#1: Your voting machine inexplicably floats away.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Time: Machine For Floating Voters
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Another case of missing leg syndrome....
I was hoping to find a 'time machine' for floating voters.
Me too, mattyohe D:
Anyway, BEST POST this blog had for quite a while yey
erm... it looks like a tripod to me.
Holy crap, that is a bad one. How does that not get caught? The back leg is a good two feet away from its shadow.
Yowzahs, I'm quite shocked that this wasn't caught before it went to print...it's TIME for pete's sake. Excellent example of a Photoshop Disaster.
This isn't a disaster. Don't tell me you haven't seen the new voting machines by Segway. They balance on the two front legs by them selves. You lean toward the machine to go to the next question and away to go back. Its for those of us that don't have hands. (You should see how I am typing this comment....oh wait...no)
Always suspected the extent of TIME's ability to Photoshop was to change the level of an OJ mughsot to make him darker...
I might be wrong here, but if you look closely, it looks like the OS is Windows XP, with the Start button in the task bar on the lower right corner, as opposed to the lower left corner where it should be..... the picture is really small, and it may very well not be it, but that is the first thing I thought of when I noticed the bottom of the screen.
Stupid magazine. In Brazil this voting system works very well and is safer and faster than the traditional one.
If this machines was used on last elections maybe Al Gore could be the actual american president...
I like the fact that you can buy it and put it in a frame...
First time commenting...this doesn't look like a disaster to me. The leg that looks detached from its shadow is actually not a leg, it's attached to the back bar. I can't find anything else, so can someone please enlighten me?
FWIW: page5 of 8 of the article has a picture of the machine standing on the floor that looks like it could stand on its own three feet plus stability bar.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1853246_1853243_1853236,00.html
That makes 8 things that can go wrong on election day.
Leon:
"Another case of missing leg syndrome..."
Nope.
flmumb:
"erm... it looks like a tripod to me"
It looks like one to me, too. I even dare to say that it is one.
On how many of its tri pods do you think it must stand in order to not fall over?
Haha, sorry. disregard my previous comment as I finally saw the error :)
YES! I've never sent anything in to this blog, but was severely tempted when I saw this cover a few days ago. On the front of Time? Major fail.
It's the shadows that caught me, not the tripod (which I believe is intentional).
...why is it so hard for people to see the blatantly obvious error in this one? =\
Probably the one that Obrah broke.
OK I'll lay myself wide open for ridicule here: I can see that the shadow is a disaster no matter how you look at it, but I can't really tell if the central vertical bar is the back leg or if the U shaped bar is the 3rd support. The perspective is a bit weird.
Looking at the other picture I'd guess the U bar is the back leg/legs and the central vertical doesn't touch the floor.
Mmmm. Pethaps I should not post comments when I've been drinking..
What I meant to say was that the shadow was missing from the back leg.
please, this is a tripod
I have a a feeling the winner of Tuesdays election has already been predetermined. I got a feeling this has been going on for some time now.
Jiff
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I always enjoy the blog, even if some of them aren't that big a deal.
What gets me is that most of the problems don't lay with not being able to use Photoshop, but because the designer/production artist does not have a grasp of the basic fundamentals of drawing.
If you've ever drawn cast shadows, you'd see right away what the poor shmuck at Time missed, and in doing so embarrassed themselves.
Having gone to art school in the mid-80s, and once again back in 2004, it was easy to see that before computers it was about craftsmanship and a solid grounding in technical skills before you got into concepting. Today, the emphasis has been flipped. You're kind of left on your own with drawing skills and the ins and outs of preparing good files, which in a four-year program you have much less time to focus on now because the scope of what a designer does has changed.
I do like that the role of design has expanded, but it's been at the cost of designers not building a good base of production skills first. If you want people to believe in something, you've got to know how to make it real first, or at least be a good illusionist to help the audience suspend its disbelief.
Once again.. that is NOT a leg. The back leg is the "U" shaped part. That is a center pole, probably for a tripod. There is no Photoshop error here!
Sure there is. The shadow joins the front two legs as it should. You're right in that the u-shaped bar is the back leg, but its shadow should connect to it.
In this case, the designer took an outline of the cut-out machine and filled it with a grey, blurred it slightly, and then using the Transform tool, skewed it to look like a shadow.
They joined the shadow to the front legs, but did not take the additional step to further manipulate the faux shadow to complete the illusion.
tit4tat said...
Once again.. that is NOT a leg. The back leg is the "U" shaped part. That is a center pole, probably for a tripod. There is no Photoshop error here!
Umm...other than the mysterious disconnected shadow...
This is what happened when you don't have an eye for perspective. So, never call yourself a designer or a graphic artist. It's not everything that you know how to manipulate or use any graphic softwares. Nowadays, everybody are acting smart. There's a saying,"little knowledge is dangerous". One must have a natural talent first. Not just acquired in the school or learned from a computer training school.
seriously? so they missed a bit of the shadow. You guys are splitting hairs, hardly a disaster.
This happened because Time Inc. magazines do their imaging in-house and the people doing the work are in general... hacks! No creative backgrounds, mostly prepress people with a basic understand of photoshop but no creative talent. I worked there for 6 years and would pull my hair out on a daily basis over stuff just like this. Nice to see nothing has changed lol!
compare with other photos of the machine:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/115/291759572_d29bddc342.jpg
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00oc8raeHpe6l/610x.jpg
tit4tat
So the machine stands not on three legs, but on two legs and one u-shaped thingie. Okay, I think we all have realized that by now, but it's not the point.
Q: Do you think that the u-shape a) touches the floor or b) floats in mid-air, making the machine balance on its two front legs?
Like some of the posters above, I find it amazing that a genuine screw-up like this, an error that is so much more obvious than many other disasters posted on this blog (some of which are micro-disasters at best) isn't instantly seen by some.
thanks for wasting my time...FAIL on the fail
Hmm that's interesting. I need to chain down machine.
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You'd expect more from Time....
I would say there are voting machines
that will malfunction, but most of
them will be working correctly.
thanks from tony at:
http://www.ntopics.com
Oops!
LOL @ photoshop nerds caring about this type of shit in the first place. That's the real funny.
SMH..
Maybe it is in the process of falling over on it's face :)
Well photoshop nerds are the ones who make things look better to your eyes.
I bet it was on purpose. I mean the title of the lead story is "7 things that could go wrong …"
The best part about this is that you can order any cover of TIME framed from the site. We should all show our love for PhotoshopDisasters by ordering one. :)
They had to tilt it forward so that McCain could vote.
As we all know, John McCain is a tiny man and he can't raise his arms high enough to push the grow-up buttons. His secret service handlers, rather than lift and tilt the man himself, decided to shift the machine forward.
However, the local voting authorities rushed over and put a stop the the shenanigans before he could vote more than seven or eight times, he his handlers were, in the end, forced to pick up McCain, stuff him into their little McCain Backpack-inator® and hustle him out of the room.
The crack photographers grabbed the shot before the machine's legs even hit the ground. Because they're that good.
Oh, and obviously, they're also time travelers. But that's why the magazine's called "TIME (travelers)". The "travelers" bit is silent.
thisisthenoshow.blogspot.com
Hehe.
Read the Headline! this is obviously first thing that went wrong according to ellections :-D
Yeah, the leg on the white background just looks odd that I can't tell if it's just wrong, or if the perspective is hard to force without there being an actual floor in in the first place. That shadow is terrible though.
On the COVER of TIME? The degradation of our magazines and their weakening is being done from the inside.
Looks like it needs to be calibrated again...wait, Calibrated????, are we back in 1961??....why are we even using this words with modern-age technology!!!
All you people are idiots. This is in no way a "screw-up". First of all, it is the U-shaped thing which is the back leg. Second of all, the only way to accurately cast the shadow would be to model the damn thing in 3D. Clearly, the simplest/easiest solution for this assignment was for the designer to take the alpha mask of the voting machine and skew it. This resulted in an image that made it past all non-anal/non-geeks. In other words, 99% of the world's population.
How can anybody miss that the shadow is in no way being cast by the machine (nor could it be cast by the machine as shown)?
It doesn't matter if it has three legs, four legs, or 1000 legs, the shadows must touch each point where the machine comes into contact with the "virtual" floor...
"...so I'll just select the layer....and transform....and lighten the opacity....there...that's good...NEXT!?"
The collective world at large: "FAIL!!!"
BTW, tonicboy: Coming here and calling us "idiots" for pointing out lazy, indiscriminate work that made it onto the cover of TIME magazine? You've got to be kidding us. Either you get it or you don't. Most people don't. You are most people. Run along now. There's a lot of horrible photoshop work waiting to be done. I'm sure your work will appear here someday if it hasn't already. Wait, is this yours? It all makes sense!
Silly Peter, you can't put your shadow back on with soap! Here, let me sew it back on for you and then we can all fly off together for NeverMcCainLand tra la la laa......
thisisthenoshow.blogspot.com
I second what Mantra333 said.
I'm astounded that there really are one or two people posting on this blog that don't have even the most basic idea of what a shadow is.
I think they should demonstrate to the rest of us how an object can have a shadow that doesn't meet it where it touches the floor.
As has been stated by those with eyes, this picture could only be possible if that gizmo was balancing on two legs.
Actually on second thought maybe it isn't a screw up. Maybe the shadow is suppose to represent the title "things going wrong" It's a weak defense I admit but doesn't it make more sense than TIME MAGAZINE screwing up this badly.
I get the U shaped back leg with what I think is a counter weight thing.
But a good photo shouldn't even come across as awkward. At least not for the cover of Time. They can do better and there were other options, like just the screen, a paper ballot, etc...
Tonicboy,
I sure you're just calling those that can see the error here idiots because you're jealous that you're too idiotic to see it yourself. I know very little about Photoshop, but anyone with a slight hint of intelligence can tell the shadow here is a total f*ck up.
Here, maybe this will help: Go stand outside (if there's daylight), spread your legs, bend over, touch your hand to the ground between them, forming your own ridiculously stupid human tripod. Take a look at your shadow. Is the shadow that's cast by your hand and arm connected to your hand and arm? YES IT IS! Now, lift your hand up off the ground -- your shadow magically disconnects! So, either the third leg of this tripod is floating, or they F*CKED UP THE SHADOW!
Seems to me they just flipped the shadow the wrong way... Like it should have went to the left, but they decided to put the words there instead. Being on the front of TIME you would think they're people would catch that!
melanie: "Seems to me they just flipped the shadow the wrong way... Like it should have went to the left, but they decided to put the words there instead."
You're right that the lighting on the metal legs does suggest light coming from the right so the shadow should be to the left, but that is a minor error compared to the giant DISASTER of the shadow not touching the third support! (The support is the U-shaped piece - the third "leg" is actually just a pole supporting the top part of the machine and does not touch the ground.)
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