Hello fellow Normites,
After a few trips to the New Yankee Cam when nothing was going on, I finally
was able to see Norm working on something today. I saved some of the pics
and put them here.
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~fketchum/nyw/
Take a look if you missed it. Looks like they are building a chair today.
Very cool!
Frank Ketchum
It must pain him to have to use specific products on the show to get the
endorsements.
LJancila wrote:
> looks like in pic # 17 the chair is all minwhacked & polly'ed lol
> I hope when i see the show I am wrong. in the later projects norm resorted to
> some more tradional methods of finishing. ie shellac
>
> Leo
On 25 Jul 2003 05:46:36 -0700, [email protected] (Bill) wrote:
>Well I finally cleared space off my personal web page to put one of
>the two time lapsed videos of the NYW web cam. Go to
>http://mywpages.comcast.net/woreid/ to get the first one. I'll leave
>it there for a week or so then put the other one up. The first one is
>16.3 MB, the second is 20.0 MB. That's why I can't put them up
>together.
Nice job, Bill. Enjoyed the timelapse a LOT more than pushing F5. :)
Off-topic question, since you obviously know more about the mpg thing
than I:
Is there a (preferably freeware) mpg viewer that I can use that will
allow me to scroll through Norm a frame at a time? I wanted to slow
down at certain points but whatever program it is on Windoze that
plays your file scrolls an hour at a click. Pretty useless...
Anyway, thanks for going to all the trouble, it was entertaining.
(And yeah, who ARE all those people??? ;> )
Michael Baglio
Chapel Hill
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:38:16 GMT, "Lee Gordon" <[email protected]>
wrote:
><<Maybe there is another "real" story, but the rap at the time was that Bob
>Vila had to go because he wanted to pitch Sears stuff in commercials on
>commercial TV while hosting TOH on PBS and that was a deal breaker with
>TOH. >>
>
>The Sears deal came along after the flap that caused Vila to depart TOH. At
>the time, Vila signed on as the spokesman for Rickel. Since Home Depot was
>underwriting the TOH broadcasts on many PBS stations throughout the South,
>they squawked. Bowing to that pressure, PBS then made Vila choose between
>TOH or his endorsement deal. And he followed the money. Left without a
>show to host, Vila came up with "Home Again," his own replica of TOS. He
>probably offered it to Rickel first but they went down the dumper, and
>that's when Sears entered the picture. And the rest is history.
>
>Lee
>
As I said, maybe there is (another) real story ... Thanks, Paul Harvey.
"Frank :
> Wow. At one point, there are about 15 people in the shop. Who are all
> these people? Is the NYW now "filmed in front of a live studio audience"?
I was going to say that filming a national TV show does take
a lot of people: director, producer(s), camera, lighting,
sound, etc. And perhaps some of those people where fulfilling
those roles (I particulary like the sweepup person at the end), but
I'd say, there WAS an audience of people watching Norm at work. They
might have been production staff of a magazine or his local PBS
station or even contest winners(?). Other shots that I've seen,
there never was a crowd like you captured.
Thanks for doing this, can't wait until the next season starts up!
MJ Wallace
"CamP" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Thanks for posting the pictures. I never can catch the web cam from work.
>
> A few observations:
> - No tool belt for Norm
> - There were 3 chairs - a finished prototype, an unfinished prototype,
> and the one he is working on
> - He was using a small protable planer instead of his regular
full-sized
> one.
>
Yeah the no toolbelt is a different look for Norm, but we may have made a
discovery. Think about it. With as high-tech as the New Yankee Workshop is
becoming (webcam and all) I bet Norm hasn't worn a toolbelt in years. They
just add it digitally in post production.
Frank
"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Well I finally cleared space off my personal web page to put one of
> the two time lapsed videos of the NYW web cam. Go to
> http://mywpages.comcast.net/woreid/ to get the first one. I'll leave
> it there for a week or so then put the other one up. The first one is
> 16.3 MB, the second is 20.0 MB. That's why I can't put them up
> together.
>
Wow. At one point, there are about 15 people in the shop. Who are all
these people? Is the NYW now "filmed in front of a live studio audience"?
Now I see why the shop is so big. If that many people were in the
Woodrights shop, Roy wouldn't be able to flail around like he always does.
Lee Gordon spaketh...
> then made Vila choose between TOH or his endorsement deal. And he
> followed the money. Left without a show to host, Vila came up with
> "Home Again," his own replica of TOS.
Many folks complained about Bob Vila because he asked too many dumb
questions of the contractors working on the show, but I always thought he
asked those questions because "I" would have. I'm no housebuilder and so
the stupid questions were for my benefit. Steve Thomas is a nice narrator,
but he seldom brings the type of insights that Vila did, I also think he is
boring.
...donning flame retardant suit
--
McQualude
<<Maybe there is another "real" story, but the rap at the time was that Bob
Vila had to go because he wanted to pitch Sears stuff in commercials on
commercial TV while hosting TOH on PBS and that was a deal breaker with
TOH. >>
The Sears deal came along after the flap that caused Vila to depart TOH. At
the time, Vila signed on as the spokesman for Rickel. Since Home Depot was
underwriting the TOH broadcasts on many PBS stations throughout the South,
they squawked. Bowing to that pressure, PBS then made Vila choose between
TOH or his endorsement deal. And he followed the money. Left without a
show to host, Vila came up with "Home Again," his own replica of TOS. He
probably offered it to Rickel first but they went down the dumper, and
that's when Sears entered the picture. And the rest is history.
Lee
"Jim Mc Namara" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Leo wrote in message:
> > looks like in pic # 17 the chair is all minwhacked & polly'ed lol
> > I hope when i see the show I am wrong. in the later projects norm
> resorted to
> > some more tradional methods of finishing. ie shellac
>
> Grrrrrrr ........ grrrrrrrrr........
I got the impression that the dark chair was an old one being used for a
model... not a finished new one. Guess we'll have to see the show on PBS to
find out for sure!
John
Well I finally cleared space off my personal web page to put one of
the two time lapsed videos of the NYW web cam. Go to
http://mywpages.comcast.net/woreid/ to get the first one. I'll leave
it there for a week or so then put the other one up. The first one is
16.3 MB, the second is 20.0 MB. That's why I can't put them up
together.
"Frank Ketchum" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Hello fellow Normites,
>
> After a few trips to the New Yankee Cam when nothing was going on, I finally
> was able to see Norm working on something today. I saved some of the pics
> and put them here.
>
> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~fketchum/nyw/
>
> Take a look if you missed it. Looks like they are building a chair today.
> Very cool!
>
> Frank Ketchum
Well, I'm by no means an expert on MPEG. Basically all I did was write
a windows service to download the snapshot every minute. I scheduled
the service to start at 7AM and stop at 6PM. Sometimes they wouldn't
start the camera until after eight, sometimes the camera would stop
even when they were still in the workshop. As for getting a better
mpeg player, I can't really help there. I used a tool to take all my
JPEGs and cram them together into a MPEG video. It was ImagaMagick at
http://www.imagemagick.org/. Maybe it or something else could take the
MPEG and break it apart into a JPEG for each frame. Sorry I can't be
of any more help. Anybody else?
I have to think the group of people have nothing to do with the show.
As someone else stated, outside observers (contest winners, tourists,
students, etc.)
I only did two episodes. I can try to do the rest of the shows on the
schedule if you guys are interested. The next isn't scheduled until
September.
Michael Baglio <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
> Nice job, Bill. Enjoyed the timelapse a LOT more than pushing F5. :)
>
> Off-topic question, since you obviously know more about the mpg thing
> than I:
>
> Is there a (preferably freeware) mpg viewer that I can use that will
> allow me to scroll through Norm a frame at a time? I wanted to slow
> down at certain points but whatever program it is on Windoze that
> plays your file scrolls an hour at a click. Pretty useless...
>
> Anyway, thanks for going to all the trouble, it was entertaining.
> (And yeah, who ARE all those people??? ;> )
>
> Michael Baglio
> Chapel Hill
Certainly a fat wallet is a pain in the ass.
-Jack
"Thomas Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> It must pain him to have to use specific products on the show to get the
> endorsements.
>
> LJancila wrote:
> > looks like in pic # 17 the chair is all minwhacked & polly'ed lol
> > I hope when i see the show I am wrong. in the later projects norm
resorted to
> > some more tradional methods of finishing. ie shellac
> >
> > Leo
"Frank Ketchum" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Well I finally cleared space off my personal web page to put one of
> > the two time lapsed videos of the NYW web cam. Go to
> > http://mywpages.comcast.net/woreid/ to get the first one. I'll leave
> > it there for a week or so then put the other one up. The first one is
> > 16.3 MB, the second is 20.0 MB. That's why I can't put them up
> > together.
> >
>
> Wow. At one point, there are about 15 people in the shop. Who are all
> these people? Is the NYW now "filmed in front of a live studio audience"?
> Now I see why the shop is so big. If that many people were in the
> Woodrights shop, Roy wouldn't be able to flail around like he always does.
How can Roy do all those projects without a manufacturer-sponsored
laser-guided chop saw?
He gets sweaty and winded trying to finish in his half hour while Norm
spends half the time in meetings.
Is there any wonder about the weight differential?
-Jack
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 05:12:52 GMT, "CamP" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thanks for posting the pictures. I never can catch the web cam from work.
>
>A few observations:
> - No tool belt for Norm
> - There were 3 chairs - a finished prototype, an unfinished prototype,
>and the one he is working on
> - He was using a small protable planer instead of his regular full-sized
>one.
One more observation:
Lots of the photos in the first half or so show him standing around
while 2 or 3 other people are discussing something or other, then...
Sometime after 2:30 or so everyone leaves.
_Then_ Norm gets to work. :)
Now I understand why so many of his shows have him saying:
"I stayed late last night and turned all the spindles / glued up the
other 3 panels / etc..." ;>
Informative, but not something I'll be watching on a regular basis...
Michael Baglio
Chapel Hill
>> looks like in pic # 17 the chair is all minwhacked & polly'ed lol
>> I hope when i see the show I am wrong. in the later projects norm
>resorted to
>> some more tradional methods of finishing. ie shellac
>
>Grrrrrrr ........ grrrrrrrrr........
>
>Jums
>
>:-)
>
Of Course no offense Jums. :) We are all brothers some travel a different
path than others. Its all good. :)
Leo
Thanks for posting those. I seem to find myself to busy to drop in at the
times they are in shop and I've wanted to see them. It was nice of you to
go through the trouble.
Don
"Frank Ketchum" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello fellow Normites,
>
> After a few trips to the New Yankee Cam when nothing was going on, I
finally
> was able to see Norm working on something today. I saved some of the pics
> and put them here.
>
> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~fketchum/nyw/
>
> Take a look if you missed it. Looks like they are building a chair today.
> Very cool!
>
> Frank Ketchum
>
>
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:58:49 GMT, "Frank Ketchum"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Yeah the no toolbelt is a different look for Norm, but we may have made a
>discovery. Think about it. With as high-tech as the New Yankee Workshop is
>becoming (webcam and all) I bet Norm hasn't worn a toolbelt in years. They
>just add it digitally in post production.
>
I like it. And, if Norm starts looking buff, then it is confirmed.
On 26 Jul 2003 06:25:49 -0700, [email protected] (Bill) wrote:
>[snip...] As for getting a better
>mpeg player, I can't really help there. I used a tool to take all my
>JPEGs and cram them together into a MPEG video. It was ImagaMagick at
>http://www.imagemagick.org/. Maybe it or something else could take the
>MPEG and break it apart into a JPEG for each frame. Sorry I can't be
>of any more help. Anybody else?
...
>I only did two episodes. I can try to do the rest of the shows on the
>schedule if you guys are interested. The next isn't scheduled until
>September.
Thanks, Bill. Enjoyed the show, look forward to your next web upload.
Best,
Michael Baglio
Chapel Hill