> In 1984 a group of Caltech students attempted to repeat and surpass the 1961 hoax by hacking into the Rose Bowl stadium's electronic scoreboard system and posting rogue messages during that years New Year's Day game
> At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton’s supporters planned an arena-wide card stunt. Although it was intended to be a patriotic display of unity, some attendees didn’t want to participate. The result was an unreadable mess that, depressingly, was supposed to spell out “Stronger Together.”
I suspect that, as people get tired of these stunts and just want to watch the event, this will happen more and more frequently.
People only like being bossed around so much. Once the novelty wears off, and the feeling of being part of something larger than oneself wears off, people will start screwing with these shows.
My daughter is into K-pop (Korean pop), and has a BTS (a music group) light stick. Apparently most BTS fans have such a light stick. My daughter even has multiple versions. It has RGB LEDs inside that are controlled over bluetooth by an app. When you buy a concert ticket through this app, and you bring your light stick to the concert, this app controls your light stick as a pixel in the crowd. It knows your seat number, so it knows where "your pixel" is in the crowd. It can produce some really cool looking animations.
Not sure why the continued use of the close ups was used. After the first one showing people holding cards, then maybe a second one to show how they are essentially flipping pages, but after that, the zoomed in totally loses the effect. Same with the close ups of the performers on the field.
The point of these types of performances is not of the individual but the whole. It's a perfect bit of symbolism for communism. Why ruin it by showing the individual cogs of the machine?
> Why ruin it by showing the individual cogs of the machine
Because the individual cogs of the machine is quite interesting. Especially if you are interested in how people behave differently in North Korea compared to the free world.
Besdies: It's Youtube, I'm sure you can find plenty of videos that aren't zoomed in.
I know I've spent my entire life wondering if North Koreans hold up cards differently than the rest of the world. It turns out, nope. They hold them the same way as US football fans.
the fact that their heads all pop up from behind their cards to look for the next cue at the same time was kind of telling on the rehearsed part. could you imagine asking a stadium full of drunk cheese heads to do this?
> The series portrays a fictional past, present and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three sun-like stars orbiting one another, in an example of the three-body problem in orbital mechanics.
>Pictures are very useful when explaining what happens when reducing the total number of colors in an image.
Back in high school, there was a dedicated room for teaching psychology, AP psychology etc
One of my friends found a book in that room's library that was about color perception. The fascinating part: the book had no color and was entirely in black and white. Even the diagrams they had were black and white line drawings.
I always wondered: who sets out to write a purely text book about human color perception?
[1] https://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/rose_bowl_hoax