Why the Windows XP Meadow no longer exists
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2023
- "Bliss" by Charles O'Rear is probably one of the most famous photos in the world. It shows a bright blue sky and a green meadow - its perfection and simplicity made the picture the default wallpaper of Windows XP. However, there is much more behind the motif: it is a place with a moving history. And a place that no longer exists in this form...
A film by Matthias Schwarzer.
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Correction:
▪️ In the video I locate the Windows XP meadow in Napa Valley. Strictly speaking, the wine hill already belongs to Sonoma County, which directly borders it. An annoying mistake - but this doesn't change the story itself. Sonoma and Napa faced the same challenges.
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More about this topic:
▪️ An article from 1993 about the dying vineyards in the Napa Valley:
www.nytimes.com/1993/10/17/ma...
▪️ The mentioned study about wine growing and climate change:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
▪️ A New York Times article about climate change in the Napa Valley:
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/di...
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Although Chuck O'Rear has taken thousands of photos in Napa county, the Bliss meadow is located in Sonoma county. Napa and Sonoma are distinct, and even competing, wine grape growing regions.
You’re right about the location - sorry for that. When I recorded the video, I wasn't really sure where exactly the "border" was. Fortunately, it doesn't change the story itself - the entire region was struggling with the same problems at the time. I made a correction in the video description.
@@MatthiasSchwarzerEnglishif you look at the history of the photo... the "bucolic green hills" (aka bliss) was a photo of a vineyard in Sonoma County taken during a time where the local vineyard got infested and they had to remove all the crops hence the emptyness of the field... that infestation only occurred on that specific vineyard... there were still nearby surrounding vineyards with crops being grown... the exact location of "Bliss" is 38.250139, -122.410806 (Per the Wiki)
whoa how are you so underrated, production is on pointtt, incredibly informative, quality etc is top tier man. subbed :)
I have just realized that, too. Matthias, please keep up the good work. Really interesting and smart topics you choose. Subscribed.
because he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. He was in the wrong county. lol
Me too!
For a second I thought I was watching a channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. God damn, this is some really good stuff. Grüße aus Deutschland haha.
It looks like you are further to the right from where the original photo was taken. If you look closely it looks like the hill on the right side of the original is more to the center of yours slightly right of the peak and you can see the trees tops just slightly peaking over the hill in the original. They were obviously much shorter than
So the hill featured on one of the most popular OSes to exist was pretty much a coincidence...
Great work man! Ive enjoyed several of these short docus.
You are not far enough along the road, you caught the house, and the hill / road profile didnt match.
if you were a few hundred meters to the left of the view you have shown, you can match the hills & trees nearly perfectly if you do. (for anyone interested in the then vs now shot)
You definitely deserve more subscribers greadt video
Hey Matthias! a new subscriber here.. I love your videos, great work. Greetings from Chile
Been there in February all the way from Australia. Super busy road and dangerous to walk on if you come from Lou's Luncheonette but still worth it. We parked the car under the trees where Ramal Rd intersects into Hwy 12. It was an awesome day with lots of sun and clouds. My dad is currently painting the scenery in oil.
I have this Bliss wallpaper on my laptop right now. My all-time favourite wallpaper! Have been installing Bliss for several years now and through my last three PCs. Read up all about its history previously. Didn't know about the bug, though. What I read was that the field was in fallow or resting, in between cultivation, or recuperating, as we now know. Thank you for going there and getting a Now photo! Well done! 👍
I can't say I was ever a fan of the default wallpaper - I saved my own pictures as soon as I worked out how! Each to his own...
I always thought the 'Bliss' scene slightly surreal - almost too green and blue. It never occurred to me where it is was taken - I'd expect California to look as dry as it does today. So all the more surprising that the photographer didn't alter it. And I wonder how much he got paid - I assume it was a one off fee. If the agency he sold it to were canny they'd have sold it under licence.
@@rogink I recall the photographer said it was just after a rain. That may explain the vibrancy of the colours. I also recall he did leave it with an agency. The price was mentioned somewhere but I don't remember now how much it was, might have been several hundred dollars. I think it was bought outright and wasn't licensed.
I still have two Toshiba Windows XP in a cupboard .A great system However after that I turned to Apple ...Bliss has certainly flown in so many ways ( your cap for example ).Wonderful story behind the wallpaper.Have subscribed to your channel ..Thanks Matthias and greetings from Berlin where the temperatures are rising
Interesting, I would always remove the default wallpapers and replace them with my own
the photographer was lucky to find this.
napa changes fields for wine growth at times which means one field will lay dormant for a year they do this to battle grapevine diseases and pests.
if you take a closer look at the image you can see the lines where the grapes vines once grew clearly visible in the grass.
so this field was like this for one year in a growing cycle of 10 years so one day this will be a lush meadow once again you just have to wait.
Your videos are awesome to watch, informative and your voice is comprehensible for a non native english speaker. I subscibed but you deserve a lot more subscribers, hope the CZcams Algorithm will do his magic
thanks for this, very interesting. I might download the image and load it on my windows 10 PC as a change from the scuba diver i've had for years lol
Windows is the only operating system I know of that benefitted from bugs.
I saw what you have written and meant. Indeed full of bugs but with careful pruning you can remove those bugs maybe not all of the bugs though.
LOL!!! 😂
Looks like you're heading up the west coast. Will you be heading as far as the Seattle area?
Not that far, but I‘m getting close 😎
Very interesting, thumbs up just for the bsod
I almost want someone to erect one of those zoo-style info boards giving this information at the spot. Then again, that would also require a bit more space for the occasional tourist to park…
I wish you had found the exact location and angle to match, you were close. I'm more concerned though about you walking with the traffic so you can't see who's coming.
And no footpath ...welcome to being a pedestrian in the US, lol. I've never owned a car and this is not unusual. Unfortunately. I'm glad you come from a safer place!
Windows XP wasn't around anymore so too the hill. Only thing still exist are our experience which now a nostalgia.
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Brits are happier though - climate change allowed them to grow both expensive localized grape cultures and good for mass production varieties. But brits also generated a problem preventing them from evolving to a wine nation by exeting EU - there's no longer cheap seasonal labor from eastern countries available, but let say they can compensate for this in the expensive sector with local labor and lowering the profit, but in the mass production they'll have to make huge investment in culture specific machinery which is far from cheap to fastly repay for itself and the good inexpensive wines are the toughest world market with many great producers and little rich enough markets to generate good enough profit for them.
This spot is not in Napa
Oh no, not the cap? Interesting story.
Aye.... Remember when operating systems weren't replaced every year or two solely to exert more and MORE outside control over YOUR computer? Photographs used by businesses are, more often than not, COMPOSITIONS and not solid original photography that you would take as "one shot".
About the issues with climate change: We need drought-resistant crops. CRISPR is the right tool for that.
Water scarcity can be solved with desalination and huge water pipelines. To power this, we need some clean energy (nuclear + solar). Then, dry regions need efficient irrigation technologies (just look at Israel, they have it).
To protect crops from too much sunlight/heat, agrivoltaics seems good.
Against new pests, Bt crops are the way to go. (Or, even better: New GMO crops with RNA interference technology.) Bt and RNAi work selectively and only kill certain pests, they leave beneficial insects unscathed and cause no harm to the ecosystem.
Another solution would be greenhouses or even vertical farming. (But vertical farming needs lots of energy, i.e. a mix of wind + nuclear.)
The biggest obstacle to all those solutions are the anti-GMO and anti-nuclear sentiment which is especially common here in Germany and NIMBYs who don't accept infrastructure (NPPs, wind turbines, power lines, water pipelines, etc.) in their neighborhood. That needs to change.
or you stop occupying so much space with agriculture and cutting out all those trees
Desalination plants and pipelines hardly come cheap, and even where they are built it feels like a workaround (and an ugly one at that) rather than a solution.
They ran out of the green paint.
Bro can u do the walking dead location
1:58 = Bruh
8 billion installs are you sure
Matthias, Du kannst getrost auf Deine "schöne" Mütze verzichten! Oder hol' Dir etwas halbwegs Anständiges: die mit flachem Schirm sind die Doofheit in Tüten! Ein Stil-Vergehen sondergleichen!
Ganz nebenbei: den "content" hab' ich sehr gemocht,
Unless you're under 13 YoA or a baseball player, don't wear a ball cap at all!
" _How_ it looks" or, " _what_ it looks like". English is quirky.
I'm guessing he said "how it looks like". That seems to be common with people don't speak English as their first language.