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Photoshop Eats Reality, Spits Destruction

The Photoshop Monster never sleeps. In March we brought you possibly the five worst Photoshop distortions ever. But it's clear that lessons have not been learned among those who wield the program's horrific power. Must all consumers be forced to live in a world in which perspective and continuity do not exist? It doesn't seem fair. After the jump, five more abominations of our modern media world, culled from the multitudes at the Photoshop Disasters blog. More »

4:46 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
5,955 views, 26 comments

Latest by miss_msry: @maggiesfarmer: Yep, left hand attached to right shoulder. more »

advertising

New Economist Ads Target Kindergarten Demographic

The Economist, the smartest magazine in the world, may not be the smartest magazine in the world any more. Oh, the articles are just fine (we assume. We haven't read it since that free trial subscription ran out). We're basing our judgment on the magazine's new ad campaign. Which is utterly baffling. What, exactly, is the message here? Is the clown-and-stuffed-animal motif too clever for me to comprehend? Quite possible, but the campaign still reeks of a weeded college student breaking into the ad agency one night and replacing the real ads with these. Disturbing. Two full-sized pics of the inexplicable things [via Copyranter], below. More »

11:16 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,103 views, 18 comments

Latest by raincoaster: @niceguysorta: I think it kinda-sorta counts as intellectual because it's a reference to Aristophanes, not to Thatcherism, which is not exactly revered even at the Economist. more »

magazines

The Weirdest Sports Illustrated Covers Of 1978

Sports Illustrated has put a huge gallery of its archived content online for free. The best part is the selection of old covers, from back in the grainy days of short shorts and wild hair. Some of the production meetings back then probably involved drugs. We've selected the five weirdest covers from 1978, a year we picked because SI put Clint Hurdle on the cover that year, and you have to admit that man has a fine name. Look at the covers below! More »

11:43 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
14,253 views, 39 comments

Latest by veganfarts: @flynnchick: No honey bunny, that's a pube that was stuck in her teeth from that morning's munch session, yum yum. more »