Watkins Glen International Racetrack, the proposed venue for the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, officially pulled out of the festival this Monday. This back out among many other misfortunes has left people wondering if Woodstock 50 will happen this August and if it will be the next Fyre Festival, a notoriously failed luxury music festival that took place in 2017. While there are doubts that Woodstock 50 will succeed, I don’t think it can compare to the Fyre Festival disaster. Join me on today’s podcast as I talk about the nitty gritty details of Woodstock and how it is different from Fyre Festival.
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Gabbie Hanna, one of my favorite YouTubers, faked going to Coachella with the help of Kellan Hendry, a 21-year-old photographer who takes ordinary portraits of people and Photoshops them into fantastical wonderlands. They had me and the entire Internet fooled, which made me think about how there is a new artist being born in the digital age: Photo Artists. Along with painters and sculptures, Photoshop and Lightroom editors are using these technologies to create masterpieces. The rise of the “Photo Artist” makes me think about a media studies theory I learned at Cal, which is Walter Benjamin’s notion that the aura for a work of art is lost with the rise of mechanical reproduction. Can a highly Photoshopped image be considered art, or does its ability to be reposted make it lose its credibility? What happens when photo and video manipulation goes too far and is used for political gain? All this and more will be discussed on today’s episode!
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