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What to believe in a digital world
Watch this video. Great views of the Death Star and starships, as seen from San Francisco.
This is now the end of video as evidence of anything, as Kevin Kelly rightly puts it.
In a world saturated by bits, what's real? What can we believe? Not the bits themselves - a one is easy to flip to a zero, especially with widespread tools. There's an easy answer, again quoting Mr. Kelly: "the only way to believe an image [or video] is to trust its source, rather than its content."
This is why it's so important to know the source of any digital file. The Media Diet chapter of Bit Literacy gets very detailed on this point, and that's why.
I don't like that you can't comment on the kk.org post.
Moving on, I would say that the amateur Transformers videos inspired this movement before this Star Wars guy came along. And those came out 2-3 years ago (showing cars transform on the street, looked almost as realistic as Michael Bay's film!)
what to believe? well, not too much. it is really impressive what you can get these days out of state of the art computers and software.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b0R-N6ZQO4