Pictures That Lie

For my manipulated picture project, I chose the cover of the next Tiger Woods video game. I chose this picture because Woods has been in a lot of controversial news lately, so I decided to comically infer that the next golf video game would involve Tiger's outside affairs. The picture originated from EA Sports release of their future cover art for Tiger Wood's annual video game on different video game related websites. I manipulated it by replacing the head of Tiger Wood's competitor with the head of Woods' wife and replacing the words "PGA TOUR" with "VS. WIFE". I believe from EA Sports' and Tiger Woods' perspective, the manipulations were very harmful and would easily destroy EA Sports' company along with Tiger Woods half-broken career. However, for the purpose of this assignment and for the pleasure of viewers who are aware of the alteration, it is enjoyable and comical. The article I read dealt with the false memories that are concocted when adults view altered photographs depicted false childhood memories. After seeing the images, "fifty percent of the subjects created complete or partial false memories." When people see fake images that they don't know are faked, their mind can trick them into creating new yet false memories that never occurred. If my manipulated image was shown to oblivious parents, they would undoubtedly be upset with the image the game is trying to send. But they might even go to the next level and remember hearing about this game coming out on the news or some other type of false memory. For this reason, photos such as the one I created usually don't leave the cyber world so that no one is actually harmed from them.

Wade, Kimberley A., and Maryanne Garry. "A Picture Is worth a Thousand Lies: Using False Photographs to Create False Childhood Memories." Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 9.3 (2002): 597-603. EBSCO. Web. 11 Apr. 2010.