The "Hey Anne" post
Jul. 31st, 2006 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwice1. Outlaw ordination of female Catholic priests in Pittsburgh. (via Rickity Contrivances of Doing Good.) Nothing much to say about that, other than I wish 'em the best, as I reckon their lives aren't going to get any easier anytime soon.
2. Color photos of Imperial Russia, ca. 1909. (via Damn Interesting.) These are just... mind-blowing. This one in particular—I saw it and was just, like... that's what my world looks like. Those aren't imaginary old-photo firtrees, those are real. The moss on that rock... Jesus. Anyway.
What's particularly interesting about this was that showing these photos was a performing art—the (brilliant) guy who invented and deployed the process had no technology that would let him create prints, but he built a special projector for his developed plates that would let him put on a slideshow for people. So yeah, a little clunky in execution until they were able to digitally composite-and-print the suckers in 2001, but by god, the images he got. These colors are three quarters of a century ahead of their time.
Weirdly, because of the multiple-plate method, anyone who squirmed too much during the photo would bleed out into several ghostly monochrome images, as seen on the baby in this pic. You can see some halos around the other kids, too.
2. Color photos of Imperial Russia, ca. 1909. (via Damn Interesting.) These are just... mind-blowing. This one in particular—I saw it and was just, like... that's what my world looks like. Those aren't imaginary old-photo firtrees, those are real. The moss on that rock... Jesus. Anyway.
What's particularly interesting about this was that showing these photos was a performing art—the (brilliant) guy who invented and deployed the process had no technology that would let him create prints, but he built a special projector for his developed plates that would let him put on a slideshow for people. So yeah, a little clunky in execution until they were able to digitally composite-and-print the suckers in 2001, but by god, the images he got. These colors are three quarters of a century ahead of their time.
Weirdly, because of the multiple-plate method, anyone who squirmed too much during the photo would bleed out into several ghostly monochrome images, as seen on the baby in this pic. You can see some halos around the other kids, too.
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Date: 2006-08-01 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 04:21 am (UTC)As today wore on, I started really realizing what a tragedy it was that Mikhailovich's method didn't gain a wider popularity. This one brief slice of pre-revolutionary Russia is real and solid to me in a way that the America or Europe of the period can simply never be. Hell, it's real to me in a way that the America of my parents' youth can never be.
Apropos of nothing: I didn't realize until now that you type Canadian!
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Date: 2006-08-01 04:34 am (UTC)I use the Spellbound extension on Firefox, switched to English/United Kingdom. I've always had a lot of trouble spelling correctly, with a painfully slow learning speed (certain words I will never learn to spell). Since I wrote a couple of words funny already, like 'colour', and always had better luck using an 's' instead of a 'z' in words like 'exercise' I tried switching my spell check and found that not only do I spell better overall, but I am actually learning correct spellings after being reminded how they're spelled only two or three times (instead of ten or never). Really long way of saying "works for me, who knows why?"
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Date: 2006-08-01 05:07 am (UTC)I had a definite "ou" period back in middle school or high school, but that was because I was part of an online community where the alpha female was Canadian. Probably a less-good reason.