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Old 10-05-2007, 04:25 PM
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It's no longer a question of whether or not the photo was retouched, but whether or not it actually is a photo:

http://www.drublair.com/comersus/store/tica.asp
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Old 10-05-2007, 04:47 PM
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Your site is down. Not a good start.
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Old 10-05-2007, 05:27 PM
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Link works fine for me. Just went there again.
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Old 10-05-2007, 05:33 PM
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I should note however that she does actually exist, but needn't.
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Old 10-05-2007, 06:07 PM
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There seems to be allot of smoke and mirrors regarding the technique used. It does raise a couple of interesting questions. Namely, what is a photo? What is a painting?
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Old 10-05-2007, 06:11 PM
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There seems to be allot of smoke and mirrors regarding the technique used. It does raise a couple of interesting questions. Namely, what is a photo? What is a painting?

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...and more importantly, who cares? A printer is a controlled painting, it's cool to see a person able to reproduce the technology of a printer manually. I find it about as interesting as somebody executing a block of code manually.
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Old 10-05-2007, 06:28 PM
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Nah, it is actually fairly important. These days are the last day of the photograph and the film. If you see a picture or a movie from the 1970s, then you can be fairly certain it to some degree reflects those times. It won't be a documentary of the times, but using alot of those sources you can still interprete some historical value.

Now when we cross the final treshold to digital all this is lost, and we no longer will have this ability, which has the potential side-effect of lowering the amount of information we leave behind.

Couple this with the fact that digital media has a much lower average lifespan than paper, that propriety formats make libraries unable to store alot of information (this is getting better now though) and you might be looking at a massive information loss about our time.

Then you have the arts issues that some may find less important, but still can be an interesting discussion. The major question in it was asked earlier.
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