The Daily Background

One of the things you learn as a documentary film student early on is to always advise your subject not to wear stripped clothing, because of the difficulty that video has in digesting horizontal or vertical lines that are packed closely together (this does not happen with film because celluloid has an organic grain to it whereas video is made up of pixels, but since most documentaries are shot with video for financial reasons so this is largely moot). You can see the effect in the above animated GIF.

Apparently Ralph Nader didn’t get the memo today.

Oh, and he also announced he was running for president or something.

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