Monday, March 24, 2008

Daily Mail: Don't Do The Brown Acid


Layering mistake? Head injury? Malice? The Daily Mail's rugby coverage takes a psychotropic turn.

Thanks to Nino, original is here.

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bull, He is clearly leaning his head backwards. Look twice for crying out loud!

David said...

Now that's talent to miss such a thing ! :)

aru said...

first I thought it was a slow picture, but OMG, there is a whole gate to another dimension!!! LOL

Anonymous said...

OMG, I just don't believe that SUCH a thing has been released in a paper. Wow!

Mike said...

Takes a genius.

badaud said...

WTF? That's ridiculous.

MrBT said...

Wow. That is just goofed on so many levels. Keep lookin', there are TONS of problems besides even the obvious.

100rabh™ said...

for sure this is not layering but amazing use of cloning tool...just have a careful second look

Ross said...

Awwwww, they pulled it!

Anonymous said...

The Daily Mail is just keeping up to it's usual high standards for truthfulness and integrity.

It is amazingly bad though!

Chris Shepherd said...

Another from the Dail Mail archives is this one - check out the front wheel on the left hand motorbike!

Jenny said...

Wow. That's um...pretty heinous. Good catch to snag it while it was still up. ^_^

And man, that plane pic at the Daily Mail that Chris Shepherd linked to is ridiculous--wouldn't the plane have a shadow, at least on part of the mini convertible?

spasquini said...

This is probably only a matter of job organization. Maybe in the hurry to publish the article, the Save for Web function has been called before lighting on some of the layers used to retouch.

Anonymous said...

There is nothing wrong with the plane photo. The shadows are so long and thus wouldn't fall directly below and it's really an illusion that the place is as close as it is.

PJ said...

@Anonymous

He means the bike on the far left side, the front wheel is cut off.

Orangetiki said...

Wow. Looks like the start of a bad horror movie about wormholes on Rugby fields. Apparently someone uploaded a working file rather then the final. Or at least that is my guess

Anonymous said...

hello,
I do not know if you care, or if this blog is entirely your work but some turkish newspaper website seems to have taken content out of this blog and posted it as news and did not give you any credit.

their website is
http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2008/03/26/index.html?ver=8
the particular segment is
http://www.milliyet.com.tr/content/galeri/yeni/goster.asp?prm=5,350453E-02&galeriid=3180&ver=71

Anonymous said...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=545910&in_page_id=1773
Irony, thy name is Daily Mail.

Anonymous said...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=547008&in_page_id=1770
Another crap Daily Mail job.

Anonymous said...

In an unrelated news note, one particular ruby team member became the Hollow Man.

Sue said...

Oh good lord that's trippy!

xenobiologista said...

They need to run a story on the extradimensional rugger players now.

socrart said...

Hillarious

Anonymous said...

I'd guess they needed a clean looking close crop on the one player and got the Image guys to clone in some extra out of focus crowd; far less distracting than bits of other players. They will have then pulled in the wrong one for the bigger/wider pic. Notice they've changed for a different pic on the page now

Anonymous said...

follow the link given to the original, where they've now changed the image. i don't know much about rugby but haven't they put him scoring the try from the wrong direction... diving towards the pitch... retards.

Olivier H said...

Or maybe it's a prank from a some guy in the graphic staff?

Anonymous said...

this needs to be tagged with "daily fail"

Anonymous said...

Whoever thought of this was A) Drunk B)Released from the VA Hospital C)Pissed at the Editor or D) All of the above.
I'll bet it was D!