Photo Retouching

A Dove commercial watched over a quarter of million times on youtube. It's a video that documents the process of making the average girl look like a supermodel through time-lapse photography.

The arrow of time.

On June 17th each year this family takes photographs of themselves.
They've posted the photos here.

Receding Glaciers

If you're on an island and haven't heard of Global warming, check out these pictures. If you have heard of it, check out these pictures.



View the rest of the images at Greenpeace.

Before and After Sunrise - The kind that doesn't involve Ethan Hawke. Well, not directly anyhow

Rich Uncle Pennybags

The famous mascot from the popular Monopoly game. The character first appeared on Chance and Community Chest cards in U.S. editions of Monopoly in 1936. The artist who designed the character to appear across several of the cards has remained a mystery.

Historian and author Philip Orbanes wrote in 2004 that it is believed that the character is based on either the calling cards of Albert Richardson (Parker Brothers' first traveling salesman) or the character of "Little Esky" from Esquire magazine or a combination of the two.

Orbanes later wrote, in 2006, that the character was also partially influenced by the stature and dress of financier and banker J. P. Morgan.

Heinz Ketchup Bottle

Remember when the ketchup bottle stood up staight?
Whoever thought of the upside down bottle is a genius.

Check out this beautiful restoration Flickr set for more before/after pics of this piece. The description:

The jewels and beaded bone, glass, and seeds were mostly gone or peeling off. The beading I did barely shows....they were the size of pinheads and took about 40 hours to string. All of the crystals were replaced one by one on the inside arch, mirror replaced and gold leafed on the outer perimeter. Mold and other silent terrors had to be dealt with, faces and patterns repainted back into the picture.

The New Broadview House Hotel

The New Broadview House Hotel is a four story hotel at Broadview Avenue and Queen Street East in Toronto, Ontario.

Built in 1893, the Romanesque style hotel was built for Archibald Dingham and located in the historic neighbourhood of Riverdale.

Still operating as a hotel, the lower floor is the Jilly's strip club.

-Wikipedia, 'The New Broadview House Hotel'

CN Tower Lighting

The CN Tower had an LED light makeover this year.




Check out the new lighting schedule.

Illustration Makeovers

George Shrinks by William Joyce



I vote the old Pooh. That old honeypot gag doesn't ever get old. By A. A. Milne



By William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, but we all knew that, right?



By: Richard Scarry



By: Jean de Brunhoff

Tsunami!

Here's some grabbed images of the damage done to Indonesia on the Sumatran coast during the Tsunami. Not too surprising when you see the video.

The Cat Woman

Jocelyne Wildenstein grew up in a middle class family in Lausanne, where she became a skilled hunter and pilot. Because of these skills, she was invited for a shooting weekend at the 66,000 acre private Kenyan game reserve of billionaire international art dealer Alec Wildenstein, son of Daniel Wildenstein, the owner of Wildenstein and Company, one of the world's largest and most successful art conglomerates . The two were married.

After many years of marriage, Jocelyn's husband Alec allegedly began an affair. At fifty years old, Jocelyn began undergoing a series of plastic surgeries. Some have claimed that the initial surgeries were a success, but that when Alec again began engaging in affairs, Jocelyne decided to attempt to transform herself to resemble one of the giant cats beloved by her husband.
-Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Wildenstein

Jocelyn - Before


Jocelyn - After

First!

In 2004 I was picked to be on the show 'Home to Go,' hosted by Peter Fallico. Here are some of the before and afters.

The Hallway



The Kitchen




The Living Room