to you--I'm damned certain you'd be either impressed or intimidated. I may be blathering, but I've been told many, many times by others that I am a genius at what I do.

You're blathering. You also seem to harbor the inflated ego of a misunderstood artist, so I'm not sure if you're trolling, and not really an artist, or really an artist, and unintentionally trolling.

But if you're an artist, you'll count this as "art" - so it's all good. If you're a troll, someone else will call it "art" - so it's all good.

Psycat: T.M.S.: I was willing to give points until the 12 inch pianist bit. (Repeated twice)


I'm not claiming to literally have a 12" pianist, Sherlock. That was simply an analogy (heh, heh, I said 'anal'). No, the smug part is that I really am a somewhat successful artist who has done all that I claimed. I do love it when you're simply accusing me of being a troll. You might actually be a member yet of the Triple-Digit IQ Club and this is just a ruse to get me to out myself. If so, it's not going to work because I've decided that even if I told you who I was, you'd still accuse me of being an imposter. So I guess you really zugzwanged yourself there, dude.


What started as an amusing bit of performance art (although unoriginal. Remember the Asian Prince?) It quickly veered sharply into simple troll.

I'll take this as performance art and I for one give me a 10/10 for being over the top. That pretty much describes my art form, not to mention the epic time-travel novel that I hope to finish sometime before the Second Coming. Or I'm just a troll who's trollery is several orders of magnitude more deft than you can wrap your head around. Either way, this is kinda fun, isn't it?

wow the thread is still going on...interesting. Oh and you may be all that and a bag a chips. But seriously tone down the bragging. That is great that you have accomplished a lot in life. It's always good to see people succeeding. But you are not going to impress people much with your "world records" and whatnot by throwing it in their faces. I could prattle off a list of things i have done as well but who cares? That doesn't mean a damn thing about me as an artist overall. Because to me when an "artist" has to brag about every accomplishment then they have fallen into the simple trap of the "art" world. Hey look at me I'm an ARTIST! I've done lots of cool things! Pay attention to ME! Love ME! versus doing the art because that is what you have to do. Oh and here are some of my pictures...critique away...

Tellingthem: Psycat: T.M.S.: I was willing to give points until the 12 inch pianist bit. (Repeated twice)


I'm not claiming to literally have a 12" pianist, Sherlock. That was simply an analogy (heh, heh, I said 'anal'). No, the smug part is that I really am a somewhat successful artist who has done all that I claimed. I do love it when you're simply accusing me of being a troll. You might actually be a member yet of the Triple-Digit IQ Club and this is just a ruse to get me to out myself. If so, it's not going to work because I've decided that even if I told you who I was, you'd still accuse me of being an imposter. So I guess you really zugzwanged yourself there, dude.


What started as an amusing bit of performance art (although unoriginal. Remember the Asian Prince?) It quickly veered sharply into simple troll.

I'll take this as performance art and I for one give me a 10/10 for being over the top. That pretty much describes my art form, not to mention the epic time-travel novel that I hope to finish sometime before the Second Coming. Or I'm just a troll who's trollery is several orders of magnitude more deft than you can wrap your head around. Either way, this is kinda fun, isn't it?

wow the thread is still going on...interesting. Oh and you may be all that and a bag a chips. But seriously tone down the bragging. That is great that you have accomplished a lot in life. It's always good to see people succeeding. But you are not going to impress people much with your "world records" and whatnot by throwing it in their faces. I could prattle off a list of things i have done as well but who cares? That doesn't mean a damn thing about me as an artist overall. Because to me when an "artist" has to brag about every accomplishment then they have fallen into the simple trap of the "art" world. Hey look at me I'm an ARTIST! I've done lots of cool things! Pay attention to ME! Love ME! versus doing the art because that is what you have to do. Oh and here are some of my pictur ...

Good tone, good subject, good lighting, horrible composition. All center-subject. No rule of 3rds, no asymmetric framing. Work on your composition. The shoe shot might work better with a truly black background for effect (or not). Great bokeh on the trumpet. Missed the point of peak action and/or of paused momentum on the second-from-bottom shot, so some anticipation of action without the actual action. Need a bit more for that shot to work for me.

In the end, we take photos for ourselves. Maybe you are highly successful. I have been shooting for over a decade and am having my first gallery showing. Maybe you have had dozens. I dunno. You asked for advice and this is anonymous, so some brutality is warranted. Work on your composition; these are not very good specifically because of it.

Psycat: I'm not sure what you mean by "art" in your sentence. Troll posts? Kincaid? Fark? Your accusation of me not really being an artist? However, I do agree that pretty much anything that anybody calls 'art' is art in some abstract way just as anybody who ever scribbled a note is an 'author'; the hard part is to do it professionally.

Actually, I wasn't accusing you of not really being an artist. I was putting "art" in quotes because it doesn't really have a definition. Kinkade created "art" just as much as Picasso did, just probably not as well. Your assertion that someone would be "impressed or intimidated" was pretty damn egotistical, though. It's entirely possible someone could look at whatever you did and just be nonplussed about it.

And then you went on about Asperger's, which in my experience is used by people as a crutch for being rude and isolated. It's a spectrum disorder, and you obviously aren't on the damaging end of it, otherwise you wouldn't be on Fark bragging about your success. I suspect you only brought it up because you saw another post I made about Asperger's. You wanted me to comment on it, and you think by mentioning it you are either some kind of genius, or at the very least an accomplished troll.

So really, I'm guessing this entire exchange is some kind of performance art on your part, or my part, because I don't think at this point you're telling the truth. I didn't think you were before, but Asperger's sealed it.

That's probably "art" - with the quotes. Go nuts.

PC LOAD LETTER:

Good tone, good subject, good lighting, horrible composition. All center-subject. No rule of 3rds, no asymmetric framing. Work on your composition. The shoe shot might work better with a truly black background for effect (or not). Great bokeh on the trumpet. Missed the point of peak action and/or of paused momentum on the second-from-bottom shot, so some anticipation of action without the actual action. Need a bit more for that shot to work for me.

In the end, we take photos for ourselves. Maybe you are highly successful. I have been shooting for over a decade and am having my first gallery showing. Maybe you have had dozens. I dunno. You asked for advice and this is anonymous, so some brutality is warranted. Work on your composition; these are not very good specifically because of it.

Thanks: honestly these were all from a folder i had made for a project. I just grabbed the first four real quick without any thought to picking out my best shots, or different, or whatever. And I will never shy away from honest critique. That is how you get better as an artist. (also i figured it was only fair to throw some of my work out there)

i like to shoot documentary style and to be honest I don't consider anything I shoot to be "art". I'm mostly influenced by war photography strangely enough. I do not crop,edit,touch up, or photoshop anything. I could into even more detail about why i shoot the way i do but that would take hours haha. But thanks for your opinions I always appreciate them.

Psycat: mr lawson: Or are you afraid your work will be unfavorably critique by the anonymous farkers.

Thank you for touching upon that subject. My dad is a very good artist in his own right, doing everything from oil painting to making furniture to carving animals, but one thing that stifled him from the beginning was that he was too afraid of critics.

Critics don't scare me. Professional art critics have been surprisingly supportive of me, and their criticism means more than the usual Fark malcontents (a small percentage, I hope) who are likely to run me down. Also, the public's response has been overwhelmingly positive--I still haven't had one person come up to me during a live exhibition and tell me he/she thought my art sucked, and even if somebody did, it wouldn't bother me because my self-confidence is Teflon(TM)-coated. I survived worse. Even the negative comments my videos occasionally receive (the likes outweigh the dislikes by a comfortable margin) are from trolls who are more interested in projecting their own hangups on me than any real aesthetic criticism.

Not that my art is without its flaws. I do accept constructive criticism from friends and fellow artists who are actually trying to help me succeed--so I don't move in and live on their couches ;)

Seriously, I would LOVE to post just one teensy-weensy link to my YouTube page because I could really use the Ad Sense revenue. Actually, I wouldn't even care if nobody really thought that I'm who I claim to be as long as it draws traffic to my YouTube channel or my website which has embedded video and earns me revenue as well. On the other hand, while most Farkers seem almost civilized, I don't want to bothered with the major-league crazies on this website. That's what makes me reluctant to out myself...

I never do the Farktography thing because of this. I don't care what the benefit is, I have made too many enemies and this is still the Interblags.

Psycat: Critics don't scare me

Yeah, apparently they do.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Cerebral Knievel: *sigh* I hope I clarified my comments :)

WHCE-FM Highland Springs - Henrico County Schools
Ch. 216A (91.1) 3.0 kW ERP / 32 m HAAT

The height's right, but your power estimate has to be off. You wouldn't get "the whole county" or even any good part of it at only 100 ERP. You might at 100 TPO, if the tower was a lot higher, but it's clearly not. 100 W TPO at 32 m HAAT (about 105 ft.) would give you a 60 dBu range of around 6 km radius, max. Moreover, WHCE's actual tower 'height' (AGL) is 20 m, closer to 65 feet; the HAAT then refers to that tower being on some kind of hill or large building -- looks like about three stories up, from the numbers. (Meaning, when they told you a hundred feet, they meant the height above average terrain, not the height of the actual tower.) 3 kW ERP will definitely reach a whole Virginia county, though. WHCE's website gives their power as 3000 Watts.

They must have upgraded!
it reached all the county schools, when I was there, although, very begrudgingly.The school and the transmitter were in the East end, and I lived in the west end, I had a very nice reciever at home, with a very nice antenna, and I got it quite clear, if the weather was co-operating. driving home I could usually keep the signal till I got three quarters of the way home.. line of sight? I would guess about 15 miles.

Like I said.. it was many years ago, I really haven't kept track since I was there in the class. I think there was a period of about three years they weren't broadcasting live over the air because the transmitter had finally given up the ghost. I don't know if the electronics class teacher in the class next door, who was also the stations engineer finally got it back up and running, or they managed to get the county to get them a new one.
I'll have to check out the website and see what they've been up to.

but you are right, the radio station mostly serviced Highland springs high and vo-tech. Henrico high, Varinia high school. and East Gate high. As well as the schools in the city to a degree, but those schools were part of a different school district and didn't really count.
I was a board monkey and a jock. all that science I didn't understand, it was just my job, five days a week. A ROCK IT, MAN!!