Comments | leftisto: what we see is how we feel

leftisto

what we see is how we feel

Feb 02, 2009 21:25

I'm working hard at putting together a project proposal which I think would be a good fit for my team. I can't go into a lot of detail, but I concluded that the most compelling pitch would involve a demonstration of how we would take an image and transform it. The idea is that the user would choose which decade they liked, and then this magic would ( Read more... )

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geonarcissa February 3 2009, 07:08:01 UTC

The seventies one needs to have rounded corners, and it needs an orange and brown crocheted blanket somewhere in it.

leftisto February 3 2009, 08:42:49 UTC

That's actually an excellent idea, and I'm gonna run with it.

pedant... kiwano February 3 2009, 07:40:25 UTC

outboards didn't look like that in the 30s, women didn't wear strappy wedding dresses like that in the 40s, etc. (but really, if that's what i'm pointing out as problematic...)

also, the 80s shot looks more reprocessed-in-the-80s, whereas the others look like just plain pictures taken in their respective decades. i'm not sure if that's the intent (since i'm under the impression that current views on the 80s still tend towards more towards ridicule than romance, unlike the earlier decades).

Re: pedant... leftisto February 3 2009, 08:42:29 UTC

To be clear, pedant might be a pretty significant understatement.

The whole point of the exercise is that someone takes a picture today (ie. not in the 40s) and the image is transformed.

I am not currently sitting on the technology required to fix wardrobe mistakes, sorry.

Re: pedant... kiwano February 3 2009, 19:25:18 UTC

ermmm.. i think maybe that "pedant" was entirely the wrong choice of word, and that "facetious" would have been closer to the mark. i thought that my parenthetical comment was actually the meaningful part of what i wrote.

that said, in retrospect, I think that geonarcissa's comment about the 70s picture calling for rounded corners is dead on the money. the 50s picture might also call to have the contrast turned down a bit (more?) not quite as much as the 30s transformation, but its current incarnation is still a bit crisper than any photos from the 50s that i can remember seeing.

sevenblades February 3 2009, 18:27:36 UTC

I love 70s photos.
I have a lot of clothing that would go well with these pictures.

geonarcissa February 4 2009, 03:41:55 UTC

I think it would add an extra bit of authenticity if the images were cropped to the dimensions that were typical for photographs at that time.