Nobody will notice? WE ARE THAT NOBODY!

Props to Vitor! Original is here! ^{[Warning: lame Flash]}

I actually dismissed this one for a while. I thought, yeah, that hand belongs to the guy at the back. There’s no way that’s some orphan. And the weird empty space is sort of possible. On closer examination, it turns out this picture is a trainwreck.

Props to A, Frederick, Michel and Holmes!

Lastminute’s Freudian obsession with thumbs seems to be causing some hysteria in its design staff.

Thanks to lali! Original is somewhere in here!

In a breathless deconstruction of the trite family self-portrait, USA PhotoHouse deftly excises the phallocentric father figure, leaving a single hand to signify – with profound semiotic irony – the hidden hand of capitalism. The camera is bereft of any screen or viewfinder in a de facto refutation of the omnipresent panopticon of male gaze, while the child points aimlessly out of the savaged image in a cathartic denunciation of the testosterone-poisoned concept of understanding directions. Marvellous.

Thanks to L!

chap-ec-tomy

[tchap-ek-tuh-mee]

–noun, plural -mies. Photoshoppery.
excision of extraneous male[s] in a photograph of a model.
Origin: 1990–95; CHAP+ -ectomy

See also: de-bloke, sausage reduction protocol, ibid.

Found in Grazia magazine, November 3rd. Thanks to Jo!

OK already, enough, here, I’m posting it. Sheesh.

France’s President Sarkozy, shown here meeting with Emperor Palpatine, is pursued by Toulouse Lautrec^{[citation needed]}.