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Archive for January, 2009

Brilliant Adbusting in Berlin

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Street art by Berlin artists Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epox.  

They paste the Photoshop tool interface over this subway poster to remind the viewer of what they should already know — this version of our beauty ideal is phony as hell.  The ads for most fashion and celebrity print get Photoshopped into ludicrous physical impossibility.  

Adbusting Street Art

See the rest of the images here.

Zinadine Zidane: “the old Gourcuff?”

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

It seems like every year, France anoints a couple of talented youngsters with the tag, “the new Zidane,” but this kid may very well be the real deal.

Check out that little dose of ridiculousness. It’s oh so Zizu. More opinon about young Monsieur Gorcuff from the Guardian. And, of course, Wikipedia Knows All.