Simulations & Simulacra

In this section of the Survey, we discuss how paintings, photographs and cinema have became so creative, that they actually appear to be real. It opens up with talking about a painting of grapes, done by Zeuxis, looked so life-like that birds would actually try to eat them. Not to top it off, but moving to cinema in 1895, works done by the Lumiere brothers' did a first presentation on a film showing a train approaching the near-ground of the screen that some viewers actually fled the theater. That would be hilarious to see. Come to think of it though, back in that time this was all brand new to everyone, this was the first film presented on it, so I can see why they would run out of a theater scared. And to now where the film industry is at, it has definitely came a long ways, in the past 100 years. It is unbelievable.