Bokeh; did you know?

NB23 · Oct 20, 2022

Did you know that the word Bokeh actually means “Crutch”?

And it also means “I’m insecure”.

In what language? If someone asks you who told you that, just tell them I did.

jvo · Oct 23, 2022

Respectfully, are you an etymologist? interested amateur, expert? Happened to come across a history of the word? find it in you funk and wagnalls? Noted researcher who uncovers meaning and origins of words?

Some folks have questioned my "reasoning" lately. I can't even say "Ralph told me", and a bit hesitant to identify NB23, (from the planet Zorgon?), as the basis for the redefinition.

AZD · Oct 23, 2022

It was probably the Urban Dictionary. In any case, I find his definition perfectly cromulent.

MattKing · Oct 23, 2022

A crutch is something that adds movement to the life of someone/thing that was formerly rendered immobile. Sounds fine to me.

Cholentpot · Oct 23, 2022

I shoot everything wide open. I'm open minded.

Helge · Oct 23, 2022

This is OG bokeh.
Literally.
Kind of helps direct the gaze, hmm?

AgX · Oct 23, 2022

Graphic is by Kitano Tsunetomi from 1929.

Steven Lee · Oct 23, 2022

@NB23 I have the same dictionary on my bookshelf. Let's see...

"3D pop" - the popping sound of a marketing bubble bursting
"tonality" - pompous expression for liking a random image
"scanning" - mysterious witchcraft worthy of burning a stranger for
"lens rendering" - random combination of optical defects for masking mediocre compositions
"leica" - test target for practicing product photography on a smartphone

Cholentpot · Oct 23, 2022

OP is a troll. OP posts option slanted towards argument and ghosts.

OP is a vermicious knid.

lecarp · Oct 23, 2022

Cholentpot said:
OP is a troll. OP posts option slanted towards argument and ghosts.

OP is a vermicious knid.

Maybe Op suffers from logorrhea?

Cholentpot · Oct 23, 2022

lecarp said:
Maybe Op suffers from logorrhea?

I suspect OP may be a Hornsnozzler.

jvo · Oct 23, 2022

"stupidity got us into this mess, stupidity will get us out."

gone · Oct 23, 2022

jvo said:
"stupidity got us into this mess, stupidity will get us out."

Good thing it's election time in the states. Plenty of stupidity there for everyone. Free, never a charge.

Helge · Oct 23, 2022

AgX said:
Graphic is by Kitano Tsunetomi from 1929.

Viva la reverse image search.

Gradated backgrounds and transitioning swaths of colour has been a part of Japanese and indeed Chinese painting and woodblock prints for a long, long time.
That is the original pictorial bokeh.

Bokeh is haze and fog. Both of the physical and optical kind, but also of the mental kind, which I suspect the OP to be afflicted by and possibly trying to pass on.

Cholentpot · Oct 24, 2022

momus said:
Good thing it's election time in the states. Plenty of stupidity there for everyone. Free, never a charge.

Freedom is a double edged blade. We're free to be stupid and by gord we'll exercise that right!

NB23 · Oct 24, 2022

Cholentpot said:
OP is a troll. OP posts option slanted towards argument and ghosts.

OP is a vermicious knid.

Your Construct of who NB23 might, or might not be, is your own.
Your analysis of what NB23’s intent might, or might not be, is but a mere reflection of your own personnality and perception of the world, of which NB23-the-one does not particularly care.

But Bokeh, let’s discuss

Sirius Glass · Oct 24, 2022

Can bokeh be fixed?

Cholentpot · Oct 24, 2022

NB23 said:
Your Construct of who NB23 might, or might not be, is your own.
Your analysis of what NB23’s intent might, or might not be, is but a mere reflection of your own personnality and perception of the world, of which NB23-the-one does not particularly care.

But Bokeh, let’s discuss

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Bokeh, it's all a blur.

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