{"id":2345,"date":"2010-06-14T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2010-06-14T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T16:50:30","slug":"on-set-with-audrey-hepburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/on-set-with-audrey-hepburn\/","title":{"rendered":"On Set with Audrey Hepburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we learned this weekend, we&#8217;re not on-the-set, up close and personal fans. We like the silver screen flat and fake.<\/p>\n<p>I will explain.<\/p>\n<p>Our t.v. stopped working last month and we had to make a decision. We still wanted a television in our house, but WHAT KIND? Richard did endless research, took a trip to Costco, and finally bought it on WOOT. (If you are wise you will ignore the name WOOT.\u00a0 Hey, I&#8217;m pretty sure you just Googled it. I can tell. Stop before you start!)<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve entered the high definition world. We pulled out some of our most colorful movies. We watched <em>My Fair Lady<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As I learned, high definition makes you feel you&#8217;re in the same room, but I was surprised by our negative reaction. High definition images rob us of the experience we are looking for in a movie. Truly, we felt like we were on set, but that kind of realism has less escape value than a flat, colorful image of non-reality that we have come to enjoy. It will be something to get used to.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the thing that high definition is good for is a World Cup soccer match. Wow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we learned this weekend, we&#8217;re not on-the-set, up close and personal fans. We like the silver screen flat and fake. I will explain. Our t.v. stopped working last month and we had to make a decision. We still wanted a television in our house, but WHAT KIND? Richard did endless research, took a trip &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/on-set-with-audrey-hepburn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Set with Audrey Hepburn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela","category-richards-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}