Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Tom Ackroyd,
If I want a digital photo to be black & white, having the original in colour is a good thing, because after desaturating it you can still adjust the original colour balance to give the effect of using colour filters on a black & white film shoot. This is not to cover up "mistakes" because I have no option but to take a colour image.
I was fascinated to discover that deciphering the information in a colour image takes around four times as much measured brain activity as it does for black and white. That was back in the days when B&W TV sets were still common, and I'd noticed that if a TV was on with the sound turned down, colour was much harder to ignore. While their resolution left much to be desired, those analog colour TVs could reproduce the full visible spectrum. Hence their seductive nature that easily overwhelms the senses of little children.
As Tom's inaugural winning Capture pic demonstrated, invoking the power of the kingdom of shadows can produce a striking image by isolating the elements that really matter.
In the meantime, what an amazing diversity of colour, thank you all.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Kebabette,
rainbow cake
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
What's more, roads make excellent ground cover and need little watering...
I can still remember National Radio's attempt to perpetrate the pious fraud of rolling Barry out as Sharon Crosby's successor. While a bossy busybody with the mores of a typical retiree might have looked like a goer on paper, even an audience accustomed to Alison Holst and Chariots of Fire on high rotate wasn't prepared to wear a card-carrying bubblehead.
When an item on dog control turned into a Barry tirade about her personal distaste for dogs publicly 'rogering one another' it was time to implement the traditional NZ method of dealing with the disappointing - put 'em on the land, as it were. And thence to a safe National seat.
Of course such things have happened in the Labour Party too, but generally the rampant boneheadedness has been masked by a degree of political cunning.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Hebe,
My understanding is that one could be arrested if found in a red-placard building . . .
Seems that the curtain-twitching custodians of the public good now have their own little ratepayer-funded stasi to gather evidence for precisely that kind of prosecution.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Kumara Republic,
If she's anything like her avowed role model Katherine Rich she'll remain smilingly stoical, even while having buckets of political ordure tipped over her by her own party hierarchy.
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Never seen that vid before.
Stuart Page made the best NZ music vids ever. -
Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to poffa,
As someone said to me ' There is no point in voting the government always gets in.'
That's so true. It's also true that they should have waited until all the old folks had died before they brought in decimal currency.
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Congratulations Tom.
And Jackson P & Russell B for having the vision to make this fly.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Islander,
There is a very wellknown whakatauki-
"E ki ana koe ki a ahau- he aha te mea nui?
E ki ana ahau ki a koe- he takata, he takata, he takata!"Thanks for the reminder. Presumably it's sill inscribed, with slightly different spelling but I trust essentially the same meaning, on what's left of the cathedral.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Islander,
. . . this old-boy-network crap . . .
Whatever it is, it’s characterised by a lame-arsed ineptitude at dealing with human issues, and a self-serving culture of legally-informed risk aversion with a demonstrably lethal track record. And as the attitudes on display at the current R. commission show, an absolute blinkered inability to even begin to comprehend the concept of personal responsibility.
This is how the CTV building site looked yesterday. All traces removed, we’ve had a memorial service, that’s all folks, nothing to see move along. And this is what people continue to do, because as anyone with a grain of humanity knows, it’s what we humans need to do. Do the custodians of the public good provide some kind of temporary facility or shrine as even a courtesy to people’s grief? Oh please, the very suggestion gives them the vapours. The message is that if they can’t corporatise it, they just wish to hell it would go away.
Perhaps we should be grateful that they appear to retain enough humanity to be disturbed by such reminders of their own lethal ineptitude.