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Me: Ugh, what are you watching?
Lady: 30 Rock.
Me: I know, but…do you notice anything weird about it?
Her: No.
Me: You see that big, black border around the whole thing, and how it looks and sounds all cruddy?
Her: No. I don’t.
Me: Really? You don’t see how the picture is all shrunk down in the screen and everything’s a little chunky and blurry?
Her: No. I don’t care.
Me: Okay, watch this. [Goes through the guide up to the 400s where the HD is.] Okay, are you watching?
Her: [Not watching. Playing with the dog and laughing because he did something cute.] Me: Okay, are you watching? [Swaps channels, engulfed in a glorious wave of fidelitous sound and image.]
Her:…
Me: You see that?
Her: No. I don’t care.
Me: …
Her: …
Me: I love you.
Her: [Laughs at the stupid dog.]

✖ Via lonelysandwich: “A glorious wave of fidelitous sound and image”, August 6th, 2010

Same thing goes with aspect ratio. I know people (whom I love and respect) who are able to watch a whole film in the wrong aspect ratio (they’ll watch 16/9 in 4/3). You’ll tell them: “Those cowboy sure are thin and tall…” and they’ll go “Huh?”

Lonely Sandwich is Adam Lisagor Tumblr blog. Alongside Merlin Mann and Scott Simpson, Lisagor runs You Look Nice Today “an audio-based Journal of Emotional Hygiene” (more about it).

• Aug 08, 2010 link notes reblogged from lonelysandwich [via] tagged: technology popular consumer television high definition HD aspect ratio film picture culture humor media

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✖ Via

Multicolor Search Lab: Visual search technology by Idées Labs

“We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. Also available with Alamy Stock Photography” (Read the FAQ)

• Aug 11, 2009 link notes tagged: color image picture search technology web application web design

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✖ Via SpaceCollective: “Space Collective.org is a cross-media information and entertainment channel for post-ideological, non-partisan, forward thinking terrestrials. […]. SpaceCollective is a joint initiative of filmmaker Rene Daalder and designer Folkert Gorter. Daalder is the project’s main author and creator of The Future of Everything. Gorter is the site’s interaction designer and the curator of the Gallery. System architecture and technology created by Josh Pangell. The Future of Everything episodes are edited by Aaron Ohlmann and produced by American Scenes Inc; executive producer: Joseph Kaufman.”

I don’t know about the whole (re)evolution thing (“Now we have the mouse, which at this very moment puts you just one click away from playing a role in the future of everything.”) but it sure is a place were you can find interesting pictures of random things found all over the Internet. Interestingly enough, designer Folkert Gorter is also responsible for the creation of the new “personal publishing platform” called Cargo (you may have experienced it’s interface via the But Does It Float design blog which is regularly featured on ffffound and is, by the way, also maintained by Gorter).

• Apr 12, 2009 link notes tagged: picture technology communication design space collective society science fiction