Jiggy 2/20

Images flash in front of our eyes, but what is real? How we define and understand reality is more important in our digital age than ever. With thousands of visual images seen daily how do we as humans distingush the fact from fiction. I believe that we have come to a point were images are considered real but association. We associate the news with truth, images seen in newspapers, television or credable online sources are seen and believed. Technology has gotten so good that even those real images could be duplicated and altered to show a masked reality. This can be seen in major motion pictures. As seen in class a snapshot of a movie seen can be captioned as reality and taken out of context. This is a new development in human history. Before the photograph the only reality was seen with the naked eye. Images were personal and contexualized but the background of the individual. Now, images flood our brains through magazines, internet, television, billboards, books and cellphones. To take those images and know what has been constructed and what represents the truth or reality has become nearly impossible. Now more than ever we need trusted sources of images for news. Imagine if all the images taken in one day were just placed on a website and you were forced to arrange them from real to masked. It would be nearly impossible. Somthimes, entertainment is needed and forms of masked reality are used for amusement. This is seen with any cartoon or animation, all the images are constructions of reality but altered to create a new dynamic. Sometimes I wish I could have a day 300 years ago when the image was pure, not a contruction of what I have consumed.