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Title: Joker creator unmasked
Post by: 240 is Back on August 17, 2009, 08:13:50 PM


When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from "Batman" began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?

Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?

Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.

Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe's Photoshop software.

Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he'd found online about how to "Jokerize" portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it.

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Title: Re: Joker creator unmasked
Post by: 24KT on August 17, 2009, 08:52:36 PM
A dude from Illinois? ...he better pray he graduates soon and gets the heck out of that state.
There are a lot of Obama loyalists in that town thats fer sure. {lol}
Title: Re: Joker creator unmasked
Post by: tonymctones on August 17, 2009, 08:57:10 PM
Quote from: jaguarenterprises on August 17, 2009, 08:52:36 PM
A dude from Illinois? ...he better pray he graduates soon and gets the heck out of that state.
There are a lot of Obama loyalists in that town thats fer sure. {lol}
sure are and some of them know how to use bombs and such  ;)
Title: Re: Joker creator unmasked
Post by: Hugo Chavez on August 17, 2009, 09:02:35 PM
is it really a big deal?  I don't get the outrage?
Title: Re: Joker creator unmasked
Post by: tonymctones on August 17, 2009, 09:07:22 PM
Quote from: Hugo Chavez on August 17, 2009, 09:02:35 PM
is it really a big deal?  I don't get the outrage?
me either
Title: Re: Joker creator unmasked
Post by: 240 is Back on August 18, 2009, 06:26:38 AM
He's a pakistani, and self-proclaimed socialist.

hahahaha
LOL @ all the right-wing, anti-socialist, anti-muslim folks here who can't stop using the image.
Title: Re: Joker creator unmasked
Post by: Soul Crusher on August 18, 2009, 06:30:11 AM
Quote from: 240 is Back on August 18, 2009, 06:26:38 AM
He's a pakistani, and self-proclaimed socialist.

hahahaha
LOL @ all the right-wing, anti-socialist, anti-muslim folks here who can't stop using the image.

Lol @ all the left wing panzies in the media who thought this was racist and getting their panties in a snit. 
Title: Re: Joker creator unmasked
Post by: tonymctones on August 18, 2009, 06:30:57 AM
Quote from: 240 is Back on August 18, 2009, 06:26:38 AM
He's a pakistani, and self-proclaimed socialist.

hahahaha
LOL @ all the right-wing, anti-socialist, anti-muslim folks here who can't stop using the image.
those wacky pakis man  ;D