Mid Week Music Post!

[aggienaut]

   Another round of thanks to everyone who recommended music in comments after my music post last week. In fact I still haven't gotten around to looking up everything suggested, but intend to.


Song of the Week: The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City -- It's sweet and sad and so damn good that I can't find a song that doesn't sound like shit when it's the next song you play after it. Seriously it's kind of a problem. Thanks whoshottheshot for the recommendation!


Circular Arguments about Photography
   It was recently pointed out to me that camera lenses take circular pictures. Obviously. But pictures are square (obviously).
   It makes sense that film was square since it would be a hassle to deal with circular film. But with digital pictures it would be extremely easy to get the circular raw image and crop the portion you want into a square.
   With the current pre-cut square you lose a lot of data in the "corners" of the circle that aren't within the square. Esp since most (all?) cameras don't make a square but a rectangle of a 4:3 ratio.
   The sensor in the cameras is presently that rectangle shape I would imagine, but can't they make it circular? I think the only reason we're getting served up square pictures from the cameras is because that's what we are expecting!


Picture of the Day

Meet Dan, a drone (male) honeybee

Also, new pictures posted yesterday and day before! Including one of fan favourite Melissa, on livejournal!!

Comments

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

This photo shape conversation would be so much more fun (and less educational) if you were talking about cake. I mean, really, who would argue with more cake?

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think!!! (I can relate to this!)
chocolate or....chocolate?

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

Chocolate... with berries. And cream cheese frosting. :D

[fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com]

Agree, agree, agree . . . although I could do with a second conversation involving pie, in particular the cherry variety.

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

Only if the cherry pie is also accompanied by a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.

Come to think of it, ice cream is the shining example of delicious circular portioning that we have been looking for!