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06/14/2009 07:32:49 AM · #1 |
//network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/06/10/city-digitally-adds-black-guy-to-fun-guide-cover-to-make-it-more-inclusive.aspx
At least they could have done was a good job.
"The smiling, ethnically diverse family featured on the cover of Toronto's latest edition of its summer Fun Guide was digitally altered to make the photo more 'inclusive,' which city officials say is in keeping with a policy to reflect diversity.
A spokesman for the department that publishes the guide listing recreation activities confirmed the publication was doctored to insert the face of a different father.
'He superimposed the African-Canadian person onto the family cluster in the original photo. It was two photographs and one head was superimposed over the original family photo,' said John Gosgnach, communications director for the social development division.
'The goal was to depict the diversity of Toronto and its residents.'"
Click the above link for more.
Message edited by author 2009-06-14 07:33:32. |
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06/14/2009 07:48:26 AM · #2 |
Haha, dad got pwned.
I call false advertising anyway. According to census data at least as referred to in Wikipedia, which should be OK for the purposes of this post, more than half of Toronto is white, and only 46% is made up of visible minorities. Notably absent in the advertisement are any Oriental people, who make up the greatest part of the minority slice of pie.
For a cover shot, they didn't seem to put much thought or effort into it, sadly. :-(
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06/14/2009 12:22:09 PM · #3 |
Already some discussion on this going on in this thread.
Posted the wrong link initially. Whoops.
Message edited by author 2009-06-14 12:25:29. |
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06/14/2009 12:50:26 PM · #4 |
That's interesting. This was first "exposed" by some media guy who ran the image through Tin Eye and found the original source images. Possibly even more interesting is the fact that both source images are from stock agencies, and none of the people depicted are residents of Toronto... This, of course, is completely normal for these sorts of publications now, but it makes me miss the old days when people like me would actually be called up to provide content for these guides in our own local areas...
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06/14/2009 01:21:56 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
That's interesting. This was first "exposed" by some media guy who ran the image through Tin Eye and found the original source images. Possibly even more interesting is the fact that both source images are from stock agencies, and none of the people depicted are residents of Toronto... This, of course, is completely normal for these sorts of publications now, but it makes me miss the old days when people like me would actually be called up to provide content for these guides in our own local areas...
R. |
Yeah, collaboration of the scale seen today is a two edged sword. On the one hand, it means that anybody can be involved in the crafting of something. On the other hand, this means that you are now competing against the whole world's body of work when you try to get your work into a publication. I think the idea is really a nice embodiment of the impacts of a true open market. Why NOT outsource for a stock photo for $100 instead of hiring a local photog? |
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06/14/2009 02:05:41 PM · #6 |
and to think they rejected my cover!
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06/14/2009 03:25:40 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Notably absent in the advertisement are any Oriental people, who make up the greatest part of the minority slice of pie. |
Perhaps they thought the kid who's face you can't see would count as oriental?
Which would make for some interesting genetics in that family.
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06/14/2009 04:01:01 PM · #8 |
Not to mention that without the bright background, which communicates that the top of the son's head was washed out, the child next to "New Dad" winds up looking deformed.
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06/14/2009 05:09:41 PM · #9 |
| Geez, and I thought my PS skills were bad...holy crap! That cover makes me look like a frickin' genius!!! |
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06/14/2009 09:53:21 PM · #10 |
What the heck are they doing that's so fun, anyway, stomping on ants?
I think new-dad is just tying to get an eyeful of cleavage.
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06/14/2009 09:56:43 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
What the heck are they doing that's so fun, anyway, stomping on ants?
I think new-dad is just tying to get an eyeful of cleavage. |
Wouldn't you be with some "strange" in the picture? LOL
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06/15/2009 05:32:48 AM · #12 |
| The Universtity of Wisconsin did this same thing a few years back. They photoshopped some black people into a crowd of white people at a sporting event to make the student body look more diverse on the cover of a Student Handbook. In the end it kind of backfired. Largely in part to it becoming public knowlege. That photoshop job was done a bit better than one shown here however. Probably would have gone unnoticed had someone not spoke out. |
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06/15/2009 10:05:25 AM · #13 |
| The photoshop version creeps me out. It does not make me want to go to Toronto! |
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06/15/2009 10:40:17 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by Bugzeye:
The Universtity of Wisconsin did this same thing a few years back. They photoshopped some black people into a crowd of white people at a sporting event to make the student body look more diverse on the cover of a Student Handbook. |
There's obviously a market for a Photoshop 'Black People' Brush. Or at the very least an 'insert black man' action.
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06/15/2009 10:55:11 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by LoudDog:
The photoshop version creeps me out. It does not make me want to go to Toronto! |
Me either, and I'm stuck here right now! Maybe I'll hide in a toilet stall.
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06/15/2009 11:03:19 AM · #16 |
| I'm more worried about the little girl's forehead... |
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06/15/2009 11:13:23 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
and to think they rejected my cover!
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Obviously... The PS work is too professional compared to the selected hack.
They should have included a slice of the other several hundred ethnic origins no doubt present in the city... The world has gone PC mad, it's just sad :shrug: |
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06/15/2009 12:51:50 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by robs:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
and to think they rejected my cover!
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Obviously... The PS work is too professional compared to the selected hack.
They should have included a slice of the other several hundred ethnic origins no doubt present in the city... The world has gone PC mad, it's just sad :shrug: |
Now, through their efforts to be PC, they're excluding many other minorities. I find PC people comical. :-D
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06/15/2009 12:59:03 PM · #19 |
| What does it sat about your city when you can't get the "diverse" photo you want, so you have to fabricate one? |
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06/15/2009 01:30:38 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by LoudDog:
What does it sat about your city when you can't get the "diverse" photo you want, so you have to fabricate one? |
It means they are too cheap to pay a photographer to get the correct shot so they buy stock then pay some kid to 'shop in a new dad. :p
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