Semifiktive Halbwahrheiten - Reality Generator
created in march 2006 by marod
"Paradoxerweise wird das Fernsehen im Grunde vom Wort dominiert. Das Photo ist nichts ohne seine Legende, die sagt, was man zu lesen hat - legendum - das heißt aber oft genug: Legenden, die Unsinn schwafeln." "Das Fernsehen, das die Wirklichkeit wiederzugeben behauptet, wurde ein Instrument zur Schaffung von Wirklichkeit; aus dem Be-schreiben der sozialen Welt durch das Fernsehen wird ein Vor-schreiben. Das Fernsehen entscheidet zunehmend darüber, wer und was sozial und politisch existiert." Über das Fernsehen, Pierre Bourdieu, 1998 (en/de
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Semifiktive Halbwahrheiten - Reality Generator uses words from recent news headlines as search terms to fetch images from yahoo image search.
Every time someone visits this page, a new combination of a headline and an image gets created and saved as part of an image sequence which will be used in live performances.
Please be patient. Be aware that this project is still in development and you might get error messages when loading the page. In case of an error message just click on the image to try to fetch a new text-image combination.
772 images have been saved so far. Visit the index page for a few samples. Talk about Semifiktive Halbwahrheiten - Reality Generator at reddit.com.
Choosing newsfeed.(#0 out of 15) http://indymedia.org/global.1-0.rss
Loading RSS headlines.
20 headlines loaded.
Choosing headline(2) The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week 2010
Choosing 3 words from headline . Annual. . Apartheid. . . Sixth. .
Loading yahoo image RSS feed. http://api.search.yahoo.com/ImageSearchService/rss/imageSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchimagerss&query=Annual+Apartheid+Sixth&adult_ok=1&format=jpeg&results=50
4 images in yahoo image RSS feed.
Trying to load image: 3. 2. 2. 2.
Choosing newsfeed.(#14 out of 15) http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=US%20political%20columnists&o=rss002&client_id=askjeeves_rss_bs74
Loading RSS headlines.
30 headlines loaded.
Choosing headline(19) Andy Borowitz: Oscars to Double Number of Dead People in Montage
Choosing 3 words from headline . Oscars. . . Andy. . Borowitz. .
Loading yahoo image RSS feed. http://api.search.yahoo.com/ImageSearchService/rss/imageSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchimagerss&query=Oscars+Andy+Borowitz&adult_ok=1&format=jpeg&results=50
1 image in yahoo image RSS feed.
Trying to load image: 0.
Image loaded (0). Needed 1 attempt.
Original Image URL: http://gawker.com/assets/images/gallery/7/2007/02/medium_403613668_c540ad7e1f_o.jpg
medium_403613668_c540ad7e1f_o-Oscars_Andy_Borowitz.jpg
Done. Click here or the image above to fetch a new text-image combo.