R.I.P. Spock. I will always remember him as Spock and the guy who use to scare me on "In Search Of"
this show used to scare the shit out of me too
LEONARD NIMOY Rest In Peace
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this show used to scare the shit out of me too
http://qz.com/353488/canadians-spock-their-banknotes-to-honor-leonard-nimoy/
Canadians “Spock” their banknotes to honor Leonard Nimoy
Upon news of Leonard Nimoy’s passing last Friday, The Canadian Design Resource (CDR) tweeted a call to arms:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>"Spock" your $5 bills for Leonard Nimoy <a href="http://t.co/bKdKyC3l4q">pic.twitter.com/bKdKyC3l4q</a></p>— Design Canada (@The_CDR) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_CDR/status/571379011886059520">February 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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“Spocking fives,” as it’s called, is not a new campaign but in fact a fine Canadian tradition that involves etching the beloved Vulcan’s profile over Canada’s seventh prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the five-dollar banknote.
“This series of Canadian bills was an easy target,” explains CDR’s publisher Todd Falkowsky. “The existing portraits are quite large and can be improvised with easily and the colour of our $5’s are the same blue as Spock’s uniform,” he tells Quartz.
Falkowsky said the practice is harmless. “People have always played with money this way… love notes, return to sender, birthday greetings and remixing the images. I am not sure if it makes them harder to use but I’ve tried one in a parking garage and it worked no problem,” he says.
Update (March 2, 2015): A Bank of Canada spokeswoman, Josianne Ménard, sent the following statement regarding the legality of marking Canadian bank notes:
Numerous sightings of the Spock fives in circulation have been noted online. The practice has at least two active Facebook groups.
http://time.com/3729719/leonard-nimoy-spock-canada/
Canadians “Spock” their banknotes to honor Leonard Nimoy
Upon news of Leonard Nimoy’s passing last Friday, The Canadian Design Resource (CDR) tweeted a call to arms:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>"Spock" your $5 bills for Leonard Nimoy <a href="http://t.co/bKdKyC3l4q">pic.twitter.com/bKdKyC3l4q</a></p>— Design Canada (@The_CDR) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_CDR/status/571379011886059520">February 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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“Spocking fives,” as it’s called, is not a new campaign but in fact a fine Canadian tradition that involves etching the beloved Vulcan’s profile over Canada’s seventh prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the five-dollar banknote.
“This series of Canadian bills was an easy target,” explains CDR’s publisher Todd Falkowsky. “The existing portraits are quite large and can be improvised with easily and the colour of our $5’s are the same blue as Spock’s uniform,” he tells Quartz.
Falkowsky said the practice is harmless. “People have always played with money this way… love notes, return to sender, birthday greetings and remixing the images. I am not sure if it makes them harder to use but I’ve tried one in a parking garage and it worked no problem,” he says.
Update (March 2, 2015): A Bank of Canada spokeswoman, Josianne Ménard, sent the following statement regarding the legality of marking Canadian bank notes:
It is not illegal to write or make other markings on bank notes because neither the Bank of Canada Act nor the Criminal Code deals with mutilation or defacement of bank notes. However, there are important reasons why it should not be done.
Writing on a bank note may interfere with the security features and reduces its lifespan. Markings on a note may also prevent it from being accepted in a transaction. Furthermore, the Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on bank notes are inappropriate as they are a symbol of our country and a source of national pride.
Writing on a bank note may interfere with the security features and reduces its lifespan. Markings on a note may also prevent it from being accepted in a transaction. Furthermore, the Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on bank notes are inappropriate as they are a symbol of our country and a source of national pride.
Numerous sightings of the Spock fives in circulation have been noted online. The practice has at least two active Facebook groups.
http://time.com/3729719/leonard-nimoy-spock-canada/
Damn.
R.I.P. Harve Bennett.
I had some great NY movie theater stories with the first three "STAR TREK" films he produced.
Harve Bennett, who produced four Star Trek movies, The Mod Squad, The Six Million Dollar Man, and The Bionic Woman died on Wednesday at the age of 84. It was because of Bennett that Wrath of Khan became a classic, and he should be remembered forever as one of heroes of science fiction.
Bennett was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended UCLA, where he graduated from their film school. In 1953, he joined the United States Army, where he served in the Military Police Corps. He was honorably discharged in 1955.
Bennett came to Star Trek when Paramount, dissatisfied with The Motion Picture, asked if he could make a better film and do it for less than the $45 million budget that the first Star Trek movie had cost. It was while watching the whole series that he found himself drawn to "Space Seed" and the character of Khan Noonien Singh. He provided the story idea that became Wrath of Khan, and he worked on the early drafts of the screenplay, and all the credit it the world was given to him by the director Nicholas Meyer:
"He was a remarkable man and he was unpretentious and self-effacing. I don't think there would be a Star Trek franchise without him. He rescued it. He's endangered of being lost in the shuffle, but he's the guy who figured it out," said Meyer, who worked with Bennett on Wrath Of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
"He watched all 79 of those original episodes and he was the one who plucked out Khan."
Bennett would continue on to serve as the producer for The Search For Spock (and provided the original, much more interesting treatment), The Voyage Home, and The Final Frontier. Bennett was also originally on board to make the sixth film, which was at the time planned to be called The Academy Years and focus on the early relationship of Kirk and Spock as Starfleet Academy cadets. Paramount decided that they wanted the 25th Anniversary film to keep the original cast, offering the job once again to Bennett, who declined based on the short production schedule required.
While we might all remember him as an important figure in science fiction, Bennett saw himself as merely writing about heroes, of all kinds. He told Trek Today in 2006:
Trek lovers have called me one of the most important people in science fiction, but I have never thought of myself as a science fiction maven. What I am, and it's because of the background I just talked about, I write about heroes, because I was born and raised in a heroic time. What I loved about Star Trek when I got the assignment was the very heroic male and female, the ethnicity, all that stuff that was a legacy of the Declaration of Independence, that was my attachment to it.
R.I.P. Harve Bennett.
I had some great NY movie theater stories with the first three "STAR TREK" films he produced.
Harve Bennett, who produced four Star Trek movies, The Mod Squad, The Six Million Dollar Man, and The Bionic Woman died on Wednesday at the age of 84. It was because of Bennett that Wrath of Khan became a classic, and he should be remembered forever as one of heroes of science fiction.
Bennett was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended UCLA, where he graduated from their film school. In 1953, he joined the United States Army, where he served in the Military Police Corps. He was honorably discharged in 1955.
Bennett came to Star Trek when Paramount, dissatisfied with The Motion Picture, asked if he could make a better film and do it for less than the $45 million budget that the first Star Trek movie had cost. It was while watching the whole series that he found himself drawn to "Space Seed" and the character of Khan Noonien Singh. He provided the story idea that became Wrath of Khan, and he worked on the early drafts of the screenplay, and all the credit it the world was given to him by the director Nicholas Meyer:
"He was a remarkable man and he was unpretentious and self-effacing. I don't think there would be a Star Trek franchise without him. He rescued it. He's endangered of being lost in the shuffle, but he's the guy who figured it out," said Meyer, who worked with Bennett on Wrath Of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
"He watched all 79 of those original episodes and he was the one who plucked out Khan."
Bennett would continue on to serve as the producer for The Search For Spock (and provided the original, much more interesting treatment), The Voyage Home, and The Final Frontier. Bennett was also originally on board to make the sixth film, which was at the time planned to be called The Academy Years and focus on the early relationship of Kirk and Spock as Starfleet Academy cadets. Paramount decided that they wanted the 25th Anniversary film to keep the original cast, offering the job once again to Bennett, who declined based on the short production schedule required.
While we might all remember him as an important figure in science fiction, Bennett saw himself as merely writing about heroes, of all kinds. He told Trek Today in 2006:
Trek lovers have called me one of the most important people in science fiction, but I have never thought of myself as a science fiction maven. What I am, and it's because of the background I just talked about, I write about heroes, because I was born and raised in a heroic time. What I loved about Star Trek when I got the assignment was the very heroic male and female, the ethnicity, all that stuff that was a legacy of the Declaration of Independence, that was my attachment to it.
