Meanwhile in Mexico City:

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@smurthys @Migueldeicaza

it's a real installation

https://www.popsci.com/technology/worlds-largest-day-of-the-dead-sculpture-mexico/

the second photo might be touched up by AI or some photoshop. it does have a slightly dreamy quality. or it might be just a damn good photo through some hazy atmospherics, i don't know. the first photo might be enhanced by LEDs. again, i don't know

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@RnDanger Your scepticism is completely normal, Mexico is pretty surprising! In social media we Mexicans often say "Mexico outdoes AI again" and post weird but real pictures. I can vouch for the giant Catrina, it is in the Zócalo right now. I live like 3km from it (i.e., pretty close by Mexico City standards). @Migueldeicaza

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@Migueldeicaza ¿Has visto los memes en los que le llaman Sheinbaumzilla a la Catrina gigante?

[babble_endanger@freeradical.zone]

@Migueldeicaza USA has a severe lack of giant women

[lord@pleroma.lord.re]

@Migueldeicaza Attack on Titan live in Mexico !

[cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca]

@Migueldeicaza #alt4you An immense figure of a female skeleton towers over a city plaza at sunset, flowers in her hair, in floral decorative paint and an embroidered, sweeping purple dress, surrounded by marigolds and tiny ant-like crowds near a comparatively tiny (but still huge) platform labeled La Catrina Más Alta del Mundo (“the tallest Catrina in the world.”)

[Gæst]

@Migueldeicaza wow

[cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca]

@Migueldeicaza #alt4you Photograph from down a tall, multistory city street of the same titanic Catrina, distance slightly exaggerated by the haze of midday, against a blue sky with clouds. The photography winks a bit at Godzilla in how she seems to emerge from behind one block of buildings as if striding across the city, but she grins sunnily with her wrists at her hips and elbows out.

[fmarini@mastodon.social]

@Tejuino @RnDanger @Migueldeicaza “The new Guinness World Record holder is as tall as six stacked giraffes.”

Everything, but not the metric system, right? ‍️

[fmarini@mastodon.social]

@Migueldeicaza absolutely amazing!!!

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@oantolin
I believe the thing exists now, and it is amazing - but i still think this photo looks fake. Maybe it's just touched up a little too hard
@Migueldeicaza

[patrickwirth@mstdn.ca]

@Migueldeicaza

Oh wow. New item on my bucket list.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/mexico-city-tallest-catrina-record-day-of-the-dead/

[lstn2urmama4@zeroes.ca]

@Migueldeicaza Hard to find an apartment to rent when so tall ...🥴

[arpie4math@mathstodon.xyz]

@benroyce @passwordsarehard4 @miguelpergamon @Migueldeicaza

Tío Walt has entered the chat: “Coco 2: The cocolocoing” or “How Thanos got his Groove Back” or the raucous “Ofrendraing Everyone” …. No, Disney+ doesn’t have a muddled identity, *You* have a muddled identity!
Tío Walt has left the chat.

[michaelgemar@cosocial.ca]

@benroyce @passwordsarehard4 @miguelpergamon @Migueldeicaza

[migueldeicaza@mastodon.social]

@oantolin maravillosos. Los de las chancla?

[migueldeicaza@mastodon.social]

@smurthys google zocalo Catrina and you we’ll find thousands of pictures

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@RnDanger oh, I guess that could easily be true. I've never been great at being able to tell and I've gotten much worse since I switched all my social media usage to an eInk Android phone. @Migueldeicaza

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Arpie4Math @passwordsarehard4 @miguelpergamon @Migueldeicaza

i'm sensing by your sarcasm that you don't support my "Disney Princesses vs Marvel Avengers" movie idea

(/s)

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@RnDanger @oantolin @Migueldeicaza do you have any specific pointers? This photo looks very real to me, but I've been fooled before and sometimes it takes someone else telling me where to look for the inconsistencies