OK, also DAFÜR hatte ich jetzt kein Bingofeld vorgesehen: Berliner Polizei tweetet Katzencontent.
Photographs or Paintings? 20 Artworks that look Hyper Realistic
Technical skills at the highest level. You will see no difference to a high-resolution photo, but these are actually hand drawn paintings. Start doubting your eyes!
Sensazioni
This amazing art was created by Diego Fazio. His hyperrealistic portraits are often mistaken for black and white photographs.
© DiegoKoi
Jelly Beans
Pedro Campos is an incredible Photo realistic painter from Madrid, Spain.
BLT Sandwich
Tjalf Sparnaay is a self-taught master of the hyper-realistic art.
Back at the Workshop
South Korean hyper realist artist JW-Jeong. His art has been featured at numerous solo and group art exhibitions.
© JW-Jeong
Lexington and 58th
The highest level of expression – that`s what these paintings are all about.
Archimede’s turtle
The precision and extreme attention to detail make his paintings incredibly realistic.
Singularity
Eley works and resides in Los Angeles, California. His works of art are outstanding.
Oil on canvas
Fabiano Millani is an Award winning Artist from São Paulo, Brasil.
© Millani
Morgan Freeman
Kyle Lambert is a US-based visual artist, who is known for his striking digital illustration work.
Element No. 24
Ortner’s work has appeared in a multiplicity of platforms from solo exhibitions to group exhibitions, competitions, and civic world events.
Karen
Painting of model Karen created during a portrait workshop.
Metal City Rising
His site contains paintings, drawings, and photographs. It also contains a page that demonstrates the process by which the paintings are made.
© Don Eddy
End of Play / Industrial Nest
Take a look at Juan’s unique aesthetic which looks to the female nude as its main subject.
Cassandra
Hubert De Lartigue is a French artist who produces photorealistic portraitures.
Zit! Throom! Krrakkk! / Something’s Going Down In That Museum Right Now
Sharon Moody`s series of photorealistic paintings are awesome. I love her Comic books in oil on panel.
Tiled Lunch Counter
Ralph Goings is a realist painter who has exhibited in USA, Europe, and Japan and is represented in museums and private collections.
Hands
Raphaella Beatrice Spence is a photorealist painter based in Todi.
Red Rover
Chris Lenkinson lives and works in Perth, Scotland. This Oil on Board Firetruck is gorgeous.
Morning on the Ganges
Charles is painting mostly from his travel photographs. Many of his pieces are examples of “classical realism”.
Hamamatsucho
Richard Heisler’s site featuring the 100 Views of Tokyo series of paintings.
Traumstände: Klappe die I
Traumstände: Klappe die I
Anschlag in Berlin: BKA-Hinweisportal durch DDoS-Angriff lahmgelegt
Am Tag nach dem mutmaßlichen Anschlag auf einen Berliner Weihnachtsmarkt ist das Hinweisportal des Bundeskriminalamts mehr als zwei Stunden durch einen DDoS-Angriff lahmgelegt worden. Inzwischen ist es wieder erreichbar.
PersonalData.IO helps you get access to your personal data
PersonalData.IO is a free and open platform for citizens to track their personal data and understand how it is used by companies. It is part of the MyData movement, promoting a human-centric approach to personal data management.
A lot of readers of this blog will be familiar with Freedom of Information laws, a legal mechanism that forces governments to be more open. Individuals, journalists, startups and other actors can use this “right-to-know” to understand what the government is doing and try to make it function better. There are even platforms that help facilitate the exercise of this right, like MuckRock, WhatDoTheyKnow or FragDenStaat. These platforms also have an education function around information rights.
In Europe we enjoy a similar right with respect to personal data held by private companies, but it is often very hard to exercise it. We want to change that, with PersonalData.IO.
Image credit: Kevin O’Connor (CC BY)
What is personal data?
In European law, the definition of personal data is extremely broad:any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Unlike in the U.S., the concept of identifiability is crucial in defining personal data, and ever-expanding to match technical possibilities: if some intermediate identifier (license plate, cookie, dynamic IP address, phone number, etc) can reasonably be traced back to you given likely evolution of technology, all the data associated to that identifier becomes personal data.
Why should you care?
Holding personal data often translates into power over people, which in turn becomes economic might (at the extreme, think Facebook, Google, etc). This situation often creates uncomfortable issues of transborder transparency and accountability, but also hinders the appearance of other innovative uses for the data, for instance for research, art, business, education, advocacy, journalism, etc.Examples
- You want to get a copy of your position data, as tracked by telecom providers, in order to use it in services of your choice.
- You are curious how Uber complies with data protection laws as it moves to Europe, or whether they really can tell when people are desperate for a ride based on battery data. You exercise your right to obtain a copy, which you then make open. This data then gets picked up by a researcher investigating battery-based fraud detection, or a journalist writing about a recent Uber lawsuit.
- You are curious whether Facebook tried to make you more happy or sad when it conducted its Emotion Manipulation Experiment.
- You want to understand the whole adtech ecosystem and the browsing data collected through cookies on your local newspaper’s website.
- You want to understand how effective keystroke biometrics really are in identifying students in an online course.
- You want to understand how marketers have targeted you on Facebook through Custom Audiences, Lookalike Audiences or Pixels.
- You, as an American, want to get a copy of the psychological profile a UK-based subcontractor to Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Donald Trump claims to have built during the recent elections.
- You want to see what your IoT or smart device logs back at “home base”.
PersonalData.IO portal
Leveraging the same mechanisms as FOI portals, we are focused on making such requests easier to initiate, to follow through, to share and then to clone. Processing the requests in the open helps increase the pressure on companies to comply. In practice, we have taken the Froide software developed by Open Knowledge Germany, themed it to our needs and made some basic modifications in the workflow. Our platform is growing its user base slowly, but we benefit from many network effects: for any given company, you only need one person to go through the process of getting their hands on their data, and afterwards everyone benefits!
MyData
Getting to the data is only the first step. The bar is still pretty high then to make it really useful. In May 2018, new regulations will come into place in Europe to help individuals leverage their personal data even more: individuals will enjoy a new right to data portability, i.e. the right to transfer data from one service to another. In anticipation a whole movement has arisen focused on human-centric personal data management, called MyData. OpenKnowledge Finland recently organised a conference with tons of people building new services giving you more control over all that data! I am looking forward to a tool helping individuals turn their personal data into Open Data (by scraping direct identifiers, for instance). Many companies will also benefit from the Frictionless Data project, since there will be a requirement to transfer that data “in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable and interoperable format”.
Image credit: Salla Thure (Public Domain)