December 24, 2003: Guggenheim
I went uptown to check out the Neue Galerie on 86th Street- I'm a big fan of Egon Schiele and they have a bunch of his drawings on the second floor. Afterwards, I wandered up to the Guggenheim to take a few pictures- unfortunately, they had a James Rosenquist show up, and I find his art abhorrently tedious.
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werd. mike and i suffered through that one. it was like massively-sized bad photoshopping. i liked the little magazine mock-up grids that he did for prep tho.
here's a weird photoshop question: look closely at the images above- do you notice the jaggy edges along the curved walls? i thought that i had just optimized on the wrong setting (normally i use jpg high), but when i redid them, the problem remained. my next thought was that i had somehow fucked up the image size- like resampled on the wrong setting, but then i realized that it was still set on bicubic. now i think it might just be an issue with photoshop- like in a 450px wide image, it just can't give me a smooth looking curve from such a large image. but that's weird, isn't it?
It's not photoshop, the curves look fine in Photoshop. Your problem is with your HTML code -- your images are 450x338 and your HTML is coded at 450x310 for some odd reason. So the browser is forced to render the images squished and therefore produces the jaggedness... Right now every image on your front page is coded at 450x310, but go ahead and check the image size in photoshop, none of your photos are at 450x310.... You just don't notice it on the other photos, but everything is squished. Look at the collar of your t-shirt, for example, that's "jaggy" too...
idiot does not begin to describe me! i copied the code for the images wrong- thanks for the help!
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