16 Famous Photoshopped Images Throughout History

President Abraham Lincoln, circa 1860

This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body. Putting the date of this image into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1881.

Stalin, circa 1930

Stalin routinely air-brushed his enemies out of photographs. In this photograph a commissar was removed from the original photograph after falling out of favor with Stalin.

Benito Mussolini, 1942

In order to create a more heroic portrait of himself, Benito Mussolini had the horse handler removed from the original photograph.

U.S. Olympic hockey team, 1960

In 1960 the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia to win its first Olympic gold medal in hockey. The official team photo was doctored to include the faces of Bill Cleary (front row, third from the left), Bob Cleary (middle row, far left) and John Mayasich (top row, far left), who were not present for the team photo. These players were superimposed onto the bodies of players Bob Dupuis, Larry Alm and Herb Brooks, respectively.

Fidel Castro, 1968

When in the summer of 1968 Fidel Castro (right) approves of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, Carlos Franqui (middle) cuts off relations with the regime and goes into exile in Italy. His image was removed from photographs. Franqui wrote about his feeling of being erased:

The German Chancellor, September 1971

The German Chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt (far left), meets with Leonid Brezhnev (far right), First Secretary of the Communist Party. The two smoke and drink, and it is reported that the atmosphere is cordial and that they are drunk. The German press publishes a photograph that shows the champagne bottles on the table. The Soviet press, however, removed the bottles from the original photograph.

Oprah Winfrey, August 1989

The cover of TV Guide displayed this picture of daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. This picture was created by splicing the head of Winfrey onto the body of actress Ann-Margret, taken from a 1979 publicity shot. The composite was created without permission of Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by Ann-Margret’s fashion designer, who recognized the dress.

Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, February 1994

This digital composite of Olympic ice skaters Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan appeared on the cover of New York Newsday. The picture showed the rivals practicing together, shortly after an attack on Kerrigan by an associate of Harding’s husband. The picture caption reads: “Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan, appear to skate together in this New York Newsday composite illustration. Tomorrow, they’ll really take to the ice together.”

Terrorist attack at the temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt, November 1997

After 58 tourists were killed in a terrorist attack at the temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor Egypt, the Swiss tabloid Blick digitally altered a puddle of water to appear as blood flowing from the temple.

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21 Weird Family Photographs

Worst, strangest, weirdest photos selected from your family photo albums selected and published in a single article for your entertainment (or embarrassment). I bet you pray to God that none of your family photos are here. If they are not, enjoy this funny collection.

If you find some of your photos here, please let us know more about your photo, and where it was taken. Othervise, enjoy these funny family photographs and try to find what is strange about each and every one of them…some are obvious, other can be rather subtle…

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Top 18 Funniest Costumes to Get Arrested in

Top 18 Funniest Costumes to Get Arrested in. I don’t know what these people were thinking of when they decided to break the law in these outfits, but it is very amusing. In addition, their lawyers can always defend them on the bases of their (in)sanity.

Greenpeace Trash Can

But officer, I care for the environment!

Star Wars Soldier

I guess Darth Vader always has a spare of 1.000.000 clones

Spider Man

He ran out of spider web

Snow White

She was dealing some white stuff

A Devil or Red Daemon

He was caught “Red Faced”

The Gold Man

Lost his golden horse shoe

Ronald McDonald

It was about time someone arrested him

Santa Claus

It is going to be a sad Christmas this year

Monkey

Caught for monkeying around

Peter Pan

He refuses to grow up!

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Top 40 Funniest Construction Mistakes

Doing construction work simply isn’t going well for some people. Construction requires a certain level of pre-thought that a common construction worker simply cannot handle, which can lead to some hilariously funny construction solutions, that are luckily captured by he eye of the camera so that we can enjoy the photographs of these wonderful technological fails. If I was in this people’s place I would want my money back from my construction contractor, because the design of these structure is simply not acceptable. But we tend to look at the world in a brighter light at Chill Out Point, so for the fun of it we have picked the top 40 such incredibly funny construction mistakes ever photographed that you will simply refuse to believe in. Honestly, we also find it hard to believe. Nevertheless, these are 100% real, non-photoshopped photographs, top 40 funniest construction mistakes ever made. We hope you won’t laugh your head off.

The Worst Placements Ever

We missed a few inches

Which way should we go now?

Some misconceptions in the process of construction

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Ron Muech – Hyper Realist Sculptor

There is a point, when sculpturing, at witch taking great care of details leads to creating hyper realistic artwork that cannot be set apart from the real world objects it is supposed to represent. Ron Muech sculptures are just that, extraordinary realistic art that seems real even after looking at it for the tenth time. The design of his creative sculptures can be explained just using this word: superb!

About the artist:

Ron Mueck was born on 1958 is an Australian hyper realist sculptor working in Great Britain. Mueck‘s early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo.

Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry.

Although highly detailed, these props were usually designed to be photographed from one specific angle hiding the mess of construction seen from the other side. Mueck increasingly wanted to produce realistic sculptures which looked perfect from all angles.

In 1996 Mueck transitioned to fine art, collaborating with his mother-in-law, Paula Rego, to produce small figures as part of a tableau she was showing at the Hayward Gallery. Rego introduced him to Charles Saatchi who was immediately impressed and started to collect and commission work.

This led to the piece which made Mueck’s name, being included in the Sensation show at the Royal Academy the following year. Dead Dad is a rather haunting silicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of Mueck’s father reduced to about two thirds of its natural scale. It is the only work of Mueck’s that uses his own hair for the finished product.

Mueck’s sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. His five meter high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature in the Millennium Dome and later exhibited in the Venice Biennale.

In 2002 his sculpture Pregnant Woman was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for $800,000.

Check out the photographs that speak louder than words about the detail levels and the creativeness of his artsy sculptures

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The Factory For Creating Plastic Bodies

The Body Worlds Plastination Center in Dalian China. This is the body factory where Dr. Von Hagens team prepares 100% plastic bodies for his Body Worlds exhibitions throughout the world.

Body Worlds is a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures. Sounds interesting, but the realism with which Dr. Von Hagens really makes you terrified. This really looks like a artificial human body breading facility. Watch out, the clones are attacking!

If you are interested to find some more information on their current exhibitions on Body Worlds official website.

Top 20 of the Most Funny Storefront Signs

Your trip can be made very funny by the funny signs that you can stumble upon while driving through a new town. The proper way to handle these is to take a picture, and show the entire world what you’ve found so we can all laugh together. One thing’s for sure, these 20 ridiculous and hilariously funny business signs make normal businesses look so boring, they won’t be enough for you anymore. You’ll surely feel like expanding this top 20 list with some of your photos. So, grab a camera, take a step into the unknown and be on alert for these funny signs.

On the other hand, if you own a small business you might want to reconsider your storefront solutions and come up with the funniest sign ever. Read more