satellite images (was Re: un covers guernica)

[Chris Byrne]

What about those 'convincing' satellite images the media is analysing in great depth? Anyone got a copy of Photoshop handy? Just touch 'em up with this handy Gaussian blur tool...

If there was ever a time when journalists ought to know more about art history, digital reproduction of images and 'authenticity', it's now. Can somebody send the journos a copy of John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" please? That would be a start.

Hmmm. And then the intercepted telephone calls. Can you lend me that copy of ProTools please Colonel?

Chris (conspiracy theory mode ON)

At 12:08 pm +0100 7/2/03, Gair wrote:

The tapestry in question

Earlier this week, U.N. officials hung a blue curtain over a tapestry reproduction of Picasso's Guernica at the entrance of the Security Council.

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