iPod Photoshopped- messages and examples.

With the popularity of the iPod device, there has been numerous photoshopped pics relating to Apple and their famous iPod's. I decided to try to find the most interesting of these created. Many of them are sending a specific message to the viewer, while some are just for fun and humor. While weaving through some of the WWW, I came to a site- Worth1000.com. This is a large site that has contests, galleries, forums, and tutorials all about photoshopped images. One could spend a lot of time here browsing these changed images on all kinds of topics. After searching for "iPod", I was returned 428 results. I knew I would find some serious writing and thinking material off of all of these pictures.

Exhibit A














This picture is titled "Supernano". Once cell phones and mp3 players were here to stay on the market, many companies strove to make their products smaller and smaller. This helped for portability and for being able to slip devices into your pockets. Just with the iPod, there are nano's and shuffle's. This is an exaggeration of course, but "predicts" the next step in completely miniaturizing these new technologies for people.

Exhibit B



















A young Mozart pictured listening to his iPod while near his keyboard. This picture makes one think of the history and progression of music. What other masterpieces could have talented composers like Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn written if they had the iPod and sharing of music technologies??? Nowadays, one can find nearly any piece or genre of music they want, and then incorporate it into their personal library. If this was available in the further past, we would have seen more experimentation, more collaboration, and all kinds of new, interesting music.

Exhibit C














Here is a scene shot from the famous movie Casablanca. It is modernized of course with an actor on an iPhone, and the other using his Apple laptop with earbuds. This use of anachronism was a common theme I saw throughout some of the photoshopped pictures. People will take scenes from the past and infuse them with the things of today. Also, some cleverness was placed in this work too. There is an Apple logo in the background smoke, and the man sitting in the back left has a striking resemblance to Steve Jobs.

Exhibit D



















This is a clever creation here. A couple interesting things I would note about this picture, is that they use bright, vivid colors for the cigarettes. These are the kind of colors that Apple likes to use in its advertising, and on some of their devices. Also, they say that there is an "interchangeable USB filter". LOL. Everything Apple creates, and most all digital devices nowadays have a USB port integrated into them. This has become the standard way of connecting and transferring information for our technological devices of the modern day. Some expensive smokes I would guess.....

Exhibit Humor














Maybe this would make those moody and angry felines more approachable.















The iPod is ubiquitous, so someone has now created a prototype to have it as their bathroom wallpaper.