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[lutai256rokuta]

【AWS】はじめての学習で利用したテキスト（AWSの基本・仕組み・重要用語が全部わかる教科書）

AWSの学習を始めるときに、教科書はどうしたらよいか？というのはとても悩みました。 本屋さんでいろいろ手に取ってみてみて、一番わかりやすかったものを購入しました。 結果として、CLF~SAA合格まで利用できたので、試験対策に非常に役に立ちました！ 購入した本：AWSの基本・仕組み・重要用語が全部わかる教科書 リンク 教科書選びのポイント 教科書を選ぶ際、どう言った基準で選んだか？というのを記載したいと思います。 サービスが網羅されている AWSの教科書や教材を見ていたときに、サービスを絞って解説しているものもありました。 一通り、そう言った教科書も読���でみたのですが、ちょっと物足りなかったです。 仕組みや主要なサービスを、基本的なことをまず理解したい！という需要には向いていると思うのですが、私の求めているものはもうちょっと深く。。。 ということで、掲載されているサー…

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Tapestry with Miriam interview with Manpreet Kaur, author of "JAR OF REF...

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Book Review: The Gardins of Edin by Rosey Lee Book Reviewed by Richard Murray edited by Troy Johnson of AALBC @aalbc https://aalbc.com/book_review/9780593445495

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[zoearthuruni]

Final Images and Statement:

For this assignment, I knew that I wanted to build off my previous work by using architecture at the forefront of the manipulations. My original plan was to look at feelings of isolation through architecture and landscape, however, after some test manipulations I found that the work was not developing how I wanted it to, and I was not feeling excited about what I was making. This caused a change of plans, where I went back to my previous assignment and found that I liked how certain colours and types of buildings have connotations that when presented together, tell a specific story, or generate certain feelings, therefore, finding myself more drawn to warm lighting, and the emotional nostalgic response I got from it.

I have a deep appreciation for old architecture, and I often find myself imagining what life was like at the time of these buildings’ creation. This inspired me to explore the idea of nostalgia through architecture and landscape. Old photographs often have a sepia tone that people can recognise as being vintage, so I decided to create my own versions of vintage photographs by manipulating my images using a warm sepia/brown colour palette, alongside photographs of old houses and churches.

Within these 3 images, I have explored how specific lighting, combined with landscape and architecture, can generate a nostalgic emotional response. I cut out parts of my own photographs and merged them into 3 separate images that work within a set, exhibiting different perspectives and scenery. While manipulating these images, I thought about Jonas Bendiksen’s The Book of Veles, in which he manipulated fake photographs to trick the photographic community by playing into stereotypes of a drug-ridden European city. This was due to multiple cases of fake news and hacking coming out of Russia, causing him to fear that it would not be long until documentary photography could no longer be based in reality, but instead, fantasy from powerful digital tools. This interested me as I realised in some way, this is what I was doing. I was creating imaginary compositions and trying to make them look as though they were from hundreds of years ago.

These manipulations are intended to be seen in a book but if they were to be seen without context, would viewers believe that they were actually REAL vintage photographs? This made me work hard to try and get my photographs to feel as nostalgic and old, through the sepia tones and subject matter, as possible. To help myself achieve this, I researched other photographers who had taken and edited their photos to be sepia-toned or to showcase warm lighting such as Rick Keller, Daniel X. O’Neil, and Peter Fodor.

The ideas presented in Bendiksen’s Book of Veles were instrumental to my overall direction with my idea of nostalgia. My 3 image manipulations use vintage stereotypes and cliches of sepia tones, combined with photographs of old churches and houses, for the purpose of presenting them in a book as if they were real photographs. This reminded me of the important ethics surrounding photography and manipulation as the lines between what’s real and what’s fake slowly start to blur. I believe this project was beneficial to me through how creating my own manipulations taught me to always consider what is real and what is fake.

REFERENCES:

Miller, Jessica. Fake News: how Jonas Bendiksen hoodwinked the photographic community with The Book of Veles. 14 February 2022. https://amateurphotographer.com/book_reviews/fake-news-how-jonas-bendiksen-hoodwinked-the-photographic-community-with-the-book-of-veles/.

Sante, Luc. Colors/Sepia: Picturing Nostalgia. 2004. https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/14/sante.php#:~:text=Viewed%20in%20this%20light%2C%20sepia,had%20become%20objects%20of%20nostalgia.

[daniellemunfordardn632]

Book of Veles 

I found this article really interesting as it was focused on a topic I don't know a lot about. I learnt a lot about the methods of manipulation and creating synthetic imagery. The book of Veles is a book created by Jonas Bendiksen on the city of Veles, but with digitally manipulated images that look real enough to come across as actual photos of the city. He used 3d models of people using a video game software, learning from youtube videos. I found this approach really interesting because it requires a lot more time and effort. Opposed to the typical masking of people and editing them into another photo through photoshop, or using AI to generate people into an image. It was interesting to see how the initial interest came from the US 2016 election and the idea of ‘fake news’. 

I don't partially dislike this approach to photography but don't feel strongly passionate about it either. It's sort of weird to me, because I would never have thought to manipulate images in this way and I don't necessarily want to after reading about this. It's funny to me that people come up with these ways of manipulation but I find it slightly inspiring considering there is a lot of work going into it, with the rendering of 3d models and then finding clothing and stuff to accessorise the avatar.

https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/book_reviews/fake-news-how-jonas-bendiksen-hoodwinked-the-photographic-community-with-the-book-of-veles-160472Links to an external site.

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/jonas-bendiksen-book-of-veles/Links to an external site.

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/jonas-bendiksen/Links to an external site.

[mikaelalai-ardn632]

The Book of Veles

The Book of Veles is a series of photographs created by Jonas Bendiksen on the city of Veles located in North Macedonia. This series may appear as an assuming photojournalism series about the town; however, these images have been digitally manipulated as the people who inhabit the images were 3D models that had been digitally manipulated into empty locations that Bendiksen had actually taken in Veles. In this photobook, the 5000-word description was also written by a generative AI and the title of the series was taken from an old book with the same title. It is almost inspiring the way in which Jonas Bendiksen was so frustrated by the spread of fake news during the 2016 US election. To feel so strongly about a topic that it fuels this large project/scheme which ends up deceiving many people and make yourself look bad, to make a point/warn others about technologies evolving and “fake news” photojournalism becoming a reality. The method of using 3D models that are provided by a software is an interesting approach to manipulating photographs because I feel like most people would either take photos of real people and then edit them into the photographs or even use something like AI to generate them in. I think this could be a possible way to deal with the ethical issues that are linked with photojournalism about photographing people without their consent. Although Bendiksen talked about how he literally learnt how to render these 3D models into the images by watching YouTube tutorials, I think one would still need to have knowledge of photographic techniques and compositions to make the edits look as seamless as he had done it. I think the use of the grain effect on all the images helped to conceal the fakeness of the 3D models but in a way also made the images feel more real and authentic. Similar to Boris Eldagsen’s AI image that he submitted into a competition, both bodies of work were able to fly under the radar of the judges. Unaware that their work involved a level of fakery. I thought this was super interesting, even if they were two different photography genres, judges who are professionals in their field find it hard to distinguish between real and fake.  

Patin, Katia. ‘A Photographer and Artist Walk into a Fake News Factory’. Coda Story (blog), 26 October 2021. https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/jonas-bendiksen-book-of-veles/.

Miller, Jessica. ‘Fake News: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photographic Community with The Book of Veles’. Amateur Photographer (blog), 14 February 2022. https://amateurphotographer.com/book_reviews/fake-news-how-jonas-bendiksen-hoodwinked-the-photographic-community-with-the-book-of-veles/.CloseDeleteEdit

[ardn632fernbellbowers]

WEEK EIGHT READING

BOOK OF VELES

https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/book_reviews/fake-news-how-jonas-bendiksen-hoodwinked-the-photographic-community-with-the-book-of-veles-160472Links to an external site.

Jonas Bendiksen hoodwinked the photographic community with his 'book of veles'. He visited the city of Veles, North Macedonia which has been named the world capital of fake news. He took photos of the streets and landscapes and returned home to learn video game production softwares. He created characters online and edited them to create realistic features eg weight, acne, dimples. He then rendered the 3D versions into 2D versions and manipulated them into his photographs.

His work was screened at a photography festival and Jonas was shocked to find that no one was questioning the authenticity of his work or recognising the manipulation. So he decided to create a fake profile on social media to leave comments on his work questioning it. Finally a fellow photojournalist pieced it together, and Jonas was found out.

I found this article incredibly interesting and such an interesting concept of photo manipulation and generative AI. This seemed to be a step up from the previous photo manipulation cases we have examined in class, as they are usually photographs which have been taken to cast a completely different light on what they realistically were. However in this case, almost one hundred percent of the content was false, including the prefix to the photographs.

Personally, I see this body of work more as a social experiment. Jonas wanted to be found out for his trickery, having to go a further step into exposing himself via a fake account. I don't see this as unethical as his work was not involving real people, or real situations. It was testing the waters and almost sending a warning for the reality that will become with the everyday improvements of AI. In this case, the work has been created by a very honest and reliable source who always had the plan for his work to be find out as manipulation. However, with this technology getting better and better so quickly, in the wrong hands this could be incredibly damaging. It could change the way things are as we have known them for so long, for instance rewriting history for the generations to come.

To conclude, while I feel like this case of photo manipulation is more a testing of the waters, it is interesting to see just how realistic it can become and how much of an impact this technology is beginning to have on us

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Summer Splash

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On average, students suffer a learning loss during their vacation. Some students sign up for three or four-week summer programs.  However, studies indicate that to yield a measurable academic benefit, instruction needs to be for three hours a day for at least five weeks.

Taking time off to recuperate, rest, repair, and play is equally important for a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Families want to spend time together, take a vacation, travel, or enjoy time at home. Taking a vacation reduces stress, improves moods and sleep, and increases the bond in family relationships by making memories. The bottom line is that taking a time out will boost your happiness. 

To reduce learning loss for all ages, choose to read stimulating books. Students can join our Star Teen Book Review Team to write a review that will be published after a book is read. Our talented Book Review Coordinator, Stephanie Cogeos, evaluates each review submitted for accuracy and provides feedback to the writer. It is then published at http://www.btsya.com/book_reviews. To be considered for the team, a volunteer questionnaire must be submitted and approved. The Star Teen Book Review Team is one of the most popular and productive outreach programs BTSYA provides for teens to reduce learning loss at any time. Check out the program.

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SUMMER KINDNESS

by Karen Kitchel

Summer is a time of year when smiles seem to be abundant.�� It might have something to do with the intoxicating scent of flowers or the virtually cloudless and miraculously bright blue sky. Adding to this sunny state can be a satisfying feeling of knowing you’ve just made someone’s day.

 Here are a few simple summer kindness ideas:

Interrupt the ordinary

Think about the people who help you get life done (trash collector, mail delivery person, etc.) Interrupt them on an ordinary day with a bottle of sparkling water or a candy bar and a “Thanks for what you do.”

Ice cream scattering

While at the grocery store, pick up a box of popsicles or ice cream bars and drop them off at a local shelter or food shelf for the volunteers.  All you have to say is “Enjoy!”

A line to say to make someone’s day

“You are really good at what you do!”

Kindness cards

Make up a few note cards to keep in your car or purse to randomly give to those wonderful folks who keep restrooms clean, police officers, teachers, or those who make your life a bit better. Cards can say things like: “You are appreciated” or “Thanks for all you do!”

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In BRINGER OF LIGHT, M. Thomas Apple crafts a satisfyingly complex future where mankind has moved off Earth but must fight and struggle against the harsh realities of physics—and each other—in order to survive.  https://indiereader.com/book_review/bringer-of-light/ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[mkpublishing]

اطول راجل فى مصر #يوميات_ناشر_مطحون #mk_media #book_read #book_review

[fadingsunsjvj]

The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age

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[lutai256rokuta]

物語の世界にと同居する？！TEDのオススメプレゼンテーションと絵本の魅力。

こんばんは、禄太です。私は、大学が文系の大学で、私自身も【哲学・政治思想】が中心の学部生活でした。 が、開設当初は絵本や本の魅力をいっぱい紹介していきたい！っていう思いからブログを開設して、発信しています。 １０月から、技術的なことをメインで書いてきましたが、来年からはこういった文学的なことも交えて今後は展開できたらなぁ。と思います。 そんな私から、大人にも子供にも夢のあるお話を紹介します！ クリスマスイヴですし！ 私は、TEDというサイトをよく見ています。TEDは、様々なジャンルの研究者や活動家の人たちが、アイディアを持ち合いプレゼンテーションをする番組です。海外の番組なので、すべて英語！語学がダメダメな私は、日本語字幕にお世話になっています（苦笑） その中に、とても素敵なプレゼンテーションがありました！ 今日は、このプレゼンテーションについて、紹介させてください！それで…

[bogdan-dragos]

"The Muse's Bad Touch", #Book_review - by Literature World

“The Muse’s Bad Touch”, #Book_review – by Literature World

[haniwasubmarine]

元長知宏, 2019, 『レギュラーになれないきみへ（岩波ジュニア新書）』岩波書店.

元長知宏, 2019, 『レギュラーになれないきみへ（岩波ジュニア新書）』岩波書店. 読了。

当時レギュラーかどうかが、その後の人生にどう影響するのか。

控え時代が長かった高校野球経験者として。

■控えだったことと、その後どうなったか ・レギュラー/控え（ベンチ内外） ・その後の人生がうまく行った/そうでない

そういう見方にまとめるならば、4象限に無理やり分けられる。 1) レギュラー（当時上手く行ってた）・その後上手く生きてる 2) レギュラー（当時上手く行ってた）・その後失敗している 3) 控え（当時上手く行かなかった）・その後上手く生きてる 4) 控え（当時上手く行かなかった）・その後失敗している

自分はどこだ？道を踏み外したりはしていないため、3) 控え・その後上手く生きてる？（現時点ではね） 本書で取り上げられているのは、3)のケース。 そりゃあ4) 当時控えで今も苦しい・人の道を外している、ってとこを取り上げるなら、もっと深刻なルポタージュにしてほしいし、 2) 当時上手く行ってて今失敗したというのは各種感動ポルノのテレビ番組で消費済みだ。今更面白くもなんともないだろう。 大所帯・有名どころの野球部での控え経験者の談をまとめていて、いままであんまり、こういうピックアップのされ方って無かったのではないか。

■控えの重要性・控え経験により得たもの 控えを経験することの重要性、というのは確かにわかるかもしれない。 控えがいることでチームが回る、という「縁の下の力持ち」要素は、確かにどんなチームでもあるだろう。 控えじゃなかった時期のことが思い出すのが難しいくらい短いため、当たり前のことになってしまっていることもあるかもしれない。

ただしその影にある、「チームのために裏方にまわってくれ」とか、そういう役回りに徹してくれ、と言われたときの絶望感は、 レギュラーずっとやってたら経験できないわね笑

��れでも自分ができることを探す、というのは、当時の自分にはかなりキツかった。 その経験が今役に立っているのかどうかはまだ分からない。

チームの最終戦を、何の手出しも影響力も及ぼせず見守るだけ、という経験の虚しさ。 試合に出ないまま最終戦に負けて高校野球が終わったときに、 同学年の中でおそらく1人だけ泣けなかった。 あれは、もう涙も出ない。 そういうことがあるんだよ、ということを知れたのは、控えならではなのかも知れぬ。

■レギュラーと控えの差 「試合で得るもの」は結構大きい。そこを経験できない人が、何も得られなかったなんて思いたくないのはわかる。 野球の技術的なものや考え方・見方は、試合でしか身につかないものがある。 試合に出る・出ないにより付いていく差は明白で、それはきっと控えである本人が一番よくわかる。 そして逆にレギュラーからは「そんな程度の野球観しかないなら、一生ベンチにいやがれ」って思われていたかもしれないな。

なんとか試合に出るために、何を磨くべきかを考えて練習するようになっていった。 私の場合はアンダースローで体が丈夫だったのもあって、オーバースローの他の投手陣の間で目線を変えるだとか、小雨降ってて怪我のリスクが高そうだなってときにすぐ投げれるようにしといたり（私なら壊れてもまあよかろうな）。 他のメンバは代打の一振りだとか、三塁コーチャーとしてだとか、そういう感じになってった。どうにかしてチームの中のピースとして残りたい、と思って。

ただ、それも「試合勘」が薄れていくなかでの工夫なので、本当にそれが自分にとって良かったのかが分からない。 一芸に特化するのは、過学習というか、過剰な適応の一形態だった。 やればやるほど、野球という全体像から離れていってしまう。 こうなってからの練習は、気持ち的にとても辛かったのだけは覚えている。 そして技術的に上手くなったのかが分からない。

■ゴールはどこか？ 帯にある「ゴールは「いま」じゃない！」を受け入れられて前に進むことができる高校球児はどのくらいいるのか。

この言葉にはどうも共感できなかった。

今うまく行っていなくても、次のステージでは化けるかもしれない、と思って練習続けることには意味があるとは思う。そういうモチベーションの保ち方もあるだろう。 と同時に、それは目の前のゴールに対して真剣に取り組んでいないような印象を受けてしまう。

私は、本書の例で挙げられているような大所帯の強豪野球部出身でなく、進学校で1学年10人程度の野球部出身。 野球は高校野球までできっぱり辞めるつもりで始めた（偶然大学でも硬式でやることにはなったけど）。 高校のときの自分には、「いま」じゃないゴールなんて無かったと思う。 野球に真面目に取り組むことで、それまでできてたもの（学力的なもの）をある程度諦めることになったし、 それで将来の方向性も結構狭まってしまったとも言えるかもしれない。 このシチュエーションで、「いま」＝甲子園を目指す、以外のゴールを設けることは、 それって野球はそこで辞めろ、ということだ。 進学校なんだからおとなしく勉強しとけ、と言われてるに等しい。

高校時代から20年近く経った私が、高校��球により得たと思っているものや控えの経験で得たものというのは、どれもあくまで「いま」に向かって真剣に取り組んだことによる結果であると思っている。 きっと高校時代の自分がこの言葉を見ても、何も響かないどころか、「水を差すな」「邪魔すんな」くらいなことを思って終わりだろう。

■結語 全面的に内容に賛同できるわけではないものの、どういうことを当時考えていたか、とか、それが今どう影響しているか、考え直すのにとてもよかった。

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تمّت✔ كيف سأصوغ مراجعتي؟! -حيْرة- اذا، ان أردت الحديث عن هذه الرسائل من الناحية الأدبيّة فيمكن الجزم انها تحفة فنيّة، أسمى ما كتب في الحب و الحبيبة، من أجمل ما وصف المشاعر الانسانية، أسلوب مجازي مغرق في الواقع، توصيف عبقري لشعور عميق،نقي و صادق. انها من اسمى تعبيرات الطهر و الصدق. انها الوجه الآخر لغسان الانسان، الرجل العاشق، الشاعر،الكاتب و ليس فقط المناضل او السياسي. أما عن غادة، نشرها لهذه الرسائل الذي اسال حبرا كثيرا بين ��ؤيّد و رافض. في الحقيقة هذا الكتاب الذي بين يدي ضمّنته غادة في جزء أخير أراء بعض الصحافيين و الأدباء لما نشرته، مررت على هذه الأراء مرورا عابرا كي أستطيع تكوين رأيي شخصي محايد. أنا لا أحترم ما قامت به غادة السمان، بل لم أفهم ما الغاية من نشرها لرسائل غسان كنفاني بعد سنوات طويلة من استشهاده، و هو نفس ما قامت به مع انسي الحاج مؤخرا، رغم انها في تقديمها أشارت ان نشرها لهذه الرسائل انما كان بدافع كشف النقاب عن الجانب الآخر لغسان كنفاني، و هو جانب الرجل العاشق، الممتلئ بالمشاعر الجميلة، و لتغيير فكرة المناضل "السوبرمان" الذي ينبغي ان ينذر نفسه و حياته للقضية فقط. لم أقتنع صراحة بهذا السبب 😅 ما الغاية من مشاركة رسائل خاصة يظهر فيها غسان في بعض المواقف رجلا ذليلا، يرجوها ان ترسل فقط نصف رسالة، رجلا يلهث خلف امرأة مغرورة لا تفكر سوى في نفسها. لماذا صدرت لنا غادة هذه الصورة عن نفسها و عن غسان بعد وفاته. لماذا لم تكن بمثل هذه الجرأة و تقدم على نشر رسائله في حياته. أسئلة كثيرة .. و الجواب الحقيقي برأيي لن تفصح عنه غادة .. ربما يفصح عنه المقربون بعد وفاتها 😂😂 ❤ #رسائل_غسان_كنفاني_إلى_غادة_السمان #مراجعتي #Book_Review #My_Review #Bookstagram (à Cairo, Egypt)