PUBLIC MARKS with tag reality

There is a problematic tendency with a certain type of intellect – the scientist, the technocrat – which assumes that, because it is prepared to organise and change on the basis of dry statistics and data, then, if only everyone else could be exposed to the same data, there would be instant consensus for change. In fact, of course, the majority of human beings do not work like this.

Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. The clip can be downloaded online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo.

Does representation ever become the reality?

a footage of a German merchant ship being rescued from pirates.

In a world where you decide what media to consumer where, the only stopping this scenario becoming a reality is you.

Sunday November 13th 1966 – the first man-made dewatering of the American Falls took place in order to allow workmen to clear debris from the upper American channel above the American Falls.

Beautiful new exploratory game for the Nintendo DS, that uses the front-facing camera and face tracking to calculate a perspective that renders like a window on a new world.

Now here’s something interesting, I set up a photo camera in my room, turned out all the lights and took a long-exposure shot of my roomba doing it’s thing for about 30 minutes. The result is a picture that shows the path of the roomba through it’s cleaning cycle, it looks like a flight map or something. It really hits every spot!

Mapping of the world gross domestic product 2007

En conservant la structure des dossiers, enrichie d’une information contextuelle précise, l’une des belles démonstrations qu’apporte ce travail est de montrer combien le document photographique constitue la trace, moins du réel ou de la vérité des faits, que des déterminations imposées par les circonstances de la commande. Ce que la photographie constitue, dans chacun des contextes explorés, est très précisément la fiction attendue par le commanditaire.

I Don’t Know How I Resisted the Urge to Run

For a little while I had been taking pictures of objects, furniture, buildings and other things in my environment where I recognised, however abstract, a face.

“They actually … attempted to downplay what the existing control center looks like, because they wanted to make it look real to the average eye as compared to… we’re pretty Star Trekky up in the new control center now.”

Noteboek (English title: Notebook) consists of 4 short experimental films where I try to confuse the reality.

In these films, illusions and expectations are challenged.

With no planning, we all started acting as if we were people in a real office. Almost immediately we began to adopt characters and send officious announcements. Soon we were referring to characters in the office who didn’t exist in real life. Meeting rooms were booked, couriers arrived, servers went down, timesheets were requested, and embarrassing emails were accidentally sent to everyone in the company.

By producing "6-D" images, an MIT professor and colleagues are creating unusually realistic pictures that not only have a full three-dimensional appearance, but also respond to their environment, producing natural shadows and highlights depending on the direction and intensity of the illumination around them.

Part of the elaborate Olympics fireworks show broadcast to the world in the opening ceremony was altered, done digitally in 3-D computer graphics, according to several news reports.

A wonderful instance of hybrid realities. Here, of course, the pixels are materialized through some medium that is not electronic and the hybridity is more about a semantic cross-over from pixel worlds of electronic games to the real world.