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July 11th, 2008

Photoshop For Real

Tell Me a Lie
"The most controversial lies told with photography today are those told by news photographers who manipulate their work photographs to tell a different story, for example, Liu Weiqiang's faked photograph of antelope and the China-Tibet rail link.

We decided to flip this lie on its head and use a camera to mimic common Photoshop effects." Via

May 28th, 2008

The Reflow

Reflow of Mozilla

Inside Gecko is a visualization program created by Satoshi Ueyama, made with Processing which shoes the reflow process of a browser while it translates the HTML code so as to present the page to the user.

May 4th, 2008

Graveyard Installation

Idol Worship is a Graveyard Installation by Laura Keeble.

"... I wanted to create a discussion as to how the Christian cross, effectively an international logo, is regarded and marketed in a similar vein to that a logo from a multinational brand like Channel, Nike or Mc Donald." Via

May 2nd, 2008

Li Wei - Mirroring and Falls

The work of Li Wei is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

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April 14th, 2008

How to Flickrize Google Earth

Viewfinder is a novel method for users to spatially situate, or “find the pose,” of their photographs, and then to view these photographs, along with others, as perfectly aligned overlays in a 3D world model such as Google Earth.

Ten Thousand Cents

Ten Thousand Cents is a collaborative digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill.

Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously.

March 14th, 2008

Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes

Armed America Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes

Kyle Cassidy traveled 15,000 miles over two years photographing Americans in their homes and asking one question: “Why do you own a gun?”.

March 8th, 2008

Photoshop Disasters

Photoshop Disasters is a blog with truly awful pieces of Photoshop work in advertising and editorial. With great power comes great responsibility.

March 5th, 2008

Movement for real fresh chicken

Dove Evolution spoof, with chicken

February 19th, 2008

Meet The World

"We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO..."

The Flags Campaign is a circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail.

February 10th, 2008

Hofmann's Potion

A documentary about LSD and how it was created, what usage it had, and how the early experiments were carried out by Albert Hofmann and others

MK Ultra

MK-ULTRA was a secret CIA program attempting to master the art of mind-control by testing many types of drugs on unwitting people.