- Jane Long’s Dancing with Costica series takes the glass-plate negatives of early-20th-century Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte (now digitized on Flickr) and puts them into colorful fantasy scenes (see below). [Via]
- Newcastle beer promises to crudely modify the ads you give them: “Newcastle definitely is not the first brand to ask fans to post photos on social media to ‘build a stronger community’ and whatnot, but Newcastle definitely is the best at turning those photos into into obvious, exaggerated, poorly executed ads.” [Via]
- Lingerie maker Aerie is making the absence of Photoshop a selling point: “The girl in this photo has not been retouched. The real you is sexy.” In a related vein, retailer ModCloth has signed a pledge saying that Photoshopped images will get ‘Truth in Advertising’ labels.
