Low Resolution Skyline
Nov. 4th, 2001 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathboyThe weirdest thing...
I just went and got chinese... mmmm, lovely lovely beancurd n stuff...
The guy that served us was wearing some kind of authentic looking chinese clothing... tried to tell me that oysters are vegetarian (as they always do...), but was fine about doing me a bowl of meat-free hot n sour soup, so that was cool...
Freaky thing was that on the wall, they had number of photographs... a chinese city scene, with the mandatory rickshaws, etc, a photo of some chinese skyline, some other bit of chinese culinary photography...
On close inspection, I realised that behind the glass and the quite pleasant looking polished dark wood frames, the photos were in fact quite low resolution jpegs!
You could see the compression artifacting and everything... the pixels were huge once you actually looked for more than a second...
What was odd was that not only did I notice, but they seemed utterly at home in an otherwise authentic looking chinese...
Gibson Time, y'all... even in Birmingham, UK...
-=Scott=-
I just went and got chinese... mmmm, lovely lovely beancurd n stuff...
The guy that served us was wearing some kind of authentic looking chinese clothing... tried to tell me that oysters are vegetarian (as they always do...), but was fine about doing me a bowl of meat-free hot n sour soup, so that was cool...
Freaky thing was that on the wall, they had number of photographs... a chinese city scene, with the mandatory rickshaws, etc, a photo of some chinese skyline, some other bit of chinese culinary photography...
On close inspection, I realised that behind the glass and the quite pleasant looking polished dark wood frames, the photos were in fact quite low resolution jpegs!
You could see the compression artifacting and everything... the pixels were huge once you actually looked for more than a second...
What was odd was that not only did I notice, but they seemed utterly at home in an otherwise authentic looking chinese...
Gibson Time, y'all... even in Birmingham, UK...
-=Scott=-
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Date: 2001-11-04 08:11 pm (UTC)*spurs another interview question... or a few*
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Date: 2001-11-05 12:49 am (UTC)hehe ;)
fire away, matey ;)
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Date: 2001-11-06 12:53 am (UTC)