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GQ: Gentlemen Prefer Bobbleheads

Posted on 6 May by Vernon
In a move sure to surprise her fans, Gwyneth Paltrow has had her head removed and replaced with one twice as large. Paltrow, 36, waved to well-wishers as she left the GQ Photo Desk where the operation had taken place.

“I’ve always been interested in being an optical illusion” said the unnervingly disproportionate Iron Man star as she struggled to support her new giant cranium with her floppy limbs. “Beauty to me is being comfortable in your giant head.”

Thanks to Brit!

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Fanta: You Really Don’t Wanta

Posted on 5 May by Vernon
You have to wonder if, at some point, the artist working on this actually realized what was happening and yet carried on regardless.

Foreshortening can be a tricky thing to get right. One minute your image is bursting out of the frame, the next you seem to have assembled a cast of deformed mutants. The strange thing is that the picture above is in order, from right to left: OK; a bit dodgy; a lot dodgy; freakish.

Here’s a close-up of the last one. The shadow doesn’t really help either.

Thanks to Will!

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Channel 9: Australian iPhones To Run Windows XP

Posted on 4 May by Vernon
This kind of artwork screw-up is entirely understandable, considering how it is impossible to get real pictures of the phone, how Apple doesn’t really have a graphics department, the language barrier, [insert more unlikely excuses here].

Thanks to Geoff and everyone else sending this in. In-depth snarking here.

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Resident Evil: Zombies Give You Mumps

Posted on 2 May by Vernon
Art Director: Oi, have you comped those three birds together for that Reservoir Evil cover?
PS Grunt: Wot? Is impossible! The lighting is all different and stuff.
Art Director: Well that is wot Photoshop is for, you tard.
PS Grunt: Oh. Yes! I will make it totally different!
Art Director: And don’t make her look like she has eaten all the pies!
PS Grunt: Ha ha, as if.

Thanks to Mike G.

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Nordic Catalog Disaster

Posted on 1 May by Vernon
This Norwegian Danish Norwegian Canadian Danish catalog plays fast and loose with the juxtaposing and the cropping with delightfully regrettable results.

Thanks Ichonderoga, you’re super-cool!

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