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I could see the future rushing up to meet me
The only pictures I took in New York were at Flushing Meadows; I hadn't brought my camera, so I used ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel's phone. Here are a few.
This is not a picture I took at Flushing Meadows. This is a picture of me on the B&B Carousell at Coney Island. I'd asked Rob to take a picture of my horse, which he did next, but it turned out I didn't mind his first try.
The Unisphere. From here on all photographic faults are my own. I really like this one.
Rob's phone is not so great about its zoom function; it doesn't pixellate so much as it becomes sort of blocky and abstract. [edit:rinue explains why in comments.] I still like how the structure frames itself here.
Deleted, some sculpture that came out weirdly blued and a Mercury Atlas rocket at an unsuccessfully canted angle. I took a bunch of the Observation Towers which I think came out well, but I'm not sure they all came out so equally well that I should inflict them on LJ. But here, the sky in a webwork of guy wires. The last one is my favorite. It reminded me of the sun-petaled stage design Peter Shaffer describes in the script of The Royal Hunt of the Sun.
I am sorry there are not more pictures of us, wandering around the future of the past. I suppose we'll have to go back.
P.S. Some kind person has put up all eight and a half hours of the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby on YouTube, just as if I wanted to compare it with the published script. There goes my free time.
derspatchel's phone. Here are a few.
This is not a picture I took at Flushing Meadows. This is a picture of me on the B&B Carousell at Coney Island. I'd asked Rob to take a picture of my horse, which he did next, but it turned out I didn't mind his first try.
The Unisphere. From here on all photographic faults are my own. I really like this one.
Rob's phone is not so great about its zoom function; it doesn't pixellate so much as it becomes sort of blocky and abstract. [edit:
rinue explains why in comments.] I still like how the structure frames itself here.Deleted, some sculpture that came out weirdly blued and a Mercury Atlas rocket at an unsuccessfully canted angle. I took a bunch of the Observation Towers which I think came out well, but I'm not sure they all came out so equally well that I should inflict them on LJ. But here, the sky in a webwork of guy wires. The last one is my favorite. It reminded me of the sun-petaled stage design Peter Shaffer describes in the script of The Royal Hunt of the Sun.
I am sorry there are not more pictures of us, wandering around the future of the past. I suppose we'll have to go back.
P.S. Some kind person has put up all eight and a half hours of the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby on YouTube, just as if I wanted to compare it with the published script. There goes my free time.
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Isn't that the past of the future? In any case, they're wonderful shots.
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(That's a good title.)
Isn't that the past of the future?
No; I mean the future the past thought we were going to have.
In any case, they're wonderful shots.
Thank you.
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Yes, classically. But also a vision of the past for us future folks. I remember that World's Fair. There were going to be picture phones. Meanwhile there were Belgian waffles, and the worst earworm in the history of the galaxy.
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It's big, too. That doesn't come through in either of these photos and the one long shot I took was fuzzed out by the zoom. It is a rare example of successful monumental sculpture in modern America and I wish there were more like it!
(although then it would be unlikely anyone would ever get good photos of it--because they'd be cluttered up with people climbing in it).
(So much fun, though.)
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Please write for it.
Thank you!
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Basically, digital zoom is a big lie/conspiracy by camera companies. For a clear image, you're better off turning it off (which most cameras/phones will have somewhere in their settings menu) and cropping the picture when you get home (even using microsoft paint or similar). This will not deactivate any optical zoom (real zoom) the camera has. (You'll usually be able to hear when the camera is doing an optical zoom, because there are gears turning and real objects moving around and sliding against each other. Digital zoom is typically silent.)
Apologies if you know all this already and prefer in-camera zoom for the convenience (which fair enough).
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No, it's useful information; I didn't know the mechanics of the difference. Rob's camera in this case was actually his phone, meaning it now makes sense that the zoom on it is crap. He has a very fine actual camera (as seen here), but it didn't come with us on this trip. I should change the caption to reflect that.
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We were actually talking about Fitzgerald at one point as we wandered!
I wonder if they ever get any Gatsby tourists, or if there'll be an uptick following the movie?
. . . We didn't think of that.
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I still envy you that.
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*begins to search quietly for sharp objects*
(You have not become obnoxious. Did you actually meet Gielgud?)
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Late '70s, that would have been. so I guess he was 75 or thereabouts. I wasn't twenty yet; he seemed appropriately ancient, and I remember being astonished how strong his hands still were. His huge hands: they seemed disproportionate. And he was gracious, and took the time to be charming - and oh. That voice. Aimed at me. It was kinda like the whole meeting-Tolkien thing, repeated when I was six years older and shoulda done better, know what I mean? But I am still and always a fanboy at heart, and even now I still have heroes. I was just lucky that I got to meet some of them.
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Thank you!
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Thanks!