Comments on: Heather Champ gets her wish

Heather Champ gets her wish

Pinwheel — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:12:03 -0800

Heather Champ gets her wish: Moby does the mirror project.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:20:31 -0800

Let's see him do the penis project. Then I'll be impressed.

maybe

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:22:01 -0800

Idiotic wannabe hipsters slinging Moby insults in 3.... 2.... 1.....

By: walrus

walrus — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:23:10 -0800

Nice one heather. That made me smile.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:04:51 -0800

I hate to say it, but that picture looks 'shopped.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:21:05 -0800

I don't know...he likes to take pics of himself in reflective surfaces.

By: ?!

?! — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:31:57 -0800

eyeballkid: I may be idiotic, but I gotta say that was one boring fish story.

By: timeistight

timeistight — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:07:02 -0800

It's a mammal.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:13:53 -0800

The picture absolutely is 'shopped. Considering the angle of the mirror, he would actually have to be in the rest of the picture for the angles to work out. The silver wall of that stall in the background should show up in the mirror as well, but clearly doesn't. Compare the size of Moby's head to the size of the stall.

By: Mid

Mid — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:17:25 -0800

So, Moby's got a big head?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:17:28 -0800

While it could be faked, the angles, colors, and lighting all look plausable to me and I can't see why anyone would go to the extreme trouble of producing this. I know heather and friends have talked to Moby's contacts, and I'm sure they'd hear from them asap if this photo was a fake uploaded by an imposter.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:23:41 -0800

Here's a larger version from Moby's site. The detail in the larger version makes it look like it's a double exposure, but it's hard to tell. The detail you can see in the mirror in this version matches the detail in the rest of the bathroom, e.g. the bricks of the wall. Now that I look at it more closely, it looks like he photoshopped himself out of the picture on the leftside. You can still see a faint outline of his head and maybe his hands at the bottom. I think it's two pictures 'shopped together for an interesting effect.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:28:56 -0800

monju, I think you got it right. His right hand seems to be the one holding the camera, which would put him where that smudginess is.

By: RJ Reynolds

RJ Reynolds — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:35:36 -0800

You and Shaggy head down to Moby's blog while me and Velma canvas the Lower East Side for leads!

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:57:09 -0800

*rips off moby mask*

and i would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!!!!

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:57:36 -0800

yeah, I think it's photoshopped as well. It's almost as if the camera is too far from the mirror to account for the size of him. It's almost as if he'd have to be standing in front of the person who actually took the picture.

and why is this in metatalk?

By: dg

dg — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:17:23 -0800

MetaFilter was full, so the thread overflowed into here.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:43:28 -0800

what an ugly lookin' dude!

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:57:07 -0800

i think the mirror is a lot smaller than it looks.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:05:05 -0800

I think there is a second, and maybe even third shooter involved.

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:17:13 -0800

If you look in the bottom right hand corner of the mirror, I think that you can se a grassy knoll.

By: gluechunk

gluechunk — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:37:47 -0800

Also, if you listen closely to the photo you can hear Michael Moore booing.

By: dg

dg — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:50:42 -0800

*gives Pinwheel 50 cents to call and tell someone who cares*

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:55:01 -0800

dg, Pinwheel was just following up on a previous metafilter thread.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:26:14 -0800

Pinwheel was just following up on a previous metafilter thread.

Then it should either be in the previous thread or a new MetaFilter post. But it shouldn't be in MetaTalk.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:33:29 -0800

If you don't care, dg, why comment in the thread?

By: ?!

?! — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:06:09 -0800

timeistight: whatever.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:27:52 -0800

Moby's from Connecticut, ya know.

And I was with a girl, who was...with a girl who was with moby. It's so sordid.

By: donkeyschlong

donkeyschlong — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:54:04 -0800

i think what's throwing people off is that it's a really tiny mirror? i thought it looked fake at first too.

interesting narcissistic two-fer: heather for expecting some celeb to submit to her site; and the celeb for actually submitting -- a photo of himself looking into a mirror.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:13:07 -0800

Moby's from Connecticut, ya know.

Not only that, but he was in a hardcore band called "The Vatican Commandos" back then too, at least according to this book.

By: dg

dg — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:19:48 -0800

Good question vidiot - I guess I just couldn't resist the combination of someone caring enough that someone else convinced someone else to take a photo of himself in a mirror to post it and the fact that it was posted to MetaTalk in the first place.

No serious insult intended, btw, just a bit of a poke.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:48:42 -0800

so jonmc slept with moby?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:49:52 -0800

"I was with a girl, who was...with a girl who was with moby"

["When you sleep with someone, you're sleeping with everyone that person has ever slept with"]

JON FUCKED MOBY, JON FUCKED MOBY!

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:11:57 -0800

This better not mean I've slept with Kevin Bacon.

By: timeistight

timeistight — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:24:37 -0800

I think it means everyone's slept with Kevin Bacon.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:30:04 -0800

If Moby put a photo of his wang on the penisblog, I bet blogdex would explode.

By: _sirmissalot_

_sirmissalot_ — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:15:52 -0800

*sigh*

i haven't told anyone here this yet, but i figure it's time:

i am a photoshop expert. it's like i'm the bruce lee of photoshopping, in other words.

moby hired me to make this picture. he paid me $5,000. but here's the hitch: if anyone finds out i made the picture, instead of it being the genuine article, i don't get the money. so . . . . can we keep this thing on the down-low, as the kids say? if you all email your bank account numbers, i will give you all a $100 tip. just shut the hell up about it. i was totally wasted when i did this. do you understand? drunkola. i can't believe you fools have nothing better to do than criticize my work. be kind! shush, shush.

By: dg

dg — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:22:05 -0800

Make it $110 and it's a deal

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:42:08 -0800

Wonderful. I have now heard a coherent sentence using the words "Moby" and "wang."

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:09:00 -0800

Who's Moby again?

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:20:28 -0800

Who's Moby again?

Just some guy who slept with jonmc.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 02:33:32 -0800

Does Pips know?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:04:08 -0800

Yes.

But Mom dosen't.

By: ?!

?! — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:08:32 -0800

jonmc: Yes, I do dear.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:13:15 -0800

you have a lot of explaining to do. You'll be hearing from me on next weeks Ricki Lake.

By: UKnowForKids

UKnowForKids — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:43:23 -0800

I reckon that bucket's got some treats inside!

By: timeistight

timeistight — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:21:17 -0800

Wonderful. I have now heard a coherent sentence using the words "Moby" and "wang."

It would have been better if it was "Moby" and "dick".

By: xmutex

xmutex — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:37:37 -0800

OH MY GOD I HATE MOBY.

By: wells

wells — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:20:42 -0800

I don't think it's been wrangled with excessively in Photoshop. It looks like he used a low-light setting, and perhaps moved the camera or himself a little bit as he was taking the photo to get some of that smudgy effect. The light has that sweet intensity you get with low-light settings on digicams - most people have fun taking pictures of car brake lights or sparklers or candle light and whatnot, because of the smudge and blur and streak. At most, it looks like he might've tweaked contrast, and maybe a little color balancing.

Yay! I love the Mirror Project.

By: brittney

brittney — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:27:34 -0800

jonmc: Was he bald, ya know, all over?

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:57:16 -0800

Actually, I think that there are two mirrors involved... one small one that we see in the picture, which the camera was pointed at, and another one, which Moby was actually looking into at the time and reflecting off of into the little mirror.
The moving lights are a result of the two-mirror thing, and the fact that the flash stopped the motion.

By: kv

kv — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 03:30:25 -0800

celebrities are so cool.