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15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
Cracked.com ^ | 8/19/08 | Joe Russo

Posted on 08/19/2008 1:39:15 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

It's hard to be amazed by anything you see online, when you know any teenager with a computer and a pirated copy of Photoshop can cobble together a fake photograph in minutes.

Unfortunately this means there's a whole bunch of jaw-dropping pics that the internet declared "FAKE!" the moment they appeared. But as it turns out, some of the most baffling of them are, in fact, real.

(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fauxtography; photoshop
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To: Slings and Arrows

Picture #11, the hovering word illusion, is actually an artistic style that is now being used as inexpensive art in many buildings. Ironically, it is not terribly difficult to make.

All you need is an overhead projector of the kind everyone was familiar with in school. Then you put a slide on the projector that shows an elaborate 2D image, either black and white, or in color. Then you project the image at an angle so that the light will cross different surfaces like an inside wall, and through an open doorway to the wall on the other side.

When leaving the projector on, you just trace the lines, then paint where the tracings show you where to paint.

Importantly, the 3D effect will only work from the point where the projector was sitting, so you want that point to be where people would normally stand.

Here are some examples of how the illusion is easily created:

http://tingilinde.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/illlusion.jpg

http://www.2loop.com/3d_room_01.jpg

http://www.hemmy.net/images/arts/3droom01.jpg

before:

http://www.2loop.com/3d_room_10.jpg

after:

http://www.2loop.com/3d_room_11.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/quazen/2008/04/26/150824_0.jpg


101 posted on 08/19/2008 6:58:14 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: LucyT

LOL,,,Looks like he’s playin’ “Dress Up”,,,

No Web Gear!!!(ammo load)...:0)


102 posted on 08/19/2008 7:10:08 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

It is amazing the strength they have with their heads.

Maybe you should increase his corn ration.

Now Mountain lions, they are different, I spent several hours in the Gila River bottom, hearing one cry and wandering around saying “here kitty”, as to me, it sounded like a Siamese cat and I was sure one had been lost or abandoned in the river bottom.

We were at the spot the Oatman girls were kidnapped from the wagon train.

Then we went into the area of soft sand and found ‘cat’ tracks as big as dinner plates and decided we might be wise to leave the area.

As we left a Mountain Lion raced the truck, at about 25 to 35 miles an hour.


103 posted on 08/19/2008 7:42:21 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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To: MarkL
"I’m trying to decide if that’s really Heisenberg in that photo. I’m just not sure..."

I'm anxious to learn anything I can about that photo.

104 posted on 08/19/2008 7:46:15 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Slings and Arrows
You'll never believe this, but the man in the middle was stoned out of his mind at the time!


105 posted on 08/19/2008 7:47:21 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

They are unbelievably fast. We saw cat tracks nearly that big in the snow around our house this spring. Sure keeps you on your toes when outside and about.


106 posted on 08/19/2008 8:00:11 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: Rushmore Rocks; nw_arizona_granny; george76; yefragetuwrabrumuy
RR, this photo was in a local newspaper; it's a beautiful cat and they have a difficult life. Somewhere I read a high percentage of wild animals die of starvation.

South Dakota

107 posted on 08/19/2008 8:23:06 PM PDT by LucyT (What happens in Denver....is anyone's guess....August 25 - 28, 2008)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

That is my niece and while I’ve not seen this “kitty”, I have no doubt it is the real deal.


108 posted on 08/19/2008 8:23:49 PM PDT by miele man
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To: MarkL

LOL.


109 posted on 08/19/2008 8:42:56 PM PDT by miele man
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To: LucyT

That is an excellent photo.

They have a cry that can be heard for miles, so if there was anything to eat, it is long gone before they arrive.

There is or was a natural history museum out of Tucson.

It is a fantastic place to visit, all the ‘life’ of the desert and the setting is made as natural as can be.

When you visit, find the nursery/hospital building, it was off and higher than the main area.

We watched the Lady who took care of the animals for hours, she had a couple foxes, coyote and wolf, younger ones and as my memory goes a young mountain lion.

When she fed them, some buried their food in the sand boxes and tried to stop her from digging up the chicken parts that she fed them.

They were into every drawer and door she opened as she went about caring for them.


110 posted on 08/19/2008 9:03:14 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

You would be wise to stay alert and out of danger.

All I have here are coyotes, they come to eat the cats.


111 posted on 08/19/2008 9:04:48 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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To: LucyT

The first book I ever read was in the first grade and it was entitled “Tawney”. It was about this mountain lion named Tawney. Not the girl from Whitesnake video fame. i loved that book....Not as much as the girl from Whitesnake video fame.


112 posted on 08/19/2008 9:06:25 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

No magazine in the weapon. Presumably he was going to club the VC to death with it.


113 posted on 08/19/2008 9:26:52 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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To: MarkL

I see Schroedinger in the picture, but I can’t tell whether he’s alive or dead.


114 posted on 08/19/2008 9:29:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL,,,Prolly wouldn’t give that Dork no ammo...;0)


115 posted on 08/19/2008 9:39:59 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

Maybe he was the Barney Fife of Vietnam - one cartridge, to be kept in his shirt pocket...


116 posted on 08/19/2008 9:52:07 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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To: Slings and Arrows
AL's FIRE~FIGHT!!! Image and video hosting by TinyPic ...;0)
117 posted on 08/19/2008 9:57:17 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Traffic driving by it definitely did a “double take” as the drivers slowed down to verify it was what they’d just seen...


118 posted on 08/20/2008 11:37:23 AM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Oh no way!


119 posted on 08/20/2008 8:44:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Slings and Arrows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmDuXO_k6E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRxppaWTdc


120 posted on 08/20/2008 8:52:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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