Whose Face is in the Apple? Does Newsweek Know?

[Ichingcarpenter]

Here's a closeup of the apple with some iPhoto'd sharpening (no lines redrawn or retouching, just contrast, sharpening, and increasing the "highlights" and "shadows):


The apple was chosen to be exactly the intended apple and subject to Photoshop tweaking and strategic placement of the lights to attain just the right level of perception and deniability. A good subliminal image must be seen and not seen. It must slide past the average person's conscious defenses and make anyone who insists it is there seem delusional.



...........................NEWSPEAK..................

[MineralMan]

1. Looks like Rasputin to me.

Or Tolstoi.

[mrs_p]

34. my first thought too - rasp

[gmoney]

2. Karl Marx, of course.

:sarcasm:

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. That's the predominate internet rumor however

whoever its suppose to be

it was deliberate after examination of the photo

[grassfed]

29. it is marx

[spanone]

3. it's jesus in the fruit, of course, that's how he is coming back, or is it on toast?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

4. You Guys Beat Me To It

My first thought was Rasputin, then I thought Karl Marx. But since both of those are taken already, I'll go with Charles Manson.

[HopeHoops]

5. Rush Limbaugh - the shining example of good eating habits.

[Fumesucker]

6. Here..

Enlarged and unsharp masked..

[mikelgb]

16. This is to remind you that if you are out of papers, use an apple.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Svengali, of course.

Specifically, John Barrymore as Svengali.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Great Movie and can be seen or downloaded on line for free

Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him, he uses his powers to cause her suicide and promptly forgets her. He meets a beautiful model, Trilby, and becomes infatuated with her, but she, in turn, falls for a young artist called Billee who also loves her.

One day Svengali hypnotizes Trilby to cure her headache, but also examines her upper palate and decides it is an ideal cavity for great singing. He convinces her to fake her suicide, so Billee and friends will forget her, and goes on a singing tour with her. Svengali uses his powers to make her sing wonderfully and Madame Svengali, as Trilby is now known, becomes a sensation throughout Europe. But Billee discovers the ruse and begins to follow the pair, upsetting Svengali enough to have him cancel performances too frequently, so they no longer can perform in Europe. They go to Egypt, but Billee relentlessly follows


It does look like him BTW.....


see or download movie here its in the public domain
http://www.archive.org/details/SvengaliJohnBarrymoreBKCap1931

[leveymg]

9. Ayatollah Khomeini? Uh oh . . .

[xultar]

10. That is stupid. You can't get that good of a reflection in an apple. It is photoshopped

WTF r they up to?

[Codeine]

36. It doesn't actually look like that at all.

I have the issue right in front of me. The only manipulation has been by whoever is spreading this non-story.

[Z_I_Peevey]

49. I have the print issue in front of me as well

and there is no such image at all. This is obviously right-wing garbage.

[Arkana]

60. I have it too

and anyone who's spouting this crap is using a doctored image.

[xultar]

11. DUPE

[lwcon]

13. I'm waiting for Kos to announce that Hillary altered the photo n/t

[xultar]

15. Or that it is a terrorist on 24 named after him by Fox

[immoderate]

14. Charles Darwin?

Or is it one of those heavy metal guys with the hot rod?

--imm

[Tansy_Gold]

17. It's the vrigin Mary and the baby jesus and 14 saints and

10,000 angels dancing the hullygully on the head of a pin all at the same time!

Or maybe it's just an apple?




Tansy Gold, who sees horses and puppies in the clouds all the time

[a la izquierda]

18. Jerry Garcia?

[QC]

19. Looks like Marx to me. n/t

[alfredo]

20. Walt Whitman

[KittyWampus]

24. that's who I thought. Great minds

:)

[alfredo]

48. A gay man is much worse than Satan or Marx.

[Glorfindel]

21. It's John Brown, the mad, martyred abolitionist

whose body is said to be "a-moulderin' in the grave."

[Aristus]

33. I was thinking it was Brown's polar opposite: J.E.B. Stuart, white supremacist and traitor.

[Glorfindel]

63. Good Lord - they could be twins!

I guess if you've seen one 19th-Century fanatic, you've seen them all. :hi:

[onehandle]

22. That has been res'd-up 2-3 times making it hard to examine. Somebody show me a hi-res image.

It's been photoshopped from an image 2-3 times smaller and blurred to hide the upsizing.

I could tell you more with a proper image.

Or at a higher resolution, it may not even look like Karl Marx or whatever.

The upsizing and blurring is enhancing the idea that there is a 'face.'

[Xipe Totec]

23. Here is a hint:

[Hutzpa]

59. eww.

awful.

:evilgrin:

[izzybeans]

25. Look at your avatar and this apple side-by-side.

This version from their website appears to show natural apple markings with the flash of the camera apparent at the top of it. Someone is playing around with it.

[Poll_Blind]

26. Well, whatever it is Newsweek is 100% responsible for it.

In this day and age with Photoshop, etc, not to mention there are probably at least 10 more apples in the world, ones that don't look like Karl Marx.

PB

[Codeine]

52. The cover looks nothing like this.

The article is a hoax.

[Poll_Blind]

53. Good- I'd rather be taken in by a hoax on this one than have it be real. After the..

...fucking cover of The New Yorker I'm expecting anything...



PB

[JCMach1]

27. Focus on the white and it kinda looks like a PENIS

[bikebloke]

28. Rasputin

The first person that came to me. They tried, but just couldn't kill him.

[Gold Metal Flake]

30. This is real. They really did this. Your liberal media at work.

At what point are they held accountable?

[Codeine]

37. It's not real.

This is nonsense. I have the cover right here. Doesn't look a damned thing like this image purports.

[gmoney]

31. The Playboy bunny? An ewok?

[Marr]

32. It's not a face at all. It's reflecting studio lights.

I believe this is called pareidolia.

[Xithras]

47. Yep. Lights.

This is like Baby Jesus in the toast. People see what they want to see, but the explanation is simple for anyone who really stops and thinks about it.

There is no face, just studio lights.

[Codeine]

35. This is such bullshit

I'm looking at the cover right now. It doesn't look a damned thing like this story suggests.

Bunch of hooey.

[SidDithers]

38. Been trying to find a hi-res version of the cover online...

but can't find it.

Not surprised in the least if the image in the OP is a shoop. (not accusing the OP, btw)

Sid

[likesmountains 52]

39. For crying out loud...go get yourself a copy. I am looking at it right now

and there is no face in the apple.

[Orsino]

41. But that apple was strategically not placed!

And strategically given no face!!!1!

[likesmountains 52]

46. And why an apple? Something to do with Eve? Why didn't they use a plum ? The plot

thickens...:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

56. Eve Plumb?

What does this have to do with the Brady Bunch? :rofl:

[mitchum]

40. That looks like Brian Key to me

[guitar man]

42. Billy Gibbons?

:shrug:

[Codeine]

43. Actual pic just taken with my Blackberry

at work.



No face

[likesmountains 52]

45. Thank you

[Gold Metal Flake]

50. Ah. An internet hoax.

A Fark, perhaps. Being passed out as the real cover. Thanks for bringing the facts.

[Poll_Blind]

54. Thanks again! n/t

PB

[piratefish08]

44. ozzy?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

51. That's infamous rail tycoon James "Jay" Gould.

One time 9th richest American during the guilded age and financier behind the Erie Railroad.

Fucking Newsweek and their Tamany Hall shills.

[fishwax]

55. looks like me

I'm on the cover of Newsweek! :woohoo:

[frogmarch]

57. omg, it's Rasputin! nt

[Hutzpa]

58. ha ha ha

Love it;



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9AY8sZGavs

[LostInAnomie]

61. Beau Bridges in Crazyheart.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

62. Hmm... looks like someone's been getting their "news" from the right-wing blogosphere.

Again.

FFS do your homework before you post shit like this.