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Iconic Photograph Many Times Hijacked

Does pictorial information always require descriptive caption?
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 1 day ago
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Transparently Fake Pictures

Consumers of information admit a preference for provider transparency with respect to data manipulation, hype, push/pull eye candy, sales pitches, fake news . . .
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 1 day ago
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POTUS Speaks: Does Political Speech Mirror Existential Experience?

Consumers of information demonstrating impatience with political campaigns cannot mask palpable displeasure with political talk as in this image of a speechifying POTUS. The image is a voluntary ex...
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 2 days ago
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How Do We See Ourselves in the Information Age?

Consumers and lay creators of information appreciate the democratization potentiated by personal computing.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 3 days ago
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Varieties of Contrived Experience

Consumers of information may never know whether data received through the senses is true even when verified under standards and formulae used by journalists creating news stories.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 3 days ago
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Fake Sing Along Photo Assembled from International Clip Art and Spare Parts

This is a fake photograph assembled from spare files in my computer and an image downloaded from the web.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 4 days ago
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Phony Portrait of a Man in Love With Himself

Perhaps the central informing data of portraiture are ambient information, decor and objects of everyday life lurking in the background to ambush the insolence of pride. This is, of course, as with...
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 4 days ago
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Hacking History: Time, Space, Life, Memory Interrupted

Art creates a document that exists irrevocably in a virtual world accessible and eventuated as eventually unassailable across time, space, purpose, intention.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 5 days ago
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Fake News Fail: When Totally Phony Pictures Bomb

Whenever conceptual artists creating photo driven pictures fail at making credible images for fake news they usually receive kudos for their transparency.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 6 days ago
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Mapping A Working Life: An Octogenarian Asks "Wot's It All About, Alfie?"

Many a child of the Great Depression has wandered through life successfully, happily, wondrously, confidently, riskily.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 6 days ago
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What Are Geezers Thinking About All the Time?

Charlie Rose: Do you think at all about death? Arthur Miller: I think about it at least three or four times a day.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 6 days ago
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Notions About Public Utility

Just as events in the End Times may require global governmental takeover of mortuary services, a possibility following a successful IPO bid by the planet's largest social network company may result...
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 05 / 2012
  • 108 reads
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Fake News Then and Now

Consumers of information familiar with the history of information appreciate the fact that the practice of faking information has always been with us.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 05 / 2012
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The News As A Graphic Novel

This image from Alamy posted to The Huffington Post (an aggregated news blog) to illustrate a news item by Alexander Eichler, "Corporate Taxes As A Percentage of Profits Now Lowest in Decades," tak...
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 05 / 2012
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How Fake News Is Created: The Art of Self-Advertisement and Self-Interest

Suppliers of fabulation and fake news generally hire creators of their product who then work assiduously for long hours under boiler room conditions.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 04 / 2012
  • 109 reads
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Memory Test: What Would You Remember After 64 Years?

A geezer artist, long a student of phenomenology, fails the challenge of creating a comprehensive one-panel flash back image of his teen years.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 04 / 2012
  • 182 reads
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Any Day Now: Anticipating the Fatal Ambush Sweep of Father Time's Scythe

Consumers of funereal and obituary information are suddenly aware of the widening roster of old friends inclusively stepping off the planet.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 04 / 2012
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Process Shot in Progress

This panel demonstrates how conceptual artists assemble image parts stored in folders in their computers, old photographs purchased in antique shops or images downloaded from clip art sites on the ...
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 04 / 2012
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Thinking Different

Language in action.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 03 / 2012
  • 74 reads
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What Can Art Do?

Art can take you anywhere, passively or actively, prosaic or romantic, in time and space as who you are or want to be.
  • Arturo Snuze (aka Alfredo de la Rosa) published this 02 / 03 / 2012
  • 74 reads
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