{"id":52842,"date":"2019-12-06T17:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T11:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=52842"},"modified":"2019-12-07T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T08:06:20","slug":"digitally-created-artwork-shared-as-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/digitally-created-artwork-shared-as-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitally-created artwork showing a hurricane shared as powers of ‘Buddhist God’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Twitter handle @NioZenji shared a video and wrote, “man-made buildings are no match for nature\/heaven’s power.”\u00a0<\/em>He further wrote,\u00a0“The Mighty Buddhist God Vajrapani & Indradeva wield the power of Lightning & Thunder. Many Devas in Dharmic pantheon are personifications of the forces of the Universe. In Japan we honor these deities as “Shoten Zenjin.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Mighty Buddhist God Vajrapani & Indradeva wield the power of Lightning & Thunder. Many Devas in Dharmic pantheon are personifications of the forces of the Universe. In Japan we honor these deities as “Shoten Zenjin”. Man-made buildings are no match for Nature\/Heaven’s Power. pic.twitter.com\/Cl68Ikha1z<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rev. Zenji Nio (Indo-Japan Ctr) (@NioZenji) December 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shefali Vaidya quote-tweeted the video with a “wow”.<\/p>\n

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Wow! https:\/\/t.co\/XWxui4jFux<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Shefali Vaidya (@ShefVaidya) December 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

American-Hindu ‘acharya’ David Frawley also quote-tweeted<\/a> the video.<\/p>\n

Earlier viral as ‘Hurricane Dorian from the coasts of Florida’<\/h2>\n

A Twitter handle @OrgPhysics had shared the same video on September 6 as\u00a0“A view of Hurricane Dorian <\/span><\/em>from the coasts of Florida.<\/span>“<\/em><\/p>\n

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A view of Hurricane Dorian \ud83c\udf2a from the coasts of Florida. pic.twitter.com\/1CgHofJ2LG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Physics-astronomy.org (@OrgPhysics) September 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tweet was quote-tweeted and retweeted by many, among them was the Pakistani Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Fawad Hussein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Digital artwork<\/h2>\n

The video is a digitally-created, based on an artwork by US-based photographer Brent Shavnore<\/a>. He had uploaded it on his Instagram account in May.<\/p>\n

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In an email conversation with\u00a0AFP,\u00a0<\/em>he said that the video is an animated version of a composite image he created. The video was created by Instagram user\u00a0TheGlitch<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u201cYes Instagram user\u00a0TheGlitch was the person who animated the storm. I combined the two Shutterstock pictures together to create the artwork. That video on YouTube is my tutorial explaining how it\u2019s done,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Shavnore wrote to\u00a0AFP.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The two photographs he combined \u2013\u00a01<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a02<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 to create the artwork were also revealed to\u00a0AFP.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alt News’s earlier fact-check can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A digitally created artwork and animation was thus believed to portray real landscape. The sound of thunder was also added to the clip.<\/p>\n

[Update: The title of this report was altered on December 7, 2019.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Twitter handle @NioZenji shared a video and wrote, “man-made buildings are no match for nature\/heaven’s power.”\u00a0He further wrote,\u00a0“The Mighty Buddhist God Vajrapani & Indradeva wield the power of Lightning & Thunder. Many Devas in Dharmic pantheon are personifications of the forces of the Universe. In Japan we honor these deities as “Shoten Zenjin.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":52859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-52842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-economics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Untitled-design-2019-12-06T163332.523.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52938,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52842\/revisions\/52938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52842"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=52842"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=52842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}