[Rachel Eyes Free Download Book
Hanne Rylaarsdam
When Deckard confronts the replica of his former lover, he is immediately overwhelmed. He shares a silent intimate moment with her, and then immediately ruins the moment by blurting out "her eyes were green", and turning away.
Well, my first guess is that his memory of Rachel might've been impaired due to how long it has been since he saw her, and also due to the fact that his prolonged isolation might have cause mental deteriorations. But these seem very improbable.
By saying that Rachael's eyes were green (although he knew perfectly well that they weren't) he basically told Wallace that no, Wallace's attempt to bribe/psychological torture will not work on him and that he wasn't just programmed to fall for Rachael as soon as he sees her.
I asked myself the same question: "So, if Wallace didn't make such stupid mistake with the eye color, would it work? Would he make Deckard cooperate?", but then I realized Wallace must have had access to Rachael's DNA (from the bones and hair) and wouldn't make such mistake, and then I checked with the original that Rachael's eyes weren't green, and this brought me to the conclusion above.
He's saying it because he realizes that she is a copy of Rachel, not the real Rachel. No matter how hard they resemble each other, it's not her. Even if the eyes match, he would have found something else that reminds him that they are not the same.
Since he's the only one who knew what the original Rachel was like, in person, by making them think, perhaps, that they made a very fundamental error that rendered their attempts at manipulation to be a transparent failure, they'd give up on pursuing that line of action before they could fully succeed in breaking him.
As a side note, I just wanted to mention that some people with brown eyes can appear to have green (more accurately, olive green) eyes when bright light shines on them from the side. On rare occasion, I've had people say my eyes were green while out in daylight when clearly my eyes are dark brown in any other kind of light.
So this might explain why Rachael's eyes appear to be green in the scene with the Voight-Kampff test in the original Bladerunner movie. Although it wasn't her eye projected onto the machine's screen, in the footage just ahead of the test Young's eyes do appear to have this faded green effect as the light shines on her face from the side. That's shortly after she mentions the owl and as Tyrell enters the scene in front of her.
The director, the writer, or Ridley is poking fun at the gaffe in the original Blade Runner where Sean Young's brown eyes are erroneously shown to be green in the VK test. But this also works as a clever plot element in 2049 as a superficial reason for Deckard to reject this copy of Rachael and to show Wallace that he cannot be bought - even with this greatest gift Wallace can offer him.
Today we visit with Rachel Ross, a photographer who calls the Canadian Rockies her home and has her eyes and camera focused on the stars. In our continuing Conversations With series, I visit with Rachel and catch up on what she has been doing the Pandemic.
Rachel loves the outdoors and is the kind of woman you want to have with you when the going gets tough. She has a passion for the outdoors and shares stories about some of her adventures. Her path to photography, like many of us kind of came out of the blue.
Along the way, she discovered astrophotography and is probably one of the foremost experts on the topic. She shares some of her tricks. One trick is how to focus on stars, especially with a focus by wire lens. And a particular filter from Lonely Speck that she uses. The Sharp Star filter is worth the price of admission alone.
Rachel suffers from the same affliction many of us do GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome). She owns numerous camera bodies and lenses. On her hikes, she starts with three camera bodies, lenses, and a tripod. Obvious she is someone who has a healthy back.
To find her locations and see where the Milky Way will be, she uses Photo Pills, an app for the iPhone and iPad. This is an excellent app for doing location research and also has augmented abilities. We will be featuring Photo Pills in a future article.
Sometimes Rachel will resort to using some auxiliary lighting to light up the foreground or even a subject like a cabin, tree, or whatever. She will light these with headlamps, flashlights, or a light panel made by Luxli.
She pretty much a self-taught photographer and learned a lot from friends and trip and error. During her Covid-19 quarantine, Rachel came up with the idea of running workshops online. She is offering a Night Photography course online. Very cool idea and Rachel has gotten great feedback from doing these. She accomplishes this through webinars and personal coaching. She explains all of this in the video.
Photography is my passion and has been for 50 plus years. My career in photography has allowed me to travel the world, meet some of the most interesting people on the planet and see things I could never have dreamed of. My goal is to share the passion of picture taking through photographs and teaching with as many people as I can, hoping it brings them as much joy and happiness as it has me. I do this through photoPXL.com, this site, as well as Rockhopper Workshops, and other projects, as well as teaching as Artist In Residence at the Indianapolis Art Center.
This quote from Steve Jobs, as well as the support of family, friends, and loyal followers from many years are what inspired me to create this new website that is dedicated to photography. There are a lot of websites featuring photography. Many are good; in fact, many have been created and run by friends of mine. That is probably what I like most about photography. You make a lot of friends with whom, more than anything else, you share a passion and love for photography in many ways.
photoPXL was created around a dinner table with friends. This site will be about the community of photography, a place where young and old alike can share their stories, learn about the art and craft of photography, and gain an understanding of what it takes to Enhance Your Vision.
One of the most exciting features of the new site will be building a community using photographer profile pages. This will be a place where you can share your images with other readers and see what others are doing with theirs. There will also be a forum where you can ask questions and share your knowledge, further developing the sense of community.
Photography for me has always been personal. I can be really serious sometimes, working to catch a certain image, but no matter what I never forget to have fun. I want this site to mean the same thing for you and be a place where you can come and experience many photography-related topics and have fun while doing so.
I am sitting in my office during a summer internship. Absorbed by my computer screen, I do not notice when my manager enters the room, much less when he starts talking. Only when a sudden hand taps my shoulder do I jump. He is gazing expectantly at me.
"Oh, right." His expression changes: to surprise, and then to caution. He proceeds to say something that looks like, "Would you graawl blub blub vhoom mwarr hreet twizzolt, please?" I haven't the faintest idea what he said. I have no excuse, for I was looking straight at him. But despite my attention, something went wrong. He spoke too fast; my eyes lost focus.
Lipreading, on which I rely for most social interaction, is an inherently tenuous mode of communication. It's essentially a skill of trying to grasp with one sense the information that was intended for another. When I watch people's lips, I am trying to learn something about sound when the eyes were not meant to hear.
Spoken words occur in my blind spot, a vacancy of my perception. But if I watch a certain way, I can bring them into enough focus to guess what they are. The brain, crafty as it is, fills in the missing information from my store of knowledge.
Do you recognize the opening of "The Night Before Christmas"? Perhaps so, because in American culture the poem is familiar enough for one to fill in the blanks through memory. Filling in the blanks is the essence of lipreading, but the ability to decipher often depends on factors outside of my control.
It is my first week as a freshman at Stanford, and I feel lost. Instead of coasting through routine interactions with people familiar to me, I have thrown myself into a place where almost nothing is predictable. I sit down at a table of strangers. One of them, I realize, is the guy from the room next to mine. "What's your name?" I ask him.
"How did you learn to lipread?" is another common query. I do not have a satisfactory answer. The truth is, I can't explain it. No more than I could explain how I learned to walk, or than anyone else could explain how she learned to hear and understand language. "Practice," I usually answer. Since I entered a mainstreamed public school in first grade, there have been no other deaf people occupying center stage in my life. My world is primarily a hearing one, and I learned to deal with this reality at a very young age. There was no reason to sign with anyone besides close friends and family, no reason to expect anyone to communicate on my terms. Surrounded by hearing people all the time, my only option has been to adapt, and lipreading is the skill that I have practiced most.
In teaching me how to make sound's shapes with my own mouth, they taught me how to focus on their faces with the deepest intensity. Like a detective-in-training, I learned to recognize consonantal stops, the subtle visual differences between a "d" and a "g." (On the other hand, "p" and "b" are all but impossible to distinguish by lipreading alone, because their only difference is that one is voiced and one is not.) I learned how to zone in on the minutest changes in the muscles of the face. Over many years of drills and refinement, I learned how to construct the appearance of functioning like a hearing person. But I did not hear: I saw.
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