Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Now You See It, Now You Don't

I chose the photo by the Museum of Hoaxes that shows a shark jumping out of the water at a U.S. Air Fore helicopter because I thought that it was the best doctored photo out of all of them. All of the other ones did silly and harmful things to the photos to attack political candidates or to makes people skinnier, but this photo doesn't do anything like that. They inserted a shark at the bottom of the photo, probably to make the Air Force look even more dangerous than it already is, and released it on the Internet. Now if you see a photo that is on the Internet and has been shot by the Museum of Hoaxes, there is no doubt that that picture is real. They also flipped the photo so that the helicopter is pointing the opposite way, probably so that when the real photo surfaced, they could deny that it was the same because everything was backwards. All in all though, this was not very harmful and it made a cool looking picture, unlike the awkward one where the author is holding an invisible cigarette.

3 comments:

christa said...

i think that picture is so cool. i deffinatley believed it when i first saw it, ha. sad, i know.

Robert! said...

I totally agree with this picture not being harmful whatsoever. It did not target a single [erson like most others and was all done in order to make a more appealing pic.

Mrs. Maloney said...

I don't know much about the museum of hoaxes, but it sounds like it would make a point of making pictures that lie. If they changed the picture around (by flipping images from the real copy) is that considered infringement of copyright?