Danny Sapko discovers… (now including follow up vid that is worse!)

[Killerfridge]

8 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

That was a really good take. Enjoyed that. Cheers for sharing.

 

If you can stretch to a nearly 55 min video, Adam Neely's PhD thesis-level discussion of miming and authenticity is incredible. It also shows all the tricks of how you can knock up a faked video - it's an eye-opener. I knew about comping, that's been done since the first days of multi-track recording, but this is amazing:

 

It's good, but I think it misses some key points. Janek and his wife Chelsea address it very well here, especially around how "we have no evidence that fakery is bad for self esteem", except we have a litany of evidence in young women and facetuning:

 

 

 

[Doctor J]

I wonder did Janek pay to licence the Gran Turismo image.