Friday, June 8, 2012

What I Hope it Will Look Like and Some Explainations About Other Things



Howdy.
This is a poorly photoshoped image of what I hope my projection mapping project will look like (at some point in my animation.) I imagine the piece to take place sometime in the future (in a museum exhibit?) where humans will look back at history of the Apollo Lunar missions. BUT! instead of an "accurate" retelling, the truth becomes befuddled with images of science fiction where distinctions between reality and media images is blurred.




Many believe the NASA moon landings to be a hoax, with many conspiracy theorist citing the footage of the Apollo missions as evidence.

It looks like a movie set! 
Where are the stars?
Why is the flag waving when there's no wind?

etc. & etc.

(So they say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories)

These claims (and many more) have been debunked by NASA and outside organizations, and yet what I find interesting is that the only information the public receives of the moon landings is through a type of media (video/photography) that is in itself steeped in questions over its objectiveness. Both sides claim truth in the footage but of different truths. Unless seen from first-hand experience, all that is filtered through the lens of the media is subjected to some level of manipulation, whether it be news footage, of film. The only difference is how much.