The (photographic) source of all hope.
So you’re an intrepid journalist seeking to find out the source photo of that classic ‘HOPE’ poster, you find one photo you think matches, and you persue and try and prove it to the world, writing an epic article about your struggle to identify the original photographer. An interesting article it sure is, and the author promises to open up an exhibition with the photograph neatly displayed with the poster.
Only one problem really. You are wrong, and thanks to your enterprising nature, wrong on an epic scale. Turns out that a single Flickr user, stevesimula found the actual photo which matches about a thousand times better.
The diagram below was made by stevesimula and shows our intrepid journalist’s theory up against this much more sensible Flickr users:
It just goes to show, mistakes happen, and also Obama has had one too many photos of him taken. Also, a quick TinEye search reveals this is an AP photo, so I hope that helps in your continuing search.
On a more personal note I’m hoping (no pun intended) to pick up one of these posters when I’m in New York next week. Will I succeed?
This truly is unreported news, so as the only reader of my blog, it is your responsibility to spread it!
Clinton’s Law of Politics…
Awesome.
More viral video risks: Basketball Star Jumps over Car
This viral video posted by the American Basketball star Kobe Bryant on his website, depicts the 3 time NBA champion jumping over a speeding Aston Martin with his new Nike Trainers.
Investigators on the net have discovered that the video is indeed a commercial for Nike and Bryant, when asked by KCAL-TV how the stunt was done said “Hollywood, baby.” So the ad was fake but this has always been the case with controversial viral adverts, such as with Ford’s SportKa.
The concern as always is will people mimick his insanity? Some seem to fear for his career. One thing is certain though, Ad companies seem keen to use controversy as a tool to get a commercial out.
Will it ever backfire?
Source: Mahalo
Presidential Campaign Poll: Who won?
Well we are several months away from knowing who will win the election, and the respective parties haven’t even finalised who is their candidate. However I have dared to ask the impossible question, who do the amazing audience of this website think should be the next president of the United States of America?
And you didn’t disappoint.
This was very interesting, as we had many votes varying from party to party. The winner was Barack Obama, as you can see, he had my vote.
One vote below hoever, Ron Paul proved to be everyone’s favourite grand-pa with his libertarianism, which you know is pretty inspiring, but still, has he got much of a chance? No offense.
The last few days saw stragglers votes with Hillary Clinton getting one vote and then, strangely, perhaps, Huckabee getting a vote today. All I can say is wow. If McCain becomes president, we didn’t see it coming.
Thanks so much for voting, and we will have a new poll later today!
America Reshuffled
Well well well, finally some moves on the American frontier, a move to democratic government, that’s good. Donald Rumsfeld resigned, that’s also good, hopefully this means war in Iran is very unlikely, Syria too, fingers crossed. I don’t think Fox News will be happy but do they really matter? Not really. George Bush resigned, that’s excellent, oop, not quite oh well.
Back to home, my mate got his license about 4 weeks ago, and his mini 2 weeks ago, and well, 1 week ago he crashed his mini on a corner, “d’oh!” well he’s fine, but the mini it’s touch and go, we all sencerly hope “Daisy” will make a full recovery, but we’ll have to wait and see. Updates will be provided here as always on Darran24.
Heck thats a good name for a blog, don’t you think?
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