{"id":43643,"date":"2014-11-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/11\/11\/a-little-cheat-in-my-tiger-beat-photo-homage\/"},"modified":"2014-11-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:00:00","slug":"a-little-cheat-in-my-tiger-beat-photo-homage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20141111-00\/?p=43643","title":{"rendered":"A little cheat in my Tiger Beat photo homage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing nobody has called out in my <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoftjobsblog.com\/blog\/raymond-chen\/\"> tribute to the Bill Gates Tiger Beat photo<\/a>, either because it was too subtle or too obvious, is that the photo is actually a mirror image.\n The arrangement of furniture in the room was not correct: The big table was on the wrong side of the room. It was also too heavy to move around, so we cheated. We staged the entire picture as a mirror image, flipping the Windows screen shot. And then back in the virtual darkroom, <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/shows\/WM_IN\/Ariel-Stallings-Microspotting-the-Empire\/\"> Ariel<\/a> flipped the photo to put the furniture on the correct side of the photo.<\/p>\n<p> Here are the clues in the photo: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <i>SONY<\/i> logo on the monitor. <\/li>\n<li>The <i>Multiscan G500<\/i> and <i>Trinitron<\/i> branding on the monitor. <\/li>\n<li>The <i>Microsoft<\/i> logos on the binder on the table. <\/li>\n<li>The arrows on the recycle bin propping open the door. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <b>Chatter<\/b>: The day after I put this article into the queue (which makes it visible to Microsoft employees), somebody <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2013\/07\/26\/10436961.aspx#10437643\"> posted a comment pointing it out<\/a>. Coincidence? You decide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing nobody has called out in my tribute to the Bill Gates Tiger Beat photo, either because it was too subtle or too obvious, is that the photo is actually a mirror image. The arrangement of furniture in the room was not correct: The big table was on the wrong side of the room. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-43643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>One thing nobody has called out in my tribute to the Bill Gates Tiger Beat photo, either because it was too subtle or too obvious, is that the photo is actually a mirror image. The arrangement of furniture in the room was not correct: The big table was on the wrong side of the room. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}