#Alarming Increase

[tanuandthetriplets]

India's Growing Conjunctivitis Cases | Save Your Babies | Triplet Parenting Stories - Episode - 36

[camelspit]

imagine taking an ap class in foxfire and having class constantly cancelled bc some little horse girl and her boytoy keep shutting it down with explosives and gang wars and whatnot and then by the time you reach the ap exam youre 5 units behind and you dont even have youtube review videos to help you study bc theres no internet. i would join the neverseen.

[msburgundy]

so this is the specific example i was referring to in that other post, a glimpse of a culturally accepted horror that casually slips by like a whale passing under your boat lol

this story i remember from an episode of a music show i watched several years ago. the episode has since been taken off youtube so i don't have the whole thing, but she does reference it again during her actual performance.

the singer, Mun Heeok, says that she is the youngest of 5 children and that her father adamantly did not want her and pressured her mother to abort her. her mother absolutely refused (and if i remember correctly it put a massive strain on their marriage and Heeok's father kind of refused to even acknowledge her for a very long time).

but what really surprised me was that no one else in the room was surprised by that story. especially the women. it was all just like solemnly nodding along like yeah that's just how it is

and you can kinda see that again if you go through the youtube comments on the performance itself. obviously auto-generated translations aren't great but they get the point across most of the time and i looked for quite a while and didn't see any that were reacting to or even acknowledging that part of the story. it's just casually accepted to be like that

when she speaks in the middle of the song she says

어느덧 우리 엄마 여든입니다. 태어나길 반대 했던 저를 낳고 기르느라 참 힘드셨죠 엄마? 아버지께서 하늘나라 가시고 저희 오남매 키우느라 참 고되셨을 텐데. 어쩜 그렇게 내색 한 번 안 해요? 이 은혜를 어떻게 다 갚아요? 속상하게 해서 미안하고 키워줘서 참 고맙고 사랑해 엄마.

"Before I knew it, my mother is already in her 80s. My birth was opposed, but you chose to have and raise me anyway. And things were so difficult because of that, weren't they, Mom? After our father passed away, you must have had a hard time raising five siblings. How did you not show it even once? How could I ever repay you? I'm sorry for making you upset. Thank you so much for keeping me. I love you, Mom."

[atrocitys-reblog-acct]

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[kirexa]

Alarms just fully do not work on the waking me up front so every night I set 30 alarms at max volume with loud sharp songs and pray

[cerullos]

i have little to no interest in the TV albums & obviously agree that the constant repackaging of what is essentially the same content with minor aesthetic changes is a cynical cash grab slash frantic bid to remain in the cultural conversation continuously at all costs, but it is also VERY rich to suggest she isn’t creating…enough art? lmao

[beach4boy3]

Seismic Pallet Rack, Racking, new and used, shelving, cantilever rack (concord / pleasant hill / martinez)

[joyofsaudade]

i like to do a very smart and not at all dumb thing in which i set my headphones down somewhere and immediately forget where i put them and then end up sneaking around my house at 1 in the morning trying not to wake anyone up bc i really want to listen to music before bed

[kissmefriendly]

Is it regular depression or ictal depression. Because if it’s ictal I’m about to be in for the seizure of a lifetime*

*it would last the entirety of it

[whsprings]

last week? two weeks ago? I was in a slump of despair coupled with idgaf and now my brain feels like

so my brain is just throwing random shit at me to freak out about which results in me going "you know what would fix this?? behaviors:):)"

[mysterious-corpse]

exponential…

[snailplush]

guy that returns to tumblr to let everybody know i'm not dead i'm simply chilling just not on tumblr <3

[skyland2703]

Tragic but true, this is my life for the next month.

Open tag!

Let’s play a game

Everyone post the most recent picture in your camera roll. You only get one sentence to justify yourself if you wish. This one is mine.

My boyfriend is rly good at Latin, so I was looking up how to say ‘I love you’ but found this instead :)

Your turn!

@bookmovietvworm

@myfairkatiecat

@i-am-a-fish

@valtsv

[heartxdecay]

WHY do bad things always have to happen to me so close together like I did not NEED the combo of an acquaintance I was attempting to befriend blowing up at me and threatening to kill themselves over them deciding I said something I didn't (fuck being autistic why does everyone assume I'm inferring things when I'm actually NOT) and then my stalker who I haven't seen in about a year suddenly decides to show up at my place of work and ask MY BOYFRIEND if I was there (he lied and said I wasn't but I still caught a glimpse of him so he might have seen me) which lead to me finding out he never actually moved like he said he was going to which means realistically he could go right back to stalking and harassing me any time he wants. In the span of like 3 days. And of course right now we're like 3 weeks away from the big traumaversary time from when I left the cult + this is the midst of when I was reporting aforementioned stalker last year so I'm already constantly on high alert anyway. So now I'm constantly struggling just to stay awake let alone work and I already had to drop out of school and lie to my parents about it because the condition of me living here is remaining in school which means since I'm not they're going to kick me out if they know. So I can't NOT go to school AND not work especially because I'm trying to save as much money as possible in order to move out of this stupid hellhole of a "family" home where I'm constantly used as a third parent for my younger siblings. But I'm so tired all the time from stress keeping me awake at all hours and being completely unable to leave fight or flight mode when awake that I can barely find the energy to move, and my work is extremely tiring. I work retail as a supervisor and I have to deal with my coworkers not doing as much of the workload despite all being full time while I'm part time, none of the people I'm in charge of taking me seriously because I'm either younger than them or the same age as them, regular stress that comes with working retail and dealing with customers, and a management change that is leading to us getting a notoriously rude + perfectionist manager who I have personally seen throw an actual tantrum over having to do his JOB. Which means I can't afford to be tired and grumpy because I have to remain professional and productive. But every time something slightly off happens I want to burst into tears. Nobody there respects me and it's hard enough to handle when I'm NOT dealing with all of this. And of course because God hates me all of this happened when I decided to try to cut back on constantly vaping so after incident #2 I immediately gave up on that and I honestly think I've been going through cartridges FASTER. It's genuinely such a struggle every day to not relapse on self harm or turn to alcoholism and I'm not sure how much longer I can last. Especially because my literal only IRL support system is my boyfriend, because my parents are worth jack shit, my siblings are children, and my only "friend" in person is an objectively terrible human that I only still have around because they were my FP for a really long time and I have a hard time letting go of that relationship (every time I try I end up running back) and I just KNOW that if I even TRY to breach any of this with them they're either going to hit me with an "oof/yikes" and nothing else or spread my PERSONAL shit to everyone they know INCLUDING my extremely abusive ex that they refuse to totally cut contact with because it's "mean". which means I actually have nobody to turn to except the internet friends in my phone who for one aren't online all the time and have lives but two since they're my ONLY SUPPORT SYSTEM I cannot keep dumping everything on them constantly or I'll overwhelm them. Not to mention they have also had to deal with the acquaintance I mentioned at the start because they're actually THEIR friend, not mine, so if anything it's an even bigger deal to them. This leaves me with only my boyfriend who I already feel shitty enough about given the raging BPD.

[sirfrogsworth]

I think in this new age of A.I. the general public is going to need to increase their photography and lighting literacy. The response to this photo has just been a shit show.

There are people pointing out perfectly normal edge lighting and misunderstanding how reflections work.

First the plane is parked at an angle. The tail is farther back than the nose. But also that is a curved surface and it tapers. It's reflecting the area to the right of the photo.

And the bottom of the plane is reflecting what is directly underneath. Which is the tarmac, not the crowd.

It should also be noted that photo was shot with a very telephoto lens and everything is super compressed. The crowd appears much closer to the airplane than they actually are.

But then someone who should have good understanding of lighting said this...

And now I'm worried for her clients. Because that's very... wrong.

Well, wrong-ish.

First, let's try to understand why this photo is setting off some alarm bells.

The crowd toward the rear is in shadow, but they are still very well exposed. But then there is also a bright light source creating a strong edge light on them. Looking at this photo with just the context of what is in it, there are some things that seem uncanny.

The information we do not have is the people in the shadow area are inside a very brightly lit airplane hangar.

So they have artificial light blasting them from the top.

But that light is still much dimmer than the sunlit areas outside so they appear in shade. But we are used to shade being much darker than areas in direct sun. So the balance seems off in our brain. We expect the people to be darker because we don't have the context of the bright hangar lights above them.

But the other issue is that the photo was post processed. It wasn't manipulated. The pixels weren't changed. But the exposure balance was altered.

If I were to guess, the original photo looked more like this...

But newer digital cameras can have 13 to 15 stops of dynamic range. And if you shoot in RAW, you can easily lift shadows and bring down highlights. You can balance the exposure so the dark parts aren't as dark and the bright parts aren't as bright. This photographer might have overdone it a bit in this case, but this is a fairly standard edit used to bring balance to photos.

And lastly, where does the edge light come from?

Edge lighting or backlighting or rim lighting (all the same) should probably be called wrap-around lighting if you want to be more accurate.

It comes from a homogenous light source that is larger than the subject being lit. So with my knife photo, I placed it on a large LED panel light.

The light source was bigger than the subject so it wrapped around the edges.

And I'm afraid the airplane is not nearly large enough to create a light source to wrap around everyone in the crowd. It isn't even reflecting direct sunlight. So I'm sorry to say that lighting designer was mostly mistaken despite the confidence.

The light source is... everything.

That entire red area I highlighted is the light source.

As well as everything above and everything to the sides.

And the biggest aspect of that light source would be the sky above. I think people always forget the sky is a light source. If you are seeing blue, you are seeing light. And I guess the plane is included in that, but that entire highlighted red area is so bright, and so filled with sunlight bouncing around, that it creates basically a giant softbox. It becomes a huge single light source for the people in the hangar.

If you look at footage taken from way inside the hangar, you can see the camera adjusting exposure for the crowd inside, but look at what happens to the sunlit area outside.

What does that look like?

A giant softbox.

A single homogenous light source blasting light inside the hangar.

The sun is so incredibly bright that even when it is not directly lighting something, the light just bouncing around outside is enough to overpower the very bright hangar lights.

So, what have we learned from this?

Perhaps people should hire me to be their lighting designer.

Though I'm sure she is actually very talented. She seems to work with stage lights and this is more physics and photography.

Phystography.

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

Waking up before your alarm is so weird because you’ll be getting ready putting on your pants or something and then that bitch goes off and activates some fight or flight instinct and you have to go over and shut the thing off before your heart rate goes down