On 07/22/2010 02:57 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > BP has been caught publishing several photoshopped photos of their > clear-up efforts. Here is one of a helicopter supposedly flying over > the Gulf, with the airport control tower in the top left window: > > http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100722/01352410315.shtml > > Also the instrument panel apparently shows that the door is open and > parking brake engaged. > > That's pretty funny! > > This is so badly done I think it is naive. Someone there is thinking: > "So what if we assemble a few different photos? What harm?" > > Yesterday Jones Beene gave us a YouTube link showing crop circles > forming, with lights whizzing around a field. I cannot judge it > because it is blurry ...
Yes, odd, that, when even cell phone videos of police assaults during demonstrations are typically razor sharp these days. Nice how the circles turned out to appear exactly centered in the frame, with the pattern just filling the frame -- a very lucky job of prepositioning the camera, I'd say! And it looked an awful lot like time-lapse photography, as well, at least to my eyes. All in all I'm not going to bet my life savings that anything even slightly mysterious was going on in that video. > and I do not know much about how to verify a video. I must say it > reminds me of the Extreme Sheep LED Art video from Wales: Which, FWIW, was also time-lapse during some sequences, but in their case it was totally legit -- it just takes a while to get the sheep into position, and speeding it up just, well, speeds it up... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw Thanks for re-posting this -- I got another good laugh out of it second time around! It's great! > > As I said, people often do things that seem mysterious, inexplicable > or pointless. And as they say in Wales, there's nowt so queer as folk. > > - Jed
