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The Art of Photoshop: A Dozen Fantastic Photographic Manipulations
“This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time”… This classic 4chan meme captures in one sentence the pomposity and ignorance of countless self-styled image critics. There’s a nugget of truth in that annoying meme, however - poor ’shops ARE obvious, even to 4channers. The better ones, on the other hand, can be mind-boggling. Here is a selection of great and notorious photoshopped images guaranteed to provoke wonder, amusement and eyestrain.
The Cullen House from Twilight – The Hoke House
A few months ago everybody was crazy about a movie called Twilight. Twilight is a love story movie between a human and a vampire. They’re modern vampires and live in a modern house. Usually I don’t speak about architecture in the movies here on Freshome, but when I saw the movie I really liked that [...]
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A different way to store your books : Book Porcupine by Holly Palmer
Designed by British designer Holly Palmer to sit beside your chair, this shelving unit has three different sizes of compartment to accommodate books of varying sizes. With 18 compartments in various sizes for storing your favourite books, the Book Porcupine is a product that is based on the idea of negative spaces. The compartments are [...]
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A different way to store your books : Book Porcupine by Holly Palmer
Hand silkscreened giant condom pillows
So you want a creative pillow in your bed ? Check out these colorful pillows that are cushy and promote safe sex. The pillow is handmade and it is 100 times bigger than a regular condom package. At the inside, it features a “happy condom” hand-printed pattern and two pockets (one use to hold usual [...]
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Bookend Specially Designed for Star Wars Fans
Since I spend a lot of time on the internet, I’ve noticed that there are a lot of people who are Star Wars fans, and today I’ve found something for them. Inspired by the famous garbage compactor scene from Episode IV: A New Hope, these limited-edition hand-painted bookends flip that classic movie moment inside-out. You’ll [...]
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Gallop’s Black Apartment Designed by Stefan Boublil
The converted locker rooms of the first YMCA in the United States ( see more here ), Cindy Gallop’s “Black Apartment” was designed by New York-based creative agency “The Apartment.” Highly ornate, down to the last detail, this is an amazing retrofit that seems to have deliberately retained a lot of the general layout used [...]
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