Urgent help needed - where to find a bokeh at short notice.

[jbidarra]

Stephen, the book "Making Sense of Wine" that you can fin in Amazon has a chapter about "Bouquet". If you try the wines

he recommends, you will end up seeing everything with a smooth "Bokeh". That's what we call a learning experience, trust

me.

[Matt Laur]

Stephen: Just pick up a copy of <i>Guns, Germs and Steel</i>. It's an interesting study of cultural evolution

throughout history, and provides insight into the ways that natural resources, climate, and other factors have

propelled certain peoples, and geographies into the technological forefront and the resulting prosperity.

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As the author clearly establishes, the single most important factor in the evolution of an advanced culture is the

availability of easily mined bokeh. Obviously, the Germans and Japanese have enormous natural bokeh reserves, and

have developed highly specialized subcultures of bokeh refinement and use in the technological arts. During the great

Bokeh Phase of the Industrial Revolution, these two countries turned into optical powerhouses, and were able to not

only make great telescopes, but also gave birth to the cult of Rangerfinderism. This secret society's influence on the

graphic arts and journalism is now the primary factor in determining the course of international relations and the

global economy.

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You've heard of the Illiuminati? What, you didn't think that had to do with lighting? And that pyramid with what looks

like a shining eye on the back of the US currency? Nope: that's just The Speedlight Of Justice. Even the mysterious

Masons use the ancient symbol of the Pentaprism. See, if you just read some history, this all becomes clear. A

handful of rich families are now entirely in charge of the international bokeh supply. The Von Tiffens, especially. Their

spokesperson ("Lex" somebody - I can never remember his last name) pretends to agitate against the importance of

this valuable, but horded resource, but we see right through his disengenuous anti-bokeh propoganda. When he says

that we can switch to entirely wind- and solar-powered out of focus areas in our portraits within ten years, don't

believe him. He's really a stooge for the bokeh refinement industry.

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Anyway, have a happy Labor Day!

[iliafarniev]

If it keep go this bad someone may drop and get his HDR broken.

[samn]

If anyone needs to pass wind, it is not Lex, but Matt, and he does it with much bokeh. :0)

[bruce_mattes]

HOLY BOKEH, BOKEHMAN!..

[graham_marsden]

Of course, in real photography days of light-proof bags, film, developer and things, lost bokeh was no problem.

<IMG SRC="http://mars.walagata.com/w/radiogandy/Icons/befehl.gif"> Whoever found it would return it instantly to

your cave having taken the trouble to blur the edges for you so it no longer looked like accidental bits of

lens-flare.

[phyrpowr]

Les Berkley nailed it: go to the Leica forum, and bum a cupful. They're all full of it

[lex_jenkins]

all ur bokeh r belong 2 us.<div></div>

[Matt Laur]

Mmm. It's like a slice of Lemon Meme-ringue Pie.

[matthijs]

I've heard that you can get perfect bokeh with photoshop.

[savagesax]

Da forka lift bokeh my bigga lenz....<div></div>

[tomwatt]

If I were in need of a bokeh, I think the local florists' shop ought to be able to whip up a quick one at a modest price. No one has mentioned any problems with their bokeh wilting yet... am I the only one? Is Cialis the proper fix?

[stp]

I think that's my son on the forklift. Seriously. He sent it to me many months ago (Current TV).

 

Per your advice, I'm reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" while drinking large quantities of wine, and the concept of bokeh is

becoming more and more fuzzy. Eureka!

[michael_dimarzio]

Lex, did you let Matt off his shock collar?

 

When I take ff my glasses, the world is a broken bokeh.

[lex_jenkins]

Matt cannot be collared, shackled or constrained. With his logical rhetoric he could talk his way out of Dante's Inferno without a scuff. When the Perpendicular Kingdom arrives he will be Minister of Information.

[Matt Laur]

Wow, I missed that memo, Lex. I'm going to have to change my vacation plans.

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I look forward to being The Right Honorable and Right Angular Mr. Laur, M.O.I.

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Speaking of Dante's Inferno, I actually <i>did</i> talk my way out of reading that in a class, and instead spent a few weeks deconstructing C.S. Lewis. That took some Hideous Strength, let me tell you. I should have stuck with Dante.