yes this can happen if the pinhole is too small. if you "widen the aperture" of the pinhole (make it bigger—I usually just jimmy the pin around in the hole a bit), you can capture the foreground in focus while leaving the background blurrier so the subject stands out

all games should have a Chao garden. I mean it

both of these things are very cool

i'm morbidly curious to see what happens when AI gets a hold of Heathcliff