New internships and volunteer opportunities at About-Face

We’ve opened a few internship and volunteer opportunities at or near our office in San Francisco… Plus our next Volunteer Meetup on February 18! Need community service hours or college credit for school? Take a look!

Go to the About-Face volunteer page

- Jennifer

Add comment January 28th, 2009

Artist adbusts subway billboard, commuters everywhere cheer.

Photoshopped billboard

By now, we’re used to hearing that the ads we see every day are somehow digitally altered. Unfortunately, that’s not always our first reaction to the barrage of taut thighs and doe eyes. Kudos to a Berlin culture jammer for explicitly (and creatively!) reminding us of the Photoshopping of subway billboards. This person has been adding stickers of Photoshop windows to the original ads to demonstrate that we are looking at the product of hours of retouching. Check out some examples here.

So what do you make of it? Would seeing this on your morning commute make you stop and think? Personally, I think it’s a great idea, and a good way of interrupting the images we tend to simply accept.

Given an advertisement and a blind eye from the authorities, what would you do?

-A.I.

5 comments January 15th, 2009