Transforming the Trifold : Doctored Science Fair Photos
Grab your judge’s clipboard and head down to the gym to check out these blue-ribbon science fair Photoshops from Flickr user Dr. Monster (a.k.a. illustrator / designer Travis Pitts):
After the jump: testing the feline semiconductor, the prohibitive cost of white cardboard, and a sadlarious bribery attempt.
Even more winners on Travis’s Flickr page.
UPDATE: After BoingBoing ran a couple of these and one of the subjects in one of the original photographs found them and expressed his displeasure at his science fair project being Photoshopped and having the result bounced around the innernauts, Travis decided to remove these photos from his Flickr page, and BoingBoing took them down as well. While I’m all for being neighborly, my feeling is that a good ol’ fashioned face-blur — such as the one I’ve applied here — should suffice to save any particular kid from being mistaken for a cat-electrocutor or juvenile pervert, and the world still gets a laugh. Everybody wins! -D.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:39 am
hey- thanks for manipulating the images, something i probably should have considered. maybe my next batch will include the ‘pornographic black bar’ to protect the innocent, even if it means losing the precious nature of some of the kids- like the cat girl.
oh well.
and hopefully the one complaint realizes that the humor is more about the manipulation of the trifolds and not the people involved at all.
thanks-
dr. monster
September 18th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Everybody doesn’t win when someone offered his photos under a creative commons license, giving people the ability to use his photos for free, with a couple really simple requirements, and someone violated all of those requirements, screwing over someone over who basically did him a favor.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am
dude – why are you disregarding his copyrights? it’s so extremely rude. surely, what with the internet being INFINITE and all – you could find something ELSE funny to post? something that doesn’t RIP SOMEONE OFF?
September 18th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Having seen several comments directed at the original photographer / subject from people who found him through this “controversy”, all of which genuinely compliment him on his original science fair project, I fail to see how said photographer / subject has been “screwed over”.
As for the Copyright issue — which is actually a Creative Commons issue, and is only being raised in regard to one of the images — I have posted alterations of Dr. Monster’s digital image work, not of the original photographs. Since I have given credit to, and have been given the thumbs-up by Dr. Monster, who created the images that I myself manipulated, I’m feeling alright with Jesus on this one. Is it a purely semantic loophole that I’m using to feel okay about keeping the images up? Yes. Do I think any actual harm is being done to anyone? No.
But y’all are certainly entitled to your opinions, and I thank you for offering them. -D.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:14 am
hilariousness – thanks for preserving these through the magic of pixellation!
September 18th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
why doesnt that douchebag get over it? he even said the picture was taken over 30 years ago and theres really nothing drected at him at all. he needs to quit being such a fucking baby and ruining the humor for the entire internet!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
that douchebag needs to get over it and quit acting like a baby
September 19th, 2008 at 9:23 am
UPDATE to the UPDATE: The guy in the original photo has officially chilled out.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/17/funny-doctored-scien.html#comment-287492