Today’s blog post is about something strange we found on the internet. After looking up various images on Google, I found this photo: 

I found this photo interesting because of the use of Photoshop. Whoever created this image, was able to photoshop a cat’s head onto a shark. It looks very realistic and it’s a funny concept. It’s always interesting to see what people can create with Photoshop.

Yesterday, February 2 was Super Bowl Sunday. Although I am not a huge football fan, I always appreciate the sport when the Super Bowl comes around. I think it’s amazing that so many people can come together and show so much support through mutual love of the game.

My personal favorite part of the game is the halftime show. I always look forward to seeing which artists are going to perform and how they will incorporate their own style into the show. This year was JLO and Shakira. Although I do not follow them closely, I’ve always had a huge amount of respect for them. I enjoyed the show yesterday and think they gave it their all. It was different than other shows I’ve watched and I enjoyed it much more than last years.

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In today’s class, we watched a video called, “Deep Fakes.”

This video was about the challenges of knowing the truth with the society we live in today. Deep fakes are videos where you photoshop someone else’s face onto another persons body. It promotes the intent to deceive, falsify, and alter the truth. There is a fine line between whether deep fakes are promoting freedom of expression or criminalizing speech parody.

Prior to watching this video, I had known about deep fakes already. I think it’s a very scary concept, mainly because these videos are so realistic looking. It’s also difficult to punish someone for creating these videos because it’s our right of freedom of expression. I’m curious to see if there will be anything cryptic videos throughout the 2020 election and what the outcome of those will be.

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Hi! Welcome to my first blog post. Today was our first class and we watched our first video:

The video we watched was called, “Primiti Too Taa.” It was published over one hundred years ago, and was one of the first examples of digital art. The video showed a bunch of random letters put together to create some words, while some were just randomly assorted letters. I couldn’t quite grasp what this video was supposed to portray, but I believe it was one of the first portrayals of digital media and using technology of that time period to create imagery and explore art.