Considering last week’s Iranian missile story, I though that Henry Hadlow’s Tell A Lie project was rather fitting:
The most controversial lies told with photography today are those told by news photographers who manipulate their work photographs to tell a different story, for example, Liu Weiqiang’s faked photograph of antelope and the China-Tibet rail link.
He also ads that he wanted to “flip this lie on its head and use a camera to mimic common Photoshop effects”.
Along those same lines, I thought that Fubiz’s Google Images idea was another fantastic way to take a photo with a digital spin that gives it a simple yet fun effect:
How do fake fire extinguishers help prevent forest fires?
Simple: The medium is the message.
By installing these wooden fire extinguishers in the Table Mountain National Park, Animal Farm hopes to show that “it is almost impossible to stop a wild fire once it has started”. Thus, “using a real fire extinguisher on one would be as effective as using the wooden one” and “the only way to stop the fires is to prevent them”.
In addition to being a powerful message, the extinguishers were also carved by The Carpenters Shop, a “Non Governmental Organization set up to teach woodwork skills to the homeless and unemployed”; meaning this is an all-around feel good project.
This fake might not fool a Ferrari fan, but it sure does look pretty good to me.
Starting out life as a 1977 Nissan 280Z, this “street rod” version of a 250 GTO has had every body panel changed and modified, a BMW V12 engine and Getrag 6 speed transmission installed, and right hand drive put in just “to make it different”.
The end result is a beautiful (and very accurate) creation that looks good and drives even better.
BMW V12 in a Ferrari bodied Nissan Z car? Perfection.
Though I’m not 100% sure if this is real or fake (I’m going to assume fake, but you never know), the idea behind this commercial is so unique, I just want to believe it’s possible.
After Conan O’Brien told viewers they could get some hot manatee action at a fictional web site called HornyManatee.com, NBC realized that because no one owned HornyManatee.com, anyone could buy it and put up inappropriate material, making it appear that NBC was promoting that inappropriate material (and probably pissing of the FCC in the process). As a pre-emptive strike, NBC bought the HornyManatee.com address, and soon put up its own fake manatee porn site. Finally, a place to get all of the horny manatee action you never knew you were missing.
