Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, August 10, 2009

What Can You Believe?

I played this video for a co-worker. The question she put was basically this: How can you trust a photograph or a video anymore to be a true representation of the facts?

Seriously. It used to take some real darkroom skills in order to fake a photo and, as for a movie, that was even harder. But now?

Have we gotten to the point where photographic evidence should be seriously questioned, if not banned as proof of a fact?

2 comments:

Sarah said...

No question about it. Images and videos have no value anymore as "proof" of anything. I imagine they'd have some use if from a trusted source and/or backed up by a witness who swears it to be accurate.

But stuff like that video ( funny, but not very convincing... kind of like this)

Here is an oldie but a goodie:
Flight 405

Comrade Misfit said...

I downloaded that one back when nobody (outside of college kids) had access to high-speed internet. When a fellow attorney and I were doing a test-run of a new courtroom that had been wired for digital graphics, we used that video to test things out.