As everyone knows, we students do nothing but study all day – particularly in the weeks leading up to exam time. However, I’m a brave person and have ventured away from the textbooks and onto the internet to share a couple of my favourite blogs. And, in honour of my exams, and to make myself feel a little better about my impending doom, I’ll focus on the topic of failure.
The Fail Blog is, as the name suggests, a collection of life’s failures captured on camera. Whether it’s comedic parking problems, sporting woes or – as an antedote to the endlessly adorable
Cute Overload – pets gone wrong, it’s somehow all made funnier by the addition of a giant FAIL caption slapped into the corner. If you pride yourself on being a nice person, this probably isn’t the blog for you - you’ll find yourself walking down the street shouting “walking fail!” as the person in front of you falls over.
Most of the photos in the FAIL blog are taken and submitted by readers, but it seems that even photographs taken by professionals can go awry once the designers get their hands on them on Photoshop. These Photoshop disasters are celebrated by the (cunningly titled!)
Photoshop Disasters blog.
From airbrushed heads not quite properly attached to model-beautiful bodies, lads’ mag babes with digital removed underwear, physically impossible poses used to sell mobile phones and the forcing open of Angelina Jolie’s eyes, no clone tool freakery is left unexplored. An afternoon spent perusing the site leaves you with the distinct impression that the new Frankensteins are art directors - perhaps it’s time for them to just back away from their computers…
Ah, schadenfreude. Here’s hoping the internet never tires of it; it makes us mere mortals feel so much better!
