Selfie Mirror...
I came across a profile with 2 photos of a woman's reflection in a mirror. It was a small round makeup mirror, the kind where one side is magnified and the other side is standard.Her face was obscured by a cellphone (iPhone to be exact) in both images... it was obvious to me due to the angle and size, the photos were superimposed (Photoshopped) into the mirror and not real shots.
So I researched it. While I didn't find the exact match, I did find a website that anyone can upload photos and 'insert' them into the mirror the same way the member did.
It was on a site called PicsArt.
Probably 20 years ago the utility website 'Face in a Hole' that did the same thing.
I noticed it because several members had identical backgrounds with different faces.
Easy to spot as the people pasting their face to a different surround always had the wrong angle!
One site had scammers pasting their faces on photos of models. Here is a sample of that:
Scammer:
Model:
While these free utilities are fun, it opens a world to photo fraud.
Comments (21)
Are they fraud? You betcha!
People also "travel" in many different ways...
Why the election has been hijacked by the unscrupulous and those "of a certain age" believe all the BS totally as unable to think for themselves.
Did you play in a band?
Did you write your own stuff within the band or just do cover versions of songs, or a blend of both?
Questions, questions!!!
My dad had music of his day and I got to listen to a span of 40+ years.
I took symphonic band in Junior High playing oboe and started on guitar when The Beatles invaded American music.
There were at least 15 guitarists in my neighborhood and though my parents supported my music expression, my mother wanted a piano. We convinced her to purchase a portable organ and I joined a band playing keyboard.
Since we were too young to drive, our parents would volunteer and take us to Miami Beach where we got on the pool band circuit going from hotel to hotel doing music for tips.
It's called busking in Europe. That worked for a few years.
We were doing songs by Young Rascals, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Lots of Motown hits that lead to private parties, teen dances, fraternity parties.
Cream and Jimi Hendrix came along and I switched to bass guitar.
By the time of Led Zeppelin, I was in a Zep cover band who also an amazing copy of Amboy Dukes songs. We saw them live several times and got to understand their music.
Very active, we gigged nearly every weekend and more during summer as one venue was open 7 days a week.
Sorry, I was away. Actually, I've got a life outside of CS.
(Unlike me!
In bad times, my mother sent me money for food and hotel.
The other members didn't have that support.
They took drugs and smoked.
Often they would go into a grocery store and pretend they were shopping while quickly feeding themselves and walking out.
Very, very lucky they weren't arrested for that!