Well, not quite, but LIFE Magazine put our Obama phone call photoshop in a list of famous faked photos next to such photos as the airbrushing of Trotsky (and they included our watermark — not on the Trotsky photo, the other one).
The photo was never supposed to fool anyone, it was just supposed to be a visual joke about Obama answering a 3am phone call. It was my idea, but Cadet Happy did the photoshop (and apparently did a really good job on editing the phone cord).
All the fake photos meant to fool people are ones we don’t put an IMAO.us watermark — and there are tons of them out there and no one has figured out they’re fakes. Justin Bieber isn’t real; he’s just a photoshop I made combining a colobus monkey and a brown mop.
So, it’s your (or your alternate personality “Cadet Happy” IP, did they pay you for it? PIRACY I TELL YOU!
LIFE has the famous photo hoaxes,
TIME, the parody news magazine,
is the one that runs the hoax ‘news’ stories,
like the leadership of Obama, Manmade Global Warming, The Summer Of Recovery…
Frank, was that bearded bigfoot guy I shot in my yard last night really Harvey?
I don’t get it – your watermark is RIGHT under their logo; they had to see it. What’s this crap about it being “debunked” when it was obviously a joke?
Thus beginneth your career in journalism, Frank.
That is so cool! When I saw the feed headline, I thought it was going to be about your Nuke the Moon pic.
I can see liberals scratching their head and screwing up their faces in confusion, “Huh? You mean Bush really didn’t nuke the moon?”
If they “DE-Bunked” it, then you “Bunked” it?
I just don’t get these big journalism terms.
Bravo Frank! (and Cadet Happy)
I always liked this one (at end of the post). It is one of my favorite early photoshops of Obama.
http://sparks.brushfireoffreedom.org/post/2010/05/10/Obama-is-Not-That-Bright.aspx
Hint for the visually impaired… “lens cap”
Anniee451, That is a wicked good Photoshop. However even with the watermark, it is still Time magazine. For them looking up Frank’s place counted as “incredible lengths of investigation”. Heck I’m surprised they did not win a Pulitzer.
SO awesome getting that in there.
Do not forget the famous Clinton “Fish lens photo.”
From the article:
Gee, I had always thought that it was proved to be a fake when (a) it appeared on IMAO, and (b) you wrote about it. Not exactly super-sleuths, are they?
The bigger puzzle has always been that arm and hand that Obama was using to prop up his desk: if the guy gave an arm-and-a-leg to support Obama, what ever happened to his leg?
By the way, did you do the Trotsky photo?
Frank, is that skunk hiding under my shed really Cadet Happy?
Most people become famous by accident. Of course LIFE stopped having anything to do with news yeasr ago so I wouldn’t concern myself with the inclusion. Besides the lib editors at LIFE are as humor challenged as the rest of their ilk. They simply don’t “get” the joke.
Humorless, hubristic, humanist………………..I just love alliteration, especially when it’s so germane.
Years ago………….3 hrs of sleep, typing not so good. Good night.
Congratulations Frank you finally got a Life! WooHoo batta bing Thank you folks I’ll be here all week.
Anniee,IIRC, the photo was making the usual internet rounds and making a bit of a stir with the watermark deleted or cropped. It actually was “debunked” by Snopes.com which is the Pulitzer of urban legend and conspiracy theory debunkification. Cadet Happy disappeared soon after when he tried to photoshop Donald Rumsfeld out of a crime scene photo. Teach him to try and steal Rummy’s thunder.
Heppy birthday Frank. Be hep!
Ooops, wrong thread. Heppy birthday anyway.
I loved that Obama phone pic. That got in LIFE? Heh heh.
Really, LIFE is still around?
Ironic that a magazine that exists by printing fake editorial takes delight in pointing out fake photos.
Well, there are the same people who still think Sarah Palin said “I can see Russia from my house.” If they treat Saturday Night Live as an important news source, why not IMAO?