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"about last night" 2014[edit]

hello great wiki, thanks for all your help so far... I was still wondering one thing... is there a way to email a movie set director direct or their staff? the movie "about last night" with kevin hart, 2014 has a particular piece of furniture in an outdoor roof top scene mid movie that I MUST HAVE NO MATTER WHAT!!!! I know that christopher parker is the films set director as far as creating and decorating scenes and set ups. im dying to email whoever is on staff for that movie and find out how to get a practical piece similar to the one that was used in that scene, or the designer/decorators name so I can find it myself. I have been looking for it since 2/14/14!!!! I need help! where and what can I do from here???? 70.161.202.103 (talk) 03:18, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A screenshot would help. Or some sort of description. Couch, desk, lamp?

Beyond here, contacting Screen Gems could be a good start. IMDBPro can give you their contact info for $150 a year, if that falls under "NO MATTER WHAT!!!!" Might be an easier way. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The production designer of About Last Night is on Twitter (@jongarysteele), you could try asking him. --Canley (talk) 10:49, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

First use of a URL in a television commercial[edit]

Wondering if anyone knows this: In TV commercials, when was the first time a company's website address (URL) was included on-screen as part of the advertisement, and what was the ad? It's an interesting bit of trivia in the history of the web and advertising. If there's a YouTube clip of it I'd sure like to see it. -- œ ^™ 05:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dammit, I just heard this answer not long ago. Like, a month. Drawing a blank, but I'll help look. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:49, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Part of me is suddenly recalling AT&T hard, but nothing to back it yet. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:57, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They certainly had them by 1996, http and everything. Keeping digging! InedibleHulk (talk) 06:03, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Starting to think it may have been MCI. 99% sure it was a short-named telecom. Nothing conclusive yet, but this 1995 AOL one is fun. InedibleHulk (talk) 06:10, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a 1996 MCI, with the newfangled code. Not sure if it ran earlier than the AT&T. As of between 4 and 5 pm ET on January 17, MCI was still in the Dark Ages (no racism intended). InedibleHulk (talk) 06:28, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a 1989 CompuServe. The first about the Internet. The telephone number only gets the brochure. Option A is "see your local computer store". Crazy world. I miss it. InedibleHulk (talk) 06:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1995 Guinness ad which DomainHistory claims is the first UK ad to display a web address. I would guess any earlier one would also have been in 1995. --Canley (talk) 07:32, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! @InedibleHulk: Ya I get nostalgic for those days too. The internet felt so much smaller back in the nineties. I remember having collections of links, when every link had to be blue and underlined. There was always a "cool site of the day", and hit counters at the bottom of practically every web page. I miss web directories, and gopher, trumpet winsock, FTP and Usenet clients, telnet'ing to MUDs, the early days of videoconferencing with CUSeeMe, webcams to coffee pots, AOL-hating, geocities and Justin's Links from the Underground. Good times :) -- œ ^™ 09:01, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think you were a bit more into the Internet than I was. I mainly miss the way the "real" world seemed smaller. But you're welcome. I'll keep trying to find where I read/watched/heard about the very first one. More for my own sake, now. It's driving me nuts. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:22, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You could order pizza over the internet in 1994, so I have to think people were advertising then. Rmhermen (talk) 18:14, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

... and everybody's site was "under construction"Hayttom 19:45, 13 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hayttom (talk • contribs) [reply]

Take that[edit]

I don't know too much about the band. Our article doesn't really say what the different members' roles are. Having seen this vid it looks like three of them are just backing singers. Is that correct? --Dweller (talk) 10:39, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We have an article on Take That, which has a section listing the band's members, each of whom has his own article. Roughly speaking, this seems to be how the roles were split: Gary Barlow - lead singer on some tracks, principal songwriter/musical talent; Howard Donald - lead singer on some tracks, assisted with choreography; Jason Orange - singer, dancer, choreographer; Mark Owen - lead singer on some tracks, dancer; Robbie Williams - lead singer on some tracks, obligatory lovable rogue. RomanSpa (talk) 13:31, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Who are Powerplay (Bricker)[edit]

I were looking on the soundtrack to Uncharted 3 (http://www.game-ost.com/albums/4333/uncharted_3_drake%E2%80%99s_deception_original_soundtrack/) and i can see some of the songs are named: Reckless - Powerplay (Thorn Remix), Iram of the Pillars - Powerplay (Bricker Remix) and Science and Magic - Powerplay (Buresh Remix). Are Powerplay, Thorn and Bricker musicians or what do the words in the song title means? --89.249.2.54 (talk) 12:21, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is this game called go?[edit]

Men in an Urumqi neighborhood playing Xinjiang Square Chess(新疆方棋).

On this picture there is a board game what looks like Go (game). As I see this is popular in Ürümqi, China. The description names it "square chess" what sounds weird, and too general. The picture is big enough to analyze the ongoing games if they fit the Go rules. Maybe this is a variety of the Go. If conclusion please update the picture description too. Thanks :) --hu:Rodrigo (talk) 14:21, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like Go except the board is too small; in the sense that there aren't as many junctions as in the standard version of Go. This game looks to be played on a 7x7 board, while standard Go is played on a 19x19 board. I'd say it is clearly a very Go-like game; perhaps some local variety which uses a different board. Go is one of those games where there's likely to be many variations. Go variants lists some of them. The picture looks like no varient of chess at all, since a fundemental attribute of any Chess game (or any game likened to Chess) would be different pieces of different types of movement which you slide around the board. This game has none of that. It has two sets of colored stones being placed at the junction of lines. That's "Go" in any form that I know of. --Jayron32 14:58, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AH. Looking at the picture, however, someone IS playing chess. In the table at the end, they're playing chess using large tan and black pieces. But the people sitting in the next seven tables are clearly playing some form of Go. --Jayron32 15:04, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Did you see Square game? The image is used in the article. Oda Mari (talk) 15:15, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. Well there you go. (pun intended) --Jayron32 15:20, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain[edit]

Why is he climbing a mountain? 94.12.230.118 (talk) 18:59, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're going to have to give us more information. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 19:06, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Because he's in love? 94.12.230.118 (talk) 19:15, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you are referring to the scene at the beginning of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier he (and Spock and McCoy) are on shore leave and he climbs to "relax" though that can be taken with a grain of salt. MarnetteD | Talk 19:49, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

He hugs the mountain and envelops the mountain. He want to make love to the mountain.

And separately, the scene seemed rather pointless. 94.12.230.118 (talk) 20:22, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As I recall, it wasn't a mountain, it was the famous rock formation El Capitan. "The Captain." Very subtle. Not. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:24, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are right about that Bugs. Shatner got to direct this film after Nimoy had been at the helm the previous two. Who else but WS would have been so unsubtle as to insist on a script where Kirk met and outwitted "God" at the end of the story. :-) MarnetteD | Talk 02:48, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To be picky, I would say that El Capitan qualifies as a mountain by any definition. Alansplodge (talk) 02:04, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, not really. As the article notes, it's a "rock formation" or "monolith" or "cliff". You don't have to climb it straight up, you can use the trail that runs behind it and simply hike to its highest point. It's basically part of a canyon wall - just a really big one. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:04, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No...really it is a mountain. Just because it is one of the largest single granite formations in the world doesn't mean it does not meet the definition of a mountain.--Mark Miller (talk) 05:06, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The National Park Service doesn't use that term in its descriptions of any of the major points of interest in Yosemite.[1] Usually a mountain is going to be roughly cone-shaped. Something like El Capitan doesn't quite fit that profile. It's just a really high cliff. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:35, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here's how wiktionary defines a mountain.[2] "1.A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land." Therein lies the ambiguity. From the valley floor, it might look like a mountain. But from the upper trail, it looks like a cliff. It depends how you define what the "common level" is: the valley floor, which was gouged out by glaciers; or the higher-up land surrounding the valley, which wasn't. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:44, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The common level is the San Joaquin Valley and the mountain is considered part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.--Mark Miller (talk) 05:53, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

However, even from the Valley floor it meets the definition of a mountain, but one never goes to the high country to look down and say its just a hill. ;-)--Mark Miller (talk) 05:59, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But don't believe me...believe the rest of our editors. [3] ;-).--Mark Miller (talk) 06:07, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've never really heard it called a "mountain" until this particular thread. The problem, really, is the limitations of words. It could be a mountain, a monolith, a rock formation, a cliff on the valley wall - but no matter what we call it, it is what it is. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:15, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Quite so, but saying that it's NOT a mountain doesn't seem right. But we quibble over niceties. Truce? Alansplodge (talk) 23:17, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The reference is presumably to this magnificent work of art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ

As MarnetteD has observed, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Kirk is ostensibly climbing the mountain for relaxation during a shore leave. The viewer is also encouraged to suspect that Kirk may also be suffering from a mid-life crisis, which is leading him to engage in excessively risky behavior. RomanSpa (talk) 20:30, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It obviously helps to be a Trekkie around here. Pass, thanks. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:53, 13 March 2014 (UTC) [reply]

Because it's there. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:23, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dang...Clarityfiend beat me to it. LOL! Ok...I have to comment here. Yes...El Capitan is a mountain and a "rock" formation. Why was Kirk climbing it.....because the script called for it. LOL! But seriously the very question is posed in the film. Just watch it. As a side note...if anyone wants to know about the filing of that scene...I was actually there. Stood directly behind the camera to get a feel of the way the scene was being shot. It was filmed at the parking lot of the vista view at the entrance to the Wawona Tunnel where artists have been painting the valley for over a century. Of course, a stunt actor was hired to free climb the rock and then suspended from a bungee cord (or possibly some other type of elastic type cording) to free fall. There was actually another scene cut out where Shatner was suspended from the top of Glacier Point to show him dangling from a thousand feet. He actually did it using a safety harness, but the pool from Curry village was visible and the shot was deemed worthless immediately. They had video and tried hard to keep the crowd from seeing it...but could not hide their disapintment and bad reactions from the scene's failure. And yes..that is all original research. Sue me. ;-)--Mark Miller (talk) 02:21, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A: to get to the other side. —71.20.250.51 (talk) 19:53, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]