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Hip-Hop for Dogs: The Worst Dog Hip-Hop Book Ever?

If you like your music blog experiences to be timely and relevant, I suggest you stop reading now. This piece is neither. It concerns a book from five years ago that's as inconsequential now as the day it was published. This book hasn't dropped a track on Soundcloud, and it's not in a Twitter fight ... More >>

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Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

Am I Imagining Something Awkward In This Photo?

Is it my imagination or does late actor Brandon de Wilde seem to be packing more than just a gun in this photo? Is Brandon sporting some visibility in his pants? Did they not have Photoshop back then? The whole thing seems terribly inappropriate. Oh, well, let's cleanse the palate with a far mor ... More >>

THE GREAT PRETENDER

Last chance to catch two terrific Cindy Sherman exhibitions

Q&A: Vernon Reid On Artificial Afrika, Playing With Photoshop, And Creating An Afrodelic Experience

Guitarist Vernon Reid is best known as the leader of the hard rock/metal band Living Colour. Before that, though, he was a fixture on the New York avant-garde scene, blending rock, jazz and noise as a member of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, duetting with Bill Frisell on the albu ... More >>

Celebrate National Taco Day With A Brand-New Round Of Album Tacos

As part of this country's apparently recent Let's Celebrate Each Foodstuff Available For Consumption One Day At A Time initiative—one that's helped along promotion-wise by things like, say, blogs looking for news hooks on which they can peg content—today is National Taco Day, a day to ce ... More >>

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Osama Bin Laden Photos Won't Be Released Because White House Knows About Photoshop

​Defense Secretary Robert Gates explained today that photos of Osama Bin Laden's corpse should not be released not only because the actual photos might inflame extremists and act as a propaganda tool for Al Qaeda, but also because of, well, Photoshop. Gates and Hillary Clinton were "worried a ... More >>

Here's the Best Response to Hillary Clinton's Removal From the Situation Room Photo Yet

We love this Photoshop from Erica Sackin in today's Free Williamsburg so much, we only wish we'd thought of it first. Headline: "Citing modesty concerns, hipster website removes 'sexually suggestive' male images from Sit Room Photo." YES. via FreeWilliamsburg​Previously: Newspaper Photoshops H ... More >>

Yet Another Hasidic Publication Denies the Existence of Hillary Clinton

It's been a rough couple of weeks for Hillary Clinton! First there were those allergies that caused her to cover her mouth in the iconic Situation Room photo taken by White House photographer Pete Souza as the administration watched the raid on Osama Bin Laden. Then she was unceremoniously removed f ... More >>

The Big 4 Are Playing Yankee Stadium This September

via FacebookWho gave Mustaine the keys to the Photoshop demo? (Just kidding, Dave!)​This is the news: The second concert event at the new Yankee Stadium has been announced, and oh boy is it a doozy. The metal deities Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax--d/b/a The Big 4--have announced, af ... More >>

Bacon Brassiere and Nine Other Things You Can Make With Pork Products Without Eating Them

cutothepaste.blogspot.com1. A smoked pork butt, a bow tie, and a couple of gherkins is all you need to make Mr. & Mrs. Ham​When you were a kid, your mother probably told you not to play with your food. But like all contrary kids, you played with it anyway, and maybe got a rap across the knuck ... More >>

Farewell, Rob Harvilla

Photoshop assist courtesy of a very sad Jesus Diaz. ​Once, he infiltrated Michael Bolton's house, where he proceeded to photograph the innocent singer's Scrabble board and College Dropout platinum plaque. At least one regular reader was moved to write an entire song in tribute, the first line ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>

2010's Best Comics and Graphic Novels

An assassin for Christmas, or maybe some witchcraft and depraved subordia?

Domino's Gets Extra Cheesy: Launches Six-Cheese Pizza

Un-Photoshopped Domino's pizza.​Domino's has launched a Wisconsin-themed pizza with not three, not four, but six cheese toppings. It's the company's first new product rollout since the whole we-don't-suck-anymore campaign it debuted last year, which has since morphed into the we-don't-Photosho ... More >>

Design Firm Suggests Fitting New York's Stalled Building Sites with...Icebergs

Woods Bagot New York​Remember when we had to get used to seeing those damn cows all over the place in New York City? And then, today, we got the pianos, and some lost rubber ducky signs? Now design firm Woods Bagot wants to put recyclable iceberg structures in the place of all the "frozen" bui ... More >>

'The Visible Vagina' at Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan; Ryan Wallace's 'Glean'; 'Hotwire Comics #3'

Quick Hits

Weird Al and a team of experts provide a brief history of autotune. (h/t Joe My God.) Folks outraged at Palin in shorts on a Newsweek cover have resorted to their greatest weapon -- Photoshop! This one is our favorite. A Citizens Union report says that in the past 10 years, 14 state legislator ... More >>

Assorted Food Industry Folk Offer Their Thoughts on the Future of American Food and What Food TV Has Wrought

Mike Licht/NotionsCapitol.com/flickr​Yesterday, NYU held a panel discussion entitled "Food Show: When Performance Becomes Lunch and Why We Finally Have an Appetite for a New Sort of Cooking Show." Though the title could have used a bit of editing, the panelists were a well-curated bunch: Harol ... More >>

IN THE NUDE

Before Photoshop, there was real perfection

An Edible History--Surprisingly Chilling Stop Motion War Film Starring Food

Food Fight is a short film by Stefan Nadelman that depicts the "abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict." Surprisingly chilling to watch (the hamburgers shoot pickles and patties out of their open mouths that, at o ... More >>

Beate Gütschow at Sonnabend Gallery; 'Chance Encounters' at Ludlow 38; MOMA's 'Polish Posters, 1945-89'

Status Ain't Hood Loses the Asher-Roth-Sales-Figures Showcase Showdown, Spectacularly

Ivylise Simones, Photoshop QueenThe voluminous Internet discourse with regards to white rapper/frat-party sensation Asher Roth has reached a state of such bewilderment that I honestly have no idea whether or not bloggers are actually mad that the guy Twittered about hanging out with "nappy headed ho ... More >>

George Lois Says Ad Biz Ruined by Science, "The Photoshop"

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KRS-One and Marley Marl Working Together: Who Cares?

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The Best Ways to Learn Photoshop

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Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again

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