Modern "sightseeing agriculture" in China

Posted by David Pescovitz, November 28, 2008 11:37 AM | permalink

My Institute for the Future colleagues Lyn Jeffery and Jason Li's outstanding Virtual China blog has been reborn as 88 Bar. That's where I spotted this image of what appears to be a photographer taking a shot of a massive pumpkin (but is just an optical illusion), in an ultra high-tech green house in Tianjin, north China. According to a translated article in SINA, the demo greenhouse is "a model of modern sightseeing agriculture."

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#1 posted by Red Leatherman , November 28, 2008 11:55 AM

That is a pumpkin but is it massive? the photographer with the telephoto lens is certainly not interested in it. I mean like why would you stand 5 feet away from a massive object and then zoom in with 100+ telephoto. more likely it just happened to be close in the foreground by accident.

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#2 posted by Takuan , November 28, 2008 12:09 PM

it's about 60 cm in diameter

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#3 posted by David Pescovitz , November 28, 2008 12:16 PM

Ah! Interesting illusion. Good catch!

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#4 posted by rimskykorsakov , November 28, 2008 12:26 PM

When I first saw this, I thought of the Woodie Allen movie Sleeper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfrShu_Lp2A