For my concept, I went with the theme of Otherly World. What I take as the Otherly World to be is a realm beyond the confines of our familiar reality, where the laws of physics bend to the whims of creativity. In the Otherly World, every corner is a new discovery, every encounters a chance for adventure, and every moment an opportunity to embrace the extraordinary. In a universe where reality intertwines with the extraordinary, children are transported to realms beyond imagination.
I had multiple pictures of landscapes and chose the one seen in the GIF as the best use of composition and space. The help of generative AI created the Otherly World intertwined with our current home, Earth. I originally had a person with their back facing the viewers but I soon realized that the composition of the person did not fit and it did not give the feeling of what I wanted to create. Although I had a few other options on what to do next, I got feedback and decided to land on kids playing. The help of the old railroad tracks in the photo helped to create the sense of a play area for kids. I used Adobe Stock for the kids. Children are at a stage in life where they are actively learning about themselves and the world around them, making their journeys through Otherly Worlds rich with opportunities for character development and life lessons.
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ReplyDeleteCritique of Hang Le’s Fake It By Emily Furr
ReplyDeleteThe work is Other Worldly by Hang Lee for the Fake It project. The subject is kids playing on an old railroad track while there are other worldly things going on all around them. There are four kids in the foreground of the photo jumping around on the old train tracks where there is dirt and foliage all around them. Around the sides and above them there are futuristic buildings, colorful bubbles and what looks like a futuristic ship. There is a metal arch that takes up a good portion of the sky that seems to reflect the city below. The proportions of everything in the landscape seem correct. The aspect ratio of this seems to be more of what you would see taken on a phone, which we could still potentially be using in this setting. The texture seems to combine realism with fabricated futuristic technology.
The meaning seems to be that kids are still kids even in the future. Kids have wild imaginations, lots of energy, love to explore and most times don’t care how they look to others. Along with the fact that I see no devices in their hands, they’re barefoot and joyful in a space of nature in the city, brings me to this conclusion. They seem to be enthralled in what is in the sky, so they are even excited about their environment and probably want to learn more about them.
The work is not believable as a deep fake but it is a well crafted image that looks good for a project dealing with “what would the future look like.” The blending for some of the children is a little off. The feet on the child with the red shirt seem to be missing, while the boy with the blue shirt and white pants seems as if he should have been placed a little farther back. The kids also seem to be a slightly different exposure to the rest of the landscape. The floating bubbles, ship and some of the edges on the building look fake, you can tell it was put in by someone. The arch though looks phenomenal and believable. The arch looks correct like it's supposed to be there and was a great addition to the photo. I think if you would have cleaned up some of the building's edges and added the arch and kids you could have pulled off a deep fake. The bubbles, ship and yellow clouds are what make this unbelievable as a deep fake.
The work exists within our larger culture because we are always looking forward to the future. It seems like everyday there is some kind of new technology or technology update that makes something old work like new. The media is always selling dreams of the future and this work taps into that. If we could make people believe that America is leading the charge into new cities that are more sustainable we could create a wave of American Pride. Which as of late is at an all time low. In other words this deep fake could become propaganda for making America look like a leader in environmental issues.
The landscape is well crafted and a lot of time was put into this to make it seem otherworldly. But with our assignment I do not see it being a good deep fake. With so many “new technologies'' in the sky it makes it look unbelievable. With this I would have gone the route of less is more. In order to make the deep fake there needs to be more reality seen within the sky. A few changes like cleaning up edges of the buildings and getting rid of the ship and bubbles would have made this more believable as a deepfake.