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- Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:30 am
- Forum: The Question of Fakery
- Topic: The Age of Media Fakery: Threshold of the Simulation
- Replies: 156
- Views: 267101
Re: The Age of Media Fakery: Threshold of the Simulation
I've been so focused on researching traditional special effects and how a computer was not required to create believable illusions, that I was overlooking how far the technology has come and how much more difficult if not impossible it is going to be to distinguish illusion from reality as we move f...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 7:17 pm
- Forum: The Question of Fakery
- Topic: Reviewing Hollywood snakery
- Replies: 177
- Views: 333990
Re: Reviewing Hollywood snakery
Movietone News B1Gt6hPuMaw Video posted as example and not for any specific content. "It evolved from an earlier newsreel established by Fox Films called Fox News which was founded in 1919. It produced silent newsreels. It is known in the U.S. as Fox Movietone News, produced cinema, sound news...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:42 pm
- Forum: General World Affairs
- Topic: Velikovsky, Fomenko, and the reinterpretation of History
- Replies: 81
- Views: 141835
Re: Velikovsky, Fomenko, and the reinterpretation of History
Moving Temple of Ramses II (Egyptian Pharaoh)
An artist is never satisfied and neither are these guys.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCDQikYVnCA
An artist is never satisfied and neither are these guys.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCDQikYVnCA
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:16 pm
- Forum: The Question of Fakery
- Topic: The Age of Media Fakery: Threshold of the Simulation
- Replies: 156
- Views: 267101
Re: The Age of Media Fakery: Threshold of the Simulation
A virtual bust. Simulated people are no fantasy. HjHiC0mt4Ts Just because realistic CGI human animations can be created,it does not mean every actor on TV or in films needs to be CGI. There is clear history of actual people being in on the scripted fictions presented as fact. CGI is more than likel...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:06 pm
- Forum: WWI - WWII, the Nuke Hoax, the Cold War and JFK
- Topic: Viet Nam War
- Replies: 62
- Views: 147819
Re: Viet Nam War
http://www.lifemagazineconnection.com/images/8-22-69.jpg " Bugliosi (1994) describes the popular view that the Manson case "sounded the death knell for hippies and all they symbolically represented," citing Joan Didion, Diane Sawyer, and Time. Bugliosi admits that although the Manson...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 4:20 pm
- Forum: WWI - WWII, the Nuke Hoax, the Cold War and JFK
- Topic: Viet Nam War
- Replies: 62
- Views: 147819
Re: Viet Nam War
Oliver Stone seems to be the official mainstream mythological media gatekeeper for this subject does he not? The conscientious ivy-league undergrad dropped out in order to go to ‘Nam to see what was going on for himself (similar to Al Gore & John Kerry). I think he’s, in the least, one of the g...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 2:59 pm
- Forum: WWI - WWII, the Nuke Hoax, the Cold War and JFK
- Topic: Viet Nam War
- Replies: 62
- Views: 147819
Re: Viet Nam War
Funny how 'coincidental' this all is... ;) Let's get "Beyond The Doors' of Perception... This a 'b' movie came out around the time Oliver Stone's JFK film. http://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/beyondthedoorsomrfrfgrg.jpg "This film tries to wring in a few bucks by stomping on t...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 2:41 pm
- Forum: Apollo, and more space hoaxes
- Topic: What is Gravity?
- Replies: 160
- Views: 274652
Re: What is Gravity?
A brief and partial history of the concept of gravity and who promoted the resulting 'science': "Newton made clear his heliocentric view of the Solar System—developed in a somewhat modern way, because already in the mid-1680s he recognised the "deviation of the Sun" from the centre o...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 1:56 pm
- Forum: General World Affairs
- Topic: The (non-religious) dinosaur hoax question
- Replies: 300
- Views: 591600
Re: The (non-religious) dinosaur hoax question
https://dinosours.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/19amnh_apatosaurus2.jpg Saw this in person recently with the wife and kids. That artifice is more believable in photo than in real life. The thing is not even put together right. There are no hip joints, for example. Standing there looking at this massi...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 1:38 pm
- Forum: THE LIVING ROOM
- Topic: THE DERAILING ROOM
- Replies: 1827
- Views: 1814116
Re: The Holocaust: propaganda, censorship and media fakery
Another issue I have is the extent to which "they" could have distorted reality? Were Jews in Nazi germany allowed to live freely, work, own businesses, buy property, etc? Or were they imprisoned, and put in camps, without having committed any crime other than being Jewish? Assuming that ...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:18 am
- Forum: THE LIVING ROOM
- Topic: Songs that Expose Truth (?)
- Replies: 235
- Views: 271965
Re: Songs that Expose Truth
The Very Proper Gander by James Thurber Not so very long ago there was a very fine gander. He was strong and smooth and beautiful and he spent most of his time singing to his wife and children. One day somebody who saw him strutting up and down in his yard and singing remarked, "There is a ver...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:02 am
- Forum: The Question of Fakery
- Topic: The Age of Media Fakery: Threshold of the Simulation
- Replies: 156
- Views: 267101
Re: The Age of Media Fakery: Threshold of the Simulation
Zoran Perisic discussing the Zoptic process on Superman The Movie mbXC16p8tNc " He is an inventor and holder of several patents on Front-Projection and 3-D Cinematograph. He was Special Effects Director/Supervisor or Consultant on: Superman - The Movie, Thief of Bagdad,... 2001: A Space Odysse...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 4:20 am
- Forum: The Question of Fakery
- Topic: The Age of Media Fakery: Threshold of the Simulation
- Replies: 156
- Views: 267101
Re: The Age of Media Fakery: Threshold of the Simulation
Interesting swimming special effects shot explained at around 9:25 . Like an early Superman flight or even astronauts on a space station... Hollywood - Ep 1 : The Pioneers Douglas Fairbanks in THE BLACK PIRATE The Black Pirate is a 1926 silent adventure film shot entirely in two-color Technicolor ab...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 1:00 am
- Forum: WWI - WWII, the Nuke Hoax, the Cold War and JFK
- Topic: Viet Nam War
- Replies: 62
- Views: 147819
Re: Viet Nam War
http://hugequestions.com/Eric/TFC/FromOthers/img/Jim-Morrison-with-father-1964.jpg Jim Morrison of the Doors "Morrison began writing in earnest during his adolescence. At UCLA he studied the related fields of theater, film, and cinematography " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison G...
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:59 pm
- Forum: THE LIVING ROOM
- Topic: THE DERAILING ROOM
- Replies: 1827
- Views: 1814116
Re: The Holocaust: propaganda, censorship and media fakery
http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-126964-panoV9-zcfq.jpg Simon Wiesenthal "...was an Austrian writer and Nazi hunter. He was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter. He studied architecture and was living in Lviv (Lwów) at the o...