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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: CGI plus Happy December [1]

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Date: 2023-12-01

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that many who post in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table and hope to make some new friends as well.

Cultural reproduction is frequently considered to describe how cultural forms (e.g., social inequality, privilege, elite status, ethnicity) and cultures themselves are transmitted intact, from one generation to another.

Contemporary cinema as a cultural form does that fairly effectively, despite how some of us post-COVID stay-at-homes (aka hermits) seem to only wait until blockbusters arrive at basic cable.

Yet everything else is genre, fairly formulaic copies of earlier, similar narratives in largely conventional situations where even novelty relies on the reproduction of earlier genre schemes.

A movie that costs over 100 million dollars seems to be the dominant thing to now retain my interest and it seems like whatever knowledge I had when I was much younger wasn’t nearly enough to catch or retain my interest.

I can, however still appreciate a sunrise/sunset and I’ll be able to do that sooner than later. Much like my stopping the taking of photographs, I probably won’t keep any records, but maybe I’ll violate that habit. I might even use an actual digital camera rather than a cellphone.

Forget about the Instagram face, the new trend involves face filters that either allow you to look like your favourite food or make photo-realistic 3D food models appear on your camera. Not only can you look like your favourite kind of bubble tea, but you can also help reduce food waste by playing with food digitally. Because, let’s be honest, who hasn’t tried the Greggs face filter that lets you know which Greggs product you are? Screen Shot spoke to Clay Weishaar, also known as @wrld.space on Instagram, the AR artist specialising in food filters, about our new obsession with food, especially on social media, and why his designs mainly focus on digital food, “Food culture has always been a big subject on Instagram. So has fashion. This has really inspired me to explore the idea of food as fashion. I loved the idea of people wearing their favourite food. With augmented reality technology we have the ability to do this.” This can explain the kind of feedback that his Instagram filters received: “I am a huge foodie myself. Combining food, fashion and technology was a sweet spot for me. I think the reason my filters have almost 2 billion impressions is that food is something people identify with. It’s a universal subject, and it is what brings people and cultures together.” Some big food chains have already seen the potential in digital food. For example, Domino’s created a Snapchat filter that would let users see an AR pizza and offer them the possibility of ordering the pizza online, straight from their Snapchat app. Using AR, brands could show us exactly what a specific meal would look like, making it easier for potential customers to make up their minds on what they’d like to order. x View this post on Instagram A post shared by Clay Weishaar (@wrld.space) still copy:

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