5 Championship Rings, Countless MVP’s, one 81-point game, and millions of lives touched. The tragic death of Kobe Bryant touched the lives of not only people in the basketball world, but everybody. He was an inspiration to all. He still is an inspiration to all, and he would want us to keep chasing our dreams. The death of Kobe Bryant was a terrible start to 2020, and it will never be forgotten.
Max Hawkins chose a unique way to live his life when he discovered that he had not been living freely. Rather, he was living a strictly planned out daily life. The way in which he lived was unique because he found a way to randomize it. Personally, I don’t plan out my life much, and I like to do different things. But, I do not think a random lifestyle would suit me as well as it does for Max Hawkins.
While photoshop is seen by many as something used to edit images, it actually has much more of a purpose. There is almost a stigma when photoshop is mentioned, as it makes people think of words like fake or edited. But, photoshop is seen everywhere; on ID cards, clothes, shoes, etc. Companies also use photoshop to create posters for events.
As one may expect, with mass hysteria, comes conspiracy theories and unproven or even false facts. Of the many misconceptions about the corona virus, my personal favorite is “don’t eat Chinese food.” The conspiracy makes no sense at all, as as long as the person prepping the food doesn’t not have corona virus, there should be no reason for the virus to be there. There are many more conspiracy theories, which are all “fake news.”
Deep-fakes are a branch of synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness using artificial neural networks. Especially when it comes to television; whether it be shows, movies, or even commercials, we cannot trust that everything we are seeing is true. Deep-fakes are seen a lot in politics, as “fake news” seems to pop up every day about a presidential candidate or a person of power. The narrator says that we are in an era in which we must be skeptical as to what we are absorbing in the media, but laws on such things would be categorized as violating free speech.
Examples include Donald Trump as racist, parodies on Key and Peele about Barack Obama, people in ads who may not have the viewpoint, but go along with it due to compensation, among many others.
Video 1: “PRIMITI TOO TAA” The video is a strange arrangement of letters moving sporadically, which most likely applies to Digital Tool-boxing in that anything can be arranged in any way to create art that interests somebody. The idea that the different arrangements of letter and sounds are moving around the screen allows for an artistic value. In a similar way, at the beginning of class, we were told that we could glue chips together and call it art. The video tries to explain that idea of non-conformity to traditional norms.
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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