{"id":52,"date":"2008-03-25T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T01:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/25\/picture-this\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:06:18","slug":"picture-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/25\/picture-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to say something on the subject of picture quality.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck picture quality.<\/p>\n<p>Alright&#8230; Not really, really but, y&#8217;know, a little bit. Fuck it a little bit. More like who-gives-a-fuck? it.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, I&#8217;m just tired. I&#8217;ve been researching video editing software and the peripherals inherent therein and it&#8217;s just terribly tedious. I so don&#8217;t care about 4:4:4 vs 4:3:3 or 4:2:2 or whatever! And I have like 20-10 vision and can paint a colour wheel by smell. Picture quality is such a scam &#8211; with the notable exception perhaps of nature documentaries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Darren Aronofsky&#8217;s <em>Pi<\/em> was black and white with like 6 shades of grey and it was captivating; <em>Blair Witch<\/em> was total crap and it scared me silly (shut up, you loved it); and lets not forget a hundred classics and even more movies we all watched on cruddy old TVs before HD. All I&#8217;m saying is, talent trumps technology and I am so through trying to optimize every freaking pixel of screen real estate. There are ten times more codecs out there then there are colours in the entire Prismacolor and Faber-Castell pencil collections combined and &#8211; seriously &#8211; we&#8217;re going through all of this to make <em>Transformers<\/em> look good? The king isn&#8217;t wearing any clothes!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m done with it. <em>The Great Big Emptiness<\/em> or <em>Refrain<\/em> (like it?) or whatever the hell I&#8217;m going to call this thing is going to look like crap. I&#8217;ve decided. And you&#8217;re going to like it, damn it!<\/p>\n<p>Sound quality on the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to say something on the subject of picture quality. Fuck picture quality. Alright&#8230; Not really, really but, y&#8217;know, a little bit. Fuck it a little bit. More like who-gives-a-fuck? it. Listen, I&#8217;m just tired. I&#8217;ve been researching video editing software and the peripherals inherent therein and it&#8217;s just terribly tedious. I so don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}