{"id":16021,"date":"2017-04-30T22:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T02:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=16021"},"modified":"2022-03-01T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:49:42","slug":"2022-weirdly-small-caravans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=16021","title":{"rendered":"2022 – WEIRDLY SMALL CARavans"},"content":{"rendered":"

…………………………………………….<\/span>(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on March 1, 2022)<\/p>\n

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Remember this from a few months ago?<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was the accidental result of using iPhone\u2019s PANO photo setting – in which you have to pan from left to right – but in this shot, a truck was moving from right to left, which kind of condensed it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote: \u201cAwwwww\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..ain\u2019t it cute? Even if it DID get squashed? You KNOW I\u2019m gonna be exploring this phenomenon a lot more in the future.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The future has arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One recent Saturday morning, I went to a one-way turn from Main St in Hackensack that\u2019s 2 blocks from where I live. From where I was standing, cars could only go from right to left. I picked this spot because even the advertising for a dental office smiled when it saw these cars:<\/span><\/p>\n

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That last car looked almost normal if you ignore the rear wheel\/tire.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Turning 90 degrees to the right, I saw this car making a left:<\/span><\/p>\n

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So if that car got shrunk, why wasn\u2019t the truck similarly affected?<\/span><\/p>\n

Turns out it WAS. It was a much larger truck and it got shrunk a bit to appear to be normal size, but look closely at the writing on the side (nonsense words) and at its rear wheel – both signs of shrinkitis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Moving down one block east behind the truck to River St, this car looks especially strange against all the normal-looking cars on the lot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heading back home, I\u2019m a block west at the continuation of that Main St turn-off:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some of these drivers look like they\u2019ll need the Jaws of Life to get out of their cars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The next day, I took a stroll down Main St and the little buggers were everywhere:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A little later, I was on a bridge crossing the Hackensack River and, for some reason, the cars came out looking more like unicycles:<\/span><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a certain panning speed to the right vs. car speed to the left relationship that I wasn\u2019t having any luck figuring out on that bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe cars are too little. Let\u2019s see what happens with buses and trucks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what a NJ Transit bus normally looks like:<\/span><\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s what 3 pan-pummeled Main St buses look like:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I like how the tri-color design suddenly looks like lightning bolts and – in the last case – gets moved to the rear of the bus. And it\u2019s strange how \u201cNJ Transit\u201d loses most of its letters, but never the same ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A couple of trucks on Main St:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cute\u00a0 Postal Service truck……………..I wonder how much mail was lost during its shrinkage.
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The River St ones are even better:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two of the three trucks appear to be missing a wheel and a tire while the third one seems to be riding on pinpoints.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what a somewhat bigger PSE&G truck that\u2019s similar (the wording is the same) to the two images below it looks like:<\/span><\/p>\n

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NOTE: what\u2019s on this one\u2019s door (“We make things work for you”) is behind the door of the two that follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I was standing by that Main St turnoff, I saw it going by and took this shot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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About a minute later, another one (or was it the same one?) came by and I took THIS shot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Look at the driver and his coffee cup\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026same truck. But look at the difference in what the side of the truck says when compared to the original\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.and to each other! I could take this shot a dozen times and get 12 differently-worded messages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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OK – that\u2019s enough of this right-to-left subject direction. Wait\u2019ll you see what happens when that gets reversed\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.in the next post.<\/span><\/p>\n

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…………………………………………….(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on March 1, 2022)   Remember this from a few months ago?   It was the accidental result of using iPhone\u2019s PANO photo setting – in which you have to pan from left to right – but in this shot, a truck was moving from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16021"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16040,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions\/16040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}