Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 29, 2013 | Bryan TX
PilotOnline.com: national & world News for Hampton Roads, Va., from The Virginian-Pilot:
EXCERPT | " ... And digital photo retouching: The tools of artifice, once accessible only to professionals, have gone democratic. Now manipulators by the millions can use something called a "clone tool" to erase blemishes, unwanted features and entire people. With the tap of a smartphone touchscreen, you can make an image taken seconds ago look like a "vintage" snapshot from a 1972 Polaroid or a 19th-century tintype. A few years back, HP even came out with a camera that had a "slimming feature," allowing you to choose just how much girth you wanted to remove for Facebook or the family album.
But it is in entertainment - a realm custom built for artifice - that this notion plays out most broadly ..."
'via Blog this'
"Maybe, just maybe, we're all a little tired of being tricked, be it great trickery or be it small trickery," says Virginia Lee Blood, a musician and singer in Nashville, Tenn.
More than that, though, are we setting up unrealistic expectations about the world, piece by tiny piece? How could that boring slice of real cheese be any good if it's not bright orange and doesn't "pop" with artificial Cheetos flavor? How can you be satisfied with your romantic partner when every smidgen of media in the checkout line hands you ridiculously unattainable images of human perfection? And how can you persuade a young girl who wants to grow up to sing like Beyonce that, yes, with practice and hard work she might belt out the national anthem at the inauguration or sing in a Super Bowl halftime show one day - if such performances turn out to be not entirely what they seem?BAD LIP READING VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/user/BadLipReading
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http://www.youtube.com/user/BadLipReading
2 comments:
Yeah...well..."Maybe, just maybe, we're all a little tired of being tricked"...Are you shitting me?
The "trick" we are worried about is one from a pop singer, eh?
I only watched a few minutes of the coronation myself. Did the president lip sync?
Well, perhaps when you are satisfied that you've fully contemplated this weighty matter you will set aside a few minutes to take a look at these...
http://youtu.be/SR2gR6SZC2M
http://youtu.be/8lnslMWhOTw
Instead of discussing this cross-section of a Quick Brown Fox Trickery, let's take this time to look at human vivisection. http://youtu.be/AwOFDWyMJGo
http://listverse.com/2008/03/14/top-10-evil-human-experiments/
Human vivisection
Unit 731, a biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).[12] Prisoners of war were subjected to various forms of vivisection, in many cases without anesthesia.[13][14]
Nazi human experimentation involved medical experiments on live subjects, such as vivisections by Josef Mengele,[15] usually without anesthesia.[16] (wiki)
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