Category Archives: let’s-run-with-it

Guitar Mikey: Put it back in the box

Give it up for Guitar Mikey, who manages complete nonchalance while tearing down the highway at 88-miles per hour.

Photoshop Disasters

The female model also seems indifferent while she attempts to murder the snake-skinned musician holding on for not-so-dear life. Luckily, the only witness will a blurred prairie.

Let’s hear your suggestions for what this album art is trying to say.

Thanks Randy for the find!

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Staudigl Druck: Bogus Bengal

“Trust me on zis,” Siegfried told his partner Roy. “No woman on zeh planet could run very fast in zees boots, und neither will Montecore.”

Here again we have that tried-and-true recipe for failure of mixing 2D with 3D layers.  Add to that the obvious inability of this GA to wrap his/her head around the concept of logical layer stacking order, and voila!  A PSD is born!

Thanks Jerry.

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LEICA: SHUTTER-BUGGED

Commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI, the ‘Vati-Cam’ comes in an all-white body with matching strap, and an extra-large lens for peering into the bedrooms of suspected apostates.

I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that a GA who assumed we’d be fooled by such an obvious scale gaffe would also assume we would not notice an oval-shaped lens, either.  Note how this oversized lens partially covers both the flash lens and lens release button. That, plus the lack of drop shadow against the white body, are dead giveaways.
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Thanks to everyone who sent this in!  You can see the original on Engadget

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GAMA FILHO: Franken-fingers

This gives the term ‘five-finger discount’ a whole new meaning.

So was a thumb finger removed and a little finger inserted or was the thumb stretched to look like a little finger. I’m confused as to what might have happened and the thought that went into this one.

Thanks Mateus for the find. The original came from Enquete in Brazil.

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Woodbridge Wine: Vintage Failure

This Cabernet from the Mondavi family boasts a complex, fruity bouquet and a sassy hint of spice, but must be consumed within just a few hours of uncorking as it tends to flatten rather quickly.

This is just plain stupid.  Everything in this billboard ad is three-dimensional looking except for the bottle and the text.  And what the heck is going on behind the bottle anyway?  Either the sun is going nova or our forces have just changed status to DEFCON ONE.

Thanks Melanie!

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H&M: Offensive Arms Buildup

After enduring brutal torture by her captors including agonizing hours tied to a medieval ‘rack’ device, Mandy eventually gave up the codes.  “I was trained to endure much worse,” said the beautiful spy, “but when they told me they had my son Brandon, all that training went right out the window.”

With some of these PSD’s, I love to imagine possible scenarios that led up to the final result.  Like with this one, I imagine the GA intending to just tweak her arms with a tiny bit of stretching, and then amusing himself by yanking them out grotesquely, when suddenly he becomes inspired to join the Occupy movement and just saves and submits it ‘as is.’  Either that, or he had a one-night stand with the model in the graphic and just found out she gave him herpes.  It could happen.

Thanks Kat. The original was found in the Toronto Eaton Center. If you can’t spot the PSD, you an check out the marked up image in our gallery.

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CNN: Guatemalan Sinkholes

CNN Boss: We need a photo of the damage. And it has to be dramatic.
Peon: OK, I’ll see if I can contact Guatemalan authorities.
CNN Boss: No time for that!
Peon: Then what should I do?
CNN Boss: Scan this in. Circle around the hole. Place over this picture. Also scan in these lights. Put them in the hole.
Peon: I don’t think this is going to work.
CNN Boss: When’s the last time I cared what you think? Get it done, NOW!
Peon: OK… How’s this?
CNN Boss: Perfect! Now upload it, this story is breaking goddammit!
Peon: I think I’ll include this in my portfolio for my freelance business.

Thanks Bill for both the PSD and the caption. You can see the original here.

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