Sometimes ads unintentionally reveal a truer meaning. Lynx Bullet deodorant makes you totally sexy. So why is there only one set of footprints?
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Lynx Bullet: Yeah, Right, Whatever
Sometimes ads unintentionally reveal a truer meaning. Lynx Bullet deodorant makes you totally sexy. So why is there only one set of footprints?
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Cause that's when Jesus was carrying the girl to the hood of his car.
Why, those were the times when God carried you on his--wait, no.
Am I the only one that thinks than this is a very poor PSD?
Leaving aside the fact that there's only one trail on each side (which could suggest that both persons collided and exploted), it seems like a well done add.
Im not even sure if they used PS for those marks, they look legit to me.
I think the PS is on the car, guys. Did the guy flatten out the girl? Why are his shoulders clearly outlined in the snow?
Right. The snow shapes on the car do not make sense.
There isn't one set of footprints. There are two. They approached from either side and met at the car. Then, thanks to Lynx, they ascended to heaven where they remain in perpetual bliss even now.
I'm more interested in why there's no melted bit where the wet patch should be.
You know what?
I think you're just making fun of this ad, because you never had sex on a car in Winter... its after effects combined with Lynx obviously make you light footed like a Tolkien Elf!!!!
:D
Haven't you ever walked in someone else's footprints through the snow, to avoid getting more snow on you for no reason? Besides, the concept is clearer than it would have been with double the footprints.
Must've been some boring sex on that car. What did she do, just sit on it for 5 minutes and leave?
Maybe he just buggered a snowman.. those hands look pretty stickish.
Obvious: Aliens transported them to the mothership for further investigation immediately after copulation.
They travel in straight lines, single file, to hide their numbers.
Can't believe I'm the first one with the Star Wars reference.
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they're invisible people, THAT ARE STILL THERE!
A.M., shhhhhhh, you're going to give some poor,slashfic writing, 13 year old girl too many ideas XD
Oh come on, that's so sweet in such a LYNX (AXE to the rest of the world) way... on his lonely walk home in the pouring snow, he lay down on the still vaguely visible imprints, mourning his 10yo sister and remembering the horrible steamroller accident...
There's TWO sets of footprints, one from the left and one from the rigth. No mistakes in there :|
All this and nobody notices that the car has four inches of snow on it and the ground has about 1/4 inch?
This ad is fine. There are 2 sets of footprints coming together from opposite directions. The guy is on his back (his shoulders and back are defined) and the girl straddled him (leaving only her legs and palms touching the hood of the car). Fits with the idea that he was irresistable and she jumped him. The fact there are no footprints leaving is an oversight though.
The footprints make no sense, true. But also how about the obviously-pasted picture of the Axe product in that hand? No attempt to make it look like it was actually being held.
weill, I see footprints from the left and other from the right
And here I thought Lynx Bullet was a breath spray or something to make you more alert while driving so you don't go on a drunken rampage and plow over pedestrians in your snow-covered compact.
thanks for the link guys
@J. Rho
er, she was on top. hate to blow your mind there.
I can guess what the process of creating this ad might have looked like:
Boss: Good morning you all. I need a photo for the Lynx Bullet ad. And I want it on my desk before lunch.
Slave_1: But there is no time!
Boss: It's not my problem. I want a photo of a post-mating snow angel in the hood of a car.
Slave_1: But I won't have time to hire two guys, nor to rent a car!
Boss: Do it yourself moron! You wanna be fired?
Slave_1: But I'm single!
Boss: On my desk, before lunch.
Actually, there are two, one on each side of the car. Not a PsD.
totally not a PsD
the photo or even video crew had to model an identifiable even if not realistic snow shape on the car and then they sprayed tons of white stuff (actually i doubt it's real snow) to cover up and carefully make those two lonely sets of footprints.
forget about how the couple supposedly left (this is well discussed by a certain Czech writer) - we know the authors of this shot failed miserably because all the prints are made with a left man's boot size 45. oh well.
hahaha everyone saying, not a PSD, there are two sets of prints, one left and one right of car. hahaha
Wake up people, there should be four sets, two walking up, and two sets walking away!
"No, it's not a disaster! A named man ran up the car and lay down on the car on his back. Then, he flipped over in the air and straddled his first 'snow angle.' Then, he ran off in the other direction to get his frostbite treated."
My question is, why were his arms flat against the car? If some girl is straddling you, shouldn't you be touching her or something, not lying there like a corpse?
(Yes, those are her leg imprints on the snow, but if you follow his shoulders, you can see his arms are flat on the car)
There are two sets of footprints on the left side of the car that I can see... one a ways behind but coming up to the front. On the right I can only see one though.
Two one-legged people happened to meet on snowy night. Since one of them had shot him/herself with a Lynx Bullet they had insanely mad (but curiously flat) sex on snow-covered hood of a parked car--which just happened to be a Mercury Lynx!
Coincidence? I think not.
Then each of the now satiated one-legged people hopped away.
...is that the set of "Let The Right One In"?
Remember Ellen Ripley's quote in Aliens about what happened while she was away?
The hard ones get analyzed to bits; the easy ones: no PSD
There are footprints to and from and also around the car. Use your imagination. Does everything have to be two-dimensional?
Actually, it was just a set of narcoleptic conjoined twins who needed a brief nap on a snow-covered hood. That's why there's only one set of footprints leading to/from the car, they didn't need to get BOTH of their sets of feet cold, right?
Lynx used to have ad ad tht went *naked dancign girl figure* + lynx = *naked dancing girl figure* squared.
My housemates comment? 'Too bad 0 squared is 0'
I don't know about all y'all, but when I straddle a dude, I'm sitting on my knees. I'd leave shin-prints on either side of the guy's thigh-prints, not a weirdly splayed imprint of my entire legs. But maybe this particular chick is a gymnast and the guy is as thin as a sheet of paper.
Really, although the idea of the ad is cute, I don't think hood-of-the-car sex would leave a recognizable imprint. There'd be too much thrashing and snow meltage for that.
Well, how about the missing body of the woman?!?! Or is the sexy bullet-user actually a sad inflatable sex-doll fettishist, who didn't inflate her doll because of the cold snow.
It explains the missing footprints and... If this theory is right, this is no PS-disaster...
Porque la llevaba en brazos
that sucks indeed :)
Maybe lynx bullet dude was carried off by a female yeti...hey ya never know!
Yep, they've met themselves, started to do the Bartman and were split by an OVNI!
This is giving auto-eroticism a whole new meaning. ;-)
Dear Spencer Jones
This blog does not suck.
Yours sincerely,
Me
Ps: Cheer up.
Actually this is a totally new product destinated to perfume cars, but that still has this "sexual power". So, the ad is simple, no Psd here: a man walks under snow, he is attracted by the very Lynx power, stop to have sex with the car (pretty hard, that's why the multiple it seems they were two people on the car) and then go back home.
I think this is less a photoshop disaster and more of a creative license issue with slight slip-up in details. yes there technically should be two sets of footprints, regardless of approaching from different angles (one walking to, one returning, or what have you). Yes there probably shouldn't be head and shoulders in the snow, but that's the creative license part. It's necessary to drive the point home - so to speak. No pun intended.
No PSD.
wv: undicara
eerrr PdD FAIL on this one... there's two trails of footprints leading towards the car!
they met in front of the car and went on it.. what happend after that.. nobody knows.. pam pam paaaam
Walked to car with inflatable doll under arm. Did his thing on car. Walked away with inflatable doll under arm.
Sad, creepy, and sex-obsessed. The basic Lynx target audience.
and on top of that, YUCK!!!
well im never coming to this site again, what a load of shit. photoshop disaster my ass. this site has jumped the shark many times but this it just the pits. a bunch of peoploe desperatly trying to find somethinf wrong with a perfectly good ad. good bye
Waahh wah wah boohooo this sucks, not PsD, this site has jumped the shark so many times it looks worse than Jaws on crack, bunch of loosers trying to find SOMETHINF wrong in a perfect ad, unsubsubscriberiling, good bye..
It's simply amazing to me how dumb some of these people are
"DURRR THERE IS TWO SETS OF PRINTS SO ITS NOT NO PSD!"
Jesus fucking christ. Let's go back to first grade and remember math. There are 2 people with 2 feet who both have to walk up to the car and both walk away from the car.
Unless Robbie is right about the blow up doll. In that case, hotttt.
Maybe, and I say maybe, there are only the footprints of them leaving the car in opposite directions after they had sex because they started before it began snowing.
Your opinion?
Maybe there are only the 2 sets of footprints of the guy and the girl leaving the car in opposite directions because they started "having fun" before it started snowing.
Could it be?
They are both ninjas and re-traced their foot prints to deceive the enemy.
@ Jordi Apollonia: You mean, two people approached the care before the snow fell. They then waited a few hours until enough snow had fallen to cover the car the way we see it. THEN they started having sex and evaporated afterwards.
If they had started having sex on the car BEFORE the snow fell, there wouldn't be any imprint ON the snow, right? And the traces are leading toward the car, not away, so the vanishing problem remains.
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He is wearing Lynx. He arrives in his car and gets out. Passing girl jumps him on the bonnet then walks off in opposite direction. He gets back in car to mop up and compose himself after such a mind-blowing experience.
I like the ad anyway.
Why aren't there any shadows of the lamp in the back?
There are; exactly where they should be.
Maybe they were on the car so long that the prints to the car are covered up so all we can see is the prints of them leaving.
i would love for you to design a logo forDark Google as i think your a great photoshop expert
I'm right with Alex-Linfosoma, except... where did the people go after they attempted to procreate on the hood of the car? There ought to be footprints leaving also. Unless they sexed themselves into oblivion.
Not a PSD. Real sex-in-the-snow marks would be completely unrecognizable as such; so instead they did something creative and funny. Anyone looking at this will get the joke. Additional footprints would just mess up a scene that is intended to be surreal anyway.
But the first comment in the thread is really, really funny.
Does anybody else look at his pic and think "Rape"? Chick walking one way, dude another, and BAM! He throws her down on the car and well, you know. Then to hide his horrible act he clobbers her over the head, tosses her over his shoulder, and walks backward in his own steps to dispose of her.
*shudders*
wv: Dingar: What happened to the car after this tragedy.
I don't know about you guys, but most people I know totally back-track after doing the dirty on the hood of a car in the snow. It's because of the frostbite or something.
@Bonnie: Being unfamiliar with the Lynx brand, I thought that this was an ad for pepper spray or some kind of Mace at first. Unsettling, indeed!
Not a PsD. THere are clearly TWO footsteps trails.
And simply they leave placing their feet on the existing footsteps, so no need for other steps.
@Spinoza: Yeah, just like you, they backtracked exactly one minute later.
lol...fail
is that a golf?
because they've not finished yet. moving from car to car with guy taking girl around (or trans taking guy around, as you prefer).
so, depending on the pov it could be right too. :]
He's carrying the girl?
FAIL.
it's wrong ! there are two sets of footprints : right and left of the car .
I thought it was a pepper spray ad.
"carry this so you don't get sexually assaulted in the snow"
Haven't you ever heard of a piggy back ride? The woman obviously didn't have shoes on.
I love reading everyone's explanations... reminds me of Art School crits. Only no one cries.
I can see both the footprints...on the left and right...
Why are you all assuming it's a guy and a girl? It could just as well be two guys or two girls? Sexual racists!
She just humped a guy who had been hit by the car and was lying dead on the hood.
Oh wait, that is sick.
there are actually two sets of footprints(there coming from each side of the car), though thats STILL not enough to have two people coming, and two people going away
what really gets me about this one is the fact that they never left the hood-unless once he came they just magically floated up into the air, there would be *some* sign of them standing up, no way thered be a perfect sillowet of there position without smearing the legs to stand, or more hand prints to get there balance to get up, or anything
it amazes me how people can just float away after sex, i mean, its good, but not *that* good
*sigh* there is a 3rd set of mystery footprints on the right of the car leading to the hood (follow along the shadow of the car), but since it is "snowing" it is almost fully covered up again. You can tell it's photo-shopped because their body indention doesn't exactly follow the curve of the car. BUT this is hardly a disaster. The tracks leading to the car are mostly covered because time passed between the sex and the walking.
I believe they covered all bases, and it got the gist of what they were trying to portray without being visually offensive.
Not a PSD.
Well, it's in a cartoony style anyway so we need not get too forensical like. But just for fun:
1. They meet and get passionate on the car.
2. It snows. They continue. The cold restricts their movement, leaving a clean outline.
3. They part ways, walking backwards to maintain lovestruck eye-contact.
4. Snow continues to fall, covering the imprint a little.
5. Another guy, who has been watching the scene intently, discovers the new gloves his mum gave to him for Christmas have now been spoiled by devil-sauce. Overcome with guilt, he decides to cleanse his sinning eyes.
I believe they covered all bases..
Emily!
lol good work lol
Hi, I am Julian's agent. The shot was taken by filling an area with fake snow (a film sfx crew was used for this), then imprinting PEOPLE into the fake snow. I can see two sets of footprints?
I am sure there was some finessing of the imprints in post, but 90 - 99% of the shoot was in camera. It was a massive production reminiscent more of a film set than a still shoot.
We're not sure whether to take the fact that you're all debating whether it's all photoshop as a compliment or not. Similar debate surrounded Julian's ponies series http://julianwolkensteinprintsales.bigcartel.com/ which was also in camera.
Any questions, email us.
correction, just spoke to Julian and the imprints were a life size model make so that they could be imprinted more precisely in the snow with less need for post-finessing. The model maker was Model Solutions in London. Just thought I would add that detail as I know what a skeptical bunch you are.
And as far as all the rush-job comments go, the shoot was three weeks in pre production for a three day shoot.
Oh my. This is rare. I feel it is my duty after being enlightened on so many occasions to clue you all in as you have done for me in the past. Take this do-it-yourself test into consideration and try to follow me people. Curl the fingers of both of your hands into your palms and beat your chest like Tarzan ( NOT optional, DO IT). Now, extend your left arm out in front of you and rest it on a flat surface, fingernails facing downward. Take your right arm, elbow at a 90 degree angle, and extend it across your chest (this move should be easy for all of you so long as you've been following instructions), letting the inside of your forearm come to rest on the fist you made with your left hand. Lastly, keeping your right forearm on your left fist, lower your right fist until it touches whatever you have chosen to use as a flat surface. Does your forearm contact the flat surface? Would would the space in between your right forearm and the flat surface look like were it filled with snow? Take a final look at the image, namely where the shoulders of one body and the forearm of another body have left impressions. It should now be clear to you that the scene is in Utah, and a couple of those big lucky snowflakes made landfall at different times, and walked away in different directions. Had the owner of the vehicle had a can of lesser fragrance spray, it would have meant a shorter visit and those unusually large and human-like snowflakes would have landed on the asphalt and melted. Comprende?
It's obvious the guy sprayed some linx on, put something in her drink and carried her to the car where he had his way with her, then threw her in some dumpster afterward.
Otherwise great PS work!
I love this! AXE/LYNX has always been known for its extraordinary claims, but the claim that there body spray makes you so sexy that you can ascend into heaven (or at least attract girls so well that they'll levitate towards you) is priceless.
I totally agree with David. There are 2 sets of footprints.
PhotoshopDisasters FAIL!
One person came from each direction.
He was on the bottom so his frame is defined.
Not a PSD, because it's an ad, meant to convey a specific message. It's not supposed to be a literal event. It's not a picture of something that actually happened. And I don't see anywhere here where a guy on PS screwed something up.
No, no, no, what happened was that a man (or woman) with very long legs gave a woman (or man) a shoulder-ride to the car, with each of his (or her) legs approaching from a different direction. Did I mention this man (or woman) had VERY long legs?
After the man (or woman) was finished having his (or her) way with the woman (or man), he (or she) picked up the woman (or man) and carried her (or him) away again, walking backwards in his (or her) own footsteps.
It's obvious.
(Acknowledgements to Michael Palin for the gratuitous gender equality references.)
again, please, wrong post.
There is nothing wrong with this.
I guess there are two
one from left and one from right.
But at first sight I tought one too :)
The missing footprints is definitely something they should have caught in review ...
... The fact that the ad made me think Lynx was mace for self-defense should have been caught in market testing.
There ARE two sets of footprints... One from the left and one from the right. The point of the add is that two complete strangers met and because AXE is supposedly the best, they have sex...
Woman approaches car. Splays there for several minutes, allowing her footprints to be removed by the snow and, in the act of getting up, dislodges snow, then walks backwards to the right of the car.
Man approaches from left, penetrates the silhouette briefly (lynx gives him the courage for this) and walks backwards through the snow - top left.
They have one of those blankets like in Harry Potter
Wtf ? The footprints aren't even a PROBLEM . The two probably walked to the hood of the car , then FALLING SNOW COVERED those first set of footprints . The footprints you see in the images are when they walked away . >.< You didn't think footprints stay in the snow forever , did you ?
Because there was only one person and he made both shapes.
Why do i se two set of footprints?
One at the right, one in the left.
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