You have to admire the spirit. Maxim could have just bottled out and run the original image. But they had ambition. They saw the bigger picture and made something guaranteed to stand out from the crowd.
True, it stands out because it is hopelessly crap, but it does stand out.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Maxim: The Pond Of Implausibility
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the green water looks like that slime monster from Ghost Busters.
so glad Slimer's career lives on
freaky long toes
I like the fact that her one leg appears to be magically casting a shadow on the side of the pool ... through the diving board...
"I always take my bubble baths wearing a tiara because I am a grownup."
Uh...sure whatever.
What is that think coming out of the heel of her right foot? An extra digit? A candy cigarette?
truth, I think that's supposed to be her finger, or at least the severed stump.
Delightful abuse of perspective. You can trace the distance of the surface of the water by following the thickness of the board, its apparent distance from the tiled floor, the distance from the lip of the pool to the water's surface... yet her left foot still doesn't break the water.
All of which would only matter if that left leg hadn't been so abysmally cut out.
Ouch! My head hurts.
that's what happens when they try too hard to make it good...
Apart from the fact that she is not wearing a tiara, she's also strangely both too tall and too short for this...pastiche?
the east river is full of green water just like that.... I bet that's some of it.
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I think we have an Engrish Fail, except that the writer might speak English as a primary language.
The image itself is quite sad, something went very wrong. Maybe One Eyed Pete should put down the Wacom for good.
I don't know how this can pass an editor either. I think even a bad editor should have noticed this.
Well at least we will be spared the "move along" brigade tonight...
Are you that's Photoshop? It looks like cut and paste. And by that I mean, it's at least 2 different photos and they went to town with a pair of dull scissors and a bottle of Elmer's glue.
This is no photoshop, this is cutting out photo's in old fashion way and making a collage with some glue.
Jesus.. This really sell?
Bwahahaha, this is hilarious...ly aweful.
It's kinda like an M.C.Escher picture, where your eyes just don't know where to look first, it's really odd.
Phil, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that that shadow is supposed to be the leg that's hanging, not the one resting on the diving board.
that's just plain amateur-hour...
Nah.... she's really a vampire or ghost or something (maybe a buddy of Slimer?)and she has no shadow, so they put in *lots* of extras from every direction so we wouldn't be scared...
how nice of them...
The thigh of her right leg just could /not/ bend that way. Sad that these magazines hire a) bad PSers and b) incompetent art directors when there are *talented* people out of work.
The water reminds me of a potion out of the Harry Potter series; the one that weakened Dumbledore almost to death. I keep wanting to yell at her to pull her foot up before that acid eats her toes off.
ALSO: the folks at Maxim don't care about plausibility as long as there is a little T or A showing (preferably both).
Her crunched leg looks like another arm with a weird hand.
This image is just mind-boggling. She must be part Gumby if her leg can bend like that. And the shadows! Dear lord...
Unless she's a gymnast (or quite possible commanding divine power), no. Just no.
http://www.leninimports.com/yasmin_le_bon_gallery_8.jpg
That's not a PSD. Too easy.
This picture was taken in another planet: with 3 suns and where the laws of perspective are unreal like in a Salvador Dali's painting.
This is outstanding! It would be hard to find anything right about this picture. I was using the railings as my benchmark of reality but having noticed the splayed shadow of said railings I must conclude that the Sun is only around 30 feet away.
Don't worry Roballen, somehow her toe is nowhere near it.
Now that's magic...
ridicule!
I always take my bubble baths in radioactive waste...because I am a mutant. Seriously, what's up with that right leg? Is that a thumb growing out of her heel?
w.v. exorte
Obvious cut-out and mashup, a little shameful, but by the look of the source they had a challenge on their hands.
Apart from the awkward color of the water...I don't think the shadows are wrong. Just a matter of harsh sunlight from the back, and fill-in flash. I think the weirdness of the picture is a result of the lighting, rather than the use of photoshop
I wonder how hard could it be to put a model sittin on a board over a pool, and then take the picture...
Obviously the left hand was an after thought too... or she's developing arthritis early on... dear god hope not poor woman...
and what's with her right little toe... but that's probly genetic!
ou-kay... i only now realized that she is sitting on a board. which doesn't help, because i don't understand why the board has a shadow that is underneath, and her legs have shadows that are way behind her. how can you comp a picture like this, pay attention that everything has a shadow, but just carelessly throw them about...?
but: of course paying someone to just fumble with existing images is way cheaper than paying photographer, model, light-guy etc. pp. just a sad truth.
WV: ducie. is that an insult? "you damned ducie!"
Well, it's Maxim; whatcha expect?
That ain't water; it's lime jello! For some classy-ass jello wrestling, don'tcha know!
Is that supposed to be a diving board? I couldnt tell!
And where`s her right hand?
Well, CH2R, it's not a REAL diving board, because those things bend pretty easily when you're on them.
She was clearly never, EVER in front of that scenery. Looking at the shadows of the railing, you can tell that 1) the sun should have been behind head, which it probably was before they cloned over it, and 2) there's a palm-tree-like shadow near her butt from a plant that was also cloned out of existence. And for such strong shadows behind her, there is zero rim light on her.
There is just nothing right here.
is that supposed to be jennifer love hewitt? cause i couldn't tell
It makes me ridiculously happy to see this picture on this site. I was looking at this issue of my boyfriend's maxim cos I thought JLH looked really strange on the cover, and when I saw this all I could do was lol at how terrible it looked. It's amazing how little they tried to make her blend into the background... I suppose that good shopper had the day off.
If they were gonna photoshop anything, though, why not fix those damn ugly toes? Good lord...they were all over each other in all the other pics...lol.
Don't want to bathe in that water O_o.
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