Storm Troopers Have a Day Off

Check out more great shots here:

http://www.designverb.com/2009/07/11/stefans-stormtroopers-a-day/

A few pictures from Disneyland

Here are a few photos from our trip to Disneyland. Full story and lots more photos coming soon. Check my Flickr account to see more in the meantime.

I'm going to Disneyland!

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Originally uploaded by Scoops Mangum

Lisa, Her brother, his wife and I are going to Disneyland at the end of October. We'll actually be there on Halloween! Crowds will be crazy I'm sure. I took this photo last year of the Tea Cups. I love the fact that the girl with Mickey ears stayed mostly in focus. The picture has not been photoshopped. Sometimes good photos happens in the camera and not the computer, even if you are using a trash can instead of a tripod. I think it's the magic of Disney.

You can see more of my photos from that trip here.

Here are the questions you have to answer visually:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name - Or online handle.

Here's how:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

I totally stole this from Dennis, and he stole it from a bunch of other people...so, it's not stealing, it's recycling! Gotta love justifications.

Which famous photographer are you?

Which famous photographer are you? Jerry Uelsmann: Known for multiple imagery and surrealism "I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.”

Click Here to Take This Quiz Brought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.

Photoshop Disasters

I found this cool new blog called Photoshop Disasters where they point out how a little bit of photoshop can go a long way.

Evidently, Batman is very interested in the window frame

This model and the disembodied hand were the inspiration for the movie "The Grudge"

Someone got too aggressive with the eraser tool at Sports Illustrated

This woman has three hands

Check out the man in the crowd that was cut/paste in several times

LOL Cat - Grammar

see more crazy cat pics

LOL Shark

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The dreaded winter inversion in Salt Lake City

How bad is the inversion (pollution) in the Salt Lake City? Well, a picture is worth a thousand words. Check this out from Salt Lake Tribune photographer Trent Nelson http://blogs.sltrib.com/trent/

This is the same location on two different days. The left is the day before a storm, and the one on the right is the day after.

Annie Leibovitz's Disney Fantasyland

World famous photographer Annie Leibovitz "Disney Dream Portrait Series" was commissioned by Disney Parks to celebrate their Year of a Million Dreams promotion for Disneyland and Walt Disney World.  Photos from http://thedisneyblog.com

Scarlet Johansen as Cinderella. The tagline reads, "Where every Cinderella story comes true." 

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is Wendy Darling, with dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan and actress Tina Fey as Tinker Bell. The tagline is "Where you never have to grow up."

Close up of Tina Fey as Tinkerbell.  Love the facial expression.

Rachel Weisz is Snow White with the tagline "Where you're the fairest of them all"


Beyoncé appears as "Alice in Wonderland," twirling in a teacup, accompanied by Oliver Platt as the Mad Hatter and Lyle Lovett as the March Hare. The tagline reads, "Where Wonderland is your destiny."

Roger Federer is King Arthur and the tagline reads "Where You're Always King of the Court"

Julie Andrews is the Blue Fairy and Abigail Breslin is her apprentice fairy.  The tagline is "Where the magic begins"

Jessica Biel is Pocahontas. The tagline reads "Where Dreams Run Free."

Jennifer Lopez as Jasmine and Marc Anthony as Aladdin.  The tagline is "Where a whole new world awaits."

Whoopi Goldberg as the Genie from Aladdin. No tagline

David Beckham is Prince Phillip from "Sleeping Beauty,". The tagline reads, "Where imagination saves the day."

Star Wars LOL Cat

more funny pictures

Dennis makes me laugh. Check out his great blog here

Inverted celebrity faces

One of the tricks used by some photographers who wish to make surprising "portraits" of clients is to digitally manipulate the portraits by vertically inverting a mouth and eyes on the portrait, while the rest of the face stays intact. The result can be quite surprising - some people look almost the same while others are hardly recognizable - it also depends a great deal on the facial expression of the person on the original image. I only posted a handful, but you can see them all here: http://www.freakingnews.com/Inverted-Celebrities-Pictures--1754.asp


Michael Clarke Duncan


Hillary Clinton

Ozzy Osbourne

Chris Rock

Heidi Klum

Bruce Willis

Sean Penn (Though this may be his normal face, and not inverted. It's hard to tell)

Tom Cruise

Super Mario Galaxy in real life photos

These amazing photos are from a photographer named Alexandre Duret. He creates spherical panoramas where the photo is shown in 360 and 180 degrees. Really amazing work. I am posting a few here, but do yourself a favor and go see all of them (over 55) on his site. He even lists out step by step directions on how to create them for yourself.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/sets/72157594279945875/

Jello Mold Turkeys

In honor of Thanksgiving in a few days, I found this interesting set of photos. It seems that they had a contest as to who could make a Thanksgiving turkey using other food items.
You can see the whole set here.


Risotto Turkey


Avacado Gelatin Turkey


Maple Carrot Cake Turkey

Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law

This is a cool site where they trace the history of photo manipulation. People forget that photos were manipulated before digital photography and photoshop. I didn't realize it went clear back to Lincoln's day however. I never knew that this famous photo of Lincoln was his head and someone else's body. Very cool stuff here.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/

Looney Tunes "Day of the Dead" display

This display is at the Hollywood "Day of the Dead" Festival at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery

See more photos of the display at this link.

Coolest Halloween costume ever

A few days ago, I listed the worst Halloween costumes ever. (Michael Jackson and Burger King masks)

Well, I wanted to be more positive, so here is the greatest Halloween costume ever. It's sick and wrong, but oh so very right. It's an "Alien" chest burster costume for baby! The look on the kid's face is priceless!



Maybe it's because I would be tempted to do something like this, that God/The Universe hasn't blessed my wife and I with any children yet.