{"id":18697,"date":"2013-01-18T06:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=18697"},"modified":"2013-01-18T06:37:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:37:14","slug":"wysiwyg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=18697","title":{"rendered":"WYSIWYG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; what you see is what you get: WYSIWYG &#8212; and possibly also TEOTWAWKI ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>See buildings, walls, handrails, reflections, rows of windows, and people he&#8217;s walking past vanish and reappear as a man dressed for mountain climbing sets out into a blizzard of snow, video snow and special effects\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/23469597\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/shloky.com\/the-system-is-glitching\/\"><strong>Shlok Vaidya<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>We knew that Iran could photoshop extra rockets into a widely distributed news image \u2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Iran-Missile-Photoshop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Iran-Missile-Photoshop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Iran Missile Photoshop\" width=\"520\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Iran-Missile-Photoshop.jpg 520w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Iran-Missile-Photoshop-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and that Russian dissidents could makeover <strong>Kirill<\/strong> as his friend <strong>Putin <\/strong>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SPEC-Kirill-Putin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SPEC-Kirill-Putin.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Kirill Putin\" width=\"589\" height=\"618\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SPEC-Kirill-Putin.png 589w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SPEC-Kirill-Putin-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the video above, with it&#8217;s vanishing and reappearing <em>everythings<\/em>?  Simple &#8212; it&#8217;s a stunning portrayal of just what patience and skill can manage with video tampering using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshop.html\">Photoshop CS5<\/a> or the like.  Hence &#8212; this may also be the time to announce TEOTWAWKI.  The end of the world as we know it. As we <em>believe <\/em>we know it. <\/p>\n<p>You only need one of those effects, remember, to fake out a geopolitical tipping point\u2026  <\/p>\n<p>Watcher, beware.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>But then there&#8217;s my friend <strong>Howard Rheingold<\/strong>, who points out that our whole world is a constructed reality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We habitually think of the world we see as &#8220;out there,&#8221; but what we are seeing is really a mental model, a perceptual simulation that exists only in our brains. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive simulation &#8212; mental model-making &#8212; is what humans do best. We do it so well that we tend to become locked into our own models of the world by a seamless web of unconscious beliefs and subtly molded perceptions. And computers are model-making tools par excellence, although they are only beginning to approach the point where people might confuse simulations with reality. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a quote from his piece in <strong>Brenda Laurel<\/strong>&#8216;s 1990 classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Art-Human-Computer-Interface-Design\/dp\/0201517973\">Art of Human-Computer Interface Design<\/a> &#8212; and it seems to grow more prescient by the day!<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Three topics, at least somewhat related, we can maybe talk about later: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xrdarabia.org\/2013\/01\/17\/who-lit-the-fire\/\">Who it was<\/a> that spread the word about the Innocence of Muslims trainer.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaugeanstables.com\/2013\/01\/17\/karsenty-vs-enderlin-baker-vs-rekab-street-in-action\/\">disputed <strong>Muhammad al-Durrah<\/strong> incident<\/a> at the Netzarim junction.  And\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/taibblog\/zero-dark-thirty-is-osama-bin-ladens-last-victory-over-america-20130116\">Zero Dark Thirty<\/a>.  <\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; what you see is what you get: WYSIWYG &#8212; and possibly also TEOTWAWKI ] . See buildings, walls, handrails, reflections, rows of windows, and people he&#8217;s walking past vanish and reappear as a man dressed for mountain climbing sets out into a blizzard of snow, video snow and special effects\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,24,877,878,93,876,473,436,648,91,281,743,687,1,61,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-cognition","category-deception","category-illusion","category-iran","category-photoshopping","category-propaganda","category-psychology","category-rheingold","category-russia","category-shloky","category-simulation","category-specs","category-uncategorized","category-visualization","category-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18697"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18766,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697\/revisions\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}