Pics that lie

I chose this picture of neil armstrong landing on the moon because it was such a monumental achievement so why not insert a little comedy?Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. took the photograph with a Hasselblad 70mm camera during the expedition. I manipulated it by taking a photo of a toy astronaut golfing and inserting him in the photo and blending him using the clone tool. I also brightened the ball. I then edited a sign for a country club and inserted it and blurred it to match the photo. I added bright patches to the toy astronaut to match where the sun was hitting armstrong. I don't think it was harmful because it was all in good fun.

The article I read "Claims of Photo Fakery Get a Lot of Exposure in Court" related to my photo as to the harmfulness of editing photos. I believe that there are many criteria to determine this and it all depends on how detrimental the additions are.

Nelson, Emily. "Claims of photo fakery get lots of exposure in court." Wall Street Journal.

229.27 (1997): B2. Print.

HTML Code

HTML code (hyper text markup language) is the fundamental basis for anything and everything on the internet. However, it would become incredibly tedious to have to make such complex sites seen on the web simply by typing away various code on notepad. To combat this software is available to make webpages easier, such as dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression. However, it is still important for to know how to use HTML. Think of it as if we were never taught math but simply given a calculator at age 4 and told it can solve any problem for us. It is necessary to know the fundamentals in order to understand what is going on in the bigger picture, or in this case the design software.

Lazily Discussing Laziness- Photoshop Collage

I chose to do a collage displaying laziness because I knew during the weekend that I would be working on it I would be very lazy, as is usual on weekends. So I decided to use a pic of my friends and I chatting lazily, with my favorite Trinity cat and another pic of my suite mates napping to look as if we were, lazily, thinking of laziness.

Chris Nolan Visits CS1300

Chris Nolan, Assistant University Librarian, came to our class on Tuesday to talk to us about searching on the web. Although I thought that I knew plenty about how to search for things online he provided us with a plethora of new information about Google and other search engines. One thing I always had wondered was how Google made money. We learned that they make the billions of dollars they make every year off the many little advertisements on the side of your searches. Something that surprised me was that companies try to find ways to manipulate search engines to display the hits for their site by making lots of blogs or sub-sites that connect to their website. Google has taken steps to prevent this with different search algorithms. Google also uses algorithms to refine your search to give you the most efficient search experience they can.

Pictures that Lie

On the website Pictures that Lie there are a multitude of different photoshopped photos that misrepresent what actually took place in the photograph. I chose to analyze the picture on the cover of the University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Application taken by Haney Farid, because it shows how far some people are willing to go to achieve what they want. The picture is at a football game with several students cheering, the main photo is from a 1993 football game but on the left is a black student from a 1994 photo. It was manipulated by basically copying and pasting the image of the black student into the picture. The school did this because they wanted a picture that reflected diversity; unfortunately they had to doctor the photo to do so. I do not believe the manipulation was very harmful, the black student was a real Wisconsin student and I think it’s a good thing that Wisconsin wants to show they are diverse; of course a better way would have been to have taken a legitimate photo.

CLT Visit

Before class on thursday I had no idea what the CLT had to offer. RobertChapman guided us through this very interesting area in the library and I learned a lot of new things. There was a lab with computers to do photo editing and video editing, a room with mac desktops, and a few other utilities. The photo and video editing area were two places that would be very useful for CS 1300 and my other classes. If I needed photos for a powerpoint or needed to do a video presentation the software available at CLT would be very helpful. What interested me most, however, was the sound editing room. It held a high quality condenser microphone, a keyboard, and its computer has Pro Tools, the best sound recording and editing software available. I will definitely be visiting this room for my personal projects because I am growing tired of my inferior recording software.

Jason Hardin came to class to talk to us about copyright laws. Copyright violations are federal crimes, plagiarisms are ethical violations. Copyright-legal recognition on part of the government ensures creators of their work that they can control the production of their work and profit from it. Copyright originated in 1790, and is in the constitution and predates the bill of rights.
We learned that copyright is imortant becasue it promotes individuality, and intellectual development, innovation, creativity, industrial progression etc.
A copyright is good for the authors life plus 70 years, it was originally 14 years.
The law used to be 50 years after death, but Disney got their representative to take it to the house and change it. It’s a felony to commit a copyright infringement involving more than 10 copies and a value of more than 2500 dollars. HEOA-must make an annual disclosure to students about copyright and campus policies, must develop a plan to combat unauthorized file sharing to include the use of technology-based-deterrents, and must implement a system to provide alternatives to illegal downloading. It was interesting to know that you don’t have to submit copyright forms to have copyright. This was interesting to me because I did some copyrighting of my own over the summer when I recorded an album. Creative Commons is an interesting website that provides different forms of copyrights.

Fair Use:
Not all educational use is fair use, and it is less defensible to recreate commercial works. Intended purpose of reproduction is a factor when looking at fair use cases. One factor the court looks at is the effect of reproduction on revenue stream.


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