Mr Ford Media

1.A magazine photo of a model that has been touched up with a computer. 2.Films in which characters and settings are either digitally enhanced or created entirely from CGI (e.g.: 300 , Sin City, The Avengers (any super hero movie). 3.A well manicured garden (nature as hyperreal). 4.Any massively promoted versions of historical or present "facts" (e.g. " General Ignorance " from QI , where the questions have seemingly obvious answers, which are actually wrong). 5. Professional sports athletes as super, invincible versions of the human beings . 6.Many world cities and places which did not evolve as functional places with some basis in reality, as if they were creatio ex nihilo (literally 'creation out of nothing'): Disney World ; Dubai ; Celebration, Florida ; and Las Vegas . 7. TV and film in general (especially "reality" TV ), due to its creation of a world of fantasy and its dependence that the viewer will engage with these

Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s. By expressing concepts of birth, death, sex and war, Haring's imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.

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