I decided to post this photo of my friend to social media. I thought because we have a lot of friends in common that we would be able to get more of a response. A lot of our friends were confused by the topic and wondered why she was hanging upside down. Some thought that she was right side up at first and didn’t realize that it was a complete lie until further examination. I got a few questions on why her face looked distorted before they realized that she was upside down. Overall I got a lot of good responses along with some confusion but it was a successful post!

This is the APP: https://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/

It came from a story at The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/13/4726098/glitch-art-generator-snorpey-github

And these glitches can be made manually.

Tutorial on Databending and Glitch Art

I posted the photo I took of toy soldiers to the social media. One of my friends commented that the photo showed the war scene, and she asked if it was the day of commemoration of a war. It is surprising to hear that because the truth is quite different from what the photograph tells. Since I played with the scale of the objects, and took the picture from a low angle, the soldiers are seen to be much larger. Also, some people mentioned the black and white color of this photo and they said it was an old picture of a war or from a film. However, some people exposed my trick, and they thought the soldiers were not real but models or sculptures. After posting this lying photograph, I also posted the picture that shows the real scene. The second photo shows a row of tiny toy soldiers by the window. This time people were surprised at the toys’ tiny scale, and some thought that they were fooled. So from this lying photo, I found it interesting to see things from a different angle and take photographs of them

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I posted a picture I took for the “Photographs that Lie” assignment on my Instagram. I use Instagram pretty frequently and felt the photograph was already in-line with a lot of content I typically post. The picture – a photo of my friend Nirupa staring forlornly out of a window, acknowledging the camera – felt like a modern retelling of Rapunzel so I captioned it “Let down your hair.” None of the comments seemed to recognize it was for a photo assignment. One friend commented that she liked the shot, another just commented “lol” and Nirupa aptly replied “or my keys.” It was interesting to see that a staged photograph was accepted as a normal, standard post of mine by most of my friends. I think it would have garnered a different response on Facebook, where it would reach a wider audience. However, it’s pretty standard for people to share art and photos on Instagram in addition to personal photographs so I can see how the lines between a staged and candid photo could blur on Instagram.

Photograph I posted on Instagram

-Sadie