Posts Tagged ‘Photograph’

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Mistaken

by Seraphine Khorana on September 14th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Mistaken

I’m trying a new image format for today’s comic– a format that employs lossless data compression called png (portable network graphics) instead of my usual jpeg graphic. I think almost everyone can view the png format, unless you are using an obscure or very old browser. Let me know how you like it. Do you have any trouble seeing my comic? Does it take too long to load? Can you tell the difference?

PNG is considered a better choice than JPEG for storing images that contain text, line art, or other images with sharp transitions. Where an image contains both sharp transitions and photographic parts, a choice must be made between the large but sharp PNG and a small JPEG with artifacts around sharp transitions.
Quotation from Wikipedia.

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Fountaingrove Winery: Part 1

by Seraphine Khorana on February 6th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Fountaingrove Winery: Part 1

The Fountaingrove Winery was established in 1875 in Sonoma County (California) by Thomas Lake Harris. Harris believed he was chosen by God to grow grapes and to make rare wine “filled with the divine breath.” He also believed himself to be immortal. The winery became home to the Brotherhood of the New Life, a “cult” that believed God is bisexual and that each person has a counterpart in heaven. Harris expected complete surrender from his disciples, including the surrender of all their their material wealth to him. He was eventually, perhaps predictably, forced to leave the winery after a sordid sexual scandal. When he died in 1906, his followers earnestly declared he was only “sleeping.” The winery closed in 1934. A fire destroyed about half of the remaining ruins in 1991. Today, the winery is mostly visited by local teens who like to get loaded and spray colorful graffiti.

Give me a severely dilapidated building, some broken bottles and cryptic graffiti, and I’m pretty much mentally and emotionally revitalized.
Quotation from Gabe Meline, The Fountaingrove Winery

Although the sun shone high and strong, I got a serious case of the heebie jeebies. I kept expecting to see ragged, misty faces looking at me through the cracked window panes. I love that feeling.
Quotation from Leilani Clark, Ghosts in Our Midst

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Why is it in photographs?

by Seraphine Khorana on July 5th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Why is it in photographs?

People who think they don’t photograph well have nobody to blame other than themselves. There is an art to looking good in front of the camera. That is why models are told to practice their poses in front of a mirror. Practice makes perfect.

The queen was the most beautiful woman in all the land, and very proud of her beauty. She had a mirror, which she stood in front of every morning, and asked:
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?
And the mirror always said:
You, my queen, are fairest of all.
And then she knew for certain that no one in the world was more beautiful than she.
Quotation from Wilhelm Grimm, Little Snow White

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Part 6: Actual Photograph of a Possible Alien

by Seraphine Khorana on January 26th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Part 6: Actual Photograph of a Possible Alien

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Aliens from space truly exist. They drop to earth from spacecraft
(referred to as UFOs) as tiny “spores” in much the same way as
mushrooms release spores. These plant-like, cellulose spores find a
human host and sit dormant for an undetermined time. Eventually,
something triggers the spores to become active (people have described
the feeling as “crawling bugs” under their skin). They break through the skin
forming horrible lesions that never heal. Eventually, the aliens poke through
the epidermis in the form of small plant-like fibers called Morgellons.
Diagnosis: Morgellons Disease
Symptoms: Bad teeth, black, tarry beads of sweat, brain fog, decreased
vision, disfigured appearance, fatigue, hair loss, joint pain, lesions, oozing,
sleeplessness, and confusion. There is no cure.

Sources:
Live Science article: Mystery Disease Makes Peoples’ Skin Crawl
World Net Daily article: OUTBREAK! Mystery disease hits South Texas
The Morgellons Skin Pathogen Foundation
Actual photos of the Morgellons among us

Thousands of people are infected by Morgellons. In the United States, most victims of this alien invasion are located in California, Texas and Florida. Those states account for the majority of UFO sightings in North America. Coincidence? No.

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