I love The New Yorker. They produce long articles on all sorts of stuff you’d otherwise know nothing about.

Here’s an article about Pascal Dangin, a bloke with apparently mystical Photoshop ability.

“The people who complain about retouching are the first to say, ‘Get this thing off my arm.’ ” I mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual “real women” in their undergarments. It turned out that it was a Dangin job. “Do you know how much retouching was on that?” he asked. “But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone’s skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.”

UPDATE: Interestingly, according to this, Dangin had to pretty much contradict that claim in defence of the Dove ads.

In unrelated New Yorker news, I thought I’d also linked to a great story about elevators, but I can’t find the blog entry so here it is. They also have an odd article on whether you can hack elevators to skip to your floor by pressing the floor button and the door close button simultaneously. This is the sort of thing these people write. I love it.

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