UPDATE: reloaded with new video link. If you’ve been having trouble viewing, try the newly uploaded video or this direct link to Raj’s Vimeo test page where you can view the source video.
Also, this is a direct link to the cloud which will allow you to download a Quicktime movie version to your computer for viewing at your leisure.
Raj will continue to troubleshoot (Vimeo reports that there is a known and unresolved issue with Firefox 4), butt please don’t give up HOPE. It will be worth it, if not for the sake of this
songvideo but for the sake of your own peace of mind.
Normally you might think deconstructing TIME would require the IQ of an Einstein, butt really, all you need is PhotoShop and the powers of transmogrification.
Lucky for you, I’ve got both.
So today, we’re going to take a look at the photo that has had people buzzing since it was originally published for the 2009 TIME 100 ceremony. It has recently caused another kerfuffle since Lady M has once again been honored in the number 22 slot on TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world list. (Behind Amy Poehler and Joey B! What’s up with that?)
Since media hounds were sniffing around for a stock photo to run with this big announcement, they republished this:
H/T RealAmerican
And once again everyone has been asking me: “MOTUS, was this picture p’shopped?!” - as if that would be unusual. What is unusual is the quality of the ‘shopping. Let’s just say that the TIME ‘shoppers had very little familiarity with the natural lines of our industrial strength containment systems. Plus they were probably thrown off a little by the presence of the fashion forward Peter Soronen corset worn, unusually, on the outside of Lady M’s gown. Still, there’s no excuse for sloppiness. The only way to explain the difference between a pro job and an amateur one is to demonstrate.
So, for education purposes only, I present MOTUS’ DECONSTRUCTING TIME video. Feel free to pass it around: the only way to prevent this sort of tragedy from happening again, to someone you love, is to educate ourselves.
Now let’s be careful out there. The ether is a dangerous and confusing place. I HOPE Lady M’s not on to me.
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Waah, all I see is a black screen. Is that raaacist?
ReplyDeleteI have played it...like six times in a row. Oh. My.
ReplyDeleteMOTUS...YOU have outdown yourself!
Now of course I may have night terrors of the transmorgification (is that a protected class?) of the...wait for it...
Midriffraff Acute Osmosis...just another version of "MAO."
Back to playing it time number seven...(I love Sinatra...butt honest, Mrs. Chairman O is more a 'Sir MixALot' fave...)
Priceless!
ReplyDeleteBRAVA!!!
ReplyDeleteSimply brilliant.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant job deconstructing the photoshopping of MOO, MOTUS!
ReplyDeleteEven without the distractions of the background and the lectern, we could tell that the photoshop was overdone, but thanks to your transmogrification video, MOTUS we were able to see how amateurish their 'shopping was and the boxy, rectangular and unbelievably tiny figure MOO ended up with in that picture.
So the TIME proves wrong the fact that the private sector always does a better job than the public sector. Only because they decided shamefully not do their job well but do whatever they can to make their idol look much better, even if it meant overdoing it and thus transmorphing MOO into a someone she'll never be.
I only get the black screen. RACIST! Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteMOTUS, you simply rock!
ReplyDeletePortia and PatAZ: I'll have Raj take a look at it. He doesn't have an immediate response, butt rest assured, he's efforting it. What browsers are you using?
ReplyDeleteBRAVO! (sound of applause)
ReplyDeleteAUTHOR! (sound of shuffling feet as the crowd gives a standing ovation)
BRAVO!!
Unclear what the problem is and Raj said debugging all browsers will take too long so he's updated with a new link directly to the "cloud."
ReplyDeleteRight under the video: hopefully that will work as an alternate.
Click on full screen and it will appear
ReplyDeleteObviously still a problem in some browsers. IE seems to work, and some versions of Firefox work, some don't. Intertubz gremlins.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we can resolve on the 'morrow.
Motus - that was simply awesome! You're the best.
ReplyDeleteLoved it. Thanks MOTUS.
ReplyDeleteThe media really has this gal's back. Earlier today, I was going to post a funny pic of MO at the Easter fest I saw on Daylife. It was a crowd scene - her mouth was wide open with her tonge sticking in the corner of her mouth. Funny pic of our 'classy first lady'. However, as I was at work using my work computer, I thought this might be a bad idea job security-wise.
ReplyDeleteTonight I went to post the funny pic and it has disappeared from daylife's website. But ha - I SAVED it on the computer. I have the evidence.
wait - nevermind - I found it
ReplyDeleteEwwwhhh, Lily Bart, this is truly gross!!
ReplyDeleteMOTUS, you are simply incredible!!! Thank you for all your hard work.
ReplyDeleteLMAO! Wow, that was surely a bad "shopping" trip!
ReplyDeleteOT: Don't know if anyone will have the same experience, but I laughed my ass off the second time I viewed this clp
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81447511/
MOTUS, you made me a believer. I thought it was just the lucite lectern throwing a weird refraction.
ReplyDeleteButt, obviously now, someone at Time thought that there No. 22 honoree should have a waist.
I just shudder to think what she would have looked like without the containment system and corset.
EEEWWWW.
ReplyDelete*waving bic lighter*
ReplyDeleteYou rock MOTUS.
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh, can't view .....
ReplyDeleteWaah, I can't see it, either. Try YouTube?
ReplyDeleteGenius pure genius!
ReplyDeleteRaj is troubleshooting and has put up two additional sources. I HOPE one of them works/ He's still efforting a solution. :'(
ReplyDeleteTry on of the other sources Raj has posted above. One is a direct link to the "cloud"???
ReplyDeleteAnd one is a Quicktime embed. I HOPE one of them works for you. He's still trying to figure out why some are having trouble/ :'(
Youtube blocks it because of the soundtrack. We are still trying different sources.
ReplyDeleteI think the Wons are on to me, butt Raj says they haven't gotten through my firewall. :'(
Thank you soooo much Granny Jan and Jihad Kitty! That is high praise indeed coming form the masters.
ReplyDeleteTry the direct link to the cloud file and download it to your computer, then open it in Quicktime.
ReplyDeleteI use Safari and it works fine in 'cloud' + 'full screen'.
ReplyDeleteGreat job!!! For anybody using Firefox, try opening it up in full screen. Thats how I got it to work.
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