Big Picture Stuff: Part 2

Published: April 22, 2020, 1:57 p.m.

b'In the olden days of newspapers\\u2014and I\\u2019m talking decades ago\\u2014there was a specific way printing photographs\\u2026photos were given to the printer who copied the picture using a special camera that converted everything to something known as \\u201chalf-tone\\u201d so it could be put in the paper\\u2026\\n\\nIf you looked closely at the resulting picture, you\\u2019d see that it was made up of a pattern of dots\\u2026each one was a different size and proportional to the blackness of the original photo in that particular location of the photograph\\u2026\\n\\nViewed at a distance, it looked like a normal picture\\u2026but if you got up close, all you saw was the dots\\u2026\\n\\nWait\\u2026try this\\u2026have you ever sat up close to a tv?...I mean really close\\u2026so close that you can see the individual pixels\\u2026that\\u2019s kind of cool because you get to see the tiniest components of the video that\\u2019s being broadcast\\u2026\\n\\nBut looking at a pixel or two isn\\u2019t helpful when you\\u2019re actually hoping to understand anything that\\u2019s been broadcast\\u2026you\\u2019re too close\\u2026there\\u2019s no perspective to anything\\u2026\\n\\nSometimes to really understand things, you need to sit back\\u2014waaaaaay back\\u2014in order to perceive things, to understand things, to appreciate things and why they are the way they are\\u2026in other words, you need the big picture\\u2026\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nTo torture this metaphor even more, the same principles can be applied to music before certain things come into focus\\u2026and that\\u2019s what we\\u2019re about to do\\u2026this is part two of a program called \\u201cbig picture stuff\\u201d\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'