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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-08 11:35 PM
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Everybody wants the Obama brand to rub off on them. A couple of recent examples:

A sign in the window of a furniture store in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.




Posters noticed by a Dish reader in Paris this weekend. Sarkozy is nothing if not shameless.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/face-of-the--25.html


Sarkozy Isn't Alone

Dubi Kaufmann has made a plugin that will allow anyone to "Obamafy" photos.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/sarkozy-isnt-al.html

http://cultofmac.com/yes-you-can-obamafy-yourself-with-photo-booth-plug-in/5105




If you liked the red-white-and-blue look of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster designed by street artist gone viral Shepard Fairey, Dubi Kaufmann has made a plug-in for Photo Booth that allows you to “Obamafy” your photos.

With over 4,450 downloads and counting, just about any photo you pop into it will take on iconic status. Still, Obamafying yourself won’t get you elected. As Kaufmann says, the free app is “an exercise in pop culture and is not parhttp://cultofmac.com/?p=5105&preview=truet of any campaign nor it is an endorsement for either candidate.”

Download zip file here, then expand it. Copy the file Obamafy.qtz to /Library/Compositions, then launch Photo Booth and enjoy the Obamafy plugin.

Via Tech Side Up

Posted by Nicole Martinelli in News |



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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-08 11:38 PM
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1. Isn't that something!
The world is about to get Obamafide. Reminds me of when all of the other candidates decided that they were also the candidates of change. Remember that? Was hillarious as hell when they realized it wasn't working so well for them. LOL!

Imitation is the best form of flattery....
Only problem is that the original is always better.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-08 11:46 PM
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2. I remember after Obama won Iowa, Romney completely switched his talking points to be all about
Edited on Tue Dec-02-08 11:47 PM by Pirate Smile
"Change". It was hilarious.

Remember when McCain and Palin tried the same thing right after the Republican National Convention. The pundits actually seemed to be falling for it until a big poll came out showing the public wasn't that stupid. McCain, as usual, "changed" his tactics and moved onto attacking Obama for something else - accusing him of teaching 5 year olds about explicit sex or calling Sarah Palin a pig because if anyone ever used the term "lipstick" they were referring to her.


The memories are much more enjoyable now that I know the outcome. :)
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-08 11:59 PM
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3. Ain't that the truth!
Even Hillary was for Change. Hers was experience to Change or something like that. It also only lasted a minute or so.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 12:08 AM
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5. LOL - check out this article I just saw: "OBAMA license plate could use its own security"
OBAMA license plate could use its own security
Recommend (4) Comments

December 2, 2008

GREAT NECK, N.Y. -- A Long Island Democratic supporter says he's been driven to hide his OBAMA vanity license plates inside his car because people kept trying to steal them.

Great Neck resident Jonathan Lifschutz says he got the plates bearing the surname of the U.S. president-elect from the New York Department of Motor Vehicles days after the Jan. 26 South Carolina primary.

The 50-year-old financial analyst and former Hillary Clinton donor says would-be thieves tried prying off the plates and he even caught one man red-handed.

He jokes the Empire State plates one day will be a collector's item -- in someone else's house.

So he's taken them off his car and put his old plates back on.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1308990,CST-NWS-plate02.article
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apocalypsehow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 12:00 AM
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4. I hereby praise this thread.
Please alert the post. Thank you.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 12:13 AM
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6. What am I missing?
:dunce: What do you mean? :)
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silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 01:02 AM
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7. Oh, man, I want that plug-in!
But I don't have that photo program! :cry:
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 02:04 AM
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8. Two out of three of these are cool
the Sarkozy one is ridiculous and gimmicky and lame.

Please.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 02:07 AM
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9. Wow. I really hope Sarkozy himself is not behind the blatant
copy cat posters. :crazy:
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DangerousRhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 05:49 AM
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10. Oh, AWESOME!!!
I totally downloaded this Obamafy plugin for Photo Booth and intend to try it tonight. Thank you for this! :toast:
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bunnies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 08:28 AM
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11. rip-offs. Thats so lame. nt
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