Well, maybe I’m exaggerating a little bit, since Santisuk is really just a mascot for the police force of Saliburi district, Thailand. He was found injured, a while back, and has since then been adopted by local policemen. Every day he puts on his “Monkey Police” uniform and accompanies his colleagues on patrols. He doesn’t do arrests or stakeouts, but he does sit on top of the police car drawing attention and improving police image, in locals’ eyes.

You could say Santisuk is the best PR guy police could ever hire. And he enjoys every minute of his job, especially when he receives tasty treats.

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Scott Campbell, a talented American tattoo artist, has created a series of cool artworks by laser cutting stacks of one dollar bills. Enjoy!

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The 37-square-metre hotel was made from more than 200,000 key cards and weighs 1814 kilograms.

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Robert Capa’s famous
photograph, Falling Soldier, may be the latest addition to a growing list of art fakes. The
image, taken in 1936, depicts a soldier in the Spanish Civil War at the moment of his death, twisting towards the ground as a rifle falls from his hands. But a new book, Shadows of Photography, a Spanish researcher named Jose Manuel Susperregui suggests that the photo was not taken at the town of Cerro Muranio, as was originally thought, but outside
the town of Espejo, 35 miles away. It may seem like a small difference, but according to Susperregui, that’s evidence that the photo was staged, similar to the other photos from the series on that front. And along with the help of the Spanish press, he managed to match the background of the photo with a current location. Historians add more evidence: the fighting in Espejo had not yet begun when Capa passed through. (Link 1 | Link 2)

The caption Reuters gave to this photo is “Georgians stand next to the body of their son in the town of Gori”. The woman is looking up towards the sky from where, presumably, death had stricken “her son”. But for the purposes of this photo the body of the “son” has been obviously moved quite a bit away from the curb. This was clearly not done in order to cover up the naked parts of the dead man’s body, nor to allow some measure of dignity to the dead. Was it done for the light? (One should challenge Reuters to find a mother — any mother — who would allow the body of her child to be dragged through dirt half naked like this, while she is taking instructions from a photographer where to stand, where to look and what to do next).

Note: some readers wrote to us saying these pictures weren’t doctored. When a news photographer first sees a scene he or she will immediately take a photo from where he or she is, with the longest zoom or focal length required to frame the shot so that you get SOMETHING. Then the photographer proceeds to move closer to the scene while zooming out or switching to a wider focal length in order to get a better photo with more impact. Often the best photo of the series is an extreme wide angle shot very very close to the main subject with the supporting elements near but not competing with the main subject. These photos show the difference between photographing the scene with a 200mm lens vs. using a 20mm lens. (Thanks, Greg). (Link)

This hoax emerged on the internet just weeks after the Sept 11 attack. Although rational assessment of the picture quickly reveals its flaws (how could the tourist not hear the plane? how did the camera survive? Besides, anyone who visited the WTC before 9/11 knows the outdoor observation deck was atop #2 WTC (the south tower). The photo looks north, toward the Empire State Building . But #2 WTC was hit from the south by the hijacked plane.), the horror of the scenario and the rawness of America’s wounds gave the
image a huge emotional impact.

The June 271994 covers of Newsweek and Time had two different versions of the same mug shot of O. J. Simpson. The Time cover makes Simpson’s face darker, blurrier, and unshaven. Matt Mahurin, the illustrator at Time Magazine who manipulated the police photo of O. J., at his word, he said that he “wanted to make it more artful, more compelling.” (Link)

The cover of TV Guide in August 1989 displayed this picture of daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. This picture was created by splicing the head of Winfrey onto the body of actress Ann-Margret, taken from a 1979 publicity shot. The composite was created without permission of Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by Ann-Margret’s fashion designer, who recognized the dress. (Link)

This photo of George W Bush holding a picture book the wrong way up during a visit to a school delighted some opponents of the Republican president, and helped foster his buffoonish image . But press photos from the event in 2002 revealed that Mr Bush had been holding the book correctly – hoaxers had simply used photo editing software to rotate the cover. (Link)

This photo was first published by the
Reuters as an
image of a “dead woman being carried by the Georgian soldiers from
the town of Gori”. But this “dead woman”, incredibly, is clutching the nurse’s arm. Later, the same man lying next to her was spotted in different positions. (Link 1 | Link 2)

August 2006: This photograph by Adnan Hajj, a Lebanese photographer, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid. The
Reuters news agency initially published the
photograph on its Web site then withdrew it when it became evident that the original
image had been manipulated to show more and darker smoke.
“Hajj has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the
image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,” said Moira Whittle, head of
Reuters public relations. “This represents a serious breach of Reuters’ standards and we shall not be accepting or using pictures taken by him.” Other photographs by Hajj were also determined to have been doctored. (Link)

The most common examples of
photograph alteration and falsification come from communist Russia. Unwanted persons, so-called “enemies of the people” were not only killed, but also removed from photographs where their presence was unwanted. Photographs were altered with the intent of changing the past. Leo Trotsky was a close friend of Lenin, and shared his idealistic ideas about the communist state. In these pictures he can be seen together with Lenin and later was removed from both photographs.

The historical reason for this alteration is that Stalin eventually began to see Trotsky as a threat and labeled him an “enemy of the people”. After he was deported from the Soviet Union in 1929, Trotsky criticized Stalin’s leadership, arguing that the dictatorship Stalin exercised was based on his own interests, rather than those of the people. This contributed substantially to Trotsky’s removal from photographs and history. (Link)

The dramatic
image on the top made its rounds on the Internet in 2001. This striking fake was created by merging two separate images – a US Air Force helicopter on a training exercise in San Francisco, and a great white shark  leaping out of the water off the cost of South Africa. (Link)

A French wine produced and distributed by a British – French partnership, FAT bastard is a fast growing brand, recently selling over 400,000 cases per year in the United States alone. BusinessWeek has called FAT bastard a “marketing phenomenon”.

Bitch

An Australian wine called “Bitch”, the back label repeats it 77 times, followed by “some more”

Le Vin de Merde

Jean-Marc Speziale, who owns a small restaurant in Aniane near Montpellier, was so fed up with the bad press that wines from the Languedoc-Roussillon were getting that he decided to hit back. So he started making his own batch of wine, and labelled them Vin de Merde, or Wine of Shite as they say in Ireland.

Oops

The name originates from the fact that they mislabeled the grape type for such a long time that they decided to call it “Oops!”

Arrogant Frog Ribet

Elephant on a Tightrope

Frog’s Piss

Cleavage Creek

“Premium grapes grown in the cleavage of some of the most beautiful California hills are then handcrafted into an elegant complex wine that is full bodied yet vivacious” as the back label says, written over a photograph of the bare back of the lady pictured on the front label.

Mad Housewife

This wine has taken a different approach in marketing by catering to women and has appropriately been named Mad Housewife Wine. Its tagline : “What’s domestic bliss without a little wine? ”

Blasted Church

The Blasted Church is a small estate winery located in Okanagan Falls in Canada.

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