Worth1000, the perennial Photoshop contest web site has just posted a recent contest titled Counterfeit Art 11–How to tell your fine art is a forgery. The contestants have been taking liberties with the classics…

From the web site come these contest rules: “The rules of this game are thus: You will take any famous painting or artwork (any period is fine) and alter it in such a way that it is obviously a forgery, as in the themepost. As always, quality is a must. We will remove poor entries no matter how much we like you. You’ll have 48 hours to submit for this contest, so make your submission count.”

Hit list: NO celebrities. NO guitars. Use them and get disqualified.

The entry shown here is Goose by MissChief

“Although she couldn’t quite put her finger on it, the museum’s curator became suspicious after viewing the back of the latest acquisition for the ancient, Roman, sculpture galley.”

Image Sources: germany/berlin/museums/altesmuseum/sculpture/rome/statuary/433.jpg and 437.JPG

View the other entries at this URL.

Original story source: boingboing

PHOTOGRAPHY: FIRST PLACE (TIE)
What Lies Behind Our Nose?
Kai-hung Fung,*

Source: Science Magazine

Written by Jeff Nesbit, Director, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, NSF
Monica Bradford, Executive Editor, Science

Scientific data are the currency of science, but they often buy little understanding outside science itself–or even outside the narrow confines of a single scientific discipline. But when data are brought to life through images, illustrations, computer graphics, and animations, they can stimulate excitement, awe, new ways of looking at things, and, above all, a broad appreciation of even the most esoteric scientific information.

As Apple gears up to release its OS X 10.5, nicknamed ‘Leopard,’ it is reminding Boot Camp users that the utility will expire when Leopard is shipped

Source: InfoWorld
Written by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Apple kicked off the month in which it plans to launch its new Mac OS X 10.5, “Leopard,” OS by reminding users that the beta license for Boot Camp — the utility that runs Windows XP or Vista on an Intel Mac — will expire as soon as the new operating system ships.

Source: CNET
Written by Martin LaMonica

CHICAGO–Adobe Systems gave a public viewing Tuesday night of an online version of Photoshop, its popular image-editing application.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk.com
Written by Andrew Pierce

Culture Secretary James Purnell, who led the Government’s attack on the BBC’s rigged phone-in competitions, is now at the centre of a faking controversy of his own.

Mr Purnell turned up too late for a photo-shoot to promote a new development at a Tameside hospital, so he told the organisers to doctor the picture with fellow MPs to look like he had been there.