3 Dimensional Interactive Movies

research notes 1.
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- Gorgon Prison for Paedos
cries in the night of "I did it! I did it!"

wax palms sixty metres high

diving on San Andrews and Providencia
grooves, tunnels, shelves, shallow reef
valleys
sponges - variety, forms, sizes, colours
barracudas, turtles, lobsters, rays,
groupers, snappers

Banks - Titan Intercontinental
Giros and Finanzas
Union Colombiano
Bancolombia

small time scam for the fraternal twins -
bundle of peso notes, supposedly same
amount when you check, but some notes
are missing, pretend surprise, put some
notes back, ask you to count again, which
you don't, however the biggest notes
from down the other end have been taken

Blas de Lezo - beat the English soldiers in a
state of livor mortis. The holo magi has a statue
of him at entrance to his field lab palace, his left
eye, arm and leg (lost in wars) being robotic,
with the inscription beneath "Welcome to the
Cusp of Atlantis, home to all the losers of the
world."

money in shoes scam, Cucuta - well-dressed,
speaking good English (Fran and the twins
invested in their future) next to bus ticket
booth. Sucker goes to a makebelieve
ticketting room allegedly run as an insurance
scheme to cover the many robberies
occuring in buses - huge record book of
people's names, signatures and nationality.
Sucker is advised to keep money in his shoe.
Fran would count out the pesos into a
plastic bag for the shoe, skimming pesos
from the bundle

scam for the fraternal twins - taxi driving
with no meter, no day or night rates on
display

Colombian driving style - it's okay to go
against the traffic on a one-way street if
you feel like it at the time

casas de cambio - authorised money exchange
office

fake, obvious 1,000 peso coins
US dollars counterfeited perfectly in Cali -
Fran and the twins are outraged that
they're too small time to be considered
for employment as bank note stackers.

no public toilets, anywhere, or litter bins

Colombians are indiscreet in public about
their love affairs, ditto kissing and hugging
streets are full of screaming vendors,
shouting pals, noisy during telenovellas
and live sports broadcasts

Cocaine is exported at rate of 1.3 tonnes
per day, Colombia only being a clearing
house for the rest of Sth America
third largest producer of marijuana in the
world - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,
La Guajira areas
illegal export of the finest emeralds
also, animals, mostly birds - Albinio is good
at noosing for export, having done a hammock,
sandals and a pair of swimming togs out
of marine knots

oil pipelines are called flutes as they're tapped
by guerillas and paramilitaries alike

emeralds are worth more than diamonds in cash
and are popular amongst exiled aristocrats
and nouveau riche diplomats

lowlands are equally hot and cold

highlands have freezing nights
El Nino and La Nina are great names for
the ocean going speedboats of Fran and
the fraternal twins

1984-1990 emerald war between rival gangs
of miners

Albinio would only give up the royals on
pennies and five cent pieces and toxic
paint commemorative dinner plates for
the colour, purity, transparency, brilliancy,
luminosity of the 632 carat Patricia
emerald in the NY museum, considered
too perfect to cut

Pablo Escobar contributed $26 million to
construction of suburbs for poor families
as "Robin Hood Paisa" - offered to clear
national debt

FARC and ELN hit hard times after the
respective withdrawal of support from
Moscow and Havana, support themselves
with kidnapping, extortion and robbery

M-19 sold out to President Barco after
massacring 11 judges and are now an
officially recognised political party

blind eye to paramilitary massacres of alleged
supporters in Uraba, Cesar, Coodobar (?)
Antoquia, Magdelena, Medio, Santander,
Coqueta, Cundiamarca

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