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Historical Reenactment / Reenactors in House of Cards Season Two!

« on: December 13, 2013, 08:56:35 pm »

Over this summer i was able to participate In a reenacting shoot for Netflix's House of Cards Season Two. It was a two day event in Maryland where they had us, reenactors as extras in Episode 6. They had us film behind Underwood and also film a battle sequence.  So we were paid as reenactors reenacting reenactors. So Meta!


Here is a still from the trailer. You can see my face right behind  the union artillery man, the tallest guy.

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also here is the full trailer



(youtube shortcut not working) (also now i think i can legally talk about this now that the trailer is out)

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The Mess Hall / I hate My Job!

« on: May 02, 2013, 03:01:42 pm »

My job is so fucking unbelievable.
I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:
First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.
The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.
But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day.
Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.


credit to /u/prehack

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Historical Reenactment / Best Civil War songs to sing when on a long march! [can be other eras also]

« on: April 16, 2013, 05:36:04 am »

Battle Cry of Freedom is my fav

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Edit: fixed the link

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Off Topic / |form game| six word stories

« on: April 08, 2013, 04:42:43 pm »

the game is to write a story with only  six words

all start with:  loop! Help, I'm trapped in a
or:              "I'm faking Alzheimers." said Granddad. Again.

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Forum & Website / i give up, how does one upload photos with Spoiler+ thing?

« on: March 05, 2013, 05:11:39 am »

im new to forums in general and im trying to figure out, how to upload photos with the +Spoiler thing that hides  them
-thanks

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Historical Reenactment / photo of 150th Antietam

« on: March 04, 2013, 11:50:16 pm »

this is a photo of the 150th Antietam that a friend of mine took this. This is near the end of the afternoons battle of Bloody lane . (Im by the flag with 1 on it)   

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Historical Reenactment / Creed of the Living historian

« on: March 04, 2013, 01:50:10 am »

Creed of the Living Historian

We are people to whom the past is forever speaking. We listen to it because we cannot help ourselves, for the past speaks to us with many voices. Far out of that dark nowhere, which is the time before we were born, men who were flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, went through fire and storm to break a path to the future.

We are part of the future they died for. They are part of the past that brought the future. What they did – the lives they lived, the sacrifices they made, the stories they told and the songs they sung and finally, the deaths they died – make up a part of our own experience. We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as something that happened last week.

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Historical Reenactment / what events (battles) will you be at this year of 1863

« on: February 27, 2013, 05:56:26 pm »

This year now is 1863 in the 150th calander,  battles and skirmish like Uppervile and Gunkstown and of course Gettysburg will be there 150th anniversary

So what events will you be doing this year? for me i will be at Chancellorsville,  new market, Gettysburg, Cedar Creek and the rememberance day parade in Gettysbug,
 all with the 7th MD Co A