Technology has allowed us to create new digital worlds of make believe. Programs like Adobe Photoshop have given us incredible power, but with it comes responsibility. What happens when reality and make believe collide? What happens when we distort reality and don't recognize the truth? Images have been altered to erase and change history and newsworthy events. Through "airbrushing techniques" we have forced an artificial sense of beauty. Here are a few examples of Famous Altered Images. I was tasked this week with creating an anachronism. An anachronism is an inconsistency in some chronological arrangement. The goal was to create an image out of two or more images in which something from the present appears in the past in a way that reflects a temporal impossibility.
World War II was a unique time in history. For the most part, women still stayed at home and tended to their families. Few people imagined women could‚ or should‚ fly. But the need took precedence over traditional male-female roles. My Grandmother, Elsie Matheke Lynch, was a service pilot. From 1942 to 1944, more than 1,000 women were trained to ferry aircraft, test planes, instruct male pilots, and tow targets for anti-aircraft artillery practice.
I often wonder about what this adventure was like for her. The women pilots prided themselves on having better flying records than their male counterparts. Through their ability, courage and diligence, they proved to the skeptics that women were capable pilots. Yet they were given no official military status or privilege. In 1944, as the war was drawing to a close, more male pilots began returning and joining the service. The government forced the shut down of an established program known as WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot). It would be more than thirty years until women would fly again for the US Military.
I wonder what my Nana's Twitter feed would have looked like? I would have definitely followed Airborn Elsie, a brave lady who never lost her sense of wonder and gave the heavens more than a passing glance.
World War II was a unique time in history. For the most part, women still stayed at home and tended to their families. Few people imagined women could‚ or should‚ fly. But the need took precedence over traditional male-female roles. My Grandmother, Elsie Matheke Lynch, was a service pilot. From 1942 to 1944, more than 1,000 women were trained to ferry aircraft, test planes, instruct male pilots, and tow targets for anti-aircraft artillery practice.
I often wonder about what this adventure was like for her. The women pilots prided themselves on having better flying records than their male counterparts. Through their ability, courage and diligence, they proved to the skeptics that women were capable pilots. Yet they were given no official military status or privilege. In 1944, as the war was drawing to a close, more male pilots began returning and joining the service. The government forced the shut down of an established program known as WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot). It would be more than thirty years until women would fly again for the US Military.
I wonder what my Nana's Twitter feed would have looked like? I would have definitely followed Airborn Elsie, a brave lady who never lost her sense of wonder and gave the heavens more than a passing glance.
Here is a link to download a PSD file: Airborn Elsie Photoshop File
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