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As I've previously talked about, my working MacBook Pro suffered a casualty: the accelerated video card failed. The solution was to unload all of the accelerate video drivers, which turns it in to a monochrome laptop. Not black & white, but a gray scale laptop. And I'm fine with that. I turned it on earlier this week and tis image came up - in gray scale.
This is the Berlin Olympic Stadium where, in 1934, Jesse Owens, a black man, kicked the cream of Germany butt. Now here's the nasty bit - he was treated better by Hitler than by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hitler liked him because it reinforced his theory of natural selection that Africans were better suited to their environment and it was OK for Owens to beat the Germans at running, it didn't diminish his belief that the Germans were still the master race.
But that's a side story, nothing to do with the photo.
When I started up the damaged laptop and saw what image was the random laptop's wallpaper, my brain said 'that photo looks kinda neat in black & white!' so this morning I took some time to do a little Photoshopping to see what it looks like in B&W, and the results are under the cuts.
As always, clicken to embiggen.
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This is the Berlin Olympic Stadium where, in 1934, Jesse Owens, a black man, kicked the cream of Germany butt. Now here's the nasty bit - he was treated better by Hitler than by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hitler liked him because it reinforced his theory of natural selection that Africans were better suited to their environment and it was OK for Owens to beat the Germans at running, it didn't diminish his belief that the Germans were still the master race.
But that's a side story, nothing to do with the photo.
When I started up the damaged laptop and saw what image was the random laptop's wallpaper, my brain said 'that photo looks kinda neat in black & white!' so this morning I took some time to do a little Photoshopping to see what it looks like in B&W, and the results are under the cuts.
As always, clicken to embiggen.
( Read more... )
