No one here is going to change their mind, Gary hopes it all blows over and we all just wasted our time.
But look what we've gained here in these few pages, introduction to the community of a new stand up comic! Based on just these pages of text, we now have a prefect advertising vehicle for Gary's new video on color management. Case in point, here's the latest marketing piece I found:
New, from the master of color management comedy, Gary Fong, comes the feel bad about color management movie of the summer! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, then you’ll cry again when you consider the pain and confusion new users to digital imaging will have inflected on them after watching this masterpiece of misinformation.
The video has unbelievable effects; if you thought the move
Runaway Train had a great train wreck, wait till you see the newest Fong video! Watch today and comment on his YouTube network and you will be entered to win a bumper sticker and pin with Gary’s new slogan:
Don’t know what sRGB is? Just use it!and
Chromaticity diagram, we don’t need no stinkin Chromaticity diagram! In less then a week on the YouTube circuit, the reviews are in! Here is some of the critical feedback from the JUST THE FIRST PAGE of Luminous Landscape color management forum:
RH:
I first saw that one a few days ago, and it was good for a laugh. A nice mix of context-free sweeping generalizations, factual inaccuracies, conflations of different factors, and misguided folksy non-remedies for good colour. SC:
Oh wow that was painful to watch.
Textbook colorspace explained wrong if we needed another example.MM:
Watching this wreck feels a little dirty — like rubbernecking at a highway accident.Cz:
Exactly my feelings - and the whole rest was even worse, so far beyond stupid! It was a pure color management horror.SG:
This man deserves a medal. He has boldly gone where no man has gone before. Or wanted to. He has plumbed new depths. I thought I had heard and read every possible misunderstanding on colour that a sentient creature could possibly hold, but I was wrong! Not getting enough Fong is wrong video content? Rumor is he’s working on another color management extravaganza on printing with sRGB and Adobe RGB (1998). Who will win? It is sure to be another masterpiece of miscommunicating, misunderstandings and malicious misdirection. You’ll be on the edge of your seat as Gary has done his homework on this production, asking the LuLa forum for advise on the testing and like the true artist he is, completely disregarding it. At least that’s the rumor. It’s sure to be another hilarious video with production values exceeding $3.98 with that innovative picture in picture video of the master himself, in super cool monochrome rendering. Cause who needs color?
Rated R for Ridiculous. Contains scenes of blatant misinformation and confusion. No one under the age of 95 who doesn’t know what sRGB is will be allowed to see the video without accompaniment of an adult or child who has dedicated 10 brain cells more than Gary Fong on the topic of color management. View at your own risk. Unfortunately not void let alone void where prohibited. Best viewed under the influence of narcotics.
Legal notice. Luminous Landscape and it’s members are not affiliated with Gary Fong, Gary Fong productions or the Gary Fong Flat Earth Color Management organization and do not condone, endorse or profit from his endeavors in the production of color management science fiction.