July 18, 2015
I went to Cape May last week and one of the highlights was the Cape May Lighthouse. I’ve always liked lighthouses ever since I saw my first episode of Scooby Doo. I was only slightly disappointed that the lighthouse wasn’t haunted and the keeper wasn’t an old man in a monster mask, but in every other respect it was very cool.
The Cape May Lighthouse
The lighthouse is over 157 feet tall and to get to the top you have to climb a classic winding staircase. It was a long climb but it was worth it because the view from the top was amazing. The walkway is wide open and visitors can walk around the entire circumference.
Watch the video below and check out the pictures in the gallery.
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Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
Watch the classic Doctor Who episode ” Horror at Fang Rock “. It was set on a lighthouse, & was most likely the CHEAPEST, B – Movie – est episode of the classic series I ever saw. The alien du jour looked liked a head of lettuce smeared with lime jell – o & wrapped in shrink – wrap.
Your light house made me think of it. It was like A British version of Scooby – Doo without the van, & the 4th Doctor & Leela instead of Daphne, Velma, Fred, Shaggy, & Scooby. 🙂
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Despite all that (and you are totally right about all of it) that’s still a great episode. But for the worst, cheapest, overall horrible monster, that award goes to the Myrka in Warriors of the Deep.
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Guys in rubber suits….. Guess CGI has an upside, even if some people kvetch about it putting set designers & model builders out of work.
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I think GCI has its place, but there is a realism to non-cgi that can’t be beat. In this clip, you believe the skeletons exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmRuJByoVs
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Hey, when I was a kid, I did !
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Ray Harryhausen was god.
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Timeless work.
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Back in the day when special effects was an art – form, instead of key – strokes & mouse clicks.
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Exactly. Not that CGI doesn’t require skills, but the old fashioned methods were so fascinating and were, as you say, always a form of art. CGI is art only sometimes – rarely, actually…
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CGI works great with anything that doesn’t have to move or interact with the real actors. It has a place, but it doesn’t gel with real things.
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I can’t master digital art to save my life, or digital imagery. The most I can do is tweak some pics that I take with my cell – cam to look psychedelic / like album covers. That’s ** it **.
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Yeah, we can all see my digital “skills” on this blog.
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You remember Babylon 5 ? Great characters. Great plots. Dodgy special effects pretty much out of an 80’s / early 90’s video game.
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OK, but the problem is, many movies with much bigger budgets have the same dodgy effects.
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B5’s special FX were literally done by an Atari ( ? ) ” Video Toaster “. Too geometrical & hard to believe. You could TELL that a spaceship was digitally produced rather than a physical model.
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Yup. They lacked that feel that they existed.
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I thought you liked lighthouses after reading The White Ship!
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Yup!
I’ve never done much sea traveling or living by the sea, but one day I was looking at my bookcase and realized that I have a lot of books about the sea- true stories, from various eras. At that point I realized that I the sea. I’ve also liked lighthouses, maybe because of the amazing solitary setting, since I can remember. This was my first visit to one.
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Everybody ( Well, ALMOST ) gave my dad lighthouse reproductions, assuming that since he was in the Navy he probably liked them. We’ll never know if he did or not…..
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I’d guess some navy guys might be sick of the sea! (Or maybe just the navy.)
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He’d talk about his Guadalcanal days quite a bit ( & we had to get him to dial back on using the word ” Jap ” a lot, even back in the pre – PC days ).
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Lighthouses are fun. I was even thinking about scheduling a week-long vacation to Three Skeleton Key this summer.
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LOL, that made my morning.
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Reblogged this on Concierge Librarian.
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To me “lighthouse” means two things: The Fog, by Carpenter, the original from the 80’s, best horror film ever, and episode 2 of The Adventures of Superman, the 50’s TV series. They are both amazing, each in its own way.
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Agreed on both counts. And now that I recall, the Superman OTR had at least 2 arcs centered around lighthouses. At least one featured Jimmy Olsen.
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I don’t remember the other one, but the one I do remember is the one that inspired the TV episode 🙂
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