A pair of German artists have admitted they created fake videos of an exploding Utah rock arch and hoodoos that went viral on internet in December — and they’re being given a bit too much credit for having fooled the media.
In a story in the German newspaper Die Welt (The World) headlined “How two Berlin artists fooled American media,” Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière detail how and why they did it. Bismark said they wanted to create a fake video of something that wasn’t too familiar.
“If you publish a video in which an atom bomb is dropped on New York City, no one will believe it’s real,” Bismarck says.