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		<title>By: Bookburn</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-866050</link>
		<dc:creator>Bookburn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I live in internet humiliation.</description>
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		<title>By: ROSSINDETROIT</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865284</link>
		<dc:creator>ROSSINDETROIT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m surprised nobody has suggested the Pauli Exclusion Principle as an explanation.  If the atoms in the monitor screen are spin polarized the mean free path of a particle...
Wait...  Speed of light... Nope, I got nothin&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m surprised nobody has suggested the Pauli Exclusion Principle as an explanation.  If the atoms in the monitor screen are spin polarized the mean free path of a particle&#8230;<br />
Wait&#8230;  Speed of light&#8230; Nope, I got nothin&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Matt Deckard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt Deckard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that the bigger problem on BoingBoing is actually &lt;i&gt;due&lt;/i&gt; to their aggressive moderation policy where posts don&#039;t make it onto the comments page immediately. User posts seem to take a few minutes and anonymous posts take even longer. It&#039;s not that people aren&#039;t bothering to read others&#039; comments before posting - it&#039;s that they never even get the chance to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that the bigger problem on BoingBoing is actually <i>due</i> to their aggressive moderation policy where posts don&#8217;t make it onto the comments page immediately. User posts seem to take a few minutes and anonymous posts take even longer. It&#8217;s not that people aren&#8217;t bothering to read others&#8217; comments before posting &#8211; it&#8217;s that they never even get the chance to.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865798</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Night setting on the digital camera -- image captured brightly illuminated kid on the left with eyes closed in mid-blink and shutter stays open longer to capture dark areas like the reflection off the TV during which time the kid had completed blinking and now has his eyes open. The human eye would have seen the TV screen as dark when viewing the entire scene, the camera kept its shutter open longer to capture more light from the dark areas. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Night setting on the digital camera &#8212; image captured brightly illuminated kid on the left with eyes closed in mid-blink and shutter stays open longer to capture dark areas like the reflection off the TV during which time the kid had completed blinking and now has his eyes open. The human eye would have seen the TV screen as dark when viewing the entire scene, the camera kept its shutter open longer to capture more light from the dark areas. </p>
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		<title>By: Ugly Canuck</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-866054</link>
		<dc:creator>Ugly Canuck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Upon reflection, I think the most likely explanation is a mechanical one, relating to the way the camera used &quot;builds the image&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Upon reflection, I think the most likely explanation is a mechanical one, relating to the way the camera used &#8220;builds the image&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: bardfinn</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865287</link>
		<dc:creator>bardfinn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s a reflection: The child&#039;s hand in the reflection stops at the television border&#039;s reflection.

It&#039;s a rolling shutter effect of a CCD / CMOS image sensor being polled sequentially by the controller.

Though I am intrigued by ian_b&#039;s explanation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a reflection: The child&#8217;s hand in the reflection stops at the television border&#8217;s reflection.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a rolling shutter effect of a CCD / CMOS image sensor being polled sequentially by the controller.</p>
<p>Though I am intrigued by ian_b&#8217;s explanation.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Technically, the picture was not all taken at the same time. Some cameras scan left to right. It is the same reason this happens:

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/13/cheap-camera-interesting-shot/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Technically, the picture was not all taken at the same time. Some cameras scan left to right. It is the same reason this happens:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/13/cheap-camera-interesting-shot/" rel="nofollow">http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/13/cheap-camera-interesting-shot/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The same picture appeared in Gizmodo. From reading the comments, it appears that the Boing-Boing readers found a possible solution much faster (CMOS rolling shutter) and had more inteligent comments overall.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The same picture appeared in Gizmodo. From reading the comments, it appears that the Boing-Boing readers found a possible solution much faster (CMOS rolling shutter) and had more inteligent comments overall.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is a distortion effect, related to both a slight change in angle, and the darker reflection.

The reflected image is a slight degree off the line needed for a perfect mirror (the top of the cabinet seems to be angling slightly down and away), so you&#039;re getting a slight bit more of a view from under the eyes (perhaps more lashes visible?).  Then, the overall reflected image is slightly darker, and the color registration is different, making darker areas look larger (or more shadowed).  Note how the light in the reflected window is more blue than the light from the window itself.  It may be the blue wash that seems to saturate the reflection at some level.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a distortion effect, related to both a slight change in angle, and the darker reflection.</p>
<p>The reflected image is a slight degree off the line needed for a perfect mirror (the top of the cabinet seems to be angling slightly down and away), so you&#8217;re getting a slight bit more of a view from under the eyes (perhaps more lashes visible?).  Then, the overall reflected image is slightly darker, and the color registration is different, making darker areas look larger (or more shadowed).  Note how the light in the reflected window is more blue than the light from the window itself.  It may be the blue wash that seems to saturate the reflection at some level.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-871690</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How mean to put his twin bro in the Telly.</description>
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		<title>By: pjcamp</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865803</link>
		<dc:creator>pjcamp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s easy.

Photoshop.

Note how the secondary reflections (the reflection in the monitor of the reflection in the stove) are not quite positioned the same. That is physically impossible. An image of an image has to be located at the corresponding point.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s easy.</p>
<p>Photoshop.</p>
<p>Note how the secondary reflections (the reflection in the monitor of the reflection in the stove) are not quite positioned the same. That is physically impossible. An image of an image has to be located at the corresponding point.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The image on the monitor is being captured by a second camera and the two aren&#039;t in sync.</description>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hertz of television make it so</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hertz of television make it so</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That doesn&#039;t explain it.  The reflective surface is not angled so that it is picking up the entire scene--you only see the front of the range skirt, too.  If you draw that imaginary line up the left side of the image, you can see that the range hood would not be there, because it ends in the middle cabinet and the reflection only shows the one on the end.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That doesn&#8217;t explain it.  The reflective surface is not angled so that it is picking up the entire scene&#8211;you only see the front of the range skirt, too.  If you draw that imaginary line up the left side of the image, you can see that the range hood would not be there, because it ends in the middle cabinet and the reflection only shows the one on the end.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eu acredito que a pessoa tirou a foto do menino com os olhos fechados e editou no fotoshop para ganhar publicidade e/ou varias pessoas tentando descobrir como isso poderia acontecer, para mim teorias sobre esquerda e direita significam que vocÃªs sÃ£o burros &#039;-&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eu acredito que a pessoa tirou a foto do menino com os olhos fechados e editou no fotoshop para ganhar publicidade e/ou varias pessoas tentando descobrir como isso poderia acontecer, para mim teorias sobre esquerda e direita significam que vocÃªs sÃ£o burros &#8216;-&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: andigopow</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865558</link>
		<dc:creator>andigopow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>when you click on and enlarge the photo it&#039;s obvious his eyes are open on the TV screen.

The 666 on his head is a little trickier to see, however.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>when you click on and enlarge the photo it&#8217;s obvious his eyes are open on the TV screen.</p>
<p>The 666 on his head is a little trickier to see, however.</p>
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		<title>By: Raine</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865817</link>
		<dc:creator>Raine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have read every comment and have come to the conclusion that the only plausible possibility is the evil twin who lives in the tv.</description>
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		<title>By: funkyderek</title>
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		<dc:creator>funkyderek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s a really simple explanation. Obviously, Luke cloned his son and built an elaborate faux-kitchen with a tinted screen designed to look like a television, and then set up the photo we see above.
Then he realised he didn&#039;t want pictures of his half-naked son (or his clone) on the internet so he photoshopped in a different child (and his clone).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a really simple explanation. Obviously, Luke cloned his son and built an elaborate faux-kitchen with a tinted screen designed to look like a television, and then set up the photo we see above.<br />
Then he realised he didn&#8217;t want pictures of his half-naked son (or his clone) on the internet so he photoshopped in a different child (and his clone).</p>
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		<title>By: RedOutBDB</title>
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		<dc:creator>RedOutBDB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What I would really like to know is whether or not he still laughs so enthusiastically when his dad says &quot;boing&quot;: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I would really like to know is whether or not he still laughs so enthusiastically when his dad says &#8220;boing&#8221;: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
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		<description>I&#039;m guessing that the image on the television is not a reflection but instead a live feed of the image being captured by the camera.  The delay involved with capturing / encoding / transmitting / decoding / displaying is more than enough to account for the delay of a blink.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m guessing that the image on the television is not a reflection but instead a live feed of the image being captured by the camera.  The delay involved with capturing / encoding / transmitting / decoding / displaying is more than enough to account for the delay of a blink.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it&#039;s perfectly clear to everyone that this kid is possessed, right?</description>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
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		<description>All I want to know is how I hire this kid to make Sunday morning breakfasts at my house...</description>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
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		<description>First off, it doesn&#039;t. they are closed in both. If it did appear in any way that his eyes where open, it&#039;s because the tv is a few inches to the right of the camera lense. This means that the angle from the camera and the tv reflection are off just a bit. Enough that you can see more of his face by a few centimeters. Since you can see more, the eyelashes are more apparent. since it&#039;s a reflection, it&#039;s easy to mistake the eyelashes as the pupils of his eyes. that is, if the pupils are at the bottom of his eye socket, instead of in the middle, like when they would be open.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First off, it doesn&#8217;t. they are closed in both. If it did appear in any way that his eyes where open, it&#8217;s because the tv is a few inches to the right of the camera lense. This means that the angle from the camera and the tv reflection are off just a bit. Enough that you can see more of his face by a few centimeters. Since you can see more, the eyelashes are more apparent. since it&#8217;s a reflection, it&#8217;s easy to mistake the eyelashes as the pupils of his eyes. that is, if the pupils are at the bottom of his eye socket, instead of in the middle, like when they would be open.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The subject blinked.  This could have been taken using a camera with a slit scan shutter, like an iPhone, or even a conventional focal plane shutter found in digital SLRs.  The shutter gap travels vertically in an SLR.  The camera was held portrait style, therefore the gap was traveling horizontally.  

It would be interesting to see the EXIF data.  The complete absence of IPTC and EXIF data is either a normal BB procedure, or done deliberately by the submitter.

The sky through the window is blown out, but the tree is visible, the tree is mostly in focus, the interior of the house is in focus from the closest buttons on the remote to the window.  The photographer was using a small aperture. I don&#039;t see a lot of noise in the shot either indicating a lower ISO number was used (there is apparent noise and noise-reduction in the deeper midtones).  

The average duration of a blink is 300 to 400 milliseconds, so a 1 second exposure give the subject enough time to blink, given that the subject and his reflection are at opposite sides of the image.  Given 1 second, there is roughly half the frame between the two sets of eyes. That&#039;s 500 milliseconds or less, depending on the shutter gap.

On the other hand, the shutter speed might have been faster than one second, with the effect developed through practice.  There is some movement with the mouth in the right half of the frame. I would expect blurring and more subject motion with slower shutter speeds. There are some subtle differences in posture in the two images of the subject, indicating some time has passed. 

The small aperture and portrait format leads me to think this photo was staged to demonstrate this effect.

In any case, a shutter isn&#039;t all or nothing, it&#039;s almost always a mechanical progression across the 
focal plane (except in the case of leaf and various high-speed and special purpose shutters).

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The subject blinked.  This could have been taken using a camera with a slit scan shutter, like an iPhone, or even a conventional focal plane shutter found in digital SLRs.  The shutter gap travels vertically in an SLR.  The camera was held portrait style, therefore the gap was traveling horizontally.  </p>
<p>It would be interesting to see the EXIF data.  The complete absence of IPTC and EXIF data is either a normal BB procedure, or done deliberately by the submitter.</p>
<p>The sky through the window is blown out, but the tree is visible, the tree is mostly in focus, the interior of the house is in focus from the closest buttons on the remote to the window.  The photographer was using a small aperture. I don&#8217;t see a lot of noise in the shot either indicating a lower ISO number was used (there is apparent noise and noise-reduction in the deeper midtones).  </p>
<p>The average duration of a blink is 300 to 400 milliseconds, so a 1 second exposure give the subject enough time to blink, given that the subject and his reflection are at opposite sides of the image.  Given 1 second, there is roughly half the frame between the two sets of eyes. That&#8217;s 500 milliseconds or less, depending on the shutter gap.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the shutter speed might have been faster than one second, with the effect developed through practice.  There is some movement with the mouth in the right half of the frame. I would expect blurring and more subject motion with slower shutter speeds. There are some subtle differences in posture in the two images of the subject, indicating some time has passed. </p>
<p>The small aperture and portrait format leads me to think this photo was staged to demonstrate this effect.</p>
<p>In any case, a shutter isn&#8217;t all or nothing, it&#8217;s almost always a mechanical progression across the<br />
focal plane (except in the case of leaf and various high-speed and special purpose shutters).</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<description>camera is connected to the TV when picture was taking, so its the delay between the live moment and the tv display moment. ( the time that takes for the camera to display it on TV)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>camera is connected to the TV when picture was taking, so its the delay between the live moment and the tv display moment. ( the time that takes for the camera to display it on TV)</p>
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		<title>By: Felton</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865311</link>
		<dc:creator>Felton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They sees us!  They wants our precious.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They sees us!  They wants our precious.</p>
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		<title>By: saranicole</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865314</link>
		<dc:creator>saranicole</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Could it be his eyes are only half open, such that from a direct angle they look closed but from a slightly skew angle they look open?  

It does appear to be a different angle, since I notice in the reflection his head stick outs several inches from beyond the cabinet, however on the left his ear is flush with the cabinet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could it be his eyes are only half open, such that from a direct angle they look closed but from a slightly skew angle they look open?  </p>
<p>It does appear to be a different angle, since I notice in the reflection his head stick outs several inches from beyond the cabinet, however on the left his ear is flush with the cabinet.</p>
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		<title>By: jhunte</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He&#039;s being recorded.  The video camera is tied into the TV, and there is a delay between what is happening and what is showing up on the screen.  So it&#039;s not a reflection.  The tv&#039;s on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He&#8217;s being recorded.  The video camera is tied into the TV, and there is a delay between what is happening and what is showing up on the screen.  So it&#8217;s not a reflection.  The tv&#8217;s on.</p>
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		<title>By: Bookburn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bookburn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An the blink of an eye is 350ms, but from open to closed is only have the blink of an eye and actually a shorter time 175ms.  However, this doesn&#039;t support the rolling shutter idea - it contradicts it.

From open to closed the eyelid takes 0.175 seconds.  The slowest shutter speed setting that could be used without blurring is likely around 1/30 or 0.033 seconds.  At this speed, the shutter is way faster than they eyelid.  This isn&#039;t rolling shutter.

A number of commentators mention the rolling shutter effect of airplane props.  These props are making around 33 complete revolutions in one second.  Constant eye blinking taking 350ms a blink would produce 3 blinks in one second.  The props are moving much faster than the eyelid.

This is not rolling shutter. This is not rolling shutter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An the blink of an eye is 350ms, but from open to closed is only have the blink of an eye and actually a shorter time 175ms.  However, this doesn&#8217;t support the rolling shutter idea &#8211; it contradicts it.</p>
<p>From open to closed the eyelid takes 0.175 seconds.  The slowest shutter speed setting that could be used without blurring is likely around 1/30 or 0.033 seconds.  At this speed, the shutter is way faster than they eyelid.  This isn&#8217;t rolling shutter.</p>
<p>A number of commentators mention the rolling shutter effect of airplane props.  These props are making around 33 complete revolutions in one second.  Constant eye blinking taking 350ms a blink would produce 3 blinks in one second.  The props are moving much faster than the eyelid.</p>
<p>This is not rolling shutter. This is not rolling shutter.</p>
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		<title>By: ROSSINDETROIT</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html#comment-865829</link>
		<dc:creator>ROSSINDETROIT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hope this kid doesn&#039;t grow up to be neurotic because of 180+ remarks about his eyes.  It would have done it for me if I wasn&#039;t already on my way by that age.
Larry Niven said the only way to fry bacon was in the nude.  That way you don&#039;t overheat it and make it spatter.  I have not tested this theory, but go ahead, and let us know what happens.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope this kid doesn&#8217;t grow up to be neurotic because of 180+ remarks about his eyes.  It would have done it for me if I wasn&#8217;t already on my way by that age.<br />
Larry Niven said the only way to fry bacon was in the nude.  That way you don&#8217;t overheat it and make it spatter.  I have not tested this theory, but go ahead, and let us know what happens.</p>
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