There are hundreds of different ways to get your photoshop creations custom printed. Many of them are available through sellers such as Custom Ink or Uber Print. Additionally, you can get your pictures printed onto underwear from Art of Where. There are even more options, like Blimps or Subway adds, however these tend to cost a lot of money. Add Quick‘s minimum pricing is $50,000 for subway adds.

This year’s Super Bowl halftime show was preformed by Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. Along with Shakira and J. Lo there were several rappers I’d never heard of or seen before, but are apparently relevant enough to preform at the super bowl. I guess I’m getting old. Much like my family’s Christmas celebration the preformance featured both pole dancing and children singing. There was an odd choice to cut the performance half way through, oddly enough this happened to coincide with my friend throwing a beer at the TV. I am sure the two events are unrelated.

Deep fakes are a new technology which uses machine learning algorithms to effectively recreate one person’s face on top of another person’s. this means the actor can do or say whatever they want and it will appear to be the other person saying it. For instance, the Jordan Pele video where he gives a speech impersonating Barack Obama. Pele makes an Obama like speech, then Obama’s face is digitally superimposed on top. The effect is Barack Obama ending a speech with the phrase “stay woke bitches.”

This technology relies on machine learning and analysis of thousands of different pictures of both people. by comparing the similarities and manipulating the face of the target to be more similar to the actor. A the moment this technology takes fairly powerful computers to accomplish convincingly. Most convincing deep fakes are fairly static videos, something from the shoulders up without a ton of movement. However talented visual effect artists on Youtube have been using their skills to make more convincing fakes. For instance, Keanu Reeves was not actually in this video.

The first video we are watching in class is a strange, slightly absurd series of sounds paired with text. The video apparently has something to do with this class. the video is a series of almost words being yelled and chanted at various speeds. None of these re actual words, but they sound like they could be. It seems that the video is based on a poem written about 100 years ago. It was a piece from the dada movement. Dada was an early 20th century art movement that emphasized meaningless-ness. A lot oooffff t art from the dada perrrriod. was jjjjjuuuussssssttttt sheps and coooolllll wewther oadtuh anysasn relaskdnf base,dsciu akkdhadsf. doiads asdiufh wekrnadsfi u ow aelkfma sl.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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