fakation
Fri Sep 12 00:50:02 EDT 2014
You can't believe everything you see on the Internet. I love someone proving it as a school project:Dutch woman fakes awesome vacation on Facebook
Dutch student Zilla van den Born used Photoshop and Facebook to chronicle a 42-day journey through Southeast Asia that never happened, all to point out the artificiality of social media. Van den Born faked pictures, videos and Skype conversations from her home in Amsterdam, where a photographer and post-production specialist helped her stage the whole thing for a university project.
Van den Born had her friends, family and fellow students duped with her technical trickery. She dressed in a hooded disguise to go out in Amsterdam, and decorated her bedroom like a hotel room so her Skype chats with family would look authentic.
Some of the fakes were simple, like the food photos she took at oriental restaurants and passed off as foreign cuisine. Other fakes were elaborate, like the snorkeling selfie she staged using a community pool and some Photoshop fish.
Van den Born filmed videos to go along with her many doctored photos, showing how she faked each one. The videos show her travelling through Amsterdam in disguise, then changing into vacation clothes to fake her photos. She also filmed her planning process, which included a massive calendar listing everything she would do during her "travels" through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.
I the radio interview I heard, she says she did the vacation for real, afterward. But she didn't bother posting more pictures.
What do you do for 6 weeks, at home but making sure your friends and family don't see you? I guess you could say your lights were on timers, if anyone noticed.
[So many items that I'm finally posting now (Nov 2017) have a greater relevance after the 2016 election, "fake news", and Facebook/Twitter/etc manipulation/exploitation.]
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You can't believe everything you see on the Internet. I love someone proving it as a school project:Dutch woman fakes awesome vacation on Facebook
Dutch student Zilla van den Born used Photoshop and Facebook to chronicle a 42-day journey through Southeast Asia that never happened, all to point out the artificiality of social media. Van den Born faked pictures, videos and Skype conversations from her home in Amsterdam, where a photographer and post-production specialist helped her stage the whole thing for a university project.
Van den Born had her friends, family and fellow students duped with her technical trickery. She dressed in a hooded disguise to go out in Amsterdam, and decorated her bedroom like a hotel room so her Skype chats with family would look authentic.
Some of the fakes were simple, like the food photos she took at oriental restaurants and passed off as foreign cuisine. Other fakes were elaborate, like the snorkeling selfie she staged using a community pool and some Photoshop fish.
Van den Born filmed videos to go along with her many doctored photos, showing how she faked each one. The videos show her travelling through Amsterdam in disguise, then changing into vacation clothes to fake her photos. She also filmed her planning process, which included a massive calendar listing everything she would do during her "travels" through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.
I the radio interview I heard, she says she did the vacation for real, afterward. But she didn't bother posting more pictures.
What do you do for 6 weeks, at home but making sure your friends and family don't see you? I guess you could say your lights were on timers, if anyone noticed.
[So many items that I'm finally posting now (Nov 2017) have a greater relevance after the 2016 election, "fake news", and Facebook/Twitter/etc manipulation/exploitation.]
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/696188.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]