SpyShot! Google Blimp Test Flight

One of my spies at Google has captured this covert photo of Google testing the follow-on technology to their non-web Publication Ads technology. It’s exactly what I predicted:

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2 responses to “SpyShot! Google Blimp Test Flight”

  1. Philipp Lenssen

    In case this by any chance isn’t photoshopped please tell me — we got a scoop! :)

  2. Windypundit

    Heh, Between adjustments, masks, and content, that’s about 27 layers of photoshop. Somehow I got it in my head that I wanted all the images to be legal, so the landscape and buildings are from a photo I took from the revolving restaurant at the top of the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, the blimp photo I bought for $3 from iStockphoto.com, and the dot-matrix text is from one of the simulated components made by iocomp.com. I’m strictly an amateur at Photoshop, so this took about 4 hours of fiddling, and there are still all kinds of problems. However, I think it doesn’t quite scream FAKE at first glance…

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