Tuesday, August 18, 2009
"Obama Joker artist unmasked"
Oops!
It was NOT a Republican.
It was NOT a conservative.
It was NOT a right wing extremist.
Now, let's see what the media does or does NOT publicize...
It was NOT a Republican.
It was NOT a conservative.
It was NOT a right wing extremist.
Now, let's see what the media does or does NOT publicize...
Mark Miliam posted the story on thee L.A. Times Blog:
"Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.
Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe's Photoshop software.
Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he'd found online about how to "Jokerize" portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it.
Four or five hours later, he happily had his product.
Obama-joker-time On Jan. 18, Alkhateeb uploaded the image to photo-sharing site Flickr (shown at right). Over the next two months, he amassed just a couple thousand hits, he said.
Then the counter exploded after a still-anonymous rogue famously found his image, digitally removed the references to Time Magazine, captioned the picture with the word "socialism" and hung printed copies around L.A., making headlines."
