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scandals
More NYT Photoshop Fakery Found
Photo District News has found evidence of digital manipulation in three more of the 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age' photos published by the New York Times Magazine last weekend. It's starting to look like a *real* scandal. More »
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Comment by Borromeo: Leaves, clouds and hair will always reveal a lazy photo retoucher. 3 Responses | Other threads
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mythbusting
There Must Be a Metaphor in NYT Photoshop Scandal
Last weekend the New York Times Magazine published a beautiful set of photos of abandoned buildings and such, as a chronicle of the end of the gilded age. Now they've pulled them for probably being Photoshopped. Fakery! More »
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Comment by markscottmusic: I thought something was up when I saw this in print on Sunday. I didn't think it was a flip... 1 Responses | Other threads
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propaganda
Someone in Iran (Probably the Government) Isn't Good at Photoshop
A picture that shows that some Photoshopping was used to make the crowd at a pro-Ahmedinejad rally look bigger is racing around the Internet right now. We have no idea where it's from (anyone read Farsi?) but everyone's screaming propaganda!
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Comment by Mount_Prion: (There are a ton of versions of this photo, and many are awesome.) 5 Responses | Other threads
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diversity
Black Guy Photoshopped In
Oh. Oh no. Oh no they didn't. Today in "Onion Stories Come True": The city of Toronto adds some diversity—magically! More »
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Comment by BullfightsOnAcid: That's so ridiculous. Everyone knows Canada doesn't have black people. 9 Responses | Other threads
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photoshop
Heidi and Spencer Green Screen Challenge
Speidi have been filming promos for I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here and Then Strap Me Into an Automatic Suicide Machine, and they released some pictures of themselves in front of green screens. More »
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Comment by Nrbelex: The thing is, there's almost no advantage to the green screen when cutting people out in Photoshop. In fact, these... 2 Responses | Other threads
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photoshop of horrors
OK! Magazine's Extreme Dieting Advice
OK! Magazine has had some issues with Photoshop on their cover before. This week, they show how amputating a leg may be the easiest and fastest way to lose 90 pounds. Diet secrets revealed, indeed.
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Comment by Marjorie Burns: How is she 186 pounds in that "after" picture? If I can gain 40-odd pounds and still look as... 13 Responses | Other threads
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ray of light
Photoshop Of Horrors
In the post-Photoshop pictures from Hard Candy Madonna is bathed in a strange alien glow that obscures every line on her face, but she looks pretty good in the "before" pictures too. [World Of Wonder] [Jezebel]
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By MargaretComment by bluebears: YES! what was wrong with the before picture. She looks ten times edgier and "harder" in it which I would... 11 Responses | Other threads
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photoshop
14 Ways Photoshopped Kim Kardashian Was Made 'Hotter'
Celebubutt Kim Kardashian's Photoshopped picture from Complex magazine is the grownup(?) version of Highlights for Kids: How many differences can you spot? More » -
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Kim Kardashian, In Reality
UH OH: Complex magazine put Kim Kardashian on its cover this month, but it forgot to Photoshop one of its images of her (left) until Bucky Turco caught it. Huzzah for real womanhood! [Animal NY]
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Comment by BitterDiva: Alas, not even Photoshop can erase Dead-Eyed Skank. 65 Responses | Other threads
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trendwatch
Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
The moment Aretha Franklin stepped out at the Obamanaugural, people went nuts over the structured beret with large bow" she wore. Now Luke Song, Franklin's longtime Detroit milliner, is getting actual orders for actual hats! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dickdogfood: Gay men love it, because they all like to think they are strong, proud black women like Aretha on the... 9 Responses | Other threads
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cover lies
OK! Magazine's Photoshop Playdate
OK!'s cover this week shows Suri Cruise and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt on an adorable playdate! Now, let's look at the two separate photos they stitched together to create this Frankenstein-like Photoshop:
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Comment by saythatscool: Is it my imagination or is that Shiloh kid already displaying a stunning amount of ego? 11 Responses | Other threads
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lies
John Travolta, Grieving and Deceiving
Has anything the celebrity family of Jett Travolta said about the teenager been the unvarnished truth? If so, we missed it. Even the publicity photos of Jett they sent out after his death are Photoshopped.
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Advertiser: Only Airbrush the White Girl!
To the expert eyes at photo agency Vanderbilt Republic, the above two-page New Yorker ad looked odd. Why is only the white girl "heavily retouched to give her perfect skin and rosy cheeks?" More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Mysterious Skin: is the picture on the left an advertisement for purdahs or that funny earring she got on? i am so... 13 Responses | Other threads
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obama
Obama And McCain In Race-Switch Surprise!
Here, you see, an ad agency employee named Tor Myhren has designed a poster that asks the question: What if Barack Obama was a white dude named Chet who probably calls his girlfriend "Lovie," and John McCain was an elderly black man? I'll tell you what: McCain rallies would be much more interesting. It's a neat poster, but don't let it fall into the wrong hands (the hands of South Carolina). Larger version after the jump? Okay: More »
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headlines
British Gay Cannibal To Cook In Prison: 'Irony Chef'
Yesterday we asked for your best sleazy tabloid headlines for the story about the gay British cannibal chef who is now cooking for his fellow inmates in prison. There were many brilliant lines, but in the end only one could win and that was Carol Gardens' lovely and simple "Irony Chef." Yay! Thanks to Steve Dressler for the mock-up. Click the thumb to view it in full. -
theories
Anna Wintour's Perfect Man
Earlier today, following the news that Vogue editrix Anna Wintour has a little crush on actor Gerard Butler, Radar compiled a list of some of Anna's known paramours. It's a strange mix of gents. B-baller LeBron James, country club hero Roger Federer, Monty Python's Eric Idle, Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse (oohhh..), and, um, Bob Marley. Yes! Bob Marley. Heh heh. Well, because it's such a varied group of dudes, we got to wondering... who exactly would be Anna Wintour's perfect man? We tapped our Photoshop whiz Steve Dressler and employed some of our own inductive reasoning and have come up with a fellow called Archie Bronson, a writer and public speaker. Read a little about Archie and see a photo after the jump. More » -
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A Poster Boy Exclusive
After lots of slobbering positive reviews on our part, the anonymous subway ad vandal known as Poster Boy has finally made contact. And he sent us a present: an exclusive Photoshopped work (after the jump). Which is outside his usual methodology, but hey, since this kid is on his way to being a star, it just makes it that much more special. You can all say you knew him way back when. Suck it, New York magazine: More » -
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Viral Campaigns: Now Being Done Just Because
Viral video may be dead, but that doesn't mean that the whole concept of the "viral" campaign has disappeared. It's just moved on to newer, moreannoyingcreative formats. And now viral campaigns don't even need a corporate sponsor—agencies are doing them with the mere hope of attracting a corporate sponsor. Advertising apocalypse, or creative marketing? Or maybe both? More » -
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Mag Photographer's Grotesque McCain Trick
The Atlantic has said it didn't vet Jill Greenberg's politics before hiring her to shoot John McCain. Even if it had known about her controversial anti-George Bush photographs, it wouldn't have cared, as a matter of policy. The policy may soon change: Greenberg is gloating she left McCain's eyes bloodshot and skin gnarly for the Atlantic's October cover. Worse, from the magazine's perspective, is that she tricked the Republican presidential nominee into standing over an unflattering strobe light, then posted the worst shots and Photoshops to her personal site: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by RandomLunatic: Not voting Republican, think McCain/Palin would be the road to this country's utter destruction, but I frankly think juvenile crap... 13 Responses | Other threads
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sarah palin
Palin Sparks Glorious Democratic Photoshop Frenzy
It's already been thoroughly documented that all the really funny pictures of Sarah Palin that you saw on blogs or anywhere else are just unpatriotic Photoshop forgeries. Everybody, including CNN, was fooled at first, but now nobody believes anything unless they personally snap it on a Polaroid. It's not just idiots screwing around, as you may have suspected; it's an important political trend, demonstrating that "average citizens were exploiting their expanded capacity to manipulate and circulate images to create the grassroots equivalent of editorial cartoons." PBS says so! That happens to be true, though. Elections have turned on far less exacting smears than these. Why are Palin and McCain so much more popular Photoshop victims than Obama? 1. More liberals are good at Photoshop, and 2. Photoshop Obama and watch how quickly you're accused of racism. It's a dangerous game. In the spirit of civic education, a composite of some of the best remixes that the Republicans have inspired: More »
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Congratulations, women! Chauvinism is more acceptable than racism! 24 Responses | Other threads
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american apparel
The American Apparel Ad Spoofer's Final Joke On Us All
Well, our faith in the reliability of photography has been shattered, a decade after it should have been. The porny American Apparel ad spoofer, whose sexy ad remixes we have thoroughly documented, has been revealed as an art project by the graphic design aficionados who run Stereo Hell, as expected. More importantly: the spoof "posters" plastered throughout the city, and on AA stores, weren't posters at all; they were just Photoshop mockups. They existed only in imaginary pixellated form! No wonder none of them ever turned up on Ebay. I suppose this says something about the true nature of art; but I must admit that the achievement seems less impressive now. There is no Santa Claus either, btw. After the jump, two Photoshopped photos of the spoofer's final big reveal. We'll miss you, you fake bastards: More » -
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CNN Duped By Palin Photoshop
It can be hard to sift truth from myth from conspiracy theory when it comes to Sarah Palin, even if that's what you're paid to do. But one would hope a professional journalist's natural skepticism would be piqued by the now-notorious Photoshop job at left of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin holding a rifle next to a swimming pool while wearing a bikini. Too good to be true! But Lola Ogunnaike, entertainment reporter for CNN's American Morning, seems to believe the image is authentic. Yesterday she told Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz that Palin should maybe avoid posing with guns like this, because it might come back to bite her in the ass: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Gosukusan: Even worse, that's not an AK-47. 10 Responses | Other threads
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calling bullshit
Fox News Is Not Actually This Stupid
We are pretty sure this is a photoshop. But who knows because it just appeared out of the blue on a Tumblog today, without attribution or sourcing. Maybe crazy Rex is right about this [via] business! It's been tracked back to this demotivational poster, making it already an altered image, though it was presented without that crucial bit of information when it first set down on a the microblogging corner of the internet today, whereupon it was emailed and IM'd to your editors like three times in ten minutes. Now it's been reblogged on god knows how many other Tumbling Logs! So let's play Snopes: find us a clip, guys, because this looks like bullshit. If it's not on MediaMatters it didn't happen. We did crack up last night when the Fox graphics said "ALERT: MRS OBAMA: I LOVE AMERICA" though, among other statements that look hilarious when preceded by "ALERT."
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advertising
Never Have Sex With A Belgian
Perhaps we need a "Text-only" law for condom advertising. Leaving prophylactic communications in the hands of human art directors is just too risky—particularly when you're dealing with the strange sexual mores of foreigners. Because while the result might come off nice and cute (like the Chinese Olympic condom ads), there's an equal chance that it will be grotesque. This Belgian ad campaign for super-thin condoms has Photoshopped a man and a woman together into a terrifying image of a conjoined connubial monstrosity. I know Europeans have different ideas of "personal space," but really. Click through for two full (freaky but SFW) ads: More »
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Comment by Werrick: @Bell County: Well... it is an advertisement after all. :-) more » | Other threads
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china girl
China's Great Lip-Synch Forward
First, it was revealed that the giant fireworks footprints in Beijing's Olympics Opening Ceremonies were digitally manipulated fakes. Fakes! Sickening! Then came a more shocking revelation: even China's adorable little girls are forgeries. More »
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By PareeneComment by ReneeMosquito: in chinese culture, one counts the 9 month's in a mother's womb as part of your age, so when... more » | Other threads
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beyonce
Everybody Staring At Beyonce's Skin
The Beyonce/ L'Oreal Photoshop scandal, which began earlier this week, has reached critical mass. Lots of people think that L'Oreal digitally lightened a photo (pictured) of Beyonce in an ad in Elle magazine. L'Oreal denies it. The contention that they did lighten the pop diva's skin tone is supported by—in summary—the fact that it looks like they did. Five Beyonce photos from the past are below; compare and contrast: More »
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Comment by MissNormaDesmond: Well, then there's the part about how L'Oreal makes millions marketing skin lightening cosmetics to women of color all over... more » | Other threads
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photoshop
'Sun' Throws Prince William's Black Friend Under the Boat
Wills to the rescue! That means Britain's Prince William was pretending to rescue victims of a knife-wielding hurricane as part of a Royal Navy exercise. No one was actually rescued by anyone. Except the black guy on the far left of the boat, who was rescued from this photo op by the editors of Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper. Thanks to the magic of photoshop! As some commenter on Photoshop Disasters said, "you can take out the black man, but you can't take out the black man's lower torso." (And the Sun found fit to shine on the the guy in the online version of the story.) [Photoshop Disasters]
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By PareeneComment by trilbylane: oops that happened twice. i need censoring. more » | Other threads
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spoiler alert
What Will Our President of Tomorrow Look Like in the Future?
The presidency ages a man. (And hypothetically it would a woman, but we'll never know!) Remember when there was color in Bill Clinton's and George W. Bush's hair? Barely? After two terms in the Oval Office, both men looked twenty years older. This despite the fact that Bush gets 12 hours of sleep a night and Clinton received regular tail! But what will happen to Barack Obama or John McCain? Obama does too many drugs to sleep and old people like McCain just doze off in front of the tv each night for a couple unsatisfying hours. So we had intern Anna Peele work a little photoshop wizardry to age Obama and McCain and help us figure out exactly which terrifying visage we'll be forced to look upon in 2012. Scary results below! More »
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By PareeneComment by SaraRueful: C'mon, people, don't you know that black don't crack??? more » | Other threads
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photoshop
The sad thing is, we think Digg CEO Jay Adelson might actually think he's Tom Cruise
A recent photo of sunglass-sporting Digg CEO Jay Adelson with slightly more nerdy Google cofounder Larry Page sent reader theodp on an '80s nostalgia trip. (Photo by Reuters, photoillustration by theodp)
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By Owen ThomasComment by MikeTy: LOL!... that's hilarious. They do look alike. more » | Other threads
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foofaraw
Columnists Outraged At Obama Smears Repeat Obama Smears
Hah. Newsweek's Jonathan Alter is upset about that New Yorker cover. Because he knows the power of images and of repeating smears, even for satirical or debunking purposes. Which is why, after he derides the cover, he then presents a list of every anti-Obama smear he can think of, all listed in bold text. Whoops! To help reverse the damage this column will cause, we present here another pro-Obama photoshop. In this one he is athletic and virile! More » -
apologies
Mea Culpa Watch: "Terrorist Fist-Jab," Photoshop Smears
Today in Slate, writer Christopher Beam accepts full responsibility for the phrase "terrorist fist-jab" in reference to Barack Obama's exchange of daps with his wife. This characterization contributed to Fox blonde E.D. Hill losing her television show, only to be replaced by Laura Ingraham! (Is E.D. back? Can someone watch Fox and check on this?) How is this Beam's fault? Because he wrote an item about how a random commenter on a political blog used the phrase "Hezbollah-style fist jab," and then that item ended up on other blogs, and then E.D. kinda changed it and said it on TV without explaining it, making it sound like a common response to the harmless gesture. You see? All Beam's fault! And in other "kind of apologizing for other people's idiocy" news, Fox has apologized for photoshopping two New York Times reporters! Sort of! More »
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By PareeneComment by plasticene: @Mediahohoho Just (trying) to make a point about bad taste. more » | Other threads
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foofaraw
Reader Response: We Are All Racist For Not Hating that 'New Yorker' Cover
A reader is upset with Gawker for wholeheartedly embracing The New Yorker's terribly offensive cartoon about how Barack Obama is a terrorist. She writes: More » -
this thing looks like that thing
The Backhanded Art of the Unflattering Cover
Hey, Julia Allison's on the cover of once-important lifestyle rag Wired! Ms. Allison, who's moved beyond the "dating columnist/celeb talking head" thing to become a noted dater-of-rich-nerds, is the subject of yet another of those interminable stories about becoming Internet Famous in Three Easy Steps. We haven't read the piece, except that we already did in a different magazine like a month ago. More importantly: editors and contributors who perhaps have some doubt as to your value as a cover model may undermine the honor with unflattering photoshop work and coverlines. ("Even if you're nobody," eh?) Just ask right-wing comedienne Ann Coulter. And consider yourself warned.
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By PareeneComment by Pussy Galore: Damn, she looks old and haggard in that photo -- much like the SATC episode. more » | Other threads
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funny jokes
'Vanity Fair' Fights Fox With Foto Funnies
Remember when Fox News inexplicably displayed terribly and offensively photoshopped photos of two Times reporters without explanation on what is ostensibly a news program? Yeah? Well Vanity Fair totally got them back! They photoshopped the hell out of some Fox people! Zing! Taste of your own medicine! That'll show 'em! [VF] -
great moments in journalism
Iran hacks world media with Photoshop
Left: The head-turning photo that appeared all over the world yesterday. Right, the original photo. The New York Times, which ran the altered version, explains how the photo spread "from the Web site of Sepah News, the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards," to "the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites." We lucked out by running other photos for variety. (Photo by Sepah News via AP)
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By Paul BoutinComment by IlBiancone: Speaking of techno-projectile issues, check out this faux job posting: [seattle.craigslist.org] Excellent! more » | Other threads
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photoshop
Iran Gets 33% Scarier With Photoshop Retouching
Iran has tested missiles! Not just one or two or even three missiles, but four missiles! Our crack intelligence agencies know this, because the Iranian military's propaganda arm helpfully provided the media with a photo showing—count 'em—four whole missiles blasting off into the sky. You'll regret the decision to build only three missile shelters, Israel! The scary, quadri-missiled photo of terror was splashed across front pages nationwide. Too bad it's a big phony! More » -
the olds
Walt Mossberg in a suit? Gotta be Photoshop
It's not just me. The sight of Walt Mossberg, the Big Guy of gadget journalism, in a tie and jacket for an ad promoting his appearance on the Fox Business cable network was such a surprise that even Walt's longtime colleague Kara Swisher blogged about it. Fox has been caught Photoshopping opposition journalists. Did they likewise suit up Mossberg in postproduction? Hope so. A suit is a suit, but a 'shop is a story. Memo to Fox: Computer experts are like Trace Adkins. "Work boots, one blue suit / Size too small, won't wear it at all / Unless somebody kicks or gets hitched / It don’t fit, and it makes me itch." Keep it real, Walt! -
photoshop
Mariah Carey's "New" Body
Mariah Carey has gotten us through tough times with her song "We Belong Together." That's why it's so unfortunate to see her unwittingly star in the worst Photoshop job we've seen in a long time. "Her New Body," exclaims the Elle cover line. It certainly is! It's not even hers. Sure, she slimmed down—but not that much, as you'll see from our photo gallery. Also: her head has been re-attached to her body crookedly, making her resemble a Bobblehead. Come on, Elle: it's like you're not even trying. The many Photoshop horrorshows trotted out before the magazine-buying public is astounding for two reasons.
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Tomorrow's Headlines Today
We can't wait for tomorrow's New York Post, so here's the tabloid treatment of Madonna's possible affair with baseball player Alex Rodriguez. Photoshop by Jim Cooke (left) and Steven Dressler (below). The headline's from Deadspin's A.J. Daulerio, unless he stole it from someone else. Here are some other suggestions from Daily Intel and Best Week Ever. Can you trump them? Try—in the comments. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by dell123: I don't know what the big deal is. It's just two best girlfriends getting together to watch Sex and the... more » | Other threads
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advertising
How To Sell A Porn-Blocking Product With Class
Just like you can block pop-up ads on your computer, you can also buy software to block porn, if you wanted to do that for some odd reason. But that very software has to have its own ads—preferably ads that incorporate porn, for clarity's sake! You can see the quandary. One German porn-blocking company solved the problem with some strategic Photoshop work [UPDATE: A concept pioneered at Something Awful], and the result is so creative you almost want to buy their purifying product just to applaud the effort (not really). Two of the company's ads, via Copyranter, are after the jump. They're perfectly SFW, as long as you don't use any imagination. More »
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