Why would a former US army sniper have interesting insights into war in Ukraine? Unclear on both what a sniper’s perspective would bring to the discussion and why US army combat xp would be relevant to a war where the US army is not deployed.
A big difference is that the prints degrade and viewing conditions varied greatly. If you were watching Lawrence first run on 70mm print at large theater with the projector lamps cranked it was borderline religious experience. But if you weren’t in a big city and caught the end of the second or third run or a 35mm print with lamps at normal levels 4k on a newer tv is almost certainly better.
Non-special edition Star Wars was also available on VHS from same vintage as LD, but the thx remaster vhs version was best analog version imo. Although I fondly remember the taped off tv vhs versions I grew up watching. Fan versions of theatrical versions are amazing!
IMO website equivalent of this is cinephile forums/trackers. You will get tons of high quality recommendations and find interesting non-mainstream content.
Compounded by moving away from massive dvd back catalog to limited streaming options. Not only are the recommendations worse but there is significantly less for them to recommend.
Penguin was in the UK and they didn’t publish for the US market and weren’t distributed in bookstores until much later.
The article talks about the other publishers in the US doing the same thing at the time. Anchor wasn’t the first to publish ‘quality’ paperbacks, they just had the largest impact on the US publishing industry due to combination of distribution in bookstores, cover design, and catalog curation.
You're right though that this isn't a "perfect example of computational depth of field" as the background leaf looks far enough away where you could have achieved the effect optically on iPhone sensor with right aperature. That being said the blurring does look unnatural to me as it is not even across the background leaf despite similar distance from lens. It's not clear cut though.
> "lofi home recordings with no electronic elements and harmonically complex"
Yielded a bunch of things I would have expected but after 5-6 'dig deeper' clicks there were lots of interesting artists I hadn't heard of before.
> "contemporary classical with no electronic elements and small chamber arrangements"
Lots of interesting results I hadn't heard of before.
> "obscure indie bands associated with Olympia, WA formed in the 1980s"
Very good list. Does the time/location-bound results very well.
I think it's a good companion to sites like RYM as a middle ground between 'best of' ratings lists and personally curated lists.