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17 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

By Joe Russo April 14, 2009 2,598,771 views
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This is the fourth installment of our series where we prove that sometimes, real life is stranger than Photoshop (see Part One, Part Two and Part Three).

So enjoy our continuing chronicle of jaw-dropping pics that make you shout "FAKE!" the moment you see them, but in fact are not. Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were ...

17.
A Glitch in the Matrix

That car rendered from what looks like vector graphics from an old-school arcade game is a wire-frame sculpture by artist Benedict Radcliffe. And we mean an actual frame made of wires.

Reportedly, it received a ticket for being illegally parked, though if we had been there we'd have quickly gotten another ticket for climbing inside, picking it up and running down the street making engine sounds.

16.
And in Season 6 of Lost, They Reveal That the Island is Actually an Ocean

What appears to be the background for a cheesy 80s album cover is actually an untouched photo from Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the largest salt flat in the world.

It frequently floods with a shallow layer of water, allowing that dude pull off the Jesus move in the picture. Apparently it's a popular tourist site for the natural beauty, leading to construction of a salt hotel, which we suppose makes it the worst vacation destination in the world if you're a slug.

15.
God's Sand Art

Take the people out of this photo, and it looks like a bad painting. It's the wave rock formation in Arizona, formed out of ancient sand dunes and creating that crazy depth perception-destroying optical illusion.

We're not kidding, every damned picture of this thing looks fake. Including some that look like freaking finger paint.

14.
"But This Store Goes to 11..."

There are marketing geniuses, and then there are the kind of visionaries who look at the ugly security fence on their storefront and decide it sort of looks like a guitar amp. Thus the Guitar Store in Southampton just went all the way with that idea, complete with big-ass knobs and everything. We want to hire that guy to decorate our adult book store.

13.
The Large Hadron Collider's First Victim

The lady whose midsection appears to be in the process of getting sucked into a black hole is Cathie Jung, who, as you can see, has an entire website based around the fact that her body is terrifying to look at.

Thanks to a lifetime of wearing increasingly smaller and more ridiculous corsets, she has a 15-inch waist and presumably a liver that's been flattened to the thickness of a Fruit Roll-up.

12.
And Its Second Victim...

If you're not clear what's so remarkable about this triangle sculpture thing, look closer and follow the surfaces from one angle to the next. That's right, it's utterly impossible, with its MC Escher design that seems to break all laws of the known universe.

When this sculpture--located in Perth, Australia--is viewed from another angle you can see the complicated way it manipulates perspective to get the effect...

...but what we love about it is there's no plaque explaining what the sculpture is all about either, so nobody knows what the fuck it's supposed to be unless they're standing in exactly the right spot.

11.
More Nightmare Fuel for Kids Who Are Scared of the Bathtub

OK, this one just looks like some joker practicing their reflection effects by cutting and pasting this ridiculous rubber ducky into a harbor full of boats. But, no, artist Florentijn Hofman did it the hard way, creating an actual 100-foot long rubber ducky and sticking it in the water like God's bathtub.

Why? According to the artist, "The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relief mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!"

In other words, "To terrify children."

10.
"You Need to Disguise Your Truck. Use This Giant Afro."

This ridiculous photo has been bouncing around the internet for years, and simply looks like a semi-competent attempt to make a normal truckload of corn husks look ridiculous via Photoshop's Clone Tool.

But unless Reuters got really, really bored one day, it's a genuine pic from Somalia. They basically don't have a government there so no traffic laws are enforced (you can seriously drive on whichever side of the road you want).

With the oppressive "limit how much corn you cram into your truck" regulations off the table, the locals cheered and said, "Yeah! Just cram all the corn on there! Keep going!"

9.
The Mensa Headquarters has an Entrance Exam

This building in Ukraine does in fact have a gigantic, 100-foot-tall, crossword puzzle on the side. Yes, you can actually work it, though we assume if you try to do it with some rope and a can of spray paint, some guys will shoot you.

The clues are hidden around the city, and each night the answers are projected onto the side with lights.

The town did this to give people another reason to visit the Ukraine, bringing the total number of reasons up to... no, it's still at zero.

Sure, the gameCOCKS thing was funny, but what about the guy holding her, staring DIRECTLY UP HER SKIRT, with a look of wonder on his face. I think that should have been noticed by someone.. -nightlithium

11/6/2009 10:51:49 PM
nightlithium

No kidding about #3, it's the World Wide Web finally made it out of the box and is taking over the natural world... too real !!!

11/6/2009 10:00:56 PM
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10/17/2009 6:06:07 AM
diamondsingle

I also like how his name is dikface

10/14/2009 3:32:29 PM
batyzero

I like hows dikface was the first to spot it

10/14/2009 3:31:52 PM
batyzero

#3's description is funny.
This set doesn't look photoshopped though. =( Most of them just appear insanely cool at first glimpse. Not so much fake.

10/9/2009 2:29:52 PM
miosame

HAHA, you wern't kidding dikface, howd you spot that?

9/28/2009 7:01:17 AM
ShaunPhillips

look at the bottom no.4,

9/18/2009 6:37:09 PM
dikface3000

Theres LOTS of photos you won't believe AREN'T photoshopped at www.makefunofmyfriends.com

9/15/2009 4:58:42 PM
MakeFunTeam

I feel the need to point out that the second picture accompanying number 15 in from Wave Rock in Western Australia, nowhere near Arizona.

Also, I live in Perth and would like to thank you for telling me what that stupid statue is for. LOL. I have had no idea all this time. Next time I see it I'm going to point it out to all my friends for the purpose of looking smart. :D

9/10/2009 12:59:51 AM
Evumei

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9/1/2009 10:02:29 AM
jorcely

Those clouds remind me of a Terry Gilliam animation.

8/30/2009 5:59:27 AM
Panzerschreck

well, they certainly are unique. ^-^

8/28/2009 9:59:43 PM
Raiyn_19

Mammatus clouds? Surely they should be called something clever, like Cumulo Anus?

8/22/2009 4:08:43 PM
Lexodus

The Rubber Duck (it's actually not made of rubber, but oh well...) has been murdered. Some assholes made huge gashes in it... good news is, they're trying to restore it and there is a new duck in japan...

That duck always made my day when it was in my city... :'(

8/19/2009 2:48:54 PM
DarkElvenChild

How do you 1-up every loser whilst sailing?
Rubber Duck, of course, genius!

8/19/2009 8:24:59 AM
Hazy

Lol love it

8/16/2009 4:07:59 PM
spleene

I am still wondering how that hippie was able to shape the trees to be some sort of art, or furniture. If you live outside like a dirty hippie of course.

8/14/2009 10:37:13 AM
johnjefferson

I'm from Perth (the place with the triangle) and it's actually kind of stupid because it's really hard to get into the position you need to be in to see it properly, without breaking into someone's penthouse and looking out through the veranda.
Still, I'm proud to see it on a site :D Finally Perth is interesting, haha

8/13/2009 3:40:49 AM
Vita

That end of the rainbow is frickin cool.

8/7/2009 7:43:23 PM
GenesisRose
Cracked stuff on