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The L is the elevated train system in Chicago and many films have been filmed underneath it’s tracks, including some scenes in Batman, The Dark Knight. Here’s the L under Kimball on the brown line. I worked close by a few years ago!
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Today was the gay pride parade in Belfast. Of course there were some bible bashers out to protest the gay rights protesters, though I had never seen such blatent bashing of bibles.
Its fascinating to see such open and public acceptance of the gay, lesbian and bi community in Northern Ireland, so known for its segregation and conflict between communities. The streets of the City centre were lined with spectators who screamed, applauded and yelled as the parade and its participants walked along the route from Custom House Square around the City Hall and back to the Square where there was a stage and “gay” music (I can’t stand ABBA).
There were thousands of people from all around showing their support and generally having a great time. This years parade was also so much bigger than last year. Many were also protesting the recent remarks from Strangford MP, Iris Robinson, who stated on an interview on the Stephen Nolan show that “I’m happy to put any homosexual in touch with [psychiatrist] and I have met people who have turned around and become heterosexuals.”
Of course there were also plenty of religious protesters with their banners, bibles and words of anger. Surely its harder to get angry about something if you just stay at home and mind your own business?
Although not gay myself, I fully support those who wish to express their sexuality as they see fit.
As usual, more photos on flickr
I had heard that most browsers don’t manage colours correctly, but until just the other day I hadn’t noticed it just as much as I have.
As I was previewing my next entry on my photoblog, I noticed the tomatoes in the photograph weren’t in fact red. They were orange. Why oh why is this true. It’s the result of colour management.
Colour mangement is the controlled conversion between the colour representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printers, offset presses, and corresponding media - wikipedia.
This is something I have been looking into a lot recently, especially since my MacBookPro purchase where I have noticed many differences in my photos between the Mac, my external monitor, and Windows. It seems as though it is impossible for images to appear exactly the same through all applications, as no two applications deal with colour the same, let alone the hardware itself.
Here is a snapshot of the tomato in question. The one of the left is viewed in Firefox 3 (colour management off) and the one on the right is through Safari, which has colour management by on default. Of course if you do view this in Safari, they should both look the same, or at least similar. Red at least.
Indeed Firefox3 has colour management built in, but it has to be turned on. Hopefully they have done this as a way of testing it before turning it on by default in future releases. To turn on colour management in Firefox3:
You can check your browser’s colour management by going to this page. There is also this page, which has some quite in depth tutorials on the topic, almost too indepth. Someday I will understand it. Feel free to share your knowledge on the topic if you can help me understand.
The fact that these super-red tomatoes will actually be seen by some as orange is a little saddening. So I urge you to turn on colour management on FF3, stay away from IE or use Safari. It isn’t something that can be prevented, unless I put a disclaimer at the top of site (”all images will appear different to you unless you are nerd-enough to think about colour management”).
I was told recently to stay away from this topic, “its evil” he said. He isn’t wrong. I’ve not even hit the tip of any iceberg. I fear there may be more.
