#field's

[shopperwithattitude]

Winkeluitje in Field's winkelcentrum in Kopenhagen

28.12.2023

ShopperWithAttitude (SWA) was gisteren op bezoek in het grootste winkelcentrum van Denemarken: Field's. Dit winkelcentrum kwam helaas vorig jaar om een minder prettige reden in het nieuws, namelijk een schietpartij.

Het winkelcentrum is zeer goed bereikbaar met de moderne volautomatische Kopenhaagse metro. Uitstappen bij station Ørestad.

Het gebouw ziet er van buiten niet zo fraai uit. Op bovenstaande foto zie je de entree.

Van binnen ziet het er beter uit, en het winkelcentrum telt maar liefst 150 winkels op 115000 vierkante meter.

Het zit uiteraard vol met ketens, zoals Sportmaster,

Sport 24,

JD Sports,

Footlocker,

Imerco, een Deense huishoudzaak met veel servies,

Normal, tegenwoordig ook in Nederland bekend,

Jysk, ook in Nederland aanwezig,

Elgiganten, een electronica winkel,

de Deense ijszaak Paradis,

de koffieketen Espresso House,

en de supergrote supermarkt Bilka. Deze is minstens even groot als Kaufland in Duitsland, en verkoopt net als Kaufland veel non-food artikelen, naast levensmiddelen.

Daarom noemen ze het ook een One Stop shop.

Bilka kent veel afdelingen: vers, eten, drank, non-food, enz.

SWA is dol op allerlei lekkernijen van Anthon Berg. Zoals hier op de foto koekjes met marsepein, chocolade, vruchten en zelfs een vleugje alcohol.

Den Gamle Fabrik produceert zeer lekkere marmelade, die op een eigen wijze worden bereid (het fruit wordt niet gekookt, waardoor de smaak beter behouden wordt). SWA ontdekte op een gegeven moment de sinaasappel-mandarijn smaak, en die is wel heel lekker.

Jaren geleden ontdekte SWA ook de mini-schildpadden, kikkers en andere lekkere chocolade met vullingen.

Läkerol pastilles komen uit Zweden, en worden vaak genomen voor een frisse adem. Bij Bilka is de keuze aan smaken erg groot.

In het Field's winkelcentrum wordt de inwendige mens niet vergeten. Er zijn diverse horecagelegenheden om iets te nuttigen.

En boven is er ook een aparte food lounge, zoals ze het daar noemen.

Magasin du Nord is een beroemd warenhuis in Denemarken, en in dit winkelcentrum heeft het ook een filiaal.

Vanaf de roltrappen heb je een mooi overzicht over verschillende verdiepingen.

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[heylsgowt]

[technovillain]

i come from the universe where everything is the same except disney heroines get like an ounce of their fathers' obviously dominant genes and their clothes are like 80% more historically accurate. it's beautiful here.

[2] [3]

[therealstacyfakename]

Something about the pacing and editing of this bit when he just kept saying 3 really scratched my brain

[jodielandons]

NOAH LYLES pulls out the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Exodia the Forbidden One Yu-Gi-Oh! cards before winning all of his 100m races at the 2024 Olympic trials

[goryhorroor]

imma say something controversial but found footage horror when done by people with a gigantic budget suck. found footage horror has and will always belong to amateur horror directors with their cheap camera, friends as their actors, and some random location

[great-and-small]

Apparently the local university’s undergraduate entomology course sends students to catch insect specimens at the same place I like to go birdwatching, which explains why I saw three enormous frat looking dudes with tiny bug nets and overheard one emphatically say “bro BRO I told you we already have enough lepidopterans”

[vangoghcore]

by ryanresatka

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

actually i love the reveal that the only reason effie got involved with the hunger games at all was because her little sister needed her.

[389]

sinkhole in Illinois, 2024

[sirfrogsworth]

How do you take a photo of time?

I've been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We'd gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.

It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.

Several heroes emerged.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.

You can't forget about Flo-Jo.

And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.

Which formed... The Dream Team.

Was this fair?

Well... they won each game by an average of 44 points.

So... no. It was not fair.

Though it became more fair as time went on.

But, umm... yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.

But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.

He was cool as heck.

For one thing... gold shoes.

But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.

And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn't even close.

Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.

Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.

It didn't even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.

After I saw that initially, I was like... who the heck won???

Even in slow motion I wasn't sure.

This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.

The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.

The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big "Wooooo!"

I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.

And that's when my inner nerd took over.

Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.

Why is the track white?

Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?

So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.

Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren't used until 1937.

Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.

And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.

But we have come a long way since then. And I'd like to introduce you to the Omega Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate.

This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.

Only the finish line itself is actually captured.

And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 40,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.

So why don't the photo finishes just look like, well... this?

That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.

As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.

It's almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.

Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.

What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn't move... what would that look like?

Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.

So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.

NEAT!

Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?

I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!

Clavicles!

The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.

So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.

Two more fun facts!

The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.

The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.

They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn't actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.

And the final fun fact...

Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?

That isn't superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.

But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?

That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.

So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.

Pretty clever, Omega!

[heylsgowt]

[petitworld]

Oishi Park, Fujikawaguchiko, Japan by Masami Shirai

[duckysprouts]

brain chemistry changed from no longer you and monster btw