"her photograph was photoshopped before being published"
Photograph?
Ah yes, haven't we all been airbrushed at one time or another?
Seriously though, this stuff scares me. If you can manipulate a photo, or even create a 'picture' of someone, THAT WELL, what's to say that you can't influence history--say the downfall of a government--through placing a photo image of the right person in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Even if the manipulation is detectable, humans are swayed by the 'truth' of what they see. Something like this, presented in certain contexts, could have a definite influence on the media.
Fake.
"Obviously not 'shopped. I can tell by the pixels".
What is to stop someone from reverse engineering an actual photo, simplifying sections of it step by step, then stating that the series started from nothing and built up to what only LOOKS like a photograph?
Gone the spontaneous brush or pen stroke in either case of photoshopping, up or down. Not that interpretive spontaneity is much in demand anymore. But I miss it.
There was a Chinese story that two artists competed for the emperor's favor. One spent two weeks rambling the green hills, lazily absorbing the essences of things. The other spent his two weeks sketching compulsively... In the upshot, the emperor judged each man's work of equal value. But if I were the judge, I'd favor the Wu Wei of the rambler, even though I'd still be amazed by the workaholic!
I remember a coupla decades back there was an artist who'd take photographs, have them screened (as for a color newspaper) and blown way up, then recreate the photo dot by dot only in a large scale. The end result was something that looked like a photograph but was in fact dots of colored paint. I remember looking at one and thinking, "what's the point?"
Now, artists are creating "photographs." I'm with BlueHorse--this sorta scares me, and sorta bores me.
Saw the new "Star Trek" film last weekend, and wished more attention had been paid to the script instead of to all the digital effects. Same thing... digital effects are now all so over-the-top that they no longer amaze me.
Once the impossible becomes possible, it's no longer interesting. Sigh.
Even if the manipulation is detectable, humans are swayed by the 'truth' of what they see. Something like this, presented in certain contexts, could have a definite influence on the media, like that time I shot Kennedy on that grassy knoll.
Well, I don't know if I'd agree with the ramblings of a self-confessed murderer, BlueHorse.
What?!! I didn't write that! Who wrote that?
Quid, are you accusing me of some conspiracy?
I see my digital manipulation of you has been uncovered, BlueHorse. Yet, I fear I can never stop manipulating you digitally, as I find it the most pleasurable way of manipulating you. One could even say that my digits are itching to ipulate you manfully - you minx!
Getcher filthy paws offa our GramMa, you prevert!
That has to be the best quidcomment, maybe ever. Quick, someone, needle point a pillow with that and send it to Bluehorse so this perfection can be preserved.
Oh, it's preserved perversed alright.
*Wacks quid with her brolly repeatedly*
Now drag yer carcass off my lawn, buster!
I'm probably going to piss off a lot of people with this. But I'm tetchy from a recently-broken wrist. So here goes.
I find this sort of thing to be an amazing display of technical proficiency, but otherwise a complete waste of the artist's (renderer's) time. All it's doing is mimicking reality as precisely as possible. Photorealistic art misses the point of ART entirely.
It's like a weird kind of artistic autism.
All it's doing is mimicking reality as precisely as possible
I agree, a THREE dimensional model should be made of this hotty out of some kind of rubber material. I will then inspect the work for artistic integrity in the privacy of my bedroom.
Don't be jealous, BlueHorse: my love of fake rubber women will never totally eclipse my love for you.
It's just a partial eclipse thing, baby - that's all it is. A partial eclipse of the art.
Turn around, bright eyes.
I'm so sorry, Mrs. Horse. I'll have him removed at once.
*phones security*
A partial eclipse of the art.
*collapse*
*first fans self, then opens and closes brolly repeatedly*
preservedperversed alright.