BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos 560
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from the at-least-hire-a-decent-graphics-jockey dept.
from the at-least-hire-a-decent-graphics-jockey dept.
An anonymous reader tipped a post up on Americablog revealing that BP Photoshopped a fake photo of their crisis command center and posted it on their main site. The blogger commented, "I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center." While this story was just being picked up by the Washington Post, an Americablog reader spotted another doctored BP photo on their website, this time of a "top kill" working group. How many others?
Quality of work... (Score:5, Funny)
What ever happened to the days where you'd get some skilled laborers and build a set, hire actors and fake a photo LEGITIMATELY?
Re:Stupid article (Score:5, Funny)
For one thing. Why the hell does it matter? It's an
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Yeah, I drew a blank on this one, too.
Re:Who cares?? Well, I care! (Score:3, Funny)
Ever seen a woman wear makeup...?
More importantly, ever wake up next to her the next morning and seen the reality of the same face without makeup? Can be a scary thing sometimes, perhaps best left unseen.
Re:Quality of work... (Score:3, Funny)
yeah...
The "Moon Landing" was a masterpiece. I couldn't find one flaw, and those who say lighting was off are wrong, the lighting was the best of all.
Re:Who cares?? Well, I care! (Score:5, Funny)
Ever seen a woman wear makeup...?
More importantly, ever wake up next to her the next morning and seen the reality of the same face without makeup?
No, I haven't. :(
OH MY GOD...The Spill is a FRAUD (Score:3, Funny)
Why isn't there a real spill response center? Because there is no spill!!
I knew it - just like the damned moon landings. This whole spill thing is a fraud, isn't it? Those shots of the oil coming out of the sea bed are probably computer generated! This proves it - BP is clearly just making all of this stuff up. And who is going to question them, huh? Can you go down 5000 feet to see it for your self? NO! You just have to take their word for it, that the "cameras" they have "placed" are really there.
Drop a few cans of Pennzoil on the surface, dip some wild life if a bucket of goop, and maybe dispose of some of that tar you can't find a landfill to take. Heck, I've heard the stories about how the private fisherman in LA have been fishing the whole time without any problems.
I call bullshit on the whole spill story. In fact, I think they did it just to make the Obama administration look bad. Yeah, that's it! Make a disaster they CAN'T fix, because it doesn't exist, then blame them for not fixing it fast enough. Bloody geniuses, I tell you!
Re:Who cares?? Well, I care! (Score:2, Funny)
This is slashdot my friend, people post mathematical equations about what women look like, hypothesise about the probability of running into one... heck a rare few have seen one once ... without make up? :)
Re:Who cares?? Well, I care! (Score:3, Funny)
You must be new here.
Re:Who cares (Score:5, Funny)
The court of public opinion has decided that oil = bad. If a BP exec were caught on camera tickling a puppy, there would be at least a half-dozen sites declaring "Evil BP overlords publicly torture puppies".
The Real Story ... (Score:1, Funny)
is they're now in final testing of their Super Ultimate Cleanup Technology.
Thats right, they're about to PHOTOSHOP THE BAY INTO 2001.
Lets just hope the operator won't accidentally nudge the joystick while
sipping his coffee and fill the whole frame with #000000
Re:Who cares (Score:2, Funny)
Or are you one of those 'interesting' people who use jpeg artifacts to claim the Moon doesn't exist, or whatever?
Please tell me that you made that one up...
Re:Who cares?? Well, I care! (Score:5, Funny)
Ever seen a woman wear makeup...?
More importantly, ever wake up next to her the next morning and seen the reality of the same face without makeup? Can be a scary thing sometimes, perhaps best left unseen.
I have and I now only have one arm!
Re:Who cares (You Should) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who cares?? Well, I care! (Score:5, Funny)
Unless.... (Score:3, Funny)
Unless you're trying to trick people into thinking you're good looking when you're really not [youtube.com].
Re:The other faked photo (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, because that photographer should be out there mopping up oil and controlling ROVs to place a new cap instead of, you know, taking photographs and photoshopping them to make them presentable.
And don't get me started on the guys working security in the BP office buildings - they've done NOTHING to help with this crisis response. They're not even drilling relief wells!
Re:Who cares (Score:5, Funny)
The technical term for this ritual is "Going out to Hooters with the guys for beers and wings", and yes it does involve the sacrifice of dozens of animals. The fact that the actual slaughter is conducted by anointed priests in a remote temple does nothing to change it.
You don't even want to know the body count of the "Putting some burgers on the grill" ceremony. It's abominable.
Re:Horrible photoshopping at that (Score:4, Funny)
The EXIF data only indicates that they probably didn't set their camera clock or it got reset changing the batteries.
Don't forget Occam's Razor! Is that really the simplest explanation that fits the known facts? No, not by a long shot! You know how much money oil industry has. It's practically certain they have time machine, which they've used to transfer the command center back in time, to a random time before the accident. That way they could take a photo without showing the panic and chaos there is today, so that they appear to be in control of the situation.
Re:Who cares?? Well, I care! (Score:3, Funny)
Makeup won't help an ugly chick at all.
Not true. Just add dim lighting and alcohol.
Re:Quality of work... (Score:3, Funny)
That's because they filmed it all on location.
Now that's brilliant! What better place to fake a moon landing than on the moon itself!
You sir have exposed the truth once and for all! You're my hero.
Re:Who cares (Score:1, Funny)
Dude, do we KEEP having to tell you about the First Rule of Lodge Club?