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Fact or Faked – a new show coming to SyFy…

June 20, 2010

While watching Ghost Hunters last week I saw a promo for an upcoming series on SyFy called Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files and it sure sounds like my kinda show! From the SyFy website…
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files is set to revolutionize paranormal programming by investigating the evidence witnesses post on the Internet [...]

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Topps – retouching America’s pastimes…

March 6, 2010

Above: The ultimate photobomb – 2007 Topps card featuring Derek Jeter with Mickey Mantle in the dugout and George Bush waving from the stands. Topps spokesman Clay Luraschi told the AP: “We saw it in the final proof and we could have axed it, but we decided to let it run, we wanted to print [...]

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Spy magazine – covering the covers

March 3, 2010

Above: Two of Spy magazine’s infamous “spoof” covers – Hillary Clinton as a dominatrix (from 1993) and George Bush Sr. with “cutout hair” (from 1989).
Spy magazine was a publication known for the manipulated images which often graced the covers, and the satirical wit which always occupied the inside pages. Spy ran monthly from October 1986 [...]

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Happy 20th anniversary to Photoshop…

February 26, 2010

Happy 20th anniversary to Photoshop!
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the invention of Photoshop. To celebrate, Giovanni Antico made a video with Photoshop 1.0.7 and posted it on Vimeo. Love it!

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Chinese Propaganda “A Second History”…

January 30, 2010

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In this well-known doctored photograph (taken circa 1936), Mao Tse-tung (right) had Po Ku (far left in the mouse over image) removed.
I tweeted A couple weeks back about artist and photographer Zhang Dali’s installation called “A Second History” which shows doctored archival photographs published in China during the Mao [...]

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