Art jam week 5 : “#horse” 🐴
I was looking up medieval #unicorn illustrations while making this, so I’m not sure why i ended up unconsciously drawing a #Rapidash hahahahah 😅
#watercolour #watercolor #painting #doodle #ink #pokemon
It’s officially tomorrow! I’m still really thinking “yep”, and I’m happy I’m not alone. Thanks, everybody! (Btw, to dispel any confusion expressed on the other picture I did, it is most definitely Kiki and Sadie.)
oh no! this one is burnt :( i guess i’ll just eat it so no one else has to :)
oh no! this one crumbled :( i guess i’ll just eat it so no one else has to :)
oh no! this one got smushed :( i guess i’ll just eat it so no one else has to :)
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In 1985, even as Korea’s economy was advancing rapidly, nearly 9,000 South Korean babies were sent overseas for international adoptions. At that time, more than 80 percent given up for adoption were born to single moms, so the link between the moms and today’s adult adoptees is clear.
As a powerful New York Times story detailed, many adoptees have returned in Korea to reclaim a part of their identities and to advocate for the moms. Adoptees believe that removing Korea’s social stigma against raising kids out of wedlock will help moms stay with their babies.
One of them is Shannon Heit (seen on the left). HerTumblr is a lot of fun if you’re looking for a new follow. Her story is fascinating and told only briefly in my piece this morning. Heit was essentially stolen from her birth mom by her grandmother, given up for adoption behind her mom’s back. In a bid to find her mom, she returned to Korea and went on the American Idol equivalent — K Pop Star — as part of a hunt for her mom. They eventually reunited and her birth mom was there just hours after the birth of her baby son, three months ago.
Anyone
who has ever asked me for tips on content verification and debunking of
fakes knows one of the first things I always mention is reverse image
search. It’s one of the simplest and most powerful tools at your
disposal. This week provided another good example of how overlooked it
is.
Unrest
in Baltimore, like any other dramatic event these days, created a surge
of activity on social media. In the age of the selfie and ubiquitous
cameras, many people have become compulsive chroniclers of all their
activities — sometimes unwisely so.
Reactions
ranged from shock and disgust to disbelief and amusement when a series
of images started to circulate showing looters proudly displaying their
ill-gotten gains. Not all, however, was as it seemed.
Few things say America like KFC, and it was no surprise to see that the Colonel had fallen victim to the violence:
I
often get asked about the fundamentals of verification, and one of the
first things I alway mention is the ability — and indeed the reflex — to
always perform a reverse image search. I also mention, only
half-jokingly, that this should possibly even be added to the school
curriculum. It’s not as if it would take up much of the school year; it
can be taught in approximately 30 seconds.
This photo and the accompanying declaration were admittedly worrying:
But the young man shown had already been the subject of an April 17 news report from Fox13, a Memphis-based Fox affiliate.
Given
the provenance of the images, it should come as no surprise that the
profile photographs used on the Twitter accounts are not exactly 100
percent legitimate. The gentleman named as Da’Marious Trufton connected
to the KFC photo turns out to be Dupree Johnson, from South Florida.
‘Tanisha’, who appeared to have looted an entire cosmetics counter, was represented by a photograph of a Canadian rapper, Honey Cocaine.
The
profile photograph of ‘Jayrome’, who was preparing to take his
heat-packing kid brother on a crime spree, actually showed a young man
who goes by the name of “VonMar”:
VonMar appears to be a Chicago-based Jackass wannabe who has a taste for mischief but not, as far as we know, looting.
There are numerous other examples, but you get the picture.
We
could speculate all day on the motivations of the people who posted
these tweets, from the sinister to the silly. One thing for certain is
that they were getting dozens of favourites and retweets, and there was
no shortage of people taking them seriously.
Some notified law enforcement officials…
… others were disappointed…
… and still others grabbed the opportunity to display the worst side of their own nature:
The
‘confessions’ were shared widely, being retweeted by plenty of people,
half a dozen of them by a blogger with more than 23,000 followers:
I approached the blogger ahead of writing this article and, after a bit of back and forth, received some counsel:
The
point, of course, is not whether these things happened or not. The
point is that the tweets were not portraying what they purported to be.
Worse, they used photos of real people and connected them to these acts.
Tineye
and Google image search provide browser add-ons, meaning these kinds of
checks can be performed in seconds. Cultivate the habit — increased
credibility is only a right-click away.
MENTALLY ILL WOMAN TASED TO DEATH WHILE SHACKELED, BEATEN, AND HANDCUFFED
Natasha Mckenna, a mentally ill woman who died after a stun gun was used on her at the Fairfax County jail in February, was restrained with handcuffs behind her back, leg shackles and a mask when a sheriff’s deputy tasered her four times, incident reports obtained by The Washington Post show.
Six members of the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, dressed in white full-body biohazard suits and gas masks, arrived and placed a wildly struggling 130-pound McKenna into full restraints, their reports state. But when McKenna wouldn’t bend her knees so she could be placed into a wheeled restraint chair, a lieutenant delivered four 50,000-volt shocks from the Taser, enabling the other deputies to strap her into the chair.
Minutes later, she stopped breathing. Days later, she died.
So, I totally found Justice’s baby pics that I hadn’t seen before. Had to share because WHAT A CUTE, but also to illustrate her blue compared to normal gonyo greens. Last photo is a normal sib.
