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2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread

Heinz Kluetmeier died today. Even if you never heard of him, you’ve seen his photos.

 
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As a sports photographer myself, I knew his work well. Dude has over 100 (I think) Sports Illustrated covers.

RIP. 📸
He and Walter Iooss, Jr. put the illustrated in Sports Illustrated. My father was a charter subscriber and the rule in the house was that I had to finish the magazine before he got home on Friday, because I wouldn’t get it back until Monday.

Kluetmeier was the first person to put a camera on the bottom of the pool, at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He later captured this sequence of Michael Phelps come from behind gold medal in the 100 meter butterfly.

 
Yeah, a friend of mine once said that if you remember an SI cover photo, it's almost certainly by either Iooss or Kluetmeier.
 
Public Service announcement

If you have YouTube tv prepare to lose CBS and other paramount channels while they try to negotiate a new carriage agreement. Nothing new it happens everytime a contract expires and effects most cable/satellite/streaming services at some point or another.

 
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Yeah, from what I've seen this one might take awhile if it doesn't get resolved at the wire. YTTV has announced an $8 a month rebate if they lose Paramount's channels, and guess how much Paramount+ costs per month? $7.99 for the cheap version. I've already got it for Champions League and Scottish Premiere League. They also pick up the odd early movie release and there's a couple of decent TV series on the platform.
 
What's going on at Canes Country? Do they not have writers anymore? Did they all get laid off? They're not even doing daily posts or open threads anymore. Weird.
 
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