Baby Sinead Gives Good Grammar Lesson
by Amelia G : September 23rd, 2008Baby Sinead has some very helpful advice for those who might seek to pronounce the word bass. Especially if one is, for example, presenting on stage. Watch the video and find out how to do it right.
Just so ya know, if you pronounce is /beɪs/ or [beys], so it rhymes with ace, lace, debase, then it has to do with sounds which are low in range. If your pronunciation is more like /bæs/ or [bas], so it rhymes with ass, class, fail to pass, then it pertains to fish.
When I was little, my family went deep sea bass-fishing a couple of times. I was good at fishing, but the whole hooking living things aspect kinda bothered me. Bass can be a freshwater or ocean fish, although I do not know whether that makes much difference in flavor. It might be reasonable to assume it does. Fresh sea bass sure is delicious though.
I am sad to report that special effects pioneer Stan Winston passed away yesterday, after a long struggle with multiple myeloma cancer. He was only sixty-two-years-old. Stan Winston is like nine of the top ten names in special fx that people into them tend to know. The other name is Tom Savini, known best for his active participation in fandom and willingness to share his knowledge from doing makeup effects on projects including Friday the 13th, Day of the Dead, and Killing Zoe. Stan Winston really was larger than life in a way where all comparisons have to fall short. He won Oscars for Best Effects Visual Effects on Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Aliens. His work spanned the gamut from makeup to general special fx to the creature creation he was best known for. Not having been a reader of the comic book and being a fan of Keanu Reeves, I might be the only person in America who thought the look of the makeup and animatronics (and everything else) in Constantine was awesome, but it really was impressive. If the characters in a movie had innovative and fantastical design in the last couple decades, odds were good it was a Stan Winston joint. From Edward Scissorhands to John Carpenter’s The Thing, from Predator to Tank Girl, from Dracula’s Dog to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Stan Winston was the man. When the hilarious Galaxy Quest wanted to do it right, they tapped Stan Winston. Now of course, Stan Winston did not attach every eyelash and fang personally, but he was one of the founders of a quadruple threat 