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After a few sleepless nights (few? yes! see the title, please), here I am, again in the nearest cyber cafe from my studio at Thessaloniki, Greece. I have just submitted an assignment very close to the deadline. What’s more is that the assignment is the only assignment of the module, and the module is a coursework module. So, to cut this unintelligible story short, to pass the module I would have to succeed in doing the assignment, the only assignment. See the importance of this assignment? Continue reading →

Sometimes when we take digital pictures, we wished that some objects dissapear and not interfering with the ones that we want to shoot. But more than sometimes, we can do nothing to physically remove the distraction. Of course, we can always edit the resulting file, but for me who do not have Adobe Photoshop, only Gimpshop (and definitely not expert on either), editing pictures other than resizing, rotating, and cropping seemed quite a hassle.

I will give you a set of three pictures, taken at Pasar Seni ITB in September 2006. The pictures show some part of Plaza Widya and Labtek VII ITB (School of Pharmacy). Plaza Widya was heavily decorated for the Pasar Seni, and Labtek VII stood with all its glorious roof (for those who are not familiar with ITB, the roof of some of its building look just like this one, and become a sort of unique identity). Just by looking at the thumbnails, you can see that these pictures are similar, if not the same. But trust me, they are in a way different. Here we go.

The first picture is 640 x 480 in size. The sky looked beautiful, and the plastic tubes decoration seemed … well, interesting. Nothing seemed strange, only interesting. If you ask me what is the focus of the picture, go ahead and pick any object, I am not a professional photographer and this is one of the pictures I took, the rest of the world should live with that. Moving on to the second one.

The second picture looked like the first one but with a smaller resolution. This one is a 512 x 384 picture, quite small if you have a 1280 x 768 or larger screen resolution. Nothing too fancy either, just smaller size. Moving on to the last picture of the set.

But when you look at this one, you will see that the first two pictures are not what they look like. This original picture of the previous two has two cables or ropes for the plastic tubes decoration dangling around, making distractions in the picture. Continue reading →