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  Chinese Lantern- A Simple Construction Project
Chinese Lanterns are widely used today in films and television when the DP calls for a soft, positionable light source that can be rigged and adjusted quickly.
The appeal of the Chinese Lantern, the ability to provide light over a wide angular area also presents the problem of light spill where it may not be desired...i.e.
If you plan to use the Lantern on the end of a pole so it may be moved with the actors, a "skirt" attached to the unit may be required.
members.aol.com /filmgroup/china.htm   (1526 words)

  
  Lantern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lanterns may be used for signaling, or as general light sources for camping.
For example, lanterns with red and green globes were placed on the sides of ships to mark port and starboard, while lanterns with clear globes were used to indicate the ship was at anchor.
Liquid-fuel lanterns work in a similar way except the fuel, which may be special lantern fuel or even gasoline, is poured into a tank at the bottom and then the tank pressurized with a small hand pump.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lantern   (828 words)

  
 LANTERN - LoveToKnow Article on LANTERN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The early lantern had sides of horn, talc, bladder or oiled paper, and the primitive shape remains in the common square stable lantern with straight glass sides, to carry a candle.
The collapsible paper lanterns of China and Japan, usually known as Chinese lanterns, are globular or cylindrical in shape, and the paper is pleated and when not in use folds flat.
The magic or optical lantern is an instrument for projecting on a white wall or screen largely magnified representations of transparent pictures painted or photographed on glass, or of objectscrystals, animals, andc.carried on glass slides or in glass vessels.
36.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LANTERN.htm   (2134 words)

  
 Green Lantern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This Green Lantern was Hal Jordan, a test pilot who was given the ring by a dying alien, Abin Sur, and who became a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar organization of police overseen by the Guardians of the Universe.
This Green Lantern was a founding member of the Justice League of America and starred in his own title as well; in issue #40 (Oct. 1965), he met his Golden Age predecessor, who was established to live on the parallel world of Earth-Two, separate from Jordan's Earth-One.
The second Green Lantern was Harold 'Hal' Jordan, who in 1959 was a second-generation test pilot (having followed in the footsteps of his father, Martin Jordan) who was given the power ring and battery (lantern) by a dying alien named Abin Sur.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Lantern   (5490 words)

  
 Lantern Festival
On the night of the festival, decorative lanterns depicting birds, beasts, historical figures, and any one of a number of different themes are carried by children or adorn temples.
The Taipei Lantern Festival, held annually at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Plaza and the largest and most famous of these competitions, is attended every year by thousands of lantern-watchers.
The Lantern Festival is further enriched by the customary lantern riddle parties that are held on this night.
www.gio.gov.tw /info/festival_c/glue_e/glue.htm   (247 words)

  
 Lantern Network Manger - Lantern Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Lantern is a powerful networking application combining Network Management, Backup, Collaboration and Remote Access in one easy to use package.
Have a Lantern Agent installed on your Laptop, and when it is connected to your network all the data on your Laptop is visible to your main computer.
With Lantern selective status checking you may check their status frequently without generating a lot of traffic on your network.
www.coraliscorp.com /lantern.htm   (534 words)

  
 Lantern Books | Seek the Light
Lantern's own Martin Rowe is running the NYC marathon to help with medical expenses for Albie the Goat's leg.
Lantern participated this past weekend in the Compassionate Living Festival, produced by the Animals & Society Institute and the Culture and Animals Foundation.
Join Lantern co-founder Martin Rowe in sponsoring the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary as he runs the ING New York City Marathon on November 4.
www.lanternbooks.com   (1193 words)

  
 THE MAGIC LANTERN
Toy magic lanterns were sold through many mail order catalogues such as Sears and Roebuck, even though candle flames and the combustible oil lamps used as light sources posed a serious fire hazard for unsupervised children.
Children’s lantern sets were generally considered as educational tools demonstrating the principles of natural physics (light).
Clergymen frequently used lantern slides to show the "wages of sin" to congregations eager for a night of entertaining education.
www.geh.org /fm/magiclant/htmlsrc/introduction.html   (595 words)

  
 Lantern (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lantern, a student-run newspaper at The Ohio State University
Lanterns of the Dead is the architectural name for the small towers in stone found chiefly in the center and west of France
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lantern_(disambiguation)   (155 words)

  
 Clogs: Lantern: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Lantern is the most fully realized version of Clogs' aesthetic, seamlessly mixing their musical reference points-- classical, European folk, post-rock-- into a unique sound.
Lantern's first track is performed by a guest, Italian Baroque guitarist Luca Tarantino, who turns in a fine solo interpretation of a piece by 17th Century lute player Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger.
On most instrumental albums, both the slow, steady "Canon" and the more impatient "5/4"-- the two cuts that earn the group their post-rock merit badges for 2006-- would be the unassailable high points.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/clogs/lantern.shtml   (410 words)

  
 Kerosene Lantern Frequently Asked Questions Page
Cold Blast Lanterns are so constructed that the supply of air taken through the side tubes does not mingle with the products of combustion and the flame is supplied with fresh air both through the globe plate and the side tubes.
The Dietz Buckeye evolved from the #13 Dash Lamp made in the 1890's, and is basically the same lantern as the square tube Victor with the addition of a reflector with a rear clamp to attach it to the dashboard of a horse drawn wagon.
The predecessor to both the Scout and Sport lanterns was the Dietz "Boy," (introduced in 1879,) which was a similar lantern that used the same size globe excepting that it had retainer grooves to keep the crown in place.
www.lanternnet.com /faqs.htm   (6960 words)

  
 The Magic Lantern
Magic lanterns are an early equivalent of today's slide projectors, with a few important differences.
Although such a wide variety of magic lanterns and slides were made, the different types were so widespread that people could still find slides to fit their particular magic lanterns.
Here are a few examples of the variety of magic lanterns that existed before the turn of the century.
courses.ncssm.edu /gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit02.htm   (587 words)

  
 Oil Lamp and Lantern Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries
With the popularity of oil lamp and lantern collecting on the rise, we regularly receive inquiries from those looking to authenticate items that can be called nothing less than a fake, fraud, or forgery.
All of the reflector lanterns they imported were made of either brass or copper, and were sold with reproduction #0 Tubular Globes that are frosted white, something that was never done 100 years ago.
The lantern itself is either a Chinese or Indian made copy of a European copy of the Dietz Junior, not a railroad lantern by any means.
www.lanternnet.com /fakes.html   (1265 words)

  
 CRAFTS : Candles : Polymer-Clay Lantern : DIY Network
Edge the lantern with a twisted rope of translucent and white clay.
When the lantern is complete, carefully remove the cardboard form, leaving the paper attached to the clay.
Bake the lantern in a preheated 275-degree oven for about 15 minutes (30 minutes for each 1/4" of thickness).
www.diynet.com /diy/cr_candles/article/0,2025,DIY_13748_2270787,00.html   (395 words)

  
 MTV News - DJ Green Lantern Explains Eminem Split
Green Lantern believed that 50 Cent would be upset by the talk, so rather than put Em in the position of choosing between the DJ and 50, the producer of Ludacris' "Number One Spot" left on his own.
If I'm Green Lantern from Shady/ Aftermath and I shouldn't be commenting with Jadakiss on his song going at 50 Cent, at the same time I'm also an individual that has a relationship with this guy.
Green Lantern: I saw it like two weeks ago, and I immediately put things in motion as far as notifying the powers that be and then trying to reach out to people, letting people know as far as Shady and what not.
mtv.com /news/articles/1501407/20050506/dj_green_lantern.jhtml?...   (1708 words)

  
 Magic Lantern « History « Movies « Arts
The magic lantern is an early form of projector, throwing an enlarged image of a transparency on a white screen.
The Magic Lantern Society - The society and their activities in preserving the technology are presented.
Lantern - Lanterns, slides and historical lanternists are presented, the different methods of creating the light are explained.
www.localadsearch.com /Arts/Movies/History/Magic_Lantern   (369 words)

  
 Magic Lantern Castle Museum
The Magic Lantern is the earliest form of slide projector.
Naturally, to see images appear, either from a lantern, that heretofore was a light source only, or onto a screen, was "magical" in those early days.
Until movies came along, in the mid-to-late 1890's, the magic lantern was the sole projection device available.
www.magiclanterns.org   (259 words)

  
 Antique Lantern Slides
Magic lanterns of the style shown here were made as early as the 18th century and references to such devices can be found even earlier.
The little 'nursery' magic lantern is powered by a tiny kerosene lamp and was made in Germany by E.P. (Ernst Plank Co.) probably in the 1920's or 30's.
This is the Magic Lantern part of an interesting broad discusion of the history of the cinema and popular culture.
www.winternet.com /~akaske/Personal/lantern.html   (742 words)

  
 Iron Lantern (Amalgam character)
Iron Lantern was able to fell H.E.C.T.O.R. at the last moment by reversing the polarity of his Ion Cannon.
He is an enemy of Iron Lantern and, in the words of Hal Stark, "one of the deadliest beings alive".
The 100 is an amalgam of the Maggia of the Marvel Universe and
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/ironlant.htm   (2927 words)

  
 Celebration of the Lantern Festival
In one such legend, the Jade Emperor in Heaven was so angered at a town for killing his favorite goose, that he decided to destroy it with a storm of fire.
From that day on, people celebrated the anniversary of their deliverance by carried lanterns of different shapes and colors through the streets on the first full moon of the year, providing a spectacular backdrop for lion dances, dragon dances, and fireworks.
While the Lantern Festival has changed very little over the last two millennia, technological advances have made the celebration moreand more complex and visually stimulating.
www.c-c-c.org /chineseculture/festival/lantern/lantern.html   (372 words)

  
 ASU-Ask A Biologist - Aristotle's Lantern
As it turns out, these lanterns were not shaped like a horn.
The pieces, also called panes, were thin enough to allow the light from the lantern to shine through, but protected the candle from being blown out by such things as wind.
Horn lanterns have been made for many centuries and in many shapes.
askabiologist.asu.edu /research/urchins/aristotle.html   (339 words)

  
 Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner
After Hal Jordan went mad, killing most of the Green Lanterns and Guardians of the Universe, the last surviving Guardian formed a new Green Lantern ring and went to Earth in search of a replacement.
Kyle became the new Green Lantern, fought Hal as Parallax, and went on to join first the New Titans and then the Justice League.
Kyle’s ring differs from the standard Green Lantern rings in that it is not vulnerable to yellow, and it needs to be recharged based on how much energy it uses instead of just every 24 hours.
www.hyperborea.org /flash/kyle.html   (387 words)

  
 Lantern Theater Company : Philadelphia, PA
Lantern Theater Company : Philadelphia, PA 3-Play Subscriptions now on sale!
Attention Teachers: book your class trip to upcoming student matinee performances of The School for Wives and Othello.
©2007 Lantern Theater Company, At St. Stephen's Theater, 10th & Ludlow Streets, P.O. Box 53428, Philadelphia, PA Tickets: 215.829.0395
www.lanterntheater.org   (75 words)

  
 Emerald Dawn -Green Lantern News
GREEN LANTERN #8, written by Geoff Johns with art by Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino and a cover by Simone Bianchi, is solicited in the November Previews and is scheduled to arrive in stores on Feb 1st.
The Green Lantern Corps have not been active for some time and some readers might not even be aware that the name Green Lantern wasn't just a designation for one character, but thousands.
He will be playing Green Lantern in a film that has been described as a “zany comedy version a la THE MASK.” All rights to the DC comic have been worked out as well, so you can expect to start hearing more about this project in the months ahead.
www.emeralddawn.com /news/news.htm   (7115 words)

  
 'Magic Lantern' Rubs the Wrong Way
As first reported by MSNBC, Magic Lantern is a program under development by the FBI that watches and records end-users' keystrokes.
With the news of Magic Lantern, the public may now add "creation of software that would otherwise be considered malicious" to the list of nasty, yet supposedly necessary, work of the U.S. government.
Due to the international nature of anti-virus software, it simply may not be possible for the anti-virus industry as a whole to lend the blind eye the FBI would like.
www.securityfocus.com /columnists/44   (892 words)

  
 lantern
If you are new to collecting, you can use these pictures as a reference for lanterns you might want.
Included are other lanterns by makers such as...
Its members interests not only include keys, locks, and lanterns but other railroad memorabilia such as lamps, signs, china, badges, railroad paper and much more.
www.darklanterns.com /links.htm   (502 words)

  
 CRAFTS : Other : Lantern Globe Pinata : DIY Network
Use decoupage medium to apply to surface of Japanese lantern.
You should use several sheets for Antarctica, at the bottom of lantern, because they will have to hold the weight of the goodies placed inside.
Decoupage "Arctic Circle" on the north side (top) of lantern to enclose and finish the globe (figure A).
www.diynet.com /diy/kc_others/article/0,2025,DIY_13974_2273741,00.html   (184 words)

  
 Green Lantern - Big Lantern Guide
The original Green Lanterns ring was magical; the latter Green Lanterns...
The first Green Lantern was Alan Scott, who made his initial appearance in...
This is a large 1/6 scale sculpt of the classic Hal Lantern Green Lantern, in a Neal Adams-inspired pose.
www.biglanternguide.com /green-lantern.html   (677 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lantern: Music: Clogs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But for the sake of context, and despite the fact that the pieces here are shorter, their expressive nature more direct and in many ways more approachable, I'd put "Lantern" next to something along the lines of parts of the Kronos catalog, aspects of Linsay Cooper's work or even Gavin Bryars' "Vita Nova".
"Lantern" is at turns less abstract and more accessible than the Clogs' prior releases.
If you are working to develop an ear for beauty (not prettiness) harmonic complexity (not just major scales) rhythmic subtlety (not the tyranny of four) "Lantern" is here to light your way.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CRR2MK?v=glance   (676 words)

  
 Green Lantern Interviews
The guys at DC comics probably wouldn't like me saying this (that is, if what I said made any difference to anyone but me, myself and I, of course) but "Green Lantern" is Hal Jordan (even more so than Alan Scott for me as I had never read any of his adventures as "Green Lantern.").
One of the greatest points in the process was sitting down with Kevin and Ron at the convention one year, and brain storming about what the book should be about.
I was really nervous on this project, it's the biggest thing I've ever worked on, and he was always there to support me with words of encouragement.
lantern_light.tripod.com /interviews.htm   (4915 words)

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