Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper 105
A clearly photoshopped picture of three Chinese officials inspecting a newly laid road is becoming an internet sensation. The picture posted on a local council's website, shows the men hovering a few inches off the ground with the edges of their bodies blurred. Government officials offer the following explanation: "...a professional photographer had been employed to photograph the three men inspecting the road surface. But after taking a set of real shots of the officials, the unnamed photographer decided that the pictures were just not good enough. With true artistic temperament he set about 'Photoshopping' the three men onto the empty road to create something better." Plenty of parody pictures have popped up already, and I look forward to seeing where the trio end up over the weekend.
Hovering (Score:1)
Maybe they really ARE hovering!
Better Photoshopper, or Better Photographer? (Score:1)
If a poorly 'shopped pic is still better than the original, then maybe you need a better photographer.
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Only leaders in North Korea are capable of such things.
screw that (Score:2)
where can I find the parody pictures?
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where can I find the parody pictures?
The article has some.
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The article also appears to have audio ads which automatically play and have no obvious way to kill other than adblock or closing the page.
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you should know, the underlined text in TFS is called "link" and you can "click" it with your "mouse". Good luck!
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That works in the summary, but not necessarily in the comments.
You can't click links in any way in Chrome since Slashdot made its latest minor update.
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Or in Firefox 5.
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What do you expect, it's tough for a web developer to keep up with these newfangled technologies like "links" and "checkboxes". I mean, this is only the 3rd time Slashdot has broken the site in the exact same fucking way.
Re:screw that (Score:4, Informative)
Disable Javascript's ability to change or disable context menus, and everything works again. Hurrah!
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They don't work in Safari either anymore. Even before, there was already the problem that clicking a link resulted in simply expanding the parent comment. Only once all comments until the root had been expanded (one click required for each expansion, plus every time scrolling back to the link you were actually interested in), the link itself would work.
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if you adjust the comment level sliders, it will expand all the parents as well.
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firefox too
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Yes, you can! I just figured out how.
Go into options of whatever browser you have, and block "javascript can change or disable context menus".
Works in firefox, not only can I now rightclick/copy link, but normal left click also miraculously works.
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RTFA.
haha oh wait (Score:2)
keyword:floating officials (Score:2)
If you want to see more images about this, the keyword seems "floating officials". Anyway I can't see much.
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Multiple parody pictures (Score:4, Informative)
Direct link to small paragraph on story and contains many of the parody photos for those interested.
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http://patriciachan.com/2011/06/how-to-not-photoshop-official-government-photos-funny-chinese-bad-photoshop-sensation/#respond [patriciachan.com] Direct link to small paragraph on story and contains many of the parody photos for those interested.
NSFW - They're shopping them onto porn over there.
And is it just for me clicking links is a pain here on Slashdot? I have to C&P them in IE9, or middle click in Firefox 5.
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*shakes fist in the air*
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Not sure how that's NSFW, but whatever. What's sad is that many of the parodies are significantly better than the original photoshop
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By the by, as funny as the parodies are ,what's with the original? The guy on the right looks like he's pointing to the ground and saying "Ah... look how close I am to the edge." And the others are just looking onward, as if to say, "Chan is a very brave man for walking so close to that edge. We should all be very proud of this very safe road that one can walk on the edge so close without falling over."
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the original is probably also fake
the soviets did much better image doctoring than that, decades ago
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even middle click is not working for me. i have to drag and drop, both in ie9 and ff5
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They made it onto Closed Circuit TV?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television/ [wikipedia.org]
http://english.cntv.cn/01/index.shtml/ [english.cntv.cn]
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:s/photographer/guy with camera/
This is news? (Score:1)
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News?
THIS. IS. IDLE!
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>Saw it a couple days ago. In slash dot days that's 4 or 5 years old!
No, it's about repost time.
More info + spoof Photoshops (Score:3)
ChinaSmack has much more detailed coverage on this story, including translated Chinese netizen reactions and ton of photoshops. There are only a few ways that the Chinese can criticize the "ZF" (Chinese Government), these sorts of harmless mockery is one of them.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/floating-chinese-government-officials-stun-netizens.html [chinasmack.com]
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Ahh, dear old Daily Mail... (Score:3, Informative)
...you'd never resort to such crassness, would you?
http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/category/photoshop-disaster/
For those too lazy to read more than the summary (Score:2)
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So ? This is no different than any fashion photo on the cover of a magazine.
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Re:For those too lazy to read more than the summar (Score:4, Insightful)
It could just as easily be the other way around.
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Thats a cultural bias that you are expressing. It could just as easily be the other way around.
Yes, I know. The Communist cultural bias is that portrayals of government actions or photos depicting actual reality should be works of art, molded for best propaganda, but fashion is a worthless endeavor and everyone should wear gray and red. That doesn't mean that my cultural bias isn't a better cultural bias though.
Get your browser history right (Score:1)
"We believe that Internet Explorer is a really good browser" - Steve Jobs, 1997
I know this is Slashdot and there was some disastrous stuff happening with IE6, but lets get facts right.
Back in 1997, IE4 was launched. IE4 and IE5 WERE really good browsers. They introduced the new DHTML engine in IE4, and it was WAY faster and more powerful and more stable than the real alternative at that time, which was Netscape 4.
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The photo of the government officials was a pretty accurate record. The picture of the three men was taken when they were admiring the new road, and the background was an actual picture of that same road.
The photoshopped picture was merely a small cosmetic change to remove the glare on the road that was originally in the background.
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I dunno. The Chinese Olympics broadcast featured digital fireworks and a little girl lip-syncing the national anthem because the little girl singing it wasn't pretty enough. At some point you move from "honest mistake" to "culture where appearances are deemed more important than reality" - to say nothing of material things, like their famously unreliable economic data.
Myself, I'm more of an "esse quam videre" kind of guy (to borrow the North Carolina state motto).
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Come on, you seriously think only in Communist China do people lipsync on stage?
And what's wrong with digital fireworks? Do you think realistic computer rendered animations are bad too? Or do you believe that every single bit of the movies you watch are "real"?
Gosh you guys (you and the moderators who modded this up) are dense.
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"culture where appearances are deemed more important than reality"
Oh, you mean like the USA? Here we value appearance over reality every day.
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When they replace one individual with another, which they did the fellow that's not facing the camera, it's not an honest mistake or bad chopping skills anymore.
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they should get the Soviet Russia guys they did a (Score:2)
they should get the Soviet Russia guys they did a better job with out photo shop or a pc.
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they should get the Soviet Russia guys they did a better job with out photo shop or a pc.
I've seen one example where they edited out Stalin(after he died, of course) in a film of he and Lenin together by superimposing the upper torso of a guy in a Red Army uniform on the film so that it covered up Stalin.
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The classic photo demonstrating the impressive photoshopping skills of Soviet journalists(50 years before Photoshop appeared is the one with Stalin and Yezhov: before [wikimedia.org] and after [wikimedia.org].
Perfect opportunity lost (Score:2)
No extra clicking (Score:3)
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Chinese people CAN hover! (Score:3)
Well that's why it's an amazing road (Score:2)
WTC (Score:1)
this shopped photo (Score:2)
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They said the same about "Made in Japan" in the 1960's and 70's
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Yeah, one would say that if they can make their officials levitate they can create a levitating bridge, but no! the have to create a normal bridge, a normal boring 22 mile normal bridge. [wikipedia.org] Massive fail if you ask me, why do they even try? /s
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Aww, that's nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge-Tunnel [wikipedia.org]
A whole mile longer, and it has a tunnel in the middle for ships to pass over.
Either dead or in work camp (Score:2)
Re:Either dead or in work camp (Score:5, Interesting)
Why do people think that China is some kind of giant Stalinist gulag? It's a fairly average, run-of-the-mill authoritarian regime these days. Yes, you will get kicked out of your job for that kind of thing, and will probably have troubles insofar as corrupt local authorities depicted can create them for you (I dunno, police regularly stopping to check papers?). No, they won't shoot or imprison you for the smallest mistake. For that matter, the law spells out what you have to do to get there, for the most part, and to get extralegal harassment, you need to be a persistent pain in the ass (well-publicized human rights protester or somesuch). Common folk don't live in daily fear that black vans will come and take them away.
Reminds me... (Score:2)
This reminds me of the Chinese 'spacewalk' with the bubbles rolling around the astronaut. Whatever happened there, did we just accept that they actually did a spacewalk?
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USA, Russia and a dozen other nations have tools for independent verification of someone flying to space. These newfangled, barely 50-year old tech like telemetry or radar, maybe you heard about them. China cannot bullshit in this particular departament.
That's China... (Score:3)
They're so used to lying to the people that they will lie even when they don't have to.
Meh (Score:2)
Thank God it's Friday (Score:2)
Propaganda? (Score:3)
Look, I understand it's the Chinese, and we officially don't like them or their human rights record, but if this sort of picture rises to the level of "propaganda," then we need to call what used to be named "propaganda" (i.e.: Pictures that inflame nationalism, demonize a political enemy, or move people to high emotion over what is actually mundane, or at least literally mislead or lie about the nature of something important) something else.
This is a publicity shot, as is every ribbon cutting ever filmed in the States or Britain. Not everything the Chinese government does rises to the level of "propaganda."
The Photoshopping is just "incompetence." Again, I don't think it rises to the level of "propaganda." It's hilarious, but not nefarious.
Praise be China! (Score:1)
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levitate
To rise or cause to rise into the air and float in apparent defiance of gravity.
Shadows (Score:1)
photoshop idea (Score:1)
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