{"id":7023,"date":"2019-02-03T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2019-02-03T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T00:25:10","slug":"finding-lena-forsen-the-patron-saint-of-jpegs-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7023","title":{"rendered":"Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs | WIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">In 1972, a photo of a Swedish Playboy model was used to engineer the digital image format that would become the JPEG. The model herself was mostly a mystery\u2014until now.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wired has another story on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of-jpegs\/\">Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs.<\/a> This is not, however, the first time her story has been told. I <a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=305\">blogged about the use of the Lena image<\/a> back in 2004. It seems like this story will be rediscovered every decade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/brotopia.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7024\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/brotopia-199x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What has changed is that people are calling out the casual sexism of tech culture. An example is Chang&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/547571\/brotopia-by-emily-chang\/9780525540175\/\">Brotopia<\/a> that starts with the Lena story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1972, a photo of a Swedish Playboy model was used to engineer the digital image format that would become the JPEG. The model herself was mostly a mystery\u2014until now. Wired has another story on\u00a0Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs. This is not, however, the first time her story has been told. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs | WIRED<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}