Propaganda posters

I don't know why, but propaganda posters are fun to parody. And so easy! I loved A.'s non-propaganda poster project from senior year, and I like this:Via BoingBoing.

Take my heart

No, really. I cut it out of my chest and soaked it in poison just for you to ingest.

This is the english translation of Boccaccio's Decameron's day 4, tale 1, in which Tancredi, Prince of Salerno and father of Ghismonda, slays his daughter's lover, Guiscardo, and sends her his heart in a golden cup: she pours upon it a poisonous distillation, which she drinks and dies. C'est l'amour.

Via LOL Manuscripts!.

Happy Halloween!

I like the in-camera color substitution performed here:The color, sampled from the front of a physics textbook, seemed well-suited to Halloween. Especially since it was applied so thoroughly over the original color, as seen here (in a different camera-effect experiment):

Iranian Photoshoppery

At this point, probably everyone has seen the report that Iran's publicity photo of their supposed four-rocket test contained only three distinct rockets. Here is a link to the NYT blog on the subject, a link to their original article. The picture is no longer included in the second link, but you can see a snapshot of their cover page with the original image in the blog link. You can see the obvious edits made in this picture from the NYT blog:


The BB coverage of the photoshoppery includes several selected upgrades to Iran's job. My favorites include a commercial re-edit


and this rather fetching, classical interpretation.


To see more cleverness, check out the BB comments.