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49 comments:

Finnie Family said...

LOL!

Enjoy the blog

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Starscarred said...

Puma - For people who doesn't like to exercise, but wants to pretend like they do.

Photoxris said...

OMG.

wv: atizerow

Jaxdia said...

I'd hate to be around when that woman actually LANDS on that foot. Ouch.

Galadriel said...

Whaaaat...so she's got an absurdly long waist, an insanely buff quadrucep, and a prosthetic lower leg that is for some reason on slightly crooked. All plausible. I'm sure it's also plausible that her right arm is, for some reason, slightly detached.

Repton said...

@Jaxdia: Yah, that's what I was thinking. Imminent rolled ankle.

Although, judging by the skin-tone difference between her shins and her face, maybe it's not her ankle so she doesn't mind anyway.

Naomi Zikmund-Fisher said...

What's with the arrow on her right shoulder?

claudia_allan said...

don't they like to correct that at birth?

Bad Fairground Art said...

I can't even guess at what's meant to be happening here!

Technobarbearian said...

@Repton: Oh don't be silly, it is her leg. She's just wearing dark pantyhose. She probably lost the tiara in the wind of the fast sprint though. And she will lose a foot after it lands at a 90 degree angle to her leg.

Kate Holden said...

Wow, she is so totally wearing those shoes!

4thhorseman said...

OWWWWWWWWWWW!

WV: ausnest

F said...

My shoe can do that!

jimkeller24 said...

I think I should call her Mrs. House, cause apparently, she also has a hole in her thigh muscle. Or what is that thing on her left leg? Maybe just a nasty contusion, I don't know.

wv: choof - the noise her foot's gonna make when it hits the ground.

DanH said...

Ok so yeah she is mutated. I'd like to know what the concept is with that background. She's leaping over a barrel, past an old-school american fire hydrant on a street that looks like a macro shot of some asphalt - but only a tile of that on some other urban background. Oh yeah and she's running into a giant shoebox with funky newspaper graphics on the inside of it. And after all this bizarre-ness, I notice the artist has put quite a nice shadow on the barrel...

Albert said...

Approved by the Ministry of Silly Walk !

max12342131523123152 said...

The explanation is really simple.

The runner is just really tiny (about a millimeter high, judging from the the ground behind her).

Someone wants to capture this rare lilliputian athlete, but he knows that she just runs to fast. So, he set up an elaborate trap to break her legs: first, an orange barrel; secondly, a violet firepost (its okay, the poor girl is completly color blind), and finaly, the masterpiec: a fake holographical violet ground, which hides a nasty hole.

The whole thing fits in a strangely shaped matchbox covered with images thought to lure the creature in.

The other apparent oddities are simply due to the fact that the laws of physics are *very* different at this level.

So, no PSD at all!

Crazed said...

I don't think this image was pretending to be real... therefore I don't see a PSD.

Nakilon said...

Странно, ни один из комментящих пендосов не заметил рассинхронизацию рук и ног на пол-такта...

Bonnie said...

Gee...I hope she got some good insurance to go along with her modeling gig. And maybe a fair bit of worker's comp.

What? She's not real? So why do my ankles still scream out of sympathy pain?

WV: culues, baby cthulhu!

CRash said...

Poor lady, attacked by a puma like that.

WV: getim
Grab your torch and pitchfork and we'll make sure he never touches Photoshop again!

Don said...

Just a mish-mash of bad images.

Susan Cook : Cirien Phoenix said...

I think the shoulder arrow is supposed to be a reflector, like most jogging outfits have. The leg, though, has no excuse. That's the most obvious flub.

Walter said...

It's like they layered the image and then altered the hue as if it was originally supposed to look right/make sense/flow.

Eugh.

Anton said...

@Nakilon

Indeed it's an ode to that wonderful Olymic 1928 Amsterdam poster! http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/40/84940-004-5B59511E.jpg

Brook said...

There's a lesson for you. Don't get your kids to do your work for you!

!vo said...

Nakilon said: "Nobody noticed that arms and legs are de-synch."
Очен хорошо! :-D

Jerome said...

There is a layer with shadow covering the bust + head layer.
The jacket on the shirt is really weird...
I don't see any point in Photoshopping what could take minutes with a real photograph.
But this PSD took obviously less time...

Raffaella Arnaldi said...

Albert said...
Approved by the Ministry of Silly Walk !

--

Love the quote! :-D

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

Why is she running into a shoebox?

Anna said...

I can't stop asking myself: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?

wv: coxable
I guess when you wear PUMA you are coxable. Or whatever.

mvg_foto said...

My girlfriend won´t do that.....

bunnywuffles said...

The image needs more cuckoo clocks, obviously.


wv: claemen - as in men with feet of clay. How appropriate ;)

Maaike Hartjes said...

The 'save 20% on $100' slogan is probably used by the Photoshopper as well.

Thall said...

My guess is that someone had sliced her arm off a quarter second before this was shot, so it has fallen a few inches and therefore looks so bad. This poor woman. Now she has a busted ankle and is missing an arm. The things they make people do for a photo these days!

Tim said...

Obviously not running.
As has been commented before, her arms are out of sync. When we walk or runs, our arms move opposite of our legs so as to keep us in balance.

Poorly posed and pieced-together Pumas.

lisabrodsky1965 said...

Oh, I see. It's an ad for shoes. I thought it was the book cover from the latest Animorphs teen novel, except that I thought that franchise died out a decade ago.

Daren said...

I'd sell a kidney to find out how many layers they actually used for this.

-Face wearing pink shirt is not wearing that jacket
-Purple jacket may not be wearing black pants
-Left leg probably does not go with right leg
-Left leg is not wearing that shoe
-Right arm doesn't go with body
-Barrel and hydrant might have been in the same photo shoot
-None of the people who eventually made up Frankengirl were near the barrel or hydrant
-At least five layers for the "shoebox"

demxod8 said...

Good thing everybody is at lunch because I just totally cracked myself up trying to run across the office out-of-sync like that.

I thought maybe it was just because she was jumping, but no... it's impossible.

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Current Resident said...

I don't see anything wrong with this photo.

pootpoot said...

Wow, there's some coarse gravel in that asphalt. If you can call 6 pound rocks gravel.

Thatswotshesed said...

Aughhh, I can envision the tendons tearing on impact, auuuggggggh!

csr said...

I think this is just Puma's newest marketing campaign's design style...

http://www.shop.puma.com/Sport/50000,en,sc.html

http://www.shop.puma.com/sport/running/52000,en,sc.html

http://www.shop.puma.com/sport/fitness-yoga/55000,en,sc.html?sz=30

thomas said...

No one noticed that hands and legs are black and the head is white?

Jenn Slaughter Photography said...

Sprained ankle in 3.. 2.. 1...

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JC said...

Why is she jumping over barrels?

Is this a poster for a live-action Donkey Kong movie?

SeeDesignRun said...

First of all...the woman is Delilah Dicrescenzo; an American long distance runner.

She really does look like what you see:
http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/dynamicimage/index.asp?strImage=contentImages%2Ftrack%2Fdicres-ncaa.jpg

Thin frame and all. You don't have to be completely bulked up to be an accomplished athlete.

As for the arrow...it's apart of the amazon.com linked text... NOT the jacket. Look closer.

Her legs are darker partly because there was a dark shadow cast on top of the entire left side of the photo in order for the white text to be visible. AND if you notice...the shadow cast on her face.. makes her naturally tanned skin appear to be black...Same effect happened to her legs.

Conceptual content of the campaign aside...it was not photoshopped as heavily as most think. It was a life-sized cube with props, athlete and lit imagery, all inside of it. All images were photographed in a studio with minimal retouching.

Thank you to CSR who bothered to research where the image came from.