Stacy writes to say "Oh for the love of god please make your comments on the photos less mysterious/cryptic." So for Stacy's sake, ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Thanks to Dennis!
63 comments:
hahaha... that's the "dummy text" which fills up the text box that you're supposed to fill in later!! *SMH*
Company name's Basislager. Herbst just means autumn auf Deutsch.
Does anyone with a more compelling grasp of linguistics than mine know if the lorem ipsum text is universally used across all roman-character-alphabet languages?
So we've finally reached the picture where the poster begins openly mocking us without any hint of irony. Great. I enjoyed this while it lasted, but there are a dozen websites I could use for the same purpose that aren't full of Internet elitism. What a prick.
Shit, Rudy. What are they?
Except that it's not Greek. It's pseudo-Latin. But hey, when in Athens...I mean, Rome...
@scascot: Pseudo-Latin? Obviously two small mistakes ('lorem' should be 'dolorem' and 'elit' should be 'velit'), but that still beats the spelling of most commenters here, and the meaning of the phrase is a perfect slogan for a sportswear company called Basecamp: 'Pain itself, it is pain, and therefore desires it'.
So what is the mistake, please? And what is this nonsense about Internet elitism?
vw: sostickm :/
Ille possum facio mea amica.
Lorem ipsum is new black. Or White.
Anyone else notice the bad copy and paste of the woman in the picture? Her shadow shows a woman with either a hoodie sweater pulled up over her head or her hair's supposed to be down... The dummy text isn't the only mistake here =P
@Geole: It's not copy/paste and not supposed to be a shadow - it's a scan of something printed on rather thin paper so that the backside shines through. Note the logo and mirrored text on the right upper corner - it says "Fjäll Räven", which is a Swedish outdoor supplier.
if you want to generate a dummy text, you can visit this page - http://www.blindtextgenerator.de/ - and you will get exactly this usual "lorem ipsum" text.
Blame that internet elitist Cicero for feeling inadequate...bastard should have learned English.
Jakob Zetterstrom said...
@scascot: Pseudo-Latin? Obviously two small mistakes ('lorem' should be 'dolorem' and 'elit' should be 'velit'), but that still beats the spelling of most commenters here, and the meaning of the phrase is a perfect slogan for a sportswear company called Basecamp: 'Pain itself, it is pain, and therefore desires it'.
So what is the mistake, please? And what is this nonsense about Internet elitism?
ROFL When I catch my breath, I'll comment on this!
Screw the Latin grammar lesson! The model looks dressed up like a sperm from Woody Allen's "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask!" transfixed by whatever is off-camera... perhaps it's the Mother of All Ovum... umm... Ova grrr... f*cking Latin ! >:-(
Alex, I agree. I have better uses of my online time than being insulted by the blogger who wants my reading time.
GOOGLE: "define: thin skinned"
RESULTS: Definitions of thin skinned on the Web:
• huffy: quick to take offense
(I would also add: effete; not worth drinking with.)
Waldobaby said...
GOOGLE: "define: thin skinned"
RESULTS: Definitions of thin skinned on the Web:
• huffy: quick to take offense
(I would also add: effete; not worth drinking with.)
What, you ain't going to point that at anyone? Well I'm not going to mention any names but they rhyme with "Alex Rudolph" and "FelixAndAva", and that's all I have to say about that.
I love the Internet elitism folks. (I will actually owe someone a dollar if one of them comes back with the "wow, I was joking... see, I'm not as dumb as I sounded before" line). First, you're on the Internet, you eejits, and you found a blog. Welcome to being the Internet elite (don't believe me? Visit old people more often. Or third world countries.) Second - clearly you're on the internet, do a bloody search and figure out what you don't know. My goodness, that's how you learn things. You look at what you don't already know and say to yourself "Hm, let me find out what that means." You don't get all offended because someone else knows what you don't know. And lastly, Alex Rudolf. You follow a blog called "men who look like old lesbians." Let he who is without irony cast the first stone.
wv: jicria. You, sir, and all your ilk (find a dictionary page) are jicria and full of additional jicrium.
I don't think Herbst is the name of the publication. Herbst/Winter is German for Fall/Winter.
Does anyone else using Firefox find that this blog (which I love) loads with a tiny font? It does not happen in IE, I notice.
Keep up the good work, you elitists!
While the Lorem Ipsum we know and love is chopped-up Latin, it is called "greeking" because that's the catch-all name for ways to fill in dummy copy.
Greeking used to be done by hand on marker comps, by setting a straightedge across the page and quickly scribbling in little vertical strokes and curves to approximate the appearance of letters, which had a vague passing resemblance to Greek, or at least to something that's "all Greek to me," of which the latter explanation of the term carries through to the modern methods, of course.
All you cranky people please check out
http://www.lipsum.com/
which even translates it.
I used to buy sheets of this stuff, made by Letraset, in the good old days, for mockups.
I came to this website to observe photoshop disasters! Not read bizarre descriptions that have little or nothing to do with the image itself. Some of the images leave me completely unaware as to what the disaster actually is for that particular image. It's annoying and pretentious. There are other places to go for content like this but I liked your format. Now, it is no longer worth it.
When I was at a small design consulting office (early 1980s) we would often chant the text from the Letraset "Greeking" sheet as we worked. It did not bring any religious satisfaction, but it did pass the time on boring projects...
Seriously - it's not rocket science here, people, and it has nothing to do with elitism. It stands to reason that people who've worked in design or as website editors are going to understand these posts better than people who haven't. It's not elitism, I just don't see how people could find the disasters funny if they need their hand held through the process. Keep up the good work dude.
Skip the latin explanations. We all know its there to help with design. In this case they forgot to replace it with the genuine text.That´s the PSD I assume.
By the way the brand "Fjällräven" means "Arctic fox" (Vulpes lagopus or Alopex lagopus in latin;)
Yay! Lorem Ipsum strikes again. :D
Ah, Internet. I can always count on at least one user out there to think that a comment on a picture was the reason doom and sadness exists, and that the comment alone resulted in the death of a puppy. This site is definitely one of the best examples of that phenomenon, and I am astounded nearly every time I read the comments.
Sign of the Times: New Roman.
Cool girl :)
Классные мультики мультфильм на кинозоуне.
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wow.. I had idea people used latin for dummy text. Learned something new today. WTF is with these idiots who can't handle having to LOOK at the photo to find out what's wrong with it? Or god forbid, reading through the comments for the information (and a bit of humour)? I guess they prefer blogs full of inane drivelling and lacking actual content. I love that this blog doesn't do that.
*quiet*
PSD is the filler text that's been featured here before, which is simply filler used to check font size before actually adding content.
Though, I think the logo is flipped in the first picture.
wv: asinonsi
Asinine + nonsense = comments?
Just so y'all don't get the wrong idea, There are two comments here by "AMY". The second Amy said her snit thing and the other Amy did not. They are different people.
wut?The Amy-of-Lovers strikes again?
Et tu ,Brutus!Vermiculae in hortus est!Search and Destroy!
WV: bingstr ,a person in an historical TV-comedy called amicae
I cannot believe that there is yet another PSD using lorem ipsum text. Who allowed this to go through to production??? Or are companies deliberately doing this now to get onto this blog?
oh no, this is no PsD, i'm unsubscribing and i want my money back.
:P
I suppose those who don't like to learn can live by the phrase "educatio pro avibus est"
(My Latin teacher taught me that years ago and it is one of the few things that stuck...figures.)
its really very nice i enjoyed a lot to visit..Mobiles Handsets
you so smart..
and you also creative !!!
About the dummy text: it's not actual Latin, it takes words and part of words from a text by Cicero, but it's not translatable at all, since it makes no sense. Not supposed to, either, it just makes a brilliant view of your design when text is added.
@Elizabeth yes, it's being used throughout the world (that uses roman-character alphabet, that is)as a dummy. I know for a fact it's very present in all of Europe.
All the ins and outs on "lorem ipsum" and what it's used for:
http://www.lipsum.com/
it should be noted, that it's the second lorem-ipsum attack within just two weeks, and if only human memory could reach that far, most of the comments here could have been avoided. especially the one above.
@The Ivory Tower: "I think the logo is flipped in the first picture"
Hahahahahaha! It took me a while to get it but that made my morning.
Stop insulting me, you internet elitist or the kitten dies!
Just found this blog, and I'm really enjoying it even if I can't always tell exactly what's wrong. Some of the models' contortions & distortions are laugh-out-loud funny even if I can't tell which parts are mangled! :)
It's creepy to someone else complaining with wild exaggeration or nastiness, though. Too much like a couple of mentally unstable people I've been close to!
I you cannot send the link , but this disaster is one of the last signs of the last film by Peter Jackson:
http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/percy_jackson_and_the_olympians_02.jpg
You probably have seen it before, but all photoshop-work on this page is terrible: http://www.shewearsyourtee.com/node?page=2
And they writes on the page that it's not done in photoshop but that it's done with a "professional photoshoot wearing your tee". :-)
There had not seen and is very funny! XD
Thanks!
Hab SoSlI' Quch! (This seemed like a good place to drop a Klingon language comment - google it earthlings).
NOT a photoshop disaster. Just plain dumb. It's really a production artist disaster. The production artist forgot to place the final copy in InDesign so how is that a PHOTOSHOP disaster?!?!?!??!
I leave about 2km from this store. It's one of my favorite stores.
They wrote about two weeks later in a newsletter that this wasn't a mistake. I don't think so.
Tore, I'm sad that a joke of a site like that exists and/or makes money. I bet they're giving away the spots that don't sell in an attempt to sucker at least somebody into thinking theyre "selling like hotcakes" and then paying for a spot. /cynical
Viewed on a flatscreen if you tilt away from you she looks like someone telling a ghost story with the grim reaper in the background
I come to this site for internet elitism, not to see some chumps flounce about and leave in a huff. I have better uses for my online reading time than to read that kind of crap!
I was once told by a design client that they loved the layout, but they didn't think it should be in 'French'.
True story.
Danny
Hahaha, gut gemacht, Basislager, echt saubere Arbeit. xD
ceruleanst said...
at least to something that's "all Greek to me," ...
FxFarlakes said...
wut?The Amy-of-Lovers strikes again?
Et tu ,Brutus!...
"All Greek to me" and "Et tu , Brutus" - both from the same play, Julius Caesar by Shakespeare! It was on TV this weekend so the elites and the rabble could all enjoy it
. Nice costume, Pocoloco - liked your comment.
Is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain?
What's with the bitching
The harder to spot disaster are like mini-riddles. (not really)
Only come to the comments section to get a hint or answer.
If they gave away the answer right away, it wouldn't be as interesting.
oh lovely. Thanks Zaphod and Ambercathey for being the sense on these comments. And for certain folk, please may I refer you thus
http://xkcd.com/481/
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