{"id":785,"date":"2006-12-15T16:54:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2006-12-15T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T16:54:28","slug":"late_friday_reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/15\/late_friday_reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Friday Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of articles that have caught my eye here in the gloaming of a Friday afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/wiredmag\/0,72308-0.html\">brief piece<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtsonline.com\/digital_images\/\">DTS Digital Images<\/a> (formerly Lowry Digital Images), the preeminent movie restoration house in Hollywood. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered who makes those 50-year-old classics look so good on DVD, it&#8217;s these guys.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\nEssentially, technicians scan the original film stock onto the server, then proprietary algorithms figure out what shouldn&#8217;t be onscreen &#8212; scratches, discolorations, dirt, mold &#8212; and digitally remove it, frame by frame. Think of it as an automatic, high-speed Photoshop retoucher.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting trivia note mentioned in the article: the company&#8217;s founder, John Lowry, got his start  with image enhancement when he orked on moon footage from Apollos 16 and 17 back in the early &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<li>Then there&#8217;s the 65-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yc5v43\">Canadian man who has no pulse or measurable blood pressure<\/a> after being fitted with a new type of artificial heart. The device creates a continuous flow of blood instead of the start-and-stop surging of a natural heart. I find this notion both profoundly cool &#8212; this guy could have up to ten years of life he wouldn&#8217;t have gotten otherwise, and I&#8217;d imagine the continuous flow is more efficient than the surging &#8212; and also somehow disturbing. The idea that a pulse and a heartbeat are the fundamental signs of life is so deeply ingrained into the human experience that the idea of <i>not<\/i> having those things and yet continuing to live&#8230; well, it strikes me as a little creepy. An irrational reaction, yes, but there you have it. Interesting article, in any event.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of articles that have caught my eye here in the gloaming of a Friday afternoon:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}