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02/20/2012 09:16:22 PM · #626 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Music II - My top picks:
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Why thank you! I really like how this one turned out but I figured I'd get some 1's and some lower scores simply because it doesn't actually show a musical instrument or someone listening to music, but I wanted to try and do something outside the box. |
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02/20/2012 10:19:06 PM · #627 |
Chiming in to post my three favourites.
Outstanding classical take and so humorous and true, the music is in the ears of the beholder, if you keep your eyes wide shut.
An image to remind that our ancestors first heard sounds, then replicated them, then they called the result music just in time for us to forget where it all came from.. Almost..
And an illustration of how complex music can be, and still beautiful. The art and craft of improvisation summarized in a frame.
  
'And the songbirds
keep singing
Like they know the score'
('Songbird', Eva Cassidy)
  
Delirious rambling terminated.
Thanks for the images. |
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02/20/2012 11:00:27 PM · #628 |
| Thx, mcaldo but songbird is by Christine mcvie. |
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02/20/2012 11:13:12 PM · #629 |
[quote=posthumous] Thx, mcaldo but songbird is by Christine mcvie. [/quote
Very true :)
Eva Cassidy was an interpreter more than an author.
But in a few songs has created something a bit different from the original.
With Over the rainbow, quite radically, but with songbird as well.
But if you prefer McVie's version, I can change cd quite readily :)
Beautiful image.
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02/20/2012 11:17:14 PM · #630 |
| Call me stodgy but I'll take mcvie's songbird and Judy's rainbow every time. |
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02/21/2012 12:12:37 AM · #631 |
Fair enough, if a choice has to be made.
But fortunately I don't have to choose, I can still listen to both :)
I know that Eva Cassidy is somewhat overrated, and a great deal of what she covered is a bit cheesy.
But still I think she had some good stuff too. |
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02/21/2012 12:21:45 PM · #632 |
| you're right, we don't have to choose!! I like that ukelele guy's version of over the rainbow. |
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02/21/2012 08:15:47 PM · #633 |
Thanks Don for the Hand, very much honored.
Thanks Niall for the effort to find the most variance of votes on an entry. Interesting. |
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02/21/2012 08:29:37 PM · #634 |
Originally posted by NiallOTuama:
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Sounds cool, but what the heck does it mean (in regards to votes received)? Examples are good. :-) |
Good point. I didn't address that did I :-)
It's sort of a measure of how much the voters agree and disagree about images. The bigger the number the more they disagreed (lots of love, lots of hate, lots of meh, lots of like, lots of varying opinions in general) and the smaller the number the more they agreed about the score. So that's it.
It's a tough thing to do, when it comes to it. Making an image that some will love and some will hate. It's easy to make an images lots will hate, harder to make an image that lots will like, but very tough to split between the two. So this rewards those that do, basically. |
Ok, so you're looking for an inverted bell curve. How do you assign a value to it? |
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02/21/2012 09:15:25 PM · #635 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Originally posted by NiallOTuama:
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Sounds cool, but what the heck does it mean (in regards to votes received)? Examples are good. :-) |
Good point. I didn't address that did I :-)
It's sort of a measure of how much the voters agree and disagree about images. The bigger the number the more they disagreed (lots of love, lots of hate, lots of meh, lots of like, lots of varying opinions in general) and the smaller the number the more they agreed about the score. So that's it.
It's a tough thing to do, when it comes to it. Making an image that some will love and some will hate. It's easy to make an images lots will hate, harder to make an image that lots will like, but very tough to split between the two. So this rewards those that do, basically. |
Ok, so you're looking for an inverted bell curve. How do you assign a value to it? |
Calculate the standard deviation
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02/22/2012 12:21:59 AM · #636 |
Time for more images, not stats. ;)
A to Z
Love
Message edited by author 2012-02-22 00:22:23. |
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02/22/2012 06:32:18 AM · #637 |
astigmatic chaos
Love
 jmritz for
A-Z
 charliebaker for
Message edited by author 2012-02-22 06:50:00.
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02/22/2012 06:38:23 AM · #638 |
Originally posted by bspurgeon:
Time for more images, not stats. ;) |
You're just jealous 'cause you don't have one! :P (though you could retrospectively be awarded 26)
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02/22/2012 09:10:55 AM · #639 |
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02/22/2012 09:19:44 AM · #640 |
That's my problem with the sigma award. A good portion will go to white or black squares. I'm thinking that it should be a little moderated, so that it goes to the real attempts. The first one is definitely warranted. The 2nd.... |
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02/22/2012 09:25:19 AM · #641 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
That's my problem with the sigma award. A good portion will go to white or black squares. I'm thinking that it should be a little moderated, so that it goes to the real attempts. The first one is definitely warranted. The 2nd.... |
Perhaps you have a different appreciation of the white square than others. If you look at the score profile for the white square, it got mostly 1's, but several votes all along the scale...even some 10's. Clearly we have diverse opinions here, let's celebrate that.
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02/22/2012 11:26:19 AM · #642 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
That's my problem with the sigma award. A good portion will go to white or black squares. I'm thinking that it should be a little moderated, so that it goes to the real attempts. The first one is definitely warranted. The 2nd.... |
I was thinking the same. But I think perhaps this should have no human input. But I can see reasons for/against this too.
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02/22/2012 12:38:51 PM · #643 |
Originally posted by NiallOTuama:
Originally posted by vawendy:
That's my problem with the sigma award. A good portion will go to white or black squares. I'm thinking that it should be a little moderated, so that it goes to the real attempts. The first one is definitely warranted. The 2nd.... |
I was thinking the same. But I think perhaps this should have no human input. But I can see reasons for/against this too. |
I vote for no moderation. This is just another way of letting ALL the voters speak. |
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02/22/2012 12:48:42 PM · #644 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
A-Z
charliebaker for
... I'm thinking that it should be a little moderated, so that it goes to the real attempts.... |
Oh dear, Wendy, how do you know what's real? And even the stuff that's not real, actually is real. See Dadaism, etc. If you once draw a line, anywhere, you draw it squarely through the truth: you simply can't miss.
Message edited by author 2012-02-22 12:49:16. |
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02/22/2012 01:47:08 PM · #645 |
Well, I rather like  ubique's response here, to put it all into perspective:
"Originally posted by smardaz:
... he has done this (or something very similar) 28 times previously and this is at least the 4th white one by my observation.
Oh come on, man. Essentially the same handful of tired, boring and mind numbingly artless pictures have won literally hundreds of 'real' DPC ribbons in the past. And the authors weren't even trying to be amusing, so they had no excuse at all."
If we don't quibble with the numbers of the regular voting system on the basis of righteous judgment, why do so here? |
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02/22/2012 02:15:22 PM · #646 |
lots of completely competent "photographers" are technically splendid, and yet lack all soul. To butcher a paraphrase from Ubique, "most people would be better served being less photographic" or perhaps, entering a white or black square once in a while.
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02/22/2012 02:20:16 PM · #647 |
Originally posted by blindjustice:
lots of completely competent "photographers" are technically splendid, and yet lack all soul. To butcher a paraphrase from Ubique, "most people would be better served being less photographic" or perhaps, entering a white or black square once in a while. |
hear hear |
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02/22/2012 02:37:53 PM · #648 |
| Thanks Ben and Niall, much appreciated. |
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02/22/2012 05:25:25 PM · #649 |
Surely the sincerest form of flattery...
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02/24/2012 01:26:39 AM · #650 |
Best of 2011:
Many interesting and adventurous pictures! Here's my top four, which was just 10% of the really good ones:
 for  by mitalapo
for  by posthumous
for  by odriew
for  by  RKT
Best thing about this challenge was that a higher than usual proportion of folks abandoned the banal, the rote, the tedious cliché and the nauseatingly kitsch. And almost all of them ended up at the back of the bus, of course. Bravo! |
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