I don't think I mentioned before just how obvious it is that the fake silo on the roof is a section of corrugated metal culvert pipe -- the spiral-welded construction really gives that away. (Actual corrugated metal silos don't seem to generally be built this way, instead being made up of individual smaller panels, or at least that's what pictures seem to show.) Blogger's image compression seems to be creating a weird moiré pattern effect on the silo at certain resolutions that's not present in the original image, which is annoying. On a different subject, I'm surprised to see an original Nissan Leaf in Spokane -- those early, short-range EVs normally only show up in major cities!
Typically, it doesn't look very good when a grocer paints their signage directly onto a wall like we see here with the 'Fresh Market' signage. That said, I'm not sure how many people would even notice that with the giant neon Yoke's sign drawing all the attention!
ReplyDeleteAlthough the other photo you posted today indicates otherwise, one could get the sense that the people of Spokane like small cars given the Nissan Leaf, the Nissan Versa Note, and the Mazda Miata which is hiding behind the not-small SUV next to it. I see a Mitsubishi i MiEV every now and then in my area so it is interesting to see these electric cars from an era when people thought of small and efficient city cars when they think of EVs. These days, not so much, but I think Nissan still makes the Leaf at least. Granted, compared to that old Miata, that Leaf and the Versa Note look quite big!
Stay tuned to HHR for the last installment of The Year of Kroger this Wednesday for another example of a tiny car making otherwise smaller cars look huge, lol.
I feel like painted signage is something that works in some cases and doesn't in others, but I do feel like this is a case where it works. It has a bit of a vintage, small-town feel that goes well with the brand Yoke's is going for.
DeleteThere are sure a lot of car surprises in these pictures -- I didn't even mention the Oldsmobile in the foreground of the other picture! There's a lot of stuff here that seems like it would be more at home in Seattle than Spokane... apart from the complete lack of Subarus, obviously!
Interesting note about the culvert pipe -- I probably wouldn't have picked up on that! Regardless, the moiré pattern you see is known as "aliasing" in the computer world since the digital image does not have enough "samples" of the "analog" (or physical) object. I'll have to keep "moiré pattern" in my back pocket as well; I'm sure I learned that phrase long ago but certainly didn't remember it before reading this!
ReplyDeleteAh -- I've heard the term "aliasing" (or at least "anti-aliasing") before, but somehow never realized this is what it referred to!
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