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Miklos Suba

According to Grace Glueck (recently departed the Times because...why again, exactly?), Miklos Suba was a minor Precisionist whose specialty was Brooklyn cityscapes rendered fairly scrupulously. He wasn't a fantasist by any means. So what could have been happening in this picture, which will be shown at James Graham & Sons next month? Did buildings like this exist in 1929? Was the artist clairvoyant? These purplish towers could be the monster glass vanity projects lumbering into present-day Brooklyn.

- tom moody 2-16-2007 9:43 pm [link] [5 comments]



A 2 MB GIF built from screen-captured stills of the image in the previous post is here. It's only 16 frames so not as complex, but it moves faster and might give Safari users an idea of what the grid looks like in Firefox/Netscape/IE. As I understand it Safari, alone among browsers, does not load animated GIFs in sync, so you get random clumps of synchronization depending on which GIFs load first. This would not be a desirable effect here. Safari also fuzzes out GIFs when you use HTML to scale them up, under the assumption that the only imagery ever used on the Web is photography, which benefits from smoothing. Why do Steve Jobs' designers hate lo-fi artists?

- tom moody 2-15-2007 9:04 pm [link] [2 comments]