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It was never part of their standard mix, for a while they sold it by itself but they also included it in a different mix than the standard bag. If you like jolly ranchers and peaches, you would have loved it. I will admit to a ton of nostalgia though. I have a very early memory of visiting my grandma and raiding her candy jar that was filled with them.
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Jolly Ranchers made a big mistake there. Peach is one of the 'in' flavors that is being looked for now. They bailed at exactly the wrong time.
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I wasn't actually thinking specifically about the candy industry, but I assume it runs along with the beverage industry and peach flavor versions of Sprite, various flavor tea products, and some others have all hit the shelves in the past few years. I'm not really a renaissance man, I just like peach flavor so I noticed.
Even the fruit juice company that started out with Just Orange arrived very quickly at Just Peach.
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He claims to be up to nothin', but he's moving through the shadowy realms of the candy industry like a shark, ready to snap up his hapless prey at any time...they call him...Quad B.
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peach arizonas were one of my top favorites back when i drank arizonas a lot
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Peace Tea generally sells alongside Arizonas here. Direct test, flavor to flavor, their green tea is nowhere near as good as Arizona Ice Tea's is. And yeah @Lexicus, Arizona Green Tea with Peach Juice is the best, bar none beverage in the world. It's only sold hereabouts at one little gas station/corner market out in the rural, and I pick up a couple every time I pass by there. Running late and being forced to pass without stopping is a painful moment that is perhaps without match in my generally bliss filled life.
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I love Fuzzy Peaches. But I have to be careful because they make me sick if I eat too many at once.
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We had a shoot today, and I think I managed to basically shoot everything at the same level of exposure, but we were looking at the RAW feed and it'll need some serious colour correction.
I also felt like a zombie all weekend and had only one person to assist with both camera and lighting, which was a less than ideal situation to try and manage a shoot in.
In spite of plenty time in advance for prep work, the director was in no hurry, I only saw the location once last week, and though it was obviously great for daylight shooting because its windows look out to the north so all of its natural lighting is indirect and neatly diffused, lack of communication with the director meant I only had an idea for a look to work with, and could not plan for specific shots.
I mean I could have, but if the director then didnt want that I was screwed. I think the idea worked out fine but looking with the standard video look over the raw footage it was insane. Raw footage looks exactly lile what I wanted.
Actually, I knew I was 'overexposing', but going down to a better exposition level would have required more work to put in more light where we needed to create a difference between characterd and elements of the scene. We were slow enough as is that the sun literally went down on us as we shot the final scenes. I think I did a good job with those because after I put in the lights nobody realised when it became night after we'd been done and they looked out the window. As I looked at the monitor I thought nobody would buy it as daylight, but maybe they would.
There's also the bits where the director wen full Hollywood mode and made us do more and more shots of stuff we'd already covered. Had my head all dazed sometimes. I was trying to focus on the next shot and then it'd turn out the next shot was just a different angle focusing on the same action by the same character which had just been perfectly recorded, except there was something that would get in the way of the camera during that action.
My assist had the clarity of mind to basically have been able to take over my job, but she just helped me and I can't be thankful enough to her. The schedule was reduced to a minimum without even a shot list, and the AD didn't go hard enough of us, but still we managed to wrap up almost on time. He's a classmate of the director, and a fellow director, and he wasnt shy about pointing out how he had us make 6 or more extra shots he didn't need at all. Out of 16. You always want some coverage, but damn. I kinda want to work with him next. I think he has a certsin precision about him.
Some spaces were so tight too, and some shots so sweeping, that placing fixtures was a challenge. We did by exclusively with two panels and a 4-feet row of cold LEDs. I should have gotten the 2-feet, much more maneuverable and hideable. I thought I could use the surface, and I was right, but the one place they could work where the panels wouldn't, the 4-feet was unwieldy.
This was my second time actually directing photography on anything and the first I got to plan and have some leeway with the gear I could order. Turns out I did no planning and messed up my order. Things to learn for the next, actusl shoot.
I also felt like a zombie all weekend and had only one person to assist with both camera and lighting, which was a less than ideal situation to try and manage a shoot in.
In spite of plenty time in advance for prep work, the director was in no hurry, I only saw the location once last week, and though it was obviously great for daylight shooting because its windows look out to the north so all of its natural lighting is indirect and neatly diffused, lack of communication with the director meant I only had an idea for a look to work with, and could not plan for specific shots.
I mean I could have, but if the director then didnt want that I was screwed. I think the idea worked out fine but looking with the standard video look over the raw footage it was insane. Raw footage looks exactly lile what I wanted.
Actually, I knew I was 'overexposing', but going down to a better exposition level would have required more work to put in more light where we needed to create a difference between characterd and elements of the scene. We were slow enough as is that the sun literally went down on us as we shot the final scenes. I think I did a good job with those because after I put in the lights nobody realised when it became night after we'd been done and they looked out the window. As I looked at the monitor I thought nobody would buy it as daylight, but maybe they would.
There's also the bits where the director wen full Hollywood mode and made us do more and more shots of stuff we'd already covered. Had my head all dazed sometimes. I was trying to focus on the next shot and then it'd turn out the next shot was just a different angle focusing on the same action by the same character which had just been perfectly recorded, except there was something that would get in the way of the camera during that action.
My assist had the clarity of mind to basically have been able to take over my job, but she just helped me and I can't be thankful enough to her. The schedule was reduced to a minimum without even a shot list, and the AD didn't go hard enough of us, but still we managed to wrap up almost on time. He's a classmate of the director, and a fellow director, and he wasnt shy about pointing out how he had us make 6 or more extra shots he didn't need at all. Out of 16. You always want some coverage, but damn. I kinda want to work with him next. I think he has a certsin precision about him.
Some spaces were so tight too, and some shots so sweeping, that placing fixtures was a challenge. We did by exclusively with two panels and a 4-feet row of cold LEDs. I should have gotten the 2-feet, much more maneuverable and hideable. I thought I could use the surface, and I was right, but the one place they could work where the panels wouldn't, the 4-feet was unwieldy.
This was my second time actually directing photography on anything and the first I got to plan and have some leeway with the gear I could order. Turns out I did no planning and messed up my order. Things to learn for the next, actusl shoot.
Ooooooh you're in charge of camera work for a film? That's so exciting!
Filming is fun as well as exhausting! I was an extra in a film once.
And in a reprise role, you are just an extra here too!
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And in a reprise role, you are just an extra here too!
I considered saying "well, at least life had prepared you for the role" but it was too mean a thing to say to @Takhisis. I could think of some other people that I would have rolled that on instantly without a shred of remorse though.
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